Premier League ’18-19 – Highlights: Manchester City Increase Their Lead At The Top

These are the next six matches of the Premier League, Match Day 14 of 38. The highlights are appended below the points table.

Premier League ’18-19 – Highlights: Manchester City Continue To Dominate

Points Table – Premier League ’18-19

Rank Name Won Draw Lost Points
1 Manchester City 12 2 0 38
2 Liverpool 10 3 0 33
3 Tottenham 10 0 3 30
4 Chelsea 8 4 1 28
5 Arsenal 8 3 2 27
6 Everton 6 4 3 22
7 Manchester United 6 4 4 21
8 Leicester City 6 3 5 21
9 Bournemouth 6 2 6 20
10 Watford 6 2 6 20

For Complete Premier League 2018-19 team rankings, click here

English Premier League 2018-19 – Full Schedule

Match 2 of 10: Manchester City vs Bournemouth

Result: 3 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Manchester City: Bernardo Silva 16′, Raheem Sterling 57′, Ilkay Gundogan 79′
  • Bournemouth: Callum Wilson 44′

Match Statistics:

Manchester City Team Stats Bournemouth
16 Shots 4
6 Shots On Target 1
74% Possession 26%
786 Passes 287
90% Pass Accuracy 73%
9 Fouls 3
0 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
2 Offsides 3
8 Corners 4

Highlights:

Premier League

  • A debilitated and somewhat worked Manchester City still figured out how to open a five-point hole at the highest point of the Premier League, a notice to whatever is left of the opposition that, even with enormous names missing, they can keep up their scoring normal of three goals for each match.
  • City improve, nonetheless, when David Silva is included and, however the Spain midfielder went ahead for just the most recent 13 minutes, it was sufficient to make the point.

  • Guardiola rested a few key players following City’s midweek efforts against Lyon, however the home side sufficiently held pace to inconvenience Bournemouth as Sané and Raheem Sterling on the flanks.
  • The previous was especially powerful in the principal half, routinely running on to well-struck goes from Ilkay Gündogan or Oleksandr Zinchenko to discover space in behind Bournemouth’s flattish back five.

  • The principal goal landed in simply such a way, Zinchenko pointing a ball into the penalty territory for Sané to endeavor to achieve first. The winger figured out how to remain onside and dash clear of the Bournemouth safeguards and, however Asmir Begovic left his line to attempt to remove the threat, he was not able make a perfect catch on the grounds that Sané was in such close participation.
  • Begovic prevailing with regards to clearing the quick risk from Sané however just to the detriment of driving the ball to Bernardo Silva, who unhesitatingly cleared the ball into the unguarded net from near the penalty spot.

  • Ederson, in the City goal, is presently equaling David de Gea at Old Trafford for a considerable length of time spent simply watching amusements without being straightforwardly included, yet like his partner at Manchester United he keeps up his focus to be prepared when approached.
  • Bournemouth may have adjusted a couple of minutes before Callum Wilson brought them level when a similar player got on the finish of a Josh King cross, however his touch was not really decided and the up to this point jobless Ederson made a rambling recovery.

  • Wilson offered some kind of reparation for the miss a moment before the interim, this time getting above Nicolás Otamendi and Danilo to meet Simon Francis’ cross and give Ederson minimal possibility with a firm and very much put header.
  • Turning round dimension was close to Bournemouth merited. City had appreciated in excess of 66% of the main half ball possession, however without David Silva appeared to be shy of thoughts of how to utilize it.

  • Gabriel Jesus was unnoticeable as an assaulting lead, and such a large number of the house side’s endeavored assaults separated on the edge of the zone. Bournemouth progressively ripped at their way once more into the amusement as though shocked at how daintily they were being permitted to get off.

  • As Ryan Fraser and Andrew Surman began to pass the ball around City’s 18-yard line, holes showed up and, as the interim drew closer, Bournemouth were assaulting with the kind of conviction that in the long run brought a reward.
  • Eddie Howe’s group started the second half brilliantly as well, with Wilson straight away advancing beyond Aymeric Laporte to set up a shot for King. City went down the field to hit the post at the opposite end, Sterling completion a gutsy spill with a somewhat agreeable shot that redirected off Steve Cook to strike an upstanding.

  • Unflinching, Sterling began and completed City’s second goal just before the hour, first setting up Danilo for a shot, at that point climbing to conceal the bounce back when the winger’s exertion was obstructed by a blend of Begovic and Nathan Aké.
  • Notwithstanding when back ahead of the pack City hinted at facilitating up once more, so Guardiola sent on David Silva just to be erring on the side of caution. It was a smart move. The substitute had been on the field correctly two minutes when he concocted the go of the match, liberating Sané to cross from the goalline and leave Gündogan a simple short proximity wrap up.

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Match 3 of 10: Leicester City vs Watford

Result: 2 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Leicester City: Jamie Vardy 12′ (P), James Maddison 23′

Match Statistics:

Leicester City Team Stats Watford
7 Shots 8
3 Shots On Target 0
37% Possession 63%
304 Passes 498
69% Pass Accuracy 82%
7 Fouls 6
2 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 1
1 Offsides 1
4 Corners 8

Highlights:

Premier League

  • James Maddison scored an electrifying goal to lift Leicester to a conclusive triumph against Watford, who completed the amusement with 10 men when Étienne Capoue was demonstrated a straight red card.
  • Maddison’s first-half volley, completing off a streaming break, topped a turnaround for Maddison after he was sent off for making a plunge a weekend ago’s 1-1 draw at Brighton.

  • Jamie Vardy’s initial penalty put the Foxes in charge and, with Isaac Success and Andre Gray squandering Watford’s best possibilities, the Hornets were well beaten. The Foxes jumped Watford in the table and sit seventh with Watford – who have won only two of their last 10 diversions – slipping to tenth.
  • The Hornets started brilliantly enough and Abdoulaye Doucouré saw an exertion avoided over however they never recuperated from Vardy’s twelfth moment penalty.

  • Ben Chilwell slipped Vardy through and the striker nipped in front of Ben Foster, just for the goalkeeper to bring him down. Vardy had scored only once at the King Power Stadium this season however he unhesitatingly sent Foster the incorrect path from the spot. Since the beginning of 2014-15 Vardy has won 14 penaltys in the Premier League, more than some other player.
  • Watford had won only once in their past 11 treks to Leicester and their undertaking got harder following 23 minutes when Maddison made it 2-0.

  • The Foxes rode out brief Hornets weight before hitting the guests on the break as Maddison discovered Vardy. The forward spun and encouraged the running Marc Albrighton – and his pinpoint cross discovered Maddison, who had proceeded with his run.
  • His lovely first touch cut the ball down and he juggled past Adrian Mariappa – who got a touch – before volleying into the base corner from 18 yards. It was the 22-year-old’s first goal in more than two months and recovery following his rejection at Brighton.

  • Leicester were agreeable and Demarai Gray terminated wide 10 minutes before the break before Success ought to have pulled an goal back. The striker split away with Gerard Deulofeu and wriggled goalside of Nampalys Mendy – just to shoot inefficiently over with just Kasper Schmeichel to beat.
  • Watford endeavored to rally after the break and Ricardo Pereira denied Success a specific goal when he achieved Deulofeu’s cross in front of the striker. Roberto Pereyra likewise shot wide following 54 minutes in his last activity before he was supplanted by one-time Leicester target Troy Deeney.

  • Demarai Gray pounded against the outside of the post after Pereira’s great run however, in spite of Watford’s enhancement since the break, the Foxes kept up a level of control. What’s more, with 17 minutes remaining Andre Gray blew Watford’s most obvious opportunity with regards to protecting the amusement when, plain, he missed his kick following Success’ knockdown.
  • Capoue at that point exacerbated Watford’s burdens when he was expelled a moment from time after a two-footed test on Kelechi Iheanacho.

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Match 4 of 10: Crystal Palace vs Burnley FC

Result: 2 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Crystal Palace: James McArthur 16′, Andros Townsend 77′

Match Statistics:

Crystal Palace Team Stats  Burnley FC
29 Shots 4
9 Shots On Target 0
59% Possession 41%
519 Passes 356
80% Pass Accuracy 75%
9 Fouls 10
1 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
1 Offsides 2
10 Corners 2

Highlights:

Premier League

  • The signs for this Selhurst Park experience regarding snap and diversion were not particularly brilliant. Goals – or rather, the particular shortage of them – remained the focal affliction for both Crystal Palace and Burnley.
  • Castle at last seemed iridescent: a presentation of eminent style, illuminating the home fans with statement and specialty, not passing up on an imperative chance to get a valuable first home alliance triumph of the season.

  • Considering its general significance in the battle to wriggle far from the drop zone, this could end up being the Eagles’ season-extremely important occasion. Having botched the opportunity to guarantee three at Manchester United in their last, scoreless, experience, this was an altogether unique and energetic recommendation.
  • Andros Townsend’s quality second goal, after James McArthur’s somewhat chance first-half opener, was remunerate for glad Palace supervisor Roy Hodgson. On another inclination, now and again Wilfried Zaha seemed, by all accounts, to be on a performance mission in a duel against attendant Joe Hart, whose fine frame kept a destroying.

  • Presently in the last three, Burnley, in the mean time, were deprived of everything required for survival and neglected to enroll a solitary shot on target.
  • Administrator Sean Dyche’s outfit remain, in all honesty, an inauspicious shadow of last season’s seventh-put side. From a drizzly south London focal point that exciting Europa League capability appears a world away. It would seem that everything has made up for lost time with them, with visits to both Tottenham and Arsenal in the slipstream.

  • After a zippy beginning by Palace, with Max Meyer and Zaha ultra-make, a loved home goal. With 16 minutes gone McArthur cut in what gave off an impression of being a genuinely harmless low ball from the privilege and, with a mix of Burnley protectors Matt Lowton and Kevin Long in addition to Palace’s Max Meyer neglecting to reach, some way or another it advanced into the most distant corner of the net.
  • Castle and Zaha peppered the Burnley goal voluntarily however there was still worry at being not able finish the activity until a little ways from time. It merited the pause, after Zaha cut the bar.

  • Getting together a free ball on the right, Townsend dashed inside and formed himself from 20 yards before rifling into the best corner. It was such a remarkable exertion not in any case Hart, who was on discouraging harm constraint reserve, could stop it.

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