LONDON
\nLiverpool kept the pressure on Premier League leaders Manchester City as Fabinho sealed a 1-0 win over Burnley, while Tottenham\u2019s top four bid suffered a fresh blow in a 2-0 loss to Wolves on Sunday.
\nFabinho struck late in the first half at windswept Turf Moor to give Liverpool their fourth successive league victory.
\nLiverpool are nine points behind City with one game in hand as the Reds refuse to let the title race become a prolonged coronation for Pep Guardiola\u2019s men.
\nCity made it 14 wins from their last 15 league games on Saturday as Raheem Sterling\u2019s hat-trick inspired a 4-0 win at lowly Norwich.
\nBut Guardiola is convinced Liverpool will push the champions all the way to the finish line and the way they ground out a hard-fought success against bottom of the table Burnley suggests he is right not to count them out.
\n\u201cIt is nine points and then it is 12 points because most of the time City play before us. These are really difficult games. That is why we don\u2019t think about the title race,\u201d Reds boss Jurgen Klopp said.
\nAfter a shaky start, during which Burnley threatened a shock opener, Fabinho restored order five minutes before half-time.
\nThe Brazilian poked home a fifth goal in his last seven games after Mane headed on Trent Alexander-Arnold\u2019s corner.
\n\u201cA perfect afternoon. Raining and windy,\u201d Klopp said. \u201cEverything today was set up to be a banana skin for us. We played the circumstances rather than suffered from them.\u201d
\nSpurs implode:
\nIn north London, Tottenham lost a second successive home game as Wolves followed Southampton\u2019s victory on Wednesday.
\nAntonio Conte\u2019s side, loudly booed off at full-time, dropped to eighth place, five points adrift of the Champions League places.
\n\u201cWe created chances but in the end we are talking about another defeat. We have to work and to know it won\u2019t be easy for us. It\u2019s difficult to explain the way we started,\u201d Conte said.
\nRaul Jimenez gave Wolves the perfect start in the sixth minute, the Mexican volleying home after Tottenham keeper Hugo Lloris weakly spilled Leander Dendoncker\u2019s effort.
\nIn the 18th minute, Lloris was involved again with a woeful pass to Ben Davies, prompting the startled defender to gift possession to Wolves.
\nDaniel Podence\u2019s shot was deflected onto the post by Davinson Sanchez and Dendoncker bundled in from close-range.
\nWolves, who climbed one point above Tottenham into seventh, have won four successive top-flight away games for the first time since 1980.
\nShamed West Ham defender Kurt Zouma withdrew from his side\u2019s 2-2 draw against Leicester just minutes before kick-off as David Moyes\u2019 men snatched a controversial last-gasp equaliser at the King Power Stadium.
\nZouma was fined two weeks\u2019 wages by West Ham after a video emerged showing the French defender kicking and slapping his cat.
\nDespite criticism of his stance, Hammers boss David Moyes had selected Zouma for a second successive game since the incident, only for the 27-year-old to pull out when he felt sick during the warm-up.
\nFourth placed West Ham took the lead through Jarrod Bowen\u2019s clinical finish in the 10th minute.
\nYouri Tielemans equalised with a penalty just before half-time after Aaron Cresswell\u2019s handball.
\nRicardo Pereira headed Leicester in front after 57 minutes but, in stoppage-time, Dawson deflected Bowen\u2019s corner into the net via his upper arm, with the goal surviving a VAR review for handball.
\n\u201cHe was ill before the game, wanted to play, we wanted him to play as well. Once he got out he did not think it was possible,\u201d Moyes said of Zouma.
\nNewcastle boosted their survival bid as Kieran Trippier\u2019s free-kick clinched a 1-0 win against Aston Villa at St James\u2019 Park.
\nThe Magpies, winners of three consecutive league matches for the first time since 2018, are four points above the relegation zone.
\nTrippier smashed his free-kick past Emiliano Martinez in the 35th minute for his second set-piece goal in successive games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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