Manchester City won on Sunday. It was their first Premier League victory in five games, with goals from Erling Haaland and Savinho securing a 2-0 win at Leicester City. This was manager Pep Guardiola's 500th game in charge.

The champions' second win in 14 games across all competitions meant they climbed two spots to fifth place with 31 points, 11 behind leaders Liverpool, who have two games in hand. Leicester are still in the relegation zone, in 18th place.

"We needed it, all of us," Guardiola told Sky Sports. "Just relief, that is the word to express how all of us feel. We have done incredible things and now we struggle to win games so now it's just relief."

Savinho scored his first City goal in the 21st minute when he got on the end of a rebound from Phil Foden's long shot after St. Louis goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk pushed the ball into his path. The Brazilian fired into the roof of the net from a tight angle.

Haaland, who's got two goals in eight league games in the worst stretch of his Premier League career, doubled City's lead in the 74th minute when he headed home a looping cross from Savinho, who latched onto a pass from Kevin de Bruyne.

The victory was far from a walkover, however.

Leicester fans were calling for a penalty early on when Jamie Vardy found himself one-on-one with goalkeeper Stefan Ortega following a counter-attack. Ortega brought Vardy down in the box, but Man City were saved by the offside flag.

Josko Gvardiol almost cost Guardiola's team a first-half goal with a disastrous header back to Ortega that was intercepted. City's back line was all over the place, and it didn't help that Facundo Buonanotte bounced a shot off the bar a few minutes later.

Leicester had another great chance early in the second half when Vardy headed the ball into the box and James Justin got a touch on it that looked like it was going in, but Manuel Akanji cleared it off the line.

Vardy missed a sitter when he shot just over the bar from close range.

Leicester manager Ruud van Nistelrooy, who shared a long hug with Guardiola after the final whistle, told the BBC that he has to judge his team's performance as well as the result.

"I wouldn't do the players credit if I didn't. We're professional, we know it's about results but we have to look through that because of the performance today," he said.

"We have to be judged on results and translate performances into results."