2018/19 English Premier League – Round 26 – Manchester City thrashes Chelsea to tighten their grip in the battle for the league title.

Manchester City is making sure that Liverpool’s match in hand becomes a must-win fixture. All the ‘Top Six’ teams remain alive in the race to qualify for Champions League football next season.

Sergio Aguero joins Mohamed Salah as top scorers in the league with 17 goals each.

Manchester United finally gets into the ‘Top 4’

February 9, 2019
Fulham 0–3 Manchester United
Manchester United – Paul Pogba 14’65’ Anthony Martial 23’

Crystal Palace 1–1 West Ham United
Crystal Palace – Wilfried Zaha 76’
West Ham United – Mark Noble 27’(pen)

Huddersfield 1–2 Arsenal
Huddersfield – Sead Kolasinac 90+3’(og)
Arsenal – Alex Iwobi 16’ Alexandre Lacazette 44’

Liverpool 0–3 Bournemouth
Liverpool – Sadio Mane 24’ Georgino Wijnaldum 34’ Mohamed Salah 48’

Southampton 1–2 Cardiff
Southampton – Jack Stephens 90+1’
Cardiff – Souleymane Bamba 69’ Zenneth Zohore 90+5’

Watford 1–0 Everton
Watford – Andre Gray 65’

Brighton 1-3 Burnley
Brighton – Shane Duffy 76’
Burnley – Chris Wood 26’ 61’ Ashley Barnes 74’(pen)

February 10, 2019
Tottenham 3–1 Leicester
Tottenham – Davidson Sanchez 33’ Christian Eriksen 63’ Heung-Min Son 90+1’
Leicester – Jamie Vardy 76’

Manchester City 6-0 Chelsea
Manchester City – Raheem Sterling 4’ 80’ Sergio Aguero 13’ 19’ 56’ Ilkay Gundogan 25’

February 11, 2019
Wolverhampton 1-1 Newcastle
Wolverhampton – Isaac Hayden 56’
Newcastle – Willy Boly 90+5

Paul Pogba scored two goals (including the opening goal of the match) to see Manchester United pick up a victory at Fulham. The results kept Solksjaer unbeaten start to his managerial career at Manchester alive. 11 matches = 10 wins and 1 draw.

Wilfried Zaha 76th minute goal to see his Crystal Palace side avoid defeat to West Ham. It’s a run 0f 4 winless league matches for West Ham (2L. 2D)

Arsenal fails to keep a clean sheet but gets the maximum points against bottom-table Huddersfield Town.

After consecutive draws, Liverpool returned to their winning ways by putting 3 goals pass Bournemouth.

Cardiff made is a back-to-back win in the league for the first time. Jack Stephens score a goal in the first minute of the additional time to get Southampton back on level terms, but Zenneth Zohore scored 4 minutes later for Cardiff to restore their lead and victory. On the balance of play, Southampton probably deserved more from this fixture.

Three straight defeats for Everton after a ‘1-0’ defeat at Watford

Burnley beats Brighton to tie them on points

Injury to key players hasn’t stopped Tottenham from victories in the league. It 4 straight league victories for Tottenham after a 3-1 win against Leicester City that is without a win in their last 5 league matches (4L 1D)

Chelsea loses their place in the ‘ta op 4’ after getting hammered by Manchester City.
Sergio Aguero equaled the record for most Premier League hat-tricks (11) while Chelsea suffered the biggest Premier League defeat after conceding 6 goals at the Etihad Stadium. The humiliating result dragged Chelsea down to 6th in the league standings.

And in the final match of the rounds, Willy Boly scored in the final minute of additional time to grant Wolverhampton a draw at home against Newcastle. Wolves remain unbeaten since their defeat to Manchester City on January 14, 2019. 6 matches = 4 wins and 2 draws.