Chelsea bring City to ground

London, December 9

Chelsea inflicted champions Manchester City’s first Premier League defeat of the season with a 2-0 win at Stamford Bridge to allow Liverpool to move top of the table.

N’Golo Kante and David Luiz were on target for Maurizio Sarri’s men as City paid for failing to take advantage of their first-half dominance. Liverpool now lead City by a point after Mohamed Salah’s hat-trick secured an impressive 4-0 win at Bournemouth.

Arsenal extended their unbeaten run to 21 games, but left it late to beat Huddersfield 1-0 thanks to Lucas Torreira’s overhead kick seven minutes from time to remain level on points with third-placed Chelsea. And Manchester United also finally hit some free-scoring form with a 4-1 win over Fulham at Old Trafford to move up to sixth.

City had looked imperious in recent weeks, winning their previous seven Premier League games, and started in the same vein. 

However, Pep Guardiola’s men missed the injured Sergio Aguero up front as Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane wasted early chances. Chelsea had barely been in the City half before taking the lead just before half-time when Eden Hazard teed up Kante to fire into the roof of the net. — AFP