Manuel Pellegrini accepts Manchester City’s good fortune in win over Swansea

Since the competition’s inception in 1992 it has happened only three times.

Iheanacho, who made his worldwide debut for the Super Eagles of Nigeria in last month’s world cup qualifiers against Swaziland benefited from some of City’s top eleven players, who are yet to fully recover from injuries to save Pellegrini’s blushes with an all important three points.

“It is a very hard title to win because the amount of points all the teams have now is not normal”.

Manchester City snatched a dramatic victory at the death over Swansea to go back to the top of the Barclays Premier League.

“Garry is so close to the team and he’s been here for a while so that makes it a little bit more personal”.

The win was Palace’s first over the visitors in 13 league meetings dating back to 1991 and Alan Pardew’s men were well worth the points at Selhurst Park. The Welsh club can not afford to drop anymore points, after this heartbreaking result Swansea sits in 16th place with 14 points.

“It’s disappointing to concede off a set-piece because I thought they were getting frustrated towards the end of the first half”.

Pellegrini believes this title race will be one of the closest and toughest in Premier League history. The scoreline flattered City, given that the Potters had numerous chances to extend the lead and humiliate their more decorated rivals over the course of 90 minutes. Navas it was who hoisted in the corner and the former Swansea striker just eluded what markers he had to find time and space and just headed it emphatically home. Yet this was a brief interruption in Swansea’s dictation of the play.

They appeared to have rescued a deserved point when substitute Bafetimbi Gomis crashed home a long ball from Federico Fernandez as the game was about to enter four minutes of added time.

Perhaps last season City would not have gone up the other end nearly instantly to grab the late victor as they did via Touré. Toure shot hit Iheanacho’s back and the ball flew into the net to give City the 2-1 victory.

“We really didn’t play well in the game”, said City manager Manuel Pellegrini, who blamed the lacklustre performance on a comedown after the team finished top of its Champions League group in midweek.

Curtis stated he was looking for the club to appoint a new boss as soon as possible, according to the Guardian: “I don’t mind staying on for a few more games if necessary, but we need a permanent manager. So the three points replaces those points”.

It’s been one helluva week for Swansea, and this ending is pretty much the perfectly painful coda for the turbulent seven days.

And he said several of his players were not fit enough to play the full game following their Champions League win over Borussia Mochengladbach on Tuesday.