Brighton vs Man City highlights: Reaction as Guardiola sends title race warning to Arsenal
Pep Guardiola’s men can close the gap on Arsenal at the top of the table
Manchester City kept their hunt for an unprecedented fourth successive title on track with a completely dominant 4-0 win at Brighton.
After securing their place in the FA Cup final, with a 1-0 win over Chelsea on Saturday, Pep Guardiola’s team continued their title challenge in emphatic fashion.
Kevin De Bruyne opened the scoring after just 16 minutes with a stunning header, before Phil Foden netted his 50th Premier League goal just after the half hour mark.
The England international added his second shortly afterwards and Julian Alvarez wrapped up the scoring with a well-timed fourth.
While Brighton might feel aggrieved that they did not have two penalties. There was one shout as Gross was pulled back inside the box, and a second for a clumsy foul by Gvardiol on Joao Pedro, but VAR did not extensively review the deicisons, or send the referee to the monitor.
City are still the favourites to lift the trophy as they still have a game in hand on Mikel Arteta’s side and only trail by one point.
After securing European football for the first time in the club’s history last year, the Seagulls are still in with a chance of repeating that feat, although their chances took a significant dent with the heavy defeat.
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Brighton 0-4 Man City
68’ City are playing the ball around with ease, any last fighting spirit shown by the home side seems to have been squashed slightly by that fourth goal.
GOAL! Alvarez has his goal! Brighton 0-4 Man City
62’ GOAL! Alvarez has his goal! Walker slides in with the keeper and they collide and the ball falls to Alvarez who makes no mistakes sliding the ball into the back of the net for his first goal in 10 games.
Brighton 0-3 Man City
60’ Alvarez is trying hard to get his name on the scoresheet here, he has another chance, this time a curled strike from the edge of the box, but it just goes wide of the goal.
Brighton 0-3 Man City
59’ Chance! Alvarez has a shot and it’s saved this time by Brighton goalkeeper Steele.
Brighton 0-3 Man City
57’ Brighton have a corner after the ball deflected off Ake and behind. Gross will take the corner, he swings it out to the far post but Van Hecke’s header lacked power and direction and looped safely into the hands of Ederson.
Brighton 0-3 Man City
56’ Brighton make another changer, Moder off for Igor, De Zerbi is throwing everything he can at this to try and get back into the game.
Brighton 0-3 Man City
53’ Joao Pedro was trying to find a way through, he almost made it into the box in a promising-enough position to get a shot under way but the goalkeeper was quick off his line to make the stop.
Brighton 0-3 Man City
53’ Brighton clear the ball back to Ederson and it will give the home side a chance to get out of their third and reset slightly.
Brighton 0-3 Man City
51’ But it’s City who have the free-kick in a dangerous position, De Bruyne and Foden were standing over it.
Foden does take it and it can’t get through the first defender, who hits it out for a corner.
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