• ‘We needed victory to bring up our confidence,’ says goalscorer• City cut gap to
Liverpool to eight points before Merseyside derby
Rodri has revealed
Manchester City “partied” in the dressing room after Tuesday’s 4-1 win at Burnley in a mark of how significant the victory was to Pep Guardiola’s champions.
City had won only one of their previous five games, yet the result at Turf Moor, which featured two Gabriel Jesus goals and one each from Rodri and Riyad Mahrez, impressed. It cut the deficit to Liverpool to eight points – until Wednesday night’s Merseyside derby, at least – and Rodri said the team celebrated hard.