Liverpool close gap on Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur rocked by Wolverhampton Wanderers
Liverpool kept the pressure on Premier League leaders Manchester City as Fabinho sealed a 1-0 win over Burnley, while Tottenham's top four bid suffered a fresh blow in a 2-0 loss to Wolves on Sunday. Fabinho struck late in the first half at windswept Turf Moor to give Liverpool their fourth successive league victory.
Liverpool are nine points behind City with one game in hand as the Reds refuse to let the title race become a prolonged coronation for Pep Guardiola's men. City made it 14 wins from their last 15 league games on Saturday as Raheem Sterling's hat-trick inspired a 4-0 win at lowly Norwich.
But Guardiola is convinced Liverpool will push the champions all the way to the finish line and the way they ground out a hard-fought success against bottom of the table Burnley suggests he is right not to count them out. "It is nine points and then it is 12 points because most of the time City play before us. These are really difficult games. That is why we don't think about the title race," Reds boss Jurgen Klopp said.
After a shaky start, during which Burnley threatened a shock opener, Fabinho restored order five minutes before half-time. The Brazilian poked home a fifth goal in his last seven games after Mane headed on Trent Alexander-Arnold's corner. "A perfect afternoon. Raining and windy," Klopp said. "Everything today was set up to be a banana skin for us. We played the circumstances rather than suffered from them."
In north London, Tottenham lost a second successive home game as Wolves followed Southampton's victory on Wednesday. Antonio Conte's side, loudly booed off at full-time, dropped to eighth place, five points adrift of the Champions League places.
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