Premier League chief Liverpool twice got here from behind with 10 males to attract with Fulham 2-2, but dropped factors for the second straight match to offer hope to its title rivals on Saturday. Arsenal did not take benefit. A 0-0 draw at residence to lowly Everton left third-placed Arsenal nonetheless six factors behind Liverpool and can go down as a giant alternative missed.
Arsenal’s Thomas Partey and Jorginho look dejected after the match.(Motion Pictures through Reuters)
Undermined by Andy Robertson’s Seventeenth-minute purple card, Liverpool did properly to earn a degree at Anfield — however might have produced a win after sustained late stress following Diogo Jota’s equalizer within the 86th.
Fulham led for the primary time after Andreas Pereira’s Eleventh-minute volley deflected into the online off Robertson, who was despatched off six minutes later for bringing down Harry Wilson because the final man and denying a goal-scoring alternative.
Cody Gakpo leveled simply after halftime by heading in a cross from Mohamed Salah, who registered his a hundredth help for Liverpool in all competitions.
Substitute Rodrigo Muniz’s flick put Fulham again forward within the 76th, just for Jota to run onto Darwin Nunez’s cross, flip his marker and drive residence a end from the sting of the world. Liverpool drew at Newcastle 3-3 in its final league sport.
Arsenal has additionally drawn two video games in a row, after a 1-1 at Fulham final weekend.
Wolverhampton supervisor Gary O’Neil will do properly to outlive this newest damaging defeat.
Ipswich beat Wolves 2-1 because of Jack Taylor’s winner within the fourth minute of stoppage time in a match between groups within the relegation zone, although solely one of many coaches got here into it underneath actual stress.
O’Neil has led Wolves to solely two victories within the league this season, and three since March. The slide underneath O’Neil started on the finish of final season when Wolves received simply considered one of their final 10 league video games after being knocked out of the FA Cup within the quarterfinals by second-tier Coventry.
On Monday, after shedding at West Ham 2-1, O’Neil expressed his disappointment at shedding the reference to Wolves’ followers and in addition aimed some criticism on the membership’s homeowners for sanctioning the sale of lots of its high gamers over the past two years.
There have been boos at halftime and fulltime at Molineux, with Wolves staying in next-to-last place and dropping three factors behind third-to-last Ipswich.
Ruud van Nistelrooy fell to his first loss with Leicester — and it was a giant one.
Leicester was thrashed 4-0 at Newcastle, for which Jacob Murphy scored twice and Alexander Isak nodded in his seventh objective of the marketing campaign. Bruno Guimaraes netted the opposite objective.
Van Nistelrooy, the previous Manchester United and Actual Madrid striker, was introduced in to exchange the fired Steve Cooper and earned a win and a draw — each at residence — in his first two video games in cost.