For those lingering/reliving/basking, here is Jamie’s on-the-whistle report:

Excellent from City, execrable from Feyenoord. Would things have been different had Vilhena not messed up so badly in the second minute? Maybe, but probably not. City were on a different plane there, the home team simply looked cowed and fearful throughout, offering virtually nothing all game. Job done, and City will face much better opponents in Europe this season, but they are purring nicely into gear and look an intimidating proposition.

Liverpool 2-2 Sevilla and Spurs 3-1 Dortmund, by the way. And, of more interest to City and Feyenoord, Shakhtar 2-1 Napoli.

We go again in two weeks. Bye for now, and thanks for all your emails and tweets!

Never in doubt. By which I genuinely do mean never in doubt.

90+1 min: Two added minutes to contest, if that’s ever really been an appropriate word tonight.

90 min: St Juste gets Bernardo Silva with what sees at first to be a high foot but is actually a follow-through lower down. No need for a second booking.

Alliteration from our man in Rotterdam. Not the worst game for a tight evening deadline, this.

87 min: More keep-ball results eventually in a De Bruyne pass, a Mendy criss, a Jones fumble but little further danger.

84 min: Fine block by St Juste on Sane, who is played through by Bernardo Silva and tries to shoot across Jones, with Sterling screaming for it in the middle. One corner becomes two, and from the second De Bruyne’s daisycutter is blocked too.

81 min: Nothing is really happening on the pitch. It’s just consummate from City, with Feyenoord largely chasing shadows. Everyone is playing out time.

78 min: Amrabat goes off, applauds the home fans and is applauded warmly in return. The crowd do deserve credit for keeping on keeping on. Sam Larsson, in only his second game for the club, comes on.

76 min: Boetius wins a free-kick from Sterling a yard outside the City box. They couldn’t get one back ... could they? Nope. Toornstra balloons it well over the top.

74 min: Kevin De Bruyne has taken the armband now, by the way. What a start to the season he is having; he gets better and better. He plays Sterling through down the right now but it’s perhaps a little overhit and the substitute flashes his cross beyond goal.

72 min: Feyenoord bring on 18-year-old local lad Dylan Vente for the thankless Kramer.

71 min: Yes, here’s Sane for Fernandinho. City have so much pace and power these days!

70 min: It’s the City fans in good voice now with their Glad All Over effort. Leroy Sane will be coming on soon.

Had Feyenoord made a game of this, the atmosphere would have been absolutely spectacular. As it is, fair play to the home crowd, they’ve given it a shot this half despite their team’s non-performance.

67 min: Botteghin is booked for a thoroughly useless foul on Jesus down the right. David Silva comes off now, and on comes Fabian Delph.

65 min: De Bruyne goes right to left and Sterling is waiting at the back post. He brings it down with his chest and Jones saves smartly enough at the near post. City had lulled but the tempo is up again now. From the corner, Jones clears unconvincingly and then gathers when Otamendi drills a low effort back in.

Another for Stones! And a cleaner one this time. It’s another short corner from the left and, come on, when are Feyenoord going to learn about these? This time De Bruyne whips the ball in after it’s returned to him and Stones, six yards and with barely a finger laid on him, rises to thud a header into the roof of the net. All so, so easy.

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The winner.

Someone else started it! But look, context is important. It doesn’t belittle the fact that they’re going to be one heck of a team to watch this season. I love them with Walker and Mendy down those flanks.

60 min: Shakhtar 2-0 Napoli in the other game, which makes you wonder whether City are in for a procession to top spot. Spurs now lead Dortmund 3-1 at Wembley, Harry Kane with two left-footers. We interrupt this results service to tell you that Sterling is replacing Aguero.

58 min: After those little flurries, City are popping the ball around well again. I think Raheem Sterling will come on soon, which isn’t really much respite.

56 min: Boetius wins a corner on the left, but Toornstra overhits it. Shame. Even at 3-0, the home fans have shown a huge appetite to get back behind their team but there was nothing to cheer there.

53 min: I think this half will probably be a tapering-down for City, who play Watford at the weekend and probably quite fancy keeping themselves fresh. It will probably help Feyenoord look a touch livelier but I can’t really see the next 40 minutes counting for a lot.

51 min: Kramer now scampers down the right but his attempt to play Amrabat in reckons without Stones, who recovers smoothly to win that race and come away with the ball.

49 min: Toornstra goes on a bit of a run down the left and sets up a situation around the edge of the City box, which is eventually defended. That’s a great improvement though, already.

Stat.

46 min: The hosts have made a change by the way. Berghuis – who was actually relatively lively, though it’s very relative indeed – has gone off and been replaced by Toornstra. A disastrous back three has morphed into a back four.

Will Feyenoord give us something? Anything? One goal could ... avert the inevitable for a little while.

And go on again, because it’s important to stress that this kind of frippery repeats itself across the site.

Go on then.

On the third goal, it wasn’t deflected from Mendy – it was just a poor parry from Jones, who was perhaps unsighted and thus wrong-footed.

From Ciaran Burke: “Feyenoord fans having nothing to complain about - they could complain that their club has fought back from bankruptcy in the last few years while City have racked up £535m accumulated losses in the last few years by buying up Europe’s most coveted manager and a string of top players. Just a thought.”

Yes, my MBM has failed thus far to reference the fact that football in Europe is rotten to the core. Something we must fight hard against being normalised to.

Painfully soft opening goal from Stones, clinical second from Aguero, simple third from Jesus, and we can’t really say this isn’t entirely reflective of the score. City may as well be on a different pitch – let’s be honest.

45 min: Feyenoord win a corner though, after a move where Berghuis nutmegs Mendy. That made the crowd smile! The flag kick comes to zero in the end, which makes them frown.

44 min: Whistles, now, as a Feyenoord attack ends up back with their own ‘keeper, Jones. This is very limp from them.

43 min: We’re not going to need the second half, really. I predict 4-0 and perhaps a Feyenoord red card.

41 min: They’ve lost it here, Feyenoord. Vilhena follows briskly in the footsteps of his colleagues with a wild crunch on De Bruyne. Now he’s booked too and the last two minutes have just been stupid from him and his team.

40 min: And now Kramer does something similar, with an utterly needless hack at Fernandinho. I’ve seen red cards given for those, he went in with two feet and essentially scissored into him. Yellow card.

39 min: St Juste is booked for a rather petulant, frustrated kick at Jesus and concedes a left-sided free-kick. It’s a delicious delivery from De Bruyne that bounces up and Jones has to repel with his body, but somebody is offside. Jesus I think.

38 min: Liverpool have turned it round to be 2-1 up, Salah has just scored. As things stand English clubs will be – yuck – five for five!

37 min: You’re not missing a lot, it’s just City possession, although Walker almost manages to squeeze the ball across again after a lightning dash. Mendy and Walker make a huge difference to City – huge. Make no mistake about that.

34 min: Feyenoord are still barely able to touch the ball. They’re just being absolutely killed. Boetius does, at least, earn applause for robbing Aguero down by the byline – but there’s a problem with that as Boetius is meant to be a forward himself, and lumps the ball upfield to nobody.

31 min: Could have been four, Aguero squeezing a De Bruyne centre – again from the right – ever so slightly wide at the near post.

30 min: Nights like this, when the crowd are so patently up for it and ready to whip up a storm, are always a real shame when they fall so flat so quickly. It’s a letdown. But the home fans can’t complain about anything.

28 min: This could honestly be any score if City – and Feyenoord for that matter – carry on like this although I expect they’ll slow it down soon enough now they have the cushion.

Errrr ... that was a bit odd, but it’s game over now. The corner is cleared out to Mendy, who drills towards goal from 25 yards at the second attempt. I think it’s deflected a bit and Jones can only half-save. Everyone stops because Otamendi, in front of goal, is about two yards offside. Jesus, also in front of goal, is definitely not offside though and has the simplest, most unopposed of tap-ins while the others all wait. And City lead by three. This is a rout.

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24 min: City are getting tonnes of space on the right and De Bruyne is the latest to have some joy, slipping in David Silva, who wins a corner before ...