Liverpool's pursuit of Chelsea frustrated; Man City win
\"It might be one of my last teams,\" said Pep Guardiola in his first season as a manager in the Premier League.
London: Liverpool's pursuit of English Premier League leader Chelsea stalled on Monday as Juergen Klopp's four-match winning run ended at Sunderland.
Liverpool's 2-2 draw against a relegation-threatened Sunderland side gives Chelsea the platform to open up an eight-point lead by beating Tottenham on Wednesday.
Twice Liverpool led in northeast England – through Daniel Sturridge and Sadio Mane – but on both occasions Jermain Defoe scored penalties to draw Sunderland level. Mane's hand-ball was responsible for conceding the second spotkick.
"I must be honest, it doesn't feel good and it's not because of the point, it's because two penalties in a game," Klopp said. "Usually what you have to do to get a penalty, to get two, that was harsh, very hard to accept.
"But obviously I have to accept it, so I will do it."
Man City 2-1 Burnley
A victory for City but Pep Guardiola was still tetchy after the game, even suggesting he might not have long left in management.
Halfway through his first season at City, the 45-year-old former Barcelona and Bayern Munich coach said: "It might be one of my last teams."
English football is proving far tougher for Guardiola than Spanish or German.
After losing at Liverpool on Saturday, City started badly against Burnley when captain Fernandinho was sent off in the 32nd minute for a two-footed lunge on Johann Gudmundsson.
City held off Burnley with 10 men and seized the lead in the second half through Gael Clichy. Sergio Aguero came off the bench to score a second, ensuring Ben Mee's goal for Burnley would only be a consolation.
City regained third place ahead of Arsenal, who are at Bournemouth on Tuesday, and Tottenham.
West Ham 0-2 Man Utd
United reeled off a sixth successive league victory in a match that turned on Sofiane Feghouli being harshly sent off for a late challenge on Phil Jones in the 15th minute.
Even with a man advantage, United took until the 63rd to score when substitutes Marcus Rashford and Juan Mata combined. Mata turned Rashford's pullback past goalkeeper Darren Randolph before Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his 17th goal in his first season with United.