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Your support makes all the difference.Phil Foden believes the Premier League title race will go to the wire this season. The England midfielder scored a hat-trick in Manchester City’s 3-1 win at Brentford on Monday night.
It was a potentially pivotal victory which lifted City above Arsenal into second place, two points behind leaders Liverpool with a game in hand. “It’s going to be tight one. Liverpool and Arsenal are two top teams doing really well,” said Foden.
“They are going to push us until the end so we have to try and not drop points and try to win all of our games really.”
City fell behind against the run of play when Neal Maupay fired Brentford into the lead.
But Foden finally beat inspired Bees goalkeeper Mark Flekken to haul his side level before the interval.
The 23-year-old headed them in front early in the second half from Kevin De Bruyne’s cross, and then completed a stylish treble to ensure City’s title destiny is firmly in their own hands.
The treble winners also trailed in away matches against Everton and Newcastle recently, but Foden says they are beginning to show their mettle by coming back to win each time.
“Resilience. We keep proving it season after season,” he told the club website.
“We keep surprising everyone by keeping our standards high and it’s down to the manager and this fantastic group of players.
“It’s the togetherness, when things aren’t going right, to bounce back.”
Nerves are starting to jangle at Brentford, who have lost seven of their last eight matches and lie just three points above the relegation zone.
The fixture list does not offer much respite with City – again – Liverpool and Arsenal all on the schedule in the next few weeks.
But boss Thomas Frank is looking no further ahead than Saturday’s trip to Wolves.
“I’m always looking just one game ahead; that’s where our maximum focus is,” he said.
“It’s the same top focus on the next game. Every game we will have a very good chance to win it and that will be the same on Saturday.”
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