Kevin de Bruyne scored in his penultimate home game as Manchester City edged past Wolves to strengthen their position in the Premier League's top five.
Midfielder De Bruyne announced last month he will be leaving City when his contract expires at the end of the season, and the Belgian's winning goal helped his side to an important three points in the race to qualify for next season's Champions League.
De Bruyne's first-time finish from Jeremy Doku's low cross lifted City to third in the table, four points clear of Nottingham Forest in sixth place.
Before the goal, Wolves were causing City problems and should have done better when they broke through but Jean-Ricner Bellegarde elected to square the ball rather than shoot - the chance went begging though as a sliding Marshall Munetsi was unable to get on the end of the pass.
The in-form visitors had City rattled and were inches from breaking the deadlock when the dangerous Rayan Ait-Nouri struck the far post before his follow-up was cleared off the line by Josko Gvardiol.
Wolves attempted to hit back in the second half and struck the woodwork again through Matheus Cunha's whipped effort, but their six-game winning streak came to an end.
Line-ups
Man City XI: Gundogan, De Bruyne, Kovacic, Ederson, Ruben Dias, Bernardo Silva, Omar Marmoush, Matheus Nunes, Doku, Gvardiol, Nico O'Reilly
Subs: Ortega, Grealish, Akanji, Haaland, Foden, Nico González, McAtee, Lewis, Savinho
Wolves XI: Doherty, Semedo, Jose Sa, Jean-Ricner Bellegarde, Marshall Munetsi, Matheus Cunha, Rayan Aït-Nouri, Toti Gomes, Emmanuel Agbadou, João Gomes, André
Subs: Sarabia, Daniel Bentley, Guedes, Hwang Hee-Chan, Santiago Bueno, Doyle, Rodrigo Gomes, Nasser Djiga, Pedro Lima
Vector007
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imagine man citys worst season is another team's prayer point
Vector007
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third Position on the table .. yet peps worst season .. bro just broke another record 😂
Boss0987
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Despite losing Rodri for the entire season and dealing with all the challenges this season, City is only 3 points behind second place. Mad respect to the team, Pep, and coaching staff. KDB is a bad mutherfucker.
Tony-2
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Arteta noticing that city are only 3 points to catch up with arsenal be like:
criticism
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Tony-2
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pep after the final whistle be like:
chukwuka29
15
I wish Man City the best 💙🥰♥️
vuaabdipu
12
City is proving they deserve champions league football next season with their performances in these last six to seven matches in the PL their next game is up against by far the weakest team in the PL this season Southampton, so i expect nothing short of a win for the Cityzens
yonailmpr
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At this point I want pep and his city players to seat down and watch how Barca pass the. All around, direct pass into the midfield and not too many back pass. Pep must change his tactics and style.
Soeeklnrz
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joy is finding its way back to the city KDB will be greatly missed