Premier League Roundup: Aston Villa bests Leicester, Liverpool and Chelsea draw

Another 0-0 stalemate between Chelsea and Liverpool. Another match highlighting the sharp decline of two of England’s high groups who, at this charge, are unlikely to be taking part in within the Champions League subsequent season.

Chelsea was taking part in its first recreation for the reason that firing of Graham Potter on Sunday however little was totally different beneath his interim substitute, Bruno Saltor.

Indeed, there was one thing very acquainted concerning the groups serving up a goalless draw. That has been the rating on this fixture of their final 4 conferences — each Premier League matches this season and each home cup finals final season, which have been in the end received by Liverpool through penalty shootouts.

The high 4, and qualification for the Champions League, is trying more and more unlikely for each groups.

Liverpool, which ran Manchester City so shut for the title final season, is in eighth place and 7 factors off fourth-place Tottenham. Chelsea, on the again of spending $630 million within the final two switch home windows, is 4 factors additional again in eleventh place.

NO CHANGE

Firing its coach didn’t have an on the spot impact on Leicester, both.

A 2-1 defeat at house to Aston Villa dropped Leicester into next-to-last place and means the crew has misplaced six of its final seven league video games, drawing the opposite one.

Following the departure of Brendan Rodgers on Sunday, first-team coaches Adam Sadler and Mike Stowell have been put in interim management of Leicester however they weren’t capable of repair a leaky protection that has now conceded 51 objectives in 29 video games.

Bertrand Traore got here off the bench to attain Villa’s winner within the 87th minute, with Leicester all the way down to 10 males by that point after Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall collected a second reserving within the seventieth.

Harvey Barnes had earlier canceled out the opener by Villa striker Ollie Watkins, who scored for the sixth immediately recreation — the primary participant to take action within the Premier League since former Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero in 2017.

Villa climbed to seventh place beneath Unai Emery and has received 5 of its final six league video games.

RELEGATION BATTLE

It was a major night within the league’s tightest relegation battle in years — and Leeds turned out being the massive winner.

By rallying to beat fellow struggler Nottingham Forest 2-1, Leeds climbed out of the underside three and jumped to thirteenth place within the 20-team league.

The battle to keep away from the drop stays too near name, although, with 5 factors separating Crystal Palace in twelfth and Leicester in nineteenth.

Forest, which has dropped to fourth-to-last place, took the lead at Elland Road by Orel Mangala within the twelfth minute just for Leeds to show the sport round due to objectives by Jack Harrison and Luis Sinisterra earlier than halftime.

Bournemouth dropped again into the relegation zone after dropping 2-0 at house to Brighton, whose objectives got here from teenage strikers — a deft flicked end by Evan Ferguson within the twenty seventh and Julio Enciso’s particular person effort in second-half stoppage time.

Brighton moved as much as sixth place, 4 factors off the highest 4, and will but problem for Champions League qualification.