Raheem Sterling nets first goal since £49m move as Manuel Pellegrini's side maintain perfect start

                                  Manchester city 2 - 0 Watford

Manchester City fans chanted 'Raheem Sterling... he's top of the league' as the £49million winger scored his first goal for the club and maintained their blistering 100 per cent start to the season.

The likelihood is those supporters will be able to carry on with their ditty uninterrupted for the next nine months.

Of course, as managers and cliché-mongers will tell you, trophies aren't handed out in August. Even so, you won't find many putting money on anyone else winning the Premier League. 

City have won all four matches to date, scoring 10 and conceding none. Their best players are all performing well; particularly the spine of Joe Hart, Vincent Kompany, Yaya Toure, David Silva and Sergio Aguero.

And they have the final piece in the jigsaw, £54million winger Kevin de Bruyne from Wolfsburg, about to arrive after having a medical in Manchester on Saturday.

In his programme notes, manager Manuel Pellegrini wrote that 'everything has gone to plan so far'. He's not kidding. City stand three points clear at the top and have now won a club record 10 league games in a row, including the six at the back end of the last campaign.

A routine home victory against newly-promoted Watford – who were well-organised and deserved going into the half-time break goalless – will not go down in the annals of club history, but it will always be remembered sweetly in the Sterling household. 

After the rancour of his summer move from Liverpool, the young man was able to show what he can do on the pitch, capped by a nonchalant volleyed finish from Bacary Sagna's cross that broke the deadlock two minutes after the interval.

The normally understated Pellegrini was able to pat himself on the back for making the half-time change - Samir Nasri for Jesus Navas - that allowed Sterling to move from the left to partner Aguero up front. 

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