Despite a brilliant Mohamed Salah, with an assist and a goal in an individual play, Manchester City managed to tie this Sunday at Anfield (2-2), in a distribution of points that did not seem to satisfy any of them, since it serves for Chelsea take first place, after this seventh day of the Premier League.
Thus, the London team, which beat Southampton (17th) 3-1 on Saturday, leads with 16 points, one ahead of Liverpool and two over a quartet made up of the two Manchester teams, Everton and Brighton.
Four days after their defeat against Paris SG in the Champions League (2-0), Manchester City largely dominated the first period, without finding the goal.
Surprised by the reaction of the Reds after the break, City conceded the first goal in the 59th minute, scored by Sadio Mané (1-0), after an assist from Salah, and the second in the 76th, scored by the Egyptian, after a great individual move (2-1).
The Manchester team responded each time by drawing, first through Phil Foden in the 69th minute (1-1) and then with a shot by Kevin de Bruyne, deflected by Joel Matip in the 81st (2-2).
Tottenham (8th) once again celebrated a victory in the Premier League after defeating Aston Villa (10th) 2-1, and Leicester (13th) squandered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 in home of the Crystal Palace (14th).
The ‘Spurs’ achieved a league triumph for the first time since the end of August, when they beat Watford by the minimum.
Since then, the team that Nuno Espírito Santo has led since this season had fallen to Crystal Palace (3-0), Chelsea (0-3) and Arsenal (3-1).
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg (27) and Matt Targett (71) own goals for the North London side, while Ollie Watkins (67) had tied for Villa.
Tottenham is therefore 8th with 12 points, just two behind the Champions League spots, now marked by Manchester United (4th).
Leicester appears a little further back in the table and it is due to outcomes like this Sunday.
After taking a 0-2 lead over Palace thanks to goals from Kelechi Iheanacho (31) and Jamie Vardy (37), the ‘Foxes’ let themselves go up in the second half.
The young Michael Olise (61) and Jeffrey Schlupp (72) achieved the equalizer for the formation trained by Patrick Vieira.
Leicester is 13th with 8 points, one more than Palace, which appears just behind.
– Results of the matches of the 7th day of the English Premier League, and classification table:
Manchester United – Everton 1 – 1
Chelsea – Southampton 3 – 1
Wolverhampton – Newcastle 2 – 1
Burnley – Norwich City 0 – 0
Leeds – Watford 1 – 0
Brighton – Arsenal 0 – 0
– Sunday:
Crystal Palace – Leicester 2 – 2
West Ham – Brentford 1 – 2
Tottenham – Aston Villa 2 – 1
Liverpool – Manchester City 2 – 2
Classification: Pts JGEP GF GC Diff
1. Chelsea 16 7 5 1 1 15 3 12
2. Liverpool 15 7 4 3 0 17 6 11
3. Manchester City 14 7 4 2 1 14 3 11
4. Manchester United 14 7 4 2 1 14 6 8
5. Everton 14 7 4 2 1 13 8 5
6. Brighton 14 7 4 2 1 8 5 3
7. Brentford 12 7 3 3 1 10 6 4
8. Tottenham 12 7 4 0 3 6 10 -4
9. West Ham 11 7 3 2 2 14 10 4
10. Aston Villa 10 7 3 1 3 10 9 1
11. Arsenal 10 7 3 1 3 5 10 -5
12. Wolverhampton 9 7 3 0 4 5 6 -1
13. Leicester 8 7 2 2 3 9 12 -3
14. Crystal Palace 7 7 1 4 2 8 11 -3
15. Watford 7 7 2 1 4 7 10 -3
16. Leeds 6 7 1 3 3 7 14 -7
17. Southampton 4 7 0 4 3 5 10 -5
18. Burnley 3 7 0 3 4 5 11 -6
19. Newcastle 3 7 0 3 4 8 16 -8
20. Norwich City 1 7 0 1 6 2 16 -14
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