"It's Very Good" - Iliman Ndiaye Reflects on Dream Come True Moment at Manchester City

"It's Very Good" - Iliman Ndiaye Reflects on Dream Come True Moment at Manchester City Manchester City were allocated 2,285 tickets for their away clash in Germany on Wednesday night, which ended with Erling Haaland scoring the winning  goal with 12 minutes of regulation time remaining in front of the sold-out section at the Red Bull Arena. An own goal by central defender Castello Lukeba and a second of the night for City through Enzo Fernandez were both cancelled out by RB Leipzig , who were the better side for large parts of the European clash. Ridle Baku and Antonio Nusa - by far the Bundesliga club’s brightest spark - scored one each to make it 2-2 with just under half an hour left before Erling Haaland settled the tie with a tap-in at the back post. Victory meant Enzo Maresca’s side climbed into seventh in the UEFA Champions League's league phase table, level on points with the likes of Liverpool , Sporting CP and Borussia Dortmund , while  Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid sit top - the former leading the standings on goal difference. Iliman Ndiaye created the assist for Enzo Fernandez’s bullet header from close-range, which put Manchester City 2-1 up after 58 minutes, with a stunning, in-swinging cross that the Argentina international latched onto remarkably. The former Everton star, who joined Enzo Maresca’s side for £65 million in the summer, revealed that knowing when a player will make runs into the box is a rewarding feeling, praising Fernandez for his contribution to the win. “When you know you have runs in the box and good people scoring with their head or whatever, you just put the ball in a nice area, and you know they’re going to score. It’s good to contribute to the win,” Iliman Ndiaye told the official Manchester City website . On UEFA Champions League nights and the travelling City supporters, he added: “It’s very good, I’m enjoying it. It was a dream. Obviously now it’s about forgetting about the dream and just trying to do the job for the team to win the games. “They’ve [City supporters] been good. They’ve been really good, really supportive, really pushing us to go and do the job! "When you’ve got supporters like that behind you, it’s easy to do the job for them, and after that assist, I just looked back [towards them]. And for them to come all the way here, it’s amazing. You just want to give back to them.” How has Ndiaye fared at City since summer transfer? During the summer window, when Manchester City fans were desperately trying to motivate Director of Football Hugo Viana to invest more in his attack, it would have been painful to see Savinho and Omar Marmoush depart the club for Tottenham Hotspur without any real replacements brought in. There are still very few backup options in attack for City, but the injury of Antoine Semenyo - who was ruled out for eight weeks following a knee problem picked up against Ipswich Town - has given Iliman Ndiaye a gateway to impress Enzo Maresca. And so far, he has given the Manchester City manager every reason to believe he should be in contention to start even the toughest games across domestic and European competitions. With Semenyo unlikely to return until Manchester City’s home game against Chelsea on December 12, it is believed that lliman Ndiaye could start against Barcelona at the Camp Nou four days before that Premier League clash. That is, of course, fitness-dependent, but Enzo Maresca is managing the attacker’s minutes well alongside his teammates in similar positions, such as Phil Foden, Rayan Cherki and Jeremy Doku.