By staff reporter
If you were hoping for a quiet Sunday then bad luck – because the Premier League had other plans.
A jaw-dropping 24 goals were scored across five thrilling games, climaxing with a brilliant 3-3 draw between Manchester City and Tottenham at the Etihad.
Spurs headed to Manchester on the back of three straight losses and faced a formidable opponent in Pep Guardiola’s treble-winners.
They could have easily succumbed to the occasion, but instead, they rose to it, going a goal up inside six minutes thanks to the captain Hueng-Min Son.
But it took just three minutes for the skipper to undo his good work, turning an Erling Haaland header into his own net.
Haaland, for his part, looked worlds away from his usual super-human standards, missing several easy chances when City broke past Spurs’s leaky defence.
Spurs got their chances too, as the teams went blow-for-blow in a full-throttle and breathless game of football.
Phil Foden was the next to draw blood, calmly slotting in from a brilliant Julian Alvarez assist to give City the lead.
Giovanni Lo Celso equalised in the second half, followed by a silky Jack Grealish reply with 10 minutes left on the clock.
But Spurs weren’t down-and-out, with Dejan Kulusevski scoring a brilliant, driven header in the dying embers of the game.
But there was life in City yet, and a foul on Haaland put the ball through to Grealish who was through on goal behind the Tottenham defence. But just as he looked to score the winner, the ref, in a moment of madness, blew his whistle to call the game back for the foul on Haaland. He should have played advantage, and City’s players swarmed him to let him know just that.
Liverpool versus Fulham was the pick of the other fixtures, as Jurgen Klopp’s men – like Tottenham – snapped a result from the jaws of defeat. The Reds scored two last-minute goals to break Fulham hearts and end the game 4-3.
Chelsea won a thriller of their own, beating Brighton 3-2 and overcoming a Connor Gallagher red card.
Sunday results in full:
- Liverpool 4 – 3 Fulham
- Chelsea 3 – 2 Brighton
- Bournemouth 2 -2 Aston Villa
- West Ham 1 – 1 Crystal Palace
- Manchester City 3 – 3 Tottenham Hotspur
Pictured above: Erling Haaland complains to referee Simon Hooper after he inexplicably calls a halt on City’s attack in the final moments of the game.
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