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Paul Clement left fuming with the officials after Gabriel Jesus' late winner for Man City

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Clement fuming with officials

Swansea boss Paul Clement was left fuming with the officials for missing a number of key decisions in the build-up to Gabriel Jesus' winning goal for Manchester City on Sunday.

Jesus struck in injury time on his first home start as Manchester City beat Swansea 2-1 to move up to third in the Premier League table.

Silva sent in a left-footed cross from the right and Jesus timed his run brilliantly to head at Lukasz Fabianski, who palmed the ball back into his path and he gleefully tapped in from a yard at the second attempt to seal the points at the Etihad Stadium.

Manchester City's Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus (R) celebrates with Manchester City's Argentinian defender Pablo Zabaleta after scoring their late winnin
Image: Manchester City's Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus (right) celebrates with Pablo Zabaleta

Although Clement had no complaints with the goal, he pointed towards an incident by the dugout in the build-up, where substitute Luciano Narsingh was deemed to have fouled Aleksandar Kolarov.

"I'm disappointed," Clement said. "Firstly, I don't think Narsingh fouled Kolarov, who went into challenge Narsingh then fell across him. So, that's not a foul.

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"And then the restart was taken 15 yards deeper than where the foul was and it was a rolling ball. Those things have to be right for us. If the free-kick was taken where it should have been, then we would have been in position and they wouldn't have been able to have that attack."

City had looked like they would have to settle for a point after the relegation-threatened Swans recovered from a first-half battering at the Etihad to equalise through Gylfi Sigurdsson on 81 minutes.

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Swansea City's Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson celebrates after scoring their first goal during the English Premier League football match between Man
Image: Swansea City's Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson celebrates

"It's a tough one take, especially at that time of the game," Clement added.

"We weren't good in the first half. Although our shape wasn't too bad we were under massive amounts of pressure for too long. We didn't do anything offensively. But the players responded brilliantly after the break and I thought we were the better team in the second half. We had more of the ball and created plenty of opportunities.

"We were more aggressive and got a fantastic goal from Sigurdsson."

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