Goals from Darwin Nunez and Mohammed Salah against Aston Villa ensured that Liverpool created a 5-points gap in the English Premier League.
Manchester City made another mistake in the Premier League on Saturday, as the reigning champions lost 2-1 at Brighton & Hove Albion despite a goal from Erling Haaland.
The Norwegian tapped in the 0-1 in the 23rd minute and is the fastest player ever to score 75 Premier League goals. He needed only 77 matches to do so.
Yet again things went wrong for Manchester City. Brighton scored two goals in the space of five minutes via João Pedro and Matt O’Riley. As a result, City suffered their third consecutive defeat in the Premier League.
Earlier in the day, Frentford beat Bournemouth 3-2 despite a blunder by Sepp van den Berg. The Dutch defender played the ball back to keeper Mark Flekken in the 17th minute, but the pass lacked power and direction. Evanilson intercepted and then fired home.
After Yoane Wissa had levelled the score for Brentford in the first half, Kluivert put the visitors ahead again in the 49th minute. Kluivert is in the Orange squad for the Nations League matches against Hungary and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Once again, Bournemouth were not able to enjoy the lead for long. A minute later, Mikkel Damsgaard made it 2-2, after which Wissa made it 3-2 in the 58th minute.
Fulham, who started with Kenny Tete in the starting line-up, won 0-2 against Crystal Palace. The home team had to play the last fifteen minutes with ten men after Daichi Kamada was shown a red card.
West Ham United and Everton gave the crowd at the London Stadium a goalless afternoon. Former Ajax player Mohammed Kudus was absent for West Ham due to suspension . Wolverhampton Wanderers won 2-0 at home against Southampton, who are now in even deeper trouble. The team is last in the Premier League with only four points from eleven games.
