London: Sergio Aguero netted his 13th hat-trick for Manchester City as the champions made light of the absence of the injured Kevin De Bruyne to thrash Huddersfield Town 6-1 and move to joint top of the Premier League.

The prolific Argentine scored on 25, 35 and 75 minutes, also hitting the post in a devastating display to which the visitors, who last season were the only side to stop City scoring in the league at home, had no answer.

Gabriel Jesus also netted, along with David Silva on his 250th league appearance for City, with the rout completed by a Terence Kongolo own goal late on after excellent work from substitute Leroy Sane.

"I am happy," said Man-of-the-Match Aguero, who was about to be replaced when he scored his third.

"I was a little bit tired. I tried two or three times to get the third goal."

For once, Pep Guardiola chose to pair Aguero with Jesus up front and such were the array of City attacking options that Huddersfield were simply pulled apart.

After the visitors rode their luck for 25 minutes, City 'keeper Ederson found Aguero with a perfect through ball and the Argentine kept his cool to finish cleverly.

Jesus was next on the scoresheet after exchanging passes with Benjamin Mendy and firing past Ben Hamer, who then fumbled a cross to gift Aguero his second and City's third in a blistering 10minute spell before halftime.

Although Jon Stankovic pulled a goal back before the interval, there was no respite as Silva produced a perfect freekick to cap an impressive display in front of his watching wife and child.

Aguero flicked home his third on 75 minutes and Kongolo put through his own net late on - the ninth goal Huddersfield have conceded in two games.

Meanwhile, Watford made it two wins out of two and ended their run of poor away form in impressive fashion as early second half strikes from captain Troy Deeney and Will Hughes gave them a 3-1 win at Burnley.

Watford, who have won their opening two games of the season for the first time in the Premier League era, had been winless in their last 12 away games and had not even scored on the road since January.

It took the visitors just three minutes to end that streak as former Burnley forward Andre Gray opened the scoring with a superbly taken volley from a fine Deeney cross from the right flank.

Three minutes later, though, Burnley got back on level terms when James Tarkowski rose well at the back post to head in a Johann Berg Gudmundsson corner.

It was end-to-end, entertaining football for the rest of the first half although there was only one real effort on goal when Deeney tested Burnley 'keeper Joe Hart with a low, long-range effort five minutes before the interval.

Burnley, who have now gone seven league games without a win, were swept aside by two goals in the opening six minutes of the second half.

PREMIER LEAGUE

MANCHESTER CITY  6
HUDDERSFIELD TOWN   1

WATFORD  3
BURNLEY  1