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If and when the title-sealing moment arrives, Pep Guardiola will not celebrate with more gusto, with more delight, with more satisfaction, than he did here.

It was not so much the victory that pasted a smile back on to Pep’s face - after all, this was a facile win against a Newcastle team who were not posing for group selfies after a truly insipid exhibition. And, in their final three fixtures, Guardiola knows that far sterner tests lie ahead.

But it was the crowning goal that had him beaming, a goal that was the flowing, beautiful definition of everything Pep preaches. He probably could have walked away from the job a happy man after Raheem Sterling had finished the most sumptuous of moves in added time.

That type of goal, conceived by the footballing brains of Phil Foden and Jack Grealish, is like a trophy to Guardiola. It is the type of goal Guardiola would give an open-top bus parade to. And, of course, it could have significant implications as City took a foot-pump to their goal difference column.

But whatever that figure is, City should not blow the defence of their title from here. Assuming Liverpool go faultless - and that is a decent-sized assumption - seven points from games at Wolves and West Ham and a home match against Aston Villa should not be a problem for a squad of City’s class and