Manchester City 3-1 Leicester City: Erling Haaland and John Stones score

Erling Haaland has scored 47 goals successful 40 games this season

Erling Haaland scored doubly arsenic Premier League champions Manchester City maintained their winning streak with a ascendant triumph implicit relegation-threatened Leicester City.

It was a thoroughly comfy time for Pep Guardiola's men, who scored doubly successful the archetypal 13 minutes done John Stones' thumping effort and Haaland's penalty.

The 22-year-old Norwegian extremity instrumentality added his 2nd with a delightfully dinked decorativeness 12 minutes later, but could not nett immoderate much aft being substituted astatine half-time.

Goalkeeper Daniel Iversen made a superb flying halt to contradict Riyad Mahrez's curling strike, the closest the hosts came to a 4th successful the 2nd half.

Meanwhile, Dean Smith suffered a nightmare commencement successful his archetypal crippled successful complaint of Leicester, though Kelechi Iheanacho grabbed a 75th infinitesimal consolation and besides deed the station against his aged club.

The Foxes stay heavy successful occupation astatine the incorrect extremity of the table, sitting successful 19th presumption and 2 points disconnected safety.

Arsenal clash looms large

This crippled went existent to signifier arsenic Manchester City's juggernaut streamrolled connected successful their purpose for a Treble of trophies.

Guardiola's broadside are ominously bearing successful connected Arsenal, and the Londoners cannot spend immoderate slip-ups knowing City are hitting signifier astatine the close clip by putting unneurotic a 10-game winning streak.

They look connected people to scope the past 4 of the Champions League aft taking isolated Bayern Munich successful the archetypal limb of the quarter-finals connected Tuesday and look Sheffield United successful the semi-finals of the FA Cup adjacent Saturday.

But connected 26 April comes that immense clash against Arsenal, which could perchance beryllium a title-decider astatine Etihad Stadium, with the visitors aiming to extremity their agelong top-flight trophy hold and halt their opponents from claiming 3 successful a row.

Leading City's complaint is irrepressible frontman Haaland, who continues to wreak havoc with his goalscoring, taking his tally to 47 successful 40 games successful each competitions.

His spot-kick and cheeky decorativeness from Kevin De Bruyne's walk extended his full to 32 successful the apical flight, drafting alongside Mohamed Salah's grounds successful a 38 crippled play with 8 games inactive to play.

The erstwhile Borussia Dortmund striker's goals enactment his broadside 3-0 up aft they were acceptable connected their mode by Stones' fabulous first-time decorativeness from the borderline of the box.

With the points all-but secure, some players were withdrawn astatine half-time and the squad could not find much goals arsenic Leicester dug in.

Foxes slump to different loss

This was onslaught against defence, and was not the commencement erstwhile Aston Villa brag Smith would wished for, having taken complaint of Leicester until the extremity of the campaign.

A dreadful play shows fewer signs of improvement, with the Foxes having collected 1 constituent from their past 9 games. They person earned conscionable 8 points since Christmas, the fewest by a top-flight broadside during that period.

Home goalkeeper Ederson was a virtual bystander for the full contest, but made a crisp halt to contradict James Maddison aft substitute Iheanacho had stabbed successful from adjacent range.

The Nigerian striker besides struck the station successful the 90th minute, which would person acceptable up a nervy finish, but yet they were good beaten.

Striker Jamie Vardy made his 300th Premier League appearance, but the 36-year-old was fixed nary proviso and could not adhd to the 8 goals helium has scored against Manchester City, and was replaced astatine the break.

Youri Tielemans returned to the broadside aft six weeks retired with an ankle wounded and defender Caglar Soyuncu made conscionable his 3rd league quality of the run aft falling retired of favour nether Brendan Rodgers.

Although they curtailed a fearfulness start, Leicester slumped to their 20th league decision of the season, the aforesaid fig arsenic bottom-of-the-table Southampton.

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