London (AFP)

Leicester took over as Liverpool's runner-up thanks to a hard-fought victory over Everton (2-1) on Sunday at the 14th day of the English Premier League, while Manchester United and especially Arsenal, held in check (2-2 ), continue to struggle.

. Leicester does not let go!

Leicester snapped up for a sixth consecutive victory and took three valuable points in the Champions League run in the 95th minute against Everton (2-1).

The 2016 champions of England take second place three points ahead of Manchester City, but are still eight units from Liverpool.

A cruel epilogue and could have serious consequences for the Portuguese coach Marco Silva, threatened before the game.

His five-man defense, however, had thwarted Foxes' normally-offensive play.

Taking advantage of a sluggish start to the match, the Toffees had even deceived the best defense of the championship (9 goals conceded in 14 days) on a head of the Brazilian Richarlison, on a center Dkibril Sidibé (0-1, 23).

This had the merit of waking up Leicester, even though he almost had to wait 20 minutes from the final whistle to tie in the inevitable Jamie Vardy.

The center forward increased his lead at the top of the scoring charts with a 13th achievement this season scoring close (1-1, 68th).

And Leicester was not content with this point, but went to win the victory after extra time by Kelechi Iheanacho, gone to the limit of the offside-the referee had also initially refused the goal before being disappointed by the VAR- (2-1, 90 + 5).

. Arsenal: there's work ...

No psychological shock among the Gunners, 48 ​​hours after the dismissal of Unai Emery and the beginning of the interim Freddie Ljungberg. The "smiles" he wanted to put back on the faces, according to a tweet published Friday, will wait.

His bid to secure Shkodran Mustafi, Granit Xhaka and Mesut Özil, three players who have been staged to varying degrees by his predecessor, has fizzled out and underscored the limits of Emery's responsibility for the mediocre performances of the Gunners this season.

The defensive performance was once again catastrophic, including their total lack of aggression on the goals of the canaries.

On the opening score, Norwich quietly recovered the ball 60m to find Pukki at the entrance to the surface without any time an Arsenal player is within range of intervention, until the deflected shot of the Finnish goblin who scored (1-0, 21st).

Same story on the second goal of Todd Cantwell, Onel Hernandez was pressed easily on the left to serve in withdrawal Cantwell who was able to roll right to 15 m goal (2-1, 45 + 2).

Norwich would have even won without a great parry Bernd Leno who deflected a shot from Kenny McLean (59) while Pukki (62) and Cantwelle (63) had the success at the end of the foot.

A double from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang - on a penalty (1-1, 29th) and a powerful cross shot on a ball that dragged in the surface after a corner (2-2, 57th) - will serve as cache-misère, but that the site will be long!

. ManU still lets slip points

While they had the opportunity to go back to 5th place, the defensive mistakes of the Red Devils forced them to draw (2-2) against Aston Villa who, with his 15 points, is equidistant from his opponent of the day (9th) and the red zone.

Midfielder Jack Grealish had surprised the Mancunian defense with a magnificent strike wrapped in a closed angle that ended in the opposite corner (0-1, 11th).

Manchester seemed to have regained control of the match thanks to a header Marcus Rashford pushed in his goal by goalkeeper Tom Heaton (1-1, 42), then by his central defender Victor Lindelof (2-1, 64th).

But a guilty looser allowed the British international Tyrone Mings to put the two teams tied (2-2, 64th), depriving Ole Gunnar Solskjaer of a precious oxygen in this troubled period for the Premier League coaches.

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