Everton 1-3 Manchester City: Leroy Sane, Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling on target as visitors move within one win of the Premier League title

Daily Mail | March 31, 2018

April 7. The day Manchester City can win the title... at home to their bitter rivals Manchester United, too.

This scenario has now been confirmed after City cruised to victory over an Everton side that was no match for the runaway Premier League leaders.

Leroy Sane, Gabriel Jesus and Raheem Sterling all scored for City in a first-half 37-minute blitz that left the hosts stunned - despite a second-half consolation from Yannick Bolasie.

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Leroy Sane (centre) runs away in celebration as Manchester City took a step nearer to winning the Premier League title

Sane gave City the lead at Everton on Saturday evening with this ferocious left-footed volley

The Germany international's strike was a thing of beauty as City needed just four minutes to silence the Everton crowd

Sane was promptly mobbed by his team-mates as their fast start at Goodison Park was rewarded with a goal

Everton wasted a glorious chance to equalise for City when he blazed a header over the crossbar

And the Toffees were made to pay for that just seconds later when Gabriel Jesus scored to double the visitors' lead

The Brazil international finished a wonderful City move with this header - that started from their goalkick after Bolasie's miss

Jesus and his City team-mates were quick to congratulate Kevin De Bruyne (centre) for his wonderful assist to supply Jesus

Jesus celebrated his goal with his trademark phonecall celebration after doubling their advantage on 12 minutes

Pep Guardiola barks out instructions to his Manchester City side as the game unfolded at Goodison Park

Meanwhile, Sam Allardyce couldn't believe what he saw as his Everton side were swept aside by a first-half City blitz

De Bruyne tries to escape the attentions of Leighton Baines as City looked to score a third against their Merseyside opponents

Theo Walcott (left) tries to pressurise David Silva as Everton are left chasing shadows during a City-dominated first half

And that domination continued on 37 minutes when Raheem Sterling extended City's lead at Goodison Park

Sterling stole a march on Baines to finish from close range with this left-footed strike to further cement City's dominance

The dejection on the faces of Everton players was for evident as they had no answers for City's forward play

Everton's dejection was in stark contrast to that of City's who were proving too good for the blue half of Merseyside