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  • Premier league round-up: Manchester United & Chelsea Woes Continue

    [Photo courtesy of Reuters]

    Arsenal stormed to fourth after a hard fought 1-0 victory against Everton.

    The gunners had a goal disallowed as Eddie Nketiah was offside for Martineli’s goal. The Brazilian was taken off with a knock as his subsitute, Leandro Trossard scored the match’s solitary goal.

    In another sunday kick off Chelsea were held to a 0-0 draw at the vitality stadium by Bournemouth.

    The blues enjoyed dominance in possesion but could not capitalize on that dominance. Colwill’s goal should have given the london side the lead but was disallowed for being offside.

    Early on in the weekend Manchester City maintained their top spot as they brushed West Ham United aside with goals from Jeremy Doku, Bernardo silva and Erling Haaland.

    Their Manchester counterparts, the red devils fell to abrighton thumping on home turf. Danny Welbeck, Pascal Gross and Joao Pedro put the seagulls three goals ahead as Hannibal scored United’s consolation goal.

    Tottenham left it late as they came back from a goal down against Sheffield United to win the game in stopppage time with two goals in quick succesion from Richarlison and Kulusevski.

    Liverpool brushed of a wolves threat as they fought from a goal down to win 3-1.

    Goals from Cody Gakpo and Andy Robertson saw the res through.

    Later in the evening Nottingham Forest will take on Burnley in the last encounter of Match week 5.

  • Premier League Saturday round up

    By Ken Andrew

    kennyandrewmuganda@gmail.com

    Arsenal extended their lead over Manchester City to 7 points after they beat Brighton 4-2 in the last Premier League match of 2022. The Gunners managed to survive a late Brighton push, to pick up the massive 3 points.

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    Manchester City and Newcastle both dropped points after drawing against Everton and Leeds respectively. City took the lead through Erling Haaland in the first half but a spectacular strike from Demarai Gray in the second levelled matters. Newcastle played out a 0-0 draw at home against Leeds.

    Demarai Gray celebrates scoring a stunner at the Etihad

    Marcus Rashford came off the bench to score the only goal of the game as United edged Wolves 1-0 at Molineux. The win sent United into the top four for the first time since March. United are 4 points off Manchester City and 2 points behind Newcastle, who have played one more game.

    Pep Guardiola spoke about the Red Devils in his press conference.

    “I have the feeling United are coming back, finally United is coming back. I’ve seen it on Thursday and against Chelsea in the first half. I said I like what I see of United right now. There will be a lot of teams like United fighting.”

    – ESPN

    Crystal Palace defeated Bournemouth 2-0 as they recovered from their Boxing Day 3-0 home loss to Fulham.

    Finally, Southampton remained rooted at the bottom of the log after they went down 2-1 to Fulham.

    Premier League action continues today with two matches lined up.

    Premier League matches (1-1-2023)

    Tottenham vs Aston Villa (5pm)

    Nottingham vs Chelsea (7.30pm)