Erling Haaland and Phil Foden powered an impressive comeback as Manchester City beat Chelsea 3-1 to reinsert themselves in the Premier League's top four after slipping as low as seventh earlier on Saturday.

Wins for Newcastle and Bournemouth had seen City slide towards mid-table but a resurgent display, coming from a goal behind, means they rejoin Nottingham Forest, Arsenal and leaders Liverpool in the Champions League places, while Chelsea slip to sixth.

Enzo Maresca's well-rested Blues played havoc with a laboured City side early on, still reeling from their midweek collapse in Paris against PSG, as young defender Abdukodir Khusanov - one of two debutants alongside Omar Marmoush - suffered an opening night to forget.

The 20-year-old, signed five days prior from Lens for £33.5m and hooked after 52 minutes, endured what Jamie Redknapp called a "nightmare start", nodding a bouncing ball towards Ederson in the third minute, who wasn't there, allowing Noni Madueke to tap into an empty net.

Khusanov was then booked for a rash challenge on Cole Palmer, with Gary Neville describing his Premier League introduction as "brutal".

Pep Guardiola had warned midweek that City were in survival mode and struggling to compete with the best teams, and so it proved, until Josko Gvardiol unearthed a timely equaliser shortly before half time.

Gvardiol twice went close as he blasted over from close range and then dabbed wide but his persistence was finally rewarded when Marc Cucurella and Robert Sanchez made a horrible mess of an attempted clearance and a fortunate ricochet fell his way.

From that moment the game flipped, and the hosts rediscovered a slice of the confidence the Eithad crowd have become accustomed to under Guardiola's esteemed rule - City have won more points from losing positions than any other side in the Premier League this season (17).

Ederson's precise long ball found Haaland on the move in the 68th minute and he rolled Trevoh Chalobah before embarrassing Sanchez, caught hopelessly off his line, with a cheeky chip, as Foden made sure of the win with a third from another direct pass late on.

No player has made more errors (five) leading to a goal this season than the Chelsea goalkeeper.