Marmoush leads Manchester City with a historic hat-trick, and Arsenal continues to pursue Liverpool

Egyptian Omar Marmoush led Manchester City to victory, while Arsenal continued to pursue Liverpool by defeating Leicester City, and Aston Villa stumbled again with a draw. In the results of Saturday's matches from the 25th round of the English Premier League.

Omar Marmoush, the star of the Egyptian national team, shone by scoring three goals (a hat-trick) to lead his team, Manchester City, to a resounding victory over its guest, Newcastle United, with four clean goals.

Manchester City ended the first half ahead with a hat-trick from Marmoush in the 19th, 26th and 33rd minutes, with the Egyptian player scoring his first hat-trick in his career in European stadiums.
In the second half, young player James McAtee added the fourth goal in the 84th minute after coming on as a substitute.

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With this victory, Manchester City overcame the setback of losing in the last round to Arsenal with a score of 1-5, raising its score to 44 points, and jumping to fourth place.

As for Newcastle United, their score froze at 41 points after a second consecutive loss, dropping to seventh place in the standings.

Arsenal chasing Liverpool

Spanish substitute Mikel Merino temporarily put his team Arsenal within four points of leaders Liverpool, by scoring both goals in a 2-0 win at Leicester City.

Arsenal looked set to settle for a draw at a team fighting to avoid relegation to the second division, before relief came in the 81st minute through Merino, who scored the opening goal and then secured his team's third consecutive win and 15th this season with a second goal in the 87th minute.

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With this victory, which is part of a series of 15 consecutive matches without defeat for the London team in the league, specifically since the 0-1 loss to Newcastle on November 2nd in the tenth round, the "Gunners" are now 4 points away from Liverpool, which will meet Wolverhampton on Sunday at home.

In contrast, after failing to achieve its first victory over Arsenal at its home stadium since November 9, 2019 (2-0), Leicester's balance froze at 17 points in eighteenth place, but only two points away from the relegation zone.

Aston Villa stumble in front of their fans

In another match, Aston Villa disappointed their fans by drawing 1-1 with their guest, Ipswich Town.

The visitors took the lead through Liam Delap in the 56th minute, but Aston Villa equalised in the 69th minute.

Ipswich Town completed the match with ten players after defender Axel Tuanzebe was sent off in the 40th minute.

Aston Villa lost two valuable points to remain in ninth place with 38 points, while Ipswich Town is in eighteenth place with 17 points.

Other matches

Nottingham Forest lost 2-1 away to Fulham.

Emile Smith Rowe and Calvin Bassey scored for Fulham in the 15th and 62nd minutes, while Chris Wood scored Nottingham's only goal in the 37th minute.

Nottingham's tally froze at 47 points in third place, reducing the gap to three points with its pursuer, Manchester City, the title holder, who won 4/0 over Newcastle United in a match at the same time.

Fulham raised its score to 39 points in eighth place.

Bournemouth won away to Southampton 3-1, raising their tally to 43 points in fifth place, while Southampton's tally froze at 9 points in 20th (last) place.

Brentford snatched a valuable away win over West Ham United with a goal from Kevin Shade in the fourth minute.

Brentford jumped to 11th place with 34 points, while West Ham's points froze at 27 points in 16th place.

(Agencies)