Monday’s briefing: Newcastle look to take advantage of City and Chelsea drawing

Liverpool’s long unbeaten run in the Premier League was ended by a 3-2 defeat at Fulham on Sunday.

Neither Manchester United nor Manchester City saw their disappointing seasons much improved by a dour goalless draw at Old Trafford, while Chelsea were held at Brentford.

Southampton set an unwanted record with the earliest Premier League relegation after a 3-1 defeat at Tottenham, with top-four chasing Newcastle taking on Leicester on Monday night.

Liverpool manager Arne Slot admitted he was not used to seeing the volume of mistakes made by his Premier League leaders as a 3-2 defeat at Fulham saw their 26-match unbeaten league run ended.

Despite Alexis Mac Allister’s sensational opener, Liverpool were handed their second defeat of the campaign, with Fulham responding thanks to goals from Ryan Sessegnon, Alex Iwobi and Rodrigo Muniz.

Substitute Luis Diaz found the net after the break but it was not enough as Liverpool slipped to their first league loss since Nottingham Forest’s 1-0 win at Anfield in September.

“It wasn’t 45 minutes of disaster but the errors we made weren’t something that we’re used to and it’s something different,” Slot said. “It’s disappointed us all, the players and the fans.

“One reason we’re in the position we’re in is because we don’t make a lot of mistakes and if we do, the players try and make up for them.”

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola accused Manchester United supporters of lacking class after singing vulgar chants about Phil Foden’s mother during Sunday’s derby.

Guardiola said rival supporters should be ashamed having also targeted the England international as he left the field following a drab goalless draw at Old Trafford.

He said: “The chants to him? Lack of class. But it’s not United,