Gloom descended on Manchester United once more as they started their festive fixtures with a 2-0 Premier League defeat at West Ham United on Saturday — a thirteenth lack of the season in all competitions for Erik Ten Hag’s faltering crew.
Second-half targets by Jarrod Bowen and Mohammed Kudus sealed the win for West Ham who moved above United into sixth place.(Action Images through Reuters)
Newly-crowned World Club champions Manchester City slipped out of the highest 4 as Tottenham Hotspur claimed a 3rd consecutive league win, beating Everton 2-1 at dwelling in an exhilarating end-to-end conflict.
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With City not in motion after their triumph in Saudi Arabia, Tottenham moved above the champions into fourth place with 36 factors from 18 video games, three behind leaders Arsenal who face third-placed Liverpool (38 factors) within the day’s standout fixture at Anfield afterward Saturday.
Aston Villa are second with 39 factors, behind Arsenal on purpose distinction, after their shock 1-1 draw with backside membership Sheffield United on Friday snapped their 15-match successful streak at dwelling within the Premier League.
Nottingham Forest’s new supervisor Nuno Espirito Santo started with a 3-2 dwelling defeat by Bournemouth which left Seventeenth-placed Forest far too near the underside three for consolation after huge wins for Luton Town and Burnley who’re instantly beneath them.
Manchester United’s gritty 0-0 draw at Liverpool final weekend was seen as a constructive signal for Ten Hag’s inconsistent facet however all of the negativity returned on the London Stadium.
Second-half targets by Jarrod Bowen and Mohammed Kudus sealed the win for West Ham who moved above United into sixth place. Bowen bundled dwelling from shut vary within the 72nd minute after a stunning one-two with Lucas Paqueta who performed in Kudus six minutes later to settle the sport with a pointy end.
United, down in eighth place, once more lacked any innovative in assault and have now gone 4 video games in all competitions with out scoring — their longest such sequence and not using a purpose since 1992.
“We have players who can (score), they proved it in the past they can do it,” Ten Hag, who simply can not get a tune from his crew, instructed reporters. “But we also have to acknowledge the facts that football is about winning games and is about scoring goals.
“We have points, we had many setbacks, accidents. But the gamers on the pitch are ok to win the sport.”
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Matches are not often boring when Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham are in motion and so it proved once more as they ended Everton’s four-match successful streak.
Everton outdated boy Richarlison gave Tottenham an early lead and Son Heung-min doubled the benefit inside 20 minutes to place the hosts in command.
But Everton fought again and wasted a hatful of probabilities earlier than a medical low strike by Andre Gomes within the 82nd minute arrange a chaotic finale with probabilities at each ends.
Everton, carrying a 10-point deduction after breaching Premier League monetary guidelines, remained in sixteenth place with 16 factors, two greater than Forest.
Luton have 12 factors after making it a foul week for Newcastle United with a 1-0 victory at Kenilworth Road.
Winger Andros Townsend netted the one purpose, his first for Luton, to safe a win that had added poignancy because it got here per week after Luton captain Tom Lockyer, who suffered cardiac arrest in final week’s recreation at Bournemouth however has since been discharged from hospital.
Seventh-placed Newcastle have now misplaced three of their final 4 Premier League video games and went out of the League Cup to Chelsea after a penalty shootout.
History was made at Craven Cottage as Rebecca Welch turned the primary feminine referee within the Premier League and whereas it was a milestone day for her it was additionally an incredible one for Burnley who beat Fulham 2-0 with targets by Wilson Odobert and Sander Berge.
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