Manchester City 5-0 Aston Villa

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Saturday saw Manchester City move above their cross City rivals with a thrashing of Aston Villa at the Etihad Stadium. City had the chance to move top of the table temporary till United game later that evening, And went about it with fantastic team play and had all the possession in the opening 20mins as it was 80-20 in favour of City. City just couldn`t make any headway as Villa frustrated them with their defending and City were struggling to get a real shot on target.

Maicon on the City right was a real threat with his runs down the touchline,his fizzing crosses across the Villa penalty area had Villa players finding it hard to deal with them and unfortunately couldn`t find a sky blue shirt either. But the home side nearly took the lead from Nasri corner whipped in, which Aguero looked to be having his shirt tugged back knocked it goalwards and Tevez tried to flick it in but just went over the bar.

City who pressed and pressed Villa nearly came unstuck, when Villa first meaningful bit of play in the game down the City left almost brought the first goal of the game. A cross fired in by Lowton in a dangerous area between Keeper and defender was nearly turned in by Captain Vincent Kompany and had Joe Hart to thank as he had to quickly move the opposite way he was going to stop it going in, And Kompany spreaded himself on the rebound to block income shot but much to City relief, The Linesman gave offside against Benteke.

City then had Hart to thank again as a downward header from Benteke was saved brilliantly by the England no1 and Villa clawed their way back into the game slightly. The home side began to show their frustation as Long shot were being fired by Tevez and Yaya Toure as City trying to walk the ball methods weren`t working. Another chance fell to them as a Maicon cross was flicked away by a Villa defender to the path of Sami Nasri and he attempted volley was scuffed and was saved easily by Brad Guzan in Villa goals.

Then Tevez picked up the ball in the area and tried to danced  his way from the defenders got a shot away towards the near post and was tipped round the post by Guzan. THEN finally the breakthrough before Half time,  another great corner by Nasri on the Villa right was headed by Kompany, miskicked by Tevez and eventually poked home by David Silva coming in and gave the City a deserved lead. They could have made it 2 shortly after as Silva latched onto a Tevez pass and his near post was stopped by Guzan.

HALF TIME:     CITY 1-0 VILLA

2ND HALF was much of the same City doing all the Attacking and the visitors finding it hard to contain the home side. Tevez nearly made it 2-0 when a pass by Silva and the defenders backing off gave him a chance to shot and wasn`t far away as it went past the post.

Then a Bizzare Penalty award for Handball oin the 54min as their didn`t seem to be a handball by Wiemann, (but apparently was for a handball at the near post on later viewing.)  Aguero stepped up to take the penalty and  he placed it to the dispairing dive of Guzan who guessed right, but had no chance. Villa then took of their best player off i thought, ex City player Stephen Ireland who did his all the running and defending for Villa. Villa for me completely lost their heads after the 2nd goal.

City then was awarded another penalty in the 64th mins, as Silva tried to cross the ball and Bannan the Villa defender slipped and the ball was knocked away with his arm, but not intentionally. Tevez then decided to take the Penalty and sent the keeper the wrong way for a 3-0 lead. Goal 4 came 2 mins later as Sergio Aguero scored at the near post with a deflected shot that beat the Villa keeper completely and man Men against Boys now. Aguero was substituted to a Standing ovation by the City fans and missed out on a Hat- trick.

 Then to cap off a miserable day at the Etihad Stadium for the Birmingham side City completed the rout with a 5th in the shape of Carlos Tevez getting his 2nd of the match. Tevez started the move and have the ball deflected off his shins the ball broke to Substitute Edin Dzeko who passed it Sami Nasri and his lovely rolled ball across the area was met Tevez at the back post to tap in .

Sinclair made an appearance and should have made it 6 when his shot was straight at Guzan and tipped over when he had 80% of the net to aim at. he had another chance soon after and managed to somehow put it over from 3 yards with a defender on him. The 6th goal just wouldn`t come for the Home team and was unlucky when a Kolarov delivery was whipped in and neither Tevez or Dzeko could get the final touch needed. But Whistle went for 5-0 win and onto Wednesday night when the City play Spanish Champions Real Madrid in the Champions League.

FULL TIME: Manchester City 5 - 0 Aston Villa