Have Manchester City turned a corner following West Ham win?

A win we’ve been used to seeing from the champions.

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00:00So, Rich, looking at Manchester City and obviously just reviewing their performance against West

00:07Ham, 4-1 at home, Harlan backing the goals, Foden as well getting on the score sheet.

00:14I mean, it's sort of a bit of a Pep Guardiola result, isn't it, that we've come to expect

00:18from the last two seasons, how sort of any team can go there and just come away and can

00:24be battered on the day. Obviously, West Ham not in the best of form and Jadon Opetegui

00:29hasn't really got much going for him at the moment there, but a real Man City result.

00:35Harlan, man of the match, he's backing the goals and FPL managers I'm sure will be looking

00:40to maybe even question getting him back in. He has still got a number of goals for Manchester

00:45City this season. Not to say are they back, but it looks as if they are going to really

00:51go on a run and maybe take some positives from this game. They've got some fairly decent

00:58fixtures coming up, maybe PSG, Chelsea's the next time you look, which is obviously

01:02the end of the month, but a few fixtures that they can focus on and maybe get back to that

01:07best. It's a bit of leeway before that, clearly the Champions League is going to be their

01:12high priority this season.

01:14Yes, it's a really fascinating run of games coming up. I think there's obviously got to

01:19take positives because there haven't been a lot of positives lately for City and the

01:22fact that they did return to what was a rather straightforward win has to be seen as a sign

01:27as a step in the right direction. Pep Guardiola did warn after the game that, look, this doesn't

01:32mean that the season has been a turning point, doesn't mean everything's suddenly going to

01:36be fixed. There are clearly some fundamental issues that the Etihad that just haven't been

01:40addressed so far and they continue to not be and that win doesn't solve those root causes.

01:47Salford's at home in the FA Cup this weekend. You sense that's another chance to grow in

01:51confidence. The argument is always, why don't you just play the kids, make wholesale changes?

01:55I do think City will make a lot of changes this weekend, but it probably is a chance

01:59to get further confidence and more goals in some of these players who have been underperforming

02:03and who have just not clicked so far this season. But what is so fascinating is that

02:09run of games. Brentford away coming up as well in midweek. That is going to be so, so

02:15tough because we've seen how good Brentford can be this season. Then they've got Ipswich

02:19away as well, which looks like it should be pretty straightforward, but Ipswich are now

02:24one of the informed teams in the league over the last couple of games. You've obviously

02:28got Liam De Lappe. That's the story in itself, isn't it? The guy that City have sold. They've

02:31got a buyback on him. He looks like one of the players who'd be a breakout in Premier

02:35League this season. PSG away in the Champions League. I mean, PSG have been as bad as City

02:40in Europe this season, but both of them know that one win can alter their campaign and

02:44due to the new format can get them effectively qualification to the next round. Then it's

02:49Chelsea at home. Cole Palmer returning to the Etihad again. You'd expect them to beat

02:53Club Bruges. And then there's the run of games that looks tougher and tougher every

02:59time you look at it towards February. Arsenal away, Newcastle at home, Liverpool at home,

03:05Tottenham away, who always have this jinx over City, and then Forrest away at the very

03:10start of March. And is there any team you'd back to win all those games in the Premier

03:15League right now? No. Would you back the City team? Not at all. So my word of warning would

03:20be don't get carried away just yet on Man City.