Premier League Match Week 33 Results: Title Not Clinched But Another Straggler Goes Down - Liverpool and Arsenal Both Win; Chelsea Relegates Leicester; Aston Villa Stuns Newcastle; Wolves Clinch Safety; Nottingham Forest Retakes Third With Win At Spurs

The title “race” continues as both Liverpool and Arsenal won this weekend, preventing Liverpool from claiming its well-deserved title. While Liverpool’s eventual crowning is yet to officially happen due to Arsenal’s victory, it is all over for Leicester after their 1-0 loss to the league leaders. A well-earned relegation became official on a day that Leicester failed to score for a ninth consecutive home match at King Power Stadium. The Foxes could not even put a single shot off on target on Sunday. Yeesh.

Arsenal was also little troubled at Ipswich Town in a 4-1 victory. To his credit Arsenal Manger Mikel Arteta played a strong side to delay Liverpool’s clinching for another week. Ipswich Town, which has won but once this season at its Portman Road home, inched closer to officially joining Leicester and Southampton in the one and done club. Ironically, it was the already relegated Southampton side which kept Ipswich Town alive for now with a 1-1 draw with West Ham. The Hammers fell to 17th in the table as the Graham Potter experience continues to trend badly.

Wolverhampton leapt over the Hammers and ensured their own safety in a 1-0 win over Manchester United as the success of Wolves Manager Vitor Pereira stands in stark contrast to the futility of Potter. Pereira took over a team in the relegation zone in December and now has them 17 points clear of the drop after their fifth consecutive victory on Sunday. Wolverhampton is now level on points with  a Manchester United club which has long since given up on its own Premier League season. The Red Devils 15th Premier League loss on Sunday is the most in a season by Manchester United in 35 years. And yet that’s still three fewer losses than shambolic Tottenham Hotspur has posted in the Premier League this season. Only clubs in the relegation zone have more losses than a Spurs side which was once again booed off the pitch at halftime in a 2-1 home loss to Nottingham Forest. The victory by the Tricky Trees snapped a two-match losing run and launched the club back into third place in the Premier League table.

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— Nottingham Forest (@NFFC) April 21, 2025

Newcastle fell back to fourth after a 4-1 capitulation to Aston Villa which put a halt to a four-match winning run by the Magpies. Sunday’s match was important for Newcastle, but Aston Villa needed it more and played with a greater sense of urgency. Striker Ollie Watkins openly talked of his anger at being left out of the lineup for the midweek match with PSG which eliminated Aston Villa from Champions League. A motivated Watkins was back in the lineup on Saturday and announced himself with a goal one minute into the match. The Villans extended their own winning run to five matches to remain in the thick of the hunt for Champions League qualification.

Beyond Liverpool and Arsenal, there are five clubs now in the chase for the three remaining berths in Europe’s top competition. Villa and Chelsea are locked on 57 points, three points below third place Nottingham Forest. Before climbing to the Trees, however, those clubs first would need to get by Newcastle and Manchester City who are fourth and fifth in the table after the weekend’s action.

Manchester City struggled to overcome a determined Everton at Goodison Park but late goals in the 84th minute and in stoppage time delivered the needed 2-0 result which kept the Citizens in possession of the final Champions League berth for now. Manchester City and Aston Villa, both of whom will be playing in FA Cup semifinals this weekend, now face each other in a titanic clash on Tuesday.

Nottingham Forest, another FA semifinal participant, will then face Crystal Palace on Wednesday. The Eagles ended their staggering concession of ten consecutive goals to opponents in a goalless draw with Bournemouth on Saturday. Last week’s win over Fulham was the only victory for the Cherries in their last eight matches as they hold onto European hopes only due to the failures of other clubs. The draw leaves Bournemouth alone in eighth position, usually the final European qualification slot, one point ahead of Fulham and Brighton who both lost on the weekend. Fulham held a 1-0 halftime lead on Sunday over a Chelsea club which was booed off the pitch by away supporters at the interval. The Blues  were once again looking into the maws of defeat for a second straight week before responding late once again in a 2-1 win over the Cottagers. Chelsea had looked miserable for much of a 2-2 draw with lowly Ipswich Town the week before until two late goals salvaged a point. This week, all three points were claimed with Pedro Neto’s stoppage time match winner. Elsewhere in London, Brentford handled Brighton 4-2 to extend the Seagulls winless run to five matches as European hopes for the tenth-place club are fading quickly. Brentford is just two points south of the Seagulls in the table after the Bees’ Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa both scored in the same match for the seventh time this season.

Premier League Match Week 33 Preview

Newcastle United rolled over Crystal Palace by a 5-0 margin on Wednesday to overtake Nottingham Forest for third place in the Premier League table. Newcastle has won five straight and now faces another streaking side in Aston Villa, winners of four straight league matches, at Villa Park on Saturday. Aston Villa’s European quest for this year is over with this past week’s Champions League loss to PSG. A tasty clash is thus set up for two clubs now solely focused on competing in Europe’s top competition next season.

Nottingham Forest had seemed a lock to book its ticket to the Champions League just a short while back. Two losses in a row, however, have left the Tricky Trees not only inhaling Newcastle’s fumes but looking over their shoulder at three clubs who are now within three points of the fourth place Trees. Nottingham Forest could be sitting outside the top five by the time Manager Nuno Espirito Santo’s club takes to the pitch versus Tottenham Hotspur on Monday.

Beyond fifth place Manchester City, Villa and Chelsea both trail Nottingham Forest by just three points with Chelsea holding a superior goal differential to Forest. Chelsea faces a high stakes London derby at Fulham on Sunday. The Cottagers have their own European aspirations which were damaged by a one-goal loss to Bournemouth last week, leaving the Cottagers in a three-way deadlock for the final European place with the Cherries and Brighton, Bournemouth owning the best goal differential of those three Europa Conference League contenders. Chelsea, meanwhile, needed to come back last weekend from a two-goal deficit to nick a point off Ipswich Town, a sure relegation bet at this point. Chelsea’s form has declined in the latter half of the season after a bright start under Manager Enzo Maresca, a trend which was also exhibited by Maresca’s Leicester club last season. Chelsea supporters are left wondering whether the early season success was a carryover from the work of prior manager Maricio Pochettino, now receding as Maresca’s system has become fully implemented and serves to stymie some of the club’s young stars. Fulham Manager Marco Silva, meanwhile, is one of the current Premier League managers being rumored to replace beleaguered Spurs manager Ange Postecoglou. Bournemouth Manager Andoni Iraola, who defeated Silva in their direct matchup last week, is another rumored candidate for the north London job. Somewhat humiliating for Spurs is that neither manager, both enjoying the support of their current owners, appears interested in the managerial graveyard in north London. Although it is probably already too late, Postecoglou’s stock got a boost during the week with his club’s win over Eintracht Frankfurt to advance to the Europa League semifinals. One can only guess whether performance ticks down again in league play on Monday versus Nottingham Forest.

Bournemouth, meanwhile, is at Crystal Palace this weekend with Eagles manager Oliver Glasner also rumored to be in the mix for the Spurs job. That interest may have cooled off with the Eagles now having conceded 10 consecutive goals over their last two losses.

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— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) April 18, 2025

Manchester City scored five times to put Crystal Palace away last week. The going could be tougher for the Citizens this weekend when they visit Everton. The Toffees, having lost just one of their last eleven matches, have not allowed more than a goal to their last six opponents. Brighton has not won in its last four matches, dropping to tenth in the table as the Seagulls need a result at Brentford on Saturday to keep their European hopes alive.

Matches of little interest to anyone but the individual clubs’ supporters this weekend include a visit by West Ham to Southampton and a match up at Old Trafford between Manchester United and Wolverhampton. Like Tottenham Hotspur, Manchester United advanced to the Europa League semifinals while it sleepwalks through the remainder of a best forgotten Premier League season.

Both Liverpool and Arsenal, meanwhile, will face relegation teams in Leicester and Ipswich Town, respectively. A win by Liverpool and loss by Arsenal would result in an anticlimactic title clinching at King Power by Liverpool. The title race has long been over. Arsenal’s thoughts are obviously elsewhere after advancing to the semifinals of the Champions League over Real Madrid during the week.

Premier League Match Week 32 Results: Nottingham Forest At Risk After Everton Loss; Newcastle, Aston Villa Extend Winning Runs To Four; Manchester City Blitzes Crystal Place; Manchester United and Spurs Focus On Europe Matches As Premier League Losses Mount; Chelsea Drops Points, Again, To Relegation Fodder Ipswich Town; Seagulls Crash Land Against Leicester

Nottingham Forest supporters are understandably a bit nervous after the Tricky Trees were felled by a 94th minute strike from Everton’s Abdoulaye Doucoure in a 1-0 loss at the City Ground. A second consecutive defeat leaves the Tricky Trees only three points ahead of Chelsea and Aston Villa. Those latter two clubs are sixth and seventh in the table. The first five places are guaranteed to compete in the Champions League next season. Forest could be in trouble as the loss pulls the Trees back into the scramble with the host of other clubs vying for the remaining Champions League berths behind Liverpool and Arsenal.

Aston Villa defeated Nottingham Forest last weekend and was little troubled in a 3-0 walkover at Southampton on Saturday. The Villans have won four straight matches to jump into the thick of the Champions League qualification scramble. Their rise has been fueled in part by aggressive January moves which have delivered for Manager Unai Emery’s side as Borussia Dortmund loanee Donyell Malen scored the second goal against the Saints, one week after scoring the winner versus the Tricky Trees. Emery’s substitutions were masterful on Saturday as three goals were scored by three different substitutes for the first time in Premier League history.

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— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) April 14, 2025

The victory left Aston Villa level on points with sixth place Chelsea after the Blues suffered a damaging 2-2 home draw against relegation bound Ipswich town. Highly vocal Stamford Bridge supporters let their unhappiness be known when the Blues fell behind by two goals to a lowly side which had defeated the Blues by the same 2-0 score earlier this season. A second half own goal by the Tractor Boys and a beautiful, curling equalizer by Chelsea’s Jadon Sancho quieted the discontent only mildly as the dropped points could factor in whether Chelsea reruns to Europe’s top competition next season. If the season ended today, Chelsea would miss out on the Champions League after dropping seven of the last twelve points available to them in league play. Heads were shaking at Stamford Bridge on Sunday at more missed opportunities by forwards Nicolas Jackson and Cole Palmer. Jackson has not scored since December and Palmer has not scored since January.

Newcastle, tied with Chelsea on points entering the weekend, broke free of the Blues and into fourth place in the table with the Magpies’ fourth consecutive Premier League victory, a 4-1 thrashing of Manchester United. Newcastle is now just a point behind third place Nottingham Forest after Harvey Barnes scored a second half brace to break open a match which was tied at a goal apiece at halftime. An error by Manchester United goalkeeper Altay Bayindir, deputizing on the day for much criticized starter Andre Onana, handed the final goal to Newcastle’s Bruno Guimares. With a win in a rescheduled match against Crystal Palace on Wednesday, Newcastle would move past Nottingham Forest into third place in the Premier League table.

Manchester United Manager Ruben Amorim, meanwhile, tried to quickly refocus his post-match press conference on his own team’s upcoming midweek match, an all-important Europa League quarterfinal second leg match versus Lyon. Pundits such as former Manchester United players Roy Keane and Gary Neville, however, were not letting the Red Devils off the hook that easily as they ripped the club for yet another miserable league performance. With Sunday’s loss, Manchester United is now assured of finishing with the lowest Premier League point total in the club’s history.

It was a brighter weekend for the other Manchester team as Manchester City overcame a streaking Crysal Palace side which had won four times during a five-match unbeaten run leading into Saturday’s Match at the Etihad. Crystal Palace has been among the league’s top performing clubs in 2025 and was continuing that form in carving out a 2-0 advantage over their hosts through the first 39 minutes. Manchester City then obliterated the Eagles with five consecutive goals in a 5-2 victory. Kevin De Bruyne, who has already announced he is leaving the club after this season, had a goal and an assist in the comeback which puts the Citizens a point ahead of Chelsea and Aston Villa for the fifth and final Champions League slot. Omar Marmoush had one of City’s quintet of goals and now has scored six times since joining the club in January, a haul which only Marmosa’s Egyptian teammate Mohamed Salah has exceeded in that same timeframe.

Salah established a new Premier League record for goal involvements in a 38-match season by adding to his league leading assist total in Liverpool’s 2-1 win over West Ham. That assist led to Luis Diaz’s 18th minute goal which was the only score until Andy Robertson added some drama to the match with an 86th minute own goal. Virgil van Dijk, who bore some complicity in Robertson’s gaffe, then set things right with an 89th minute winner which further increased Liverpool’s point advantage over second place Arsenal to 13 points. Liverpool can now clinch the Premier League title as early as next weekend with a win and an Arsenal loss. A win next week by Liverpool at Leicester could set up a possible title clinching match for the Reds on April 27th against Tottenham Hotspur no matter what Arsenal does the next two match weeks.

The Gunners dropped more points on Saturday in a 1-1 draw with Brentford. Arsenal opened scoring with a goal by Thomas Partey before conceding an equalizer to Brentford’s Yoane Wissa, the 16th time this season that Arsenal has dropped points from a winning position in the Premier League this season. The Premier  League, however, is no longer Arsenal’s primary focus. In preparation for the critical second leg of its Champion’s League quarterfinal with Real Madrid this coming Wednesday, Manager Mikel Arteta made five changes from the lineup which defeated Real Madrid 3-0 during the week.

The manager of rival Tottenham Hotspur similarly deemphasized his club’s Premier League matchup, prioritizing Spurs’ upcoming Europa League quarterfinal second leg against Eintracht Frankfurt by making six changes to his lineup. The result was abject embarrassment as Tottenham Hotspur lost 4-2 at Wolverhampton. That made it 17 losses on the season for Tottenham Hotspur, the same as Wolverhampton and more than any other Premier League side not being relegated at the end of the season. The abject display on Sunday included the gifting of two goals to their opponent through egregious defensive mistakes. Things got ugly early for Spurs when Wolves scored before two minutes had elapsed. A brief moment of hope for Spurs, coming on an 85th minute goal by Richarlison, was quickly extinguished when Matheus Cunha scored one minute later for the 4-2 final. The victory continued a late season surge by Wolverhampton under Manager Vitor Pereira who replaced Gary O’Neil in December. In sixteen matches, Pereira’s side has garnered 26 points. In the 16 matches under O’Neil, Wolves had posted but nine points. Sunday’s win marked a fourth consecutive victory and moved Wolverhampton past West Ham into 16th place in the table, still a bad place to be but far better than the relegation which supporters feared was coming under O’Neil.

Andoni Iraola, who succeeded Gary O’Neil at Bournemouth in 2023, has also improved his club’s standing. Despite a recent poor run, the Cherries put themselves back into European contention with a crucial 1-0 win over Fulham. The battle for an expected Europa Conference League berth now has the Cherries, Cottagers and Brighton all knotted at 48 points in the 8-10 positions in the table. Only one of those clubs will play on the continent next season. Brighton hurt its chances in a 2-2 draw with Leicester. Leicester had not scored in eight matches before twice equalizing the match against a Brighton side which now has a four match winless run at a most precarious point in their season.  

Premier League: Match Week 32 Preview

The battle for Champions League qualification is center stage for the Premier League run in. Arsenal’s win over Real Madrid during the week clinched a fifth spot for the league in next year’s competition. Liverpool and Arsenal are comfortably first and second in the league table with surprising Nottingham Forest third, four points clear of its nearest pursuers.

It is then that things get extremely congested, and thus exciting. Chelsea and Newcastle are level on points in fourth and fifth place, respectively, Chelsea holding a goal differential advantage. Manchester City follows one point back with Aston Villa just one point behind the Citizens. Thus, four clubs, no more than two points removed from each other, are competing for the final two Champions League positions behind Nottingham Forest.

Manchester City could be facing the toughest challenge of those contenders this weekend when it hosts a Crystal Palace side which has been nothing short of sensational since the turn of the calendar year. The Eagles have accumulated more points in 2025 than all but two teams as the club has galvanized under the steady leadership of underrated manager, Oliver Glasner.

Oliver Glasner

The Citizens meanwhile have improved versus their dreadful November/December run of performances but still fail to instill any fear in opponents. Manchester City has won but two of its last six matches and looked quite ordinary in a tedious draw with Manchester United last week.

Newcastle, meanwhile, moved past City in the table last week with their third straight Premier League win and now prepare for their own matchup with the Red Devils at St. James Park on Sunday. Winners of 11 of their last 15 topflight matches, the Magpies have also placed an EFL Cup in their trophy case in recent weeks. They will face a Manchester United side which has nothing but moral victories such as last week’s dreary draw with Manchester City to cheer about. The 13th place Red Devils have been largely unwatchable in a string of performances which has made Ruben Amorim statistically the worst manager in Premier League history in terms of win rate and average points per match.

Newcastle will try to keep pace with fourth place Chelsea, which will be hosting relegation bound Ipswich Town at Stamford Bridge. Though a mismatch on paper, the Tractor Boys stunned Chelsea 2-0 in the reverse fixture earlier this season at Portman Road. Sunday’s matchup will see Chelsea try to record a sixth consecutive home victory, a run the club has not seen since 2020. The home crowd will do its best to incent Cole Palmer to find the net for the first time in his last 14 combined league and cup performances. His power outage has coincided with a precipitous drop in scoring from Manager Enzo Maresca’s side from their early season form. Production from Palmer and striker Nicolas Jackson will be essential to the Blues’ drive to secure their ticket for next season’s Champions League.

Aston Villa will also be facing a relegation side when it heads to Southampton. The Saints were mathematically demoted last weekend, with the firing of Manager Ivan Juric following shortly thereafter. The beleaguered Saints now face an angry Aston Villa side which was outclassed in a 3-1 Champions League defeat to PSG during the week. Southampton hopes will rest on Aston Villa resting some of its feature players for the PSG rematch next Tuesday.

Arsenal is on the right side of a 3-0 advantage heading into the second leg with Real Madrid on Wednesday. With hopes of a Premier League title long since dashed, the Gunners could face a trap game with pesky Brentford at the Emirates on Saturday. The Bees had won five consecutive away matches before tripping at Newcastle on their last venture away from home.

Arsenal is 11 points behind league leading Liverpool with the Reds, who host West Ham this week, seemingly able to coast to the title at this point. Overshadowing this weekend’s match with the Hammers was Friday’s announcement that Mohamed Salah has signed a new two year contract with the club.  The expiring contract status of Salah and teammates Virgil van Dijk and Trent Alexander-Arnold has been a cloud hovering over the success of a successful league season. Van Dijk is now expected to follow Salah in committing to the project of first year manager Arne Slot. Alexander-Arnold, however, could pursue his football future in Spain with Real Madrid.

Liverpool and Arsenal holding the top two spots in the league is no surprise. The club right behind them, however, has surprised everyone. Initial shock has now given way to grudging respect for a Nottingham Forest side which has claimed a place in the top four just a season removed from scrambling to survive in the league. The Tricky Trees, however, were nipped 2-1 by surging Aston Villa last week and now face another tricky contest versus Everton. The Toffees are never an easy out, having only lost to Liverpool in their last ten Premier League matches. Wins have been rare of late, however, with the Toffees drawing five of their last six matches.

Outside of those clubs in the Champions League picture are clubs who would be delighted with a Europa League or Conference League berth. Two clubs in the midst of that scramble will face off when Fulham visits Bournemouth on Monday. The Cottagers have been up and down, alternating wins and losses in their past six outings. It has been mostly down for Bournemouth as the Cherries have not won since a February 15h victory over hopeless Southampton. Even with that recent decline, however, Bournemouth is just three points behind eighth place Fulham and a potential European assignment.

Currently resting between the Cottagers and the Cherries in the standings is ninth place Brighton which has now dropped two matches in a row after falling to rival Crystal Palace last week. The Seagulls return home this weekend to face relegation bound Leicester. The Foxes have been terrible under Manager Ruud van Nistelrooy who replaced Steve Cooper in November. Leicester has lost 15 of its last 16 league matches, failing to score in 13 of those contests. Another scoreless effort against Brighton would equal the Premier League mark of nine consecutive matches without scoring.

Tottenham Hotspur underwhelmed its supporter once again with a 2-2 home draw to Eintracht Frankfurt in Europa league play during the week. The league season has been a disaster for the 14th place club. Everything, including the job of its manager, thus rests on a successful rematch with the Germans next Thursday. Expect a lot of player rotation and little focus when the north London side visits Molineux Stadium to face Wolves on Sunday.

Premier League Match Week 31 Results: Newcastle and Villa Get Closer To Europe as Manchester City and Chelsea Stall; Liverpool Loses But Arsenal Can’t Capitalize; Southampton Is Done

Chelsea and Manchester City may well rue their dropped points this past weekend as their pursuers for expected Champions League berths gained ground. Newcastle jumped over Manchester City and came level on points with fourth-place Chelsea with a 3-0 win over Leicester on Monday. Jacob Murphy had a brace by the 12-minute mark as Newcastle easily rolled over a toothless Foxes side which has scored only 25 times in 31 matches. The only one of the top six sides to win in Match Week 31, the Magpies notched their third consecutive win in league play. During that most recent winning run, the Magpies have also captured the Carabao Cup title, their first domestic silverware in 56 years. That Cup title plus Champions League qualification would be more than Toon army could have hoped for entering the season.

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— Newcastle United (@NUFC) April 8, 2025

A bad weekend for blue jerseys, meanwhile, saw both Chelsea and Manchester City held to goalless draws. The scoring difficulties of Chelsea have been quite severe since the turn of the year. Marc Cucurella’s three Premier League goals since January lead the impotent Chelsea attack in 2025 which, in fairness, has been marked by injuries to key attackers. Manager Enzo Maresca held Nicolas Jackson and Cole Palmer out of his starting lineup on Sunday as the two are regaining fitness after injury spells. Their late insertion into the match changed little from the frustratingly poor efforts of Christopher Nkunku who started up top for the Blues. The away fans were unmerciful in their criticism of Nkunku who appears to be one of many busts resulting from the wild spending of Chelsea ownership.

Manchester City, meanwhile, was equally awful in front of the net in a sleepy Manchester derby at Old Trafford. Goal nets in Manchester were safe from disturbance as the two clubs, each in the midst of disappointing seasons relative to their expectations, posed little threat to each other.

Poor play by top clubs was nothing unusual this weekend as none of the top five clubs entering the weekend recorded a win. League leading Liverpool surprisingly lost 3-2 at Fulham but second place Arsenal could only manage a 1-1 draw at Everton. Liverpool sustained its first Premier League loss since mid-September, a run of 26 matches, as Fulham shrugged off an early opening goal by the Reds to score three successive times enroute to a win which kept their European hopes alive. The resilient Cottagers won for a third straight time following a loss as they won for the fifth time in their last ten matches to earn their current eighth place table standing.

The loss meant little for Liverpool, particularly when Arsenal failed to capitalize the next day in a 1-1 draw at Goodison Park. A 49th minute penalty conversion by Iliman Ndiaye was all that was needed for a point by Everton against an Arsenal side which has become boring in attack and overly reliant on set pieces. Arsenal has scored more than a goal in just one of its last six league matches as its title chase has petered out. The Gunners’ season is down to its Champions League quest which begins with Tuesday’s quarterfinal match with Real Madrid.

Aston Villa plays PSG on Wednesday in Champions League in a much better frame of mind than Arsenal. Villa continues to reap the benefits of an aggressive January transfer window as Donyell Malen, a January signing from Borussia Dortmund, scored what proved to be the winner in a 2-1 victory over Nottingham Forest. Manager Unai Emery’s squad has now won three straight and four out of five in Premier League play. The Villans are just two points south of deadlocked Chelsea and Newcastle in the Premier League table, Chelsea claiming fourth on goal differential. Manchester City is one point outside the top five, a point ahead of Aston Villa in the ever-tightening chase for the chance to compete in next year’s Champions League.

In the far gloomier southern end of the table, meanwhile, cellar dwelling  Southampton made history with a 3-1 loss to Spurs on Sunday, making the Saints the earliest  club to be mathematically relegated, with seven matches yet to play, in Premier League history. The sad Saints, who never had a prayer this season, sit on 10 points and could set another infamous record if they fail to surpass the 11 points accumulated by Derby in 2007/08, the lowest point total in Premier League history.

Leicester and Ipswich town are certain to follow Southampton back to the second tier. A 2-1 loss to Wolverhampton all but ended any faint survival hopes that Ipswich Town might still have harbored. Wolves are 12 points above Ipswich Town for the final safe spot with the fumbling Foxes a further three points behind the terrible Tractor Boys.

Brighton and Bournemouth have no relegation worries, but once promising seasons are at risk of disappointing finishes. Brighton was a top four club as of the 13th week of the season but a 2-1 defeat at Selhurst Park over the weekend leaves the Seagulls ninth in the table and European qualification very much at risk.

Crystal Palace, meanwhile, won for the fourth time in a five match Premier League unbeaten run as Daniel Munoz netted the 55th minute winner. The Eagles have taken more points in 2025 than any clubs not named Liverpool or Arsenal. The uptick in form this calendar year has seen the Eagles, who were in the relegation zone as late as November 23rd, rise to11th in the table, two points behind flagging Bournemouth. The Cherries failed to win for a sixth consecutive league match in a 2-2 draw on Saturday with West Ham, the dropped points spoiling an impressive outing for Bournemouth striker Evanilson who scored both goals for the Cherries.

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It will not mean much in the long run, but Ipswich Town supporters will relish a rare magic moment as their Tractor Boys won 2-1 at Brighton to record their first victory of 2025. Liam Delap, recently linked with interest from Manchester City and Chelsea, stroked the winner for Ipswich at the 60-minute mark, recording his 11th Premier League goal of the season. The loss for the homestanding Cherries was their fourth in their last five league matches as the curtain is beginning to close on Bournemouth’s hopes for European football next season.

While the taste of victory was sweet for the visiting Tractor Boys, they remained nine points from safety as 17th place Wolverhampton also came away with three points during the week, blanking West Ham in a 1-0 victory at Molineux Stadium. Wolves won for a fourth time in their last seven outings as Manager Vitor Pereira has revived a club which did not post its first victory of the season until November. Jorgen Strand Larsen scored the winner in the first half of a match which saw more struggles in the attacking end from visiting West Ham. This has been far from a successful renaissance for West Ham Manager Graham Potter’s career. Out of work for 20 months after a short, failed stint at Chelsea, the former Brighton Manager has tidied up West Ham’s porous defense but has failed to nail the Hammer attack. The net result is that Potter has no better record than sacked former Manager Julen Lopetegui as the Hammers have just three wins and 10 goals in Potter’s first 11 matches in charge. Hammer supporters are losing faith just three months into Potter’s so far disappointing tenure and have come to derisively calling their new manager “Graham Lopetegui.”

Tottenham Hotspur supporters are similarly disillusioned with Manager Ange Postecoglou. Spurs lost for the sixteenth time this season in a 1-0 loss to Chelsea. Postecoglou’s antics on Thursday included taunting his own traveling supporters and then engaging in yet another of his testy exchanges with an interviewer after the match.

Everton Manager David Moyes, meanwhile, has been wildly successful in his return for a second managerial stint at Everton. A nine-match unbeaten run for the Toffees, however, ended with an all too familiar outcome with a 1-0 defeat at Liverpool. Moyes has never won a Premier League match at Anfield with Wednesday’s defeat marking his 20th failed effort at the historic ground. Diogo Jota scored the winner for Liverpool while Everton could not manage a single shot on target as the Reds reasserted their Premier League dominance after being bounced out of two tournament competitions in recent weeks.

Bukayo Saka

Arsenal stayed twelve points behind the leaders as Bukayo Saka scored the winner in his first game back from injury in a 2-1 Gunner victory over Fulham. Saka had been out since December and Gunner supporters can only wonder how the season may have played out differently with their star on the pitch in recent months. The injury bug bit again on Tuesday as Arsenal center back Gabriel went down with a hamstring injury, particularly worrying considering next week’s Champions League semi-final tilt with Real Madrid.

Third place Nottingham Forest defeated Manchester United 1-0, a third consecutive victory for the Tricky Trees. Anthony Elanga electrified the crowd at The City Ground in the fifth minute of play by navigating the length of the pitch from deep inside his own end to find the net for the match’s only goal. The loss was disheartening for the struggling Red Devils who watched Elanga, their own former academy player, do them in. The attacking situation for Manchester United, meanwhile, is so bad right now that defender Harry Maguire was playing striker at the end of the match for Manager Ruben Amorim. A Manchester derby is next up for the Red Devils this weekend where the Old Trafford faithful will not be hesitant to vocalize their concerns.

Another discarded Red Devil helped lead Aston Villa to a key win in their chase for Europe. Marcus Rashford scored in the 51st minute for the opening tally in a 3-0 win over Brighton. Aston Villa’s aggression in the January transfer window is paying off as Marco Ascencio, on loan from PSG, scored the second goal as Villa leapfrogged the Seagulls into seventh place in the heated chase for European places. With the title chase and the relegation places seemingly resolved, the excitement in the coming weeks comes down to the battle for those European places. Match Week 31 will include one of those key matches when Aston Villa will try to maintain its momentum against a strong Nottingham Forest side which visits Villa Park on Saturday.

Newcastle also has high hopes for Champions League football after winning for the third time in its last four league matches with a 2-1 win over Brentford on Wednesday. Alexander Isak scored his 20th Premier League goal of the season, but it was Sandro Tonali, known more for his lengthy gambling suspension, who provided the winner for the Magpies. Still energized by their Carabao Cup win over Liverpool, Newcastle appear extremely dangerous in this European chase. The Magpies are currently just a point behind fifth place Manchester City in a year when five Champions League places are expected to be awarded.

The Citizens easily rolled over Leicester 2-0 during the week and now have their sights set on the Manchester derby coming up on Sunday.

A dash of cold water was thrown on the perhaps overly optimistic hopes of Europe for Crystal Palace when the Eagles dropped points to bottom of the table Southampton in a 1-1 draw on Wednesday. Only a stoppage time goal by Matheus Franca averted an even worse outcome for the Eagles. Next up for the Eagles is their odd rivalry match with Brighton this weekend. Crystal Palace is seven points back of the eighth place Seagulls for what could be the final qualifying position for Europe.

Premier League Match Week 30 Preview: Back To Work

The Premier League awakens from its two-week slumber with a flurry of mid-week matches beginning Tuesday. The league has been on pause to accommodate first the international break and then the FA Cup quarterfinals this past weekend.

Liverpool returns to action with surely still a bad taste in its mouth after being knocked out of two competitions in quick order right before the break. The league leaders go back to work with a Merseyside derby on Wednesday versus Everton. The Toffees have been tough to beat as Manager David Moyes has guided his club to a nine-match unbeaten run which includes a dramatic draw gained with just seconds left against Liverpool back in mid-February. The Reds, meanwhile, could be on track to be the unhappiest Premier League champion of all time because of the disappointments suffered in all their other competitions and the recent news that Trent Alexander-Arnold has agreed personal terms with Real Madrid. And, oh by the way, club great Mohamed Salah remains unsigned beyond this season.

Second place Arsenal, meanwhile, hosts a London derby on Tuesday versus Fulham. The Cottagers are smarting from a home loss to Crystal Palace in the FA Cup this past Saturday.

Bruno Fernandes

Nottingham Forest eliminated Brighton in FA Cup action and are home on Tuesday to Manchester United. Real Madrid is reportedly also interested in poaching Manchester United star Bruno Fernandes. The departure of the Portuguese international could well be inevitable as Manager Ruben Amorim seems willing to burn the whole thing down after declaring his squad the worst team in club history.

The Tricky Trees, meanwhile, have enjoyed nothing but good tidings. A year after being relegation fodder, the Trees are cruising along third in the table while still competing for FA Cup silverware. The thought of Nottingham Forest in Europe is becoming real after a multi-decade absence.

Who joins the current top three in the Champions League next season is very much in question. Chelsea are five points behind Forest in fourth position, but the Blues have lost four of their last seven league matches as they prepare to host rival Tottenham Hotspur in a Thursday derby. Spurs are well down the table in 14th as Manager Ange Postecoglou’s job hangs in the balance.

Manchester City has had a difficult league season, but the Citizens are only a point behind Chelsea as they host awful Leicester on Wednesday. Pep Guardiola’s side also advanced to the FA Cup semifinals by defeating Bournemouth over the weekend.

The Cherries have lost three of their last four league matches to fall from fifth to 10th in the table. Recovery should begin with Wednesday’s home match against relegation bound Ipswich Town. Despite their recent travails, Bournemouth is still only four points behind Manchester City, their FA Cup tormentor. Unfortunately for the Cherries, however, there are four other teams between them and fifth place Manchester City in the congested Premier League table.

Newcastle United is currently sixth by virtue of goal differential with the Magpies and Brighton both  level on 47 points, one behind fifth place Manchester City. Newcastle took advantage of its recent downtime to celebrate its Carabao Cup title with its supporters during the break and now looks for a late season push up the table for a Champions League berth. That charge will start with a visit from Brentford on Wednesday.

Brighton, meanwhile, was riding a five-match unbeaten run in the league before bowing out on penalties to Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup this past weekend. The Seagulls will try to gain altitude again when they host Aston Villa Wednesday. The Villans are locked on 45 points along with Fulham, one point above 10th place Bournemouth. Manager Unai Emery’s Villa squad advanced to the FA Cup semifinals with a win over Preston North End on Sunday. Their league form, however, has been spotty of late with just two victories in their last eight Premier League matches.

Crystal Palace, meanwhile, has been one of the hotter clubs in the Premier League going all the way back to early November. The Eagles have lost just three times since a loss to Fulham on November 9th. Nine victories and five draws over that span have lifted the Eagles from the relegation zone to their current 11th place perch in the table. For good measure, the Eagles knocked Fulham out of the FA Cup on Saturday. Palace eases back into league action with a Wednesday visit to relegation bound Southampton.

The relegation picture seems clear at this point as all three of the promoted teams appear headed for a quick U-turn to the second division. The last two safe positions in the table belong to Wolverhampton and West Ham who will square off at Molineux Stadium on Tuesday. All the sides have a quick turnaround as the Premier League will have another full round of matches this coming weekend. 

Premier League Match Week 29 And Carabao Cup Final Results: Horrible Week For Liverpool Ends in Carabao Cup Loss; Newcastle Ends Long Wait For Silverware: Arsenal Tops Chelsea; Brighton Takes Point At Etihad; Trees Prove Too Much For Tractor Boys; Wolves Take Another Step To Safety; Cottagers Sink Spurs

Liverpool was eliminated from a second competition in less than a week as Newcastle defeated the Premier League leaders 2-1 in the Carabao Cup final. Dan Burn and Alexander Isak scored either side of halftime to give Newcastle its first domestic cup since 1955 and its first major silverware of any sort in 56 years. Manager Eddie Howe needed to fight back tears in postgame interviews as the Newcastle manager silenced doubters who questioned whether the long time Bournemouth manager was the right man to lead Newcastle out of the wilderness. In doing so, Howe becomes the first English manager to win a domestic title in England since 2008. Long suffering Newcastle supporters blanketed Wembley with a wall of celebratory sound at match end while Liverpool fans could only shake their heads in shock.

Liverpool has boat raced the Premier League and entered last week with hopes of a treble of titles this season. A quadruple could even have been in sight if Manager Arne Slot had not chosen a heavily rotated side which failed to survive Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup. Then came elimination form the Champions League a week ago at Anfield after Liverpool had taken a one goal lead in the first leg of their tie with the French champions. The Reds failed to score during regular or extra time at Anfield during the week and only a stoppage time goal by Federico Chiesa avoided a similar fate at Wembley. Chiesa’s consolation goal was not enough for Liverpool to overcome a second straight match where Mohamed Salah and his forward linemates were kept at bay by a disciplined opponent. The loss and his individual performance were particularly disappointing for Salah. The Premier League’s goal and assist leader extended a string of disappointments in title matches for both club and country. The Egyptian international has not scored from open play in eleven cup finals played for Liverpool and Egypt. Salah and his mates now turn their full attention to finishing out the Premier League schedule with that title presumptively theirs.

Arsenal reduced Liverpool’s lead in the Premier League table to 12 points, a still overwhelming margin with but nine matches left, when the Gunners edged Chelsea 1-0 at the Emirates on Sunday. Converted midfielder Mikel Merino headed in Martin Odegaard’s corner kick for the only goal in a match of forward depleted rosters. Chelsea’s Cole Palmer missed the match after sustaining  a minor injury in training. Fourth place Chelsea is now just two points ahead of Carabao Cup champions Newcastle with the Magpies having a match in hand.

Manchester City and Brighton are a point on either side of Newcastle after the Citizens and Seagulls drew 2-2 on Saturday. An own goal by Manchester City’s Abdukodir Khusanov in the 48th minute extended a five-match unbeaten run for Brighton which had strung together four consecutive victories entering the match at the Etihad. Erling Haaland’s first half penalty kick for City made him the first Premier League player to record 100 combined goals and assists in fewer than 100 matches.

Nottingham Forest increased its lead over fourth place Chelsea to five points as the Tricky Trees stayed four points behind Arsenal with a 4-2 win over beleaguered Ipswich Town. The Trees were up 3-0 by halftime after a first half brace from former Manchester United winger Anthony Elanga.

Manchester United also waltzed to victory over a relegation zone opponent as the Red Devils swept by Leicester 3-0 at the Foxes’ King Power Stadium. A goal and two assists by Bruno Fernandes powered the Red Devils and sent Leicester and former Manchester United interim manager Rudd van Nistelrooy to the 13th loss in the Foxes’ last 14 league matches.

Wolverhampton added a further point of separation from both Ipswich and Leicester with a 2-1 win over Southampton. A brace by Jorgen Strand Larsen staked Wolverhampton to a two-goal lead before the Saints responded with a late match prayer which proved too little too late. Wolverhampton now has a nine-point advantage in the battle for the final safe Premier League spot for next season.

Directly above Wolverhampton in the table are three clubs currently level on 34 points but with wildly different stories to tell of their league seasons. Everton and West Ham drew 1-1 at Goodison Park as the Toffees extended their unbeaten run to nine matches under returning manager David Moyes. Moyes also spent two tours of duty at West Ham which parted ways with the Scottish manger after last season. A lack of success under his successor, Julen Lopetegui, led to Graham Potter becoming the Hammers’ third manager in a year’s time. Potter’s start has been mixed in east London but there is a sense of hope that the former Chelsea and Brighton manager can restore the club’s fortunes.

Such hope is dwindling, meanwhile, for Tottenham Hotspur Manager Ange Postecoglou. While better on goal differential than the Toffees and Hammers, Spurs’ 14th place position in the Premier League standings is deemed nothing less than a disaster by the club’s supporters. The north London side lost their derby with Fulham 2-0 on Sunday as Cottagers Rodrigo Muniz and Ryan Sessegnon, a former Spur, found the net for the home side. Spurs supporters cannot be happy with Postecoglou waving the white flag on this league season as the Australian manager rested numerous stars, including Son Heung-min and James Maddison against Fulham. Postecoglou apparently views prioritizing the Europa League and merely playing out the slate in the league as his best chance of returning to the Tottenham Hotspur touchline next season. Supporters accustomed to top six league finishes may feel different.

Meanwhile, a promising season has taken a recent downturn for Bournemouth manger Andoni Iraola who is often tagged as a possible replacement for Postecoglou. The Cherries lost for a third time in their last four matches, falling 2-1 at home to Brentford. Christian Norgaard scored the 71st minute winner for the Bees who drew within three points of the now 10th place Cherries.

Premier League Match Week 29 And Carabao Cup Final

Arne Slot

A humbled Liverpool side will take the pitch versus Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final this weekend. The Reds topped the “league” portion of the reconstituted Champions League format. They have cruised to a 15-point lead in the Premier League table. And yet the Reds were eliminated from the Champions League on Tuesday when Dawin Nunez and Curtis Jones missed their shootout penalty tries. PSG had knotted the two-leg tie earlier on an Ousmane Dembele goal in the first half of regular play at Anfield. The defeat was the second exit from a cup competition this season for Liverpool. Manager Arne Slot played a heavily rotated side in February against Plymouth Argyle and his club meekly withdrew from the FA Cup. A Premier League title seems assured but the last chance for multiple trophies in Slot’s maiden season is Sunday versus Newcastle. The Magpies have not won a trophy in 56 years and will be without the suspended Anthony Gordon at Wembley. The biggest question may be the Liverpool mindset. Will they be angry and eager to prove this is indeed a special season? Or will they be deflated by their disappointing midweek loss?

The rest of the league still has business to conduct even as the runaway league leaders are otherwise occupied. The Carabao Cup championship results in a reduced Premier League schedule with Crystal Palace and Aston Villa also sitting out his week’s dance. The feature match is a London derby involving two of the top four clubs as Arsenal plays host to Chelsea. Arsenal is a distant second in the Premier League and their attention may be quickly shifting to the Champions League where, unlike Liverpool, they eased to the next stage with a 2-2 draw versus PSV during the week after obliterating the Dutch side 7-1 in the first leg. Manager Mikel Arteta was able to rest starters during the week and his team should be fresh for the clash versus their rivals on Saturday. Arsenal have been dominant in recent league play versus Chelsea as the Gunners have won four and drawn two of the last six league meetings between the clubs. Chelsea comes into this match, however, in better form after back-to-back victories. The Blues are fighting to stay in the top four with three teams nipping at their heels only three points or less behind Manager Enzo Maresca’s squad. Cole Palmer is expected to be recovered from an illness which limited his participation in the Blues’ 1-0 win over Copenhagen in the Europa Conference League during the week.

Manchester City and Brighton are two and three points, respectively, behind Chelsea in the table. The Citizens and Seagulls meet at the Emirates for another match with huge European qualification implications. Brighton has won four matches on the trot under 32-year-old manager Fabian Hurzeler. Manchester City, meanwhile, has fared poorly against top clubs during a recent run of five matches in which the Citizens lost to Arsenal, Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. The Seagulls will try to snap a 10-match losing run for Brighton at the Etihad.

A glorious 5-0 win over Nottingham Forest at Vitality Stadium in January seems a long time ago for Bournemouth as the Cherries host Brentford at their home venue on Saturday. Bournemouth has been losing ground in its chase for Europe, winning but one of its last five league contests. Nottingham Forest, meanwhile, faces a “trap” game at relegation bound Ipswich Town after the Tricky Trees’ emotional win over Manchester City last week. The Tractor Boys are yet to win this calendar year. Their last two battles with Nottingham Forest, however, have been tight affairs. Ipswich lost 1-0 in a November league clash to the Trees and then lost on penalties to Nottingham Forest in the FA cup earlier this month. Ipswich is six points south of Wolverhampton and safety in the table. Wolves faces cellar dweller Southampton Saturday with a chance to widen that margin.

Everton no longer has to worry about relegation after the miraculous turnaround Manager David Moyes has delivered on his return to the club. The Toffees have not lost since the 15th of January. This match will have extra meaning for Moyes as he faces the club that he led to the Europa League title in 2023 before departing at the end of last season. Moyes might rightfully feel underappreciated by West Ham ownership and supporters who were fine with the results but less enamored with his pragmatic style of play. Graham Potter, West Ham’s second manager of this current season, has won three of his nine matches across all competitions for the Hammers.

Another former Moyes employer is also wondering whether it has the right man in charge. Manchester United Manager Ruben Amorim has only won five of his 17 Premier Legue matches. Last week’s draw with Arsenal was thus something of an unexpected surprise and now Amorim faces the former interim manager who preceded him at Old Trafford. Rudd van Nistelrooy and his Leicester Foxes will host Manchester United with the Foxes desperate for a result. Leicester have lost 12 of their last 13 matches as they sit six points below the relegation line. Manchester United is 14th in the table, level on points with an equally disappointing Tottenham Hotspur side.

Spurs Manager Ange Postecoglou takes his high risk, not so much reward playing approach to Craven Cottage this weekend to face Fulham. The Cottagers are on the fringe of the European places, sitting 10th in the Premier League table after losing a key battle to Brighton last weekend.  

Premier League Results Match Week 28: Nottingham Forest Trumps Manchester City; Arsenal Drops More Points; Liverpool Cruises Past Saints; Chelsea Wins Maresca Bowl, Barely; Seagulls Nip Cottagers

Nottingham Forest proved its mettle once again as the club which barely escaped relegation last season toppled the defending champions 1-0 to remain third in this year’s Premier League table. Callum Hudon-Odoi scored in the 83rd minute of the tense match to take all three points from a Manchester City squad which was held without a goal for the fifth time this season, a low water mark for Manager Pep Guardiola’s time at the club. Hudson-Odoi had been robbed on an acrobatic save by Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson earlier in the match, but the City goalkeeper left daylight at the inside post which was breached for the winning goal. Nottingham Forest, as has been its wont this season, conceded most of the possession to its opponent, waiting to capitalize on a moment of magic.

The Tricky Trees are two points ahead of fourth place Chelsea which sailed past Manchester City in the table when Manager Ezo Maresca completed a sweep of the club he managed to the second-tier title last season. Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Leicester did little to assuage the mounting concerns of Chelsea supporters but Marc Cucarella’s second half goal was enough to frustrate the futile Foxes. Chelsea’s slumbering attack has been epitomized by the poor form of Cole Palmer. The young star who took the league by storm last season, and looked to build on that earlier this campaign, has now gone scoreless in his last nine matches and missed his first penalty kick on Sunday after converting on his first twelve Premier League spot awards. A frustrating afternoon which saw Chelsea unable to solve Leicester’s plucky defense was rescued for the home side when Cucarella bounded forward to find space and strike the winner in the 60th minute.

The excitement of this Premier League season is now clearly focused on the tight battle to qualify for Champions League and the lesser European competitions. The title chase is all but done. Liverpool teased Southampton by conceding a goal on an uncharacteristic mix-up between center back Vigil van Dijk and goalkeeper Allison in first half stoppage time. Three second half goals, including two penalties by league leading scorer Mohamed Salah, ended the Saints’ hopes in a 3-1 win by the table leaders. Darwin Nunez brought Liverpool level in the 51st minute and then drew the penalty for the first of Salah’s two conversions from the spot. Salah’s second goal, his 27th of the season, resulted from a Southampton handball in the penalty area.

Liverpool’s lead in the title chase is now 15 points over Arsenal after the Gunners dropped more points in a 1-1 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford. Following a seven-goal outburst against PSV during the week, Arsenal’s injury ravaged attack was again largely quiet. The Gunners have scored two goals in their last three league matches where they have dropped seven of the nine available points to doom their title chase. With goals at a premium, the Gunners have a small margin for error. An error by referee Anthony Taylor may have helped Manchester United on the match’s opening goal when the official inexplicably set Arsenal’s wall well back from the regulation 10 yards. The extra space made it easier for Bruno Fernandez to find the net and put the Red Devils ahead at halftime. Declan Rice equalized in the second half to salvage a point for Arsenal, but the two points dropped were yet another blow to the Gunners seemingly doomed title chase. For beleaguered Manchester United, now 14th in the Premier League table, there was at least some solace to extending a current Premier League unbeaten run to three matches.

Meanwhile, only five points now separates fourth place Chelsea from ninth place Bournemouth in the chase for European places. The Cherries did not help themselves on Sunday when they squandered a late lead over Tottenham Hotspur when former Chelsea goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga took the legs out from under Son Heung-min to create a penalty kick opportunity. Son calmly converted from the spot to damage Bournemouth’s dreams of Europe.

Both Brighton and Aston Villa moved past Bournemouth in the table with their victories over the weekend. Brighton’s Joao Pedro captured a dramatic three points for the Seagulls when his 98th minute penalty kick defeated Fulham 2-1. Brighton won a fourth consecutive outing and notched a sixth win in their last eight Premier League matches. The Seagulls are now a point behind Manchester City and Newcastle who are level on points in fifth and sixth position in the table, respectively.

Newcastle bounced back from its loss at Liverpool the week before to triumph 1-0 at West Ham. Bruno Guimares scored the winner to deliver only the second win in the Magpies’ last five Premier League matches. Aston Villa remained a point behind Brighton by winning 1-0 at Brentford, Ollie Watkins scoring the winner with his 13th Premier League goal of the season. Victory was sorely needed for a Villa team which had won only one of its prior six league matches and was coming off a 4-1 spanking by Crystal Palace the week before.

The Eagles continued their winning form with a much narrower 1-0 win over Ipswich Town on Saturday. The Crystal Palace attack clearly missed leading goal scorer JP Mateta who was brutally injured by Millwall goalkeeper Liam Roberts in the FA Cup. Such was the ferocity of Roberts’ challenge that he was suspended for six matches for his actions. The Eagles still prevailed on Saturday when Ismaila Sarr scored in the 82nd minute and performed Mateta’s patented goal celebration to honor his fallen teammate. Crystal Palace won its third consecutive match amid a run of 11 matches in which the Eagles have won seven times and lost just twice.

Everton is now unbeaten in eight matches after a 1-1 draw at Wolverhampton. It was perhaps an even more important point for Wolverhampton, however, as the Black Country side moved six points clear of the drop as it increasingly appears that all three recently promoted sides (Southampton, Leicester and Ipswich Town) will be returning to the Championship division shortly.