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Liverpool moved nine points clear at the top of the Premier League after a potentially season-defining 2-0 victory over a Manchester City side in disarray.
That Pep Guardiola’s team are now 11 points adrift in fifth after a seventh match without victory says everything about the club’s current crisis which showed no signs of ending at Anfield, where they have won on only one of the last 22 league visits.
City have now lost four league games in a row in the same campaign for the first time since 2007.
Arsenal are the closest challengers but even they have work to do after Arne Slot’s side won an 18th match out of 20 this term with a degree of comfort.
Cody Gakpo’s 12th-minute strike was all the hosts had for an opening barrage and it needed Mohamed Salah’s late penalty - the sixth successive league match in which he has scored and his sixth goal in eight appearances against City - to secure the points.
Man United crush Everton
Marcus Rashford and Joshua Zirkzee netted a brace apiece as Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim secured his first Premier League win in comprehensive fashion against Everton.
Amorim’s name echoed around the ground as United cruised to a resounding 4-0 triumph over Sean Dyche’s Toffees, moving up to ninth as as result.
United had tried during the summer to sign the defender, whose first half to forget continued when dispossessed by Amad Diallo before Zirkzee struck his first goal since the season opener.
Diallo shone throughout Sunday’s game, the 22-year-old providing Rashford’s second goal 20 seconds after half-time before then brilliantly winning the ball and setting up Zirkzee.
Chelsea climbed into second 3-0 over ailing Aston Villa while Tottenham Hotspur were held 1-1 by Fulham.
Premier League Sunday Results:
Chelsea 3 Aston Villa 0
Manchester United 4 Everton 0
Tottenham Hotspur 1 Fulham 1
Liverpool 2 Manchester City 0.
