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Stuart Brennan

Man City player ratings vs Brighton as Phil Foden and Gabriel Jesus excel

Ederson After an idle first half-hour, he had plenty of saves to make, but was rash for the penalty 7

Kyle Walker Got a verbal volley from Dias for one slack piece of defending, but he was generally sound 7

Ruben Dias Has a healthy knack of being in the right place - and his defending was uncompromising 7

Aymeric Laporte The first passer in so many of City's best moves, and his defending was good enough, too 7

Joao Cancelo his link-up with Grealish is a growing feature of this team, a superb attacking outlet 7

Rodri One sloppy pass in the first half brought groans, but he bossed the game for long spells, a powerful pivot 7

Ilkay Gundogan Popped up like a seasoned goal poacher for the first goal and was a slick midfield operator 7

Bernardo Silva on the spot to set up the first goal and was a buzzing, relentless presser with a ton of quality 8

Gabriel Jesus Everywhere on the pitch - forced the first goal, assisted the third, did some vital defending 8

Phil Foden just seems to do everything to perfection, even if his goals were hardly classics - another fine display 8

Jack Grealish played a role in two of the goals, but his best work came from making space for others 7

Subs

Fernandinho

(for Gundogan 73) no time to mark

Kevin De Bruyne

(for Grealish 76) no time to mark

Riyad Mahrez

(for Jesus 85) no time to mark

Not used: Steffen, Stones, Ake, Zinchenko, Palmer, Edozie

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