A scintillating display from Manchester City condemned Leeds to their heaviest ever defeat in the Premier League, after they were hammered 7-0 at the Etihad in Tuesday’s Premier League game.
The win means City now on 41 points are four and five points ahead of title rivals Liverpool and Chelsea respectively.
City broke the deadlock in the 8th minute after the ball rebounded off Leeds keeper Illan Meslier to Phil Foden who slotted home.
Just five minutes after the opener, City went 2-0 ahead. After sustained pressure following a corner, Jack Grealish headed in a Riyad Mahrez cross.
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In the 32nd minute City got their third as a controlled City passing move was expertly finished by Kevin De Bruyne.
Mahrez made it 4-0 on 49 minutes after cutting in on his left foot and slide the ball into the bottom corner.
Pep Guardiola’s men continued to pile in the pressure and were rewarded on 62 minutes off a stunner from Kevin De Bruyne who picked up the ball on the edge of the box and volleyed it into the top corner.
With 16 minutes remaining City got their sixth thanks to John Stones who pounced on a rebound despite a strong double save from Meslier.
And in the 78th minute Nathan Ake rounded up the goal feast as he climbed highest to a Foden corner to make it seven for City.
And at Carrow Road Steven Gerrard continued his impressive job at Aston Villa who beat Norwich City 2-0.
The win took Villa to ninth place on 22 points in the league standing.
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This is a Leeds team who has enough talents and being handled by one of the most respected coach in the world in Marcelo Bielsla being hammered 7 unreply goals. We have even seen them being humiliated by a team that is not suppose to in this current season despite their exploits last season. If it’s in my country you would have hear series of things like ” the coach is a dumb looking man, ” he his tacticalles it was the players brilliant that carried the team last season, ” he doesn’t exume confidence as he always squirt like a squirrel on the technical area, he is an old man that is just collecting his pension lol etc….. Could the team problem be the coach? or they are unable to cope with the rigor of primer league? Whichever the problem that doesn’t change the fact that Bielsa is a good and a respected coach.