Manchester City v Newcastle result - City ease to win over Magpies to take charge of title race

Right, that's me done. Not a bad afternoon's entertainment! Enjoy your evening!

That was a blistering Manchester City display. If you missed any of it, read-up on all the talking points here

Rodri scored from a corner. He says: "to be champions, you have to be the best at most parts of the game. We've been unbelievable in the last three or four games from set pieces. They give us an advantage"

Grealish: "The main thing today was to go out and get the win. You can't speak about goal difference. Newcastle have had good results, even against the top teams. Today was the perfect response"

The third goal scorer says "we showed the personality we have. After what happened, it's incredible"

Rodri and Grealish have been speaking to Sky Sports. The latter says "we always knew there was going to be pressure on us today, but I think we bounced back perfectly"

I've given him player of the match in my report - and here's the bare statistics. What a game from the Belgian

It's easy to forget Sterling was out of the Manchester City team at the start of the season. Now he's reached another landmark in terms of goals

Those two late strikes could be massive for Manchester City in the title race. They've now not only got a better goal difference than Liverpool, but they've also scored more too. If they lose a match and open the door for Jurgen Klopp's side, that will be crucial

That was an absolute demolition, and those two added late goals just compounded the misery for Newcastle, who simply could not get close to Manchester City. What a response that is to the defeat to Real Madrid in mid-week

And there's another! Sterling gets his second of the game, comprehensively firing into the far corner after being well picked out by Grealish. Lovely back-heel from Foden in the build up too

Sterling gets down the right and pulls back to Cancelo, who drags wide once more - not that it really matters!

We're into two minutes added on. Just piling on the misery for Newcastle, really

The hosts add a fourth, and substitute Foden gets it. Grealish charges down the left, beating Trippier for pace, before pulling back to Zinchenko, whose shot is heading off-target but Foden helps it home

He hasn't had a good day really, and gets a yellow card for hauling down Sterling

Laporte, who's had a terrific afternoon, is withdrawn. He's replaced by Conrad Egan-Riley, a local born academy product

And now another chance, this time to Saint-Maximin, but he clatters way off target

He's probably rusty having not played since December, but Callum Wilson should have pulled one back for Newcastle there. He goes through one-on-one, but Ederson comes off his line and saves

Manchester City have been coasting pretty much since taking the lead, but this second half has been so easy for them. They haven't given Newcastle so much as a sniff

Miguel Almiron is off, replaced by Jacob Murphy