Man City lose 100% Premier League record with defeat at Aston Villa - ESPN

Manchester City suffered defeat for the first time in the Premier League this season when Nicolas Jackson's double earned Aston Villa a 2-1 victory at Villa Park.

Unai Emery's side continued its turnaround in form after a slow start to the campaign and picked up a fourth straight win across all competitions, and its first league victory at home this season.

Manchester City do not enjoy visiting Villa Park and have now lost their last four league games there, while Enzo Maresca saw his 100% league start as City boss vanish.

Another tough afternoon in the West Midlands started when Marc Guéhi's mistake allowed Jackson to give Villa an early lead.

Villa had keeper Zion Suzuki to thank for making several vital saves, and Iliman Ndiaye crashed an effort off the post as Villa held strong to take the lead into the break.

Erling Haaland grabbed his ninth league goal of the season to get City level, but Jackson buried his second of the afternoon — his fourth of the season — on the hour mark to hand Villa the points.

The visitors were greeted with more boos from an away ground ahead of kickoff after they were found guilty of serious breaches of the competition's financial regulations last month.

City conceded a corner after Gianluigi Donnarumma took too long to take his goal kick, which put City on the back foot, and Villa's quick start was rewarded with the opener in the sixth minute.

Guéhi was unable to control the ball and instead spilled it into the path of John McGinn, who played it into Jackson, and he expertly finished into the top of the net.

The early goal did not dent City's confidence, and they were denied an equalizer when Suzuki sprang right to push Ndiaye's curling effort away.

The Japan goalkeeper was getting busier