Ferran Torres stooped to head home Riyad Mahrez's cross and it was another one for the books - the latest huge Manchester City win.
Saturday's 5-0 victory against Arsenal followed up a victory by the same scoreline over Norwich City seven days earlier.
It meant Pep Guardiola’s men became only the third Premier League team in history to score 10 or more goals in their opening two home games, after Manchester United and a more fit-for-purpose Arsenal managed the feat in 2011-12 and 2010-11 respectively.
That particular figure - 10 league goals at home - will raise a wry smile for City fans of a certain age.
Once upon a time, that was all they could muster over the course of an entire top-flight campaign.
The 2006/07 season was a very different time indeed at Eastlands. Stuart Pearce was forced to wheel and deal in the transfer market having errantly spent the farm on Greece forward Georgios Samaras the January prior.
Andy Cole and Antoine Sibierski left and were replaced by returning club hero Paul Dickov and Italy striker Bernardo Corradi. Along with Samaras and Darius Vassell, they would provide the attacking threat.
"As I striker I will work hard and help the team to make a lot of goals,” said Corradi after he joined from Valencia for an undisclosed fee - remarks that would come to look ludicrously optimistic in hindsight for a player who was sent off in as many City matches as he scored in.
Corradi’s first red card came during an opening day defeat to reigning champions Chelsea, a fate somehow escaped by Ben Thatcher when he hurtled violently into Pedro Mendes during City’s home opener against Portsmouth.
That was the first of six 0-0 draws at home. Retrospectively, left-back Thatcher was handed an eight-game ban and was not seen again until the end of October.
City rebounded initially and a Joey Barton penalty saw them beat Arsenal in their second home match of the season. The parallels between then and the modern-day begin and end right there.
False dawns for Samaras and Corradi
To give Pearce's side their due, things did not instantly look as bleak as they became.
Samaras’ brace sunk a West Ham side featuring Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez, while captain Richard Dunne scored the only goal to see off Middlesbrough - results in the home calendar that sandwiched another of the 0-0s against Sheffield United, where a young Joe Hart made a surprise debut.
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