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MAN CITY 2, WEST HAM 1
Manchester City’s form has dipped, but they keep on winning as they stumbled past struggling West Ham at the Etihad.
In the past week City’s displays against Huddersfield, Southampton and West Ham have failed to hit the dizzy heights of early season.
What would ordinarily have been three comfortable wins turned out to be three nail-biters with victory only secured through late goals.
ARSENAL 1, MANCHESTER UNITED 3
Manchester United kept the heat up on their title rivals Manchester City by winning handsomely at Arsenal to reduce Pep Guardiola’s side to a five point lead ahead of City’s home game against West Ham on Sunday.
It was a stylish win which should silence some of the criticism of Jose Mourinho’s ‘defensive’ tactics in the way that his United side applied three killer blows from just 4 shots on targets while David De Gea kept out a barrage of Arsenal attacks.
Both sides were unchanged from their last matches but this match didn’t seem to suffer from any perceived tiredness.
MAN CITY 2, SOUTHAMPTON 1
Titles are won and lost on moments like this as Raheem Sterling’s 95th minute goal gave Premier League leaders Manchester City a massive three points at home to Southampton.
And Pep Guardiola’s joyous and almost uncontrollable celebrations, in which he sprinted on to the field, revealed precisely what it meant to City’s manager as his side ground out a valuable victory.
The late goals by Sterling against Huddersfield on Sunday and Saints see City preserve an eight-point lead at the top whereas it could conceivably had been four but for his priceless strikes in both matches.
WATFORD 2, MANCHESTER UNITED 4
Manchester United scored four goals in a match for the eighth time this season but were given a scare in the second half as Watford mounted a late comeback and threatened to take a point off Jose Mourinho’s men.
Ashley Young scored twice and Anthony Martial chipped in during an attacking first half as United sought to reduce Manchester City’s lead at the top of the Premier League to five points with what seemed a regulation blitz from earlier in the season.
Complacency set in for the Reds, though, as Watford’s Richarlison hit the bar before the break before the Hornets pulled two goals back through Troy Deeney and Andrew Carillo late in the second half leaving the home side regretting their first half miss.
Jesse Lingard scored again to quell the Watford rebellion though, and United will be able to go to the Emirates on Saturday for a big game against Arsenal back in goalscoring form.
HUDDERSFIELD TOWN 1, MANCHESTER CITY 2 Nicolas Otamendi own goal form a corner puts Huddersfield Town into the lead just before half time Raheem Sterling wins penalty that Sergio Aguero converts just after half time Leroy Sane hits the bar from a free kick Sterling gets the winner after Gabriel Jesus shot rebounds off Jonas Lossl […]
