Premier League : Last-gasp City maintain clear lead

There was late drama in the Premier League on Wednesday night as Manchester City snatched a late winner to break the hearts of the chasing pack. Mike Norman rounds up the latest results and updates the significant betting markets...

Manchester City were matched at 28.00 In-Play to beat Southampton before Raheem Sterling's 96th minute strike secured a 12th consecutive Premier League win to maintain the Citizens' eight-point lead at the top of the table.

Pep Guardiola's men had earlier taken a second-half lead through Kevin de Bruyne's free kick, which looked to have taken a slight deflection off Saints defender Virgil van Dijk, but the Etihad Stadium was stunned into silence when Oriol Romeu equalised for the visitors in the 75th minute.

As they always do, City created plenty of chances to win the game but they failed to capitalise until the very last minute of time-added-on - at which point The Draw was trading at just 1.03 in the Match Odds market - when Sterling produced a brilliant curling finishto secure all three points.

Spurs the big losers as challengers all win

Tottenham came out worst of the clubs trying to hunt down Man City at the top of the table as they were the only 'big six' club to lose in the midweek round of Premier League fixtures.

Mauricio Pochettino's men lost 2-1 at Leicester on Tuesday nigh at the same time as Manchester United were winning 4-2 at Watford. Twenty four hours later Chelseanarrowly got the better of Swansea 1-0 at Stamford Bridge, while Arsenal and Liverpoolrecorded comfortable wins, beating Huddersfield 5-0 and Stoke 3-0 respectively.

The midweek results mean that Man City maintain their comfortable lead in the table and they now trade at 1.14 to win the Premier League title.

Those who fancy Guardiola's men to come back to the pack during the remainder of the season might be interested in the prices on offer for United, 17.50, Chelsea, 27.00, Liverpool, 75.00, Arsenal, 80.00, and Tottenham, 160.00.

The defeat for Spurs also dropped them out of the top six for the first time this season as they were overtaken by Burnley, whose remarkable campaign continued with a 2-1 win at Bournemouth.

Sean Dyche's men sit sixth in the table, just four points behind Chelsea in third, and they can currently be backed at 9.40 to record a Top 6 Finish.

Rooney hat-trick gives Big Sam the perfect welcome gift

Elsewhere Everton finally gave their fans something to cheer as they thrashed fellow strugglers West Ham 4-0 at Goodison Park, thanks massively to Wayne Rooney's stunning hat-trick that included a strike from his own half.

Earlier in the day it was revealed that David Unsworth would be taking his last game in caretaker charge against the Hammers before Sam Allardyce takes over on a permanent basis.

The Toffees moved up to 13th in the table with the win and are now trading as relative outsiders in the Relegation market at 15.00, though West Ham look to be in huge trouble and are rated as 1.99 shots to go down.