Sign up now ><\/a><\/p>\nA resolute Brentford, still in the running for European football themselves next season, held out until the hour mark when the in-form Jeremy Doku curled into the top corner.<\/p>\n
Erling Haaland backheeled in a second to move four goals clear of Brentford\u2019s Igor Thiago in the battle for the Golden Boot.<\/p>\n
Haaland then turned provider for Omar Marmoush to score what could be a vital third in stoppage time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will see, it is not in our hands,\u201d said Guardiola.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will do our job and wait.\u201d <\/p>\n
City cut the goal difference gap on Arsenal to one and now must hope the Hammers cause an upset in a huge clash at both ends of the table at the London Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cCome on you irons!\u201d Guardiola declared at the end of his press conference.<\/p>\n
Arsenal face already-relegated Burnley and Crystal Palace, days before the play in the Conference League final, in their final two games.<\/p>\n
City host Palace on Wednesday before a tough trip to in-form Bournemouth and host Aston Villa on the final day of the campaign.<\/p>\n
Liverpool inched towards Champions League qualification but failed to inflict a seventh-consecutive league defeat on Chelsea.<\/p>\n
Ryan Gravenberch\u2019s sweet strike gave the Reds the perfect start in the sixth minute at Anfield.<\/p>\n
Chelsea hit back when Enzo Fernandez\u2019s 35th-minute free-kick evaded everyone to find the bottom corner.<\/p>\n
Boos at full-time reflected the mood around Anfield but Arne Slot said he is convinced he can win back the faith of the Liverpool support next season.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can have the summer that we are planning to have, then I\u2019m 100 per cent convinced that we will be a different team next season than we are now,\u201d Slot said.<\/p>\n
Joao Pedro of Chelsea. Photo by Carl Recine\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Bournemouth\u2019s 1-0 win over Fulham cut Liverpool\u2019s lead over the sixth-placed Cherries to four points with two games remaining.<\/p>\n
Chelsea can no longer mathematically finish in the top five and remain in ninth. Manchester United are already assured of Champions League football and a lack of jeopardy showed in the Red Devils\u2019 uneventful 0-0 draw at Sunderland.<\/p>\n
Bournemouth\u2019s charge towards a first ever season in Europe continued as both sides were reduced to 10 men at Craven Cottage.<\/p>\n
Both dismissals came late in the first half as first Bournemouth\u2019s Ryan Christie and then Fulham defender Joachim Andersen saw red after VAR reviews for rash challenges.<\/p>\n
Brazilian teenager Rayan won the game for the visitors in the 53rd minute with a fine finish from just outside the penalty area.<\/p>\n
Brighton climbed to seventh, just two points behind Bournemouth, with a 3-0 win over Wolves.<\/p>\n
Jack Hinshelwood nodded the Seagulls in front after 37 seconds and Lewis Dunk\u2019s header doubled their advantage in the fifth minute.<\/p>\n
Yankuba Minteh\u2019s 86th-minute rocket completed the rout.<\/p>\n
Sixth-place could still secure a place in the Champions League if Villa finish fifth and win the Europa League final against Freiburg later this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City kept the pressure on Arsenal at the top of the Premier League with a 3-0 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-660685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660685","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=660685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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