City\u2019s lead at the top of the Premier League table returns to six points, a lead Liverpool cannot cut this week ahead of their EFL Cup final against Chelsea on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Champions need to find a way to win when they are not at their best, and Guardiola\u2019s men certainly did that. City gets back to winning ways with a fluke victory over hardworking Everton. Foden\u2019s late winning goal was an incredibly lucky one, but the league leaders might feel they deserved the win after a strong second-half performance.<\/p>\n
Everton did enough to earn a point against the Giants but was harshly punished for an unfortunate error. However, they missed out on a penalty after a controversial decision by VAR.<\/p>\n
City midfielder, Rodri, appeared to extend his arm to the ball late in the second half but VAR determined otherwise and this left Goodison Park upset.<\/p>\n
The newly appointed manager, Frank Lampard, was not happy with the decision. He tells Sky Sports \u201cEven if the VAR says not sure, then go have a look. It is incompetence at best, if not that then someone needs to explain what it is.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Everton stay 17th, just one point ahead of 18th placed Burnley. Although they have a few games in hand on the teams above them, they are now certainly in the relegation battle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Manchester City kept their advantage in the title race thanks to a late goal from Phil Foden. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":33752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1100,2604,220,218],"class_list":["post-11281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-everton","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-manchester-city-f-c","tag-premier-league"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}