City, Reds win; Norwich relegated

It's still advantage Manchester City in the English Premier League title race after the league leader and Liverpool won tricky away matches at in-form teams.

First up was Liverpool, which won at Newcastle 1-0 on Saturday despite resting several players, and was briefly atop the table.

Then City won at Leeds 4-0 a few hours later to move back above Liverpool by one point and also move to within one of Liverpool's goal difference, which is the first tiebreaker in England.

Manchester Citys Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus celebrates after scoring their third goal.

There are four rounds left in their compelling title fight.

With that in mind, Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp rested Trent AlexanderArnold, Fabinho, Thiago Alcantara and Mohamed Salah from the starting lineup.

They should nevertheless have won more comfortably as they dominated. In the end, Naby Keita's first-half goal stood up.

Jordan Henderson and Diogo Jota combined to feed Keita, who stepped inside before dispatching the ball past a hapless Martin Dubravka.

Newcastle had been bidding for a fifth straight win - and a seventh straight victory at home - but struggled to escape Liverpool's press.

Relegation-threatened Leeds also came in with impressive form from being unbeaten in the previous five matches.

But Rodri headed City into a halftime lead, and further goals from Nathan Ake, Gabriel Jesus and Fernandinho sealed the result, which was not as comfortable as the scoreline suggests.

Leeds remained one place and five points above third-from-bottom Everton, which has two games in hand. RELEGATED

Norwich was relegated after Dean Smith's return to Aston Villa ended in a 2-0 defeat.

Goals from Ollie Watkins and Danny Ings inflicted a 10th loss in 12 on Norwich and left it 13 points from safety with four matches remaining.