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GOAL: #SaintsFC 0-2 #MCFC (Leroy Sané 77)
Kevin De Bruyne breaks clear and squares to Sané, who slots home to double the visitors’ lead.
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GOAL: #SaintsFC 0-3 #MCFC (Sergio Agüero 80)
Agüero meets Kevin De Bruyne’s cross at the back post and heads home.
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FULL TIME: #SaintsFC 0-3 #MCFC
The visitors bag the points, thanks to three second-half goals.
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#SaintsFC’s @jackstephens_18 gave us his thoughts after the 3-0 home defeat to #MCFC this evening: https://grabyo.com/g/v/Px4v5J8JwR3
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Southampton v Man City, Premier League LIVE: Guardiola’s men in action
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Manchester City’s top four spot has begun to look more secure in recent weeks thanks to the poor form of Manchester United and Arsenal, and they could tighten their hold on a Champions League place with a win.
Pep Guardiola’s men will be seven points above United and 10 clear of the Gunners if they win on Saturday evening at St. Mary’s.
Southampton are safe in mid table, but will not be a pushover for the visitors.
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Starting line-ups: Southampton v Manchester City
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The teams are in! Here’s how #SaintsFC line-up for this evening’s clash with #MCFC: https://t.co/hZq5FQizGe
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Southampton host Manchester City in a Premier League contest at St Mary’s and it’s live on talkSPORT, kick off 5:30pm BST.
Defeat to title leaders Chelsea a couple of weeks ago means City cannot afford any more slip ups between now and the end of the season, but they face a Saints side confident after back-to-back victories.
So stay tuned to all the action on the south coast, right here, on talkSPORT and check out the confirmed teams below:
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HALF-TIME: Southampton 0-0 Manchester City
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We’re through 45 minutes at St Mary’s and aside from two early chances for Sergio Aguero, Manchester City have struggled to create clear chances against a disciplined Southampton defence - though they should have been awarded a penalty when Fraser Forster brought down Leroy Sane.
The home side have actually created the best opening, but Dusan Tadic blazed over unmarked in the box and we’re still waiting for a breakthrough.
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“It’s not a good day for us.”
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GOAL! Southampton 0-3 Manchester City (Aguero)
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Kevin de Bruyne is running riot. His tendency to drift into crossing positions on the right has caused Southampton problems all day and his latest floated cross is headed in by Sergio Aguero at the back post. Great football.
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Southampton 0-3 Manchester City: Kompany sparks win
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Claudio Bravo made a save, Vincent Kompany did something even rarer and Sergio Aguero nailed his 11th goal in as many games. A lot has gone wrong for Pep Guardiola this season but finally a day where so much went right.
It wasn’t quite a perfect stroll in the south coast air because City stuttered through the first 45 minutes and Southampton did have their moments.
But across the whole game they were good, occasionally excellent, and that counts for something in a campaign that has delivered Guardiola’s worst performance as a manager in Europe and thrown up plenty of sticky patches on the domestic front.
The fact they are out of the title race in mid-April is horribly damning for a club with such grand intentions and personnel.
But here they did what they were meant to do so much more often, which was play with pace and aggression and make progress. In the sense of the table, that meant jumping over Liverpool and into third place.
In terms of squad milestones, it meant a first save for Bravo since January 2, and a first goal for Kompany in 608 days and, more importantly, no obvious twinges or pulls or ruptures. He celebrated his second-half header like a mad man, having only recently returned from yet another debilitating injury. Who could blame him?
That strike set a platform from which Leroy Sane and Aguero scored the subsequent goals that buried Southampton. Guardiola allowed himself a few smiles and that was fair enough, as well, given City now have a firmer grip on a top-four place ahead of their FA Cup semi-final against Arsenal next weekend.
‘We played good,’ he said. ‘I’m so happy because until the last game at Watford the qualification for the Champions League will be so tough. Two teams (Chelsea and Tottenham) are already done and there are four top teams for two positions.
‘On Thursday week we play the real final against Manchester United. That’s why it was so important to win today and for our confidence ahead of the semi-final of the FA Cup. I’m so glad with our performance and for our players.’
On Kompany, whose long-term City future is unclear, Guardiola added: ‘We have missed him this season.
‘In the past two years he has had a lot of problems and of course this is only his third or fourth game of the season and that’s not too much.’
Kompany’s return, having suffered a minor problem against Chelsea on the back of a two-month lay-off, enabled one of the four changes Guardiola made to the side that beat Hull the previous Saturday.
Those alterations brought to 100 the figure for switches the Catalan has made to his side throughout this campaign and that, in itself, could be construed as one of his issues this season. While Antonio Conte has made only 31 and thrived amid the stability, Guardiola has frequently looked like he does not know his best XI.
He intends to address that in the summer, with at least three new defenders targeted, and there remains a fair chance he will pursue a new goalkeeper, even if he did back Bravo over Willy Caballero for a second straight start after admitting recently that he no longer has a set No 1.
The pressure on Bravo has been significant, with a pre-match statistic showing he had kept out none of the past seven shots on his goal. When Cedric headed straight at him in the 70th minute, he ended that streak.
By then, City were already in control. The first half had only been fleetingly entertaining, with a poor David Silva miss and an unsuccessful penalty appeal for Sane, before the second saw Kompany head in a Silva corner on 55 minutes.
Southampton enjoyed brief pressure in response, but having only created one meaningful chance, which Dusan Tadic had blazed over in the first half, they were soon put to the sword.
First, Kevin De Bruyne led a breakaway and squared for Sane to make it 2-0, before De Bruyne floated a perfect cross for Aguero to bury with his head. He has excelled since Gabriel Jesus’s injury in February let him back into the team.
Claude Puel was distinctly unimpressed with his side, who had won their previous two but played here like a group of players who know they will almost certainly finish somewhere between eighth and 10th.
Puel said: ‘I feel disappointment but not just about the result but about our play. We can do better. We didn’t show a good Southampton with good quality on the pitch.
‘We were nervous throughout the game. Congratulations of course to a good team but we gave them opportunities.’
And City took them. A good day in a season when they have had far worse.
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GOAL! Southampton 0-1 Manchester City (Kompany)
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For all Manchester City’s attacking talent it’s a defender who breaks the deadlock for them at St Mary’s. Vincent Kompany rises highest to meet David Silva’s out-swinging corner and power a header beyond Fraser Forster before celebrating wildly with the travelling fans.
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How Manchester City have desperately missed Vincent Kompany this season, for his defending, his leadership and organisation, things that no-one else at the club can provide in the same way. Here at St Mary’s they got all that from him and more, as he scored the headed goal that turned a drab 0-0 draw into an emphatic 3-0 win.
This game was going nowhere until Kompany broke it open. It was sterile domination and City looked like they were heading for what would have been a damaging draw. But Kompany’s goal was followed by two more, from Leroy Sane and Sergio Aguero, as City pulled away to what became a very easy win.
It was not a classic match but at this stage of the season only the results count. These three points propel City back above Liverpool into third place. The top two are racing away from them but all City can do is keep winning and stay ahead of Arsenal and Manchester United, in their pursuit of Champions League football for next season.
Arsenal and United are City’s next two games, in the FA Cup and Premier League, the biggest week of their season. City did look for the first 55 minutes here as if they had half an eye on those two games and struggled to conjure up the intensity that Pep Guardiola demands from them.
That is why they needed a set-piece to take the lead, just when it started to feel as if they would struggle to break through in open play.
The goal came from when Jesus Navas’s 30-yarder forced Fraser Forster to tip the ball over the crossbar. David Silva drifted in the corner kick from the left. Kompany clambered up above Maya Yoshida at the near post and darted his header down and into the far corner of the goal. Forster could not scramble across in time.
It was Kompany’s first goal since August 2015 and he celebrated with the wild glee of a man who had spent a long time wondering if he could ever get to do this again. It has been a nightmare season for Kompany, this was only his eighth start in all competitions, and yet he now has the chance to make a difference to the crucial finale.
Once City were ahead they played with more freedom and more speed, although that does not say much. Kompany could have scored a second from a corner, Silva had a shot blocked and Aguero failed to race away from Jack Stephens despite getting in front of him.
But Saints were coming forward and eventually City found the space to score their second and kill the game. Silva beautifully played in De Bruyne, running in behind, with far more room than he could have expected. He waited until the perfect moment and squared to Leroy Sane, running alongside him, who finished into an empty net for his ninth goal of a brilliant season.
That was game over and with the pressure off City scored a clever third. Navas played the ball to De Bruyne at the byline, he pulled back a back and Aguero jumped at the far post to head it in. Aguero had not been at his best, but neither had City, and yet they still turned it round at the end. It was a dominant second half performance that felt very unlikely during a drab first half.
Back before Kompany’s goal, City solidly dominated possession, as they were always going to do, but there was very little drive or spark to go with it. With Raheem Sterling rested City struggled to beat opponents. Navas, again at right-back, found crossing positions often enough, but none of those crosses went anywhere.
It took until the final minutes of the first half for City to look like scoring but even then they could not find the precision they needed. David Silva should have done better at the far post from Sergio Aguero’s deflected cross. Sane was brought down by Fraser Forster, who got just enough of the ball to concede a corner, rather than a penalty. It was poor stuff, and City needed to do far more after the break. Fortunately for Guardiola, they did.
Southampton, in truth, struggled to make much of an impression on the game. Most of this match was attack versus defence but Saints never quite had the incision or speed to hurt City on the break. They had one good chance early in the first half, when Dusan Tadic shot over from Manolo Gabbiadini’s cross. It took until the 72nd minute for Saints to go close again, with Cedric Soares met Tadic’s cross, only for Claudio Bravo to match it with a rare save. Shane Long came on but he was taken off just 20 minutes after, but by that point the game was gone.
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Manchester City should have had a penalty after Southampton goalkeeper Fraser Forster hauled down Leroy Sane in the first half of their Premier League match, says Graham Poll.
Forster was adjudged by referee Neil Swarbrick to have deflected the ball away from the feet of Sane in a one-on-one situation, also bringing down the German youngster in the process.
Sportsmail columnist Poll spoke to BT Sport after Manchester City’s appeals were waved away by Swarbrick and claimed the referee had got the decision wrong but understood exactly why he had not given it.
Replays indicate that Forster got the slightest of touches on the ball but Poll says that Sane would still have had the opportunity to score had he not been brought down by the English goalkeeper.
He said: 'I think what [Swarbrick] has seen is as the ball is Sane is running through onto the ball and he sees a clear deflection.
'The ball changes direction and that normally tells you that the goalkeeper has got a good hand on the ball. But it is actually Sane who deflects the ball away.
‘There may be a tiny touch by Forster, but it is not the amount of touch that I think Neil sees. For Neil, he’s seen a clear corner and I can understand exactly why he’s given what he’s given.’
BT Sport present Jake Humphrey then suggests that Sane could have still scored had he not been brought down, to which Poll explained why the incident was technically a penalty, although almost impossible to spot with the naked eye.
Poll continued: 'It’s a good stop to start with – he gets a little tiny finger on it – but Sane can still reach that ball without question.
‘Forster gets a touch and Neil thinks that’s enough to make it a corner but he’s still gone through the player which makes it a foul and a penalty.’
Sane went on to score in the second-half along with Vincent Kompany and Sergio Aguero, thus sealing a 3-0 victory and diluting the debate on what could have been a crucial moment in the match.
And as Pep Guardiola revealed in his post-match interview, the winger himself said he did not think it was a penalty.
Guardiola told BT Sport: ‘So the people there told me it was a penalty. Leroy said it was not a penalty. I believe what Leroy said. Hopefully next time he can stick to dribbling and score a goal.’
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