David Silva broke a Manchester City record as Wolves were down 3-0 at the Etihad Stadium in the Premier League
Gabriel Jesus scored a brace as Manchester City beat 10-man Wolves 3-0 at home to cut Liverpool’s lead at the top of the Premier League back to four points.
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🔵 1-0 🐺 #MCIWOL #mancity pic.twitter.com/kUp7Pdqaxx
— Manchester City (@ManCity) January 14, 2019
Jesus followed his five goals in two cup games last week with a first-half double as City recorded a fifth straight win in all competitions at the Etihad Stadium on Monday.
Wolves had Willy Boly sent off in between Jesus’ goals, the center-back dismissed for a lunge on Bernardo Silva although he got some of the balls, with Nuno Espirito Santo’s side well beaten.
🙌 @21LVA – Our record @premierleague appearance-maker! 🙌#mancity pic.twitter.com/X5tMvXeB6H
— Manchester City (@ManCity) January 14, 2019
Conor Coady’s late own goal completed the scoring on a particularly special occasion for David Silva, whose 267th Premier League game for City moves him above Joe Hart into top spot in the club’s appearance list for the competition.
On a night when a potentially tricky assignment was smoothed by Willy Boly’s early red card and Wolverhampton Wanderers were forced to play for 71 minutes with 10 men, two goals from a resurgent Gabriel Jesus and an own goal from Conor Coady were enough for City to reduce the gap at the top back to four points.
RED CARD | Boly gets his marching orders for a reckless challenge on @BernardoCSilva.
— Manchester City (@ManCity) January 14, 2019
Liverpool will have the opportunity to put the pressure back on City against Crystal Palace at Anfield on Saturday, 24 hours before Pep Guardiola’s side travel to managerless, bottom club Huddersfield, but the City manager’s message to his players is simple: Hang in there and be ready to pounce if Liverpool falter.
“I said to the players, ‘Don’t watch the calendar for the Liverpool games, forget about it because if you don’t you might lose your own games and then it’s over’,” Guardiola said.
“We cannot control what Liverpool do. All we can do is win our games and be there and maybe one day they fail but if we don’t win they will be champions.”
