Chelsea look for their Premier League-record 14th straight win at Tottenham in the highlight of the 20th round of Premier League matches. Here are results and summaries from the round.
Tuesday’s results
Bournemouth 3 Arsenal 3
Bournemouth: Daniels (16'), Wilson (20' PEN), Fraser (58') | Red card: Francis (82')
Arsenal: Sanchez (70'), Perez (75') Giroud (90+2')
• Olivier Giroud’s stoppage-time header earned Arsenal an unlikely 3-3 draw at Bournemouth on Tuesday after they had trailed 3-0 with 70 minutes on the clock.
The visitors were outplayed in the first half, going behind to a superb goal by Charlie Daniels after 16 minutes before Callum Wilson made it 2-0 from the penalty spot shortly after.
There was more urgency about Arsenal in the second half but they found themselves 3-0 down when Ryan Fraser got away with a shove on Hector Bellerin before cutting in to beat Petr Cech.
The comeback began when Alexis Sanchez headed in from close range and gathered steam when substitute Lucas Perez planted a sweetly-timed left-foot volley past keeper Artur Boruc.
Bournemouth’s jitters increased when skipper Simon Francis was sent off for a clumsy tackle on Aaron Ramsey after 82 minutes.
Arsenal swarmed all over the tiring hosts in the closing stages and two minutes into stoppage time Giroud’s glancing header crept inside the post to level it up.
Even then both sides had chances to win an absorbing match but Arsenal had to settle for the point that kept them in fourth place with 41 points.
* Reuters
Crystal Palace 1 Swansea City 2
Palace: Zaha (83')
Swansea: Mawson (42'), Rangel (88')
• Swansea head coach Paul Clement made an instant effect as his new side beat Crystal Palace 2-1 at Selhurst Park on Tuesday to register their first away win in nine games and move off the bottom of the Premier League.
The 44-year-old former Bayern Munich assistant, whose appointment was confirmed hours before kickoff, began the game in the stands but ended it on the touchline as Angel Rangel fired an 88th-minute winner past Wayne Hennessey.
Swansea were the better side overall and took the lead through an Alfie Mawson header, his first Premier League goal, from Gylfi Sigurdsson’s cross just before halftime.
Palace improved in the second half and thought they had secured a point when Wilfred Zaha, playing his final game before heading off to the African Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast, met Kelly’s cross with a spectacular scissor kick on 83 minutes.
But Rangel made the difference to inflict defeat on Palace boss Sam Allardyce in his first home match in charge.
* Reuters
Stoke City 2 Watford 0
Stoke: Shawcross (45'+3') Crouch (49')
• Goals from Ryan Shawcross and Peter Crouch either side of halftime gave Stoke City a 2-0 victory over Watford that moved Mark Hughes’s side nine points clear of the relegation zone and above their opponents in the table.
Stoke, who were without a victory in their last five league matches, took the lead when Charlie Adam’s corner fell at the near post and Shawcross swept home left-footed deep into first-half stoppage time.
Four minutes after the restart, Crouch followed up his goal against Chelsea on Saturday to score in successive Premier League appearances for the first time since February 2015.
Stoke moved up to 11th on 24 points, two ahead of 14th place Watford.
* Reuters
Monday’s results
West Ham 0 Manchester United 2
West Ham: Red card — Fegouli (15')
United: Mata (63'), Ibrahimovic (78')
Manchester United clinched a sixth consecutive Premier League win for the first time since April 2015 as Juan Mata and Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored second-half goals in a controversial victory at 10-man West Ham United.
• Read Greg Lea's full report from London
The game was overshadowed by referee Mike Dean’s harsh decision to send off home midfielder Sofiane Feghouli in the 15th minute for a challenge on Phil Jones, while Ibrahimovic’s goal, coming after Mata’s 63rd minute opener, looked offside.
Mata sneaked into the box to knock fellow substitute Marcus Rashford’s cutback into the net after a marvellous piece of skill from the England forward, while Ibrahimovic volleyed in a blocked attempt from Ander Herrera with 12 minutes remaining.
“It was never a red card,” said West Ham coach Slaven Bilic. “It was a challenge from both of them. The foul is (by) Phil Jones. He got the ball but went with the scissors (challenge). It was the key decision and it killed us.
Manchester City 2 Burnley 1
City: Clichy (58'), Aguero (62') | Red card: Fernandinho (32')
Burnley: Mee (70')
• Sergio Aguero came off the bench to score as Manchester City made light of playing for an hour with 10 men to beat Burnley 2-1 at the Etihad Stadium on Monday.
• Richard Jolly: Pep Guardiola notes City's resilience in win
City, needing a quick response after defeat at title rivals Liverpool on Saturday, suffered a blow when Fernandinho was red-carded just past the half-hour mark for a wild-looking tackle on Burnley’s Iceland midfielder Johann Berg Gudmundsson.
The hosts dominated after the break, however, and took the lead after 58 minutes when Gael Clichy’s low shot crept past Burnley keeper Tom Heaton and into the far corner.
Aguero, introduced as a second-half substitute, doubled City’s lead with a fine finish from a tight angle four minutes later but Ben Mee halved the deficit to set up a tense finale.
City moved above Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal into third spot in the Premier League with 42 points, seven behind leaders Chelsea who play away at Spurs on Wednesday.
* Reuters
Sunderland 2 Liverpool 1
Sunderland: Defoe (25' pen, 84' pen)
Liverpool: Sturridge (19'), Mane (72')
• Jermain Defoe kept up Sunderland’s fight to avoid relegation as he converted two penalties to give Sunderland a 2-2 home draw with Liverpool after the visitors led twice in a rip-roaring Premier League clash.
Defoe took his league tally to 11 goals, cancelling out a 19th minute opener by Daniel Sturridge and then a 72nd minute Sadio Mane tap-in, with both Liverpool goals coming after poor Sunderland defending at corner kicks.
However, Liverpool returned the favour with a clumsy Ragnar Klavan challenge on Didier Ndong for Defoe’s first spot kick and then with a dreadful Mane error for the second when a free kick hit the Senegal winger’s outstretched arm.
The result left second-placed Liverpool five points behind leaders Chelsea, who visit London rivals Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday, while Sunderland stay in the relegation zone although the draw took some of the pressure off manager David Moyes.
* Reuters
Middlesbrough 0 Leicester City 0
• Leicester City’s underwhelming season continued as they were held to a 0-0 draw at Middlesbrough that did little for either side’s hopes of avoiding Premier League relegation.
With Jamie Vardy completing his three-game suspension and Riyad Mahrez again disappointing, Leicester lacked a cutting edge and it was Boro who came closest to taking all three points at the Riverside Stadium.
The result inched both sides a point further clear of the bottom three, but the threat of relegation will continue to stalk them when they return to league action after next weekend’s FA Cup third-round fixtures.
Champions Leicester have now gone 12 away games without victory in the Premier League, stretching back to the 2-0 win at Sunderland last April that nudged them closer to their fairy tale title win.
* Agence France-Presse
Everton 3 Southampton 0
Everton: Valencia (73'), Baines (81' pen), Lukaku (89')
• Substitute Enner Valencia scored his first Everton goal to break Southampton’s resolve and send the home side on their way to a 3-0 win at Goodison Park, with Leighton Baines and Romelu Lukaku also finding the net.
Valencia had not scored in the Premier League since getting two goals for West Ham against Manchester City last January, but secured the breakthrough in the 73rd minute when he bundled home the rebound after Fraser Forster had saved Lukaku’s header.
Ronald Koeman’s side had struggled to find solutions to prise open his former employers but killed off the contest in the 81st minute when Baines beat Forster from the spot after Maya Yoshida clumsily brought down Lukaku.
Everton ran riot as Southampton crumbled and Lukaku signed off a dominant second half when he slammed an emphatic effort into the top corner from just inside the visitors’ box in the 89th minute.
The win keeps Everton in seventh on 30 points, six behind Manchester United who play later on Monday, while Southampton remain on 24 points.
* Reuters
West Brom 3 Hull City 1
West Brom: Brunt (49'), McAuley (62') Morrison (73')
Hull: Snodgrass (21')
• West Bromwich Albion hit back from a goal down to beat Hull City 3-1 as second-half goals by Chris Brunt, Gareth McAuley and James Morrison piled on the misery for Mike Phelan’s struggling side.
Robert Snodgrass gave Hull the lead at the Hawthorns in the 21st minute, sliding in to volley Ahmed El Mohamady’s cross into the net and the visitors were good value for their lead at the break.
But West Brom started the second half strongly and equalised four minutes in after sustained pressure yielded a corner which Brunt dispatched into the net with a powerful header.
McCauley struck in the 62nd minute, the referee ruling that his header had crossed the line before being cleared as Hull failed to deal with another set piece, and Morrison scuffed a left-footed shot home 11 minutes later.
Hull remained mired in the bottom three on 13 points while West Brom are eighth on 29 ahead of their trip to Tottenham Hotspur.
* Reuters
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