Manchester City loses ground on Liverpool after Wolves defeat

Champions Manchester City lost more ground on Premier League leaders Liverpool as they suffered a shock 2-0 defeat at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Adama Traore struck both goals late in the match to leave City still second, but eight points behind Liverpool going into the international break.

Arsenal are a point behind City in third after a 1-0 win over Bournemouth while Chelsea won 4-1 at Southampton to move up to fifth, a further point back.

"We were not at our best and when you concede a fast counter-attack, we had chances to score but it was a bad day and lost the game," City manager Pep Guardiola said.

David Silva hit the woodwork but City, who were without Kevin De Bruyne, were second best for much of the game and Traore made them pay with two superb finishes to lift Wolves to 11th.

The first came in the 80th minute and the second followed in the fourth minute of injury time to inflict only a fourth league defeat at home under Guardiola. "We did not make good process, we had problems in that sense," Guardiola said. "We are a team that plays a specific way but it is a bad day, that happens sometimes.

"When you win games, you think about the other one. Now we have the international break, then can come back and go to the other games." Wolves captain Conor Coady described it as "an outstanding day, an amazing week".

"We came here with belief after Thursday [winning in the Europa League] but this tops the lot with how good Manchester City are, we deserved the win," he said. "Defensively we were compact and organised and today we were fantastic."

David Luiz scored the only goal after nine minutes as Arsenal moved up to third thanks to hard-fought win over Bournemouth. Bournemouth manager Eddie Howe said his side were too passive in the first half but were unlucky not to pinch a draw.

"We dominated possession [ in the second half] and deserved a point, we did well enough and had good enough chances," he said. "It didn't quite happen but I'm pleased with the reaction to the first half."

Chelsea are on their heels in fifth after a win at Southampton, with Tammy Abraham, Mason Mount, N'Golo Kante and Michy Batshuayi scoring.