Ipswich 0-6 Man City: Champions send emphatic reminder to rest of the Premier League in big victory

Phil Foden scored doubly and Erling Haaland celebrated his bumper caller woody with a extremity arsenic Manchester City romped to their biggest Premier League triumph successful much than 2 years.

Foden, a cardinal portion of City's caller mini-revival, took his tally to 5 goals successful his past 3 matches successful a 6-0 thumping of relegation-threatened Ipswich.

Haaland helped himself to a extremity astatine the extremity of a week successful which helium committed himself to the nine for the champion portion of a decade, portion Mateo Kovacic, Jeremy Doku and James McAtee were besides connected people arsenic City, who kicked disconnected successful 8 place, moved supra Newcastle into 4th connected extremity difference.

It was their biggest league triumph since hammering Nottingham Forest by the aforesaid scoreline successful August 2022 and means Pep Guardiola's broadside are backmost successful the apical 4 for the archetypal clip since December 1.

They should person gone up aft 15 minutes erstwhile Kovacic's through-ball carved Ipswich unfastened and sent Haaland cleanable through, but his changeable was saved by Christian Walton.

Ipswich concisely threatened erstwhile erstwhile City youngster Liam Delap was shoved implicit connected the near and Leif Davis took the free-kick abbreviated to Omari Hutchinson, whose changeable was deflected narrowly over.

Ederson, backmost successful the City extremity aft Stefan Ortega received on-pitch dressing down from Guardiola erstwhile they blew a two-goal astatine Brentford successful midweek, past held Dara O'Shea's header from the resulting corner.

But, conscionable arsenic content was starting to turn among the location fans astatine Portman Road, City struck and they ne'er looked back.

Doku fed Kevin De Bruyne down the Ipswich close and his transverse bounced kindly for Foden, who took a interaction earlier swivelling and firing location wrong the six-yard box.

Three minutes aboriginal City doubled their lead, with Foden teeing up Kovacic to drill a debased changeable done a crowded punishment country into the net.

"You're going down with United," came the chant from the City end, their fans revelling successful their neighbours' demise against Brighton successful the aboriginal kick-off.

Suddenly City looked similar scoring with each onslaught and De Bruyne skied 1 accidental earlier squaring for Foden to rotation fig 3 underneath the dive of Walton.

The half-time whistle offered Ipswich immoderate respite and they astir pulled a extremity backmost aft the restart erstwhile Ben Johnson's changeable was kept retired by Ederson.

But seconds aboriginal they were 4 down, with Doku cutting wrong from the near and seeing his effort deflected past Walton by O'Shea.

Haaland got his extremity conscionable earlier the hour, with Ipswich's Jack Clarke the autumn feline aft his quadrate walk went consecutive to Doku.

The Belgian winger slid the shot done to Haaland, who calmly slotted his 22nd extremity of the play past Walton.

Haaland was promptly fixed the remainder of the day off, truthful substitute McAtee rounded disconnected the scoring by heading successful Kovacic's transverse with 20 minutes left.

Memories of Ipswich's 9-0 humiliation by Manchester United 30 years agone indispensable person travel flooding backmost but, mercifully for them, City declared connected six.