Manchester City snatched the lead in the English Football League from Arsenal, with a difficult victory over Fulham 2-1 in the 34th stage competitions on Sunday, while Newcastle and Manchester United came close to clinching their seats in the Champions League competition next season by defeating Southampton 3-1 and Aston Villa 1-0, respectively. .

At the Criven Cottage Stadium, Argentine Julian Alvares imposed himself as a star in the match, by causing a penalty kick that was successfully translated by Norwegian Erling Haaland (3), before the World Cup Qatar champion scored the second from a shot from 25 meters (36). The Brazilian orphan Fulham goal was scored by Carlos Vinicius (15).

And the giant Haaland raised his tally to 34 goals in 30 league games this season, making history through his wide door after equalizing with strikers Andy Shearer and Andy Cole.

Shearer scored 34 goals for Blackburn in the 1995 season, similar to Cole in the 1994 season for Newcastle United.

Halland's 50th goal was also in various competitions, since his signing last summer from Borussia Dortmund, 21 goals ahead of any other player in the Premier League this season, and more than seven clubs combined in various competitions.

City, who raised its score to 76 points, removed Arsenal, who receives Chelsea on Tuesday at the end of the competitions of this stage, from the lead, ahead of it by a point, after the "Gunners" club dominated first place for a long time. But a negative series of results led to the North London team drawing three times in a row and suffering a severe loss at City 1-4 last week, which put the Emirati-owned team in a comfortable position to maintain its title and crown for the fifth time in the last six seasons.

City, who has two postponed matches, achieved its eighth successive victory in the league, in a series during which it beat Liverpool and Arsenal with the same result (4-1).

On the other hand, Fulham suffered its second consecutive loss after falling to Aston Villa 0-1 on Tuesday, after two consecutive victories against Leeds 2-1 and Everton 3-1.

Spanish City coach Josep Guardiola missed the efforts of Belgian midfielder Kevin De Bruyne and Dutch defender Nathan Ake, and pushed the terrifying Algerian Riyad Mahrez, Alvares, German Ilkay Gundogan, Jack Grealish and Halland.

Guardiola commented on Haaland becoming the first player in the Premier League to score 50 goals in all competitions since 1931, joking to reporters, "Before Winston Churchill was prime minister? Fantastic. That seems like a long time ago. Congratulations to Erling. The best goal to help us achieve what we want is still." exists.”

"It was a very close match until the end. We knew after we beat Arsenal that winning these types of matches is very important. The players behaved amazingly."

Regarding Alvarez's goal, he said, "Alvarez's goal was extraordinary. We have great strikers."

Quickly, Haaland opened the scoring 3 minutes after the starting whistle from the penalty spot after a mistake by American defender Tim Reem on Alvares after a pass from Mahrez.

Fulham equalized the score, thanks to attacker Vinicius, after a pass from Portuguese Joao Palenha to Welshman Harry Wilson, who turned it into a header to the Brazilian inside the area, followed by his left foot into the net (15).

Grealish hit a ball that was blocked by German goalkeeper Bernd Leno, which hit the left post (27).

And before the referee blew the final whistle, Alvares restored the lead for City after a pass from Mahrez, after which he got rid of Harrison Reed and fired a missile from 25 meters over goalkeeper Lino, which settled to his right (36), in the eighth goal of the world champion in Qatar this season in the league.

And goalkeeper Limo prevented Alvares from scoring his second personal goal for him and the third for his team by blocking his shot with his right foot from inside the area after a pass from Mahrez (51), before the Argentine and Algerian came out to replace the Portuguese Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden in their place (82).

Newcastle United came from behind at home to Southampton with a goal to win 3-1 today.

Newcastle fell behind with a goal from Scotsman Stuart Armstrong (41), before turning the table in the second half by scoring three goals through substitute Callum Wilson (54 and 81) and Teo Walcott with friendly fire, a mistake in his own goal (79).

Manchester United followed the example of Newcastle and moved closer to the Champions League by defeating its guest Aston Villa 1-0, scored by Portuguese Bruno Fernandez after he followed a shot from Marcus Rashford that was blocked by Argentine goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez (38).

Newcastle raised its score to 65 points in third place and maintained a two-point difference with the “Red Devils” in the last fourth place that qualifies for the main continental competition.

Liverpool achieved a breathtaking victory over Tottenham 4-3 and took fifth place, by two points (56), and also benefited from the fall of Villa.

And Liverpool, who achieved its fourth successive victory in the league, believed that it was heading for a comfortable victory after it managed to advance with three goals 15 minutes after the first whistle, thanks to Curtis Jones (3), Colombian Luis Dias (5) and Egyptian Mohamed Salah (15 from a penalty kick), to respond. Tottenham, in turn, scored three goals thanks to Harry Kane (39), South Korean Heung-Min Son (77), and Brazilian substitute Richarlison (90 + 3).

And while the fans of the "Anfield" stadium thought that the match would end in a draw, Portuguese substitute Diogo Jota had the decisive word by scoring the winning goal a minute after the equalizer, after a wrong pass from Tottenham striker Lucas Moura, who had entered the field 4 minutes earlier instead of Spanish defender Pedro Porro. (90+4).

It is the third loss for Tottenham in its last four matches (a draw against Manchester United 2-2 in the last stage) after the humiliating fall against Newcastle 1-6 in the 32nd stage, which led to the players of the London club compensating the price of tickets for the club’s fans who accompanied him on his trip.

Bournemouth honored its guest, Leeds United, by defeating it 4-1.

The stage continues on Monday, with Leicester City meeting Everton.