City had returned with a landslide victory over Norwich City by 4-0, to achieve its fourteenth victory against one draw in the last 15 matches in the league, to raise its score to 63 points, compared to 54 for Liverpool.
“The difference is between 12 and 9 because City always plays before us,” said Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp. In any case, we are not thinking about the title at the moment.”
“The match against Burnley could have been a trap, especially as it was played in difficult weather conditions and strong winds, but we managed to win it,” he added.
And participated in the ranks of Liverpool, Senegalese striker Sadio Mane, returning from his participation in the African Nations Cup, where he contributed greatly to crowning his country’s continental title for the first time in its history and won the award for the best player in the tournament.
And Mane played alongside the Egyptian Mohamed Salah, who also participated for the first time (he participated as a reserve in the middle of the week during the victory over Leicester City) since his return from Cameroon, where the Pharaohs lost the final.
Although Burnley finished last, they were a stubborn rival to Liverpool and had two chances at the beginning of the match, as Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson saved Josh Brownhill’s curling shot, while Burnley’s new Dutch striker Vot Figurst missed a good opportunity when he tried to drop the ball in the goal with a technical movement without to succeed.
Brazilian Fabinho managed to use a corner kick to score the lead for Liverpool five minutes before the end of the first half.
Burnley tried to equalize in the second half, but their attacking futility, which saw him score 17 goals in 21 league games, continued. On the other hand, Liverpool could have added the second goal when Salah passed an elegant ball towards Portuguese substitute Diogo Jota, but Burnley defender James Tarkowski removed the danger at the last moment. .
Wolverhampton dealt a blow to Tottenham’s hopes of occupying one of the qualifying spots for the Champions League by defeating them 2-0 at home, in addition to their second loss within four days after the North London team fell at home also against Southampton 2-3 in the middle of the week.
Mexican Raul Jimenez gave Wolverhampton the lead when he rebounded from French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris after 16 minutes. And soon he added the second Belgian midfielder Leander Dendoncker, taking advantage of the derbka in front of the goal (18).
Wolverhampton, who climbed to seventh place at the expense of Tottenham in particular, managed to achieve its fourth win in a row away from home, for the first time since 1980.
Tottenham coach Antonio Conte expressed his indignation at the result, saying, “We created a lot of chances, but in the end we suffered a new loss. I can’t find any explanation for the bad start to the match for us.”
The fourth West Ham drew a difficult draw at the last minute from its host, Leicester City, 2-2.
The London team took the lead through Jared Bowen after 10 minutes, but Belgian playmaker Yuri Tielemans equalized from a penalty kick in added time in the first half. Then Leicester advanced by heading to his Portuguese back Ricardo Pereira (57).
West Ham managed to grab a point when Craig Dawson scored the equalizer with a header using a corner kick in the first minute of overtime.
Newcastle strengthened its chances of staying among the elite clubs with its third successive victory over Aston Villa, thanks to its right-back Kieran Trippier from a direct free kick (35).
The referee had awarded the start of Newcastle a penalty kick after Calum Chambers, transferred from Arsenal, obstructed Joe Wilcock, but he returned and calculated the direct free kick from which Trippier scored after resorting to video assistant technology, and it was found that the obstruction occurred outside the area.
Newcastle is now 4 points ahead of the first relegated.