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maltatoday SUNDAY 24 DECEMBER 2017 51 Sports SPORTTODAY FOOTBALL England - Premier League Everton - Chelsea .................................. 0-0 Brighton & Hove Albion - Watford .......... 1-0 Manchester City - AFC Bournemouth ...... 4-0 Southampton - Huddersfield Town ........ 1-1 Stoke City - West Bromwich Albion ......... 3-1 Swansea City - Crystal Palace ................. 1-1 West Ham United - Newcastle United ..... 2-3 Burnley - Tottenham Hotspur ................. Late Leicester City - Manchester Utd .............. Late Italy - Serie A Lazio - Crotone ...................................... 4-0 Genoa - Benevento ............................... 1-0 SPAL 2013 - Torino ................................. 2-2 SSC Napoli - Sampdoria ......................... 3-2 Sassuolo - Inter ..................................... 1-0 Udinese - Hellas Verona ........................ 4-0 AC Milan - Atalanta ................................ Late Juventus - Roma .................................... Late Spain - Liga Satander Real Madrid - Barcelona ......................0-3 Valencia - Villarreal..............................0-1 Deportivo La Coruna - Celta Vigo ..........Late Football Results & Fixtures Dominant Manchester City make it 17 in a row GOALS by Sergio Aguero, who scored twice, Raheem Ster- ling and Danilo enabled leaders Manchester City to extend their record-breaking run to 17 suc- cessive Premier League wins as they thrashed Bournemouth 4-0 yesterday. The run had begun with victory in added time away to the same opposition in August. This one was much more comfortable and dropped Bournemouth into the bottom three. Aguero set Pep Guardiola's team on their way in the 27th minute. Goalkeeper Asmir Begovic lost possession with a poor clearance and Aguero met Fernandinho's pass with a diving header. Soon after halftime leading scorer Sterling finished a fine move involving David Silva and Aguero, who then headed his sec- ond of the afternoon from a cross by substitute Bernardo Silva. Danilo, another substitute, scored the fourth within three minutes of coming on to leave manager Guardiola satisfied at having overcome defensive oppo- sition again. "It was so tough because they play five at the back and 10 play- ers behind (the ball)," he said. "So space was almost impossi- ble to find and we were lucky to score the first goal. The last 20 minutes they pushed up and af- ter that we played a really good game. "A good performance and we were ready mentally again. "Now it's a merry Christmas and thinking about (playing) Newcastle." Manchester City's Raheem Sterling scores their second goal past Bournemouth's Asmir Begovic Newcastle end four-match losing streak with win at West Ham NEWCASTLE United finally got back on the winning trail when they secured a crucial 3-2 win over West Ham on Saturday to move out of the bottom three and end a barren run of four consecutive defeats. Despite Marko Arnautovic firing West Ham into the lead on six minutes following a bad mistake by Henri Saivet, the north east club showed all their fighting spirit to secure their first three points in nine Pre- mier League games and ease their relegation worries. Saivet made up for his error when he brought Newcastle level with a curling free kick in the 10th minute, before Mohamed Di- ame scored the second shortly after halftime. Andre Ayew missed a penalty in the 55th and it was to prove costly as Chris- tian Atsu made it three on the hour mark for the visitors. Ayew reduced the deficit in the 69th but Newcastle held on to record their first win since October 21. Newcastle got off to the worst possible start when Saivet passed the ball straight into the path of Arnautovic who raced towards the visitors' goal and fired a low shot past Rob Elliot to make it three goals in his last four league appearances. But Saivet more than made up for his mistake when he brought Newcastle level in spectacular fashion curling a free kick over the wall and past the outstretched hand of Adrian after Winston Reid had committed a foul on the edge of the box. Newcastle may have strug- gled in recent weeks but they found their best form at just the right time and hit the wood- work twice when Dwight Gayle struck the bar and Matt Ritchie curled his shot against the post. The away side were rewarded when Diame netted against his former club after Atsu took the ball around Pablo Zabaleta and pulled it back for the Newcastle midfielder to fire an unstoppa- ble shot past Adrian. West Ham blew a major chance to get back into the game when Ayew had his penalty saved by Rob Elliot after Michail Anto- nio was brought down inside the box by Ciaran Clark. Newcastle made them pay as they made it three with superb counterattack which ended with Joselu picking out Atsu who made no mistake convert- ing from close range. Ayew reduced the deficit when he fired into the roof of the net to make it a tense finish but Newcastle saw out the game and delivered the perfect Christmas present for their travelling fans. Newcastle United's Robert Elliot celebrates after the match