Manchester City stay 10 points free from United and Leicester
Manchester City chalked up just one more victory to keep up their stranglehold of the Premier Group title race but pursuers Manchester United and Leicester City both secured important wins to improve their top-four bids on Sunday.
Raheem Sterling's header after 75 just a few seconds was enough for City to win 1-0 at Arsenal -- a result much more comfortable compared to the narrow scoreline suggests.
It had been their 13th Premier League win in a good row, and 18th in every competitions, equalled a good club-record 11 successive apart wins and kept them 10 points ahead of the pack at the very top.
"There are 39 details to play for and we are in need of the victories to come to be champions and we'll try within the next games," said City boss Pep Guardiola, bidding for his third subject in four seasons. "We only think of the next game, this is the only secret."
United and Leicester happen to be both over 49 points with United in second put on goal difference once they secured a 3-1 home victory above struggling Newcastle United in Sunday's late match.
Marcus Rashford fired a good lacklustre United ahead out of nowhere in the 30th minute but Allan Saint-Maximin's volley got Newcastle back again on level terms.
Daniel James put United back into the lead following the break before Bruno Fernandes sealed the things with a penalty.
"It certainly is difficult after an apart game in Europe," supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer said of United's flat commence against Newcastle. "It required us until halftime to get going."
Leicester had earlier gone second by beating Aston Villa 2-1 thanks to first-1 / 2 goals by James Maddison and Harvey Barnes.
Villa suffered a good blow with playmaker and captain Jack Grealish eliminated with a leg personal injury but pushed Leicester hard after the break with Bertrand Traore halving the deficit. Leicester did more than enough though to please manager Brendan Rodgers.
"I thought a few of our soccer and the quickness of our game was really, excellent. We didn't have way too many concerns defensively," Rodgers said.
With Chelsea being held on Saturday by Southampton and champions Liverpool crumbling to an initial home defeat by Everton for 23 years, West Ham United took the chance to move into the most notable four with a 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur.
It is the first-time since 1986 that the Hammers are while high as fourth after in least 25 game titles of a top-flight campaign and expectations of European soccer are soaring found in London's East End.
Michail Antonio gave West Ham an early lead and Manchester United loanee Jesse Lingard doubled their benefit soon after the interval before Lucas Moura's header managed to get a nervy final 25 mins for the hosts.
"The players have already been finding ways to wrestle points away the opposition," said West Ham manager David Moyes, whose side have got received seven of their last nine league games.
"They have done an excellent job. You want a little of luck along the way but we had all of the right things."
For Tottenham, a time that promised a subject challenge if they topped the standings in December is disintegrating after a fifth defeat in six little league video games heaped pressure on supervisor Jose Mourinho who suggested a top-four surface finish was now very difficult, considering they are ninth, nine items behind West Ham.
"I wouldn't claim crisis. I'd say an extremely bad run of outcomes. We are losing too many matches," Mourinho said.
