Premier League: Manchester City Crush West Ham 4-1; Crystal Palace Hold Chelsea 1-1 – News18

Last Updated:January 04, 2025, 22:46 IST

Bournemouth defeat Everton 1-0 and Brentford thrash Southampton 5-0 as Aston Villa beat Leicester City 2-1 in the Premier League.

Premier League: Manchester City beat West Ham 4-1 as Chelsea were held to a 1-1 draw by Crystal Palace (AP)

Manchester City thrashed West Ham United 4-1 in the Premier League on Saturday for their first back-to-back wins since October thanks to two goals from Erling Haaland and one of their best all-around performances in weeks.

The reigning champions are sixth in the table on 34 points, 11 behind leaders Liverpool who have two games in hand. The Hammers, who were coming off a 5-0 rout by Liverpool six days earlier, are 13th with 23 points.

City got on the scoresheet in the 10th minute when United defender Vladimir Coufal deflected Savinho’s angled shot into the far corner. Haaland bagged his first in the 42nd minute when Savinho whipped in a long cross that the big Norwegian leapt sideways to head in.

Haaland notched his second shortly after the break when Savinho sent a through ball that the 24-year-old nonchalantly chipped over goalkeeper Alphonse Areola. Phil Foden padded City’s lead in the 58th minute before Niclas Fullkrug pulled a late goal back for the Hammers, but the game was already well out of reach.

Eagles Hold Blues

Crystal Palace scored a late equaliser to leave Chelsea winless in four Premier League games as Jean-Philippe Mateta struck in the 82nd minute to cancel out Cole Palmer’s first-half opener.

Chelsea had chances to seal the win before Mateta picked up a ball from Eberechi Eze and blasted home from close range to ease Palace’s relegation worries.

Palmer had given the visitors a deserved lead in the 14th minute when he fired in an angled shot after fine work on the left by winger Jadon Sancho who dummied his marker on the halfway line to sprint free and set up the England forward.

The draw left Chelsea in fourth place, one point ahead of in-form Newcastle United who sit just outside the Champions League spots in fifth.

Crystal Palace are 15th, six points ahead of Ipswich Town who are in the highest of the three relegation positions and travel to Fulham on Sunday.

Bournemouth Beat Everton

Substitute David Brooks’s superb volley secured a deserved victory for hosts Bournemouth as they defeated a poor Everton 1-0 in their Premier League fixture at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday.

Bournemouth had found Everton tough to break down before Brooks showed excellent technique to volley Milos Kerkez’s cross into the net from 10 metres and give his side the lead on 77 minutes.

Everton created little in the contest and failed to muster a shot on goal as their scoring woes this season continued and the spectre of relegation remains a major concern.

Bournemouth are in seventh place in the table with 33 points from 20 matches, while Everton have 17 points from 19 games and lie in 16th, two points above the relegation zone.

Brentford thrashed relegation favourites Southampton 5-0 on Saturday to chalk up a long-overdue first away win of the Premier League season, helped by a Bryan Mbeumo double.

Kevin Schade put the mid-table visitors ahead in the sixth minute at St Mary’s, the German forward flicking the ball past goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale after being fed through by Mikkel Damsgaard.

Mbeumo doubled the tally in the 62nd and added a third from the penalty spot in the 69th before assisting Keane Lewis-Potter in the second minute of stoppage time.

Yoane Wissa then made it 5-0 in 90+4.

Brentford also had plenty of chances in the first half hour, with a Christian Norgaard header bouncing off the crossbar and Ramsdale making a low save to parry a curling Wissa effort.

Last in the league with six points from 20 matches, Southampton have only one win to their credit – 1-0 at home to Everton more than two months ago – and are 10 points from safety with the fewest goals in the top flight.z

Brentford Outclass Southampton

Brentford thrashed relegation favourites Southampton 5-0 on Saturday to chalk up a long-overdue first away win of the Premier League season, helped by a Bryan Mbeumo double.

Kevin Schade put the mid-table visitors ahead in the sixth minute at St Mary’s, the German forward flicking the ball past goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale after being fed through by Mikkel Damsgaard.

Mbeumo doubled the tally in the 62nd and added a third from the penalty spot in the 69th before assisting Keane Lewis-Potter in the second minute of stoppage time.

Yoane Wissa then made it 5-0 in 90+4.

Brentford also had plenty of chances in the first half hour, with a Christian Norgaard header bouncing off the crossbar and Ramsdale making a low save to parry a curling Wissa effort.

Last in the league with six points from 20 matches, Southampton have only one win to their credit – 1-0 at home to Everton more than two months ago – and are 10 points from safety with the fewest goals in the top flight.

Villa Pip Leicester

Leon Bailey scored the winner in Aston Villa’s 2-1 Premier League victory over Leicester City, after Stephy Mavididi’s equaliser had cancelled out Ross Barkley’s strike in an action-packed second half on Saturday.

Villa found the breakthrough in the 58th minute when Barkley hammered home from outside the box, but the visitors struck back five minutes later when Emiliano Martinez’s save to deny Jamie Vardy fell to Mavididi who made no mistake from close range.

Bailey secured the three points for the hosts with a neat finish from Ian Maatsen’s short pass in the 76th minute.

Leicester’s fifth loss in a row left them in 19th place with 14 points from 20 matches, while eighth-placed Villa’s first win in three games moved them to 32 points ahead of Friday’s FA Cup third-round clash with West Ham United.

(With inputs from Agencies)

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