A liberation looks different, but at least Manchester City avoided a cup embarrassment – Phil Foden made the difference at Huddersfield Town. Does the Thomas Tuchel impress?
Pep Guardiola can breathe a sigh of relief, the round of 16 in the English league cup takes place with its participation. After that, it hadn’t always looked in Huddersfield. The fifth place of the “Football League One” was extremely intensive, especially in the first round, City remembered very little, because it did not serve as an excuse that Guardiola sent a B-Elf without the stars like Erling Haaland, Gianluigi Donnarumma, Bernardo Silva or Rodri. Because Savinho, John Stones, Nathan Aké or Foden are also entitled to play a major role in this team.
Most recently played for England in March
Only Foden did justice to this claim on Wednesday evening (24.09.2025). He took the lead in the 17th minute and prepared the 2-0 by Sávinho in the 74th minute. For the 25-year-old, it was another step back to the level that he had partially left over the past year and a half. The Citizens’ former shooting star had lost his regular place at Guardiola and had to recover from joker inserts. He was not always in demand in the national team.
Thomas Tuchel last built on Foden on March 24th at 3-0 in Latvia, who also scored a goal at the time. But at the Juni international matches of the “Three Lions” against Andorra and the Senegal, the offensive all -rounder was not in the squad, and in September he was also missing against Andorra and in England’s rebirth against Serbia (5: 0) – Foden also suffered from ankle injury.
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Now he seems on the right track again. Most recently in the league, Foden played alongside Tijjani Reijnders on a shared ten position behind Haaland and influenced: In the 3-0 in the derby against United, he scored the lead goal, in 1-1 against FC Arsenal he came over the right wing and did a lot of defensive work.
The next caps of the English will increase in Turkey on October 14th and November 13th against Serbia, it is about the World Cup qualification. In the current form, Foden hopes that he will be taken into account at Tuchel.