Manchester City reignited their title challenge by bouncing back from Monday’s 2-1 defeat at Arsenal with a breezy 4-1 win over second-bottom Sunderland that left them three points off the summit.
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Guptill destroys Sri Lanka bowlers
Guptill had been on course to break AB de Villiers’ record – fifty in 16 balls – when he moved to 46 off 12 deliveries. Ish Sodhi took a wicket with Dushmantha Chameera (9), with Nuwan Kulasekara (19) the last to go for the Sri Lankans.
“Leicester’s defeat, only their second of the season, means that Arsenal can go top if they win at Southampton later on Boxing Day”.
Titans QB Marcus Mariota out for season with MCL sprain
Afterward, Mularkey said the Titans discussed putting Mariota back in, but made a decision to err on the side of caution. Chris Mortensen of ESPN said he has a sprained MCL, the same injury he had earlier this year that cost him some time.
“If they don’t have that desire then I will say: ‘Thank you very much.’ I don’t need players who don’t have the desire”.
Daniel Sturridge has some good news for Liverpool fans
When asked about his side’s Champions League chances, the German replied: “You can not believe how uninteresting this is for me at this moment”.
Arsenal wasted a Boxing Day opportunity to knock Leicester off the top of the table when they were out-thought, outmuscled and outplayed as Shane Long scored twice in a shock 4-0 romp for mid-table Southampton. Arsenal come into the day behind Leicester City and sitting at second place in the table. “At halftime, we knew if we stayed concentrated we would get our chances because the players looked good and it was not too intensive for us in the first half”, manager Juergen Klopp said.
Man United manager Louis van Gaal might not stick around in England to see if Leicester can win the league for the first time.
United are winless in seven games, their worst spell since the 1989-1990 season, and fall to sixth place.
“I do my utmost best to find solutions to cope with the pressure”, Van Gaal said. It did the manager no favors, but at the very least he did not turn on his own players who were the most culpable on Saturday evening.
Raheem Sterling, Yaya Toure, Wilfried Bony and Kevin de Bruyne scored as Manchester City warmed up for their trip to Leicester on Tuesday with an easy win.
Southampton are without a win in six games, but Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has warned his team that the victory over City will soon be forgotten if they allow their level to drop at St Mary’s.
“At the end it is a fair result”, Hiddink said. Watford, as we previously mentioned, have been a real surprise package this year, the newly promoted club dismantled Liverpool last weekend and are now lying in a very respectable seventh.
“They have got good individual talent”.
Watford, who had won four successive Premier League matches, went ahead early in the second half through a deflected effort from Odion Ighalo (56), but Chelsea soon levelled when Costa (65) beat the offside trap down the right and slotted in from an angle.
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Bottom team Aston Villa are desperate for a victory when they host West Ham, while managerless Swansea are at home to West Brom.
