SWANSEA CITY CLAIMED an extraordinary 5-4 win over struggling Crystal Palace, while champions Leicester City narrowly avoided a seventh defeat of the campaign in a 2-2 draw with Middlesbrough.
The Welsh side upped the pressure on Palace manager Alan Pardew by condemning the south London club to a sixth straight defeat in a madcap game that gave Bob Bradley his first win since becoming manager.
Palace led 1-0, fell 3-1 down, fought back to go 4-3 up, but eventually succumbed courtesy of a remarkable brace of injury-time goals from Spanish striker Fernando Llorente.
The victory took Swansea off the foot of the table, where they were replaced by Sunderland, and left Palace above the bottom three on goal difference.
Leicester reached the Champions League last 16 in the week and they were almost brought down to earth with a bump by Middlesbrough at the King Power Stadium.
Alvaro Negredo twice put Boro ahead, but Riyad Mahrez cancelled out his first goal with a 34th-minute penalty and Islam Slimani rescued a draw with another spot-kick in the fourth minute of added time.
Elsewhere, Gareth McAuley’s header was cancelled out by Michael Dawson as West Bromwich Albion were held to a 1-1 draw at Hull City.
English Premier League results on Saturday:
Burnley 1 (Marney 14) Manchester City 2 (Aguero 37, 60)
Hull 1 (Dawson 72) West Brom 1 (McAuley 34)
Leicester 2 (Mahrez 34-pen, Slimani 90+4-pen) Middlesbrough 2 (Negredo 13, 71)
Liverpool 2 (Origi 75, Milner 90+1-pen) Sunderland 0
Swansea 5 (Sigurdsson 36, Fer 66, 68, Llorente 90+1, 90+3) Crystal Palace 4 (Zaha 19, Tomkins 75, Cork 82-og, Benteke 84)
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Diff type of footballer these days and they aint any better they are not even good enough to stand beside Stevie/keano/,viera/scholes . All them men played ball and took and gave a tackle. All thats there now with exception of one or two is a glorified bunch of mammy boys
Bang on from Gerrard. Mings tackle looked like a sore one, may have even injured Saka badly but it was just bad luck and that’s part of contact sport! The game as a spectacle has been majorly dented by soft officiating over the past 10 years lets not make it even worse.
So just because Gerrard has screws in his hips and 16 different operations that’s means that every English player from now on needs to end up like him or they haven’t had it ‘tough’ enough. What a silly comment from Gerrard. Probably said in the heat of the moment after the defeat I hope!
@kev egan: No he’s highlighting that it’s still a contact sport. To many fairies like saka expecting a foul every time they fall down cause someone breathed on them while running. Not every bit of physical contact is a foul. It’s not basketball
@Phil Redmond: fairies….
There’s clips of Gerrard saying his Rangers players need more protection..
I’m sure Stevie would be telling Saka to toughen up if he was a Villa player…
Twas an awful fall in fairness Steve,Glad ur ok…
I’m a huge fan of Stevie but this attitude of ‘fairies vs tough men’ is nonsense. Villa kicked him off the pitch, Mings was lucky not to see red. Players who rough up players and repeatedly foul are not tough…. they’re a bit rubbish at football is all.