2017-18 Premier League: Match day 18

Premier League 2017-18
Day	Saturday/Sunday/Monday
Date	16/17/18 December 2017
Total matches	10
Total goals	29
League leaders start	Manchester City
League leaders end	Manchester City
Highest scoring	Watford v Huddersfield Man City v Tottenham
Bottom start	Swansea City
Bottom end	Swansea City
Current league	2017-18
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Match day 17	Match day 19

Crystal Palace climbed out of the relegation zone with a rare away win over Claude Puel's resurgent Leicester. Palace manager Roy Hodgson said his player, Christian Benteke delivered on a pledge to make amends for his penalty miss last weekend.

Newcastle United dropped into the relegation zone with a fourth straight defeat at Arsenal. The Magpies have lost eight of their last nine Premier League games, gaining just one point from a 2-2 draw at West Brom.

Glenn Murray missed a penalty as Brighton's winless run stretched to seven matches with a goalless draw against Burnley, but defender Lewis Dunk is "confident" his side will not rue the dropped points.

Marcos Alonso's winner sent Chelsea level on points with second-placed Manchester United, who boast a better goal difference and face West Brom on Sunday.

Huddersfield Town boss David Wagner said his side are halfway to Premier League survival after their 4-1 win at Watford. This was the Terriers' first victory in eight away league matches and took Wagner's team up to 11th in the table on 21 points.

Stoke City have now lost five of their past six and conceded the most goals in the league after a 3-0 home defeat by West Ham, and chants of "Hughes out" and "sacked in the morning" greeted the final whistle.

Kevin De Bruyne put in an inspired performance to help his side Manchester City outclass Tottenham for a 16th successive Premier League victory that stretched their lead to 14 points.

Manchester United moved back to within 11 points of Premier League leaders Manchester City by holding on to beat West Brom. Romelu Lukaku opened the scoring with a header against his former team and then Jesse Lingard doubled United's lead when his shot was deflected.

Goals from Philippe Coutinho, Dejan Lovren, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino gave Liverpool the win over Bournemouth and took them above Burnley and Arsenal, although they are still 18 points behind leaders Manchester City.

Striker Wayne Rooney said Everton have "gone back to basics" after they came from behind to beat Swansea City 3-1 and continue their revival under Sam Allardyce. The Toffees have won four of their past five games - drawing the other - to climb into ninth.

Saturday 16 December 2017

Saturday 16 December 2017 12:30	Leicester City	0–3	Crystal Palace	King Power Stadium, Leicester Attendance: 31,081 Referee: Martin Atkinson
	Ndidi  61'	Report	Benteke  19' Zaha  40' Sako  90+4'

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Saturday 16 November 2017 15:00	Arsenal	1–0	Newcastle Utd	Emirates Stadium, London Attendance: 59,379 Referee: Stuart Attwell
	Özil  23'	Report

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Saturday 16 November 2017 15:00	Brighton	0–0	Burnley	Falmer Stadium, Brighton Attendance: 29,921 Referee: Chris Kavanagh
		Report

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Saturday 16 November 2017 15:00	Chelsea	1–0	Southampton	Stamford Bridge, London Attendance: 41,562 Referee: Roger East
	Alonso  45+3'	Report

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Saturday 16 November 2017 15:00	Watford	1–4	Huddersfield	Vicarage Road, Watford Attendance: 20,026 Referee: Michael Oliver
	Deeney  33' Doucouré  68'	Report	Kachunga  6' Mooy  23', 89' (pen.) Depoitre  50' Hogg  61'

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Saturday 16 November 2017 16:00	Stoke City	0–3	West Ham Utd	bet365 Stadium, Stoke Attendance: 29,265 Referee: Graham Scott
		Report	Noble  19' (pen.) Arnautović  75' Sakho  86'

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Saturday 16 November 2017 17:30	Man City	4–1	Tottenham	City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester Attendance: 54,214 Referee: Craig Pawson
	Gündoğan  14' De Bruyne  70' Sterling  80', 90'	Report	Eriksen  90+3'

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Sunday 17 December 2017

Sunday 17 November 2017 14:15	West Brom	1–2	Man Utd	The Hawthorns, West Bromwich Attendance: 24,782 Referee: Anthony Taylor
	Barry  77'	Report	Lukaku  27' Lingard  35'

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Saturday 16 November 2017 16:30	Bournemouth	0–4	Liverpool	Dean Court, Bournemouth Attendance: 10,780 Referee: Andre Marriner
		Report	Coutinho  20' Lovren  26' Salah  44' Firmino  66'

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Monday 18 December 2017

Monday 18 November 2017 20:00	Everton	3–1	Swansea City	Goodison Park, Liverpool Attendance: 37,580 Referee: Jonathan Moss
	Calvert-Lewin  45+2' Sigurdsson  64' Rooney  73' (pen.)	Report	Fer  35'

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League table after Match day 18

2017–18 Premier League Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Notes
1	Manchester City	18	17	1	0	56	12	+44	52	Qualification for the  Champions League group stage
2	Manchester United	18	13	2	3	39	12	+27	41
3	Chelsea	18	12	2	4	32	14	+18	38
4	Liverpool	18	9	7	2	38	20	+18	34	Qualification for the  Champions League play-off round
5	Arsenal	18	10	3	5	31	20	+11	33	Qualification for the  Europa League group stage
6	Burnley	18	9	5	4	16	12	+4	32	Possible qualification for the Europa League group stage
7	Tottenham Hotspur	18	9	4	5	31	18	+13	31	Possible qualification for the Europa League second qualifying round
8	Leicester City	18	7	5	6	27	26	+1	26
9	Everton	18	7	4	7	24	30	−6	25
10	Watford	18	6	4	8	27	33	−6	22
11	Huddersfield Town	18	6	3	9	16	30	−14	21
12	Southampton	18	4	6	8	17	24	−7	18
13	Brighton & Hove Albion	18	4	6	8	14	23	−9	18
14	Crystal Palace	18	4	5	9	15	28	−13	17
15	West Ham United	18	4	5	9	17	32	−15	17
16	Bournemouth	17	4	4	9	15	24	−9	16
17	Stoke City	17	4	4	9	19	39	−20	16
18	Newcastle United	18	4	3	11	16	27	−11	15	Relegation to EFL Championship
19	West Bromwich Albion	18	2	8	8	13	24	−11	14
20	Swansea City	18	3	3	12	10	25	−15	12

Updated to games played on 19 December 2017
Source: Barclays Premier League
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal difference; 3rd number of goals scored.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round; (Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament

Notes

See also

• Premier League
• Premier League - 2017-18 Season

External links

• BBC Sport