English Premier League
Round 23
Briefings
Mohamed Salah (16) moves to the top of the goalscoring list after helping Liverpool keep a 4 point lead.
The race for 4th is wide open after Arsenal beats Chelsea at the Emirates and Manchester United picked up another win by beating Brighton.
January 19, 2019
Wolverhampton 4-3 Leicester City
Wolverhampton – Diogo Jota 4’ 64’ 90+3’ Ryan Bennett 12’
Leicester City – Demarai Gray 47’ Conor Coady 51’(og) Wes Morgan 87’
Bournemouth 2–0 West Ham United
Bournemouth – Callum Wilson 53’ Joshua King 90+1’
Liverpool 4-3 Crystal Palace
Liverpool – Mohamed Salah 46’ 75’ Roberto Firmino 53’ Sadio Mane 90+3’
Crystal Palace – Andros Townsend 34’ James Tomkins 65’Max Meyer 90+5’
Manchester United 2-1 Brighton
Manchester United – Paul Pogba 27’ Marcus Rashford 42’
Brighton – Pascal Gross 72’
Newcastle United 3-0 Cardiff
Newcastle United – Fabian Schar 24’ 63’ Ayoze Perez 90+2’
Southampton 2-1 Everton
Southampton – James Ward-Prowse 50’ Lucas Digne 64’(og)
Everton – Gylfi Sigurdsson 90+1’
Watford 0-0 Burnley
Arsenal 2-0 Chelsea
Arsenal – Alexandre Lacazette 14’ Laurent Koscielny 39’
January 20, 2019
Huddersfield Town 0–3 Manchester City
Manchester City – Danilo 18’ Raheem Sterling 54’ Leroy Sane 56’
Fulham 1-2 Tottenham
Fulham – Fernando Llorente 17’(og)
Tottenham – Dele Alli 51’ Harry Winks 90+4’
Wolverhampton and Leicester opened the round with a thrilling 7-goal match that ended with Wolverhampton finding a way to get on the right end of a ‘4-3’ score in the final minute of added time. Diogo Jota contributed 3 goals to his sides home victory, but his final/match-winning goal is going to be the memorable one. It was looking like a comfortable home win for Wolverhampton when they took a 2-0 lead into the break. Leicester City sparked the interest of the neutral fans when the fought their way back into the match with goals in the opening 6 minutes of the second half. Wes Morgan’s equalizing goal for Leicester City in the 87th minute looked to have sealed an away point for his side after Diogo Jota restored Wolverhampton’s lead in the second half.
West Ham went from beating Arsenal to a defeat against Bournemouth. A ‘2-0’ victory for
Bournemouth allowed them to creep up to a point away from equalling the points tally of West Ham.
Mohamed Salah scored two goals to help Liverpool come from a goal down to win and keep the 4 point gap they have at the top of the league standings; however, Sadio Mane’s injury-time goal ended up being the difference between Liverpool and Crystal Palace. James Milner was sent off in the final minute of regulation time for accumulating yellow cards.
Manchester United continues to ride the wave of victories that seems to be coming from their new management. Paul Pogba and Marcus Rashford got the goals for Manchester United to close in on a Champions League qualification spot in the league. Its 6 consecutive league victories for Manchester United.
Fabian Schar scored the opening 2 goals in Newcastle United’s 3-0 victory against Cardiff City. The result meant Cardiff replaced Newcastle in the relegation zone.
Southampton beats Everton. Lucas Digne’s own goal gifted Southampton three points to move away from the relegation zone.
It was a goalless draw in an evenly contested match between Watford and Burnley.
London is Red!. Goals in the first half allowed Arsenal to comfortably see off Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium. Arsenal victory cut in half Chelsea’s lead and reignited the race for ‘top four’ in the league.
Manchester City did the expected and by beating bottom table Huddersfield Town.
Fernando Llorente scored an own goal to put his Tottenham side under pressure for the majority of the first half. Without the services of Harry Kane and Heung-min Son, Tottenham had to dig deep to find a win against Fulham.
