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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2019 16 Man City thrash Chelsea Manchester City hit Chelsea for six to go top once more

to seal a second hat-trick in two Sergio Aguero games when he headed against • the crossbar. smashes sublime hat- But when Sterling was too trick to humiliate Sarri quick for Cesar Azpilicueta and chopped down by the Spaniard AFP | Manchester inside the area, Aguero coolly slotted home from the penalty spot to move level with Liver- ergio Aguero grabbed a hat- pool’s as the trick as Manchester City ’s top scorer on Sscored four times inside 25 17 for the season. minutes to thrash Chelsea 6-0 and leapfrog Liverpool again to top spot in the Premier League on goal difference yesterday. Aguero should have had even more than three as the Argentine missed a glorious early chance and hit the bar in the second-half KNOW WHAT in a humiliating afternoon for Maurizio Sarri’s men. started and Chelsea are now ended the scoring and Ilkay sixth, behind Arsenal Gundogan also netted in the first quarter of the game as City on goals scored, ended what could have been a having surrendered testing week with a trip to Ever- an apparently healthy ton in between the visits of Arse- goal difference nal and Chelsea with maximum Sergio Aguero of Manchester City scores his team’s second goal advantage over the points. course of one after- Jurgen Klopp’s men maintain Chelsea’s heaviest league defeat side given that Chelsea had a corner from 25 yards to double lapse at the other end, Gonza- noon the advantage of a game in hand, since 1996. week to prepare, while City City’s after just 13 minutes. lo Higuain had little chance to but handed a reprieve by Liver- And this was their worst loss ground out a 2-0 win at Everton Aguero had a simple task to shine but the Argentine striker pool’s draws against Leicester in any competition since 1991 on Wednesday. make it 3-0 six minutes later was unfortunate not to score and West Ham in recent weeks, after failing to recover from Guardiola fell to the floor when he pounced on Ross Bar- his third goal in as many league Even after Aguero went off to a City look determined to become Sterling’s fourth-minute opener. in exasperation when Aguero kley’s slack header towards his starts for Chelsea when Ederson standing ovation, City’s strength the first side in a decade to retain went to sleep somehow side-footed wide with own goal. turned over his dipping volley in depth shone through as Ga- the Premier League. from ’s quickly his easiest chance of the game And Gundogan’s shot from five minutes before the break. briel Jesus, and Chelsea on the other hand slip taken free-kick and Bernardo moments later. the edge of the area then had That was as much of a re - came off the bench. to sixth with the scale of the de- Silva had acres of space to cross But the Catalan coach need too much power for the world’s sponse as Chelsea mustered, And Silva’s pass opened the feat sure to raise further doubts for the England international to not have worried that would most expensive goalkeeper Kepa though, and it only got worse visitors up again for the sixth over Sarri’s future. fire home. prove a costly miss as Ague- Arrizabalaga to compound Chel- for Sarri’s chances of keeping his as he picked out Oleksandr A 4-0 defeat to Bournemouth Pep Guardiola had described ro made amends in stunning sea’s woes. job in the second period. Zinchenko who crossed for Ster- in their last away game was this match as a “final” for his fashion by blasting into the top Such was the defensive col- Aguero missed his first chance ling to tap home.

Nantes pay final Tottenham sink Leicester to stay in title hunt tribute to Sala, Goals from Davinson Sanchez, Christian Eriksen and Son Heung-min extinguished a spirited Leicester Monaco held Reuters | Paris their frustration into a sustained were rewarded with a well- Spurs cash in on assault on the Leicester goal. worked 33rd minute opener. antes paid a final trib- • Danny Rose’s surging run Trippier’s short corner found Nute to former strik- penalty ended with a close-range effort the unmarked Christian Erik- er Emiliano Sala in a 4-2 miss to beat Leicester that brought a good save from sen and he whipped a pin-point home defeat against Nimes . cross towards Sanchez six yards in Ligue 1 yesterday, three AFP | London Tottenham kept pressing and from goal. days after the Argentine was confirmed dead in a plane English Premier League crash. ottenham kept alive their Sala, 28, had been flying Tottenham Hotspur 3 - 1 Leicester City bid to gate-crash the Pre- from Nantes in western Tmier League title race as Manchester City 6 - 0 Chelsea France to Wales on Jan. 21 Davinson Sanchez’s first goal to make his debut for Pre- for the club and Hugo Lloris’s Italian mier League team Cardiff penalty save inspired a 3-1 win City when the single-en- over Leicester yesterday. Bologna 1 - 1 Genoa gined Piper Malibu aircraft ’s side Atalanta 2 - 1 SPAL disappeared over the sea. took the lead through Sanchez’s Davinson Sanchez of Tottenham Hotspur scores his team’s first goal under Sampdoria 0 - 1 Frosinone There was a minute of ap- first half header, but they were pressure from Harry Maguire of Leicester City plause before kickoff and a indebted to Lloris for keeping Torino 1 - 0 Udinese representative from Cardiff out Jamie Vardy’s spot-kick after Borussia Dortmund in the early on when Harry Maguire Sassuolo 0 - 2 Juventus City came to La Beaujoire the interval at Wembley. Champions League last 16 first evaded the Spanish striker’s Stadium to hand the French Christian Eriksen netted mo- leg on Wednesday. marking and met James Maddi- German Bundesliga club a shirt from the Welsh ments later and although Vardy Leicester have lost four of son’s free-kick with a towering side. La Beaujoire was at got one back, Son Heung-min’s their last five league games, in- header that Hugo Lloris tipped SV Werder Bremen 4 - 0 FC Augsburg capacity after tickets were late strike ensured third-placed creasing the pressure on un - over. Fortuna Düsseldorf 2 - 0 VfB Stuttgart sold for nine euros ($10.20) Tottenham clinched a fifth win der-fire boss . That chance was symptomatic in reference to Sala’s shirt in their last six league games. Puel has reportedly lost the of a disjointed start from Tot- Spanish La Liga number. The north Londoners are five support of several influential tenham. Fans also chanted a song points off the top of the table as players, including England Leicester’s Harvey Barnes Leganes 3 - 0 Real Betis in memory of Sala in the they try to catch pace-setters striker Vardy, who was left was allowed too much space Valencia CF 0 - 0 Real Sociedad ninth minute of the game. Liverpool and Manchester City. on the bench for the first 60 in the penalty area as he raced Nantes took control of Sevilla 0 - 1 Eibar While Tottenham are still minutes before coming on to onto ’ pass, but the match in the first half, outsiders to win their first Eng- miss the penalty with his first a poor finish wasted a gilt-edged opening a two-goal lead af- lish title since 1961, their ability touch. chance. French Ligue 1 ter a goal by Kalifa Couli- to stay in contention, despite With the Dortmund clash Finally piecing together an in- Montpellier 2 - 2 Monaco baly and a Majeed Waris injuries to key players Harry looming on Wednesday, Pochet- cisive raid, Tottenham were fu- penalty. However, Nimes Kane and suggests they tino tweaked his team, leaving rious when Son’s penalty appeal Nantes 2 - 4 Nîmes fought back after the break shouldn’t be completely written out and Lu- ended in a booking for diving Toulouse 1 - 1 Reims and prevailed thanks to off. cas Moura and recalling Fernan- after Maguire stuck out a leg to Guingamp 0 - 2 Lille goals by Baptiste Guillaume, This gritty success was the do Llorente. halt the South Korean. Antonin Bobichon, Jordan ideal preparation for hosting Llorente was caught napping Pochettino’s men channelled Rennes 3 - 0 St Etienne Ferri and Sada Tihoub. *Scores as of closing