“He got a bit lucky with the deflection but he was aggressive like he always has been (in the past) and we have missed that a little bit this season. “It was a brilliant action by Phil,” added Guardiola. Sven Botman finally looked capable of stopping Foden but, as he slid in, could only deflect the City man’s shot past Nick Pope and into the Newcastle goal. Unfortunately, for Newcastle, they had certainly passed by the 15th minute when Foden collected a cross-field pass from Ilkay Gundogan well outside the area on 15 minutes.Īs Kevin De Bruyne offered a decoy, running ahead of him, Foden slalomed towards goal, past Dan Burn, Anthony Gordon and Bruno Guimaraes. And I said to him, ‘The bad moments these too shall pass.'” What happened with Phil is completely, completely normal, just accept it. “Come back to your principles and step by step you will be back and now he’s scoring goals. “The bad moment will come, like when he struggled with his ankle, but the important thing is to accept it, not blame others, Don’t blame opponents, or your manager, or the club, or your team-mates. Then national team, World Cup, European Cup, wining titles every year a little bit better, a little bit better.’ Because you arrived at 17-years-old training with us, 10-15-20 minutes here and there. “I said, ‘What happened to you Phil is absolutely what might happen. I said, ‘Phil you don’t have the confidence to do it.’ “But when I spoke with Phil during the year, when he had the ball he was passing back, passing back. “Phil has this special ability to have the ball, go up there, attack with the ball, without the ball,” said Guardiola. Pep Guardiola’s opposite number across Manchester, Erik ten Hag, has rightly been lauded for his powers of man-management with United this season.īut, based on a small sample size this week, the City manager has done just as good a job in revitalising Foden as Ten Hag has done in helping Marcus Rashford rediscover his goalscoring touch. Three starts, four goals and a timely reminder of his prodigious talents.

For a player attempting to recover from his self-diagnosed worst spell of his brief, but spectacular, career, Phil Foden has certainly compiled a stunning response over the last eight days.

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