MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - Manchester City taught Leicester a lesson in challenging for the Premier League title with a dominant 3-1 win at the Etihad to close to within one point of the second-placed Foxes.
Liverpool are not in domestic action this weekend due to their participation in the Club World Cup in Qatar, but will be happy to return home with their 10-point lead over Leicester intact ahead of their trip to the King Power on Boxing Day. City had been carved open routinely in losing their last home game to Manchester United, but did not learn their lesson as Vardy posed a constant threat to balls over the top.
Vardy fired another effort just over from a narrow angle, but it was still City who were creating the majority of the chances and they finally got their reward on the half hour mark.