Premier: Nottingham Forest-Manchester City 1-0

A brace of Mo Salah’s penalty completes Liverpool’s comeback on Southampton and further brings them closer to the title: Arsenal is 16 points back (with two less games). In the Champions League race Vittoria Key of Nottingham Forest, which bends Manchester City and shows how much Guardiola still has to work on his.

Liverpool-Southampton 3-1

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Another step towards the title. Liverpool ad Anfield must reassemble the unexpected advantage of Southampton last in the standings in the second half but takes the victory that is worth the momentary +16 on Arsenal, which has two less games starting from tomorrow in Manchester United’s home. The signatures on the comeback of the Reds, who in the premier have lost for the last time on September 14 and who in the last 9 games have always scored at least two goals, are by Darwin Núñez (which he did not score since 18 January and who in the meantime had lost the confidence of slot) and Mo Salah who with his brace from the spot touches 27 goals in the season and 243 with the Liverpool shirt, third in the team ranking of all time. The Slot team (in the stands for the second of two days of disqualification) did what he had not done with the PSG: dominate and grant a goal. It happens in the recovery of the first half, when Smallbone takes advantage of a sensational error by Van Dijk and the hero of Paris Alisson. Slot starts again with three changes and his overturns the situation in 4 ‘: at 51’ Núñez shortens taking advantage of an assist by Diaz, then he earns a penalty (naive foul of Smallbone) that Salah transforms into 2-1 to 54 ‘. The Egyptian repeats himself in the 88th minute (this time Mani di Sugawara) and the Reds take the victory that approaches them further to the title and allows them to put the return of the Champions League round of Tuesday with PSG in the sights.

Nottingham Forest-Manchester City 1-0

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Other than a fairy tale. Nottingham Forest wants to be a reality, a team that earns the Champions League. He demonstrated it by spreading Manchester City, point to 83 ‘from the goal of Hudson-Aodoi that punishes with an escape with the right closed with the decisive goal the only real mistake of the ever under pressure defense of the reigning champions and explodes the City Ground, which dreams of a placement that is worth Europe that matters, one who becomes more and more within reach the season finale is approaching. The Forest remains third and rises to 51, but built a four -point bearing on the City and in the 10 games that are missing at the end will face 6 teams at the moment in the last 8. The Espirito Santo team finds the victory that was missing from 5 games, lengthens the series of games without defeat to 8 races (the last 3 without conceding a goal) in its increasingly hot City Ground, where the fans dream of the memories of the cups Champions 1979 and 1980 are soon joined by freshest memories of Europe that counts. The race to the Champions League is still to be written, but the forest now firmly occupies the first of the three places still at stake, giving Liverpool and Arsenal now sure to end up between the first two. The defeat does not change the perspectives of the City, but adds other problems to Guardiola, who without cups can work with the prospect of one game per week but who discovered that his, who had also made 20 points in the last 10 games losing only with Liverpool and Arsenal, are more behind the expected. Among the biggest problems, Phil Foden’s condition, once again unrecognizable in that role of central midfielder who loves so much: the best player of the Premier 2023-24 now does not score from 10 games and still seems far from the best condition. Like all the City: to close in one of the three places still at stake that is worth the next Champions League, important steps will be needed from here to the end.

the others

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A contested penalty at 98 ‘by Joao Pedro gives Brighton a 2-1 on Fulham (ahead at 35’ with Jimenez and immediately reached at 41 ‘by Van Hecke) which applies to the seagulls the fourth victory in a row and 46 points in the standings, the same as Chelsea Quinto. At 10 games from the end, the European dreams of Brighton are well alive while those of the Fulham, stopped at 42 points, slow down. A few dreams also begins to do so the Palace: the 1-0 on the Ipeswich signed by Sarr at 82 ‘is worth the third victory in a row and 39 in the standings. The next reach of the menu is Brentford-Aston Villa, with the Emery team that must keep up with the race to Europe, the closure is with Wolverhampton-Everton at 9 pm