Magnificent City crush Watford with 8-goal blitz

Inspired by Bernardo Silva's hat-trick, Pep Guardiola's side ripped woeful Watford to pieces at the Etihad Stadium, eclipsing a 7-0 success against Norwich in 2013 which stood as their previous biggest top-flight win.

Although City fell one goal short of equalling the biggest Premier League margin of victory - Manchester United's 9-0 demolition of Ipswich in 1995 - their swaggering display was the perfect way to erase the bitter taste from last weekend's shock defeat at Norwich.

"When you shoot on target five times for five goals - the quality of players we had made the difference," Guardiola said.