Four Premier League games were played tonight (Saturday) when in the center of the champion Manchester City beat newcomer Fulham 1:2 at the Etihad Stadium and temporarily rose to the first place in the table, until tomorrow's game of Arsenal against Chelsea.
It started well for Pep and his side when Julian Alvarez took an early lead in the 17th minute, but 11 minutes later came a game-changing moment.
Joao Cancelo committed a brutal foul that earned him a straight red card and awarded Fulham a penalty, Andreas Pereira equalizing from the penalty spot.
Cancelo.
Make your friends work hard, photo: AP
It seemed that the Citizens were on the way to losing points, Holland's goal with a shot in the second half was disallowed due to a small difference, but the champion has character - and at the last minute, deep in the added time, Pep's team received a penalty, and who but Arling Holland kicked in (a bad penalty that went under the hand of the goalkeeper) and gave the champion a valuable victory and temporary first place.
Holland.
After the disallowed goal, photo: AP
Leeds - Bournemouth 3:4
Another crazy game.
Rodrigo put the home team ahead with a penalty in the third minute, but then the cherries exploded and Tavernier Billing and Solenka made it 3:1.
finished?
Definately not.
Within 24 minutes, Leeds scored three goals (Greenwood, Cooper and Summerville) and achieved a crazy victory 3:4, which raises them to 12th place in the table.
Rodrigo celebrates the advantage, photo: getty
Nottingham Forest - Brentford 2:2
Big drama in Nottingham.
Brentford led 2:1 until the 97th minute, but a particularly dramatic own goal in the last minute determined the distribution of points.
Wolves - Brighton 3:2
Lalana, Mitoma and Gross gave the seagulls an important away victory, over the host who played with ten players from the minute of the end of the first half.
Lalana celebrates, photo: Getty
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