Silva was defined by way of supervisor Pep Guardiola because the great participant inside the English top flight this week and confirmed why with luxurious finishes to again up his cushioned volley against Aston Villa in midweek.
In stark assessment to Manchester United's four-1 humbling at Vicarage Road a fortnight ago that ended Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's reign, City genuinely killed the suit as a competition inside four mins. Phil Foden picked out Raheem Sterling on the lower back put up for the simplest of headers to open the scoring.
Silva slotted domestic from a slender angle to double the visitors' lead and produced a beautiful strike into the pinnacle corner after the damage. But the scoreline barely did justice to the dominance of Guardiola's men, who took benefit of Chelsea's 3-2 defeat to West Ham earlier inside the day to move one factor clean of Liverpool at the pinnacle of the desk.
Guardiola also has a smooth invoice of health for his squad heading into the aggravating festive period as Foden and record signing Jack Grealish returned to the starting line-up, while Kevin De Bruyne made his comeback from coronavirus as a 2nd-half of replacement.
Foden made a right away effect through selecting out Sterling, who become given an terrific quantity of space to move in his 99th Premier League aim. Only a horrible slice from the normally technically perfect Foden kept Watford in the game moments later.
However, a slick City circulate soon doubled their lead as Silva fed Ilkay Gundogan and when the German's attempt become saved by means of Daniel Bachmann, the Portguese global accompanied up to slot in at the near submit. Silva made clean his choice to go away City within the summer time, however the 27-yr-antique is back to gambling a number of the excellent football of his profession.
Mohamed Salah's free-scoring shape for Liverpool may additionally deny him man or woman awards come the give up of the season, but Silva is likewise setting together his satisfactory goalscoring marketing campaign in the Premier League with seven in his final 12 games. His 2nd of the sport turned into a element of splendor as he grew to become onto Kyle Walker's pass and curled the ball high into Bachmann's right-hand nook.
Grealish turned into then inches faraway from his first aim when you consider that August because the £one hundred million signing's deflected effort got here back off the crossbar. City have now received seven consecutive video games with their form looking ominously like the beginning of a comparable run to the 21-recreation winning streak that started last December and noticed them streak closer to the identify.
However, they had been denied a clean sheet to round off a satisfactory performance while Cucho Hernandez slotted domestic at the second strive after his preliminary attempt got here back down the publish.
