Manchester City puts pressure on the Premier League by defeating Brighton: positions

Those of Pep Guardiolathreatened by the recovery of Arsenal, which won its last two games and re-engaged in the fight for the league, solved the trip to the south of England in just half an hour, with a display of De Bruyne and Foden.

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The Belgian midfielder scored his first headed goal in the Premier League with a shot that was reminiscent of Van Persie's against Spain in the 2014 World Cup. Foden, flowing in three quarters, found Kyle Walker between the lines who put a cross back to which De Bruyne dove forward to place the ball between the crossbar and the goalkeeper's mitt.

A great goal that sank a Brighton team that was very far from the level of the previous season and whose drive to always get the ball from behind ended up condemning them to a rout. Foden made it 0-2 with a free kick in which the ball hit Pascal Gross's back and changed the trajectory of the goalkeeper and the Englishman also put his stamp on the 0-3 by taking advantage of a childish loss by Valentín Barco, in the Argentine's first start in the Premier.

Foden, who already has 16 goals in this Premier, shot first after Barco gave the ball away inside the area, due to Brighton's fear of hitting a ball and always trying to come out from behind. With Brighton already surrendered and the game over from the 34th minute, City put one more goal on the scoreboard in the second half, when Walker caught Roberto de Zerbi's team on the counter and left Julián Álvarez free to score. that the Argentine broke his streak of ten games without scoring in the Premier.

Already with 0-4 on the scoreboard, neither the referee nor the VAR saw a resounding penalty by Josko Gvardiola on Joao Pedro, which would not have changed the course of the match much either. Guardiola, with the victory in his pocket, took advantage of the final twenty minutes to rest players like Foden, De Bruyne, Walker, Rodri and Bernardo and, for the first time in two games, he used up all five substitutions.

City has 76 points in 33 games, two more than Liverpool, who also have one more game, and one more than Arsenal, who have also played one more game than the 'Sky Blues'. With this defeat, Brighton says goodbye to their chances of returning to Europe next season. The 'Seagulls' are eleventh, with 44 points, nine away from sixth place.

1. Arsenal 77 points
2. Manchester City 76 points
3. Liverpool 74 points

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