Manchester City cruised to the top of the Premier League on Tuesday night with a 5-0 win away to West Brom, who remain second from bottom with just two league wins all season.
The gulf in class between the two sides was made obvious by Ilkay Gundogen’s sixth-minute strike from outside the penalty area, and the game was over by the half-hour after Joao Cancelo and Gundogen had made the score 3-0.
Riyad Mahrez added a fourth goal on the stroke of half-time before setting up Raheem Sterling for City’s fifth of the night with 33 minutes remaining.
Arsenal came back from conceding an early goal to avenge last weekend’s FA Cup defeat to Southampton with a 3-1 win at St Mary’s.
Stuart Armstrong opened the scoring for Southampton in the third minute, but Mikel Arteta’s side hit back with goals from Nicolas Pepe after eight minutes, Bukayo Saka six minutes before the break and Alexandre Lacazette, who sealed the win 20 minutes from time to continue his side’s recovery in the league.
West Ham’s impressive season continued with a 3-2 win away to Crystal Palace, thanks to two goals from Tomas Soucek in the ninth and 25th minutes to overturn Wilfred Zaha’s third minute opener for the home side.
Craig Dawson made it 3-1 with 25 minutes left to play and Michy Batshuayi’s late goal for Palace was nothing more than a consolation.
