London (AFP)

Despite the many absences, Leicester temporarily seized 2nd place in the Premier League by overthrowing Brighton (2-1), Saturday, during the 27th day, while Arsenal fell back into their pitfalls in a draw ( 1-1) at Burnley.

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Leicester does not let go

Led and roughed up early in the match, Leicester left with three very valuable points from his trip to the south of England.

With 53 points, the Foxes overtake Manchester United (51 pts), who will challenge leader City on Sunday for the derby, and they are especially out of immediate reach of Chelsea (4th at 6 points) and Everton (5th at 7 pts) , who have respectively one and two games less.

Brighton (16th), which once again emerges empty-handed from a good match where it will have missed opportunities, is only 3 points ahead of the red zone.

The Seagulls had nevertheless started very well by taking the advantage thanks to a goal from Adam Lallana, who had deceived Kasper Schmeichel with a lot of coolness (1-0, 10th), after being cleverly served by the French Neal Maupay .

The revolt of the 2016 champions came from a very pure strike from the young Sidnei Tavares (19 years old) from 22 meters, superbly diverted by Robert Sanchez (36th).

At the break, Brendan Rodgers had to shake up his much more conquering troops after the break.

It was first of all Kelechi Iheanacho who equalized shortly after the hour mark (1-1, 62nd), before Sanchez, impeccable so far, completely found himself on a corner two minutes from the end, allowing Daniel Amartey to give victory to his family (2-1, 88th).

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Arsenal scuttles

A goal-gag offered to Burnley forced Arsenal to a draw (1-1) which still leaves him far from European places.

With 38 points, Londoners are only 10th at 8 points from the top 5 European places, while Burnley, 15th with 30 points, is 7 units ahead of the red zone.

The Gunners can blame themselves after this disappointing new result which undermines the momentum that could have arisen from the great victory at Leicester (3-1) last week.

The conceded goal, while Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had opened the scoring, on a shot at the near post helped by a small hand fault from Nick Pope (1-0, 6th), was enough to infuriate Mikel Arteta.

Pressed by the opponent, Bernd Leno had chosen to give the ball to Granit Xhaka back to the game and who returned to his 16 meters.

Instead of playing the ball first, the Swiss midfielder retreated further before attempting a hazardous pass to his left which bounced off Burnley striker Chris Wood to finish at the back (1-1, 39th).

Arsenal can also regret an incredible failure by Nicolas Pépé less than ten minutes from the end, alone seven meters from goals (82nd).

Bad luck got involved Pepe finding the bar (84th) and Dani Ceballos the post in added time, but the match could also have turned in favor of Burnley without two decisive saves from Leno in front of Erik Pieters (78th) and Wood ( 79th).

In the other matches of the afternoon, Southampton, 14th with 33 points, ended a black streak of 9 games without wins by going to win at the red lantern, Sheffield United (2-0).

At the end of the afternoon, Aston Villa could not do better than 0-0 against Wolverhampton.

The Birmingham club, 9th with 40 points, has not abdicated all European ambition.

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