Rodri comments come back to count against Man City in Chelsea draw

Rodri is no small man and produced no small knee slide at Stamford Bridge when he scored what many thought would be the winning goal.

Manchester City's maestro in midfield had just seen a first-time shot divert off Thiago Silva and into the net to give the visitors a 4-3 lead in the 86th minute. All the champions had to do was see out the remaining time and they would pick up another important three points.

Scoring late goals is not what it used to be though as the Premier League continue to seek more match time with the ball in play this season - as Sheffield United and Rodri found out earlier in the season. Jayden Bogle lashed in an equaliser against City in the 85th minute when the teams met back in August, only for the Blues to go on the attack again and retake the lead through Rodri.

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His comments afterwards were telling. "The game has changed. Added time is now an extra 10 per cent of the game," he said after their 2-1 win. "We know now with extra time you still have 10-15 minutes to go so we had the mentality that we could score again."

Pep Guardiola turned to assistant Juanma Lillo after Rodri's goal at Chelsea and told him that there will still many things to happen. As he said afterwards in his press conference: "Many things happened."

Where before teams would mentally be thinking there were only a few minutes to go, the refereeing changes this season driven by the Premier League have called for different mindsets. Attacking teams don't have to be as desperate while the team defending cannot wind down the clock as easily.

Shortly after the goal, eight minutes of injury time were announced in