Manchester City regain the top of the Premier League from Liverpool
Manchester City regained the top spot in the English Premier League after losing temporarily for two hours in favor of chasing Liverpool, who beat Watford 2-0, today, Saturday, so that the defending champion responded with the same result against its host Burnley in the opening of the thirty-first stage.
City raised its lead to 73 points from 30 games, keeping the point difference with Liverpool, while Chelsea's third and European champions' balance froze at 59 with their resounding fall against their guest Brentford 1-4.
After the difference between the two teams reached 14 points, Liverpool rose up with a series of wonderful matches, reaching its tenth victory in a row on Saturday.
What increases the intensity and excitement of the competition between the two teams is that they will meet twice this month, the first in the league at Al-Ittihad Stadium next Sunday in a match whose outcome may be decisive to determine the destination of the title, and the second a week later at Wembley Stadium in the cup semi-finals.
In the first, City repeated its victory over Burnley after it was dropped by the same result, with goals from Portuguese Bernardo Silva and Belgian Kevin De Bruyne, achieving his tenth victory over his opponent in various competitions, during which he scored 34 goals and conceded a goal.
And the runner-up of the Champions League last season prepared in the best possible way for his European entitlement, three days later, against his guest, Atletico Madrid, in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the continental competition.
Burnley, the bottom runner-up with 21 points, suffered their fourth loss in a row in the league after Leicester City and Brentford, with the same score, 0-2, and Chelsea by four.
City decided the result in a one-way first half, during which, as usual, they dominated the ball, and managed to score twice at their hosts, while Burnley struggled to capitalize on the crumbs of the opportunities they had obtained.
De Bruyne opened the scoring after a joint game from Spaniard Rodri to Raheem Sterling and from him to the Belgian international inside the penalty area, with a powerful right-footed shot in the opposite corner (5), in his tenth goal in the league this season.
Sterling returned to the fore with a second decisive pass to German captain Ilkay Gundogan, who continued with a "on the fly" shot that deceived goalkeeper Nick Pope (25).
City's most dangerous opportunity appeared in the second half with a ball from Phil Foden's replacement, Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus, who blocked the post (80).
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