LONDON (Reuters) – Liverpool churned out one other large victory once they thumped Southampton 4-0 to shut in on Chelsea on the prime of the Premier League on Saturday, whereas former skipper Steven Gerrard loved a second consecutive win as Aston Villa supervisor.
Liverpool have now scored 39 occasions in 13 league video games this season after Diogo Jota’s double and objectives by Thiago Alcantara and Virgil van Dijk eased them previous Southampton at Anfield.
Juergen Klopp’s aspect have scored at the least twice in 17 consecutive video games in all competitions, the primary English top-flight aspect to attain that since Sunderland in 1927.
Villa adopted up their win over Brighton & Hove Albion final week in Gerrard’s first sport in cost with a 2-1 victory at Crystal Palace, with Matt Targett and John McGinn scoring.
Newcastle United’s new supervisor Eddie Howe took his place on the touchline for the primary time after lacking final week’s draw towards Brentford due to a constructive COVID-19 take a look at, however noticed his aspect lose 2-0 away at Arsenal.
Objectives by Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli sealed the factors for fifth-placed Arsenal to maneuver them stage on 23 factors with fourth-placed West Ham United who face champions Manchester Metropolis on Sunday.
For backside membership Newcastle, now winless in 13 video games and with solely six factors to indicate for his or her season to date, the relegation fears present no signal of easing.
Newcastle’s subsequent two video games — at residence to fellow strugglers Norwich Metropolis and Burnley — might outline their season.
“We are able to solely do our speaking on the pitch and attempt to combat again,” stated Howe, whose aspect are six factors from the security zone.
“In fact it is troublesome sufficient within the Premier League if you’re preventing for factors however with an enormous deficit it’s extremely troublesome.”
Second-from-bottom Norwich did not make it three wins in a row as they drew 0-0 at residence to Wolverhampton Wanderers however they moved stage on 9 factors with 18th-placed Burnley who’re at residence to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.
The day’s late kickoff additionally ended goalless as Brighton & Hove Albion’s winless run prolonged to eight matches once they had been pissed off by Leeds United.
The purpose did, nevertheless, edge Brighton as much as eighth place, forward of Manchester United.
Aside from defeat by West Ham earlier this month, Liverpool have been in imperious type of late and had been just too good for Southampton as they moved above Manchester Metropolis into second place, some extent behind Chelsea.
Jota steered residence Andrew Robertson’s cutback to open the scoring after 97 seconds earlier than one other easy end, following nice work from Mohamed Salah, put Liverpool two objectives up and in command inside 32 minutes.
Midfielder Thiago added to his gorgeous objective towards Porto within the Champions League in midweek with a 3rd 5 minutes later and Van Dijk helped himself to a fourth towards his former membership early within the second half.
“The sport felt comfy ultimately however throughout it I didn’t really feel too comfy,” Klopp stated.
Chelsea are at residence to Manchester United on Sunday.
(Reporting by Martyn Herman; enhancing by Clare Fallon)
