Liverpool’s defence of their Premier League crown continued with a 3-0 home thrashing to Nottingham Forest on Saturday, while Manchester City missed the chance to close the gap to one point by slumping to a 2-1 defeat at Newcastle United to slip to third.
Goals by Murillo, Nicolo Savona and Morgan Gibbs-White gave Forest back-to-back league wins at Anfield for the first time in 62 years and condemned Liverpool to a sixth league defeat of the season.
“How bad that is difficult to measure but it was very bad,” said Liverpool manager Arne Slot. “Playing at home, losing 3-0 no matter which team you face is a very, very bad result.”
Forest’s second successive win lifted Sean Dyche’s side out of the bottom three into 16th place.
Newcastle 2-1 Manchester City
Manchester City had been on a strong run with five wins from their last six league games, but missed the chance to exert real pressure on Arsenal, who could move seven points clear of Pep Guardiola’s side with victory on Sunday.
Winger Harvey Barnes scored both Newcastle goals in the space of seven minutes in which Ruben Dias equalised for City.
“We wanted to make a step like we have done in the last two months but this is not an easy place to come after the international break,” Manchester City manager Guardiola said.
Victory lifted Newcastle to 14th place.
Burnley 0-2 Chelsea
Chelsea won 2-0 at Burnley in the early kickoff to move into second place, three points behind leaders Arsenal.
Goals by Pedro Neto and Enzo Fernandez earned Chelsea the points at Burnley, their third successive league win.
“Tough game for many reasons, but they did not have one chance,” Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca said. “I am very happy since I joined this club. When you lose one game it is a crisis, when you lose two it is huge crisis.”
Saturday’s Premier League results
Burnley 0-2 Chelsea
Bournemouth 2-2 Wst Ham
Brighton 2-1 Brentford
Fulham 1-0 Sunderland
Liverpool 0-3 Nottingham Forest
Wolves 0-2 Crystal Palace
Newcastle 2-1 Manchester City.
