Manchester City moved back to within four points of Premier League leaders Liverpool this afternoon courtesy of a 3-0 victory over Huddersfield Town at the John Smith's Stadium.
Danilo's deflected long-range strike gave the champions a first-half lead, but it was not until after the interval that they took the game away from their hosts.
Two goals in as many minutes towards the start of the second half wrapped up the points, though, with Leroy Sane creating one for Raheem Sterling before getting his own name on the scoresheet moments later.
Find out how all of the action unfolded courtesy of Sports Mole's minute-by-minute coverage below.
This game pits the league's lowest scorers against its highest scorers, and bottom against second in what looks like a mismatch on paper. Huddersfield go into the game under the tutelage of caretaker boss Mark Hudson following David Wagner's sacking, but they could not have been handed a more difficult start to life without the German.
Let's start with a look at the team news...
Well, the headline as far as Man City are concerned is that Sergio Aguero returns to the starting lineup in place of Gabriel Jesus, who has to make do with a place on the bench despite having scored seven goals in his last three games.
Aguero netted a hat-trick in the reverse fixture already this season to make his tally up to six goals in three appearances against the Terriers, and he will be confident of improving that record today.
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Aguero has netted in each of his last six matches against teams beginning the day bottom of the table too, so the signs looks ominous for Huddersfield already.
Kevin De Bruyne is also handed just his second leg start of the campaign, having seemingly now recovered completely from his latest injury problem.
There are four changes made by Guardiola in total for this match from the win over Wolves on Monday night, in addition to a very strong starting lineup named by City.
Puncheon is today making his 200th Premier League appearance and will be hoping to mark the occasion with his first goal for his new club.
One of those to come in is captain Tommy Smith, who returns from a hamstring problem after being an unused sub against Cardiff last time out.
Billing, Pritchard, Mounie, Zanka and Hadergjonaj are the players to drop out of the team, which suggests that Hudson is not afraid to shake things up a bit here.
The striker may need to do more work defensively than he does in attack, but should any chances fall his way then he also has to be sharp enough to take them as he is unlikely to get many against this City side.
The fans will be sad to see the back of Wagner and his contribution to the club has been huge, earning promotion to the Premier League and then ensuring they survived their first season back in the top flight, but recent form meant that his departure was not a major shock.
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The Terriers currently sit bottom of the table with just 11 points from their opening 22 games - a position from which no team has ever avoided finishing bottom, yet alone avoided relegation.
Huddersfield have only won two games all season, though, while they have lost a league-high 15 times including eight of their last nine in the league.
The Terriers have only scored more than once in one of their last 22 Premier League games and have failed to find the back of the net on 17 occasions during that run. Indeed, from their 60 games in the Premier League, Huddersfield have failed to score in more than half of them.
Borussia Dortmund coach Jan Siewert is understood to be their number one choice, but for now this is will their first match under a caretaker manager for three years.
Hudson played nine Premier League games during his career and failed to win any of those, losing eight and drawing one - which is incidentally the same record as Huddersfield have suffered over their last nine outings.
What's more Huddersfield have only scored five goals in front of their own fans too, although they have netted in four of their last five after scoring just once in their previous eight home league games.
Seven points is the gap to Liverpool once again now after the Reds' thrilling 4-3 win over Crystal Palace yesterday, and Guardiola will know that only a win will do to keep the pressure on Klopp's side.
The champions have been particularly deadly since the turn of the year too, beginning 2019 with a 2-1 win over Liverpool and then going on to score a whopping 19 goals in their last three outings.
Some Huddersfield fans may be fearful of a repeat this afternoon considering the form both sides are in, and it looks likely that they could be joining the realms of lower leagues from next season too.
City are now on 99 across all competitions for the season - comfortably more than any other team in Europe - and would hit the century with just one today.
The latest of those came in a 3-0 triumph over 10-man Wolves on Monday night, and another shutout today against the league's worst attack would make it four in a row for the first time since November.
The encouraging sign for Huddersfield is that Man City have struggled a little away from home this season, and they ended 2018 with just one win from their final four away games, excluding penalty shootouts.
City have won 18 of their 23 such matches since December 2008, keeping clean sheets in their last 10 and winning the last six by a huge aggregate scoreline of 21-0.
I cannot see past a Man City win in this match, and a comfortable one too. A managerial change can often have a galvanising impact on a team, but everything points towards a big Man City.
SPORTS MOLE SAYS: Huddersfield 0-4 Man City
City have conceded only nine goals in their last 13 league games against the Terriers, and never more than once in a match.
Sergio Aguero was the star of the show with a hat-trick, while Jesus, Silva and a Kondolo own goal completed the rout.
HUDDERSFIELD STARTING XI: Lossl; Smith, Kongolo, Schindler, Lowe; Bcuna, Hogg, Diakhaby, Puncheon, Mbenza; Kachunga
MAN CITY STARTING XI: Ederson; Walker, Otamendi, Laporte, Danilo; Fernandinho, Gundogan, De Bruyne; Sane, Sterling, Aguero
❌ NO PENALTY ❌
It looks a stonewall penalty for #MCFC as Sterling goes down but it is waved away...
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CRUEL DEFLECTION #MCFC have the lead as Danilo's strike is deflected beyond Lossl.
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100 - Manchester City are the first team in the top five European leagues to score 100 goals in all competitions this season. Relentless. #HUDMCI
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 20, 2019
The visitors still lead, though, and you'd have to think that they will improve in the second half after a relatively underwhelming display in the opening 45.
The full-back tried his luck from range after being afforded far too much room, and the ball struck Schindler before bouncing past the keeper, who otherwise looked to have it covered.
The main thing missing from Huddersfield's performance so far has been a cutting edge in the final third, though, with Ederson yet to be forced into a really meaningful save.
If they do not step things up then there could be something in this one for Huddersfield, which would be a major slip-up from the champions.
STERLING DOUBLES THE LEAD #MCFC are 2-0 up as Sane finds the England man, but was it offside?
— Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) January 20, 2019
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8 - Since the start of last season, Leroy Sané has both scored and assisted in eight @premierleague games for Manchester City, at least three more times than any other player at the club (Sterling and Agüero 5). Spectrum. #HUDMCI pic.twitter.com/xdYnBcAwpQ
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 20, 2019
Danilo gave the visitors the lead in the first half, but it was not until the second half - and a quickfire double from Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane - that they really took the game away from Huddersfield.
Thank you very much for joining Sports Mole for today's Premier League clash between Huddersfield and Man City as City pile more misery on their managerless hosts. I will leave you with our match report, and be sure to stick around for reaction too.
From me, though, it is goodbye for now!