Dos pinceladas magníficas de Kevin de Bruyne le bastaron al Manchester City para superar al América en un amistoso jugado en el NRG Stadium de Houston. 

Las Águilas mostraron mucha más ganas, más atrevimiento y más chispa de lo que vimos hace unos días ante Chelsea, pero al final las individualidades del actual campeón de la Premier League alcanzaron para señalar el 2-1 con que acabó el partido.

A new season and still another stacked Manchester City squad. The players may change but the strength of the team maintains the same. The potential Man City starting XI 2022-23 lineup is just as good as last season with some massive additions and potentially more.

Manager Pep Guardiola is known for his tactical genius and can switch up his formation before any given game. Pep does enjoy implementing a 4-3-3, which is what we’ll go with for this example. Let’s look.

Manchester City reopened its three-point lead over Liverpool at the top of the Premier League table Wednesday with a 5-1 away win over Wolves courtesy of Kevin De Bruyne's hat trick inside 24 minutes before the Belgian added a fourth on the hour mark. Raheem Sterling completed the scoring for City in the 84th.    

In terms of minutes on the clock, De Bruyne's hat trick was the third earliest in PL history. 

Earliest Premier League Hat Tricks

#1. Sadio Mané - 16 minutes | Southampton vs. Aston Villa, May 16, 2015

The two best football teams on the planet exchanged cross-field rakers, 70-yard goalkeeper pings, marauding fullbacks, suffocating periods of pressure and jaw-dropping displays of skill on Sunday in a potential Premier League title decider that fittingly ended 2-2 between Manchester City and Liverpool at the Etihad. 

Who's ready to watch them do it all again next Saturday at Wembley in the FA Cup semifinals?

MANCHESTER, England - Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp says it is simply a joy to carry out their analysis work on Manchester City ahead of Sunday's Premier League title clash at the Etihad Stadium.

The two teams, who have dominated the league over the past five seasons, are separated by just a point with leaders City hoping they can restore some breathing space with a victory.

Sin poder viajar a Inglaterra por un problema muscular en uno de sus muslos, a Héctor Herrera no le quedó otra que apoyar a sus compañeros del Atlético de Madrid mirando el partido ante Manchester City por TV.

Manchester City maintained control of the Premier League title race with a hugely impressive 4-1 victory over Manchester United at the Etihad on Sunday.