Perhaps this is where we find the potential Achilles heel of Manchester City. It’s not the yips. If anything, it’s close to the opposite. It’s disaffection. It’s ennui.
, there was a slender possibility that the race might have life left in it.
Knocked back off the top of the league by a confident performance from Arsenal? Rest the goalkeeper. Five games to go in a title race was certainly a bold time of the season to give Stefan Ortega his first Premier League start, but Ortega finished the night with a clean sheet, so perhaps it wasn’t as strange as it had originally seemed. Elsewhere,West Ham were missing Tomas Soucek, There was little of the intensity of another step in the title race inside The Etihad Stadium.
No-one can be perfect all the time, but that’s the main thing that has differentiated Manchester City from every other team in the Premier League this season. But it was, throughout much of the first half, difficult to shake the feeling that nobody present really to be there. West Ham, to their credit, got in their way and made their lives difficult. They had few opportunities of their own, but they largely limited City to half-chances throughout the first half, and with it looking likely that 37 or 38 points will be enough to keep a team up, David Moyes could be forgiven for playing for the point, with his team on 35.
Midway through the second half he did it again, that one chance taken with a chip past Fabianski after being put through by Grealish to set a new Premier League record of 35 goals in one season, and with five games left to play. Foden added a third after being brought on as a substitute, a little icing for that cake.
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