Wobbling Manchester City finished the year with a crucial 2-0 victory over Leicester City at the King Power Stadium. It was a sweet end of the year performance in Pep Guardiola’s 500th game in charge of Manchester City and their second win in 10 games.
A goal in each half by Savinho and Erling Haaland gave the Citizens all three points, but could not lift them to the top four on the league table.
Leaders Liverpool continued their excellent performance with a comprehensive 5-0 routing of West Ham United. Luiz Diaz, Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah scored to give the visitors a commanding 3-0 lead into the break, only for Trent Alexander-Arnold and Diogo Jota to put the icing on the cake in the second half.
The Reds are now eight points clear, at least till tomorrow when Chelsea and Arsenal will be in action respectively.
In other matches played today, Chalobah and Eberechi Eze scored as Crystal Palace came from behind to defeat Southampton 2-1 as Everton were beaten 2-0 by visiting Nottingham Forest.
Fulham and Bournemouth settled their encounter 2-2. It was the same score line between Spurs and Wolves.
