Manchester Metropolis objective hero Gabriel Jesus was left questioning what might need been following Sunday’s draw towards defending Premier League champions Liverpool.
The Brazil worldwide dispatched an excellent two-touch end previous Alisson Becker to equalise following Mohamed Salah’s opener from the penalty spot for the Reds, earlier than Kevin de Bruyne missed a spot-kick of his personal shortly earlier than half-time.
Jesus had a giant likelihood to take all three factors for Metropolis after the interval however didn’t direct Joao Cancelo ‘s harmful cross goalwards.
Chatting with Sky Sports activities after the ultimate whistle, he lamented his aspect’s failure to take vital possibilities and mentioned that to take a degree was ‘not an excellent outcome’ for Metropolis.
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“It is a prime sport, prime opening, we all know they work arduous they usually have a variety of wonderful gamers,” Jesus mentioned.
“They’ll beat us and we will beat them however it’s soccer. We have now possibilities to win the sport, we do not rating when we’ve got an opportunity and we draw. Now it is time to relaxation, go to worldwide groups.
“It is not an excellent outcome for us, we all know that, however it’s a troublesome sport.
“Each groups need to win the league so generally we’ve got to up our sport, we’re at dwelling so we’ve got to regulate extra, play extra, maintain the ball, assault like we’ve got executed prior to now. We have now to maintain taking part in like this and attempt to rating the possibilities.”
Jesus’ objective capped off a sometimes wonderful staff transfer from Metropolis, with 19 passes being strung collectively through the build-up.
“It was wonderful play from the fellows,” he mirrored.
Manchester Metropolis took on Liverpool within the greatest match of the season to date.
Pep Guardiola’s males had been determined to regain the Premier League title, however the champions had already positioned themselves on the prime of the desk, and Sunday’s crunch on the Etihad Stadium – even so early within the season – was essential to their probabilities of difficult for the crown.
The guests went forward early by way of Mo Salah’s penalty, however Gabriel Jesus’ chic flip and end introduced Metropolis stage. Kevin De Bruyne’s missed penalty may have given Metropolis the three factors, however the match led to a high-quality 1-1 draw.
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“After we play like this we’ve got extra possibilities, so Kevin can management the ball good and discover me within the field, I can management and end. I’ve to attempt, the attackers should attempt, I attempted and I scored a objective.
“We play at dwelling, we’ve got to win all of the video games we play right here. The outcome shouldn’t be good for us, perhaps good for them, however we’ve got to maintain preventing till the top as a result of we’ve got a variety of video games to play.”
Metropolis face one other robust Premier League check after the worldwide break with a visit to second-placed Tottenham on the horizon.
