LONDON: Manchester City chalked up yet any other victory to maintain their stranglehold of the Premier League title race however pursuers Manchester United and Leicester City each secured critical wins to decorate their pinnacle four bids on Sunday.

Raheem Sterling’s header after 75 seconds changed into sufficient for City to win 1-zero at Arsenal a end result a lot more at ease than the narrow scoreline shows.

It changed into their thirteenth Premier League win in a row, and 18th in all competitions, equalled a club-document 11 successive away wins and stored them 10 points ahead of the % on the top.

“There are 39 factors to play for and we need the victories to be champions and we can try within the next video games,” said City boss Pep Guardiola, bidding for his 1/3 title in four seasons. “We most effective consider the subsequent sport, this is the most effective mystery.”

United and Leicester are each on forty nine factors with United in 2nd region on purpose difference after they secured a three-1 home victory over suffering Newcastle United in Sunday’s past due recreation.

Marcus Rashford fired a lacklustre United ahead immediately within the thirtieth minute however Allan St Maximin’s volley were given Newcastle back on degree phrases.

Daniel James positioned United back into the lead after the break before Bruno Fernandes sealed the factors with a penalty.

“It’s usually difficult after an away game in Europe,” supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer stated of United’s flat start towards Newcastle. “It took us till halftime to get going.”

Leicester had earlier long past second with the aid of beating Aston Villa 2-1 thanks to first 1/2 dreams with the aid of James Maddison and Harvey Barnes.

Villa suffered a blow with playmaker and captain Jack Grealish ruled out with a leg injury however driven Leicester tough after the wreck with Bertrand Traore halving the deficit. Leicester did enough though to please supervisor Brendan Rodgers.

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“I thought some of our soccer and the speed of our sport become surely, really excellent. We didn’t have too many concerns defensively,” Rodgers said.

With Chelsea being hung on Saturday by means of Southampton and champions Liverpool crumbling to a primary home defeat through Everton for 23 years, West Ham United took the chance to transport into the top four with a 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur.

It is the primary time due to the fact that 1986 that the Hammers are as excessive as fourth after at least 25 video games of a top flight campaign and hopes of European football are soaring in London’s East End.

Michail Antonio gave West Ham an early lead and Manchester United loanee Jesse Lingard doubled their advantage simply after the c programming language before Lucas Moura’s header made it a nervy very last 25 minutes for the hosts.

“The players had been locating methods to struggle points off the competition,” said West Ham manager David Moyes, whose side have won seven in their ultimate nine league video games.

“They have performed a super process. You want a piece of success along the way but we had all of the right things.”

For Tottenham, a season that promised a identify undertaking once they topped the standings in December is disintegrating after a fifth defeat in six league games heaped strain on supervisor Jose Mourinho who suggested a top four finish become now very hard, considering they may be 9th, 9 factors in the back of West Ham.

“I wouldn’t say crisis. I’d say a simply terrible run of consequences. We are losing too many fits,” Mourinho stated.