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Manchester City restore their one-point advantage over Liverpool at the top of the Premier League with victory over a resolute Brighton.

MANCHESTER, England : Manchester City regained their one-point lead at the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 win over Brighton and Hove Albion while ...

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For now it's as you were in the title race with six games to go, although Pep Guardiola and his players were reminded by Brighton & Hove Albion that these next ...

"It is one of the happiest days as next season we will be in the Champions League," said Guardiola. "People take it for granted but we have to be in the Champions League. When it happens mathematically it's because we have done really well. City will need everyone -- particularly key players like De Bruyne and Dias -- if they are going to hold off Liverpool and safely negotiate these next six games while also trying to win the Champions League for the first time in their history. If we don't win all the games, Liverpool will be champions. They might need a bit more here on Saturday, particularly if Watford are as organised and resilient as Brighton. This time City get to put the pressure on Liverpool with Jurgen Klopp's side not in action until 24 hours later against Everton at Anfield. "It happened three years ago, we won 14 in a row to be champions. When Bernardo Silva scored the third on 82 minutes, the home supporters finally got up the courage to chant "champions, champions, champions."

Manchester City got back to winning ways on Wednesday night with an impressive second-half display against a frustrating Brighton outfit, where the hosts ...

Commanded the midfield and demonstrated what Manchester City might’ve been missing on the weekend. Controlled possession fairly well but did give it away a few times. Didn’t have much to defend against either but offered support going forwards. Solid shift without anything to do defensively. Not too much to do, very quiet game. This certainly unlocked the door as just 12 minutes later, it was two.

Manchester City returned to the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 victory over Brighton at the Etihad Stadium, the goals coming from Riyad Mahrez, ...

The ball came to Mahrez, he finished with the help of a deflection, and City celebrated. The manager was now in arm-waving mode, semaphoring Silva and Foden to pull wide and hectoring Aymeric Laporte. De Bruyne had run the match thus far and a simple stab of the ball from him into Brighton’s area allowed Ilkay Gündogan to hit the ball goalwards, Lewis Dunk’s block saving his team. City were cruising along in third gear but had no opener to show for their ascendancy on entering the first half’s closing phase. He was less enamoured with how Marc Cucurella hoofed the ball straight out at one point, but the manager still offered encouragement to the left of his three centre-backs. And if City beat Watford here on Saturday Liverpool will have to stew overnight on a four-point deficit before their Merseyside derby with Everton at Anfield.

Both Liverpool and Manchester City have six games remaining with just one point separating the two sides.

- Wolves (A) – TBC - Aston Villa (H) – Sun 22 May, 4pm - Newcastle United (H) – Sun 8 May, 4.30pm - Wolves (H) – Sun 22 May, 4pm - Aston Villa (A) – Tue 10 May, 8pm - Tottenham (H) – Sat 7 May, 7.45pm

Pep Guardiola oversaw his 250th win as Manchester City manager to break a record previously held by Jose Mourinho as his side beat Brighton 3-0.

Guardiola's 250th win came in his 344th match as City boss. Pep Guardiola oversaw his 250th win as Manchester City manager on Wednesday. Pep Guardiola Breaks Jose Mourinho Record As Man City Keep Premier League Title Bid On Track

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Man City are back at home on Saturday when they host Watford at the Etihad; kick-off 3pm. "In the end, the quality of opponent means you are going to concede. We have to learn from it." "We defended really well but we didn't play as well as I think we can. We didn't concede a lot and we were incredibly aggressive. In this kind of mood, there aren't many better in world football than the City star. Sometimes we can win, we can lose, but we give everything." He has now been directly involved in six goals in his last five Premier League games. And if we win all our games we will be champions. "Some people aren't pleased when we lose but I am always pleased with my players. You could easily make the argument that he is currently the best midfielder on the planet, perhaps even the best player in the world. His performance against the Seagulls was another example of his greatness.

Man City 3-0 Brighton: Pep Guardiola's side overcame spririted opposition to remain one point clear.

For a team as meek in attack as Brighton, with only 29 goals to their name all season long, it spelt the end to any hopes of getting a result, despite all their efforts at keeping City quiet. It was not a pretty goal, certainly not by City’s standards, but it might be remembered as one of the more important ones on their record this season. It was the clearest sight of goal that City would have all half and the Etihad crowd began to sense that chances would be few and far between. On one of the few occasions Brighton managed to come forward and enjoy a sustained spell of possession deep in opposition territory, there was wincing around the Etihad as City struggled to deal with crosses into the box. And for the first half, it was, give or take a few hairy moments. The crowd’s patience, and the air inside the Etihad, grows a little thinner.

Pep Guardiola clocked up his 250th win as Manchester City manager as we beat Brighton 3-0 in the Premier League.

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Newcastle were also fretting about relegation at the turn of the year, but the Magpies are up to 11th after a sixth consecutive home win. Arsenal were in pole position for a return to the Champions League until a run of three consecutive defeats. Liverpool stormed to the top of the table by tearing Manchester United to shreds in a 4-0 win at Anfield on Tuesday.

Manchester City leapfrogged Liverpool back to the Premier League summit thanks to three second-half goals against Brighton.

Chelsea stayed in third place on 62 points having played a game less than both Spurs and Arsenal and still looking on course for their own Champions League spot next season. The win left Arsenal just outside the top four qualifying positions in fifth place but level with Spurs on 57 points and only behind them on goal difference. In between, Phil Foden needed the aid of a deflection to beat the Brighton goalkeeper after Mahrez spotted the England man on his own just outside the box at a corner.

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This put us in the mood for more, as we captured our crucial second goal through Phil Foden who struck with a powerfully hit shot which flew past the left-hand post after a deflection. But we couldn’t find a way past a physical Brighton defence, which saw the game go into half time goalless. Pep Guardiola's side came out for the second 45 with more urgency, and it only took us eight minutes to find a pathway to goal.

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Bernardo completed the scoring eight minutes from time, picking out the bottom corner with a wonderful curling effort from the edge of the area after City punished the visitors for trying to play out from the back. Foden doubled the lead minutes later with a 20-yard drive that flicked off the leg of Enock Mwepu and wrongfooted Robert Sanchez in the Brighton goal. Pep Guardiola’s side returned to the top of the table with a deserved victory at the Etihad Stadium, where Riyad Mahrez, Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva were on target as the boss claimed his 250th win in charge of the Club.

Manchester City returned to winning ways and the top of the Premier League with a comfortable victory over Brighton and Hove Albion at the Etihad Stadium.

"In the first half we didn’t concede a lot. Watch the best of the action from Manchester City’s 3-0 win over Brighton and Hove Albion in the Premier League. Watch more. "If you want to make this step you have to come back to those terms and the defence will help us to do that. "The way we defended was good. The people will see that. Watch all the goals from Manchester City’s 3-0 win over Brighton and Hove Albion in the Premier League. Watch more. Before we could not do it for many reasons, we were mentally fatigued in the last games. The 30-year-old looked the most likely to make something happen as City struggled to make the breakthrough in the first half and, when it arrived, it was as a result of his powerful surging run. Pep Guardiola says he will wait for an update on the fitness of John Stones and Nathan Ake in the wake of Wednesday’s 3-0 Premier League win over Brighton. Watch more. They will seem the team were alive. It was a landmark night for the Belgian as he clocked up a triple century of appearances in a sky-blue shirt and he ensured he would remember the milestone fondly with a typically influential performance. The Portuguese defender replaced Nathan Ake at half-time, who appeared to be struggling with an injury in the final minutes of the first half, and more than lived up to Guardiola’s pre-match prediction that he was than ready to perform after a seven-week absence.

Pep Guardiola says his players are well aware of what is needed if City are to successfully defend the Premier League title again.

“We have been in this position. “We were 11 months here together for just one month. We have faced them, we know. If we win all the games we will be the champions. “It happens. “They are a quality team, with a system and set up really well.

Manchester City held their nerve to move back above Liverpool at the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 win over Brighton on Wednesday.

By the time Stones departed, City had the game won thanks to two goals in 12 minutes. The Portuguese's return might have come at the perfect time for Guardiola as John Stones limped off in the second half just six days before the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid. Mahrez bore the brunt of the City support's nerves as he missed the best chance before the break when he passed up the opportunity to take a quick shot from Robert Sanchez's mishit clearance.

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Having made the FA Cup final and recovered from exiting the Champions League, Chelsea have less at stake but Thomas Tuchel is not one for letting up on his players, though his team did lose this fixture in May last year when the Champions League final had been reached. Manchester City v Brighton (8pm UK time kick-off): Brighton were very good on Saturday at Spurs, to follow up beating Arsenal the previous week, and looked to pose a bigger threat to City than Liverpool did to Manchester United last night. Newcastle v Crystal Palace (7.45pm): Perhaps Palace’s season ended in that rather drab semi-final loss to Chelsea, but Newcastle have been fun to watch on the field of late, with Bruno Guimarães already hitting levels of Geordie South American folk hero of Nobby Solano levels. To face Crystal Palace, Newcastle make no changes from the team that beat Leicester while Palace make four changes from Wembley, including the return of Conor Gallagher to the team. Kevin de Bruyne is risen for City, and that’s a big deal, not least because Leandro Trossard, the Brighton match-winner at Tottenham, is absent. He is already on the bench and doing much better. The confidence he has to receive the ball in any area of the pitch shows a lot of courage and then there’s his work ethic as well. City are knocking on the door, and with real menace. It’s rancorous at Everton, where the home team have gone close after a slow start, Richarlison missing a good chance. Marcel Bout has departed from his role as head of global scouting after eight years with the club. Jim leaves the club with our warmest thanks for his significant contribution and our very best wishes for the future. On a more genuine note, I am pleased for Poch to land a league title given how often the trophy stick seems to be used to beat him.”

Report and free match highlights as Manchester City return to the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 home win over Brighton; second-half goals from Riyad ...

Man City are back at home on Saturday when they host Watford at the Etihad; kick-off 3pm. "In the end, the quality of opponent means you are going to concede. We have to learn from it." "We defended really well but we didn't play as well as I think we can. We didn't concede a lot and we were incredibly aggressive. In this kind of mood, there aren't many better in world football than the City star. Sometimes we can win, we can lose, but we give everything." He has now been directly involved in six goals in his last five Premier League games. And if we win all our games we will be champions. "Some people aren't pleased when we lose but I am always pleased with my players. You could easily make the argument that he is currently the best midfielder on the planet, perhaps even the best player in the world. His performance against the Seagulls was another example of his greatness.

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The referee awarded a penalty – to vociferous objections from Chelsea – in the 90th minute when Bukayo Saka went down in a tangle with Azpilicueta. Arsenal went ahead to stay in the 57th minute with Nketiah’s second of the night at Stamford Bridge. Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal took advantage of Chelsea’s defensive woes to break a run of poor results and return to the thick of the fight for fourth place and the accompanying ticket to the 2022-2023 Champions League.

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Arsenal were in pole position for a return to the Champions League until a run of three consecutive defeats. Mahrez was guilty of missing the best chances of a tense first 45 minutes for the English champions against a Brighton side that had won at Arsenal and Tottenham in their last two outings. Liverpool stormed to the top of the table by tearing Manchester United to shreds in a 4-0 win at Anfield on Tuesday.