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City regain their throne while waiting for Arsenal

Jostled by Dortmund (2-1) in the Champions League on Wednesday, Manchester City assured without forcing against Wolves, during a smoothly conducted game.

With 17 points, City overtakes Arsenal (15) who travel to Brentford on Sunday (1:00 p.m.).

Tottenham, third on 14, and who face bottom-run Leicester at 6.30pm, could join the Citizens, but with a +7 goal difference to Sky Blues' +17 they are unlikely to overtake them .

Because the offensive machine of the champions of England – 23 goals in 7 days – was still packed in the wake of Haaland who scored his 14th goal in 9 matches in all competitions.

Small peculiarity all the same, it was his first goal outside the box, after taking the ball for a dozen meters and placing a low shot whose diabolical precision compensated for the relatively modest power (2-0, 16th).

Before that, it was Jack Grealish who, from the first minute of play, on a superb fleeing cross from Kevin De Bruyne, had opened the scoring (1-0, 1st).

The expulsion of Nathan Collins, for a lifted foot which landed in the stomach of Grealish (33rd), did not help the affairs of Wolves who are experiencing a gloomy start to the season (16th with 6 points).

But the third goal will also have demonstrated that the Norwegian prodigy can participate in the construction.

He combined perfectly with "KDB", whose center was deflected by Foden in the background (3-0, 69th) for the Belgian's 8th assist, in all competitions.

All lights are sky blue for the outgoing champions who will return to routine on October 2 with a promising Manchester derby.

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Newcastle can't do it

If Newcastle knew that it would probably be a little early to get involved in the fight for the Champions League this year, they can't even get out of the soft underbelly with two new points lost against Bournemouth.

Consequence of this fifth draw of the season in seven meetings of the Magpies, Newcastle (10th) has the same number of points as the promoted (12th with 8 pts), who has not lost since the dismissal of Scott Parker after the rout (9- 0) in Liverpool at the end of August.

Newcastle did not have much success, Kieran Trippier hitting the outside of the post on a free kick (26th) as well as Joelinton a little later (43rd).

Goalkeeper Neto also made an impressive number of decisive interventions and it was only on a penalty, awarded by the VAR and converted by Alexander Isak (1-1, 67th), that he lost.

Fortunately for the Cherries, Philip Billing had concluded a nice collective movement to give his side an advantage (0-1, 62nd) which only lasted 5 minutes but which still earned them a precious point.

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