{"id":173238,"date":"2026-04-22T22:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173238\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T22:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T22:04:47","slug":"man-city-climb-to-premier-league-summit-after-victory-relegates-burnley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173238\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City climb to Premier League summit after victory relegates Burnley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haaland struck just five minutes in at a subdued Turf Moor as City ended Arsenal\u2019s 200-day reign at the top but only on goals scored.<\/p>\n

Rayan Cherki and Haaland both hit the post as City ended the night having had 28 attempts at goal, but could not find a second strike when they had hoped for several.<\/p>\n

\"ErlingManchester City climb to the top on goals scored (Martin Rickett\/PA)<\/p>\n

Arsenal can return to the top of the pile when they host Newcastle on Saturday with City in FA Cup semi-final action against Southampton but it is, at least for now, advantage to Pep Guardiola\u2019s side, who have lost just one of their last 21 league games.<\/p>\n

Burnley had chances of their own as City failed to kill them off, but were unable to trouble Gianluigi Donnarumma as their third relegation in their last three top-flight seasons was confirmed as their winless home league run hit 13 games.<\/p>\n

City initially looked ready to pick up where they left off in Sunday\u2019s critical 2-1 win over Arsenal as they made a rapid start.<\/p>\n

Bernardo Silva had a shot blocked and Cherki\u2019s rising effort was pushed on to the left post by Martin Dubravka before Haaland opened the scoring.<\/p>\n

\"RayanManchester City were frustrated at Turf Moor despite victory (Martin Rickett\/PA)<\/p>\n

Jeremy Doku rolled away from Bashir Humphreys and then played the ball for Haaland to stride forward before a nonchalant chip beat the exposed Dubravka \u2013 the Norwegian\u2019s 48th goal for club and country this season, and his eighth goal in his five games against Burnley.<\/p>\n

But the intensity would not last as this turned into a nervous night for Pep Guardiola\u2019s side.<\/p>\n

City had won 14 of their previous 15 against Burnley by an aggregate score of 45-6, and there could and should have been more goals on the night. Haaland\u2019s effort was deflected over after a neat combination with Cherki, who then saw another shot blocked.<\/p>\n

Silva\u2019s powerful strike hit Haaland before Nico O\u2019Reilly \u2013 moved into midfield in the absence of the injured Rodri \u2013 arrived at the back corner to head goalwards from a corner and was denied by Dubravka. The goalkeeper then stopped O\u2019Reilly again, palming clear his shot from the edge of the box.<\/p>\n

As long as it stayed at 1-0, Burnley had hope against a City side who seemed to be playing in second gear.<\/p>\n

\"BurnleyBurnley\u2019s relegation from the Premier League was confirmed after the home loss (Martin Rickett\/PA)<\/p>\n

Zian Flemming had a couple of sights of goal, but dragged one shot wide while he was too slow to take up another as Abdukodir Khusanov slid in.<\/p>\n

City tried to up the tempo at the start of the second half, but still the second goal would not come.<\/p>\n

Semenyo should have done better when he poked a shot over after Cherki\u2019s break forward, then Haaland hit the outside of a post with a low strike when the goal was gaping.<\/p>\n

Savinho and Haaland were denied by Dubravka and O\u2019Reilly spurned a glorious chance as the tension went to the wire, with the Burnley goalkeeper going up for a late corner which came to nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haaland struck just five minutes in at a subdued Turf Moor as City ended Arsenal\u2019s 200-day reign at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-173238","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-reading-city","9":"tag-reading-city-headlines","10":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}