Category: English Premier League

Mohamed Salah rescued a point from the penalty spot after blockbusters from Bruno Fernandes and Kobbie Mainoo

Bruno Fernandes speaks to Sky: “We play against a big team that has a lot of qualities. It’s going to be a tough, intense game. These games against Liverpool always are.”

And so does Virgil van Dijk: “We have to do better than we did in the cup. You have to shut it out completely anyway, whether we play first, second or third. Everyone knows how big this game is but we have to stay calm and play our football like we have all season.”

Last time out: Alexis Mac Allister the star man, and the night that Cole Palmer haunted the club he once supported.

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Second-half goals from Mickey van der Ven and Pedro Porro fired Spurs into the top four and kept Forest deep in relegation strife

Postecoglou: “It’s a tough opponent. We’ve got to play well … Their biggest threat is that they are fighting for their lives. There’s no easy games for anyone. Everyone’s fighting for something.

“They have got threats up front … but ultimately we’re here at home – we’ve got really good form and we need to continue that.”

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Arsenal reclaimed top spot in the Premier League after an efficient victory at the Amex

3 min: Brighton contribute to the thrust and parry with an attack of their own, Enciso winning a corner with a purposeful run down the left. And when that’s taken …

1 min 3 sec: Odegaard makes to swing in the free kick, but dummies. Everyone resets in the middle, and Brighton are caught out. Odegaard delivers this time, and Gabriel should power home a header from six yards, but clanks it wide left. What a huge chance for the fastest of starts!

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Rob Edwards said he was feeling “drained” after his Luton side scored a 90th-minute winner to come from behind to beat Bournemouth and take a huge step in the direction of Premier League survival.

Carlton Morris’s goal at the death – knocked in at the far post from substitute Cauley Woodrow’s cross – capped a strong second-half display from the home side and moved them level on points with 17th-place Nottingham Forest, who have a game in hand. Bournemouth remained 12th with 41 points after suffering their first defeat since February.

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Everton’s first set of three points in 112 days could be taken away from them this coming week but the impact of a most fortuitous victory may survive nonetheless. Sean Dyche’s team avoided equalling a club record 14 matches without a win thanks to a gift from the Burnley goalkeeper Arijanet Muric and pushed Vincent Kompany’s side closer to the Championship in the process. It was ugly by design, according to the Everton manager. No one knew whether he was joking.

Everton’s taste of a first Premier League win since visiting Burnley in December owed plenty to luck and the visitors’ tendency to aim both barrels at their own feet. Dominic Calvert-Lewin deflected Muric’s delayed clearance into the Burnley net for a crucial match-winner while Dara O’Shea received a straight red card for a foul on Dwight McNeil, puncturing their chances of a recovery in an instant. Kompany’s strugglers still managed to make life fraught for Everton, who are expected to suffer a second points deduction of the season for breaching Premier League profitability and sustainability rules, but a defence guided superbly by Jarrad Branthwaite held on to a precious result.

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City were forced to come from behind but ran out easy winners due in no small part to another virtuoso performance from their captain, Kevin De Bruyne

• Read John Brewin’s match report from Selhurst Park

2 min: City win the first corner of the game and Kevin De Bruyne takes it. He whips the ball towards Haaland on the edge of the six-yard box and Joachim Anderson clears for Palace.

1 min: Crystal Palace get the ball rolling and send it long, immediately coughing up possession to the visitors.

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Manchester City kick off the weekend at Crystal Palace while leaders Liverpool travel to Manchester United on Sunday

Saturday 12.30pm TNT Sports 1 Venue Selhurst Park

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Everton’s Sean Dyche badly needs a win while Liverpool and Manchester United renew their historic rivalry

Michael Olise’s anticipated return from injury for Crystal Palace against Manchester City could not be more timely for Oliver Glasner’s struggling side. The France Under-21 international has been in sensational form this season on the rare occasions he has made it on to the pitch – Olise has played only 755 minutes so far in just 11 appearances, but in that time has scored six goals and provided three assists. City are believed to be one of several clubs who have been monitoring his progress and will be wary of the threat he poses to their title ambitions, especially if he can adapt quickly to Glasner’s favoured 3-4-2-1 formation. Like Palace, who are still not quite safe given their testing run-in that only features games against sides above them, Eberechi Eze has not been in his best form so far under the Austrian. But could the return of Olise help the England midfielder also rediscover his touch? Ed Aarons

Crystal Palace v Manchester City, Saturday 12.30pm (all times BST)

Aston Villa v Brentford, Saturday 3pm

Everton v Burnley, Saturday 3pm

Fulham v Newcastle, Saturday 3pm

Luton v Bournemouth, Saturday 3pm

Wolves v West Ham, Saturday 3pm

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From joy to despair and now this, Manchester United have certainly showcased their addiction to drama in recent weeks; theirs the story that keeps on giving. If the FA Cup victory over Liverpool had given their supporters a rosy glow for what felt like weeks, the nature of Saturday’s draw at Brentford was the definition of a reality check. In a crowded field, was it the worst performance of a chaotic season?

The latest instalment was scarcely credible. Despair to joy and back again – hard – within one game, it felt like the death of their Premier League season; a ratcheting up of the pressure on Erik ten Hag, too, should there have been any further scope for that.

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Cole Palmer snatched a hat-trick in a thrilling game that United led until the 100th minute and yet still lost

1 min Chelsea kick off, go long, and then get pegged back.

The players are out there and Chelsea are in a tight huddle. As they disperse, the cameras home in on Cole Palmer, and then Kobbie Mainoo. The future may be brighter than the present.

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Alexis Mac Allister’s stunning second-half goal helped Liverpool to see off Sheffield United and regain top spot

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Mark Bowen emails: “I’m sure Holgate will get a warm welcome back to Anfield after he tried to frame Firmino a few years back.”

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All Manchester City can do is the same as they did tonight against Aston Villa: beat the next opponent and hope that Liverpool – and Arsenal – slip up in the remaining games of this invigorating championship race.

This scenario is due to the four dropped points in the draws in the previous two matches with their title rivals. And in Unai Emery’s Champions League hopefuls, City took on and defeated the team directly below them, finally recording a victory over a top-six side.

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Will April prove the cruellest month for Everton? No one can be quite sure but even though it has not started exactly brilliantly for Sean Dyche’s team they at least managed to defy the doom-mongers by fighting back to salvage an unlikely point on a chilly Tyneside.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s first goal since October, an 88th-minute penalty, admittedly failed to prevent Everton from extending their winless Premier League run to 13 games yet it could come to be seen as a psychological turning point.

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Nottingham Forest stormed Fulham as a late penalty denied Newcastle on a night Bournemouth beat Crystal Palace

The big news of the day, which has an effect on this season’s EFL and perhaps next season’s EPL. Contrast Leicester with Brighton, who delivered the following results, per PA Media:

A post-tax profit of £122.8million for the 2022-23 season, up from £24.1m in the previous financial year. Turnover for the period was the club’s highest, rising by 17.2 per cent to £204.5m, against £174.5m in the 2021-22 campaign. The figures include the fees received for Alexis Mac Allister, Yves Bissouma and Marc Cucurella, as well as compensation for former head coach Graham Potter’s move to Chelsea.

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The goals were traded early but a hotly contested London derby remained entertaining for the most part

1 min: Spurs start in the no-nonsense style, Maddison almost immediately attempting to release Son down the middle. Emerson is on point to intercept and put a stop to their scheme.

Tottenham Hotspur get the ball rolling. It is tipping down.

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