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Yannick Bolasie, starting up front for Alan Pardew’s side, fired over bar inside the first minute, but City flashed warning signs when Wilfried Bony’s header needed a good save from Alex McCarthy, and the goalkeeper then had to pull off a superb stop to prevent Samir Nasri opening the scoring after the Frenchman was sent through on goal

However, that proved to be as good as it would get for them, as their form took a dip for the worse in January and enabled the Blues to open up a seven-point lead over them by the end of January, as Jose Mourinho’s side eventually romped to the title

Jazz Richards’s long pass in the 64th minute caught out the City backline and Gomis capitalised by displaying the sort of composure that he had lacked earlier in the game to beat Hart. It was the former Lyon frontman’s fifth goal for the Swans in as many outings and his 10th of the campaign

However, the youngster with Nigerian roots who was widely expected to sign last month has decided to put contract talks on hold until the end of the season and this has alerted Manchester City as they are now monitoring the situation with keen interest, according to the Daily Mail

City, who had the Premier League title taken off them by Chelsea in the earlier kickoff, didn’t threaten until the 12th minute but when they did it was explosive as Aguero unleashed a wicked first-time volley that whizzed wide

City eventually broke the deadlock just after the quarter-hour mark when Navas bore down into Hammers territory and curled a cross that Collins sliced over his own keeper and in off the bar from 18 yards out

Silva was then attended to by the medical staff, who worried that the injury could be serious and opted to put the Canary Islander in a neck brace and give him oxygen to assist in breathing as he’d suffered a possible broken cheekbone