Now, Marmoush’s outing rocketed further, and this was City at their simple, ruthless best: Phil Foden passed to Savinho, who glided beyond Lewis Hall and turned the ball into the area for City’s No 7 to steer home calmly.
For a phase Newcastle camped near Ederson’s goal and went close when a City mix-up allowed Alexander Isak to run in and shoot, Stones’s intervention doing enough to send the ball wobbling wide, to Ederson’s right.
It was a product of a beautiful route-one move: Ederson advanced out of his area and flipped a sweetly executed low 50-yard pass; Kieran Trippier, tracking the Egyptian’s left-right diagonal, leaped but missed the ball, and as Martin Dubravka rushed out of his goal, Marmoush’s chip bounced once and kissed the open net.
Newcastle could not cut off City’s attacking pipeline and soon Marmoush had his first shot, unloading after darting down his left flank.
For Newcastle, Livramento’s output immediately dwarfed Trippier’s as he skipped through a right corridor and fed Jacob Murphy; City were turned but the winger’s cross was put out by Stones.
