MANCHESTER CITY POWERED to a Premier League record 15th successive victory as David Silva’s double inspired a 4-0 demolition of rock-bottom Swansea.
Kevin De Bruyne and Sergio Aguero also found the net as the runaway leaders broke the previous Premier League record winning streak set by Arsenal between February and August 2002.
Pep Guardiola’s side brushed aside a poor Swansea side to further tighten their grip on the title race with two goals in each half at the Liberty Stadium.
City remain 11 points clear of second placed Manchester United and once again looked every inch the champions-elect.
It was Spanish playmaker David Silva who was at the heart of City’s historic success with two superb finishes.
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The game began at a terrific pace and the first chance fell to Aguero on five minutes as he weaved his way through two challenges and fired into the side-netting.
A minute later some neat footwork gave Raheem Sterling a sight of goal and Swansea defender Mike van der Hoorn had to make an important interception.
But it took a save at each end in a matter of moments to keep the scoresheet blank.
First it was home goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski who reacted quickly to get down low and push away a drive from Fernandinho from the edge of the penalty area.
Then Ederson in the Manchester City goal had to get down well to keep out an effort from Jordan Ayew, who had cut in from the left.
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De Bruyne blasted a difficult effort high and wide before Aguero headed over from a left-wing cross by David Silva.
Then a free-kick by De Bruyne bounced around the penalty area and struck a frustrated Nicolas Otamendi on its way for a corner before Aguero looped a header onto the roof of the net from a De Bruyne cross.
And Otamendi blasted well off target after Fabianski had failed to gather cleanly from a left-wing cross.
© AFP 2017
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12k seats – how many do Pats get for a typical game? I’m not trolling btw, I honestly don’t know!
@John S: sounds like you are trolling, why do attendances matter? Rovers don’t sell out tallaght yet their building another stand, it’s all to make the league and the facilities better to make people feel more welcomed.
Won’t get anywhere with smart arses like yourself holding the LOI clubs back. Gareth Kelleher was putting his own money in, no grants, no tax payers money, no government funding, yet you’ll still find a way to complain when clubs are trying to improve the league… you can’t win
@Benny Millar: I’m not trolling, why don’t attendances matter? Because Irish Sport is full of white elephants with no atmosphere. Hhow often would they exceed say 5k? Wouldn’t that be a more appropriate size stadium than a 1/2 full stadium with no atmosphere?
@John S: average attendance is 1600 but personally I’d have no problem if they built this and put up giant banners behind the goal ends with ads & took them down if they managed to get back up into larger crowds, I think with decent facility’s & good prices they could attract 3000 a game maybe even more if say a father decided to go to a match and take the kids while the wife shops in the proposed shopping centre under the stadium or ,anyway it would have been a good forward planning idea but the council’s are too short sited , it also could have been a venue for some smaller outdoor concerts , even community events such as football camps for kids & community games , imagine kids in the area getting the chance to play there and aspire to play for st.pats one day in there local stadium