Super Sterling on the money for Man City

Man City 2 Southampton 1: The wild scenes of celebration that followed Raheem Sterling’s third consecutive late winner for Manchester City may yet land Pep Guardiola in hot water with the authorities but they also demonstrated how much a 12th consecutive Premier League victory meant to his club.

It had appeared that Oriol Romeu’s equaliser had cut Manchester City’s lead at the top of the table to six points until the 95th minute when a short pass found Sterling on the edge of the area.

The England forward, scorer of an 88th minute winner against Feyenoord and an 84th minute against Huddersfield in the past week, curled a magnificent shot into the top corner from the edge of the area to spark seismic celebrations on the field.