Dzeko sets up Blue Sunday

Manchester City 4 Aston Villa 0

For a neutral supposing the title race had finished with Liverpool’s draw at Crystal Palace 48 hours earlier, witnessing the first 63 minutes at the Etihad Stadium was not unlike hearing what you considered to be a happy couple at each other’s throats.

The comfortable stroll to the title that was so widely predicted looked like it may not happen until Dzeko scored two close-range efforts in the space of eight minutes.