City starts new year with win
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Manchester City climbed to the top of the Premier League table after winning 3-2 at Swansea City yesterday in the first English top-flight fixture of the year 2014.
City’s Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho scored the first goal of the new year in the 14th minute at a rain-soaked Liberty Stadium, drilling home right-footed after Swansea partially cleared a Samir Nasri corner.
Ivorian striker Wilfried Bony equalized with a well-placed header in first-half stoppage time, but his international colleague Yaya Toure restored the visitors’ lead with a deflected shot in the 58th minute.
City’s Serbian left-back Aleksandar Kolarov added a third eight minutes later, lashing a powerful strike past Swansea goalkeeper Gerhard Tremmel, before Bony struck again in injury time with a vicious low shot.
Victory took Manuel Pellegrini’s side two points clear of former leader Arsenal, which hosts Cardiff City later in one of 10 New Year’s Day matches, while Swansea remains 11th.
Third-place Chelsea, which trails City by four points, visits Southampton, while fourth-place Everton travels to Stoke City and fifth-place Liverpool hosts Hull City. Sixth faces seventh in the day’s late kick-off, with Manchester United welcoming Tottenham to Old Trafford.
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