The dry spell is over – in more ways than one. Manchester City had not won since Sergio Agüero’s last goal, away to Swansea on 24 September, but seven games later the Argentina striker found the net twice in the first half to catapult Pep Guardiola’s team past an uninspiring West Bromwich Albion and back to the top of the table, where Arsenal had momentarily displaced them earlier in the afternoon.
Ilkay Gündogan, who looks increasingly comfortable, capped a terrific individual showing with a brace of his own late on in what was perhaps City’s most dominant performance yet under Guardiola. That comes with a caveat, though, because their opponents were plagued by hesitancy to such an extent their own fans chided them sarcastically before half-time with a chant of “We’ve got the ball” because they had managed half a dozen successful passes.
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