Sunday’s Premier League triple header on NBCSN delivered drama, goals and controversy by the time the dust settled on the day’s action.
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All told, we saw 12 goals, a red card, two penalties and a tightened title race.
Let’s take a spin through those three matches.
Arsenal 2-1 Leicester City — RECAP
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The Emirates Stadium crowd saw a little bit of everything. The Gunners went down 1-0 on a controversially drawn and lethally taken penalty from Jamie Vardy, then saw a glimmer of hope when Foxes defender Danny Simpson took two quick and silly yellow cards. Theo Walcott found the leveler and Danny Welbeck, out for 10 months, returned to score the winner in the fourth of four minutes of stoppage time. The Gunners are now two points back of Leicester and nine goals of differential behind No. 2 Tottenham.
Aston Villa 0-6 Liverpool — RECAP
Having two of your brightest attackers in the lineup can do a lot for an offense’s potency, and Philippe Coutinho found Daniel Sturridge to open the scoring very early at Villa Park. A deluge of goals followed, and Villa will be wondering if there’s any way out of the drop zone after James Milner, Divock Origi, Nathaniel Clyne, Emre Can and Kolo Toure also scored for the Reds to bury the home side’s goal differential with its table status.
Manchester City 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur — RECAP
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If Vardy’s penalty was controversial, Mark Clattenberg’s decision to award one to Tottenham was cataclysmic. Raheem Sterling‘s leaping block of a cross was deemed to be a handball, and Harry Kane beat countrymate Joe Hart with a PK. Super sub Kelechi Iheanacho equalized for the Etihad set, but fellow late game entry Erik Lamela sprung Christian Eriksen for a tidy match winner in the 83rd minute.
Standings |
| Team | GP | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Home | Away | PTS | |||
| Leicester City | 26 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 48 | 29 | 19 | 7-4-1 | 8-4-2 | 53 | |||
| Tottenham Hotspur | 26 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 47 | 20 | 27 | 7-4-2 | 7-5-1 | 51 | |||
| Arsenal | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 41 | 23 | 18 | 8-3-2 | 7-3-3 | 51 | |||
| Manchester City | 26 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 48 | 28 | 20 | 9-1-4 | 5-4-3 | 47 | |||
| Manchester United | 26 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 33 | 24 | 9 | 6-4-2 | 5-4-5 | 41 | |||
| Southampton | 26 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 7-2-4 | 4-5-4 | 40 | |||
| West Ham United | 26 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 40 | 31 | 9 | 5-5-2 | 5-5-4 | 40 | |||
| Liverpool | 26 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 38 | 36 | 2 | 4-5-3 | 6-3-5 | 38 | |||
| Watford | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 29 | 28 | 1 | 5-3-5 | 5-3-5 | 36 | |||
| Stoke City | 26 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 27 | 32 | -5 | 5-2-5 | 5-4-5 | 36 | |||
| Everton | 26 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 46 | 35 | 11 | 4-4-6 | 4-7-1 | 35 | |||
| Chelsea | 26 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 38 | 36 | 2 | 5-5-4 | 3-4-5 | 33 | |||
| Crystal Palace | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 27 | 32 | -5 | 4-2-8 | 5-3-4 | 32 | |||
| West Bromwich Albion | 26 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 24 | 32 | -8 | 4-4-5 | 4-4-5 | 32 | |||
| Bournemouth | 26 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 30 | 44 | -14 | 3-4-6 | 4-3-6 | 28 | |||
| Swansea City | 26 | 6 | 9 | 11 | 24 | 34 | -10 | 4-5-5 | 2-4-6 | 27 | |||
| Norwich City | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 30 | 50 | -20 | 4-4-5 | 2-2-9 | 24 | |||
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| Newcastle United | 26 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 27 | 49 | -22 | 4-5-4 | 2-1-10 | 24 | |||
| Sunderland | 26 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 32 | 50 | -18 | 4-3-6 | 2-2-9 | 23 | |||
| Aston Villa | 26 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 20 | 46 | -26 | 2-4-7 | 1-3-9 | 16 | |||