Toure Scores A Hat-Trick As City Tear Fulham Apart

Yaya Toure scored a hat-trick, including two penalties, as Manchester City eased to a 5-0 home win over 10-man Fulham.

City were ahead in the 26th minute when Toure scored from the penalty spot after Amorebieta was penalised for kicking Alvaro Negredo as the striker brought a long ball under control.

Toure repeated the trick on 54 minutes with another confidently dispatched penalty after Amorebieta, who had been booked for his foul on Negredo, was sent off after bringing down David Silva.

Ivory Coast midfielder Toure completed his hat-trick in sumptuous fashion on 65 minutes when he almost nonchalantly curled a 30-yard shot inside the upright and beyond a flailing David Stockdale.

Fernandinho arrowed a fourth goal into the top corner on 84 minutes before Martin Demichelis added the fifth with two minutes remaining by scuffing home a shot at the back post.

City’s next big hurdle is Tuesday’s Manchester derby at Old Trafford. And although the injured Sergio Aguero will miss that game, a return to goalscoring form is timely for Pellegrini’s title chasers with Chelsea and Liverpool also registering big victories.