MANCHESTER, England -- Samir Nasri scored twice as Manchester City maintained
its 100 per cent home record and moved to third place in the Premier League with
a 3-0 win over Swansea on Sunday.
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striker Alvaro Negredo put City in front after eight minutes with a free kick
into the bottom left corner. Nasri then exploited Yaya Toures through ball to
double his teams lead in the 58th and the French international sealed the win
with a brilliant finish in the 77th. The result lifted City to third place in
the standings after Liverpool lost to Hull, but the team is still six points
behind leader Arsenal. City is the only team in the Premier League with a
perfect home record this season -- seven wins in seven matches. Swansea had a
good chance to equalize just before halftime but Jonathan de Guzman shot over.
City goalkeeper Costel Pantilimon, again preferred to Joe Hart, had earlier
saved twice from Jonjo Shelvey. Hart might have hoped to feature after playing
in the Champions League in midweek but, aside from Joleon Lescott replacing the
injured Matija Nastasic, City fielded the side that thrashed Tottenham 6-0. City
again raced out of the blocks with Sergio Aguero charging through and shooting
at Gerhard Tremmel inside the first minute. Tremmel was quickly in action again
as Negredo forced him to tip around the post with a long-range shot. Negredo was
fouled outside the area shortly afterward and stepped up to clip home the
resulting free kick in the eight minute. Swansea then enjoyed a spell of
dominating possession and creating a couple of chances, with Shelvey twice
forcing Pantilimon to save with shots from distance. Both sides had penalty
appeals as Pablo Hernandez claimed to be pulled back by Martin Demichelis and
Aguero went down under a Jose Canas challenge but referee Mark Clattenburg was
convinced by neither. De Guzman shot at Pantilimon and spurned an even better
chance to equalize when he fired over just before the interval Citys second
finally came just before the hour as Yaya Toure strode forward in trademark
fashion to find Nasri inside the area. The Frenchman still had much to do but
the defence could not touch him as he ran across goal and fired low into the
bottom left corner. City almost had a third when Toure found Aguero and Swanseas
half-clearance fell to the inrushing Pablo Zabaleta but the fullback shot over.
But there was little respite for the Swans and Zabaleta instead turned to a
creators role by rushing onto a James Milner throughball and pulling back for
Nasri to tuck home after 77 minutes. The former Arsenal playmaker, sensing a hat
trick, curled just wide and Fernandinho shot over in the closing moments.
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. LUCIE, Fla.SALT LAKE CITY -- Alec Burks didnt feel like he needed to be
Gordon Hayward. He just needed to be his best twisting, turning acrobatic self.
"I didnt need to be anybody else, I just needed to be myself and be aggressive,"
said Burks, who scored a career-high 34 points to spark the Utah Jazz to a
118-103 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night. Derrick Favors added 19
points and 15 rebounds while Trey Burke had 18 points for the Jazz, who won
their fifth game in the last six home starts. Burks was filling in for
Gordon Hayward, who sat out his second consecutive game after scoring a
career-high 37 points -- including the last 17 -- in a win over Oklahoma City
last Tuesday. The swingman strained his left hip flexor late in the game and his
absence was apparent as Cleveland snapped Utahs four-game home winning streak on
Friday, 113-102. But Burks made his presence felt from the start and had 17 in
the first half to help the Jazz run out to a 67-53 lead, the highest first-half
total for the Jazz this season. "I was just trying to get to the rim and put
some pressure on them," Burks said. His teammates noticed his determination to
get into the lane and that led to other open shots. "He came out and established
himself from the get-go. He put a ton of pressure on their defence to collapse
and try and stop him from scoring," Marvin Williams said. Ty Lawson had 23
points and J.J. Hickson scored 21 but the Nuggets trailed by as many as 24
points as they saw their improbable five-game winning streak come to an end.
Burks wowed the crowd with a number of athletic drives to the hoop and several
of his forays ended in a basket and a free throw. The Nuggets threw a number of
defenders at the slippery Jazz guard but none could stay in front of him. "Some
of the shots, I dont know how they went in. Alec said he missed a bunch of
layups and I told him, You made a bunch of crazy layups." Richard Jefferson
said. "His ability to finish in traffic and his size and the way he can handle
the ball is unique." The third-year guard helped the Jazz score a season-high 64
points in the paint and kept his defenders oon their heels.
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opportunity, I am a wiser player now," Burks said. "I know now what everybodys
going to do now, how they are going to play defence against me." It was Burks
most potent offensive performance since he posted his previous career-best of 31
points in Miami on Dec. 16. But that was in a blowout loss. Burks made 13 of his
19 field goal attempts as the Jazz shot nearly 56 per cent against the Nuggets,
who seemed to be one step behind the Utah offence all night. "Defence for the
most part tonight was non-existent," Denver coach Brian Shaw said. Favours
powerful dunk sparked a 10-2 surge to push the advantage to 77-57, the second
time in three games the Jazz have led by more than 20 after achieving that wide
margin only once the rest of the season. The lead reached 89-65 after Jefferson
made a 3-pointer midway through the third quarter. The 118 points Utah tallied
was the second-most the Jazz have scored all season, just under the 122 they
scored in a runaway win in Sacramento on Dec. 11. "They had a lot of solutions,"
said Evan Fournier, who had 16 points for Denver. The Nuggets got a taste of
their own medicine after they averaged 119.6 points a contest during their
five-game win streak. But the energy and defence and accuracy that aided the
Nuggets roll were absent against Utah. "We made a ton of mistakes tonight,
letting the ball get to the middle and allowing them to penetrate our paint,"
Shaw said. The Nuggets were 21 of 34 from the line and several misses prevented
them from cutting the lead to single digits in the fourth quarter. Notes: In
addition to long-term injuries to Danilo Gallinari (left knee) and JaVale McGee
(left leg), the Nuggets were without reserve forwards Darrell Arthur (left
groin) and Anthony Randolph (left ankle). Fellow reserve Wilson Chandler has
been battling a left hip strain and missed Denvers previous two games but scored
12 points in his return. ... Hayward, who leads Utah in scoring at 17.1 points
per game, is day to day and planned to accompany the team on its upcoming
three-game road trip starting Wednesday in San Antonio.
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