Man City players celebrating one of their goals against Luton
By Our Reporter
Manchester City have defeated Luton Town 5-1 at Etihad Stadium to move ahead of Arsenal and Liverpool to the top of the Premier League on Saturday.
With their title rivals both playing on Sunday, City no mistake against the relegation strugglers, taking just 90 seconds to open the scoring when Erling Haaland’s effort deflected in off the unfortunate Daiki Hashioka.
It was one-way traffic for the majority of the game with City’s first-half haul of 51 touches in the Luton box the most ever recorded in a first half of a Premier League game since Opta started capturing the data.
They had to wait until 64 minutes for the second but it was worth the wait when Mateo Kovacic found the top corner with a fantastic strike. Haaland then grabbed his 20th Premier League goal of the season from the penalty spot before Ross Barkley pulled one back for Luton.
That only poked the beast as City scored two late goals through Jeremy Doku and Josko Gvardiol which rubber-stamped the easy win.
Rodri, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish, Bernardo Silva, and John Stones sat out as Pep Guardiola rotated ahead of their second leg with Real Madrid while goalkeeper Ederson replaced Stefan Ortega.
Kyle Walker was also on the bench after recovering from injury.
