Manchester City do enough to get 3 points from a Newcastle side that offered very little offensively.
The individual quality of Raheem Sterling and Kyle Walker was enough to score 2 goals but it was the way City dominated Newcastle that really won them the game.
Newcastle did manage to score, making the game 1-1, but did nothing else to threaten Manchester City.
The game begins in the way it is imagined it would, City dominate the ball and try to pull Newcastle out of position as they sit deep and with numbers behind the ball.
A mistake from Jamaal Lascelles allows Raheem Sterling to cut in on the left-hand side and curl a low and powerful strike into the bottom right corner, giving City the lead in 8 minutes.
Newcastle begin the game very poorly and struggle to even get a touch of the ball.
Manchester City have several attempts at scoring there second in the first 25 minutes but Newcastle goalkeeper Dubravka does well to stop them.
A well worked move from Kenedy allows him to get the ball to Rondon who slides the ball across to Yedlin who scores to make it 1-1 in the 30th minute.
Manchester City’s forwards look a little static, despite this City still dominate the rest of the half with ease as the game remains at 1-1 going into half-time.
The second-half begins and it’s more of the same as you would expect.
Manchester City begin the half livelier as City’s key players are finding good positions more often.
Sergio Aguero receives the ball on the edge of the box but is forced away and slides it to Kyle Walker who takes a touch and shoots from long range, burying it right into the bottom corner of the goal in the 52nd minute, a superb strike.
Manchester City have several more key chances in the following minutes as Gabriel Jesus has a goal disallowed and Dubravka makes a triple save to stop City scoring on the counter attack.
Manchester City slowed the pace of the game down once they took the lead and came close to scoring more several times.
The game had very few chances in the last 20 minutes with Manchester City having some small chances and Newcastle having a few attacks that were ultimately stopped by City.
Manchester City saw the game out well and were threatened very little by Newcastle apart from the one goal they scored.
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