Salah scored the first goal for Liverpool against Aston Villa
Liverpool succeeded in achieving a 3-1 victory in its match against its host Aston Villa, in the fifteenth week matches of the English Premier League, after the resumption of the competition, which was suspended for about six weeks during the World Cup.
Mohamed Salah scored the first goal for his team, Liverpool, 5 minutes after the start of the match, while Dutch defender Virgil van Dyck added the second goal, before Watkins returned to the home owners with a goal that brought the score closer, but Stefan Banic scored the third goal for Liverpool in the 81st minute.
With this, Liverpool raised its points tally to 25 points in sixth place, behind fourth-placed Tottenham and fifth-placed Manchester United.
While Aston Villa fell to twelfth place with 18 points.
As for Brentford, it tied with its London guest, Tottenham, with two goals for each team. Harry Kane and Hoberg scored for Tottenham, while Janlet and Tony scored for Brentford.
The guests raised their score to thirty points, in fourth place, the last qualifying position for the Champions League, while Brentford languishes, in ninth place with twenty points.
As for Wolverhampton, who was in last place in the standings of the table, before today’s round, it was able to improve its position after winning two goals to one against Everton.
Wolverhampton raised its points tally to eighteenth place, just behind Everton, by one point.
Newcastle, the surprise of the current edition of the tournament, which temporarily occupies second place with 33 points, from 16 matches, achieved a victory away from home, over Leicester City, with three clean goals.
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Arsenal leads the competition table after winning the last match before stopping at Wolverhampton with two goals to none
Newcastle can return to third place if Manchester City wins its next match, Wednesday away from home, against Leeds United, where the team has 32 points from 14 games.
Brighton defeated Southampton with three goals to one, in the same round, where the match was in the final judgment when reaching the 56th minute when Marsh scored the third goal for the guests, but Roos refused to return the guest team with a clean sheet, so he scored the honorary goal for the landowners in the 73rd minute. .
With this result, Brighton raises its tally to 24 points in seventh place, while Southampton fell to twentieth and last place, with 12 points.
Tournament details before stopping
The last thing we saw in the tournament was on Sunday, November 13, when Manchester United succeeded in snatching the winning goal over Fulham, in stoppage time.
After that, we entered the World Cup 6 weeks ago, and all eyes were on Qatar, where Wales was eliminated in the group stage, then England joined them in the quarter-finals, on penalties, before Argentina crowned the tournament title.
And here is the tournament back in the fifteenth round, but in case you forgot how the competition went, let us remind you.
Arsenal are at the top of the standings before the fifteenth round, with 37 points, and the team lost only 5 points, after the defeat against Manchester United, and a draw in another match.
This is the first time that Arsenal tops the championship before the Christmas break, since the 2007 season, and history tells us that all teams that won 12 matches, from the first 14 rounds, managed to finally clinch the title.
Also, in a good omen for the Gunners, the team that had been at the top of the competition table, before the Christmas break, in 10 of the last 13 seasons, won the title in the end.
Arsenal will host West Ham in its first appearance after the World Cup has stopped, at the Emirates Stadium, in London
As for Manchester City, which is in second place, with 32 points, and 5 points behind Arsenal, it will not appear until the twenty-eighth of this month, when it is a guest on Leeds United.
Of course, there are several teams in the first half of the standings that have benefited greatly from the holiday provided by the World Cup, to regroup.
As for Chelsea, whose technical responsibility is assumed by coach Graham Potter, he did not win in the last 5 rounds, and languishes in eighth place.
As for the second half of the table, given the previous seasons, the struggle will be fierce to avoid relegation.
Wolverhampton, who was languishing in the twentieth place, and the latter jumped to the eighteenth place after winning its host Everton with two goals to a goal, bringing its score to 13 points, leaving the last place for Southampton Bante ten points.
Southampton also began to introduce technical and administrative adjustments, immediately after the arrival of the new technical director, Nathan Jones, before the championship stopped, to replace the technical director, Ralph Hasenhat, after the team lost the last 3 rounds, before losing the fourth, against Wolverhampton, and lies at the bottom of the table. .
Many teams did not change the technical staff, despite the fact that there are 6 weeks of vacation, which means a great preparation period, but Everton stuck to its technical director, Frank Lampard, even though the team is in the seventeenth place, after losing the last two rounds.
David Moyes also continues to head the technical staff, for West Ham, despite the team losing the last 3 matches, and its decline to the sixteenth place.
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Gabriel Jesus had knee surgery earlier this month
Nevertheless, risks remain after the World Cup stage, which may lead to severe fatigue among the players.
Arsenal may be most affected, after the star of the team, Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus, had to undergo knee surgery, and it may take about two months to return to team training.
Jesus had a great start with the team, scoring in all of the team’s last six matches before the World Cup stopped.
As for Manchester City, which 16 players from its ranks participated in the World Cup, its players did not suffer any injuries, and the teams in which the team’s players participated were eliminated from the first stages, until the semi-finals, with the exception of Argentine Julian Alvarez.
On the contrary, Erling Haaland, the top scorer in the English championship so far, managed to get a long rest, after the great effort he made, scoring 18 goals until the fourteenth round.
The matches will be slightly compressed to compensate for the long pause, and until the competition ends as usual.
From now until the end of next month, there are 5 rounds of the competition, interspersed with the fourth round matches of the Carabao Cup.
As for the matches of the third round of the FA Cup, they will be held between the 6th and 9th of next month, before the return of European competitions in mid-February.