Man City fans air new chants to two players that can change Pep Guardiola plan

Manchester City won.

Three points at the King Power for Pep Guardiola's champions should not be headline news yet after one victory in their previous 13 games in all competitions nothing could be taken for granted. Things have got so bad for the all-conquering Blues that as they warmed up on the pitch for this match they had to hear their mascot for the day predict a Leicester win; even the stadium announcer for the Premier League strugglers couldn't quite believe it.

Those Blues who have seen it all can afford to indulge in gallows humour, gleefully singing about the club staying up when Savinho scored his first goal for the club that would prove to help City to a 2-0 win. One of Guardiola's biggest issues in the worst run of his coaching career has been that while City supporters sing about not being really present, the same can be said for too many players.

That has been in the literal sense of the exceptionally high number of absentees for every game in the last two months, rising to a high of eight for the draw with Everton on Boxing Day before coming down to six at Leicester as Jack Grealish and Kyle Walker returned. But there have also been far too many players who haven't hit the standards expected of them, culminating in this extraordinary collapse in form.

A win is a positive but City are fragile enough that they cannot ignore the cracks that belied the result if they are to build on it. Even in one of their better performances during this run, there were still plenty of warnings from an opposition side that did little to disprove their position near the bottom of the table.

There was the offside flag that prevented Stefan Ortega giving away an early penalty on Jamie Vardy after Savinho had dribbled his