ANOTHER weekend has come and gone on the Premier League as we are now approaching the tail end of what has been another wonderful campaign.
The first game of the weekend was Saturday's early kick off at Turf Moor between Burnley and Manchester City. All of the pre-match talk was about Pep Guardiola's decision to only name six substitutes with Gary Neville blasting it a 'joke' decision.
It appeared business as usual for Man City after 22 minutes when left back Danilo curled a beautiful effort into Sthe top corner to give City the lead. In the second half Raheem Sterling was guilty of surely the miss of the season when he somehow failed to turn the ball into the net from 3 yards out.
That miss would came back to hurt Sterling and City because 8 minutes from time Burnley equalised through Gudmundsson who got on the end of Matthew Lowton's cross to give Burnley an unlikely point.
City's lead at the top has been cut to 13 points after that draw because Manchester United got revenge on Huddersfield for their defeat in Yorkshire in September by beating the Terriers 2-0 at Old Trafford a result that saw Huddersfield drop into the relegation places for the first time this season.
Goals from Romalu Lukaku and a first Manchester United goal for Alexis Sanchez sealed the win for Jose Mourinho's men who as I said cut the gap at the top to 13 points with 12 games left.
Arsenal cut the gap to the top four to five points although Chelsea play at Watford tonight on the Monday Night Football. This game was over in 19 minutes. The star of the show without doubt was Aaron Ramsey who bagged his first Arsenal hat-rick there was also a debut goal for Aubameyang but replays show he was offside. Laurent Koscielny also got on the score sheet.
Swansea moved out of the relegation places with a 1-1 draw at the King Power Stadium against Leicester who are now winless in three games. Jamie Vardy gave the hosts the lead. Wilfried Nidi thought he had doubled the lead but his goal was ruled out for offside. Fernandez levelled for Swansea in the second half with a free header in the box.
Bournemouth are up to 9th after coming from behind to beat Stoke at Dean Court. Stoke to the lead through Xherden Shaquri's header but that is as good as it got for Paul Lambert as Bournemouth battled back with goals from Josh King and first Premier League goal for Lys Mousset sealed a 2-1 win for the Cherries after that 3-0 success at Chelsea in midweek.
Brighton are three points clear of the relegation places after completing a league double over West Ham at the AMEX. Glenn Murray gave the hosts the lead before Javier Hernandez scored a brilliant solo goal to bring the Hammers level. However, just as he did at The London Stadium Jose Izquierdo hit a brilliant strike before Pascal Gross sealed victory for Brighton to move them up to 13th level on points and goal difference with West Ham.
West Brom are now four points adrift at the bottom of the able after losing 3-2 at home to Southampton it was a first win in 12 for the Saints who moved out of the bottom three. It was an emotional day at the Hawthorns as they honoured the late Cyril Regis before the game. It started well enough for West Brom with Hegazy heading home from a corner.
Two goals in three minutes from the Saints turned the game first Lemina with his first goal for the club and what a goal it was from the edge of the box before Jack Stephens headed in from a corner to make to 2-1 at the break. James Ward-Prowse made it 3-1 with a beautiful free-kick from the edge of the box and that looked to have ended the game but Rondon popped up from a Chris Brunt free-kick to head home and give the Baggies hope but in the end it would be defeat for Alan Pardew's side who are now 4 points adrift at the bottom.
Here is the table:
The first game of the weekend was Saturday's early kick off at Turf Moor between Burnley and Manchester City. All of the pre-match talk was about Pep Guardiola's decision to only name six substitutes with Gary Neville blasting it a 'joke' decision.
It appeared business as usual for Man City after 22 minutes when left back Danilo curled a beautiful effort into Sthe top corner to give City the lead. In the second half Raheem Sterling was guilty of surely the miss of the season when he somehow failed to turn the ball into the net from 3 yards out.
That miss would came back to hurt Sterling and City because 8 minutes from time Burnley equalised through Gudmundsson who got on the end of Matthew Lowton's cross to give Burnley an unlikely point.
City's lead at the top has been cut to 13 points after that draw because Manchester United got revenge on Huddersfield for their defeat in Yorkshire in September by beating the Terriers 2-0 at Old Trafford a result that saw Huddersfield drop into the relegation places for the first time this season.
Goals from Romalu Lukaku and a first Manchester United goal for Alexis Sanchez sealed the win for Jose Mourinho's men who as I said cut the gap at the top to 13 points with 12 games left.
Arsenal cut the gap to the top four to five points although Chelsea play at Watford tonight on the Monday Night Football. This game was over in 19 minutes. The star of the show without doubt was Aaron Ramsey who bagged his first Arsenal hat-rick there was also a debut goal for Aubameyang but replays show he was offside. Laurent Koscielny also got on the score sheet.
Swansea moved out of the relegation places with a 1-1 draw at the King Power Stadium against Leicester who are now winless in three games. Jamie Vardy gave the hosts the lead. Wilfried Nidi thought he had doubled the lead but his goal was ruled out for offside. Fernandez levelled for Swansea in the second half with a free header in the box.
Bournemouth are up to 9th after coming from behind to beat Stoke at Dean Court. Stoke to the lead through Xherden Shaquri's header but that is as good as it got for Paul Lambert as Bournemouth battled back with goals from Josh King and first Premier League goal for Lys Mousset sealed a 2-1 win for the Cherries after that 3-0 success at Chelsea in midweek.
Brighton are three points clear of the relegation places after completing a league double over West Ham at the AMEX. Glenn Murray gave the hosts the lead before Javier Hernandez scored a brilliant solo goal to bring the Hammers level. However, just as he did at The London Stadium Jose Izquierdo hit a brilliant strike before Pascal Gross sealed victory for Brighton to move them up to 13th level on points and goal difference with West Ham.
West Brom are now four points adrift at the bottom of the able after losing 3-2 at home to Southampton it was a first win in 12 for the Saints who moved out of the bottom three. It was an emotional day at the Hawthorns as they honoured the late Cyril Regis before the game. It started well enough for West Brom with Hegazy heading home from a corner.
Two goals in three minutes from the Saints turned the game first Lemina with his first goal for the club and what a goal it was from the edge of the box before Jack Stephens headed in from a corner to make to 2-1 at the break. James Ward-Prowse made it 3-1 with a beautiful free-kick from the edge of the box and that looked to have ended the game but Rondon popped up from a Chris Brunt free-kick to head home and give the Baggies hope but in the end it would be defeat for Alan Pardew's side who are now 4 points adrift at the bottom.
Here is the table:
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