Manchester City Destroys Chelsea
sink Chelsea 6th, below Arsenal
Sergio Aguero wrote his name twice more in the record books as Manchester Citysmashed Chelsea 6-0 at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
Aguero scored a hat trick for the second week in-a-row, joining Alan Shearer as the only players to register 11 Premier League hat tricks. He also went atop the Man City leaderboard for league goals.
Other guys played, too, with Raheem Sterling and Ilkay Gundogan scoring while Kevin De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva put on playmaking and possession master classes.
City goes back atop the Premier League table on goal differential, now nine better than Liverpool having played one more game. Chelsea drops below fifth place Arsenal on goals scored, the goal differential level.
City’s habit of striking quickly continued with a 4th minute goal off the boot of Sterling.
Left all alone at the back post to collect a David Luiz-deflected cross from Bernardo Silva, Sterling hammered the ball into a gaping space.
Aguero also worked himself into a back post position and skewered his chance to tap in Bernardo’s unreal dribble and pass through the six.
Eden Hazard work Chelsea up in the 12th minute with a long dribble down the left producing a shot that Kepa Arrizabalaga collected wide of the post.
Maybe the tap-in was too easy, because Aguero then took a Kevin De Bruyne feed and curled a 20-yard beauty around a flying Arrizabalaga.
Aguero helped produce the fourth, his dribble blocked by Antonio Rudiger onto the path of Gundogan for another long distance goal.
Ederson made a second decent save of the half when Gonzalo Higuain tore into a shot from distance, but Chelsea did not pull any goals back before halftime.
Aguero nearly nodded home for his hat trick when his header of a De Bruyne cross hit the cross bar.
Mike Dean pointed to the spot after Cesar Azpilicueta took down Sterling in the 55th minute, and Aguero had his chance for back-to-back hat tricks and a share of the Premier League hat trick record.
11 - Sergio Aguero has scored his 11th @premierleague hat-trick, equalling the record set by @alanshearer. Special.
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De Bruyne sent an arrow of a free kick around the wall, but Arrizabalaga stopped it.
Substitute Gabriel Jesus was shoved by Luiz as he attempted a 1v1 shot on Arrizabalaga, but Dean stopped short of awarding another penalty.
Sterling got his second in a similar enough fashion to his first. It was 6-0 with 10 minutes to play.
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