Manchester City did what it needed to. With Liverpool away at the Club World Cup, it had to win to keep at least some sort of pressure on the league leader and did so with a 3–1 win. It wasn’t always entirely convincing and City remains third in the table, but it looked a definitively better side than Leicester City and had at least closed the gap to Liverpool to 11 points, albeit having played a game more.
For Leicester this was an all too familiar feeling. This was its fourth game away to a side that finished in the top six of the Premier League last season from which it has taken only one point.