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Omar Marmoush celebrates his first-half hat-trick for Manchester City Omar Marmoush introduced himself as Manchester City's own 'Egyptian king' with a superb 14-minute hat-trick against Newcastle to send Pep Guardiola's side fourth in the Premier League. Marmoush, who joined City for £59m from Eintracht Frankfurt last month, clearly has a long way to go before he can get close to the authentic Liverpool version - but broke his scoring duck in style after four matches without a goal. Just 13 minutes and 54 seconds separated the forward's opener - taking advantage of Kieran Trippier's failure to read a long ball from City goalkeeper Ederson - and his third when he swept home first time from 10 yards. In between, Marmoush applied a neat finish to Ilkay Gundogan's defence-splitting pass into the penalty area. This was the fourth-quickest Premier League hat-trick by a City player - Sergio Aguero netted the fastest with a nine-minute treble in 2015. After Marmoush's first-half fireworks, substitute James Mc Atee scored City's fourth in the 84th minute following a flick-on from stand-in skipper Erling Haaland. Even with a side shorn of defensive trio Manuel Akanji, Ruben Dias and Nathan Ake, it was a throwback to the 'old' City of recent years and the perfect warm-up to Wednesday's do-or-die Champions League return with Real Madrid. Guardiola will hope the knock Haaland sustained four minutes from time which triggered his early exit from the game does not prove to be too serious. For Newcastle, defeat at Etihad Stadium was a familiar experience - they have now lost 16 successive matches at this ground and failed to score on their past six visits. This video can not be played New signing Gonzalez was Man City's 'mini Rodri' - Guardiola City fans had waited a long time to see the kind of flowing football their side produced in the first half. While Marmoush grabbed the headlines - and the match ball at the end of the game - the presence of fellow new arrival Nico Gonzalez in a midfield holding role helped City. Further forward, much of the credit went to Brazilian winger Savinho. The 20-year-old has been cited by Guardiola as a major reason why Jack Grealish, who was ruled out through injury, has struggled to claim a regular starting spot this term. From the first whistle, he attacked Newcastle left-back Lewis Hall with intent. Although his manager repeatedly had to tell him to drop deeper when Ederson was preparing to play out of his six-yard box, once Savinho had the ball at his feet he repeatedly ran at Hall at pace and, at times, slalomed his way down the pitch to incisive effect. His movement unhinged the visitors and created the space the likes of Phil Foden and Gundogan craved. It was one of those direct runs and a cutback that allowed Marmoush to complete his hat-trick. City have now collected 16 points from their past seven games, which is as good a return as they have managed all season - handy given Liverpool are the next visitors to this stadium on 23 February. This video can not be played 'Poor moments' from Newcastle gave Man City goals - Howe After an excellent run that carried them to the verge of the Champions League places, into the FA Cup fifth round and within one win - against Liverpool in the EFL Cup final - of a long-awaited trophy, Eddie Howe's side are stuttering. Saturday's defeat was their third league loss in four matches and Howe's decision to bring on Tino Livramento and Lewis Miley for Trippier and Joe Willock at the break emphasised his displeasure at what he had seen in the first 45 minutes. For once striker Alexander Isak was also ineffective, wasting his best chance in the first half when he fired wide from a decent position. But the problems were further back, with neither Sandro Tonali nor skipper Bruno Guimaraes able to block up the central midfield areas which left full-backs Trippier and Hall exposed too often. The half-time changes stemmed the flow of goals, but did little to sharpen up Newcastle's blunt attack. It could be argued the Magpies will have made a success of their season no matter what happens in the league if they win the EFL Cup at Wembley on 16 March. However, with fellow top-five contenders Nottingham Forest and Liverpool up next and plenty of clubs jostling for position behind them, Howe needs to halt the slide quickly. After the opportunity to rate players has closed, the score displayed represents the average from all the submissions by BBC Sport users. Comments can not be loaded To load Comments you need to enable Java Script in your browser Last Updated 15th February 2025 at 18: 57 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. Manager: Pep Guardiola Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Eddie Howe Formation: 4 - 3 - 3 Manager: Pep Guardiola Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 Manager: Eddie Howe Formation: 4 - 3 - 3 Premier League All competitions All competitions All competitions Manchester City have lost just one of their last 34 Premier League games against Newcastle (W27 D6), going down 2-1 at St James’ Park in January 2019. Newcastle have lost their last 15 Premier League away games against Man City, failing to score in any of their last five. Overall, they’re winless in 20 away league games against the Citizens (D2 L18) since a 1-0 win at Maine Road in September 2000. Manchester City have won their last 15 Premier League home games against Newcastle – only three teams have had longer such winning runs against an opponent in English top-flight history: Everton against Fulham (22 from 1961 to 2018), Aston Villa against Sheffield United (16 from 1903 to 1921) and Manchester United against Luton (16 from 1955 to 2023, still ongoing). Manchester City have scored in each of their last 32 Premier League games against Newcastle – only three teams have had a longer scoring streak against an opponent in English top-flight history: Chelsea against Newcastle (37 from 1933 to 1969), Tottenham against Newcastle (35 from 1922 to 1961) and Everton against Blackburn (34 from 1925 to 1962). Newcastle United have won each of their last four Premier League games on the road; they last won five in succession in October 1994, the only previous time they’ve done so in the competition. Only in 2019-20 (37. 6) and 2023-24 (35. 9) have Manchester City had a higher expected goals against total in a Premier League season under Pep Guardiola than in 2024-25 (34. 6), while their x G per shot faced is the highest of any top-flight campaign since his arrival in 2016-17 (0. 14x G per shot faced). Only West Ham United (9) have conceded more goals in the opening 10 minutes of Premier League games this season than Manchester City (7), while they’ve never done so in three successive games in the competition before. Five of Savinho’s six Premier League assists for Manchester City in the Premier League this season have been for Erling Haaland, only Newcastle United’s Jacob Murphy for Alexander Isak (6) has more assists for a specific teammate this term. With four goals and eight assists, Newcastle’s Jacob Murphy is enjoying his best Premier League season in terms of goal involvements. 10 of his 12 goals (4) and assists (6) this term have come in his last 10 appearances. Newcastle United’s Anthony Gordon has scored in each of his last two Premier League games against Manchester City, the last player to score in three successive games against the reigning champions was Ollie Watkins in December 2021. Match ends, Manchester City 4, Newcastle United 0. Second Half ends, Manchester City 4, Newcastle United 0. Matheus Nunes (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Fabian Schär (Newcastle United). Jérémy Doku (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Emil Krafth (Newcastle United). Fourth official has announced 4 minutes of added time. Substitution, Newcastle United. Emil Krafth replaces Alexander Isak. Delay over. They are ready to continue. Substitution, Manchester City. Matheus Nunes replaces Erling Haaland because of an injury. Substitution, Manchester City. Nico O'Reilly replaces Josko Gvardiol. Substitution, Manchester City. Mateo Kovacic replaces Ilkay Gündogan. Delay in match because of an injury Erling Haaland (Manchester City). Goal! Manchester City 4, Newcastle United 0. James Mc Atee (Manchester City) left footed shot from very close range to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Erling Haaland with a headed pass following a corner. Corner, Manchester City. Conceded by Sean Longstaff. Attempt blocked. Savinho (Manchester City) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Jérémy Doku. Foul by Abdukodir Khusanov (Manchester City). Lewis Hall (Newcastle United) wins a free kick on the left wing. John Stones (Manchester City) wins a free kick in the defensive half. Foul by Callum Wilson (Newcastle United). Copyright © 2025 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.