EPL Results: Updated Premier League Table, Odds After Saturday’s Week 35 Scores

The 2015-16 Barclays Premier League season, which has made the extraordinary seem ordinary, has entered the home stretch. 

With Saturday’s continuation of Matchday 35, four matches were played out with the most important result taking place toward the bottom of the table rather than the top. 

First-place Leicester, with 73 points, and second-place Tottenham who are five points back, don’t play until Sunday as the race for the title has come down to those two sides. 

Newcastle on the other hand began Saturday with 29 points and sat in 19th place, one point behind a Sunderland side who now has two games in hand. 

Here are the results from Saturday’s matches and the updated table heading into Sunday:

With just a limited number of matches remaining, this is what the odds look like for the teams gunning for the title, courtesy of Oddschecker.com:

Liverpool 2, Newcastle 2

Newcastle, managed by former Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez, needed something in Saturday’s match at Anfield in order to keep pace with Sunderland, who still has five games left to play. 

It looked like they would have no such luck after Liverpool took the lead in the second minute through a brilliant turn and left-footed finish by Daniel Sturridge.

Adam Lallana doubled that lead in the 30th minute with a beautiful curling left-footed effort with defenders bearing down on him from the edge of the box.

But in the second half, Pappis Cisse began to turn the tide with a towering header to halve Newcastle’s deficit. Eighteen minutes later, Jack Colback completed the comeback when Liverpool became undone by another Magpie cross.

It’s just a point, but it keeps the belief alive that Newcastle can indeed survive the drop this season. Norwich City is just one point ahead in the safety …

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