Liverpool remain top from Manchester City on a busy weekend full of goals, featuring more twists in the battle for survival.
Georginio Wijnaldum’s 70th minute strike squeezed through Dean Henderson’s legs proved the difference for Liverpool in an edgy encounter at Sheffield United, as they maintained their five point lead over Manchester City, who grinded out a scrappy 3-1 win at Everton.
Gabriel Jesus and Dominic Calvert-Lewin both scored first half headers but a Yerry Mina foul on Kevin de Bruyne would change the match late on, as Riyad Mahrez fired in from the resulting free-kick before Raheem Sterling completed City’s win with a fine strike via the underside of the crossbar.
Embed from Getty ImagesLeicester stay third as they ran riot in a 5-0 beating of Newcastle United who slid to second-bottom as a consequence, whilst Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang rescued Arsenal a point at Manchester United to keep the Gunners fourth.
West Ham meanwhile stay fifth after another pulsating encounter with Bournemouth, in which Andriy Yarmolenko scored an early stunner on the turn before Joshua King and Callum Wilson cancelled out his effort to give the Cherries the lead.
Yarmolenko then turned provider when his 74th minute cross was headed down by Felipe Anderson to Aaron Cresswell who blasted it into the bottom right to earn a share of the points in a 2-2 draw.
Embed from Getty ImagesTottenham survived a Serge Aurier red card as goals from Tanguy Ndombele and Harry Kane, either side of Danny Ings’ tap-in from a Hugo Lloris fumble provide enough to scrape past Southampton into sixth position.
Down at the bottom, Wolves finally climbed out of the bottom three after a Matt Doherty tap-in and Darryl Janmaat headed own goal proved enough to see off Watford who remain rock bottom.
Aston Villa consequently replaced Wolves in the relegation zone after twice blowing their lead, when Chris Wood’s one-two with Matt Lowton led to his 81st minute equaliser in a 2-2 draw.
Embed from Getty ImagesElsewhere, Frank Lampard finally got his first home league win as Chelsea beat Brighton through a Jorginho penalty and Willian strike as they extended their unbeaten record over the Seagulls to 12 matches in all competitions.
Finally, Crystal Palace took a comfortable two goal home victory over Norwich through a 21st minute Luka Milivojevic penalty and Andros Townsend’s injury-time strike.
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