Burnley v Manchester City: Premier League – live!

It was not Sergio Agüero’s finest goal – it looped just 29mm over the line – but it was arguably his most important this season. Pep Guardiola’s side are back on top of the Premier League with two games to play, a point clear of second-placed Liverpool.

90+3 min: David Silva wins a free-kick just over halfway and Bernardo Silva celebrates by clenching and punching both fists. Gundogan takes an age to take it and is booked for time-wasting. He won’t care; Manchester City are very nearly back on top.

90+1 min: Otamendi replaces Sterling. Westwood and McNeil are stood over a Burnley free-kick, 25 yards from goal, off centre …

90 min: There will be four added minutes, the first of which will include a Burnley free-kick after Kompany upended Gudmundsson, who replaced Jeff Hendrick a moment ago.

89 min: Westwood shows a couple of classy touches to keep the ball alive on halfway. He sprays the ball wide for Charlie Taylor to deliver a high cross into the box where Barnes and co are lurking … but it is straight down Ederson’s throat. No problem for City.

86 min: City win a free-kick right next to the corner flag and Matt Lowton is booked, despite his protests. A team as expansive as this won’t play it short and cradle the ball in the corner, will they? No. Gündogan whips it in but Burnley lap it up and head clear.

84 min: Burnley eke their way upfield, winning a few throw-ins in a row down the right. They handsomely switch play and Ben Mee flights a high ball forward in search of Vydra but City snuff it out. Back come Burnley, with Kompany towering over Barnes to head away before a rare spell of pressure ends with a rogue pass.

82 min: Guardiola happy to effectively shut up shop? John Stones is on for Sergio Agüero, whose goal remains the difference.

79 min: Manchester City are undoubtedly at their best when they set the tempo but they want to slow things down, with Sterling, Walker and Silva happy to usher the ball around without too much purpose. A second would sit well with those in the away end.

75 min: Another goal-line clearance, another glance at the watch by Paul Tierney – but it is not to be this time! Ben Mee makes a superb block to prevent Gabriel Jesus from rolling in a second. A preposterous clearance by the former Manchester City man! Jesus did brilliantly to wriggle in off the left flank, making a fool out of Matt Lowton, rounding Heaton before letting rip with the goal gaping. Burnley are clinging on now.

74 min: Nothing was going City’s way – penalty appeals, the lot – but now everything’s going in their favour. Ashley Barnes loses out to Vincent Kompany as City earn a throw-in on the right.

72 min: Matej Vydra replaces Chris Wood, whose partner Kirsty Linnett actually plays as a striker … for Liverpool.

70 min: Manchester City are knocking the ball around for fun now, while Sean Dyche is preparing to freshen things up.

68 min: As it stands, Manchester City are heading back top of the table – thanks to Agüero’s strike, that cannoned all of 29.59 millimetres over the line. But in doing so, Agüero is only the second player in Premier League history to score 20-plus goals in five consecutive campaigns, after Thierry Henry between 2001-02 and 2005-06. Agüero is a serial goalscorer but exemplified other facets of his game in that goal, namely his unerring strength.

66 min: Burnley try to respond as Ashley Barnes buys himself a yard or two, but gets his shot all wrong. Wayward.

At last! Matt Lowton thought he had cleared the striker’s shot off the line but the goal is awarded, technology confirming to the referee Paul Tierney that the ball dropped a couple of inches over the line before the Burnley defender hacked clear. Bernardo Silva’s dinked cross plunged Burnley into trouble, with Agüero digging his heels in to wrestle the ball away from Tarkowski before letting fly inside the box. Heaton made an instinctive save, but could not prevent the ball from bouncing over and in.

61 min: Bernardo Silva sashays down the right flank but Charlie Taylor and McNeil double up on the winger. City are in this for the long haul. It could be a very long half an hour or so for Burnley.

59 min: Sterling skips past a couple of challenges but Matt Lowton sweeps up the danger for Burnley, sliding in to nick the ball away inside the box. Lowton has seemingly injured himself in doing so.

57 min: Burnley are camped inside their own half, inviting more City pressure. Sean Dyche’s side have defended for their lives.

56 min: Burnley stand firm under more City pressure! Kyle Walker’s low cross causes havoc, Burnley throw bodies to the floor to get in and block as Sane swivels on the penalty spot. Then Aguero tries to muscle in and get a shot away, before Sterling’s effort is blocked and Burnley, who are living dangerously, concede a corner.

54 min: Sterling slips in Sergio Agüero on the edge of the box but he snatches at it and drags wide. Ben Mee beckoned Agüero on to shoot by standing off the striker but he got it all wrong.

51 min: Bernardo Silva forces Tom Heaton into a big save! It was a case of pinball in the box, with Raheem Sterling having an effort blocked before Silva took aim a few yards out. He opted for power over placement, lashing the ball high towards the near post, but Heaton was equal to it. City are trying to up the ante.

49 min: And then Laporte nods a header straight at Heaton! Referee Paul Tierney was arguably unsighted for that penalty appeal but, on closer inspection, it looks like a stonewall penalty.

48 min: Sergio Agüero thumps an effort at goal but Tom Heaton is equal to it! Bernardo Silva threaded it through to Sterling, who laid it on for Agüero to take aim. He blasted at Heaton’s near post. In the aftermath the ball was smacked goalwards and struck Ashley Barnes’s left arm. David Silva and City are adamant it’s handball. Barnes appeared to lean into the ball. Nothing given.

47 min: Zinchenko tries to pick out Sterling but his pass cannons into the back of Sergio Agüero; it is still not quite happening.

Your thoughts at the break, Jürgen? City have flattered to deceive, with Burnley keeping them at bay and squandering perhaps the best chance of the first 47 minutes. Chris Wood had seconds to react after being played through on goal but Ederson stormed out to smother the ball. Sergio Agüero and Bernardo Silva, meanwhile, have passed up half-chances for City, who have failed to find their purring best. Work to do for Pep Guardiola and co.

45+1 min: A stray Laporte pass in search of Zinchenko says it all. It has not been City’s half at all. It has been a strenuous display so far.

44 min: Burnley get bodies behind the ball and Manchester City fluff another chance to leave Guardiola with his head in his hands. This time Leroy Sané’s effort is tame, dribbled towards goal from the edge of the box. They are not going to score like that.

40 min: Agüero dances towards the edge of the box, but blasts wide! Guardiola, wearing that grey thing synonymous with him these days, looks pained. They have not been able to get into full flow, with Burnley proving stubborn opponents. Saying that, when Burnley stringed together three passes, home fans started the oles.

38 min: Leroy Sané is fuming after Agüero overhits a fairly routine through ball by his standards. To make matters worse, when Agüero first picked the ball up from Zinchenko, Sané was in an even better position but the full-back declined to play him in.

37 min: Agüero effortlessly controls a ball downfield this time, but ends up fouling Tarkowski after the Burnley defender niggled back at him. Manchester City are in the ascendency, with Zinchenko flashing a dangerous ball across goal a moment ago, but Burnley are holding firm. Can they find a way through?

33 min: This time Gündogan’s pass is perfectly weighted through for Sergio Agüero, but the Manchester City striker cannot latch on to it. It was dinked over the Burnley defence, usually Agüero finds a way to pluck those out of the air and unleash an effort at goal. But the ball runs away from Agüero, who can only smile.

32 min: David Silva stabs goalwards but Burnley get across to block! It stemmed from City recycling the ball after probing 30 yards from goal but Gündogan undercooked his pass for Walker as City again fell short. Bernardo then takes over the baton before Burnley clear.

29 min: Bernardo Silva draws a couple of Burnley defenders to him with a mazy run before returning the favour to Sterling. Walker then delivers from the right but his high, floated ball is gobbled up by the Burnley defence. They eat those for breakfast.

27 min: Bernardo Silva shoots straight at Heaton! Sterling shapes to shoot on the edge of the box but lays the ball off to Silva, who jinked one way then the other before unleashing a low shot at the near post. Heaton had to be alert. Moments earlier, Burnley broke forward through Wood, but he failed to find Barnes.

24 min: Walker is able to carry on, but required some attention after capsizing close to the halfway line. City were fortunate Burnley failed to punish them, with Wood ultimately too slow to react. City have hardly had things all their own way.

21 min: Very nearly a costly slip by Kyle Walker! The full-back loses his footing approaching halfway and Burnley bounce forward, with Laporte playing Chris Wood, who had skirted behind Kompany, onside. Wood is slipped in, via an unfortunate touch by Zinchenko, but Ederson jumps off his line to smother the ball. Wood’s first touch let him down but Ederson was on it like a flash.

20 min: Burnley lift the ball towards the back post, where Ben Mee eludes his marker Raheem Sterling but spoons it out for a goal-kick.

19 min: Kompany gets sucked in to win a high ball and clambers over the top of Ashley Barnes to win the ball. Burnley earn a free-kick, 30-odd yards from goal. Dwight McNeil fancies it.

18 min: Ederson takes the sting out of a period of Burnley pressure. Chris Wood kickstarted the move on halfway, doing well to hold up the ball before laying off for Dwight McNeil. Burnley then switched play, with Lowton playing it into Cork in the box, who ended up thudding a shot into the face of Vincent Kompany. They get tarred with the long-ball brush but Burnley are very capable.

15 min: David Silva floats a ball in towards the back post and Dwight McNeil opts to head behind for a corner. His decision earns a few gasps from the home crowd, but Sterling was lurking behind him. As the old adage goes, if in doubt …

13 min: Other than that turn of pace by Walker, City have been quite flat so far. Pep Guardiola said they would have to show patience. Walker tries to slip in Raheem Sterling, but he is not on the same wavelength and another move prematurely breaks down.

11 min: The teams are sparring. Ashley Barnes gives Laporte a little nudge to try and win a high ball but the striker is flagged offside.

8 min: Zinchenko earns Manchester City a corner. Gundogan opts for the short corner, which culminates in Bernardo Silva picking the ball up on the opposite flank. It is played towards the back post, where David Silva was lurking but there was too much pace on it.

6 min: Kyle Walker does well, holding up his man on the edge of the box before switching on the afterburners. He races to the byline, crosses low but Ben Mee, the former City defender, cuts it out. Bernardo Silva recycles possession but McNeil has Burnley back on the front foot; the 19-year-old, who started his career at Manchester United, has enjoyed a fine breakthrough season.

4 min: Sean Dyche will be happy with this, Guardiola not so much. City have had little to shout about. Dwight McNeil and Charlie Taylor have already powered down the City right on a couple of occasions. Burnley will not make life easy.

2 min: Kompany nods a high ball out for a throw-in. A positive start by Burnley. City are yet to breach the opposition half.

The teams are in the tunnel at Turf Moor. Here we go … !

Burnley: Heaton; Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Taylor; Hendrick, Westwood, Cork, McNeil; Barnes, Wood

Subs: Hart, Gudmundsson, Gibson, Ward, Vydra, Long, Driscoll-Glennon

Manchester City: Ederson; Walker, Kompany, Laporte, Zinchenko; B Silva, Gundogan, D Silva; Sterling, Aguero, Sane

Subs: Muric, Danilo, Stones, Mahrez, Otamendi, Gabriel Jesus, Foden

Referee: Paul Tierney (Lancashire)

Jürgen Klopp has done his utmost to bill this game as the big one for Manchester City, but Pep Guardiola has been busy preaching calm before taking on Burnley, stubborn opposition at the best of times. If any team are capable of cancelling out the noise, it is the champions. Guardiola could not have looked more relaxed at his pre-match press conference, nonchalantly nodding along to questions. He has every reason to smile; in two meetings City have racked up a 10-0 aggregate against Burnley this season, while they arrive at Turf Moor on a 11-match unbeaten run. Liverpool went first on Friday, shellacking Huddersfield, meaning City must match them and take three points from this one to regain top spot. “It is the end of the season, the last games, everyone feels the pressure to win,” Guardiola said. Ilkay Gündogan and Fernandinho are both doubts, while Kevin de Bruyne remains sidelined.

Kick-off: 2.05pm (BST)