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Bournemouth Saturday January 21st Watford
2-2
J King 48 C Kabasele 24
To Stumble B Afobe 82 T Deeney 64
Att: 11,123
H/T: 0-1

Crystal Palace 0-1 Everton

S Coleman 87

Gylfi Sigurdsson scored the restored West Ham’s lead, follow- Rodriguez lashed in from close Att: 25,594 H/T: 0-0
winner as Swansea City ing up Michail Antonio’s parried range after a Ward-Prowse deliv-
edged a five-goal thriller to effort to net his fifth of the season. ery fell to him. Liverpool 2-3 Swansea City
beat Liverpool at Anfield for the R Firmino 55, 69
first time in the Premier League. Substitute Jonathan Calleri’s After captain Virgil van Dijk F Llorente 48, 52
first Premier League goal made it limped off with an injury and Att: 53,169 G Sigurdsson 74
The match sprang to life three 3-1 in stoppage time as Slaven Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg dragged
minutes into the second half when Bilic’s side climbed into the top half wide when clean through, Saints H/T: 0-0
Swansea’s Fernando Llorente con- of the table. added a third a few minutes from
verted Federico Fernandez’s head- time. Manchester City 2-2 Tottenham Hotspur
er down from Sigurdsson’s corner. Seamus Coleman’s 87th-minute
goal for Everton left Sam Allardyce Substitute Shane Long was L Sane 49 D Alli 58
Llorente struck again four min- still awaiting his first win as Crystal brought down by Wes Morgan, K De Bruyne 54 H Son 77
utes later when he met Tom Palace manager. and Dusan Tadic slammed in the Att: 0-0 H/T: 54,402
Carroll’s cross with a thumping resulting penalty against a
header. The Toffees thought they had Leicester side searching for their Middlesbrough 1-3 West Ham United
taken the lead in the first half when first away win of the Premier C Stuani 27
Liverpool rallied when Roberto Ross Barkley smashed home, but League campaign. A Carroll 9, 43
Firmino headed in James Milner’s the Englishman was adjudged to Att: 30,848 J Calleri 94+
centre on 55 minutes, and the have been offside when Romelu Alexis Sanchez earned a last- H/T: 1-2
Brazilian struck again on 69 min- Lukaku’s initial effort deflected off gasp 2-1 victory for Arsenal over
utes. the post. Burnley as two penalties were Stoke City 1-1 Manchester United
scored in stoppage-time.
But Sigurdsson scored five min- Palace hit the crossbar through J Mata 19 (og) W Rooney 94+
utes later to inflict Liverpool’s first a Christian Benteke header and The Chilean deftly chipped the Att: 27,423 H/T: 1-0
home defeat of the season and lift were denied by a stunning save spot-kick down the middle of the
Paul Clement’s side out of the bot- from Joel Robles as the match goal following Ben Mee’s foul on West Bromwich Albion 2-0 Sunderland
tom three. headed towards a 0-0 stalemate. Laurent Koscielny, three minutes H/T: 2-0
after Burnley’s Andre Gray con- D Fletcher 30
Wayne Rooney scored a 94th- But three minutes from time verted as Francis Coquelin tripped C Brunt 36
minute free-kick to become Tom Davies found Coleman with Ashley Barnes. Att: 24,380
Manchester United’s all-time a neat through-ball and the wing-
record goalscorer and rescue a back fired his fourth goal of the sea- After Burnley resisted Arsenal’s Sunday January 22nd
point at Stoke City. son to seal Everton’s third Premier pressure in the first half, Skhodran
League win on the bounce. Mustafi headed in from Mesut Arsenal 2-1 Burnley
Rooney, on as a substitute, Ozil’s corner with 59 minutes A Gray 93+ (pen)
curled the ball into the top corner The Eagles remain in the bot- gone. S Mustafi 59
to overtake Sir Bobby Charlton’s tom three with Allardyce without a H/T: 0-0
tally and reach 250 goals for the win in five as manager. Granit Xhaka was shown a red A Sanchez 98+ (pen)
Red Devils. card for a lunge on Burnley’s
In the late game on Saturday Steven Defour, and then Gray net- Att: 59,955
United had fallen behind when Tottenham Hotspur came from ted before Sanchez struck the final
Juan Mata inadvertently deflected two goals down at the Etihad blow in the eighth minute of stop- Chelsea 2-0 Hull City
an Erik Pieters cross into his own Stadium to draw 2-2 with page time. H/T: 1-0
net. Manchester City. D Costa 47+
The result moved Arsenal up to G Cahill 81
Mata missed a presentable After a goalless first half, Leroy second, five points behind Chelsea. Att: 41,605
chance to equalize from five yards Sane opened the scoring on 49
and Stoke goalkeeper Lee Grant minutes as Hugo Lloris missed Goals in either half gave Southampton 3-0 Leicester City
denied Marouane Felliani and Paul Kevin De Bruyne’s ball over the Chelsea a hard-fought victory over H/T: 2-0
Pogba top. Hull City that extends their lead at J Ward-Prowse 26
the top of the Premier League J Rodriquez 39
United substitute Marcus City doubled their lead five min- table. D Tadic 86 (pen)
Rashford came close and Jesse utes later when De Bruyne capital- Att: 30,548
Lingard hit the bar before Rooney ized after Lloris failed to gather the Returning striker Diego Costa,
struck to stretch United’s unbeaten ball. who missed last week’s win at TABLE
league run to 13 matches. Leicester City through injury,
Four minutes later, Spurs got a opened the scoring in first-half Team P WD L F A GD Pts.
Andy Carroll was at the double goal back through Dele Alli’s head- stoppage time when he fired home 3 47 15 32 55
as West Ham United made it five er from Kyle Walker’s cross. from a Victor Moses cross. Chelsea 22 18 1 3 50 23 27 47
wins from seven Premier League 2 45 16 29 46
matches with a 3-1 victory at Shortly after Raheem Sterling The home side did not have it Arsenal 22 14 5 3 51 27 24 45
Middlesbrough. had shot straight at Lloris when all their own way, however, with 5 43 28 15 43
through on goal, Son Heung-min Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Tottenham Hotspur22 13 7 3 33 21 12 41
After scoring a goal-of-the-sea- levelled after Harry Kane’s flick. Courtois having to save well from 6 33 23 10 36
son contender against Crystal Harry Maguire, David Meyler and Liverpool 22 13 6 8 30 28 2 32
Palace in Matchweek 21, Carroll Gabriel Jesus, on for his debut, Oumar Niasse. 8 28 34 -6 28
opened the scoring with a thunder- thought he had the winner but it Manchester City 22 13 4 10 29 36 -7 28
ous header from Manuel Lanzini’s was ruled offside. But Chelsea’s victory was sealed 9 22 26 -4 27
corner. late on through Gary Cahill’s head- Manchester United 22 11 8 10 32 39 -7 26
On Sunday morning er, meaning Antionio Conte’s men 12 24 33 -9 26
Boro equalized on 27 minutes Southampton ended a four-match are now eight points clear of sec- Everton 22 10 6 10 25 38 -13 24
when Cristhian Stuani steered losing run in the Premier League ond-placed Arsenal. 11 24 37 -13 21
home at the back post after Calum with a 3-0 victory over Leicester West Brom 22 9 5 10 18 25 -7 20
Chambers was released down the City. Despite an encouraging display, 14 26 51 -25 18
right wing by Adama Traore. Hull are now second bottom and Stoke City 22 7 7 14 30 41 -11 16
James Ward-Prowse curled in a two points from safety. C 14 20 47 -27 16
But just before half-time Carroll first-time effort after Cedric Soares’ West Ham United 22 8 4 15 20 42 -22 15
cutback on 26 minutes, before Jay
Southampton 22 7 6

Bournemouth 22 7 5

Burnley 22 8 2

Watford 22 6 6

Leicester City 22 5 6

Middlesbrough 22 4 8

Swansea City 22 5 3

Crystal Palace 22 4 4

Hull City 22 4 4

Sunderland 22 4 3

FIXTURES

Tuesday January 31st
Arsenal v Watford (2.45pm)
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (2.45pm)
Burnley v Leicester City (2.45pm)
Liverpool v Chelsea (3pm)
Middlesbrough v West Bromwich Albion (2.45pm)
Sunderland v Tottenham Hotspur (2.45pm)
Swansea City v Southampton (2.45pm)
Wednesday February 1st
Manchester United v Hull City (3pm)
Stoke City v Everton (3pm)
West Ham United v Manchester City (2.45pm)