With survival already secured thanks to last month's excellent win at Chelsea, victory would have seen us leapfrog City into eighth in the final reckoning.
But the visitors laid the foundations for the win with a resolute first-half performance with goals from Lukas Nmecha and Brahim Diaz – two players who've earned Premier League debuts for Pep Guardiola's title-winners this term – putting them in command.
City wouldn't allow us a sniff at goal until the end of the first half but after Luke Bolton added a third seven minutes after the break, it was hard to see a way back.