This Saturday, Manchester City lost ground in the Top 4 race. Even if fifth place in the Premier League should be qualifying for the Champions League, the Skyblues needed to garner points at home against Brighton. And despite the opening of the early score of the Skyblues thanks to the penalty of Erling Haaland (1-0, 11th), the men of Pep Guardiola have missed the mark. While Omar Marmoush gave the advantage to his family before the break (2-1, 39th) after the equalization of Pervis Estupinan (1-1, 21st), Brighton responded to the return of the locker room. Conquerrants, Carlos Baleba's teammates were more sharp in the second half and equalized thanks to the goal against his Abdukodir Khusanov camp (2-2, 48th). Brighton could even have achieved the perfect blow through several failed opportunities (51st, 53rd, 64th, 83rd). A frustrating draw that stagnates City in fifth place, while Brighton remains at a point behind in 7th place.
At the same time, Nottingham Forest had fun on the lawn of the promoted Ipswich (1-4). More incisive offensive incisive, the Tricky Trees took shelter before the break by scoring three goals on a blow thanks to Nikola Milenkovic (35th) and the double of Anthony Elaga (37th, 41st). On the return from the locker room, Forest maintained the pressure despite a mad match during which the locals scored twice thanks to Cajuste (1-3, 82nd) and Hirst (2-4, 90+3rd) and that Jota Silva contributed to the Festival of Forest (1-4, 87th). In the duel of misclassées between Everton and West Ham, Jake O'Brien allowed the Toffees to get a precious draw at the end of the match (1-1). For his part, Wolverhampton surely endowed its maintenance by going to beat Southampton on their land thanks to a double from Larsen (19th, 47th). The Wolves are nine points ahead of the first relegation, Ipwisch.
