Erling Haaland scored a brace to lead Manchester City to a 3-0 win over West Ham United at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
The victory was enough to see the hosts go one point clear of Arsenal before the Gunners take on Everton later tonight.
Haaland opened the scoring with a close range finish in the fifth minute to set Man City on course for a deserved victory.
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Tijjani Reijnders added the second goal with a thumping finish into the roof of the net to make it 2-0 in the 38th minute.
Haaland put the icing on the cake in the 69th minute to hand the hosts the maximum points, and condemned West Ham to another loss.
Man City have now won their last five Premier League games to mount a title challenge.
Pep Guardiola was delighted to see his side earn another impressive win but urged them to do more in subsequent matches.
He said: “We are happy to win but the way we are with the ball, we have to improve otherwise it will not be enough to be title contenders in March, April and May.
“Always I have to thank Erling for the goals but today thanks to him, Phil and Nico O’Reilly, they help us a lot to do this game.
“Defensively we are improving and we can visualise it but with the ball, we are away from what we have to do. We are not close.
“The way we attack depends on how the opponents defend, we have to be in the right spots to make it more fluid and we were not.
“We are happy, we cannot deny we are in the Champions League spots, the semi-final of the Carabao Cup and up there in the Premier League.
“I want to be honest and I said to the players ‘I’m happy and Merry Christmas’ but we have to improve, it will not be enough.”
In the other Premier League games on Saturday, Chelsea played out a 2-2 draw against Newcastle United, Brentford defeated Wolves 2-0, Brighton and Sunderland battled to a 0-0 draw.