Manchester City midfielder, Jack Grealish, has scored a first Premier League goal in more than a year to help the Cityzens claim a 2-0 win and pile the pressure on relegation-threatened Leicester City at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night.
Playing without the injured Erling Haaland after the club’s top scorer was sidelined by an ankle injury, City wasted no time in taking the lead after just two minutes through a rare source.
Jeremy Doku nicked the ball in midfield before feeding Savinho, who then crossed for Grealish to poke into the bottom corner for his first league goal since December 2023.
The visitors could have equalised through Bilal El Khannouss, but the Moroccan dragged his shot wide from the edge of the box. That miss proved costly, as the hosts doubled their advantage on the half-hour mark.
Egyptian forward, Omar Marmoush, made the most of a start upfront in Haaland’s absence when he took advantage of poor goalkeeping from Mads Hermansen to lash the ball into an unguarded net off the crossbar.
City almost made it three but Hermansen made up for his earlier error by tipping Savinho’s close-range strike away to safety. Marmoush was next to be denied just before the hour mark as a lovely passing move ended with him in the area, only to send the ball over the bar.
The game ended with the Cityzens grabbing the win and with it, a place in the top four on the Premier League table. Leicester City on their part become just the fourth side to lose seven successive Premier League games without scoring – a run which has kept them rooted in the bottom three and destined for relegation.