Manchester City found a way to win and end a mini-series of two defeats - to Newcastle in the Premier League and Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League.
But Pep Guardiola can hardly remain calm, because his team showed two faces in the 90 minutes of the duel with Leeds United - avoided another penalty shootout thanks to Phil Foden, who scored in the first minute of stoppage time.
The Citizens dominated the first half and led 2:0 (goals from Foden and Joško Guardiola), but then one moment made them nervous - a cheap mistake by Mateus Núñez, which the opponent took advantage of to reduce the score to 2:1 through Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Nothing was the same after that, and in the 68th minute the guests equalized - Guardiola fouled Calvert-Lewin in his own penalty area, and Lucas Enmecha missed a penalty. However, he put the ball into the net of Gigio Donnarumma from the penalty spot.
City then tried in every way to get three points, but lacked chances in front of the Leeds goal.
Omar Marmuš had the best one a few minutes before Foden set up the final score with a precise left-footed shot.
And the hit of the English championship this season was and remains Sunderland, the fourth-placed team in the table.
The "Black Cats" have won or drawn several times with goals in injury time, and they showed that they have nine lives at their Stadium of Light against Bournemouth - after being 0:2 down, they came back to 3:2.
Amin Adli to Tajler Adams - who scored a Euro goal - they brought the visitors two points after 15 minutes, but Sunderland had no intention of surrendering.
Enzo le Fe reduced the deficit by half-time from the penalty spot, and Bertrand Traore and Brian Broby orchestrated the turnaround in the second half.
Brentford defeated Burnley 3-1, and two more matches are played tonight - Everton vs. Newcastle (6:30 PM) and Tottenham vs. Fulham (9:00 PM).
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