Man City keep Treble dream alive after early FA Cup shock against Fulham

City on Saturday kept their Treble dreams alive with a comeback win over feisty Fulham.

The Blues recovered from a shock early goal from Liverpool target Fabio Carvalho to streak away with the game - and allow Pep Guardiola to give Liam Delap and James McAtee valuable late run-outs.

The win, against the runaway top scorers in the four divisions of English football, came with the Blues ' usual egalitarian method of coping without a regular goalscorer by everybody chipping in.

In a week when City signed one goalscoring striker in Julian Alvarez - although he won't arrive until next season - Riyad Mahrez is in danger of spoiling that share-and-share-alike approach to bagging the goals, his two today taking him to 15 for the season - six more than the next highest.

John Stones and Ilkay Gundogan underlined how City can score from virtually anywhere on the pitch, scoring the equaliser and then taking City into the lead to set the football world back on an even keel after the Cottagers’ bold approach had paid off with an early goal.

The clash of the leaders of both the Premier League and the Championship was a neat contrast in style, not least in terms of goalscoring.

Fulham have bagged 76 in all competitions this season, with centre-forward Aleksandar Mitrovic accounting for 27 of them - three times as many as their next highest scorer.

City, whose quest for a big-name central striker continues, despite the signing of Alvarez this week, are much more of a democratic, cooperative affair, and that was illustrated as they bounced back from Carvalho’s early goal with strikes from Gundogan - his sixth of the season - and a Stones header that took his tally to two for the season.

Remarkably, they have 83 goals this season,