City into Champions League group stage with win
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MANCHESTER City assured itself of direct entry into next season’s UEFA Champions League with a 4-2 win away to Swansea City in yesterday’s early Premier League match.
The top three sides in England at the end of the season are assured of a place in the group stage of Europe’s elite club competition, with the fourth-placed team having to enter a qualifying round instead.
Three goals came before half-time at the Liberty Stadium, with Yaya Toure, assisted by an error from Swansea goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianksi, and James Milner putting City 2-0 up before Gylfi Sigurdsson pulled a goal back on the stroke of half-time.
French striker Bafetimbi Gomis equalized for the Swans midway through the second half before Toure, with Fabianksi out of position, made it 3-2 with a low shot from the edge of the box.
Former Swansea forward Wilfried Bony made it 4-2 in stoppage-time with only his second goal since he moved in the mid-season transfer window.
City’s win left it eight points clear of Manchester United, currently fourth, with only a maximum of six on offer to its local rival in the Red Devils’ final two games of the season.
But United, which faces third-placed Arsenal at Old Trafford later, could yet join Premier League champion Chelsea and City in the top three.
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