The 18th round of the Premier League continued, and in many very closely watched matches, Manchester City achieved the desired result as desired, while Liverpool, Chelsea and other teams failed to take all three points, and the situation in the standings was not optimistic. In previous matches, Arsenal have secured their fourth-place finish after scoring three points. However, the result of Arsenal's match will not affect the Premier League title situation for the time being. Manchester City, Liverpool and Chelsea are the real contenders for this season's Premier League title. Let's take a look at the situation of these games with Xiaobian.
Chelsea are playing against Wolves in this round. Objectively speaking, Wolves have been in pretty good form this season, especially as they have faced the top three teams in the table in the past four rounds, and the team has performed quite tenaciously against Manchester City and Chelsea, and ultimately lost only by a one-goal disadvantage. Especially against Liverpool, they were only scored by their opponents in injury time. Therefore, for Chelsea, such an opponent is quite difficult to deal with. The course of the game seemed to confirm this, with Tuchel's side struggling under Wolves' tight defensive system and chelsea didn't get enough to score the whole game, except for Pulisic missing a good chance. In the end, the two sides fought a 0-0 draw.
Looking at the Manchester City match, their opponent in this game is Newcastle. After Eddie Hau came to the team, Newcastle's form did not improve much. Although they managed to win their first victory this season, Newcastle suffered another total defeat in the next three games, including the match against Manchester City. Judging from the course of this game, Newcastle has studied the characteristics of Manchester City and made corresponding tactical arrangements. In particular, in view of Manchester City's excellent ball control ability, they consciously pressed for high positions, which made Manchester City a little uncomfortable. However, Newcastle's backline was too flattering to be flattered, and they sent a low-level error after the opening, allowing the team to start the game almost 0-1.
Although the team later used high-intensity pressing to get a few chances, the lack of the team's ability to grasp the opportunities was very obvious, and they were not able to send the ball into the Goal of Manchester City. Cancelo's superb form put Newcastle's momentum to an abrupt halt, and his goal extended the advantage to two points while also basically losing suspense for the outcome of the game. After this, although Newcastle intends to continue to strengthen the pressing, the physical condition of the players is not ideal, but the excessive pressure of the formation, resulting in the distance between the midfield and the defender line is too large, the formation is obviously disjointed, so that Manchester City has too many counter-attack opportunities. For this situation, Edihao did not have a corresponding "back move". In the end, they scored two goals in quick succession by Mahrez and Sterling, and the team suffered a 0-4 defeat.
Let's look at liverpool's game. Liverpool welcomed rivals Tottenham Hotspur in this game. Prior to this game, Tottenham Were in pretty good form, having won three straight in the league and of course Liverpool were even better, having even won six straight. Judging from the course of this match, this duel is indeed fierce enough. Kane scored his second league goal of the season to give the team the upper hand, while Liverpool relied on a strong strength advantage, first by Jota in the first half to equalize, and then robertson's goal in the second half gave Liverpool hope of taking all three points. However, just eight minutes after scoring, Robertson was sent off with a red card. Liverpool, who fought with one less man, lost all the momentum on the field and was eventually equalized by Son Heung-min. It is worth mentioning Salah. He was in average form in the game, did not directly participate in scoring goals, and his record of giving goals or assists in 15 consecutive games this season was also ended.
In the Premier League table, Manchester City are undoubtedly the biggest winners of this round of matches, and after eight consecutive league wins, they have reached 44 points, firmly at the top of the table, and the point advantage over Liverpool has reached 3 points. Liverpool are a pity, after regretting losing 2 points, they are still in second place, but the point gap with Manchester City has been widened. Chelsea's situation is more worrying, they have been in a rather unsatisfactory state in the past period of time, with only 2 wins, 3 draws and 1 defeat in 6 games. Moreover, the injury problem in the team is not optimistic, and in this round of matches, the team even has only 6 players on the bench. Arguably, Chelsea are facing their toughest situation so far this season, and Tuchel and his players must work up to avoid falling behind in the winter break. (The picture comes from the Internet, if there is infringement, please contact to delete)