{"id":385801,"date":"2017-12-23T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=385801"},"modified":"2017-12-24T07:07:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-24T07:07:35","slug":"pl-round-man-city-win-17-straight-newcastle-edge-west-ham-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=385801","title":{"rendered":"PL round-up: Man City win 17 straight, Newcastle edge West Ham in thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man City 4-0 Bournemouth:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Manchester City smashed Bournemouth to continue their record-breaking run with their 17th straight victory in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

Sergio Aguero took his tally of Etihad Stadium goals past 100 with a double, as the top flight leaders\u00a0swept past the Cherries.<\/p>\n

Raheem Sterling also claimed his 16th goal of the season and Danilo his first for the club late on, as Pep Guardiola’s side took their 2017 tally to 101 goals.<\/p>\n

City were not at their sparkling best but still had far too much for Bournemouth, who have now lost back-to-back games 4-0 after last week’s thrashing by Liverpool and are without a win in seven.<\/p>\n

Another win moves Man City 14 points clear at the top of the table at the halfway stage of the season.<\/p>\n

West Ham 2-3 Newcastle:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Newcastle came from behind and managed to hold on in a nervy finale to beat West Ham in a five-goal thriller at the London Stadium.<\/p>\n

Marko Arnautovic continued his great run of form with the Hammers\u2019 opening goal inside just six minutes, the former capitalising on a dreadful back-pass from \u00a0Henri Saivet.<\/p>\n

But Saivet redeemed himself with a wonderful free-kick to pull the Magpies level just four minutes later, and David Moyes\u2019 men then found themselves behind when Mohamed Diame\u00a0netted early in the second-half.<\/p>\n

Newcastle then went 3-1 up when Christian Atsu finished off a neat counter-attacking move, and made the most of some woeful West Ham defending.<\/p>\n

Andre Ayew,\u00a0who had earlier missed a penalty, found the net in the\u00a069th minute to give\u00a0West Ham hope,\u00a0but Rafa Benitez\u2019s side managed to hold on to claim a vital three points.<\/p>\n

Victory lifts Newcastle to 15th, two points clear of the bottom-three, with West Ham slipping to 17th and just a point off the relegation zone.<\/p>\n

Brighton 1-0 Watford:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The hopeless Hornets suffered their fifth defeat in six games as Pascal Gross\u2019s second-half strike earned Brighton a home victory.<\/p>\n

It was a vital win for the Seagulls, who ended their seven-game winless streak with a deserved three points.<\/p>\n

Albion had not found the net from open play for more than ten-and-a-half hours when German midfielder Gross cut on to his right foot and let fly with a 64th-minute drive which flew under Watford goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes.<\/p>\n

The well-earned win was much needed for Seagulls manager Chris Hughton, ending a run of three points from a possible 27 while inflicting a fourth successive loss on the Hornets and putting a little more pressure on their boss Marco Silva.<\/p>\n

Southampton 1-1 Huddersfield:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charlie Austin could face a suspension after his challenge on Jonas Lossl left the Danish goalkeeper with a blood-soaked face as Southampton drew 1-1 with Huddersfield at St Mary’s.<\/p>\n

Austin fired Saints into the lead but later avoided sanction despite catching Huddersfield keeper Lossl in the nose in a bad-tempered south coast affair.<\/p>\n

The striker could face retrospective punishment from the Football Association for his actions, with a three-match ban a possibility, while Lossl managed to play on undeterred after lengthy treatment.<\/p>\n

Austin’s fifth strike in five starts was cancelled out by Laurent Depoitre’s third goal in as many games however, as the Terriers fought back for a share of the spoils.<\/p>\n

Saints frontman Austin later hobbled off with a leg issue as injury cut short his mixed afternoon.<\/p>\n

The draw left Southampton with just one win in 10 Premier League encounters, maintaining pressure on manager Mauricio Pellegrino.<\/p>\n

Stoke City 3-1 West Brom:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pressure on Stoke manager Mark Hughes eased a little following a 3-1 home victory against West Brom.<\/p>\n

Five defeats in the previous six Premier League matches had dragged Stoke towards the relegation battle, but Hughes said in the build-up to the game he did not feel defeat here would spell the end of his four and a half years in charge.<\/p>\n

Chairman Peter Coates, however, described Saturday’s fixture against the second-from-bottom club as “one we need to win.”<\/p>\n

It looked like Stoke would comfortably oblige after first-half goals from Joe Allen and Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting put them firmly in control but West Brom rallied at the start of the second half and Salomon Rondon halved their deficit.<\/p>\n

However, the Baggies were unable to get anything from the game and Alan Pardew is still looking for his first victory since taking over as manager five matches ago.<\/p>\n

More worryingly, his group of players are without a Premier League win for 17 matches.<\/p>\n

Swansea 1-1 Crystal Palace:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leon Britton’s first game as Swansea caretaker manager ended in a 1-1 home draw against Crystal Palace.<\/p>\n

Swansea had put club stalwart Britton in temporary charge after sacking Paul Clement on Wednesday, and there was a familiar feel about proceedings when Luka Milivojevic put Palace ahead on the hour.<\/p>\n

But substitute Jordan Ayew rescued a point 13 minutes from time with a thunderous 20-yard drive – his second goal of the season, with his previous Premier League strike coming against Palace at Selhurst Park in August.<\/p>\n

Britton – half the age of Palace boss Roy Hodgson – oversaw a vastly improved display from a Swansea side who had scored only 10 goals in 18 games under Clement this season.<\/p>\n

But Swansea will still spend Christmas bottom of the league as they seek to make a swift managerial appointment.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

Source: Talksport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man City 4-0 Bournemouth: Manchester City smashed Bournemouth to continue their record-breaking run with their 17th straight victory in the Premier League. Sergio Aguero took his tally of Etihad Stadium goals past 100 with a double, as the top flight leaders\u00a0swept past the Cherries. Raheem Sterling also claimed his 16th goal of the season and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":385802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,11],"tags":[144,11167,1343],"class_list":["post-385801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-top-stories","tag-201718-premier-league","tag-bournemouth","tag-man-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}