Sunday Mirror

MATCH FACTS

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■■Man City have completed their first league double over

Leeds since 1981-82, a season that saw the Whites relegated from the top-flight.

■■Man City have kept a clean sheet in each of their last five away Premier League games – their longest ever run of consecutiv­e away clean sheets in their league history.

■■Leeds have conceded 20 league goals against the Manchester clubs this season (11 vs Man City, nine vs Man Utd), setting a new top-flight record for goals conceded against United and City in a single season.

■■Man City have scored 18 Premier League goals from set-pieces this season (excl. penalties), the most of any side. It’s their highest such total in a single Premier League campaign since 2013-14 (22).

■■Leeds have conceded more set piece goals (excl. penalties) than any other side in the Premier League this season (18).

■■Since the start of the 2016-17 season,

Nathan Ake has scored 10 Premier League goals from corners only Chris Wood (11) has more such goals in this time.

■■Rodri has scored five goals in 29 Premier League appearance­s for Man City this season, as many as he’d netted across his first two campaigns in the competitio­n (5 in 69 apps).

■■Phil Foden has reached double figures for both goals and assists in all competitio­ns for Man City in each of his last two seasons, scoring 13 and assisting 11 more in 2021-22 and scoring 16 and assisting 10 in 2020-21.

■■Fernandinh­o became Manchester City’s oldest ever Premier League goalscorer (36y 361d), overtaking Frank Lampard in 2015 (36y 338d), while he also became the highest Brazilian appearance maker in Premier League history (260 apps).

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