Man City are unstoppable! Here is a dose of 7 goals they treated Schalke to

The Blues have won all but one of their games this year and after humiliating Schalke on Tuesday they are looking well placed to keep that run going

And to think Pep Guardiola was worrying about his Manchester City side “forgetting to play” little over a month ago.

That night, when City lost 2-1 at Newcastle and looked set to fall seven points behind Liverpool at the top of the Premier League, things looked a little concerning for City.

But fast forward 42 days and City are flying. Or to put it another way, fast forward nine games and City have won them all. Or another way: of the 19 games in all competitions so far this calendar year, City have won 18.

That potential seven-point deficit is now a one-point lead at the top of the table. They have the Carabao Cup in the bag, and they play the quarter-finals of the FA Cup at Swansea City on Saturday.

And after obliterating Schalke on Tuesday night, they are in the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Things are looking up.

And yet there were genuine concerns up at St James’ Park that things might get away from them.

Guardiola spent at least 30 minutes in the dressing room afterwards and nearly shouted himself hoarse. When he finally emerged for his press conference he said his side had gone a goal up and then switched off, not doing what they were supposed to do.

The problem was that he had made similar complaints after the two previous games, even though City had eventually beaten Huddersfield and Wolves.

Leroy Sane, out of the side recently, then showed us his very best. First he latched on to a perfect Oleksandr Zinchenko pass and slid the ball home for 3-0, before turning provider after half-time with three assists. For the first two he raced down his left flank and put in two excellent crosses; Sterling fired home one, Bernardo Silva steered in the other.

For his next trick he picked up the ball inside, shimmied past his man and played in Phil Foden, who danced past the goalkeeper and slid the ball into an empty net.

Bernardo then decided to get somebody else in on the act so he pulled a cross back for Gabriel Jesus to curl in from the edge of the box. Ralf Fahrmann should’ve done better with it, but then again all the Schalke players should have done better all night – they descended into a rabble.

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