Manchester City thrashed West Ham United 4-1 in the Premier League on Saturday for their first back-to-back wins since October thanks to two goals from Erling Haaland and one of their best all-around performances in weeks.

The reigning champions are sixth in the table on 34 points, 11 behind leaders Liverpool who have two games in hand. The Hammers, who were coming off a 5-0 rout by Liverpool six days earlier, are 13th with 23 points.

City got on the scoresheet in the 10th minute when West Ham defender Vladimir Coufal deflected Savinho’s angled shot into the far corner. Haaland bagged his first in the 42nd minute when Savinho whipped in a long cross that the big Norwegian leapt sideways to head in.

Haaland notched his second shortly after the break when Savinho sent a through ball that the 24-year-old nonchalantly chipped over goalkeeper Alphonse Areola. Phil Foden padded City’s lead in the 58th minute before Niclas Fullkrug pulled a late goal back for the Hammers, but the game was already well out of reach.

Crystal Palace meanwhile scored a late equaliser to leave Chelsea winless in four Premier League games as Jean-Philippe Mateta struck in the 82nd minute to cancel out Cole Palmer’s first-half opener.
Chelsea had chances to seal the win before Mateta picked up a ball from Eberechi Eze and blasted home from close range to ease Palace’s relegation worries.

Palmer had given the visitors a deserved lead in the 14th minute when he fired in an angled shot after fine work on the left by winger Jadon Sancho who dummied his marker on the halfway line to sprint free and set up the England forward.
The draw left Chelsea in fourth place, one point ahead of in-form Newcastle who sit just outside the Champions League spots in fifth.
Crystal Palace are 15th, six points ahead of Ipswich Town who are in the highest of the three relegation positions and travel to Fulham on Sunday.

Leon Bailey scored the winner in Aston Villa’s 2-1 victory over Leicester City, after Stephy Mavididi’s equaliser had cancelled out Ross Barkley’s strike in an action-packed second half.
Villa found the breakthrough in the 58th minute when Barkley hammered home from outside the box, but the visitors struck back five minutes later when Emiliano Martinez’s save to deny Jamie Vardy fell to Mavididi who made no mistake from close range.
Bailey secured the three points for the hosts with a neat finish from Ian Maatsen’s short pass in the 76th minute.

Elsewhere, substitute David Brooks’s superb volley secured a deserved victory for hosts Bournemouth as they defeated a poor Everton 1-0 at the Vitality Stadium, while Brentford thrashed relegation favourites Southampton 5-0 to chalk up a long-overdue first away win of the Premier League season, helped by a Bryan Mbeumo double.