Liverpool Close On City As United, Arsenal Share Spoils In Four-Goal Thriller
6th December 2018
Wolves also overturned an early deficit to inflict just Chelsea's second defeat of the season in a 2-1 win at Molineux
- Liverpool closed back to within two points of Premier League leaders Manchester City by coming from behind to beat Burnley 3-1 as Manchester United and Arsenal shared the spoils in a thrilling 2-2 draw at Old Trafford
- Given the relentless pace being set by City at the top of the table, Liverpool couldn't afford any slip ups at Turf Moor despite Jurgen Klopp making seven changes with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino left on the bench
- Arsenal stretched their unbeaten run to 20 games, but failed to take advantage of two gifts from the hosts as United's winless run in the Premier League extended to four matches
LONDON, United
Kingdom- Liverpool closed back to within two points of Premier League
leaders Manchester City by coming from behind to beat Burnley 3-1 as Manchester
United and Arsenal shared the spoils in a thrilling 2-2 draw at Old Trafford.
Wolves also overturned an early deficit to inflict just
Chelsea's second defeat of the season in a 2-1 win at Molineux, allowing
Tottenham to move back up to third with a comfortable 3-1 win over Southampton.
Given the relentless pace being set by City at the top of
the table, Liverpool couldn't afford any slip ups at Turf Moor despite Jurgen
Klopp making seven changes with Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino left on the
bench and Sadio Mane missing through injury.
Their firepower was badly missed as Liverpool laboured in
the first-half and went behind early in the second.
A huge error by £67 million ($75 million) goalkeeper Alisson
Becker was at fault for Burnley's shock opener when Jack Cork bundled home
after the Brazilian fumbled in the wet conditions.
However, the visitors quickly rallied to stretch their
unbeaten start to the league season to 15 games.
James Milner levelled just after the hour mark and then
turned provider for Firmino to turn the game around just three minutes after
coming on as a substitute before Xherdan Shaqiri sealed the three points late
on.
Arsenal stretched their unbeaten run to 20 games, but failed
to take advantage of two gifts from the hosts as United's winless run in the
Premier League extended to four matches.
Amid an underperforming side this season, goalkeeper David
de Gea has remained in almost impeccable form, but the Spaniard spilled
Shkodran Mustafi's header over the line to hand Arsenal the lead 26 minutes in.
Four minutes later the hosts levelled when Anthony Martial turned
home Ander Herrera's cross after Bernd Leno saved Marcos Rojo's cross.
- Spurs go third -
Both second-half goals came in a crazy minute as firstly
Rojo turned the ball off Alexandre Lacazette and into the United net in his
attempts to make a last-ditch tackle.
Arsenal were barely done celebrating when the ball was in
the net at the other end as a misunderstanding between Sead Kolasinac and Leno
allowed Jesse Lingard to nip in and equalise.
De Gea redeemed himself with two fine saves from
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan also had a late Arsenal goal
ruled out for offside as Arsenal had to settle for maintaining their
eight-point lead over United.
Wolves registered their first win in seven games despite
going behind to Ruben Loftus-Cheek's 18th minute opener for Chelsea.
Raul Jimenez and Diogo Jota struck in a four-minute spell
either side of the hour mark.
Spurs took advantage of Chelsea and Arsenal dropping points
to move back up to third with a comfortable 3-1 win over Southampton, whose new
manager Ralph Hasenhuttl watched on from the stands at Wembley.
Harry Kane turned home Christian Eriksen's cross to give
Tottenham a half-time lead before Lucas Moura and Son Heung-min scored twice in
four minutes after the break to bounce back from a painful North London derby
defeat to Arsenal on Sunday.
Fulham edged to within a point of safety despite blowing the
lead in a 1-1 draw with Leicester.
Honours were also even in a 1-1 draw between Everton and
Newcastle as Richarlison cancelled out Salomon Rondon's opener.