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The city makes a rare and important return
It was only the eighth game of the season against Manchester City, and the fourth they went from 1-0 to 2-1.
The free kick by Leroy Sane and the last winner of Raheem Sterling have made it the fourth since they recovered, and the first time since they left Lyon in November.
Since then, they have lost to Chelsea, Leicester, Newcastle and Crystal Palace – and have shown little signs of fighting after going behind.
It looked like a handful of unfortunate defeats for the season. That would not have been catastrophic for their hopes in the Champions League with another game to play but it would have left some debate on the mentality that hangs with national and European battles in front of which the Blues do not have much to do. # 39; s experience.
As all hope seemed lost, everything changed on sixpence. Pep Guardiola coached Sane, the German scored an unstoppable free kick (won by the tireless Bernardo Silva) in the corner, then Ederson sent a score pin to Raheem Sterling to complete the comeback.
Reaction of Schalke 2-3 Man City
The city receives rewards for all causes
Guardiola has often said that as soon as his players stop running, they will be eliminated from the team. The result is a team that never stops running.
If this team has scored 127 goals this season, it's because she's always on the lookout for opportunities, which has been perfectly demonstrated with the opening of the scoring. A Schalke player fell to the ground and when his team ignored the possibility of putting the ball out of the game, the visitors rushed, with David Silva on a shot by Sergio Aguero for a simple tap-in.
Turning off a few seconds can prove fatal to such a relentless attack. If Schalke deserves to be rewarded for taking advantage of City fouls, Ederson and Sterling also deserve it for their late play that ultimately decided to play.
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No place for feeling
Leroy Sane spent the majority of his homecoming Schalke watching from the bench. After all the pre-match discussions focused on the evolution of the flying wing since his first place at the Veltins Arena, Pep Guardiola opted for different options at night.
Aleks Zinchenko, also a substitute, could sympathize; he had bought nearly 30 tickets for his friends and family when City had returned to his home club, Shakhtar Donetsk, earlier this season, but he had not even been qualified for the match.
Sane finally managed to play for the last 13 minutes and silenced the goalkeeper on a dazzling free kick to save the night.
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