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Manchester City 3 - 1 Newcastle

Not quite Manchester City at their best, but still a return to winning ways - and still an awful lot of possession. Sergio Aguero gave the home team the lead, turning in a Kevin de Bruyne cross just after the half-hour mark. Fifteen minutes into the second half, Raheem Sterling was felled in the penalty box by Javier Manquillo and, again, Aguero made no mistake. It wasn't quite as easy as it might have been, especially not after Jacob Murphy pulled a goal back with his first for Newcastle. Given Aguero's fine history against this side, though, it was with some inevitability that he completed his hat-trick to seal the points. City run out winners, but Newcastle were not without merit here.

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Seb Stafford-Bloor is a football writer at Tifo Football and member of the Football Writers' Association. He was formerly a regularly columnist for the FourFourTwo website, covering all aspects of the game, including tactical analysis, reaction pieces, longer-term trends and critiquing the increasingly shady business of football's financial side and authorities' decision-making.