Manchester City ensure top-three finish in English Premier League with Swansea win
Manchester City assured themselves of direct entry into next season's Champions League group stage with a 4-2 win away to Swansea in Sunday's early English Premier League soccer match.
Manchester City assured themselves of direct entry into next season's Champions League group stage with a 4-2 win away to Swansea in Sunday's early English Premier League match.
The top three sides in England at the end of the season are guaranteed a place in the group stage of European football's elite club competition, with the Premier League's fourth-placed team having to enter a qualifying round.
We've won five on the spin and we'll try to win the last one against Southampton
Three goals came before half-time at the Liberty Stadium, with Yaya Toure, assisted by an error from Swansea goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianksi, and James Milner putting City 2-0 up before Gylfi Sigurdsson pulled a goal back for Swansea on half-time.
French striker Bafetimbi Gomis equalised for the Swans midway through the second half before Toure, with Fabianksi out of position, made it 3-2 to City with a low shot from the edge of the box.
Former Swansea forward Wilfried Bony made it 4-2 in stoppage time with only his second goal since he moved in the mid-season transfer window.
"We don't answer to anyone apart from each other, the fans and the management," said England international Hart.
"After the [Manchester] United defeat we made second our aim. We've won five on the spin and we'll try to win the last one against Southampton."
Victory left City eight points clear of fourth-placed United, who were playing rivals Arsenal overnight.
And United could yet join the recently crowned English Premier League champions, Chelsea, and City in the top three.
