Manchester City's 2025 resurgence continued as they reached the top four of the Premier League after beating Ipswich Town 6-0 at Portman Road on Sunday.
Eredivisie 2024/2025
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Match report
Erling Haaland celebrates a new deal milestone in the brutal demolition of the defending champions as Pep Guardiola's side look back at their best.
Phil Foden starred for the Citizens, with his assist for Mateo Kovacic sandwiched between two close-range finishes in the first half, both set up by captain Kevin De Bruyne.
The visitors went further after the break, with Jack Clarke's sloppy pass punished by Jeremy Doku, whose strike on the way in took a deflection off Dara O'Shea.
And in the week he signed a new nine-and-a-half-year contract, Erling Haaland put himself on the scoresheet with a composed finish before the hour mark past Christian Walton.
Pep Guardiola made the changes shortly afterwards with a must-win Champions League tie against Paris Saint-Germain, with one of City's substitutes closing the scoring.
Fresh from his hat-trick heroics in the FA Cup against Salford City, James McAtee headed in his first Premier League goal after being brilliantly picked out by Kovacic.
City's victory lifts them from eighth to last in the Champions League, at the expense of Newcastle United on goal difference. Ipswich, meanwhile, remains in 18th place.
The Citizens' unprecedented form towards the end of 2024 is firmly in their review mirror, with their performance on Sunday as one of the champions. But is a title suit out of reach? The Opta Supercomputer seems to think so, but only gives them a 0.3% chance of achieving a record fifth Premier League title.
Today was only the thirteenth time City have scored six or more goals in a top flight under Guardiola, as many times as Arsene Wenger's Arsenal have done so, with only Alex Ferguson's Manchester United (14) scoring six or more goals in a match . more often in the competition.
But their triumph was inspired by Foden's first half. He has scored in three consecutive Premier League appearances for City for the first time since October 2022. He has scored more goals than any other player in the league since the turn of the year (five in three games).
Through Foden, Doku and Kovacic, City also had three players score and assist in one Premier League match against West Brom (Riyad Mahrez, Joao Cancelo and Raheem Sterling) for the first time since January 2021.
Setups
Ipswich Town
Subs: M. Luongo, Conor Townsend, Wes Burns, Nathan Broadhead, Tuanzebe, George Hirst, Arijanet Muric, Jaden Philogene, Jack Taylor
Man City XI: Gundogan, De Bruyne, Kovacic, Ederson, Ruben Dias, Akanji, Haaland, Foden, Matheus Nunes, Doku, Gvardiol
Subs: Ortega, Grealish, Bernardo Silva, McAtee, Lewis, Divin Mubama, Savinho, Nico O'Reilly, Max Alleyne
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