Page 3 - Manchester City 8-0 Watford: 3 reasons why the Cityzens won the game

#1 Responding early on in the game

Manchester City, as aforementioned, stuck to their strengths. They played at pace in advanced positions, relied on the running in behind and did what the do best under pressure - play direct football with complete purpose.

As a result, they were up within the first 55 seconds. Kevin De Bruyne, all of a sudden was up in a good position down the right, and he laid it on a platter for club captain David Silva to open the scoring.

Heading into this game, they had to resume normal service against Quique Sanchez Flores, who drills his side into defending deep and compact. They deployed De Bruyne and released him masterfully down the right - a position where the best of his passes come from.

Further, David Silva returned to his favoured number 10-like role, with Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez switching flanks. By doing so, Guardiola let his players do the talking from their best positions and formations.

They were certainly helped by poor defending on the far post and the penalty conceded by Ben Foster, but City made no mistake in making mincemeat out of a Watford defence that was in absolute bedlam.