After scoring 10 goals in four days, Newcastle is closing in on Champions League qualification in some style 바카라 and quicker than the club바카라s Saudi ownership might have expected.
A finish in the Premier League바카라s top four looks increasingly likely for Newcastle following a 4-1 win at Everton on Thursday. It wasn바카라t quite as emphatic as the 6-1 rout of Tottenham on Sunday, but it wasn바카라t far off.
In third place and with an eight-point cushion to the teams battling to keep in touch with the top four, surely Newcastle will be joining Manchester City and Arsenal in Europe바카라s top competition next season 바카라 less than two years since the game-changing takeover by Saudi Arabia바카라s sovereign wealth fund.
Manchester United is the favorite to be the fourth English team to reach the Champions League but a second-half collapse at Tottenham on Thursday gave the chasing teams 바카라 including Spurs 바카라 some hope.
Jeered by their fans at 2-0 down at halftime, Tottenham바카라s players recovered to draw 2-2 and regain some pride from that dismal performance at Newcastle that marked one of the darkest days in the London club바카라s recent history. It was so bad 바카라 Newcastle scored five times in the first 21 minutes 바카라 that the team offered refunds to fans who traveled to the game, and interim manager Cristian Stellini was fired.
Tottenham, now under another caretaker manager in Ryan Mason, is up to fifth place on goal difference and leads the chasers behind fourth-place United, which is six points clear with seven games to play.
The battle to avoid relegation is even closer, although last-place Southampton looks doomed after a dispiriting 1-0 home loss to south-coast rival Bournemouth.
That left the Saints, who have been in the Premier League since 2012, six points from safety with five games left.
Everton stayed in next-to-last place after the thrashing by Newcastle and has only won one of its last 10 games under Sean Dyche, whose appointment hasn바카라t had the impact many might have expected.
A big game is coming up on Monday against third-from-bottom Leicester, with one point separating the teams. Whoever loses would be in real trouble.
PRIDE RESTORED
Son Heung-min completed Tottenham바카라s comeback against United with a 79th-minute equalizer 바카라 then thanked the fans for sticking by the team.
바카라Last week was unacceptable,바카라 Son said about the Newcastle game. 바카라We didn바카라t want to repeat that and we feel really, really sorry for that performance and result.
바카라Today we wanted to bring a good energy with them and we really appreciated their amazing support. They were fighting with us. If they weren바카라t here, it would have been difficult to fight back to 2-2.바카라
Goals by Jadon Sancho and Marcus Rashford put United in control at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium before Harry Kane inspired the home team바카라s comeback.
Right wing back Pedro Porro reduced the deficit in the 56th after Kane had a shot blocked. Kane supplied the cross that Son converted, as one of the Premier League바카라s great attacking combinations struck again.
바카라We lost a bit of energy, a bit of control and they got belief and it went the other way,바카라 said United midfielder Christian Eriksen, a former Tottenham player.
WILSON DOUBLE
Callum Wilson was selected up front ahead of Alexander Isak and scored goals either side of a header from Joelinton to lead Newcastle to victory.
Isak still made his mark, though. The Sweden striker came on as a second-half substitute and produced the highlight of the game with a mazy dribble down the left wing and across the byline before he chipped the ball across for Jacob Murphy to tap home.
바카라The amount of turns and twists and stepovers he did 바카라 an incredible piece of skill,바카라 Newcastle manager Eddie Howe said of Isak. 바카라He has incredible ball manipulation.바카라
Everton thought it was back in the game at Goodison Park after an 80th-minute header from Dwight McNeil at a corner, which made it 3-1. Murphy, though, scored a minute later.
ALMOST SAFE
Bournemouth has now won five of its last eight games to pull clear of relegation trouble when many had them down as certainties for an immediate return to the second-tier Championship.
Marcus Tavernier squeezed home the winner in the 50th minute, condemning last-place Southampton to a 21st loss in 33 league games this season.
Bournemouth jumped to 14th place, seven points clear of the bottom three.
