Semenyo netted late in the first half at Elland Road with his sixth goal since signing from Bournemouth in January.<\/p>\n
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The Ghana forward\u2019s strike lifted second-placed City to within two points of Arsenal, who host London rivals Chelsea on Sunday (Monday AEDT).<\/p>\n
City\u2019s fourth successive league win was achieved in the absence of Haaland after the prolific striker was ruled out with an injury suffered in training on Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cA little injury. It\u2019s not a big issue but not ready for today,\u201d City boss Pep Guardiola said just before kick-off.<\/p>\n
City hope Haaland will recover in time for Wednesday\u2019s clash with Nottingham Forest.<\/p>\n
Remarkably, City have a better win ratio in the top-flight without the Norway star than when he plays.<\/p>\n
Although they were not at their best, City\u2019s hard-fought success in a hostile environment kept the destiny of the title in their own hands.<\/p>\n
Chasing the seventh title of Guardiola\u2019s reign, City will be guaranteed the crown if they win their last 10 games regardless of Arsenal\u2019s results across the same number of matches.<\/p>\n
City will have a game in hand on Arsenal after this weekend and host the Gunners in April.<\/p>\n
Manchester City’s Antoine Semenyo scores the lone goal against Leeds United.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
LIVERPOOL ROUT HAMMERS<\/p>\n
Liverpool climbed into the Premier League\u2019s top five with a 5-2 win over struggling West Ham on Saturday (Sunday AEDT).<\/p>\n
Three first-half goals, all from set-pieces, by Hugo Ekitike, Virgil van Dijk and Alexis Mac Allister put Arne Slot\u2019s men on course for a fourth consecutive victory in all competitions.<\/p>\n
Liverpool have gone from the worst Premier League performers in terms of set-pieces at the end of 2025 to the best since January 1.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my opinion we have played better when we lost,\u201d said Slot. \u201cWe start scoring from set-pieces and things start looking brighter and better than when you don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dutch duo Cody Gakpo and Jeremie Frimpong added more goals after the break, but despite the scoreline, it was another far from convincing performance from the English champions.<\/p>\n
Defeat deals another blow to the Hammers\u2019 hopes of survival as they remain two points adrift of safety.<\/p>\n
But they hit back twice in the second half through Tomas Soucek and Valentin Castellanos and could have scored more at Anfield.<\/p>\n
A place in the top five is almost certain to secure Champions League football next season thanks to the strong results of English sides in European competition this season.<\/p>\n
Liverpool move three points clear of sixth-placed Chelsea, who face the daunting task of a trip to Arsenal on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Liverpool’s Hugo Ekitike (L) vies with West Ham United’s Axel Disasi during their English Premier League clash at Anfield.Source: AFP<\/p>\n
Burnley\u2019s slim chances of survival took another body blow in an agonising 4-3 defeat at home to Brentford.<\/p>\n
The Bees were cruising to victory and within two points of Chelsea when goals from Mikkel Damsgaard, Igor Thiago and Kevin Schade put them 3-0 up inside 34 minutes at Turf Moor.<\/p>\n
Michael Kayode\u2019s own goal gave the Clarets hope before half-time and they levelled through Jaidon Anthony and Zian Flemming.<\/p>\n
Flemming thought he had completed a remarkable comeback only for a VAR review to rule the goal out for offside.<\/p>\n
Instead, it was Brentford who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat when Damsgaard netted his second goal in stoppage time.<\/p>\n
There was still time for another VAR review to deny Burnley a point when Ashley Barnes was adjudged to have handled before scoring a 98th-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n
Pickford pulls off INSANE flying save | 00:25<\/p>\n
Everton notched another excellent away win to maintain their hope of European football next season with a 3-2 victory at Newcastle.<\/p>\n
Three times the Toffees led at St James\u2019 Park through Jarrod Branthwaite, Beto and Thierno Barry.<\/p>\n
Newcastle slip to 12th, with the success of their season now relying on heroics in the Champions League against Barcelona and City in the FA Cup fifth round next weekend.<\/p>\n
Everton have struggled to adapt to their new home at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, but only Arsenal have won more points on the road as David Moyes\u2019 climb into eighth.<\/p>\n
Bournemouth stretched their unbeaten league run to eight games after coming from behind to rescue a 1-1 draw at home to Sunderland in the lunchtime kick-off.<\/p>\n
Evanilson cancelled out Eliezer Mayenda\u2019s opener for the Black Cats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo fired Manchester City to a gritty 1-0 win over Leeds on Saturday (Sunday AEDT) as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[255943,64,63,689,12045,247273,6257,50014,13383,9006,1208,22694,9004,2057,34675,255949,6246,2105,35866,255944,34848,53055,1613,221160,11999,6255,53027,673,3583,21839,677,24938,1614,255947,85,46409,255945,53059,255948,3586,36454,1529,255946,249868],"class_list":{"0":"post-510748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ashley-barnes","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","12":"tag-benjamin-sesko","13":"tag-body-blow","14":"tag-champions-league","15":"tag-city-boss","16":"tag-city-of-leeds","17":"tag-david-moyes","18":"tag-england","19":"tag-english-champions","20":"tag-english-premier-league","21":"tag-europe","22":"tag-european-competition","23":"tag-five-star-romp-shatters","24":"tag-football-news","25":"tag-getty-images-inc","26":"tag-hostile-environment","27":"tag-igor-thiago","28":"tag-justin-setterfield","29":"tag-leeds-united-football-club","30":"tag-liverpool","31":"tag-lunchtime-kick-off","32":"tag-manchester-city-football-club","33":"tag-manchester-united-football-club","34":"tag-michael-kayode","35":"tag-new-south-wales","36":"tag-northern-europe","37":"tag-norway","38":"tag-oceania","39":"tag-pep-guardiola","40":"tag-premier-league","41":"tag-premier-league-scores","42":"tag-sports","43":"tag-stoppage-time","44":"tag-successive-league-win","45":"tag-thierno-barry","46":"tag-title-chasers","47":"tag-united-kingdom","48":"tag-virgil-van-dijk","49":"tag-west-ham-united","50":"tag-win-ratio","51":"tag-zian-flemming"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}