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04/25 16:07 CDT Man City beats Brighton 4-0 to stay on course for another
Premier League title. Phil Foden scores 2
Man City beats Brighton 4-0 to stay on course for another Premier League title.
Phil Foden scores 2
BRIGHTON, England (AP) --- Manchester City chalked up another big win in its
hunt for an unprecedented fourth straight Premier League title, with Phil Foden
continuing his career-best scoring season with two goals in a 4-0 thrashing of
Brighton on Thursday.
Foden's first-half double came between goals by Kevin De Bruyne and Julian
Alvarez as City extended its unbeaten run in the league to 18 games and trimmed
the gap to leader Arsenal to one point.
City has five games remaining --- one more than Arsenal --- and, on current
form, is showing no sign of slipping up in the final stretch that still
contains trips to Nottingham Forest, Fulham and Tottenham as well as home
matches against Wolverhampton and West Ham.
Win all five of those games and City is the champion again. No team has ever
won four successive top-flight titles in the history of English soccer.
Since a 0-0 draw with Arsenal at home on March 31, City has won four straight
league games and scored 17 goals in the process.
Pep Guardiola's team kept up that hot streak without the injured Erling Haaland
--- the league's joint-top scorer with 20 goals --- and that allowed Foden to
potentially join the race for the Golden Boot.
It's 16 goals for the campaign and 24 in 48 games in all club competitions this
season for Foden, who delivered another clinical display in front of England
coach Gareth Southgate at Amex Stadium --- seven weeks out from the start of
the European Championship.
De Bruyne's diving header from Kyle Walker's right-wing cross gave City the led
in the 17th and Foden made it 2-0 in the 26th when his shot from a free kick
deflected in off the back of Brighton midfielder Pascal Gross.
Foden added a third in the 34th by curling home a low finish from just inside
the area after Brighton lost possession attempting to play out from the back.
Alvarez, starting up front in place of Haaland, slotted in for 4-0 in the 62nd
after Walker was given space to roam down the right wing and cut inside before
sliding in to challenge goalkeeper Jason Steele and get the ball across to the
Argentina striker.
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