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Manchester City are making ominous progress up the table. They added another three points with a hard-fought 1-0 win over Brighton on Wednesday and now face Crystal Palace on Sunday.
Here’s Pep Guardiola on their recent run of four Premier League wins on the bounce and seven straight victories in all competitions.
If you look at the results for the top teams, every game is complicated and difficult. When you win away against two incredible teams like Chelsea and Man United the headlines are nice but the reality was Brighton and we knew it.
We played really good against Brighton. We created chances to score three or four goals but we suffered in the last minutes not because we were bad but because they were good.
Jose Mourinho has given short shrift to rumours that Spurs will send Gareth Bale back to Real Madrid this summer.
Bale is on a year-long loan at Tottenham, with the option for a second. But it hasn’t exactly been a triumphant return to Spurs for the Welshman.
There was not even a second of discussion about that.
Gareth is a player on loan until the end of the season. Not one second of discussion. We are speaking about, of course, Gareth, himself, Real Madrid, Tottenham, but I promise you, not one second of discussion.
Written by Tumaini Carayol (earlier) and David Tindall (now)
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2021/jan/15/liverpool-v-manchester-united-buildup-transfer-news-and-more-live under the title “Liverpool v Manchester United buildup, Rooney given Derby job – live!”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
