Manchester City moved within three points of reclaiming the Premier League title by beating Crystal Palace 2-0 on Saturday on account of goals from Sergio Aguero and Ferran Torres, players at the far edges of their careers at the club.
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Aguero, who is leaving City toward the finish of the season following 10 years, scored his record-extending 258th goal for the club by controlling a pass from Benjamin Mendy and powering a shot off his laces into the top of the net in the 57th minute. Only 84 seconds after the fact, Torres scored the tenth goal of the 21-year-old Spain winger’s debut season at City by curling home a low, left-footed finish from the edge of the space. It was a one-two blow by Pep Guardiola’s vigorously rotated team ? because of the game coming between the two legs of the Champions League semifinal against Paris Saint-Germain ? which required a long time to get rolling at Selhurst Park yet has left City on the brink of the title.
It could even be clinched as ahead of schedule as Sunday, if second-place Manchester United loses at home to Liverpool. Whenever United wins or draws at Old Trafford, the following chance to get a third league crown in four years will come next Saturday when City has Chelsea. The profundity of Guardiola’s assets was featured by the way that he rested the vast majority of his vital participants for the Palace game ? Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan, Ruben Dias, Riyad Mahrez and Phil Foden were among the unused substitutes ? yet could in any case name a front four of Aguero, Gabriel Jesus, Raheem Sterling and Torres.
None of them will probably begin against PSG on Tuesday, with City going into the game leading 2-1 from Wednesday’s first leg. It was the most recent leg of Aguero’s farewell tour and he moved onto 182 Premier League goals, five behind third-place Andy Cole on the all-time list, with his first ever at Selhurst Park. Torres’ goal was City’s 700th in Guardiola’s 288-game tenure.