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title: "Manchester City 3-1 Southampton – Five things learnt"
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language: "en-GB"
author: "Luke Osman"
section: "Feature Writers"
published: "2015-11-29T13:43:21Z"
modified: "2015-11-29T13:43:21Z"
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# Manchester City 3-1 Southampton – Five things learnt

On a wet and windy afternoon in Manchester, Southampton sunk to their second consecutive Premier League defeat at the hands of a clinical Manchester City side in a 3-1 defeat at the Etihad.

Southampton couldn’t have started much worse, with City coming out all guns blazing and taking a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes thanks to goals from Kevin de Bruyne and Fabian Delph. Things proceeded to get better, however, as shortly after the interval Shane Long pulled a goal back for The Saints to reduce the deficit. It just was not to be for Southampton though as Aleksandar Kolarov slashed Southampton’s hopes of a comeback with City’s third goal 20 minutes from time to make it 3-1; the final score.

Here are five things that I feel as though we have learnt from the game.