Perhaps Manchester Cityprove little by swatting aside lesser sides on their own turf, but they remain very good at it. After a chastening week, Manuel Pellegrini’s produced a characteristic rejoinder.

Emphatic in attack, if brittle in defence, a team with a solitary goal in their previous three outings struck three times.


Southampton arrived at the Etihad Stadium boasting an unbeaten away record. They battled valiantly to preserve it but nonetheless departed defeated, courtesy of goals by Kevin de Bruyne, Fabian Delph and Aleksandar Kolarov.