Jack Grealish hailed a perfect response from Manchester City as a 5-0 thumping of Newcastle United banished their Champions League blues.City will not be Ryan Broekhoff Jersey champions of Europe this season after their dramatic semi-final exit to Real Madrid, but they are red-hot favourites for the Premier League title after this weekends turn of events.Liverpools 1-1 draw with Tottenham, which halted the Reds 12-game winning run in the league at Anfield, allowed City to pull three points clear on Sunday.With only three rounds of games remaining, City wouldhave to throw it away. They have Wolves, West Ham and Aston Villa to come, and the onslaught against Newcastle saw Citygo four ahead of Liverpool in the goal difference stakes too.As Grealish acknowledged, the destiny of the title is very much in Citys hands.Grealish told Sky Sports: We always knew there was Isaiah Joe Jersey going to be pre sure on us today, especially after what happened in midweek, but we bounced back perfectly.Weve stuck together as a team and a unit in the past few days, which was needed. Well just try to end the season strongly, and weve certainly done that today.City were Josh Richardson Jersey 5-3 ahead on aggregate against Madrid heading into the closing moments in the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday, but Rodrygos late double and a Karim Benzema penalty in extra time left Pep Guardiolas visitors shaken.Today was a perfect response and a perfect performance, Grealish said.Were in the driving seat. We cant look at whats going on around us.Its NBA Philadelphia 76ers Jeresy in our hands, and we have to go and win every game as we would anyway.It was the 30th time that City have scored five or more goals in a Premier League game since Guardiola took charge at the start of the 2016-17 season. Grealish teed up Oleksandr Zinchenko to cro s for Phil Foden to score Citys fourth, and the former Aston Villa man played in Raheem Sterling for the fifth in stoppage time.Rodri had earlier headed the third, and the Spanish midfielder said: The personality we saw today was unbelievable 5- Raul Neto Jersey 0 after what happened in Madrid is incredible.The mood wasnt very high as you can see, but on Friday the team woke up and focused on the game.Pointing to his head, Rodri added:I think we do unbelievable work here. Sometimes its more important than in the legs and thats what the champion teams do.