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English premier league Saturday Recap: as Man city ripped Watford apart, Leicester stunned Tottenham Hotspur, Sheffield United wins at Everton.
Manchester City raced into the fastest 5-0 lead in Premier League history with David Silva, Sergio Aguero, Riyad Mahrez, Bernardo Silva and Nicolas Otamendi scoring in the first 18 minutes.
The defending champions came out firing at all ends in what was a perfect reaction to their shock defeat at Norwich last weekend.
But they fell short of Manchester United’s record 9-0 win over Ipswich, with Bernardo adding two more for his hat-trick and Kevin de Bruyne scoring a late eighth.
Burnley beat Norwich – who stunned Manchester City last time out – 2-0 to move up to seventh in the table, with Chris Wood scoring twice in the opening 14 minutes.
It was only the second time Canaries striker Teemu Pukki has not scored in a Premier League game.
Sheffield United are only behind Burnley on goals scored after a 2-0 victory at Everton. Yerry Mina’s own goal was followed by Lys Mousset’s first Blades goal.
In Saturday’s lunchtime game, Leicester came from behind to beat Tottenham 2-1.
Harry Kane gave Spurs the lead but goals from Ricardo Pereira and James Maddison turned it around. In a game which was dominated by plenty VAR drama as Wilfred Ndidi and Aurier saw goals ruled out for offside after VAR review.
In final fixture on Saturday, Newcastle United drew 0-0 with fellow strugglers Brighton.
There was a Friday night game, Bournemouth winning 3-1 at Southampton.
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