• Premier League vice-leaders Manchester City scored four goals and celebrated a convincing victory over Bournemouth – 4:1.
• Kevin de Bruyne returned to the Manchester team after recovering from an injury and missing one match, but he watched the match from the bench without going to the field, but Bernardo Silva, Riyad Mahrez and Kyle Walker, who played a full match in Leipzig, remained in the reserve. The latter two entered the fray in the second half.
• The visitors worked almost like clockwork in the first half, scoring every 15 minutes – with Julian Alvarez, Erling Holland and Phil Fowden all scoring in the 15th, 29th and 45th minutes.
• It was the Norwegian’s 27th goal this season. It is a new record of the City club in the Premier League. Previously in 2014/2015 Sergio Aguero scored 26 goals in the season.
• At the start of the second half, after Alvarez’s kick, the ball hit Chris Mepham, changing the direction of the flight and giving a four-goal lead.
• At the very end of the game, Bournemouth managed to score an honorable goal. Rodri unsuccessfully tried to send the ball outside his own penalty area and it went to Jefferson Lerma. The Colombian struck the ball from the middle of the penalty area into the net of Ederson’s guarded goal.
• “City”, having played one game more, is two points behind the leading team “Arsenal”, while “Bournemouth” is second to last in the 20-club competition with 21 points.
• The Manchester team will play their next Premier League match on March 4, hosting Newcastle. In the next round, Bournemouth is scheduled to visit the capital with the leader “Arsenal”.
Manchester City have now failed to keep a clean sheet in their last 6 games. Their last clean sheet came against Arsenal in the FA Cup on January 27th.
Leaky in defence. ???? pic.twitter.com/9t4LErb57y
— Statman Dave (@StatmanDave) February 25, 2023
Erling Haaland has now scored the most goals in a Premier League season by a Man City player EVER ???? pic.twitter.com/QYEbJqyNXO
— GOAL (@goal) February 25, 2023
• In Saturday’s final match, “Liverpool” visited the “Selhurst Park” stadium in London, where they failed to defeat the local “Crystal Palace”, the match ended in a goalless draw 0:0.
• “Liverpool” overtook Brighton in the tournament table, rising to seventh position, but the Londoners remain in 12th place.
English Premier League, round 25
| The game | The result | Goal scorers |
|---|---|---|
| Fulham – Wolverhampton | 1:1 (0:1) | Solomons 64′ – Sarabia 23′ |
| Everton – Aston Villa | 0:2 (0:0) | Watkins 63′ (11m) Buendia 81′ |
| Leeds – Southampton | 1:0 (0:0) | Firpo 77′ |
| Leicester – Arsenal | 0:1 (0:0) | Martinelli 46′ |
| West Ham – Nottingham | 4:0 (0:0) | Ingss 70′ 72′ Raiss 78′ Antonio 85′ |
| Bournemouth – Man. City | 1:4 (0:3) | Lerma 83′ – Alvaress 15′ Holanns 29′ Foudens 45′ Mefems 51′ (sv) |
| Crystal Palace – Liverpool | 0:0 | |
| Tottenham – Chelsea |
Overall rating
| V. | A team | S | U | N | Z | Gate | P |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Arsenal | 24 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 52:23 | 57 |
| 2. | Manchester City | 25 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 64:25 | 55 |
| 3. | Manchester United | 24 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 41:28 | 49 |
| 4. | Tottenham Hotspur | 24 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 44:35 | 42 |
| 5. | Newcastle United | 23 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 35:15 | 41 |
| 6. | Fulham | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 36:31 | 39 |
| 7. | Liverpool | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 38:28 | 36 |
| 8. | Brighton & Hove Albion | 22 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 39:29 | 35 |
| 9. | Brentford | 23 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 37:30 | 35 |
| 10. | Chelsea | 23 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 23:23 | 31 |
| 11. | Aston Villa | 24 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 30:38 | 31 |
| 12. | Crystal Palace | 24 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 21:31 | 27 |
| 13. | Nottingham Forest | 24 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 18:42 | 25 |
| 14. | Leicester City | 24 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 36:42 | 24 |
| 15. | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 24 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 18:33 | 24 |
| 16. | West Ham United | 24 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 23:29 | 23 |
| 17. | Leeds United | 24 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 29:39 | 22 |
| 18. | Everton | 24 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 17:32 | 21 |
| 19. | Bournemouth | 24 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 22:48 | 21 |
| 20. | Southampton | 24 | 5 | 3 | 16 | 19:41 | 18 |
Top goal scorers
| V | Player | A team | Number of |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Earling Holland | Man. City | 27 (4) |
| 2. | Harry Kane | Tottenham | 17 (2) |
| 3. | Ivan Toney | Brentford | 14 (4) |
| 4. | Marcus Rashford | Man. United | 14 |
| 5. | Aleksandar Mitrovic | Fulham | 11 (3) |
| 6. | Miguel Almiron | Newcastle | 10 |
| 7. | Rodrigo | Leeds United | 10 (1) |
| 8. | James Madison | Leicester | 9 |
| Bukajo Saka | Arsenal | 9 | |
| Gabriel Martinelli | Arsenal | 9 |
