Ilkay Gündogan (31) fired Manchester City, who almost lost it, to the championship. The most important goals in his career?
“I knew a little miracle had to happen,” Gündogan recalls of a moment when he was just sitting on Manchester City’s bench on the last Premier League matchday – as he has been so often lately. He is reportedly free to leave the club in the summer, with City’s midfield now featuring others than the 31-year-old.
Aston Villa were leading 2-0 at the Etihad, at the same time Liverpool were on course to win their home game against Wolverhampton. But at the time of his substitution, “Liverpool weren’t leading” – and “basically we are so confident of ourselves,” said Gündogan, so that the Skyblues actually turned the game around within five and a half minutes and clinched their fourth league title in five years. With two goals from Ilkay Gündogan.
“Normally I’m not the type to go out of my way so much when I score,” “but that moment at 3-2 … Making it unnecessarily tense is never nice, but on Sunday night I think everyone was pleased with the way it went.”
In what could be his last game for a long-time employer, the two most important goals of his career? “I did score for Dortmund in the 2013 Champions League final, but unfortunately I lost,” Gündogan assessed. “Two goals in the Premier League championship are a step above that. “
