Manchester City's third consecutive victory in the Premier League. This Saturday, the Skyblues hosted Jack Grealish's Everton. The locals were not sentimental about their former teammate. For more than an hour, the visitors resisted, but Erling Haaland ended up finding the fault and even slammed his team's two goals (2-0, 8th day). Enough to send City to the top of the ranking, while awaiting the result of Arsenal who travel to Fulham (6:30 p.m.).
At the same time, Crystal Palace was able to count on a gala Jean-Philippe Mateta to resist Bournemouth (3-3). A completely crazy encounter full of twists and turns. First of all there was the double from Eli Kroupi Junior for Bournemouth (7th, 38th). And then Mateta woke up by also scoring two goals, but in less than five minutes (64th, 69th).
A few days after his first goal with the A of the France team, Jean-Philippe Mateta scored a hat-trick with Crystal Palace.
However, the Cherries came back in front again thanks to Ryan Christie (2-3, 89th). But a penalty awarded at the very end of the match and converted by Mateta allowed Palace to come back and snatch a point. The one who had his first cap for the French team at the start of the week even came close to the quadruple in the final seconds, but he missed the target while he was in front of goal.
Mateta nears quadruplet
In the standings, Bournemouth are fourth and Crystal Palace, eighth. The other matches of the day notably saw the success of Brighton at home against Newcastle (2-1), that of Burnley against Leeds (2-0) and finally the home victory of Sunderland against the red lantern, Wolverhampton (2-0).
A little earlier in the afternoon, Chelsea won strongly against Nottingham Forest (0-3). A meeting that Malo Gusto did not finish since the Blues international received two yellow cards and was therefore excluded at the end of the game (87th).
