Man City 5-1 Luton Town: Hosts top the table, Haaland, Doku & Kovacic on target

City were in no mood for making this a difficult afternoon and were ahead inside two minutes.

Match Reports

Thomas Kaminski did well to save after Haaland had been played through by Kevin de Bruyne but he was eventually beaten when Haaland's acrobatic volley was heading well wide until it took a huge deflection off Hashioka's head and ended up in the net.

Luton offered nothing as an attacking threat but defended with great determination.

Kaminski parried a powerful effort from Gvardiol before also collecting efforts from Matheus Nunes, De Bruyne and Ruben Dias.

It felt like a training exercise for City at times and City finally doubled the lead with a Kovavic thunderbolt just after the hour as the Croatian hit an unstoppable effort from the edge of the area.

Luton responded with their first meaningful attack, and Fred Onyedinma pulled the ball back for Cauley Woodrow, but the substitute fired against the bar.

Normal service was soon resumed with the lively Doku winning a penalty after tricking and being brought down by Onyedinma. Haaland calmly sent Kaminski the wrong way.

Barkley pulled one back but City finished with a strong surge in the final furlong.

Doku got the goal his performance merited, slaloming past some desperate Luton defending and sliding into the corner before Gvardiol hammered home his second goal in a week.

Over to you, Liverpool and Arsenal.

Match Events

0' The match is about to start!

2' OWN GOAL! Man City 1-0 Luton Town (Daiki Hashioka)

10' Gvardiol’s shot saved by Goalkeeper!

23' AGAIN! Gvardiol header over the bar

29' CLOSE! Nunes hits the post

43' Yellow Card! De Bruyne booked

45' De Bruyne nearly scores for City!

57' CLOSE! Ruben’s shot wide out

61' Alvarez fires his shot into the sky!

64' GOAL! Man City 2-0 Luton Town (Kovacic)

68' Woodrow hits the post!

76' Penalty Goal! Man City 3-0 Luton Town (Haaland)

81' GOAL! Man City 3-1 Luton Town (Barkley)

87' GOAL! Man City 4-1 Luton Town (Jérémy Doku)

93' GOAL! Man City 5-1 Luton Town (Josko Gvardiol)

Line-ups

Man City XI: De Bruyne, Kovacic, Ederson, Ruben Dias, Akanji, Haaland, Julián Álvarez, Matheus Nunes, Jérémy Doku, Josko Gvardiol, Rico Lewis

Subs: Walker, Stefan Ortega, Ake, Grealish, Bernardo, Rodri, Foden, Sergio Gómez, Oscar Bobb

Luton Town XI: Townsend, Thomas Kaminski, Luke Berry, Barkley, Jordan Clark, Carlton Morris, Fred Onyedinma, Reece Burke, Daiki Hashioka, Chong, Alfie Doughty

Subs: Krul, Cauley Woodrow, James Shea, Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu, Zack Nelson, Axel Piesold, Joe Johnson, taylan harris, Christian Chigozie