Hotspur feel Brighton's heat
Leandro Trossard scored as Brighton & Hove Albion as they overcame Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 for their first home win of the Premier League season, at the Amex Stadium, Falmer, here on Sunday. Brighton started on the front foot and Pascal Gross's third-minute shot clipped the left post.
The Seagulls went ahead on 17 minutes, when a cutback by Gross found Trossard, who beat Hugo Lloris with a composed finish. It took a fine stop by Lloris to keep out Ben White's 56th-minute shot, before Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sanchez produced a superb save from substitute Carlos Vinicius's strike.
Aaron Connolly looked set to add a second goal for the home side in the 84th minute, but Toby Alderweireld produced an incredible sliding challenge to keep out his close-range shot.
A second win in three matches puts Brighton 17th on 21 points, seven clear of 18th-placed Fulham. Spurs remain sixth with 33 points.
With a trademark left-footed curler into the top corner and the deftest of finishes from a clinical counterattack, Mohamed Salah ended one of his longest goal droughts in the Premier League for Liverpool
in style.
The champions' chief scorer is back doing what he does best. And that should make them the biggest threat to relentless leader Manchester City in the title race.
Salah's sublime, second-half double set Liverpool on its way to a 3-1 win at West Ham on Sunday, which backed up a victory by the same scoreline at Tottenham on Thursday.
They jumped above Leicester, which lost 3-1 at home to Leeds earlier Sunday.
However well Liverpool plays in the second half of the
season, it will need City to drop its stunning levels of late.
For Klopp, ideally that happens next weekend when City visits Anfield.
Patrick Bamford scored one goal and set up the other two for Leeds as Leicester fell to only its second loss since Nov. 30. Harvey Barnes had opened the scoring for the hosts.
Before that, Chelsea had picked up its first win under newly hired coach Thomas Tuchel by beating Burnley 20 thanks to goals by Cesar Azpilicueta and Marcos Alonso.