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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 24076586" data-attributes="member: 158020">Southampton 1 Manchester City 3:  Silva, Aguero get City back on track  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/30/15/7957096-6539905-image-a-28_1546182503717.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Manchester City returned to winning ways ahead of their blockbuster showdown  against Premier League leaders Liverpool with a 3-1 win at Southampton.   The defending champions ceded ground to Jurgen Klopp's side with back-to-back  defeats versus Crystal Palace and Leicester City, and they once again let an  early lead slip as Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg – later sent off for a reckless lunge  on Fernandinho – cancelled out David Silva's 10th-minute opener.    A James Ward-Prowse own-goal on the stroke of half-time, moments after the  Southampton midfielder had penalty claims rejected, and Sergio Aguero's  injury-time header steadied City nerves before the break.   Pep Guardiola's men replace Tottenham in second and trim the deficit to the  summit to seven points, while Burnley's win over West Ham means only goal  difference is keeping Southampton out of the bottom three.   Charlie Austin stole in behind the City defence, only for heavy touch to let  him down, before Riyad Mahrez and Bernardo Silva had no such problems down the  Southampton left as they deftly set up David Silva for an assured finish.   Mahrez and Sergio Aguero both went close to doubling City's advantage but,  after Ederson brilliantly kept out an Austin header, makeshift left-back  Oleksandr Zinchenko carelessly gave away possession in the 37th minute and  Hojbjerg clattered home emphatically.   Zinchenko was then fortunate to see a clumsy challenge in the box on  Ward-Prowse go unpunished – the Southampton man's disappointment compounded as  he lucklessly put Raheem Sterling's cross through his own net.An eventful half  for the Ukraine international concluded with a pinpoint cross that Aguero headed  beyond Alex McCarthy's lacklustre attempts to save.   The Southampton goalkeeper partially redeemed himself by standing up to  Sterling when a slick one-two with Bernardo Silva in the 55th minute picked  apart his defence.City were again close to a fourth when Aguero turned to lash  against the top of the crossbar left-footed.   Mahrez was substituted after he missed an 80th-minute one-on-one, while  Hojbjerg was dismissed for his ugly challenge late on.</blockquote>

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