Aston Villa beat crisis-hit Manchester City 2-1 on Saturday to heap more misery on floundering manager Pep Guardiola, who has now suffered nine defeats in his past 12 matches.<\/p>\n
Jhon Duran finished off a fine team move to give the home side an early lead\u00a0and Morgan Rogers doubled Villa\u2019s advantage in the 65th minute.<\/p>\n
Phil Foden scored his first Premier League goal of the season in stoppage time but it proved to be too little too late.<\/p>\n
Pep Guardiola, in the worst run of his glittering career, said Friday that \u201csooner or later\u201d things will turn around but City\u2019s fear factor has vanished.<\/p>\n
The win lifts Unai Emery\u2019s inconsistent Villa team to fifth in the Premier League table, one place above sinking City.<\/p>\n
Guardiola made six changes to the team side that lost last week\u2019s Manchester derby, bringing in goalkeeper Stefan Ortega and reshaping his defence with\u00a0Rico Lewis,\u00a0John Stones and Manuel Akanji.<\/p>\n
Mateo Kovacic\u00a0and\u00a0Jack Grealish\u00a0also returned.<\/p>\n
But the defending champions started the match in chaotic fashion and could have been behind inside 20 seconds.
\nUntidy work from Josko Gvardiol allowed John McGinn to steal the ball and he fed Duran, whose shot from outside the box was pushed behind by Ortega.<\/p>\n
Villa were millimetres away from taking the lead from the resulting corner, with Ortega, in for first-choice goalkeeper Ederson, producing a superb save to deny Pau Torres.<\/p>\n
City then settled and their possession numbers topped 75 percent but they created little.<\/p>\n
Instead it was Villa who took the lead through Duran after a superb team move, scoring his seventh Premier League goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Youri Tielemans delivered a wonderful defence-splitting pass to Rogers, who burst through City\u2019s backline with ease before finding Duran\u00a0on his right and the Colombian international finished crisply.<\/p>\n
Phil Foden tested Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez in the 35th minute after an incisive move involving Lewis.
\nAnd Gvardiol squandered a glorious chance moments before half-time, heading over a Grealish cross.<\/p>\n
Guardiola brought on Kyle Walker for Stones at the break.<\/p>\n
Minutes into the second half Villa\u2019s Matty Cash lashed an attempt into the side netting after a speedy attack before Duran had a strike ruled out for offside.<\/p>\n
Rogers hit the foot of the post just before the hour mark after an intricate team move down the left.<\/p>\n
Emery\u2019s men doubled their lead 20 minutes into the second half, with Rogers finishing unerringly from a McGinn pass.
\nCity created little as they searched for a way back into the game until Foden pounced for a late consolation goal.<\/p>\n
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