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It may not be a comparison that Manchester City fans want to embrace. But it is one that they should accept: there was something of a belligerent Wayne Rooney swagger to Phil Foden as City overwhelmed Aston Villa and certainly in the way that the play-maker claimed his hat-trick goal.]]>