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Liverpool beats Man City 2-0 to move nine points clear in the Premier League

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Liverpool is in control of the Premier League title race. Manchester City is in free fall. Liverpool moved nine points clear at the top of the standings after a 2-0 win against the four-time defending champion on Sunday (December 1, 2024). Goals from Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah exposed the gap between the title rivals and emphasised the deepening crisis at City. Defeat left Pep Guardiola’s serial title winners languishing fifth in the standings and 11 points adrift of Liverpool. Ruben Amorim got Manchester United fans smiling again after a 4-0 win against Everton. In his first Premier League game at Old Trafford, the home crowd serenaded United’s players with “ole” as they played one of their best performances of the season. It marks a big change from the boos that rang around the stadium toward the end of former manager Erik ten Hag’s reign. In Amorim’s third game in charge in all competitions since taking over last month, United produced its best performance under him, with Marcus Rashford and Joshua Zirkzee scoring two goals each. “It is a nice result. It is important with a new coach and a new way of playing; we are still learning. We have to back up this performance,” Rashford said. Amorim is undefeated since taking over last month and United is ninth – four points off the top four. While performances on the field are pleasing supporters, there were protests off it over increasing ticket prices. A banner displayed both inside and outside the stadium read: “Stop exploiting loyalty”. Third-place Chelsea beat Aston Villa 3-0 and Tottenham drew 1-1 with Fulham a week after thrashing Manchester City 4-0. It hasn’t taken long for Amorim to get United’s strikers scoring. Rashford has three goals in three games under the Portuguese, having managed four in 18 before that. Rasmus Hojlund scored twice in the Europa League win against Bodo Glimt and Zirkzee’s double on Sunday were his first goals since the opening game of the season. Goals had been hard to come by under Ten Hag, with United only scoring eight in nine games in the league before he was fired. Rashford began the rout against Everton in the 34th minute and Zirkzee doubled United’s lead five minutes later. Rashford scored again a minute into the second half and Zirkzee’s second came in the 64th after a swift break. Chelsea moved back level on points with second-place Arsenal after inflicting the latest loss on Aston Villa. Goals from Nicolas Jackson, Enzo Fernandez and Cole Palmer ensured Chelsea kept up with London rival Arsenal. For Villa, it’s eight games without a win in all competitions and a fifth defeat during that run. Villa dropped into the bottom half of the standings in 12th place. Tottenham couldn’t follow up last week’s stunning victory against City with another win that would have seen it edge closer to the top four. Brennan Johnson put seventh-place Spurs in front in the second half, but substitute Tom Cairney levelled the game before getting sent off late on.

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Try not to Call Me That Word”: Humiliated Virat Kohli’s Supplication to RCB Fans. Observe

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Indian cricket crew star player Virat Kohli got an energizing applause from the fans during the RCB Unpack occasion at the M Chinnaswamy Arena in Bengaluru on Tuesday in front of the Indian Chief Association (IPL) 2024. Kohli has been a piece of the Imperial Challengers Bangalore establishment starting from the primary IPL season back in 2008 and throughout the long term, the fans regarded him with the moniker ‘Ruler Kohli’. In any case, during the occasion, Kohli asked the host Danish Sait and the fans to not call him ‘ruler’ as he feels humiliated each time he hears it and, surprisingly, uncovered a discussion with Faf du Plessis about the point. “We want to get to Chennai before long this evening. We have a sanction flight, so we don’t have a lot of time.” “You, first and foremost, need to quit calling me that word (Ruler). Kindly call me Virat. Try not to call me that word (lord), I was simply telling Faf du Plessis that I feel humiliated each year when you call me that word. So call me Virat, please, from here on out, don’t utilize that word, it’s extremely humiliating for me,” Kohli said. Kohli would have liked to imitate the Illustrious Challengers Bengaluru ladies’ WPL winning accomplishment and add the IPL prize to the group’s bureau in the impending release of the association, beginning from Walk 22. The Imperial Challengers crushed Delhi Capitals on Sunday to secure the Ladies’ Head Association in the second release itself, however their male partners have been hanging tight for the title-winning second throughout the previous 16 years. “It was totally astonishing. At the point when they won it (WPL), we were watching. Ideally, we can twofold it up with the prizes and that will be something really extraordinary,” expressed Kohli during the RCB Unpack occasion. Kohli, who will begin his seventeenth season with the RCB in IPL 2024, said he would count on his ranges of abilities and experience to decipher the fantasy about winning the IPL prize into reality this year. That is a fantasy of mine to understand what it seems like winning an IPL prize. I will be here, be a piece of the group that wins the prize interestingly. “I will attempt my absolute best with my capacities, my experience to have the option to do that for the fans and the establishment,” said the previous skipper of RCB.

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Afcon 2023: Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah misses Egypt’s next two games with hamstring injury

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Mohamed Salah will miss Egypt’s vital Africa Cup of Nations Group B game against Cape Verde on Monday with a hamstring injury. The Liverpool forward, 31, has also been ruled out of a last-16 tie should Egypt qualify. Salah limped off before half-time in the 2-2 draw with Ghana on Thursday. The result has left the record seven-time African champions needing to beat the already-qualified Cape Verde to guarantee their progression. “Tests on Mohamed Salah, the captain of the Egypt national team, proved that he suffered a hamstring injury and will miss the next two matches of the team at the Afcon,” the Egyptian Football Association said. Salah will therefore only feature in the tournament again if Egypt advance to a quarter-final on 2 or 3 February. Earlier on Friday Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp suggested Salah’s hamstring problem was likely to be severe, given the forward had missed just 10 league games for the Reds in more than six seasons. “He was shocked and couldn’t see why he was hit by something so intense,” said Klopp. “You have these hamstring injuries in a different way. He felt it and we know how rarely Mo goes off, or needs to go off, so it is definitely something.” Losing Salah, who is on the cusp of 100 caps for his country, comes as a major blow to Egypt, who have made a sluggish start to their campaign in the Ivory Coast, collecting two points from two matches. Salah scored a last-gasp penalty on Sunday, after a VAR decision, to help Egypt draw 2-2 with Mozambique to avoid an embarrassing opening defeat, and they also twice had to come from behind against Ghana. The last of Egypt’s seven titles at the Cup of Nations came in 2010, a year before Salah made his international debut.

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Trent Alexander-Arnold: Liverpool defender out for ‘a few weeks’ with knee injury

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Liverpool defender Trent Alexander-Arnold has been ruled out for “a few weeks” with a knee injury. The England international, 25, suffered the injury during Sunday’s 2-0 FA Cup third round win against Arsenal. “Trent hyperextended his knee during the last game so he has a little tear in the lateral ligament of his knee and he will need time to recover,” said Liverpool assistant Pep Lijnders. “He had a scan and he will be out for a few weeks, so let’s see after that.” Lijnders added: “It is a big blow as he was one of our most important players. Even in bad spells he was the one putting the balls where we needed the difference. “We will have to find new dynamics without him because he made our game flexible but hopefully it is three weeks. “He will get some rest and then hopefully he can come back to where he was. Because this guy was decisive in all the games and was the one who created constantly for us from deep and gave the team a high level of flexibility. “We will really miss him.” It means Alexander-Arnold will definitely miss Wednesday’s Carabao Cup semi-final first leg against Fulham at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp’s side then face Bournemouth in the Premier League on 21 January with the second leg against the Cottagers taking place three days later. They then face Norwich or Bristol Rovers in the FA Cup fourth round on the weekend of the 27 January before rounding off the month hosting Chelsea in the Premier League on 31 January. Alexander-Arnold, who was appointed club vice-captain last summer, has made 25 appearances in all competitions for Liverpool this season, scoring two goals. Although primarily a right-back, the academy graduate has successfully pushed forward into midfield at times this season. Liverpool are already without forward Mohamed Salah as he is on international duty with Egypt at the Africa Cup of Nations, while midfielder Wataru Endo is with Japan at the Asia Cup. Lijnders said left-backs Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas should return to training at the end of the month as they continue their recovery from shoulder injuries. Midfielder Dominik Szoboszlai is also still out with a hamstring problem but captain Virgil van Dijk is fit to face Fulham on Wednesday after recovering from illness. The Merseyside club are three points clear at the top of the Premier League and have progressed through to the knockout stages of the Europa League.

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