EPL: Stuart Dallas stuns Manchester City

Leeds’ Stuart Dallas is ecstatic after scoring the winning goal against Man City at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday. Pic/Getty Images

Manchester City suffered just a fourth Premier League defeat of the season as 10-man Leeds United shocked the runaway leaders thanks to Stuart Dallas's double in a 2-1 win at the Etihad on Saturday.

Dallas opened the scoring three minutes before half-time, but hope of a famous win for Marcelo Bielsa's men seemed to have disappeared when captain Liam Cooper was shown a straight red card in first-half stoppage time.

The visitors withstood a City bombardment until Ferran Torres equalised 14 minutes from time. But Leeds still summoned the energy to pose a threat on the counter-attack and gained their reward when Dallas slotted below Ederson.

Bielsa's first win in five meetings against Pep Guardiola propels Leeds up to ninth in their first season back in the English top flight for 16 years.

‘Value of the win increases'

"The value of the victory increases because it was achieved in a game where we were dominated and demanded character, effort and personality," said Bielsa, who Guardiola has hailed as one of the major influences on his glorious coaching career.

"From the adversity and effort of the players it was emotional for me. It was a rebellious team. They weren't resigned to lose." Guardiola paid for heavily rotating his side with Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final, second leg, against Borussia Dortmund clearly his priority.

Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan, Riyad Mahrez, Phil Foden and Ruben Dias, who were among the stars left on the bench with City holding a slender 2-1 lead to take to Germany in midweek. "We did not control it. We did not create enough for the forwards," said Guardiola, who surprisingly did not introduce De Bruyne as a substitute.

Liverpool win 2-1

Trent Alexander-Arnold's injury time winner ended Liverpool's record run of home defeats to beat Aston Villa 2-1 and move up to fourth on Saturday. The English champions had lost their previous six games at Anfield and fell behind again when Alisson Becker failed to keep out Ollie Watkins's first-half
strike.

Liverpool were then controversially denied an equaliser as a dubious VAR review ruled out Roberto Firmino's reply. But Mohamed Salah levelled just before the hour mark before Alexander-Arnold responded in style to the criticism he has received of late.

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