Manchester City kept the pressure on against Arsenal at the top of the Premier League with an eventually comfortable win against a humdrum Newcastle United. twoht
Were these the first signs of the steamroller finally starting to rumble to life? One of the key characteristics of Manchester City over the last few years has been their tendency to just embark upon these lengthy unbeaten runs during which their results become so predictable as to be hardly worth even looking up. The relentless becomes their playing style, not only within games but also across them. Two-nil down, three minutes to play plus stoppage-time? They’ll probably still win 4-2.
This makes sense. Last season, Manchester City ended with eight players scoring more than seven Premier League goals. This time around and with a third of the season left to play, only Phil Foden has matched a number Haaland went past in five games while two more – Julian Alvarez and Riyad Mahrez – have scored as many as five. When Haaland isn’t on top of his game, Manchester City may struggle. Other players aren’t scoring anything like as many goals.
And perhaps City’s out on The Haaland Paradox is his goalscoring second-in-command. There have been points this season at which Phil Foden hasn’t looked completely comfortable, but his form has picked up of late and his 15th minute goal proved to be too big a hurdle for Newcastle’s slightly saggy looking attacking options to be able to overcome on this occasion.
And true to recent form, Newcastle didn’t have much of a response. The second goal knocked the stuffing out of their revival, and the final twenty minutes of the game were played with the air the result having already been decided. A team that had scored just three goals – one each for Isak, Almiron and Callum Wilson – in their last seven games can hardly be relied upon to score two in twenty minutes to save this game.
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