Everton helped native rivals Liverpool within the Premier League title race by securing a 1-1 draw with second-placed Arsenal on Saturday.
The end result at Goodison Park left Arsenal 11 factors adrift of Liverpool, with simply seven video games remaining, making their pursuit of the leaders appear more and more unlikely.
Iliman Ndiaye equalized with a penalty within the forty ninth minute after Leandro Trossard had given Arsenal the lead within the thirty fourth. Arsenal rested key gamers, together with Martin Ødegaard and Bukayo Saka, forward of Tuesday’s Champions League conflict with Real Madrid.
Liverpool’s sport in hand is at Fulham on Sunday, with the Reds’ activity having gotten a lot simpler as they appear to safe a record-tying twentieth English top-flight title.
Saka got here on as a halftime substitute for Arsenal, 4 days after making a goal-scoring return to motion in opposition to Fulham following a 3.5-month absence.
Arsenal is 5 factors forward of third-placed Nottingham Forest, which visited Aston Villa later Saturday.
Third-from-last Ipswich squandered the lead and misplaced 2-1 at dwelling to fourth-from-last Wolverhampton, leaving the underside three groups nicely adrift within the relegation race.
Ipswich dropped 12 factors behind Wolves, whereas the underside two, Leicester and Southampton, are just about assured of relegation.
In truth, Southampton will probably be relegated with seven video games to spare if it loses to Tottenham on Sunday.
There had been three late crimson playing cards and practically 14 minutes of stoppage time in a loopy end to Crystal Palace’s 2-1 win over Brighton at Selhurst Park.
Palace was diminished to 10 males within the 78th minute when substitute striker Eddie Nketiah collected a second yellow card, after which to 9 males when England center-back Marc Guehi did the identical within the ninetieth.
Brighton center-back Jan Paul van Hecke was despatched off within the sixth minute of stoppage time, additionally for 2 yellow playing cards.
Before that, Jean-Philippe Mateta – carrying a protecting masks to cowl a lacerated ear that required 25 stitches after an damage within the FA Cup final month – and Daniel Munoz scored for Palace both facet of Danny Welbeck’s equalizer.
The end result damage eighth-placed Brighton’s unlikely bid for Champions League qualification.
In different news, Brazilian striker Evanilson scored twice for Bournemouth in a 2-2 draw at West Ham.
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