. City have a boulevard to the title

No relaxation for the Citizens, who have a twelfth consecutive victory in the league, without having been really worried by their runner-up Chelsea.

With 56 points, City are now thirteen ahead of the Blues. Only Liverpool, third at fourteen points, but which will host Brentford on Sunday and which has one game less, seems perhaps in a position not to be irretrievably off the hook.

Even more than the result, it is the face of the match, where even the second best team in England seemed completely helpless, which is puzzling.

Certainly, there was this face-to-face between Romelu Lukaku and Ederson in the 47th minute which could have changed everything.

Manchester City's Brazilian goalkeeper, Ederson, deflects the shot from Chelsea's Belgian striker, Romelu Lukaku, during the 22nd day of the Premier League, January 15, 2022 at the Etihad Stadium Oli SCARFF AFP

But the Brazilian doorman perfectly anticipated on his right to block the strike of the Belgian and it was the first strike on goal for the Londoners.

Never, since the arrival of Thomas Tuchel on the bench, Chelsea had remained the entire first period without worrying his opponent at least once.

Without creating a lot of chances, City put their iron fist on the match.

Chelsea's Spanish goalkeeper, Kepa Arrizabalaga, deflects the shot from Manchester City midfielder, Jack Grealish, during the 22nd day of the Premier League, January 15, 2022 at the Etihad Stadium Oli SCARFF AFP

Kepa had to bring out the big game in front of Grealish, who had recovered a hazardous pass from Mateo Kovacic 25 meters from his goals, to delay the deadline (39th).

But the Basque goalkeeper could not do anything, twenty minutes from the end, when Kevin de Bruyne resisted a tackle from N'Golo Kanté to advance to 22 meters from goal and place a curling shot from the right in the small net (1-0, 70th).

Manchester City's Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne opens the scoring at home against Chelsea on the 22nd day of the Premier League on January 15, 2022 at the Etihad Stadium Oli SCARFF AFP

With such a lead at home, City will be able to devote all their strength to conquering the Champions League, the last Everest they have left to climb, and which Chelsea (1-0) deprived them of in the final last year. last.

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Newcastle is still disillusioned!

Definitely, not much is going in favor of the Magpies this season, since they still saw Watford join them in the score at the very end of the match (1-1), while a victory would have pulled them out of the red zone. , even temporarily.

A superb individual action by Allan Saint-Maximin had however put them on the right track: he had stung the ball at the feet of full-back Jeremy Ngakia along the sideline, on the left side, before returning to the box, refocus and address a powerful and unstoppable strike (1-0, 49th).

But at the very end of the match, on a school overflow, Kiko Femenia found the head of Joao Pedro who deceived Martin Dubravka to snatch the draw (1-1, 88th).

Watford's Brazilian striker Joao Pedro equalizes (1-1) on the lawn of Newcastle, during the 22nd day of the Premier League, January 15, 2022 Paul ELLIS AFP

With twelve points in twenty matches, Newcastle remain 19th two lengths behind their host of the day, 17th with one game less.

Newcastle are overtaken by Norwich (18th, thirteen points), who beat Everton (2-1), further darkening the future of Rafael Benitez.

It was only the third success for the Canaries this season in the league.

Burnley closes the match with eleven units but has only 17 games on the clock, the reception of Leicester scheduled for Saturday having been postponed for health reasons.

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