With 20 minutes gone at Craven Cottage, and Fulham yet to muster anything even the most creative observer could describe as an attack, Ilkay Gündogan scored a thrilling goal to draw any real sense of peril from this final day stroll in the south-west London sun.
Manchester City had spent the game to that point applying a fug of slow-burn possession. The goal came from a first note of urgency, Matheus Nunes’ surging down the right, found by a flick from Omar Marmoush. Nunes crossed. The ball was deflected in a looping arc off the glove of Bernd Leno, hanging idly as the day seemed to freeze for a moment.
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