January 14, 2017
Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 West Bromwich Albion
Harry Kane 12’ 77’ 82’
Gareth McAuley 26’(o.g)
Harry Kane scored a hat-trick to take his goal tally to 13 goals in this Premier League season.
It was an important home victory for Tottenham to make it a sixth consecutive league victory after their fall to Manchester United on December 11 2016.
Burnley 1-0 Southampton
Joey Barton 79’
Burnley jumped over Southampton in the league standings after getting a ‘1-0’ home victory.
You could argue from the balance of play that this was not a deserving victory for Burnley. But this is football and being clinical in both offense and defense it important to secure points.
Hull City 3-1 AFC Bournemouth
Abel Hernandez 32’ 51’ Junior Stanislas 3’
Tyrone Mings 62’(o.g)
An early lead could not help Bournemouth avoid an away defeat to Hull City.
Abel Hernandez scored a brace, giving Hull City both the equalizer and the winner.
Sunderland 1-3 Stoke City
Jermain Defoe 40’ Marko Arnautovic 15’ 22’
Peter Crouch 34’
Jermain Defoe keeps scoring, but Sunderland is not moving much in the league standings.
Three first half goals from Stoke City was all they needed to leave Sunderland with the maximum points from this fixture.
Swansea City 0-4 Arsenal
Olivier Giroud 37’
Jack Cork 54’(o.g)
Kyle Naughton 67’ (o.g)
Alexis Sanchez 73’
Arsenal scored two goals to sandwich two Swansea City’s ‘own-goals’ and moved temporarily up to third place in the Premier League standings.
With their position on the league table and their form this season, this was not a surprising result.
Watford 0-0 Middlesbrough
Home advantage couldn’t help Watford find a victory against Middlesbrough. Match finished in a goalless draw and Watford maintained their two-point gap in the league standings.
West Ham United 3-0 Crystal Palace
Sofiane Feghouli 68’
Andy Carroll 79’
Manuel Lanzini 86’
West Ham got back to their winning ways without Dimitri Payet in the lineup.
Three goals in 20 minutes saw West Ham pile more pressure on a Crystal Palace team that hasn’t won a match since December 3, 2016
Leicester City 0-3 Chelsea
Marco Alonso 6’ 51’
Pedro Rodriguez 71’
The outcome was the same as their earlier meeting. Chelsea once again defeated Leicester City ‘3-0’ in the 2016-17 Premier League season.
Without Diego Costa in Chelsea’s line-up, Marco Alonso and Pedro Rodriguez were the Spanish internationals who found the net and got Chelsea back to winning ways in the Premier League.
January 15, 2017
Everton 4-0 Manchester City
Romelu Lukaku 34’
Kevin Mirallas 47’
Tom Davies 79’
Ademola Lookman 90’+5’
A ‘real’ welcome to the Premier League for Pep Guardiola!
On a day when Liverpool and Manchester were going head to head against each other, Everton gave the city of Liverpool a healthy start by thrashing Manchester City to keep them out of the top four in the league standings.
Manchester City finished the round in 5th place and 10 points from the top, while Everton moved in closer to qualifying for a European competition spot.
Manchester United 1-1 Liverpool
Zlatan Ibrahimovic 84’ James Milner 27’(pen)
Manchester United and Liverpool will complete the 2016/17 Premier League season without enjoying a league victory over their rival.
It is always a big occasion when these two teams meet. For the 2016/17 Premier League season, fans of the two most successful sides in English football won’t have bragging rights over the other.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored late to cancel out James Milner’s first-half penalty that was looking to give Liverpool a victory to help them keep pace with Chelsea at the top of the league table.
