A round-up of Saturday's action in the Premier League.
Liverpool's march to the Premier League title continued with a 3-1 victory over last-placed Southampton on Saturday as Mohamed Salah bagged a double and Darwin Nunez scored to give them a 16-point provisional lead over Arsenal.
Arne Slot's men have 70 points, while the second-placed Gunners have 54 but two games in hand. They play at Manchester United on Sunday.
Nottingham Forest's Callum Hudson-Odoi struck late in a 1-0 victory over Manchester City that boosted their chances of a top-four finish and a prized place in next year's Champions League.
Last-minute penalty drama gave Brighton & Hove Albion a 2-1 win over Fulham for their fourth consecutive win, while Crystal Palace salvaged a 1-0 win over relegation-threatened Ipswich Town with a late goal from Ismaila Sarr.
Liverpool had to come from a goal down at Anfield after Will Smallbone took advantage of miscommunication between goalkeeper Alisson and Virgil van Dijk just before the break.
The league leaders ran roughshod over the struggling Saints in the second half and Nunez levelled in the 51st minute, then won a penalty three minutes later that Salah fiercely slotted home.
Salah completed his double in the 88th minute with a second goal from the spot after Yukinari Sugawara's hand ball, the Liverpool talisman's 27th league goal this season.
"We need to keep winning games -- it's as simple as that," said Liverpool midfielder Harvey Elliott. "It's about taking it game by game and making sure we apply ourselves in the best possible way."
At Nottingham, Hudson-Odoi picked up a diagonal pass from Morgan Gibbs-White before stepping outside Josko Gvardiol and driving the ball between City goalkeeper Ederson and his near post in the 83rd minute.
"I'm absolutely buzzing with the goal," said Hudson-Odoi after his contribution secured Forest their first league win over Manchester City since 1997.
The result in a game of few chances kept this season's surprise team Forest in third on 51 points, putting them in a strong position for their first berth in Europe's elite competition since the mid-1990s.
Reigning league champions City are fourth on 47 points but manager Pep Guardiola is not panicking.
"We have 10 games to qualify (for the Champions League), we have to win games to qualify and we're going to the next one," he said.
BRIGHTON MOVE UP TWO PLACES
A Joao Pedro penalty in added time helped Brighton to snatch a win over Fulham and boost their bid to qualify for European football.
Brighton climbed two places in the standings to sixth with 46 points from 28 games, while Fulham dropped to 10th.
"I work for that. I try to stay calm. I was happy to score the winning goal, three points and I'm very happy. They had their chance to win," match-winner Pedro told the BBC.
Fulham struck first when Raul Jimenez latched on to a cross from Alex Iwobi before slotting home past Bart Verbruggen.
Five minutes later Fulham equalised through Jan Paul van Hecke.
Just as it looked like the spoils would be shared, Pedro was bowled over by Harrison Reed deep in stoppage time and the Brazil international stepped up to calmly slot home the winner.
At Selhurst Park, Palace's victory left them 11th on 39 points, while Ipswich remain in the bottom three in 18th spot on 17 points.
Ipswich racked up 15 goal-scoring chances in an entertaining though often sloppy encounter, but a combination of wasteful finishing and an inspired Dean Henderson in the Palace goal saw them leave empty-handed.
Sarr played the hero when he stole in behind the defence in the 82nd minute to score with a lovely dinked effort.
In the early evening kick-off, a deflected effort from Ollie Watkins four minutes after the break gave Aston Villa a 1-0 win away to Brentford to keep them in the chase for the Champions League places, leaving them in seventh spot on 45 points, two behind Manchester City.
Wolverhampton Wanderers came from behind to grab a 1-1 draw at home to Everton on Saturday night, with Marshall Munetsi getting the goal that gave them a vital point in their battle against relegation.
With 18th-placed Ipswich having lost to Crystal Palace earlier in the day, Wolves had a great chance to put some daylight between themselves and the bottom three against the visiting Toffees, and with some better finishing they might have claimed a victory.
Jets of flame were sent shooting into the air in a display of pre-match pyrotechnics that the football took a while to match, but a Jack Harrison goal for the visitors in the 33rd minute sparked the contest into life.
With Everton manager David Moyes demanding more goals from him in his pre-match comments, the winger duly obliged with a deflected effort that flew past Jose Sa in the home side’s goal to give the Toffees the lead.
Despite having lost 10 of their last 15 league matches at home, Wolves did not let their heads drop and they levelled seven minutes later when Munetsi got his first goal for the club, steering home a perfectly-angled pass from Jean Ricner-Bellegarde.
Their confidence restored and sensing they could grab all three points, the home side came out with all guns blazing in the second half, and substitute Pablo Sarabia sent a free-kick whistling past the top corner and into the side netting in the 51st minute.
Wolves continued to pile on the pressure and striker Joergen Strand Larsen went close from a tight angle, and they somehow failed to score despite a frenetic goal-mouth scramble shortly afterwards.
Their attacking instincts left some wide-open spaces at the back and they almost conceded again when Everton broke and Beto fired a first-time shot towards the goal, but Sa got down smartly to his left to steer the ball away.
Despite enjoying the lion's share of possession, Wolves could not fashion a winner, with the draw moving them to 23 points, six clear of Ipswich and Leicester, who are 19th.
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