Premier League ’18-19 – Highlights: City Lose; Liverpool Go 4 Points Clear At The Top

These are the first matches of the Premier League, Match Day 18 of 38. The match highlights and the top 10 teams points table is included.

Premier League ’18-19 – Highlights: Manchester City Continue To Dominate

Points Table – Premier League ’18-19

Rank Name Won Draw Lost Points
1 Liverpool 15 3 0 48
2 Manchester City 14 2 2 44
3 Tottenham 13 0 4 39
4 Chelsea 11 4 3 37
5 Arsenal 11 4 3 37
6 Manchester United 8 5 5 29
7 Watford 8 3 7 27
8 Bournemouth 8 2 8 26
9 Leicester City 7 4 7 25
10 Wolves 7 4 7 25

For Complete Premier League 2018-19 team rankings, click here

English Premier League 2018-19 – Full Schedule

Match 1 of 10: Wolves vs Liverpool

Result: 0 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • Liverpool: Mohamed Salah 18′, Virgil van Dijk 68′

Match Statistics:

Wolves Team Stats Liverpool
11 Shots 15
5 Shots On Target 6
38% Possession 62%
420 Passes 675
75% Pass Accuracy 85%
7 Fouls 3
0 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
4 Offsides 2
1 Corners 10

Highlights:

Premier LEague

  • The presents have come early this year for Liverpool, who can anticipate spending Christmas Day getting a charge out of the view from the highest point of the Premier League table. Fortunately the group in that situation in eight of the past nine seasons has proceeded to win the class. The terrible news is that Liverpool, in 2013-14, were the one club to miss the mark.
  • Not that this Liverpool group is probably going to be troubled by the past.
  • Mohamed Salah is the Premier League’s best scorer by and by, subsequent to taking his count for the season to 11 with a wonderful goal, and the Egyptian likewise set up Liverpool’s second.

  • Klopp utilized the word “mature” to depict Liverpool’s execution and that caught it flawlessly. They had a somewhat troublesome period towards the finish of the primary half, when Wolves began to take control of the diversion out of the blue, however generally this was a profoundly proficient Liverpool show, with Van Dijk’s telling nearness at the core of the safeguard just as great as Salah’s wonderful contacts at the opposite end of the pitch.
  • Ruben Neves, be that as it may, turned off and neglected to follow Fabinho on the edge of his own punishment territory, empowering the midfielder to keep running in behind unopposed. Fabinho’s middle was impeccable and what pursued was a snapshot of class from Salah.

  • The goal felt somewhat cruel on Wolves, who had conveyed the more noteworthy assaulting danger in the beginning periods, regardless of whether Liverpool were seeing substantially more of the ball.
  • Salah’s goal four minutes after the fact could without much of a stretch have debilitated Wolves at the same time, amazingly, the home group kept on assaulting with conviction.

  • As much as Wolves were playing admirably, pursuing a diversion against this Liverpool group is a long way from perfect and it was no genuine amazement when the guests broadened their lead halfway during that time half. Jordan Henderson, who was showing up, and Fabinho were managing the amusement from their profound lying midfield positions – this was the first run through the two have begun together – and Wolves’ assaulting risk had reduced.

  • Van Dijk had the proportion of Traore – the Dutchman even figured out how to coordinate the forward for pace in a captivating duel near the touchline soon after the hour check – and Nuno Espírito Santo, the Wolves administrator, ended up in that troublesome position whereby he expected to make changes to attempt to constrain an equalizer yet realized that by doing as such there was a threat Liverpool would include a second.

  • That is actually what occurred. Adam Lallana, on for the harmed Naby Keita, saw his short proximity exertion obstructed after Salah and Mané joined, and Liverpool benefitted from the corner that pursued. Saiss’ leeway dropped for Salah, who was standing around on the edge of the zone, and his consummately flighted cross chose Van Dijk, who coolly volleyed home from simply inside the six-yard box. Georginio Wijnaldum could and ought to have included a third in stoppage time after another Salah strike.

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Match 2 of 10: Arsenal vs Burnley FC

Result: 3 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Arsenal: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang 14′, 48′, Alex Iwobi 90+1′
  • Burnley FC: Ashley Barnes 63′

Match Statistics:

Arsenal Team Stats Burnley FC
10 Shots 7
6 Shots On Target 2
61% Possession 39%
554 Passes 358
86% Pass Accuracy 75%
10 Fouls 14
2 Yellow Cards 5
0 Red Cards 0
2 Offsides 4
1 Corners 3

Highlights:

Premier LEague

  • It was hard to overlook the arrival of Mesut Özil. Arsenal’s alleged marquee player was back – given his first alliance begin since 11 November after a back issue and his prominent exclusion for strategic reasons against Tottenham in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday. The German was key to two of Arsenal’s goals, regardless of whether he was fringe for long spells.
  • This was Özil in microcosm. Given the commander’s armband by Unai Emery, he was every now and again slammed by a physical Burnley group and to a great extent unfit to force his passing rhythms. In any case, he sprung up right on time with a brilliant pass that made Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s first goal and late on, as well, with a help for the substitute Alex Iwobi.

  • Özil, however, was simply a sideshow. In a disconnected match, it was the stewing ill will and niggle that came to hold influence.
  • It was summed up at full-time when Emery seemed to need to make a point to his contrary number, Sean Dyche, and snatched him by the arm. The Burnley supervisor disregarded himself free and walked.
  • Contentions between the adversary staffs would proceed into the passage. As ever, Barnes seemed to keep running on fierceness and Burnley’s hostility, all in all, was an issue for Arsenal. In the interim, Emery pulled back Alexandre Lacazette on 78 minutes and the striker was incensed. There was a ton of that around.

  • Not slightest from Dyche, who spilled it full scale in his post-coordinate question and answer session, when he blamed Arsenal for unmitigated tricking. He was frustrated at what he felt were a progression of plunges from the home players and he referenced Özil and Granit Xhaka as being among the guilty parties. Their tumbles did not come inside the Burnley region.
  • Dyche was despondent at Barnes’ reserving – which looked cruel – contending that Papastathopoulos had tossed an elbow while he brought up that the Burnley safeguard Kevin Long should have had a penalty after he got a “double-handed push” in the territory from Sead Kolasinac. Then again, Barnes appeared to escape with a stamp on Mattéo Guendouzi.

  • Aubameyang place Arsenal in control with his second goal toward the start of the second half and he currently has 12 in the Premier League this season; 14 in all rivalries. In any case, Burnley made life troublesome and when Barnes pulled a goal back after a punishment territory scramble, the guests detected a valuable point.
  • Enter Özil. He crashed into the region on a counterattack, jinked inside and got a break when his pass redirected and broke for Iwobi. The finish was valid. Arsenal had lost last Sunday at Southampton and again to Spurs in midweek. From their point of view, this was increasingly similar to it. Burnley have lost eight of 10 in the Premier League.
  • Özil’s first inclusion was to send a ball through for the raiding Kolasinac, who dinked it back and Aubameyang completed on the volley. The association was not spotless but rather the bearing was impeccable.

  • Arsenal had glinted at the start with Joe Hart denying Ainsley Maitland-Niles and James Tarkowski scrambling clear before Mohamed Elneny saw a header blocked. For Burnley, Ashley Westwood could not complete when one-on-one, after a Nacho Monreal botch.
  • Arsenal’s second came after it looked as if Özil had put his group stuck in an unfortunate situation with a free ball on the edge of his region. Elneny won it back, with assistance from Özil, and Arsenal broke at pace. Lacazette played the last pass and Aubameyang’s complete flicked home off Ben Mee.
  • Burnley declined to rests. Papastathopoulos needed to make a sparing tackle on Chris Wood before Barnes’ goal and Jack Cork cushioned a half-chance with a miscue. The final word would go to Iwobi.

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Match 3 of 10: Huddersfield vs Southampton

Result: 1 – 3

Goal Scorers:

  • Huddersfield: Philip Billing 58′
  • Southampton: Nathan Redmond 15′, Danny Ings 42′ (P), Michael Obafemi 71′

Match Statistics:

Huddersfield Team Stats Southampton
16 Shots 13
5 Shots On Target 6
63% Possession 37%
525 Passes 327
75% Pass Accuracy 65%
12 Fouls 9
2 Yellow Cards 3
0 Red Cards 0
3 Offsides 1
8 Corners 2

Highlights:

Premier LEague

  • Ralph Hasenhüttl hailed the quality in his Southampton squad subsequent to making it two successes from three diversions in control at Huddersfield.
  • The 3-1 accomplishment at the John Smith’s Stadium, which lifted the side three clear of the Premier League’s last three, denoted the first run through since last April that the club have won consecutive best flight matches.
  • As against Arsenal a weekend ago, it was Southampton’s assault that emerged, with Nathan Redmond and a Danny Ings punishment putting them two up at half-time and 18-year-old Michael Obafemi scoring his first senior goal to wrap up the success.

  • Obafemi turned into Southampton’s most youthful ever Premier League goalscorer and might have had a hattrick in the 25 minutes he was on the pitch.
  • The feelings were altogether different for Huddersfield, who are four off security after a fifth back to back thrashing. Philip Billing gave them trust by pulling a goal, harking back to the 58th moment at the same time, exactly when it seemed as though they may rescue something, an oversight from chief Christopher Schindler prompted Southampton’s third.

  • Redmond opened the scoring in the fifteenth moment with a savage strike and Ings scored his eighth of the season from the punishment spot, after an excursion by Mathias Jørgensen, three minutes previously half-time. Charging scored just Huddersfield’s fourth home goal in the group before Schindler, who attempted to turn out of inconvenience in his very own zone, was burglarized by Redmond and the wide man set up Obafemi to slide the ball home.

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Match 4 of 10: Bournemouth vs Brighton

Result: 2 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Bournemouth: David Brooks 21′, 77′

Match Statistics:

Bournemouth Team Stats Brighton
14 Shots 10
3 Shots On Target 5
57% Possession 43%
540 Passes 396
80% Pass Accuracy 74%
8 Fouls 18
2 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 1
3 Offsides 2
6 Corners 5

Highlights:

Premier LEague

  • With his innocent highlights and a delicate edge that could be diverted by a hardened winter wind, David Brooks does not resemble your prototype Premier League player. However, not out of the blue this season, the youthful Wales global rose over the shred here to end Bournemouth’s poor keep run of form.
  • Brooks scored a striking individual goal in every a large portion of, the initial an exact long-pass exertion, the second a most impossible arcing header, to allow Bournemouth their second win in eight alliance matches.

  • For Brighton, there was some reassurance in an all around penetrated execution yet they were undermined by one cautious mistake and a red card for Lewis Dunk.
  • Brooks cost Bournemouth £11m when he participated in the mid year, with Howe hypothesizing that the cost would have been a lot higher – and Brooks likely pined for by greater clubs – had he not had his second 50% of last season cursed by glandular fever.
  • Whatever the might-have-beens, Brooks is currently a key part in the Bournemouth side, ready to connect play under strain and discover space among minimized rivals. He likewise has five goals for them and all have had the imprimatur of value about them.

  • His first goal left nothing. Getting the ball 15 yards outside the Brighton box, the 21-year-oldlooked to have just constrained choices before him. Be that as it may, while the Brighton protectors sat tight for a through ball, Brooks checked pompously inside his marker Davy Pröpper and, before anybody could alter, hit a left foot shot crosswise over goal and past goalkeeper Mat Ryan.
  • The second was far better than the first. It originated from a Ryan Fraser cross and the Scot handled his conveyance appropriate on the edge of the six‑yard box.

  • In any case, Brooks transformed a decent ball into an uncommon goal, running before the cross and – with his back to goal – flicking a header over Leon Balogun and inside the far post.
  • For vast parts of the diversion Brighton looked like it as one of the Premier League’s new white collar class. They got their opportunities in a solid first-half execution, remarkably from Yves Bissouma and Lewis Dunk, however they sank after their chief was sent off with 20 minutes to go for a second yellow card.

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Match 5 of 10: Manchester City vs Crystal Palace

Result: 2 – 3

Goal Scorers:

  • Manchester City: Ilkay Gundogan 27′, Kevin De Bruyne 85′
  • Crystal Palace: Jeffrey Schlupp 33′, Andros Townsend 35′, Luka Milivojevic 51′ (P)

Match Statistics:

Manchester City Team Stats Crystal Palace
19 Shots 5
5 Shots On Target 3
79% Possession 21%
733 Passes 213
88% Pass Accuracy 56%
7 Fouls 6
0 Yellow Cards 4
0 Red Cards 0
2 Offsides 1
13 Corners 0

Highlights:

Premier LEague

  • Liverpool have the Christmas present they were searching for after Manchester City shockingly tumbled to their second association vanquish in three recreations. Jürgen Klopp and his players would now be able to enter the bubbly time frame four points clear of the guarding champions at the highest point of the Premier League.
  • While one point isolated the leaders City could anticipate amending the circumstance when Liverpool come here in the new year; presently there may be little they can do if their unbeaten opponents keep up their noteworthy run of results.
  • City were unrecognizable for vast parts of the amusement and not on the grounds that key players were harmed or rested. They were unoriginal going ahead and messy in safeguard, with Kyle Walker having a match he will need to overlook. That is to remove nothing from Crystal Palace, who were sorted out and compelling at the two finishes and completely meriting three critical focuses.

  • That was absolutely valid, for the stun of the season required a significant stretch of time to go ahead, regardless of whether a late City goal guaranteed an emotional finale. The main half-hour was a trial of tolerance.
  • Castle were substance to hold men back, testing the home side to discover a path through, while City’s endeavors to make their abundance of ball possession tally were hampered by their being without the start of resourcefulness that David Silva or Kevin De Bruyne would regularly supply.
  • It was one of those lukewarm experiences that required a goal, however after City at last provided one following 27 minutes the content took an entirely startling turn. In addition to the fact that Palace hit back straight away, inside nine minutes of going behind they were ahead of the pack after Andros Townsend beat Ederson with a brilliant left-foot volley from 20 yards out.

  • First of all however, City would not have seen any of that coming when Ilkay Gündoğan walked through a static protection to achieve Delph’s cross and beat Vicente Guaita with a firm header. The midfielder wound up unopposed on the six-yard line however had stayed onside – the Palace safeguards basically neglected to get his run.
  • The guests’ solitary genuine risk by that organize had come following six minutes, when John Stones went up against excessively much in endeavoring to legitimize his determination in midfield and nearly gave Wilfried Zaha an open door in the wake of being gotten under lock and key in his own half.
  • City could have finished with Stones to assist in barrier when Palace evened out six minutes after Gündoğan’s goal. Zaha showed signs of improvement of Aymeric Laporte on the right, at that point as the ball was exchanged over the edge of the territory Jeffrey Schlupp discovered space to get round Walker and make space for a shot past Ederson.

  • Before City got an opportunity to answer they were abruptly behind and again there were inquiries to be asked of the barrier. A free-kick into the zone was not legitimately cleared and after two feeble headers in progression from Gündoğan and Bernardo Silva the ball achieved Townsend simply outside the territory. The winger returned it with a fabulous volley into Ederson’s upper left corner.
  • Guardiola’s reaction was to send on Sergio Agüero right off the bat in the second half, not for the inadequate Gabriel Jesus as might have been normal, yet for Nicolás Otamendi. That implied Stones was back in his standard position without a moment to spare to see Palace broaden their lead.
  • Aaron Wan-Bissaka brought on the barrier down the right and from his reduction Townsend was unfortunate to see his header strike a post. Walker was exuberant in endeavoring to clear the bounce back, hopping in to a handle and getting Max Meyer in the zone, permitting the dependable Milivojevic to score decidedly from the spot.
  • That provoked De Bruyne’s landing on a protect mission for the last half-hour, with Riyad Mahrez tailing him on to the pitch a couple of minutes after the fact.

  • Until the end arranges the closest City went to a fightback was a Leroy Sané free-kick that struck an upstanding, however when De Bruyne beat Guaita a little ways from time with a plunging shot that looked suspiciously like a cross, the group woke up to urge their side to recover no less than a point.
  • The most obvious opportunity with regards to City’s last push came in stoppage-time when what was unquestionably a De Bruyne cross discovered Jesus on the six-yard line, just for the Brazilian to head over.
  • One chivalrous square by James Tomkins to deny Gündoğan later, Palace had their triumph and a grieved week for Manchester administrators was finished.

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