http://elitelun.online/Du71M Man City 8-0 Watford: Pep Guardiola's side silence critics in emphatic style City are only the seventh team to win a top-flight game by an eight-goal margin in the modern era Even by Manchester City's standards, Saturday was quite a statement. At the start of the week, the defending champions were supposedly in crisis - falling five points behind Liverpool after the shock of being beaten at Norwich , then losing one of their two remaining fit senior centre-halves to injury. It was only one defeat but suddenly there were major doubts about City's defending and, with it, their prospects this season were supposedly fading fast. For some observers, it was easy to see what had gone wrong - they should have replaced Vincent Kompany, they would not cope without Aymeric Laporte and now John Stones too, and, even in mid-September, they had already conceded too much ground in a title race where even the smallest margins matter. At lea...