Manchester City secured a 17th straight win in all competitions to move 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League after beating Everton 3-1 at Goodison Park on Wednesday
Phil Foden's deflected effort gave Pep Guardiola's side the lead (32) but Richarlison restored parity from close range (38)
Riyad Mahrez's brilliant strike nudged the visitors back in front (63) before Bernardo Silva secured the victory for the runaway Premier League leaders (77)
The result moves City 10 points clear of rivals Manchester United at the summit while Everton stay in seventh place following a fifth straight home game without a win ahead of facing Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday, live on Sky Sports
With a third of the season remaining, City continue to set the standards as they became the first top-flight side to win their opening 10 league games of a calendar year
Everton had won just one of their previous 14 Premier League games against Manchester City, winning 4-0 in January 2017 at Goodison Park, but Carlo Ancelotti was seeking a much-improved performance following Sunday's 2-0 home defeat to Fulham
The Italian recalled Yerry Mina to his defence, but the Colombian was forced off with a suspected calf injury inside the opening 20 minutes
 By then, Gabriel Jesus had already gone close to breaking the deadlock when he was fed by Rodri, but Michael Keane did just enough to put the forward off his wayward shot
The runaway leaders would convert their dominance of the ball into the opening goal in the 32nd minute
 Everton could only half-clear a Mahrez cross and the ball fell for Foden whose shot took a deflection off Seamus Coleman - on to replace the injured Mina - to beat Jordan Pickford
Everton were level six minutes later, however, with Coleman playing an altogether different role
 It was his cross that was met sweetly by the run of Lucas Digne on the left side of the area, and when the Frenchman's shot struck the post it bounced straight onto the thigh of Richarlison and in
It was the first time in 45 days that City had conceded a Premier League goal in open play, stretching back to Callum Hudson-Odoi's late consolation in Chelsea's 3-1 defeat at Stamford Bridge, but Guardiola's men refused to buckle after the interval
Pickford was drawn into action within six minutes as Mason Holgate's clearance found Silva, but his low shot was into the England goalkeeper's gloves
City continued to move the ball quickly as Kyle Walker was afforded too much space to find Jesus to his left with the Brazilian fashioning a yard of space to drill a left-foot shot wide of the near post
Everton were sitting deeper and deeper and they were fortunate when Rodri rose unmarked to meet Foden's corner just after the hour-mark but he could only plant his header a yard wide
Everton's luck ran out a minute later, however, when City were rewarded for their endeavour with a second goal
 Guardiola had instructed his side to target Everton's makeshift left-back Ben Godfrey, and after Silva found the underlapping run of Mahrez, the Algerian's unerring finish was beyond the reach of Pickford as it nestled into the net via the far post
Paul Merson told  "It's a worldie! I said they were moving up through the gears, City!"Ancelotti turned to Joshua King and James Rodriguez on his bench, but there would be no let up for Everton as City raced away with a trademark third 13 minutes before the end
Again, the ball was worked right as Walker brought in Jesus, whose lay-off found Silva running at pace
 His first touch took him away from Keane and his second sent the ball into the net via Pickford's right glove
There was still time for Guardiola to introduce Kevin de Bruyne following his one-month lay-off as City saw out the game with ease
 Ten points clear at the summit, there is no stopping City now
Everton boss : "It was hard, almost impossible
 We were in the game for an hour and we fought
"When they scored the second goal it was very difficult
 They are the best team and we are not at the same level
 They don't have only quality, they are also strong
"At the moment they are the best team, they have quality, power, belief
 It is very difficult to compete with them
 It will be a different game against Liverpool
 We are on a good run away and we believe more
 Liverpool are a fantastic team but in football you never know
"I think so [we have lost to the champions], it is really difficult to say another name
 Manchester City in this moment are in a good move, they have fantastic quality, they have belief, they are strong because we tried to put the game on a strong side but it was difficult against Rodri, Ruben Dias and Aymeric Laporte
"They are able to play really well with the ball and work hard without it, they do not give you much possibilities to play, the effort of all the players was really high
"Yerry Mina I don't think he is going to play (against Liverpool), we have to look at Dominic Calvert-Lewin and prepare well for the next game
 It is a great opportunity, we don't have to have regrets tonight, the regrets were against Fulham
 We know how much the next game is important for the supporters and will do all we need to to get the result on Saturday
 The derby is a special game and away we have a good run so we hope for this
"Manchester City boss : "It was not easy to find the space but we didn't concede another chance after their goal, We created enough to win by a bigger margin
 Goodison is a tough place to come but our mentality is incredible
 Another win, and we're playing to get more
 It was a good performance again
 We reacted really well to Liverpool scoring at Anfield and we did the same thing today
 They're a really good team
"If we want to win titles, we're going to need the entire squad and what pleased me today was the solidarity of the squad even with people like Benjamin [Mendy] in the stands
 We have an incredible schedule so we're going to need everyone
 We go into every game trying to get the points and with a good performance
 This is what makes me grateful to have these players
"Winning 10 straight games at the start of the calendar year is nice but next is Arsenal
 Tonight we celebrate but tomorrow afternoon we will start to think about Arsenal
 It's better you don't see the schedule, otherwise you get depressed
 But at the same time, it's a beautiful challenge
 We will come back here in a few weeks to try to get to the semi-finals of the FA Cup and we've seen how hard it will be
 It's not worth looking at the schedule
 Just the next one, and that's Arsenal
"It's all about freshening the mind and the body to go again
"On Bernardo Silva: "What a player
 Everything he does, he does incredibly well
 What he did in the second year was unstoppable and now he's back
 He's a lovely person and as a manager you dream about having players like Bernardo
 His mum and dad must be so proud of the son that they have
""If it was 100 passes a goal, City would've scored another
 They've been so comfortable
 In the end, the gap between the two sides was very big, but in the 10-15 minutes after Everton got back into the game, they really didn't need half-time
 There's plenty more still to come with Man City
"Everton were much better than they were against Fulham and they're not going to come up against that City team every week
 If they put in more performances like that every week, they'll get more wins than defeats