MATCH FACTS

■■Manchester City have now won 15 consecutive games against Watford in all competitions, the longest-ever winning run by an English league side over another. The aggregate score in those 15 meetings is 58-8.

Manchester City have won 25 Premier

League games this season, the fifth consecutive campaign they have won 25+ matches in the division. They are only the second side in English top-flight history to win 25+ matches in five straight seasons, after Manchester United from 2005-06 to 2009-10.

■■City manager Pep Guardiola has won all 11 of his meetings with Watford in all competitions, by an aggregate score of 47-5. It’s his best 100% win rate against an opponent in his managerial career.

Man City forward Gabriel Jesus scored his first Premier

League hat-trick in his 155th appearance in the competition. He was the fifth Brazilian hat-trick scorer in the competition – after Afonso Alves, Robinho, Roberto Firmino and Lucas Moura – but first of those to score four in a single match. ■■Jesus became only the second Manchester City player to be directly involved in five goals during a single Premier League game (four goals, one assist), after Sergio Aguero scored five against Newcastle in October 2015. He was the third player to score four goals in a Premier League match for the Citizens, after Edin

Dzeko and Aguero (x3).

City’s Kevin De Bruyne has assisted nine Premier League goals against Watford, his most against a single opponent in the competition.