Stunning Julio Enciso goal helps Brighton draw with champions Man City

Guardiola was all smiles then. It would be a different story on 79 minutes when Erling Haaland had a goal chalked off by the VAR for a shirt tug on Levi Colwill. When the replay was shown on the big screen, Guardiola would rage at the fourth official. He ended up with a yellow card. Guardiola is not used to results slipping from him.

What Guardiola came up with was Rodri in central defence alongside John Stones – to counter Brighton’s non-typical No 9s, Danny Welbeck and Enciso – and Rico Lewis at left-back, with the licence, of course, to step up and inside. Guardiola wanted comfort on the ball and superior numbers in a flexible midfield set-up.

Haaland had previously blown two chances that he would have expected to score – a header from a Foden cross and a one-on-one, also from Foden, Jason Steele blocking bravely. Now Haaland went left to Foden, who danced inside and shot, a little scruffily. Jan Paul van Hecke might have cleared on the line. Instead he diverted the ball in.

Enciso could not have placed the ball more perfectly had he stood underneath the crossbar and used his hands. The technique was astonishing. He cut across it with his right boot; there was dip and swerve but overall just purity. Welbeck had the ball in the net on 44 minutes only to be flagged offside and Foden then headed inches off target at the other end. It was breathless stuff.

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