EPL roundup: Liverpool lose, Everton frustrate Conte, Barnes saves Leicester & Smith Rowe takes Arsenal to victory

Goalkeeper Alisson Becker helped West Ham rating three objectives, and Liverpool’s 25-game unbeaten run ended.
A 3-2 victory Sunday allowed West Ham to dislodge Liverpool from third place within the Premier League, extending a formidable begin to the season for David Moyes’ facet.

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Alisson flapped within the air to permit Aaron Cresswell’s inswinging nook to undergo his fingers within the fourth minute. After Trent Alexander-Arnold equalized on the finish of the primary half, Jarrod Bowen ran on the Liverpool protection earlier than slipping the ball to Pablo Fornals whose shot was helped into the online by Alisson’s weak contact. Another help got here from Bowen within the 74th when a nook was headed in by Kurt Zouma by Alisson’s raised fingers.
Although Divock Origi pulled one again, scoring on the flip, Liverpool couldn’t discover one other aim to keep away from a primary loss in any competitors since being knocked out of the Champions League final season by Real Madrid in April. It’s even additional again — into February — for the reason that 2020 champions misplaced within the Premier League.
West Ham is now solely three factors behind chief Chelsea after ending sixth final season for a highest end since being fifth in 1999.
Tottenham held by Everton in Conte’s irritating EPL return
Tottenham supervisor Antonio Conte endured a irritating begin to his Premier League return with a 0-0 draw at Everton on Sunday.
Conte, who gained the 2017 title with Chelsea, witnessed his new facet come off second finest to opponents beset by accidents and low on morale after not profitable of their earlier 4 matches.
Tottenham, which fired Nuno Espirito Santo on Monday, has now gone three hours and 47 minutes with out registering a shot heading in the right direction within the league on one other lackluster day for Harry Kane.
Everton, which had a penalty award overturned by VAR and substitute Mason Holgate despatched off within the ninetieth minute simply eight minutes after approaching, had two makes an attempt heading in the right direction.

FULL-TIME Everton 0-0 Spurs
Antonio Conte’s return to the #PL sees him decide up a hard-earned level in a good encounter at Goodison Park#EVETOT pic.twitter.com/GhGr465ybI
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In the assembly of two under-achieving sides, Everton had extra of an excuse with key gamers Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Abdoulaye Doucoure, Andre Gomes and Yerry Mina out injured.
Everton is in eleventh place and Tottenham is 2 locations higher off.
Barnes’ equalizer earns level for Leicester at Leeds
Harvey Barnes struck an outstanding first-half equalizer as Leicester held agency to take some extent in a 1-1 draw at resurgent Leeds within the Premier League on Sunday.
Barnes produced an excellent, curling end as Leicester responded instantly after Leeds had taken a deserved lead at Elland Road by Raphinha’s Twenty sixth-minute free kick.
Leeds carved out sufficient probabilities because it chased back-to-back league wins for the primary time this season, whereas Leicester defender Ricardo Pereira stabbed the ball in opposition to his personal publish within the first half.
Raphinha curled Leeds right into a deserved lead when his free kick bounced inside Kasper Schmeichel’s far publish, however the hosts’ benefit didn’t final lengthy.
Straight from the restart, Barnes reduce inside from the left and, after shifting the ball on to his proper foot, curled the ball past Illan Meslier and into the highest nook.
Having didn’t convert a number of probabilities, Leeds was given a reprieve within the 67th when Ademola Lookman’s far-post effort was dominated out for offside by VAR.

FULL-TIME Leeds 1-1 Leicester
An entertaining encounter ends all sq. after first-half crackers inside two minutes of one another from Raphinha and Harvey Barnes#LEELEI pic.twitter.com/jME4xBwdJq
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Wilfred Ndidi scuffed his shot as Leicester nonetheless threatened to grab all three factors within the closing levels earlier than Leeds’ hopes of victory ended when Raphinha’s thumping drive whistled over.
Midtable Leicester has 15 factors, 4 greater than Leeds.
Smith Rowe scores once more to steer Arsenal to win over Watford
Arsenal goes into the worldwide break fifth within the Premier League after Emile Smith Rowe clinched a 1-0 victory over Watford on Sunday.
Having opened the season with three losses, Mikel Arteta’s facet is now on a 10-game unbeaten run with Smith Rowe scoring in his final three league video games.

Benjamin White rode quite a few challenges earlier than being tackled, with the ball breaking into the trail of Smith Rowe to web within the 56th minute.
Watford was lowered to 10 males within the 89th when Juraj Kucka was proven a second yellow card for catching Nuno Tavares in an try to clear the ball from the sting of the field.
Claudio Ranieri’s facet stays two factors and a spot above the relegation zone.

FULL-TIME Arsenal 1-0 Watford
Emile Smith Rowe’s second half aim secures all three factors for the Gunners, as they make it 8 #PL matches unbeaten #ARSWAT pic.twitter.com/02mB7OBLVv
— Premier League (@premierleague) November 7, 2021