“Here you are, on top of Africa. Thanks to your fighting spirit, your talent and your commitment, you have brought back to us the pride and honour that marks great people,” he said. The Serie A outfit emerged victorious in that contest, as they edged a thrilling encounter 3-2, but the sight of the Mexico international being taken off by medical professionals cast some shadow over an otherwise productive evening. Martial has not featured since the win against Arsenal on 2 December Rangnick had said Martial didn't want to be in the squad for Saturday's game against Aston Villa. Arsenal's players will be kicking themselves this evening, especially considering their north London rivals lost 1-0 to Brighton earlier in the day, meaning a win against Southampton would've taken them level on points with them. It's been a real revelation this season. Hope Powell has also galvanised Brighton into top-three contenders this season. This might be the time to catch the big man so backing him at 4/6 for a shot and going for glory with a headed goal at 16/1 with Sky Bet is the way to go. City doubled their lead in the 27th minute when Cancelo collected the ball 35 yards out, beat two Newcastle players and fired an unstoppable strike into the top corner from outside the penalty area. He hasn't helped himself, you have to say. Transfer Talk then follows at midday, delivering the biggest stories that matter to you. The Englishman did brilliantly to stand up Porteous and cut inside, enticing the Hibs defender to leave a leg in and give referee John Beaton a decision to make. Hibs may claim Kent went down easily, but there was contact. That's not good enough for this football club and if anyone does think that then they won't last very long at this football club. I felt two things. The first was joy, then Paredes ran towards me and hit my nose with his chest, Pochettino told reporters. And I thought I had broken it, I called our doctor and told him 'I think I have broken my nose'. Our clubs gladly commit to this solidarity scheme. But in consideration, we expect decisions not to be made in isolation by FIFA and CAF.” The running line, every year since 2013, has been 'just one or two transfer windows, and we will fix this'. Why did Messi win the 2021 men's Ballon d'Or?In July, the 34-year-old ended his long wait for a major international trophy by winning the Copa America with Argentina as they beat hosts Brazil in the final. Shortly afterwards, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain connected with an Andy Robertson cross to double the lead and Takumi Minamino came off the bench to side-foot home a third. But what makes Dias' impact on this City team so monstrous, is that he's only played 22 of their 25 games as Guardiola didn't secure his signature until late September. Palace are without Wilfried Zaha and although their drop-off in terms of overall performance isn't as drastic as Liverpool's without Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane, it certainly has an effect on Palace's ability to win corners. Basically what we've brought in was what we were lacking. He's got three in four games and today he provided an assist for Bacuna. City’s imperfections were also on full display as they failed to convert their dominance of the ball and their series of chances into goals. Indeed, the hosts were the better team by almost every metric - they had twice as many shots and created 16 chances to PSG’s six - but lacked cutting edge. Meanwhile, for Burnley, another impressive showing fails to yield the desired three points. Despite solid performances against Manchester United and Liverpool, they end the week much further from safety after Newcastle's back-to-back triumphs. They will fight to the bitter end but results need to start turning ASAP.

	Team	Events	Wins	Draws	Losses	Goal difference	Points
1	Manchester City	22	18	2	2	41	56
2	Chelsea	22	12	7	3	28	43
3	Liverpool	20	12	6	2	34	42
4	West Ham United	21	11	4	6	12	37
5	Arsenal	20	11	2	7	8	35
6	Tottenham Hotspur	18	10	3	5	3	33
7	Manchester United	19	9	4	6	3	31
8	Wolverhampton Wanderers	20	9	4	7	2	31
9	Brighton & Hove Albion	20	6	10	4	0	28
10	Leicester City	18	7	4	7	-2	25
11	Crystal Palace	21	5	9	7	-1	24
12	Southampton	21	5	9	7	-8	24
13	Brentford	20	6	5	9	-6	23
14	Aston Villa	19	7	1	11	-5	22
15	Everton	19	5	4	10	-10	19
16	Leeds United	19	4	7	8	-16	19
17	Watford	19	4	2	13	-14	14
18	Norwich City	21	3	4	14	-35	13
19	Newcastle United	20	1	9	10	-23	12
20	Burnley	17	1	8	8	-11	11