Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez scored as Manchester City beat Brighton 2-1 at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.

Jeremy Doku tormented James Milner in Brighton’s defence, and his pull-back was turned home by Alvarez for the opener after eight minutes.

Haaland’s powerful finish followed a defensive error from Carlos Baleba as Brighton threatened to sink without trace.

But after Pascal Gross had missed a glorious chance to get them back in the game, substitute Ansu Fati turned home a loose ball from Kaoru Mitoma’s cross to give the Seagulls hope.

Hope was all that remained, as Guardiola’s side held on comfortably despite Manuel Akanji’s late second booking for pulling back Fat

In another development, Newcastle thrashed Crystal Palace 4-0 at St James’ Park on Saturday, with Jacob Murphy scoring the first and setting up the fourth.

Murphy scored in the fourth minute after a VAR review for offside before Newcastle struck twice in three minutes at the end of the first half with Anthony Gordon doubling their lead (44) before Sean Longstaff capitalised on Marc Guehi’s error to make it 3-0 (45+2).

Murphy’s sweeping pass set up Newcastle’s fourth as Callum Wilson finished off a fine counter from the hosts to cap off the perfect performance ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League group game against Borussia Dortmund.

Sandro Tonali was met with a huge roar from the crowd as he came on in the closing stages of the game after being taken out of the starting XI amid a probe into his betting on former side AC Milan.

Newcastle, who have won four of their last five Premier League games, move up to fifth in the table while Palace remain in 10th.