Liverpool wins 1-0 at Newcastle to maintain strain on City, Norwich relegated

Liverpool saved its quadruple hopes alive with a 1-0 win over Newcastle on Saturday to keep up strain on Premier League title rival Manchester City.

Naby Keita’s elegant first-half objective at St. James’ Park was sufficient to ship Liverpool two factors forward of City, which performs at Leeds later.

Even with Trent Alexander-Arnold, Fabinho, Thiago Alcantara and Mohamed Salah rested from the beginning lineup forward of Tuesday’s decisive Champions League semifinal recreation at Villarreal, Liverpool may have received extra comfortably as Newcastle’s hopes of a fifth straight league win wilted within the face of just about fixed strain.

Newcastle was additionally bidding for a seventh straight win at house and the sport kicked off amid a raucous environment which may have elevated had Jonjo Shelvey managed to make a greater reference to a second-minute shot.

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Keita had keeper Martin Dubravka scrambling throughout his line as his first-time strike flew inches large of the far put up with eight minutes gone as Liverpool more and more began to dominate.

It took the lead after 19 minutes when Jordan Henderson and Diogo Jota mixed to feed Keita, who stepped inside earlier than dispatching the ball previous the helpless Dubravka.

Miguel Almiron thought he had leveled after rounding goalkeeper Alisson, just for an offside flag to sprint his hopes, and it took a fantastic fingertip save by Dubravka to stop Jota from rising the guests’ lead simply earlier than halftime.

Newcastle began the second half with better depth, however with Bruno Guimaraes and Allan Saint-Maximin largely curtailed, was unable to trigger sufficient issues.

Sadio Mane may have sealed the outcome with 27 minutes remaining however steered his shot large.

Norwich relegated after 2-0 loss at Villa

Norwich City have been relegated from the Premier League on Saturday after being overwhelmed 2-0 at Aston Villa following a objective and help by substitute Danny Ings.

Ings, who got here off the bench for Leon Bailey, discovered Watkins with a looking out ball from the left with virtually his first contact and his fellow ahead capitalised on a slip by Brandon Williams to fireplace Villa into the lead after 41 minutes.

FULL-TIME Aston Villa 2-0 Norwich

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Ings received on the scoresheet himself within the dying minutes of the match to double Villa’s lead with a pointy swivel and shot.

Norwich wanted to keep away from defeat and hope Burnley didn’t beat Watford to keep away from taking place. However, late targets from Jack Cork and Josh Brownhill gave Burnley a 2-1 win and condemned Norwich to the Championship after one season again within the top-flight.

“I’m disappointed with our result. It is probably fair, we haven’t been good enough this season,” Norwich captain Grant Healy mentioned.

“It’s tough for me to touch upon something proper now. Emotions are excessive, we gave our all but it surely wasn’t sufficient and the story of our season.