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According to the BBC, Rashford is the first teenager to score a Premier League goal for a team managed by Jose Mourinho. That is a sad stat.
 
City making a depleted West Ham side look very poor, though I think that they'll do that to plenty of teams this season.
Playing the ball around very crisply and with purpose, constantly probing the defence and creating opportunities.

Masuaku's lucky to still be on the pitch, but Fletcher looks quite promising.
A change at half-time wouldn't surprise me, as Bilic's side were really hanging on at times.
 
It's a £5m loan and it triggers a £20m permanent move if he plays a certain number of games, apparently.

Watch the Spanners do 'certain number of games - 1' if he turns out to be meh.
With their injury list + mgmt I suspect they will mess up the start counts for the guy. :D
 
West Ham have pulled one back. Totally outplayed, but they could rescue this.
Dodgy offside a minute before against Aguero, so City will be fuming.
Masuaku should definitely have gone, too.

John Stones has been injured for a while and he should've been subbed off earlier.
That's what happens if you piss about in this division.
 
Aguero throws an elbow at Reid and should be off.
Obviously frustrated that Guardiola just subbed on Samir Nasri.
Reid replaced by Calleri, as he still looked very shaky from being elbowed and they need a goal.
 
Don't think the guy doing BBC text is a big Nasri fan

Samir Nasri is going to get some minutes on the pitch. Guardiola wasn't very complimentary about his fitness at the start of the season. He looks like he's done some work to fix that. Still got a stupid hair colour, though. Nolito departs.
 
Nasir has two good chances to put the game to bed, but somehow fails to take either.
That won't endear him to either his manager or the bloke at the BBC.
 
3-1, Sterling. City seemed determined to avoid finishing it off, with repeated misses, but that seals it.
Interesting game, as City were easily the better team overall, but almost came off the rails in the second half.
Guardiola won't be entirely happy with the performance and they need to work on being sharp for 90 minutes.

Aguero should be heading for a ban, so it'll be interesting to see who replaces him against Utd.
They've got a good youngster on the bench, but will he be trusted?
 
3-1, Sterling. City seemed determined to avoid finishing it off, with repeated misses, but that seals it.
Interesting game, as City were easily the better team overall, but almost came off the rails in the second half.
Guardiola won't be entirely happy with the performance and they need to work on being sharp for 90 minutes.

Aguero should be heading for a ban, so it'll be interesting to see who replaces him against Utd.
They've got a good youngster on the bench, but will he be trusted?
Should but wont. I will be very surprised if it gets mentioned again after MOTD tonight.
The commentators brought it up so the pundits will discuss it, unfortunately it is a bank holiday weekend and all the FA staff are away enjoying themselves so will miss it.