PREMIER LEAGUE
ALEXIS Mac Allister’s penalty earned Liverpool a dramatic 1-1 draw against Manchester City that left the destiny of the Premier League still very much up in the air.
A point apiece means Arsenal remain top of the table on goal difference from Jurgen Klopp’s side but they have to go to the Etihad in three weeks with the gap to City currently only a point.
The Argentina midfielder struck from the spot to cancel out John Stones’ first Premier League goal since April.
Kai Havertz’s header finally broke Brentford’s stubborn resistance as Arsenal claimed an eighth successive Premier League win.
Havertz’s 86th-minute goal, his fourth in as many league outings, sealed a 2-1 victory at the Emirates Stadium in a game which remained in the balance until the final whistle after keeper Aaron Ramsdale’s error had gifted the Bees an equaliser.
Ramsdale’s blunder in first-half stoppage time allowed Yoanne Wissa to cancel out Declan Rice’s opener, but Havertz struck with four minutes remaining.
Tottenham inflicted a chastening 4-0 home defeat on 10-man Aston Villa.
Tottenham moved within two points of Villa with a win that started with James Maddison turning home a Pape Matar Sarr cross in the 50th minute.
Brennan Johnson scored a fantastic second three minutes later and John McGinn’s rash challenge on Destiny Udogie led to a straight red card that ended Villa hopes of a comeback.
Son Heung-min and substitute Timo Werner struck in stoppage time.
Bruno Fernandes and Marcus Rashford both scored from the penalty spot as sloppy Manchester United rode their luck in an unconvincing 2-0 win against relegation-threatened Everton.
Erik ten Hag’s side stuttered as they ended a run of back-toback league defeats to keep their Champions League qualification quest alive with a sizeable helping hand from the visitors.
James Tarkowski clumsily brought down Alejandro Garnacho to allow captain Fernandes to open the scoring, and Rashford followed suit from 12 yards after Ben Godfrey had also fouled the lively Argentina international.
At the other end of the table, relegation-haunted Sheffield United squandered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at Bournemouth.
Strikes from Gustavo Hamer and captain Jack Robinson looked to have earned the struggling Blades only their second away win of the season.
However, goals from substitutes Dango Ouattara and Enes Unal inside the final 16 minutes earned the hosts a point from a pulsating game in Dorset.
There was late drama at Selhurst Park as substitute Cauley Woodrow snatched an equaliser in the final seconds of added time to hand Luton a 1-1 draw with Crystal Palace.
Jean-Philippe Mateta’s early opener appeared to have won a game in which Sunny Singh Gill made history as the first British South Asian to referee a Premier League match until Woodrow converted.
Wolves’ bid for European football was boosted by a 2-1 victory over Fulham which came at the expense of more injury problems.
The hosts made Fulham pay for missed opportunities when Rayan Ait-Nouri scored his first goal since December 2022 in the 52nd minute and Nelson Semedo added a deflected second before Alex Iwobi grabbed a very late consolation.
However, manager Gary O’Neil’s injury problems continue to mount after Jean-Ricner Bellegarde limped off early on and Pedro Neto, who had been passed fit after feeling his hamstring last weekend, pulled up just before half-time clutching the back of his left thigh.
Brighton bounced back from European embarrassment at the hands of Roma by scraping a 1-0 success over relegationthreatened Nottingham Forest. Andrew Omobamidele’s first-half own goal got the Seagulls back to winning ways.
Danny Ings scored his first Premier League goal in more than a year as West Ham came from two down to snatch a 2-2 draw against Burnley.
A long-range strike from David Datro Fofana and an own goal by Konstantinos Mavropanos had put Burnley two ahead. But West Ham levelled thanks to goals by Lucas Paqueta and Ings.