Victory is all that matters for City

KEVIN De Bruyne claims victory was all that mattered for Manchester City against Swansea.

City got their Barclays Premier League title bid back on track at the expense of the managerless visitors, but they left it late before winning 2–1 in a frantic finish.

The battling Swans looked to have claimed a deserved point as Bafetimbi Gomis smashed a last–minute equaliser past the outstanding Joe Hart at the Etihad Stadium.

But City snatched three points in injury time as a Yaya Toure strike looped over Lukasz Fabianski via a fortunate deflection off Kelechi Iheanacho, who was credited with the goal.

City were far from their best, perhaps still weary after Tuesday’s exhilarating Champions League win over Borussia Monchengladbach, but De Bruyne was not concerned about that.

The Belgian, who appeared only as a second–half substitute, said: “It doesn’t matter. We won – that’s it.

“Obviously you also need to win your hard games, but afterwards nobody will speak about it. It wasn’t the best performance but now nobody cares.

“To concede in the 90th minute is obviously difficult, but luckily for us we scored the goal and that is the most important thing. It’s an important three points for us.”

City looked sluggish throughout, but led from the 26th minute after Swansea failed to pick up Wilfried Bony at a corner and the Ivorian headed in against his former club.

Swansea were the better team in the second half and might have had an equaliser much sooner than they did were it not for the brilliance of Hart in the home goal.