Foden wheeled away toward the corner, teammates racing after him as he slid on the grass.
Dawson stood still for a moment on the touchline, watching all this and then shook the stench of the goal off like a bad headache.
Then he clapped his hands.
"Come on! Shake it off!"
The Wigan players slowly returned to their positions, and City, meanwhile, after the restart, began pushing their defensive line higher.
They had sensed something.
With Wigan forced deeper, City's midfield could squeeze the space around Reyes and prevent the home side from building through the centre.
The result was almost immediate as Wigan began spending longer stretches inside their own half.
But the higher City pushed, the more space they left behind, and Wigan eventually found a way with it.
After one of those moments of City possessing the ball for almost 5 minutes, Reyes received the ball under pressure and, without fully turning, opened his body and bent a pass over Gvardiol toward the left channel.
