The lead over Liverpool remains the same
Liverpool FC and Manchester City clinched mandatory wins just under a week before the top game in the English Premier League. The Reds and coach Jürgen Klopp defeated Watford 2-0 (1-0) on Saturday and clinched their tenth league win in a row. Pep Guardiola’s “Citizens” won 2-0 (2-0) at Burnley and remain one point ahead of Liverpool in the table with 73 points. Next Sunday (5:30 p.m.) in Manchester there will be a cracker in the fight for the English championship.
Ahead of Tuesday’s quarter-final first leg in the Champions League at Benfica Lisbon, Portugal’s Diogo Jota headed Liverpool after 22 minutes from a pass by Joe Gomez for a deserved lead. The international missed another goal before the break. Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster cleared brilliantly in front of the free-standing offensive player. After the change of sides, the Reds were still clearly superior, but only decided the game shortly before the end. After a duel in the Watford penalty area between Juraj Kucka and Jota, referee Stuart Attwell awarded a penalty after the intervention of the video assistant. Fabinho converted safely to make it 2-0 (89′). “We can play football better, but we just have to do our things,” Klopp said after the win.
Man City had no problems at Burnley FC. Kevin De Bruyne (5th) and international Ilkay Gündogan (25th) scored the goals and showed themselves to be in excellent shape ahead of Tuesday’s “premier class” appearance against Atlético Madrid. It was Gündogan’s 34th goal in the Premier League, making him the only German with the most goals in the English top flight.
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Third-placed Chelsea FC (59 points) and coach Thomas Tuchel failed 4-1 (0-0) against Brentford FC and were not in good shape before the Champions League hit against Real Madrid on Wednesday. Antonio Rüdiger scored for the Blues to make it 1-0 (48th). Then Hamburg-born Vitaly Janelt (50′) and Christian Eriksen (54′), who scored again after scoring two goals for Denmark last week, turned the game around. Again Janelt (61st) and Yoane Wissa (87th) made the away win perfect.
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