EPL: Chelsea beat Tottenham, Liverpool down Palace, Arsenal draw

Once Hakim Ziyech’s curling, dipping strike landed within the Tottenham aim, Chelsea by no means regarded again.
Sure, it took till two minutes into the second half to interrupt the impasse. But the area gifted for Thiago Silva’s header within the fifty fifth minute to seal a 2-0 win on Sunday was a snapshot of this most lopsided of London rivalries.
Chelsea ought to by no means have doubted its four-match winless run within the Premier League would finish on Sunday. Not even with former Chelsea supervisor Antonio Conte going 9 league matches unbeaten at the beginning of his Tottenham reign earlier than the go to to Stamford Bridge.

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It’s now 33 wins for Chelsea towards Tottenham within the Premier League period — greater than towards some other opponent. Not since 2018 has a Tottenham participant even scored towards Chelsea within the league when the north London facet final received this derby.
Tottenham may have complaints that Harry Kane was denied a first-half aim when it was dominated out for what appeared his slight contact on Thiago Silva earlier than racing by way of on aim to satisfy Ryan Sessegnon’s cross.

But for all Kane harangued referee Paul Tierney at halftime, Tottenham crumbling so quickly after the break made the win for Chelsea look inevitable. Tottenham was additionally denied a spot within the League Cup ultimate by Chelsea successful each semifinal legs this month.
Victory for Thomas Tuchel’s facet shores up a top-four place that was beginning to look shaky earlier than successful for the primary time since Dec. 26.
Chelsea stayed a degree behind second-place Liverpool, which received 3-1 throughout London at Crystal Palace. The outcomes will give a flicker of hope that Manchester City can nonetheless be caught after the champions had been held at Southampton to Saturday to now sit solely 9 factors in entrance of Liverpool having performed a sport extra.
While Tottenham is in seventh place, the coronavirus postponements distort the standings. Tottenham fell to 11 factors behind Chelsea however with 4 video games in hand. And Man United is simply two factors forward within the fourth Champions League place having performed two extra video games than Tottenham.
What helped Conte barely was Arsenal being held 0-0 by Burnley on Sunday. Arsenal did transfer above Tottenham into sixth place on aim distinction however having performed an additional sport.
Tottenham couldn’t recreate the drama from Wednesday night time when two stoppage-time targets rotated a sport at Leicester to win. And Leicester disillusioned once more on Sunday, drawing 1-1 with Brighton.

FULL-TIME Leicester 1-1 Brighton
Danny Welbeck’s header earns the guests a degree and they’re denied a dramatic late winner by Kasper Schmeichel#LEIBHA pic.twitter.com/SHYw9YLRWw
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Frustration for Arsenal with 0-0 draw towards Burnley in EPL
Burnley returned to Premier League motion for the primary time in three weeks and held Arsenal 0-0 on the Emirates Stadium on Sunday.
The Clarets have seen video games postponed this month on account of not having sufficient gamers obtainable on account of accidents and coronavirus circumstances and fell to final place as their rivals had been in a position to fulfil fixtures.
Wins for fellow relegation candidates Norwich and Newcastle solely heaped stress on Burnley. But Sean Dyche’s facet moved inside 4 factors of security, with 4 video games in hand over Norwich in seventeenth place.

FULL-TIME Arsenal 0-0 Burnley
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The Gunners acquired their north London derby assembly with Tottenham postponed final weekend so head into the worldwide break having misplaced to Manchester City and drawn with Burnley of their solely league matches this month.
Arsenal is 2 factors behind fourth-place Manchester United with a sport in hand.
Burnley goalkeeper Nick Pope saved nicely from Martin Odegaard with Ben Mee blocking Lacazette’s follow-up try.
Burnley had been fortunate to maintain a full quota of gamers on the pitch after Ashley Westwood caught Kieran Tierney late and excessive, incomes only a warning when a crimson card might simply have been issued by referee David Coote.
An honest effort from Bukayo Saka apart, the remainder of the primary half was performed out with an absence of high quality and composure.
Arsenal stepped issues up after the break, with Emile Smith Rowe forcing a superb low save from Pope after a wise nook routine. The England worldwide then broke into the field and crossed for Lacazette, who might solely flip huge when he ought to have scored.
Liverpool beats Palace 3-1 to chop City’s result in 9 factors
Liverpool diminished the hole on the high of the Premier League to 9 factors after a 3-1 win at Crystal Palace on Sunday.
Virgil Van Dijk and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain scored within the first half however Patrick Vieira’s facet diminished the deficit by way of Odsonne Edouard’s aim after the break.
It took a string of saves by Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker to maintain the lead for the guests earlier than Fabinho scored a penalty within the 89th minute to seal the win that took benefit of chief Manchester City drawing at Southampton on Saturday.
This was Liverpool’s fifth sport with out Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane whereas they’re on the African Cup of Nations.
Andrew Robertson’s nook created the opener for Van Dijk’s header within the eighth minute. It was a poor aim for the hosts to offer away and so they couldn’t deal with Liverpool’s relentless urgent within the opening exchanges with Oxlade-Chamberlain firing astray twice in fast succession.
But then Robertson noticed the late run of Oxlade-Chamberlain into the world and picked out his teammate with an outstanding crossfield ball. The midfielder, again after a minor ankle damage, managed on his chest and rifled into the online within the thirty second.
Jordan Henderson might have put the sport to mattress at the beginning of the second half however he fired huge on the flip after one other superb supply from Robertson.
Palace did lastly get on the scoresheet within the fifty fifth. Jean-Philippe Mateta beat the offside lure to gather Jeffrey Schlupp’s glorious by way of ball and squared for Edouard to faucet in for his sixth aim of the season.

FULL-TIME Crystal Palace 1-3 Liverpool
Fabinho’s penalty seals a hard-earned win for Jurgen Klopp’s facet#CRYLIV pic.twitter.com/yEF9afhaLe
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Joachim Andersen was the subsequent to go shut for Palace with a long-range strike that whizzed simply huge earlier than Schlupp fired into the side-netting.
The large second arrived with seven minutes left when Andersen despatched Michael Olise away and his lobbed effort was brilliantly tipped huge by Alisson, who clattered into the put up.
Liverpool’s Diogo Jota went by way of minutes later however missed his kick after which collided into goalkeeper Vicente Guaita.

After referee Kevin Friend had waved away appeals, VAR known as for the official to have one other look and he pointed to the spot.
Fabinho tucked away the penalty with a minute left to shut the hole on City, with Pep Guardiola’s facet having additionally performed a sport greater than Liverpool, which visits the Etihad in April.