Manchester City returned to win in the Premier League with a 4-1 victory against Burnley who was very much in the misfortune of Maxime Esteve.
City was left to settle for a 1-1 draw with Arsenal last Sunday when they conceded an equalizer of 93rd minute to the Emirates Stadium after an atypical rear action on the side of Pep Guardiola.
After having progressed in the EFL Cup in the middle of the week, City only needed 12 minutes to take the lead against Burnley, who was late by the goal of the 12th minute of Esteve.
Jaidon Anthony leveled for the Clarets seven minutes before half-time, but a volley from Matheus Nunes, followed by a second goal from Esteve sealed City points.
Esteve has only become the sixth player to score two goals in the same Premier League, after Craig Dawson de Wolves against Everton in December from last year, and a more conventional splint by Erling Haaland saw City claiming the three end -style points.
City is fifth in the Premier League, five points behind the Liverpool leaders after the title champions underwent their first defeat in the hands of Crystal Palace.
Manchester City against Burnley
Savinho dragged an effort just after the post close to a corner while City started off without surprise, and the hosts were ahead shortly after.
Martin Dubravka could only parry in the strike of the left foot of Jeremy Doku with Phil Foden who hides, and Esteve was regrettable while he turned into his own net in order to prevent the break from Foden on the rebound.
Doku was thwarted by Dubravka’s face in the 25th minute while City continued to accumulate on pressure, Nico Gonzalez’s follow -up effort turns widely.
And City paid the price for failing to get a second when Anthony met the low cross of Quilindschy Hartman and saw his effort deflected beyond a Gianluigi Donnarumma failed and in the lower corner on the right.
Hartman forced Donnarumma to go down to his right to preserve parity at 10 minutes in the second half, but City resumed normal service on time through nulls.
Josko Gvardiol got up a high cross to the rear post, where Erling Haaland nodded in the air so that Nunes be at home a volley of the range of Dors’ distribution.
Nunes then transformed the supplier at the end of its well -worked city move, its low cross intended for Oscar Bobb, but rather diverted by Esteve while it continued to contribute by inadvertently to the fall of Burnley.
City was under cruise control later, and Haaland gave the score a much more categorical look with two goals in three minutes.
The first came when he returned home from Jeremy Doku’s cross, and Haaland then jumped on a mixture in the defense of Burnley to score his 133rd goal for the club.
