Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola was pleased with his players for their win against Brighton.
Guardiola admits Brighton pushed them all the way for the 2-1 triumph.
“Against Brighton for 95 mins, controlling them is impossible,” he later said.
“No team in the world can do that. I am surprised we did it for 55/60 minutes.
“They link with the strikers and we went man to man with Julian [Alvarez] and Erling [Haaland].
“After they contact with the wingers especially on the left side for Josko [Gvardiol] and Jeremy [Doku] we could attack in that space in the first half.
“In the second half they close that space with Fati coming on and [Kaoru] Mitoma moving inside.
“We suffered for 10/15/20 minutes and at the end there was a period that we were composed and took the ball again.
“[Kaoru] Mitoma is an exceptional player and [Ansu] Fati in the small spaces has pace.
“After defeats it was important performance.
“The credit I give to Roberto [De Zerbi] because you see the games they play against other teams, they are really good. They have a lot of injuries at the moment.
“I give credit to the team for victory.”