“We showed them no respect” – Ivan Toney reacts to Manchester City win

Ivan Toney has suggested that Brentford showed no respect to Manchester City and claimed that their win at the Etihad in the Premier League was well deserved.

Brentford went against all odds to pull off a huge 2-1 win against Premier League title favourites, Man City, in Manchester after a remarkable performance.

Toney opened the scoring early in the game with a fine finish but his early strike was pulled behind on the stroke of half-time following a decent strike from Phil Foden.

Manchester City were on course to complete the comeback in the second half but little did they know Ivan Toney would close the scoring in the last minute of the additional ten minutes.

Toney admitted that he earlier informed his manager, Thomas Frank, that he believed Brentford can pull off the impossible at the Etihad, to which Frank reacted shocked.

“The boys dug in and worked hard and, personally, I felt that we fully deserved the three points,” Toney told Brentford’s official website.

“It’s crazy to say that against a team like Man City.

“At half-time me and the gaffer [Thomas Frank] spoke to each other and we said that we wanted to win. Of course we wanted to win.

“I said ‘we will win’ and he kind of looked at me like I was crazy!

“Yeah, they’re Man City, but they’re humans – you can’t respect them too much because they’ll walk all over you and take it all.

“We showed them no respect today, we worked hard and fully deserved the three points. Little Brentford came here and got a result and we deserved that.”