MANCHESTER, England -- Omar Marmoush might just be the missing ingredient for Manchester City and manager Pep Guardiola -- but the forward's 14-minute hat trick in a 4-0 win against Newcastle on Saturday only highlighted how long the club had been in need of reinforcements and how slowly a solution arrived.
Marmoush, a £59 million January signing from Eintracht Frankfurt, took each of his three goals with class and cool finishing, with his presence filling the void left by Julián Álvarez's £82 million departure from City to Atletico Madrid last summer.