We are family | Deki, Radu and Sonny’s theme at City

Family was the theme before and after our thrilling 4-0 win at Manchester City on Saturday.

Skipper Heung-Min Son said in his pre-match interview that it was a chance for us ‘to show a family performance, everyone coming together’ for the challenge ahead.

Radu Dragusin continued when he spoke to us after such an outstanding performance, as a double from James Maddison in the first half followed by goals from Pedro Porro and Brennan Johnson secured what has to be one of our best wins of the Premier League era.

“We've been talking a lot about family, you know, about staying together, sticking together in the tough times,” said the Romania international defender, so strong alongside Ben Davies. “We know we’ve had a couple of games that we’ve lost, but we talked between us, and we said we have to keep the team together, to keep the same feeling between us and believe we can achieve something special. We showed we are more than team-mates because of the way we suffered... an away game against City is one of the hardest games you can play, and we did an unbelievable performance.”

With Sonny and Radu both mentioning ‘family’, it was time to ask Deki if, indeed, that had been a bit of a theme building up to the game - a game where he once again excelled, heavily involved in our first and third goals.

He told us: “It’s the only way... the only way to win games is when you play for your family, when you see your guys in danger, when you help them defensively and when you have the ball. We are a family, you know, no family is perfect, but at least we will protect each other.

“We have a lot of good, good players away with the with Romero, with Micky, with Richy, with Bentancur, and we come here and do this performance, so it should be a big day for the fans and for us. You know, we can't take this for granted. We really have to enjoy it.”