Wolves vs Man City LIVE: Premier League result and final score as Kevin De Bruyne nets four
Relive the action as Pep Guardiola’s men extended their lead at the top of the Premier League
Kevin De Bruyne scored four goals as Manchester City restored a three-point lead at the Premier League summit with a 5-1 win at Wolves.
The playmaker rattled in a left-footed hat-trick inside the opening 24 minutes and added another on the hour as City demonstrated the firepower they have even before Erling Haaland arrives next season.
City’s victory was also an emphatic response to title rivals Liverpool’s success over Aston Villa the previous night and tightened their grip on the title race with just two games to play.
The De Bruyne show was briefly interrupted by a Leander Dendoncker strike early on but a late Raheem Sterling tap-in ensured they would score five for a second successive game.
With the extra insurance of a goal difference now plus seven better than their Merseyside rivals, City are closing in on their fourth title in five seasons.
Wolves 1-1 Man City
14 mins: Two goals in four minutes and we are back where we were 10 minutes ago.
Wolves have their tails up now though. The crowd feel there is something in this for them this evening as Manchester City’s makeshift back line was horrible exposed there.
Worrying times for Pep?
GOAL! Wolves 1-1 Man City (Dendoncker, 11)
11 mins: OH, HELLO!
We have a game. It’s a brilliant Wolves counter-attack as they play it up to Jimenez on the halfway line and he holds it up brilliantly before finding Neto. Neto sprints into the penalty area and picks out Dendoncker who fires low beyond Ederson.
All square.
Wolves 0-1 Man City
9 mins: Just what the doctor ordered for Manchester City. They have dominated the ball in the opening stages and got their reward with a superb move.
They might well fancy widening that goal difference advantage to Liverpool this evening. It looks on.
GOAL! Wolves 0-1 Man City (De Bruyne, 7)
7 mins: Fabulous goal.
Title-winning football at its finest. De Bruyne flicks a pass to Bernardo Silva and carries on running. De Bruyne is then slotted in thanks to a perfectly-weighted through ball from Silva and De Bruyne lashes it beyond Sa to give the visitors the lead.
Wonderful.
Wolves 0-0 Man City
6 mins: Cancelo knocks the ball past two Wolves defenders and tries to stand up a cross at the byline but he can only shank it out of play.
Worth noting that Fernandinho has looked fairly calm at centre-back so far. He has played there a bunch of times before, so it shouldn’t be a surprise.
Man City enjoying all the possession. Yet to create anything clear-cut so far.
Wolves 0-0 Man City
4 mins: De Bruyne fizzes a low cross into the six-yard box which narrowly avoids Foden’s leg as the England international stretches to get something on it.
Wolves come forward for the first time but Ait-Nouri’s cross from the left is calmly chested back to Ederson by Zinchenko.
Wolves 0-0 Man City
2 mins: Manchester City straight into their patterns of possession as they look to get a stranglehold of this game in the early stages.
Remember, in the opening 10 minutes of the second half against Newcastle, Man City had 99 per cent possession.
Not sure I’d ever seen that before.
KO: Wolves 0-0 Man City
Kick-off: Here we go then! We are underway at Molineux as Manchester City look to regain their three-point lead at the top of the Premier League table.
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