Manchester City were denied top spot for Christmas Day by Arsenal’s win at Everton in one of Saturday’s late games, but there is a forbidding relentlessness to Pep Guardiola’s side that should scare Mikel Arteta’s team as they seek to end the sequence of three consecutive runners-up finishes.
Erling Haaland scored twice and Tijjani Reijnders once as West Ham were swatted aside, losing to City for the seventh time in a row after conceding at least three goals in the past six meetings.
