For a second successive game, Manchester City somehow contrived to lose a two-goal lead at home against a team they would normally expect to ease out of their way. This time, however, they spared themselves another inquest and it was another moment to demonstrate why the Premier League champions have been willing to lean on their sister club, New York City FC, to extend Frank Lampard’s stay. They may not like it in Manhattan but when Lampard is still making such a rich contribution for Manuel Pellegrini’s team the decision-makers in Abu Dhabi can hardly be blamed for deciding to keep him for a few more months rather than the initial plan of making him Major League Soccer’s new poster-boy.
Lampard had been on the pitch only four minutes when he announced his presence with the fifth, decisive goal of a wild 15-minute spell that had felt utterly incongruous to everything that preceded it. Yaya Touré had opening the scoring in the 58th minute with a majestic shot and when Stevan Jovetic made it 2-0 with a delightful finish of his own eight minutes later it had seemed as though City would coast through the final exchanges.
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