Yaya Toure scored twice to lift Manchester City to a 4-2 win at Swansea City in an entertaining Premier League game on Sunday in which the host fought back from 2-0 down to level the scores.
Ivorian midfielder Toure struck his 50th league goal for second-placed City to give it a first-half lead and James Milner added a second.
Gylfi Sigurdsson pegged one back for Swansea with an excellent curling effort on the stroke of halftime and Bafetimbi Gomes struck his fifth goal in as many games to level the scores early in the second half.
As the host pushed on to complete a remarkable turnaround, Toure squeezed the ball in at the near post to restore the visitor’s lead before City keeper Joe Hart made a stunning save to keep out a header from Federico Fernandez.
City’s former Swansea striker Wilfried Bony added the fourth in stoppage-time with a well-placed finish and City moved six points ahead of Arsenal with one game left this season. City began brightly and Toure’s drive through a crowd of players took a deflection to beat Lukas Fabianski at his near post after 21 minutes.
England midfielder Milner doubled the lead 15 minutes later when he capped an excellent counter-attack by cutting inside the box and scoring with a low shot.
Sigurdsson got the host back into the game and shortly after the interval Gomes maintained his excellent recent form to hit an equaliser, controlling a lofted through ball before lashing the ball into the opposite corner.
Fabianski should have done better when Toure capped a surging run with a finish at the near post to score his second with 16 minutes left.
To add insult to injury for Garry Monk’s men Bony emerged from the City bench to haunt his former teammates with a clinical side-footed finish.
The results: EPL:On Sunday: Swansea 2 (Sigurdsson 45, Gomis 64) lost to Manchester City 4 (Toure 21, 74, Milner 36, Bony 90)
On Saturday: Liverpool 1 (Lallana 26) Crystal Palace 3 (Puncheon 43, Zaha 60, Murray 90-pen)
Serie A:On Sunday: Sassuolo 3 (Berardi 13, 31, 77) bt AC Milan 2 (Bonaventura 33, Alex 51); Atalanta 1 (Pinilla 18-pen) lost to Genoa 4 (Pavoletti 30, Bertolacci 57, Falque 61, 73); Cagliari 0 lost to Palermo 1 (Vazquez 9); Verona 2 (Moras 24, Sala 67) bt Empoli 1 (Saponara); Torino 2 (Lopez 51, 69) bt Chievo 0. On Saturday: Inter Milan 1 (Icardi 9) lost to Juventus 2 (Marchisio 42-pen, Morata 83); Sampdoria 0 lost to Lazio 1 (Gentiletti 54).
Bundesliga: On Saturday: Schalke 1 (Huenemeier 88-og) bt Paderborn 0; Bayer Leverkusen 2 (Calhanoglu 45+1, Kiessling 61) bt Hoffenheim 0; VfL Wolfsburg 2 (Caliguiri 1, Naldo 49) bt Borussia Dortmund 1 (Aubameyang 11-pen); Mainz 05 2 (Koo 47, Jairo 83) bt Cologne 0; Augsburg 1 (Verhaegh pen-30) lost to Hannover 96 2 (Stindl 24, 54); Hertha Berlin 0 drew with Eintracht Frankfurt 0; Werder Bremen 0 lost to Borussia Monchengladbach 2 (Raffael 53, 86); Freiburg 2 (Mehmedi 33, Petersen 89) bt Bayern Munich 1 (Schweinsteiger 13); VfB Stuttgart 2 (Gentner 27, Harnik 35) bt Hamburg 1 (Kacar 12).
