Manchester City 5-1 Leicester: Premier League highlights and recap

Manchester City beat Leicester 5-1 at the Etihad on Saturday, Feb. 10. Here are all the highlights from the match.

Kevin De Bruyne made full use of what might be the best range of passing in the world against Leicester on Saturday, setting up three goals as Manchester City beat Leicester 5-1 to move 16 points clear at the top of the table, and still had time to be upstaged by Sergio Aguero, who scored four to take his tally in the league this season to 21.

City opened the scoring in only the third minute, Raheem Sterling showing he learned his lesson from a horrible miss against Burnley last week and tapping in at the back post. The goal, however, was simply the icing on the cake that was De Bruyne’s assist, a wonderful, curling, first-time cross from the right wing that took three Leicester players out of the game before finding Sterling unmarked at the back post.

Leicester responded well, and the match turned into an entertaining, end-to-end contest for the first half hour, a pleasant change from most City matches, which typically involve their opponents putting 11 men behind the ball, merely hoping not to lose. The Foxes got their reward in the 24th minute, when Jamie Vardy pounced on a Kyle Walker giveaway, beat Aymeric Laporte and finished into the corner.

From there, however, City took the control to which they have become accustomed this season, especially at home. They deservedly restored their lead in the 48th minute. De Bruyne’s second assist, this time for Aguero, was perhaps even more impressive than his first, a wonderfully weighted, outswinging pass that left Leicester’s defenders little choice but to watch Aguero tap in at the back post.

Aguero scored his second five minutes later from, you guessed it, a De Bruyne pass. This one was much less impressive than the first two, but still a nice example of the Belgian’s uncanny ability to find space around the top of the box, and seeming inability to waste a pass. Aguero made it four, completing his hat-trick, following a bad Kasper Schmeichel error in the 77th minute, and added another from long distance to complete the rout late on.

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Highlights

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Manchester City finish the weekend in first place, 16 points clear of Manchester United, who play Newcastle on Sunday. Leicester could have moved up to seventh with a point, but instead remain eighth, a point ahead of Everton and a point behind Burnley.