Pep Guardiola’s side played one of the classics as De Bruyne, who is departing the Etihad Stadium at the end of the season and is being targeted by MLS side Chicago Fire, crashed the Wolves box to sweep home the only goal of the game from Jeremy Doku’s cutback with 35 minutes on the clock.

Manchester City picked up a crucial 1-nil win over Wolves at the Etihad Stadium last night. The win sees Pep Guardiola’s side edge ever closer to their goal of securing Champions League football

De Bruyne’s goal ended some nervous moments including an absolute sitter missed by Wolves in the first half when Jean-Ricner Bellegarde slid a square pass to Marshall Munetsi rather than take the shot, but his pass was just out of Munetsi’s reach.