Premier League title race becomes a two-horse race between Liverpool and Man City after Spurs loss
Daily MailIt has taken until the end of February, but finally the race for the 2018-19 Premier League title is a two-horse affair. Liverpool maintained their one-point lead at the top of the Premier League on Wednesday Manchester City squeezed past West Ham to keep pace with the league leaders Tottenham's challenge may have gone up in smoke after back-to-back league defeats Season at a glance Live tables Fixtures Scores Premier League Premier League Championship League One League Two Scottish Premiership Scottish Div 1 Scottish Div 2 Scottish Div 3 Ligue 1 Serie A La Liga Bundesliga And at Stamford Bridge Tottenham's challenge finally appeared to subside, a comical Kieran Trippier own goal condemning them to a second defeat in a row, leaving them nine points adrift of leaders Liverpool with 10 games to play. Manchester City star Riyad Mahrez sees an effort on goal saved by Lukasz Fabianski It proved a frustrating opening 45 minutes for the champions at the Etihad Stadium Sergio Aguero finally broke the deadlock for City just before the hour-mark on Wednesday Manchester City fielded a makeshift back four with both Aymeric Laporte and John Stones missing through injury. Harry Kane appeared to lose his rag and was lucky to avoid a sending off at Stamford Bridge Tottenham failed to register a shot on target in the Premier League for the first time since 2013 It was far from pretty from Guardiola's side in their first league outing since the 6-0 demolition of Chelsea 17 days ago. Back-to-back defeats have left Spurs nine points adrift of league leaders Liverpool CLATTENBURG ON KANE Harry Kane can count himself lucky not to have been sent off on Wednesday.