Man City in the form of champion after the Mourinho drama

LONDON (Reuters) – The city of Manchester City is showing its usual words and Mo Salah has rediscovered the meaning of his goals for Liverpool as the two favorites of the title cleared clear at the top of the Premier League on Saturday.

City destroyed Burnley 5-0 before Salah burst into Liverpool's 1-0 win over Huddersfield Town. Yet all this pale with the tragedy that once again overwhelmed Manchester United and Jose Mourinho in the match of the same day.

Mourinho's team was on the verge of a win against undefeated Chelsea until substitute Ross Barkley's equalizer drew a 2-2 draw against the Blues and triggered a pantomime at the edge of the field. .

The Portuguese were furious after the provocative and frenetic celebrations of Marco Ianni, one of the assistants of Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri after the goal in the 96th minute. He had to be restrained as he tried to pursue his executioner in the tunnel.

The episode without charm allowed Sarri to accept the fact that Chelsea's bench was wrong and order his assistant to apologize to Mourinho.

Mourinho accepted the apology, but the insult to him was certainly not as serious as missing out on the three points his team under pressure would have deserved.

He called this result "terrible" after one of their best performances of a checkered season. When City then destroyed Burnley with four goals in the second half, it means that United, now ninth, is nine points behind his neighbors.

City's final session, with goals from Sergio Aguero, Bernardo Silva, Fernandinho, Leroy Sane and Riyad Mahrez, gave coach Pep Guardiola as much joy as seeing Kevin De Bruyne resume his post his layoff for injury.

City jumped to 23 points, just ahead of Liverpool's undefeated goal difference, which, far from their best score, was grateful to Salah's brutal winner in the first half in his unconvincing slog at Huddersfield.

It was Egypt's 50th goal in English football, but only the fourth of the season for the Golden Boot winner last season.

Manchester City and Liverpool have two points ahead of Chelsea, who escaped intact but over Tottenham Hotspur, who won 1-0 at West Ham United, thanks to the skilful head of Erik Lamela just before half-time.

In Stamford Bridge, Mourinho's team lost one of them when Antonio Rudiger escaped from marker Paul Pogba and returned home without conceding a corner.

They bounced back with two goals from Anthony Martial in the second half and largely controlled their control until Barkley saved the situation.

The dramatic finale was then eclipsed by the latest fight that was sparked by the Ianni celebrations, which Mourinho described as "very impolite".

Obviously, they also irritated Sarri, who had a hard time apologizing to Mourinho.

"Of course, I want to talk to him again because I want to make sure he's able to understand that it was a big mistake," he said.

Bournemouth missed the opportunity to enter the top five while Southampton was opposed to a draw and blank while Watford controlled the impressive progress of Wolverhampton Wanderers in Molineux with a 2-0 victory.

The Wolves competed in the same team for an unprecedented ninth game in the Premier League, but were canceled by two superb goals in the 58-second interval at halftime by Etienne Capoue and Roberto Pereyra.

Cardiff City managed to break away from the relegation zone, beating Fulham 4-2 – the first time they scored four goals in a high-flying match since 1961 – but Newcastle United's woes under Rafa Benitez continued.

The Magpies dropped to the bottom of the league with just two points after their 1-0 home defeat against Brighton & Hove Albion, whose day was only penalized by an injury to their best striker Glenn Murray.

Murray landed heavily after an aerial challenge and was taken on a stretcher after six minutes of field treatment, but he was informed that everything was fine after security examinations were conducted at the hospital.