Juergen Klopp’s Liverpool are at bottom club Swansea City on Monday and after their vibrant display against City will be looking to extend a run of four straight wins.
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It was a slow start to the game for the Belgian but as Newcastle’s defence began to show gaps, De Bruyne took his golden opportunity by whipping the ball on which Aguero was deemed to have gotten a touch for the lead.
The Argentine ace was the Magpies’ downfall once more as he opened the scoring in the first half adding two more after the break to take his tally against the north-east club to 14 goals in 10 games.
“It’s going to depend on us now”.
The Argentina global opened the scoring in the first-half with a fine header, leaving the hosts 1-0 up at the break.
Any fears Arsenal might falter up front without him proved groundless as they surged into a 4-0 lead inside 22 minutes at the Emirates Stadium thanks to goals from Nacho Monreal, Alex Iwobi, Laurent Koscielny, Alex Iwobi and Alexandre Lacazette before Luka Milivojevic pulled one back for Palace late on.
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has set his players the target of another 10 wins to guarantee a Premier League title triumph.
Guardiola also paid tribute to Aguero, who claimed a hat-trick in the encounter.
Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez spoke of his hope that transfer activity is still a possibility at St James’ Park, after watching his team slide to a one-sided 3-1 defeat at Manchester City.
Newcastle rallied, with Jacob Murphy’s first goal for the club four minutes later getting his side back in it, before City goalkeeper Ederson nearly gifted the visitors a leveller but recovered well to deny Mohamed Diame.
“My only concern is not points, it is that players are fit to play every three days to maintain the situation”, he said. They had 83 per cent of the ball in the first half.
Zinchenko could be in line for more game time with City short of left-back options after Fabian Delph was ruled out “for a while” with a knee problem, while Benjamin Mendy is still around three months away from returning from a cruciate knee ligament injury.
“John Beresford and Warren Barton would bomb forward – leaving just me and Darren Peacock back”.
And win they did.
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“We will see if they can drop some points, if they make some mistakes”.
