City beat Wolves 4-1 for twenty first straight win, 15 clear in EPL

A 15-point lead, 21 victories in a row, a membership record-tying 28 video games unbeaten.
The extraordinary numbers are stacking up for Manchester City as Pep Guardiola’s profitable machine powers to the Premier League title and — whisper it — a possible quadruple.
Guardiola notably appreciated what he noticed within the 4-1 win over Wolverhampton on Tuesday.
Heading into the ultimate 10 minutes at Etihad Stadium, City’s gamers had been within the uncommon place of being held, 1-1, however there was no panic. Instead, they only stepped up a gear, overwhelmed Wolves with their urgent and scored three targets.
“When you have a run of 20 wins, you’re not always going to win 3-0, 4-0, 5-0,” Guardiola mentioned. “So that is why how you recover from difficult situations is what I’m looking for.”
Gabriel Jesus scored within the eightieth minute and once more from shut vary with nearly the final kick of the sport after Riyad Mahrez had made it 3-1, capping a interval of incessant strain by City after Wolves equalized within the 61st minute by way of Conor Coady’s header — the guests’ first contact in City’s field.
Manchester City gamers rejoice after scoring their workforce second aim in the course of the English Premier League match between Manchester City and Wolves on the Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (Carl Recine/Pool by way of AP)
Leander Dendoncker had given City the lead for the primary time with an own-goal within the fifteenth.
Another check handed by City in its march to reclaiming the title from Liverpool, with Wolves having proved a troublesome opponent for City lately — profitable their conferences residence and away final season, for instance.
City’s class of 2020-21 is manufactured from sterner stuff this season, although. The workforce has received each recreation it has performed in all competitions since Dec. 19 and now has 15 victories in a row within the league. Its unbeaten streak stretched to twenty-eight matches — tying a membership report additionally achieved beneath Guardiola in 2017.
City hasn’t trailed for a single minute in any of its final 19 league video games.

Asked how impressed he was by City’s latest run, Guardiola mentioned: “Man United” — referring to City’s subsequent opponent on the weekend.
Pressed to increase, he mentioned: “We talk about records and everything we have done in the league when it is over.”
And it practically is over. Second-place Manchester United can restore the 12-point hole to City by beating Crystal Palace on Wednesday however doesn’t have the consistency being proven by Guardiola’s facet, which is also within the ultimate of the League Cup, the quarterfinals of the FA Cup and leads 2-0 after the primary leg of its matchup with Borussia Monchengladbach within the Champions League’s spherical of 16.
City has gamers in supreme kind, too.
Mahrez is one among them, the Algeria winger enjoying a key half within the opening aim by controlling a looking out go by Rodri and driving over a cross that will have been changed into the web by Raheem Sterling if Dendoncker hadn’t executed so himself.
Wolves’ solely good spell of the sport got here after Coady scored his first Premier League aim, with Adama Traore blazing two pictures over the bar.
City regrouped and after Jesus swept in a unfastened ball from the sting of six-yard field after Kyle Walker’s cross was blocked close to the aim line, Mahrez positioned a shot into the underside nook within the ninetieth after Wolves had been hounded out of possession.
Jesus transformed from shut in for the fourth aim in stoppage time after goalkeeper Rui Patricio might solely parry out a shot from substitute Ilkay Gundogan.