Coach urges team to win remaining games to lift title as Liverpool stay hot on their heels
\n LONDON
\nManchester City maintained a one-point Premier League lead over Liverpool with four games to go after seeing off Leeds 4-0 on Saturday as Norwich were relegated after a 2-0 loss at Aston Villa.
\nEarlier, Liverpool had moved to the top of the table with a 1-0 win at Newcastle thanks to Naby Keita\u2019s first-half goal.
\nBoth the title contenders each made five changes with tricky away trips sandwiched between both legs of their Champions League semi-finals.
\nCity boss Pep Guardiola could afford the luxury of not even calling on Kevin De Bruyne as the champions kept the fate of the title race in their own hands.
\nRodri headed home Phil Foden\u2019s free-kick on 13 minutes to settle any City nerves.
\nNathan Ake then turned home Ruben Dias\u2019 knockdown as the visitors struck again from a set piece early in the second-half.
\nGabriel Jesus kept his fine scoring form going with a thumping finish 12 minutes from time before Fernandinho rounded off the scoring in stoppage time.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s not about the pressure\u2013it\u2019s simple,\u201d said Guardiola.
\n\u201cWe have to win all our games to be champions. If we don\u2019t, Liverpool will be champions.\u201d
\nLiverpool\u2019s top scorer Mohamed Salah, Thiago Alcantara, Fabinho and Trent Alexander-Arnold were among those rested by Jurgen Klopp from the start.
\nBut they still had far too much for one of the form sides in the league.
\nThe decisive moment came in the 19th minute when, with the home side appealing in vain for a free-kick, Jordan Henderson and Diogo Jota combined to feed Keita, who stepped inside before dispatching the ball past the helpless Martin Dubravka.
\nThe Reds could have made life easier for themselves but Sadio Mane and Jota squandered chances and they survived a late scare when Alisson Becker saved from Bruno Guimaraes.
\nKlopp said he was delighted with his players\u2019 ability to produce a winning performance after so many changes as they chase sporting immortality in an unprecedented quadruple.
\n\u201cI thought it was a top-class game in extremely difficult circumstances,\u201d said Klopp, who had voiced his anger at being handed a lunchtime kick-off just three days after facing Villarreal.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m really happy. You want to win football games and in the best case you deserve to win. We did today 100 percent against a team in great form in a great atmosphere.\u201d
\nNorwich are heading back to the Championship after just one season in the top flight after goals from Ollie Watkins and Danny Ings sealed their fate on manager Dean Smith\u2019s return to Villa Park.
\n\u201cI\u2019m disappointed with our result,\u201d said Canaries captain Grant Hanley. \u201cIt is probably fair, we haven\u2019t been good enough this season.\u201d
\nBurnley\u2019s turnaround to beat Watford 2-1 at Vicarage Road sealed the Canaries fate.
\nThe Clarets looked to be heading towards the trap door when they sacked long-serving boss Sean Dyche two weeks ago but have taken 10 points from a possible 12 since.
\nJames Tarkowski\u2019s early own goal gave the visitors an uphill task but late goals from Jack Cork and Josh Brownhill turned the match on his head.
\n\u201cCredit to the boys, the staff, everybody \u2013 we have rallied each other and we want to be in this division,\u201d said Brownhill. \u201cWe are hard-working and we deserve to be in this division.\u201d
\nThe result means Watford are all but doomed while 18th-placed Everton are in desperate trouble \u2013 five points from safety and facing playing outside the English top-flight next season for the first time since 1954.
\nBrighton hammered Wolves 3-0 and Crystal Palace beat Southampton 2-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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