Enzo Maresca said “silly goals” and individual errors are costing Manchester City after Matheus Nunes’ mistake allowed Yasin Ayari to score Brighton’s winner in Saturday’s 1-0 victory here. Ayari’s strike was made possible after Nunes, City’s right-back, missed Diego Gómez’s cross from the right, so the ball could come back across goal via Maxim De Cuyper. The 2-1 loss at Aston Villa came from Gianluigi Donnarumma allowing Nicolas Jackson’s long-range winner to squeeze under his body.
At the moment it is like this. We did enough to deserve something. We need to move on and try to win games.
For sure we are not happy.” While Maresca said he had not seen the free-kick awarded against Elliot Anderson to decide if this was fair, Brighton’s victory takes them to 19 points, two behind City, who are the leaders before Arsenal’s trip to Liverpool on Sunday. Fabian Hürzeler was delighted his players had changed the feeling of Wednesday’s Carabao Cup penalty shootout loss to City. It was brutal [the cup defeat].
We promised ourselves that we won’t have the same feeling. We created energy, positivity, the next day. We saw Saturday as an opportunity to come back stronger.
This was the approach and how the players stuck together and built the connection through the four days is really impressive.” Hürzeler was asked what is possible for Brighton this season. Then try to prepare for Getafe [on Thursday], a big challenge.”
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