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Jack Flintham

Edin Dzeko relives Man City's dramatic first Premier League title success against QPR

Former Manchester City striker Edin Dzeko has relived the club's dramatic victory over QPR which secured the club's first Premier League title.

City found themselves 2-1 down against the London side before Dzeko came off the bench to equalise in the second minute of stoppage time.

The best was yet to come for the Citizens as Sergio Aguero popped up in the 94th minute to win the game while also denying arch rivals Manchester United the title on goal difference.

Looking back fondly on that day with his old team-mate Micah Richards for the Daily Mail, Dzeko said: "I watched Leicester-Tottenham last month and I was laughing to myself about the way Tottenham won that night – then everyone started talking about how we won the league.

"When you go back to watch the goals and see what we did? My God, it makes you so much happier.

"All that season I kept thinking: 'we are going to win this' but to win it in the way we did completely changes the story.

"(Roberto) Mancini is right about the goose bumps. Something like this will never happen again. I really believe it. The championship we won that day will stay forever in our hands."

When asked by Richards about his favourite memory from that famous day, the current Inter Milan forward was quick to respond.

"The sprint I did when Aguero scored," he explained.

"That was probably the highest speed I reached in my life. I was the first to get to him.

"I thought beforehand: 'we are at home; we play for the title after 44 years. There is no way we cannot finish this.'

"When Zaba (Pablo Zabaleta) scored, I thought it would be easy… 3-0.

"But in football, nothing is easy. When I came on at 1-2, I was like: 'just try everything you can.'

"When I scored, I went crazy: 'Come on guys! Let's go!' But you know what? If you try to do what we did on a PlayStation today, you wouldn't have the time to score two goals in two minutes. Crazy."

"You saw the look on my face. I ran to the halfway line. There was no time to think about anything else, we just had to get forward," Dzeko added.

"Even the fans who left the stadium would have started to believe; they came back and thought we could do it."

The 35-year-old now finds himself at the San Siro where he has scored 13 goals in 31 appearances since joining from AS Roma in the summer.

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