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Three Premier League talking points

Feb 23, 2025

Bruno Fernandes wasn’t happy despite troubled Manchester United’s fightback to draw with Everton.

Southampton, Leicester and Ipswich suffered heavy defeats in a relegation fight that looks increasingly destined to end in failure for all three.

AFP Sport looks at three talking points from this weekend’s action:

Liverpool title march gathers pace

A weekend that offered the chance for Arsenal to close to within five points at the top, with a game in hand to come, ended with Liverpool 11 clear and storming towards the title.

The Gunners relieved any building pressure on the leaders with a shock 1-0 home defeat against West Ham, realistically waiving goodbye to their hopes of a first title in 21 years.

After dropping points at Everton and Aston Villa in recent weeks, Liverpool did not make the same mistake as Mohamed Salah inspired an impressive 2-0 win at spluttering Manchester City.

The Egyptian opened the scoring with his 30th goal of the season and added a 21st assist of the campaign to tee up Dominik Szoboszlai for the second.

Liverpool twice missed out on the title to City by a solitary point during Jurgen Klopp’s time in charge.

The German appeared an impossible act to follow at the beginning of the season, but Arne Slot has made a seamless transition to lead the Reds to the brink of a first top-flight crown since 2020.

Fernandes urges United to lift standards