{"id":135304,"date":"2023-12-28T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/28\/foden-says-city-never-lacked-belief-after-surviving-toffees-scare\/"},"modified":"2023-12-28T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T14:19:07","slug":"foden-says-city-never-lacked-belief-after-surviving-toffees-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/28\/foden-says-city-never-lacked-belief-after-surviving-toffees-scare\/","title":{"rendered":"Foden says City never lacked belief after surviving Toffees scare \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Phil Foden said Manchester City always believed they could come from behind to see off Everton.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The champions survived another Premier League scare as second-half goals from Foden, Julian Alvarez and Bernardo Silva cancelled out Jack Harrison\u2019s in a 3-1 victory.<\/p>\n<p>City \u2014 who have just returned from winning the Club World Cup \u2014 moved back into the top four after winning their second straight away game in which they have conceded first.<\/p>\n<p>Foden, 23, told Amazon Prime: \u201cI thought we played really well in the first half and it seems to have been the same story as previous games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe manager just said to believe in ourselves at half-time because we\u2019re a top team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the second half, wow. I think we blew them away with the way we played.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to praise Everton because I think they\u2019ve been doing really well recently and are a top side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey make it difficult. I\u2019m really happy with the result. It\u2019s a difficult place to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City remain five points adrift of Liverpool in the title race, albeit having played a game less.<\/p>\n<p>But Foden suggested the Treble winners are getting closer to clicking into gear as a host of key stars near their returns from injury.<\/p>\n<p>The England international added: \u201cWe have massive players to come back in with the likes of Erling [Haaland], Jeremy Doku and Kevin [De Bruyne] so three important players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen they come back, hopefully they make the team stronger. I\u2019m looking forward to them coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy with that one? \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf6c 1-3 \u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ManCity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MHXujL0wyc\">pic.twitter.com\/MHXujL0wyc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1740134977403335048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Everton have now lost their last two games after a run of four consecutive victories previously.<\/p>\n<p>It leaves them just a point above the relegation zone but goalscorer Harrison urged his Toffees team-mates to keep the faith.<\/p>\n<p>The former City winger said: \u201cUnfortunately today we messed up on a couple of things and that\u2019s costly against the best sides so we just have to be aware of that going forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s still a long season left. We can only control what we can do and keep going game by game.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Foden said Manchester City always believed they could come from behind to see off Everton.\u00a0 The champions survived another Premier League scare as second-half goals from Foden, Julian Alvarez and Bernardo Silva cancelled out Jack Harrison\u2019s in a 3-1 victory. City \u2014 who have just returned from winning the Club World Cup \u2014 moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Foden says City never lacked belief after surviving Toffees scare \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/28\/foden-says-city-never-lacked-belief-after-surviving-toffees-scare\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Foden says City never lacked belief after surviving Toffees scare \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Phil Foden said Manchester City always believed they could come from behind to see off Everton.\u00a0 The champions survived another Premier League scare as second-half goals from Foden, Julian Alvarez and Bernardo Silva cancelled out Jack Harrison\u2019s in a 3-1 victory. 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