Substitute Darwin Nunez’s stoppage-time double gave Liverpool a 2-0 win at Brentford on Saturday, because the Premier League leaders left it late to document their first league win of 2025.
Luis Diaz and Cody Gakpo spurned good alternatives earlier than the break, with Ryan Gravenberch forcing a diving cease from Mark Flekken and Dominik Szoboszlai skimming the bar because the guests cranked up the stress.
However Brentford held agency and appeared heading in the right direction for a deserved level till Nunez tapped in Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross from shut vary within the 91st minute, earlier than he added a second two minutes later to seal the factors.
Liverpool remained high with 50 factors from 21 video games, seven forward of second-placed Arsenal who host Aston Villa afterward Saturday. Brentford are eleventh with 28 factors from 22 video games.
Elsewhere, Jean-Philippe Mateta scored twice within the second half as Crystal Palace accomplished a 2-0 Premier League away win at a toothless West Ham United on Saturday, extra proof for brand spanking new supervisor Graham Potter of the tough job at hand in east London.
Palace broke from their very own field and inside three touches Eberechi Eze’s cross to the toes of Mateta set the striker on purpose and he drilled the ball low into the purpose, earlier than including a second from the penalty spot late on.
West Ham’s poor afternoon was compounded by a second yellow card for Konstantinos Mavropanos 10 minutes from the tip following his excessive boot into the face of Mateta, giving referee Thomas Bramall a simple determination to make.
Palace climb to twelfth place within the desk with 27 factors from 22 video games, above West Ham, who’re in 14th with 26 factors from the identical variety of matches.
Additionally, second-half strikes from Emile Smith Rowe and Adama Traore condemned Leicester Metropolis to a seventh straight defeat within the Premier League as visiting Fulham gained 2-0 on Saturday.
Fulham broke by means of within the forty eighth minute when Harry Wilson’s clipped cross contained in the field discovered Sasa Lukic who headed it down for an onrushing Smith Rowe, who completed with a low header.
An unmarked Traore doubled the guests’ lead 20 minutes later, when the Spaniard discovered the web off Wilson’s cross.
Leicester, nineteenth within the desk, go to Tottenham Hotspur on Jan. 26, the identical day that mid-table Fulham host Manchester United.
Moreover, Bournemouth midfielder Justin Kluivert struck an excellent hat-trick in a 4-1 away win over his father Patrick’s former membership Newcastle United in Saturday’s early Premier League kick-off, ending the hosts’ six-match successful run within the league.
Bournemouth sounded a warning as early because the fourth minute when Martin Dubravka was pressured right into a save by Dango Outtara, however there was little the goalkeeper might do to forestall Kluivert giving them the lead two minutes later.
The person-to-man press of the guests precipitated Newcastle no finish of issues and when Bournemouth gained the ball excessive up the pitch, Antoine Semenyo was capable of feed Kluivert, who swept the ball previous Dubravka for the opener.
Roared on by the house crowd, Newcastle captain Bruno Guimares levelled within the twenty fifth minute, cleverly creating house for himself across the penalty spot earlier than heading house Lewis Corridor’s nook.
Undeterred, Kluivert put his facet again in entrance earlier than the break and so they continued to assault within the second half whereas maintaining Newcastle striker Alexander Isak, who had scored in his final eight Premier League outings, quiet.
Outtara thought he had made it 3-1 for Bournemouth with a end from shut vary within the 61st minute however the ball was dominated to have gone out of play within the build-up and his facet needed to be content material with a nook as an alternative.
Newcastle threatened sometimes from distance however the visiting defence remained strong, and Kluivert, whose father managed one league purpose at St. James’ Park in a season-long stick with the Magpies in 2004/05, curled in an excellent third in second-half stoppage time to finish his hat-trick.
Defender Milos Kerkez then accomplished the rout with a late rocket as Andoni Iraola’s facet cantered to victory.
