Manchester City produced a breathtaking display to reach the summit of the Premier League for the first time this season after an exciting performance against Sam Allardyce’s West Brom.
City took an early lead through Ilkay Gundogan who fired home from 20 yards after a wonderful pass from Joao Cancelo.
The full-back, Cancelo, then went from supplier to finisher as he doubled City’s lead via a brilliant curling effort from the edge of the area.
A goal that was initially ruled out for offside in the build-up but overturned by the VAR after referee Chris Kavanagh had allowed play to continue despite the assistant referee raising the offside flag.
Gundogan who has been in a very exciting form for the Cityzens this term was used as a false nine in the absence of Kevin De Bruyne on the night and he grabbed his seventh goal of the season with another tidy finish at the half-hour mark.
Riyad Mahrez and Raheem Sterling rounded off the scoring for Pep Guardiola’s side as City continued their winning streak in all competitions, which is now at 11 games.
Watch the highlights of the match below
Stats and facts from the match (Backed by Opta)
- Manchester City’s win sees them finish the day top of the Premier League table for the first time this season, becoming the ninth different side to end a day top this term, the most within a single top-flight campaign since 1986-87 (also 9).
- West Brom have conceded 22 goals in their last five Premier League games on home soil, the most a team has shipped across five top-flight home games since Aston Villa in December 1935 (22).
- City have won seven consecutive top-flight games for the first time since August 2019 (a run of 15).
- West Brom’s Sam Allardyce is the first manager since Chris Ramsey at QPR in March 2015 to lose his first four home Premier League games in charge of a club.
- Cancelo scored and assisted in a single game in the big five European Leagues for the first time since April 2016 for Valencia vs Eibar in LaLiga.
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