Julian Alvarez And Jeremy Doku Strike Late To Push Manchester City Past Leipzig

Julian Alvarez and Jeremy Doku came off the bench to grab late goals and push Manchester City to a 3-1 victory at RB Leipzig in the Champions League on Wednesday. Facing Leipzig in the competition for the third straight year, City dominated from the start, Phil Foden slamming in the opener after some impressive lead-up play from teenage wing-back Rico Lewis. Clearly outclassed in the first half, Leipzig struck back immediately after half-time, Lois Openda scoring after a sweeping counter attack to equalise.

But with Leipzig focused on talisman Erling Haaland, who scored five in 60 minutes the last time these sides met, it was the Norwegian's understudy who scored the crucial goal, curling in City's second just five minutes after being introduced.

Doku sealed the win with a goal in injury time.

City forward Foden praised Alvarez's "magical" goal, telling TNT sports "he's someone we look to for the big goals."

"He came on and changed the game. He's a really important player for us."

City boss Pep Guardiola praised his "perfect" side, saying "we took the game with a lot of passes and when a team is able to do this, very nice things are going to happen to you."

"We played a fantastic game in all departments."

City came into the game after two losses in a row for the first time since January.

Guardiola told the post-match press conference the victory put his team's recent struggles "in perspective".

"People say 'oh, you lost a game, what happened?' but you need to put it in perspective, after what we've won in the last years, we're still here and we have got this passion."

Leipzig manager Marco Rose called the result "a deserved win for City, even if we would have wished to defend that 1-1 until the end."

"We'll continue to