Premier League chief Man City beats ailing Newcastle 4-0

Premier League chief Manchester City made it 11 targets in two video games by sweeping apart struggling Newcastle 4-0 on Sunday.
Ruben Dias and Joao Cancelo scored earlier than the break, and Riyad Mahrez and Raheem Sterling netted within the second half.
Newcastle has now gained simply certainly one of its 18 league video games this season and is just above last-place Norwich on purpose distinction.
Having been repeatedly punished for their very own errors in latest video games, the Magpies set out with a makeshift again 4 and figuring out there was no margin for error towards the reigning champions, however capitulated in miserable vogue inside 5 minutes.
Goalkeeper Martin Dubravka needlessly conceded a nook after dwelling on Jamaal Lascelles’ again go. After Kevin De Bruyne’s preliminary supply had been half cleared, Ciaran Clark did not intervene when Cancelo performed the ball again throughout the six-yard field and Dias headed into the unguarded internet.

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Newcastle seemed susceptible with Bernardo Silva and De Bruyne choosing holes within the protection.
Cancelo mixed with De Bruyne and Mahrez earlier than leaving Joe Willock and Isaac Hayden in his wake and smashing a Twenty seventh-minute shot previous the helpless Dubravka.
Ryan Fraser, a lot to his astonishment, noticed appeals for a penalty waved away by referee Martin Atkinson after he had been worn out by sliding City goalkeeper Ederson.

Newcastle supervisor Eddie Howe despatched on Allan Saint-Maximin for Willock on the break and the Frenchman’s tempo instantly offered City with a special downside, though it took an excellent response save by Dubravka to disclaim Gabriel Jesus after Silva had headed Cancelo’s cross again throughout purpose.
City added a 3rd within the 63rd minute when Mahrez transformed Oleksandr Zinchenko’s cross with a VAR evaluation correcting an preliminary offside determination, and Sterling’s strike from Gabriel Jesus’ 86th-minute cross deepened the gloom on Tyneside.
Coronavirus-hit Chelsea held 0-0 by Wolves
Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Romain Saiss and Chelsea’s Thiago Silva head the ball in the course of the English Premier League soccer match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Chelsea at Molineux stadium in Wolverhampton, England, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)
Coronavirus-depleted Chelsea was held 0-0 by Wolverhampton at a foggy Molineux to lose additional floor on Premier League chief Manchester City on Sunday.
Daniel Podence had a first-half tap-in dominated out for offside and Leander Dendoncker spurned an excellent likelihood as Wolves missed alternatives to seize a winner and Chelsea settled for a fourth attract eight league matches.

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Chelsea traveled with out at the least eight senior gamers however nonetheless managed to area a powerful XI. The Blues once more struggled for fluency, nevertheless, finally slipping six factors behind leaders and defending champion City, which beat Newcastle 4-0.
Chelsea stated it was left “deeply disappointed” by the Premier League rejecting its request to postpone the Wolves journey, given their rising variety of COVID-19 circumstances.