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Tottenham Hotspur rose to the top of the Premier League after an impressive 2-0 win over Manchester City, while Chelsea beat Newcastle United and Manchester United secured their first home win of the campaign on Saturday.
Soccer Soccer – Premier League – Newcastle United v Chelsea – St James’ Park, Newcastle, Great Britain – November 21, 2020 Chelsea’s Tammy Abraham scores her second group of goals via REUTERS / Lee Smith
LONDON: Tottenham Hotspur rose to the top of the Premier League after an impressive 2-0 win over Manchester City, while Chelsea beat Newcastle United and Manchester United secured their first home win of the campaign on Saturday.
José Mourinho’s Spurs, unbeaten in their last eight games, have 20 points from nine games, while Frank Lampard’s Chelsea has 18 points after their 2-0 win at Newcastle.
Third-placed Leicester City (18 points) are fourth-placed Liverpool (17 points) on Sunday and would return to the top with a win at Anfield.
Pep Guardiola’s City fell to eleventh and United’s victory put them ahead of their local rivals to ninth.
The Spurs now look like a Mourinho team, solid at the back, hardworking in midfield and deadly at halftime, and that was enough to beat a City team that has only managed 10 goals in nine games.
Son Heung-min’s prolific form continued, the South Korean opening the scoring in the fifth minute with his ninth goal of the season.
A wonderfully weighted pass from Tanguy Ndombele highlighted Son’s perfectly timed run and the forward kept his cool to slide the ball through the advancing Ederson’s legs.
Harry Kane for Spurs and Aymeric Laporte for City had goals disallowed before substitute Giovani lo Celso settled the match just 35 seconds after coming off the bench.
Although Mourinho will have been delighted to have given Guardiola a spin, with whom he faced during his time in Spain when he was directing Real Madrid and his rival was in charge of Barcelona, he did not get carried away by the table.
“We are not fighting for the title, we are just fighting to win every game,” said the Portuguese coach.
THIRD GAIN
At St James’ Park, an own goal by Federico Fernández and an effort by Tammy Abraham in the second half secured a third straight victory for Chelsea.
The Blues took the lead in the 10th minute when Fernandez, under pressure from Ben Chilwell, converted a Mason Mount cross.
Isaac Hayden squandered a great opportunity to equalize in the hour, but Timo Werner broke into the goal before passing Abraham to double Chelsea’s lead.
“We saved the game with a professional performance,” Lampard said. “The result is key because the Premier League is tough and unforgiving.”
A penalty taken twice by Bruno Fernandes gave United a 1-0 win over West Bromwich Albion, their first Premier League win at Old Trafford this season.
Fernandes’ first effort was stopped by West Brom goalkeeper Sam Johnstone, but the referee ordered the shot to resume after declaring that the goalkeeper had drifted off his line and the Portuguese midfielder made no mistake on the second attempt.
Winless West Brom’s frustration was doubled by the fact that the penalty came eight minutes after a penalty award was voided after a review.
Brighton & Hove Albion won at Aston Villa for the first time with a passionate 2-1 victory.
Solly March scored the winning goal with a beautiful shot after Ezri Konsa’s draw canceled out Danny Welbeck’s first goal for Brighton, a smart chip.
However, there was a belated drama when Brighton full-back Tariq Lamptey was sent off for a second yellow card in injury time and a penalty to Villa was disallowed after the referee overturned his decision after seeing the monitor.
(Reporting by Simon Evans, edited by Ed Osmond)
