Reigning champions Manchester City recorded their eighth successive Premier League victory as they swept aside struggling Newcastle United at St James' Park.
2021/2022 Premier League
0-4
Match Report
City doubled their lead in the 27th minute when Cancelo collected the ball 35 yards out, beat two Newcastle players and fired an unstoppable strike into the top corner from outside the penalty area.
Riyad Mahrez scored his 50th Premier League goal for the club in the 63rd minute, superbly volleying in Oleksandr Zinchenko's cross for City's third.
It got even worse for the hosts as Raheem Sterling tapped in from close range four minutes from time after a fine run down the left flank from Gabriel Jesus.
This victory ensures City will be top of the Premier League at Christmas for only the third time - and on both previous occasions in 2011-12 and 2017-18 they went on to be champions.
Newcastle remain 19th in the table, three points behind 17th-placed Watford and with only goal difference keeping them above bottom club Norwich City.
Match Events
0' The match is about to start!
1' KICK-OFF! Who can win this match?
4' GOAL! Newcastle 0-1 Man City (Ruben Dias)
13' Joelinton's shot wide out
20' Yellow Card! Hayden booked
21' Zinchenko's shot over the bar
24' Yellow Card! Rodri booked
26' GOAL! Newcastle 0-2 Man City (Cancelo)
42' MISS! Hayden's header wide out
45' Jesus' shot wide out
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51' Dubravka decent Jesus' header
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59' Cancelo's shot over the bar
63' GOAL! Newcastle 0-3 Man City (Mahrez)
80' Ederson makes good save
85' GOAL! Newcastle 0-4 Man City (Sterling)
Line-ups
Newcastle XI: Dubravka, Ritchie, Callum Wilson, Clark, Fraser, Lascelles, Hayden, Almiron, J.Murphy, Joelinton, Willock
Subs: Schar, Darlow, Hendrick, Krafth, Gayle, Saint-Maximin, E. Anderson, S. Longstaff, J. White
Man City XI: De Bruyne, Mahrez, Sterling, Cancelo, Laporte, Ederson, Zinchenko, Ruben Dias, Bernardo, Jesus, Rodri
Subs: Fernandinho, Gundogan, Ake, Stones, Grealish, Z. Steffen, Foden, C. Palmer, J. Wilson-Esbrand