Manchester City marches on
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MANCHESTER: Manchester City's relentless march towards reclaiming the English Premier League title continued with a 30 romp over Tottenham Hotspur after champion Liverpool capitulated at Leicester City to suffer a third consecutive defeat yesterday.
Inform Ilkay Gundogan scored twice for City which has now won 11 Premier League games in a row.
The German struck twice in the second half after Rodri's firsthalf penalty, following a foul on Gundogan by PierreEmile Hojbjerg, had given Pep Guardiola's side the lead.
Victory put City on 53 points, seven clear of secondplaced Leicester, and with a game in hand.
Tottenham is ninth after losing four of its past five league games.
Fourthplaced Liverpool's defeat left it 13 points behind City having played a game more and it is now in danger of dropping out of the top four.
Mohamed Salah gave Liverpool the lead at Leicester in the 68th minute but Juergen Klopp's side then imploded again, conceding three times in seven minutes, having conceded four times in the second half against City last week.
``I don't think we can close that gap this year, to be honest,'' Klopp said of the gap to City.
Burnley's 30 win at Crystal Palace moved it 11 points above the relegation places.
Johann Berg Gudmundsson put the Clarets in front and Jay Rodriguez headed in his first Premier League goal of the season to double their lead. Matt Lowton added a third after the break.
Aston Villa moved up to eighth place after a 00 draw at Brighton and Hove Albion. — Reuters