Manchester City, as usual, and a catastrophic mistake disrupts the Liverpool machine

Manchester City continued their successive victories and strengthened their lead when they deepened their host Newcastle with a clean four, taking advantage of the stumble of their direct chaser Liverpool against their host Tottenham 2-2, while Chelsea continued to bleed points by falling into the trap of a goalless draw against its host Wolverhampton on Sunday in the eighteenth stage of the English Football League.

In the first match, the defending champion decided the result of the match in its first half by scoring two goals with a Portuguese flavour. The first was early, specifically in the fifth minute, through his international defender Ruben Diach with a header after a cross pass to his fellow international defender Joao Cancelo, who added the second goal with a powerful shot from his right from outside the area After a pass from the Algerian international Riyad Mahrez.

Mahrez boosted Manchester City's lead with the third goal at the beginning of the second half when he took advantage of a cross pass from Ukrainian international defender Alexander Zinchenko inside the area, so he followed it with his left into the goal (63).

Raheem Sterling concluded the festival with the fourth goal when he took advantage of a ball on a plate after a wonderful individual stalemate by Brazilian international striker Gabriel Jesus from the left side, so he followed the ball easily into the empty goal.

It was City's 34th league win in 2021, setting a new record for the most wins by an elite team in a calendar year.

His Spanish coach Pep Guardiola commented, "I prefer to win titles, but when you break a record for a long time, in a calendar year, most of the wins, are constant."

"You win games, you win games, you win games, and that's the most valuable asset this team has," he added.

Tottenham brake Liverpool

It is the eighth win in a row for Manchester City and the fourteenth this season, which strengthened its position in the lead with 44 points, expanding the difference from one point to three points from its direct chaser, Liverpool, who fell into the trap of a draw against its host Tottenham 2-2.

The successive victories of Liverpool stopped at six and came out with a valuable point in view of the many absences that he suffered, most notably Dutch defense pole Virgil van Dijk, midfielders Curtis Jones, Spaniard Thiago Alcantara, Brazilian Fabinho, captain Jordan Henderson and Belgium’s Devork Origi, as well as completing the match with ten Scottish players, after Andrew sent off his defender. Robertson (77).

Liverpool was the best party at the beginning of the match and almost opened the scoring early with its left defender Robertson header from close range next to the left post (2), and a powerful shot by the other defender Trent Alexander-Arnold from outside the area, the French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris narrowly missed it to a corner (11).

Tottenham managed to open the scoring, contrary to the course of play, and from a counter-attack after a through pass inside the area from the French Tanguy Ndombele to the intrusive Harry Kane, and he hit it in his right hand to the right of Brazilian goalkeeper Alison Becker (13).

It is Caen's first goal on his team's land this season, putting an end to a fast for eight games at Tottenham Hotspur, specifically 788 minutes.

And Tottenham almost added the second goal from a counter-attack led by Kane and passed the ball to the South Korean international, Heung-Min Son solo, so he followed it from close range next to the right post (16).

Guinean international midfielder Naby Keita kicked a powerful ball from outside the area, which was kept by Loris for a corner (23).

Dele Alli missed a golden opportunity to strengthen after a superb pass from Son, which was kept away by Allison with his fingertips to a corner that did not bear fruit (29).

And the Portuguese international, Diego Jota, managed to equalize Liverpool with a header from close range after a cross pass from Robertston (35).

It is the tenth goal of Jota this season.

Loris saved his own goal by blocking a shot at the bird by Alexander-Arnold from inside the area (42).

Caen missed a golden opportunity to strengthen when he received a ball from Ali inside the area, so he tried to play it in front of Alison instead of shooting it inside the empty goal, so the latter saved it before the defense dispersed it (55).

Caen received a ball with the heel of the Senegalese international Liverpool striker Sadio Mane in front of the empty goal after a corner kick he headed over the crossbar (56).

Liverpool succeeded in advancing with Robertson's header from close range after a pass from Alexander-Trent after a ball away from Lewis after a darbka in front of the goal (70).

Robertston became the first player to score, assist and be sent off in the English Premier League since Serbian Mitrovic in 2016.

Tottenham equalized with a disastrous mistake by the Liverpool goalkeeper in dispersing a through ball in his area in front of Son, and it was prepared in front of the latter, who followed it inside the empty goal (74).

Liverpool suffered a painful blow by expelling its defender Robertson after a strong intervention from the back on Brazilian defender Emerson, which was confirmed by referee Paul Tierney after resorting to the video assistant referee technology "VAR" (77).

Chelsea continues to bleed points

In the third, Chelsea continued to bleed points by falling into the trap of a draw for the second time in a row, against its host Wolverhampton in a negative way, after it drew 1-1 with its guest, Ifton, in the last stage.

It is the third time in the last four matches that the London team has failed to win (lost against its neighbor West Ham 2-3 in the fifteenth stage), so it wasted seven points and widened the difference between it and the leaders Manchester City to six points, knowing that Chelsea was the leader before Four stages.

Chelsea played the match in the absence of seven main players due to injury and the “Covid-19” virus, they are Ben Chilwell, the Germans Kai Havertz and Timo Werner, the Belgian Romelu Lukaku, the Italian Jorginho, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Callum Hudson-Odoi.

The London club asked to postpone the match two hours before its start due to the infection of some of its players with the epidemic, as it had only six players, including two goalkeepers (the Spaniard Kepa Arrisabalaga and Marcos Petinelli), on the bench, but the League rejected it on the grounds that the "Blues" have enough players to play the match. According to the English Premier League regulations.

A Chelsea spokesman said: "We are very disappointed that our request was rejected as we felt we had a strong case to postpone today's match on the basis of the players' health and safety."

For his part, his German coach Thomas Tuchel told "Sky Sports", "We applied to not play and take control of the situation, but it was rejected. It is very difficult to understand and we are very concerned about the health of the players," adding, "We ended up playing it with players coming from injuries and they had We risked including them."

It is noteworthy that five of the six matches that were scheduled for Saturday have been postponed, and the match between Everton and Leicester City has also been postponed today.

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