Manchester City is taking on Newcastle United in the early match on Sunday on the English Premier League schedule and things start up on the NBC Sports Network Live Extra at 9:05 pm and the match has Manchester City looking to jump ahead on the league table over Chelsea and Arsenal until the Gunners play on Monday and that would be a nice bounce back into the EPL schedule for the club and the match will be from St James Park.
Chelsea is currently in the top of the standings after winning on Saturday and now they have a slight lead over the Gunners for the time being ahead of Manchester City and behind them are Everton, Tottenham and Liverpool, who are playing the late match against Stoke City on Sunday. The matches on Saturday saw Chelsea win 2-0 after a tight match against Hull City and they got goals from Eden Hazard and Fernando Torres and then after that West Ham United won by the same score against Cardiff City and Everton also won by that number against Norwich City after getting an early goal from Gareth Barry.
Sunderland had a great performance against Fulham after getting three goals from Adam Johnson and Southampton won 1-0 over West Brom with a goal from Adam Lallana, while Tottenham won 2-0 against Crystal Palace after Jason Puncheon missed on a penalty and then the Spurs got two goals after that. Manchester United played the late match against Swansea City at Old Trafford after losing to them in the FA Cup and they also won 2-0, so many matches, after getting goals from Antonio Valencia and Danny Welbeck, who has been playing very well this season for the club. Stoke City and Liverpool play at Britannia Stadium in the late match on Sunday and then on Monday the schedule finishes up for the week with Arsenal and Aston Villa playing at Villa Park.
Check here for the Man City and Newcastle live coverage for the English Premier League schedule on Sunday.
Here is more from Reuters.com on Manchester City and their midfielder Yaya Toure, who has been having another great season for the club and that resulted in him winning his third straight award for the best African football player and now he has the chance to try and help get Manchester City into the top of the league tabel for at least a day with a win and they get the chance to play Newcastle and the match is the early one on Sunday at St. James Park.
Manchester City star and Ivory Coast midfielder Yaya Toure landed his third successive African Footballer of the Year award on Thursday to cap a memorable week.
The Manchester City player edged out Nigeria's John Obi Mikel and fellow Ivorian Didier Drogba to make it a hat-trick of wins, emulating Abedi Pele and Samuel Eto'o.
Just 24 hours after storming halfway down the pitch to score a goal in City's 6-0 demolition of West Ham United in the first leg of the League Cup semi-final, a teary-eyed Toure was the toast of African football as he picked up the award at a gala ceremony in Lagos.
"I'm very proud and happy to be the winner today," Toure, dressed in traditional Nigerian robes, told the audience.
"I congratulate my brother Obi Mikel who deserved it as well. It's an unbelievable award for all those who helped me through my career a lot and those who supported me for a long time."
The Ivorian came top of a poll voted by Africa's national team coaches, who had Mikel second and Drogba third.
Toure's success came at the end of a bleak 12-month period for individual achievement by African footballers. Toure's official citation praised him for his role in helping the Ivorians to qualify for the World Cup in Brazil but the choice is more likely for his consistency at club level in England and the dominant role he plays at Manchester City.
Chelsea's Mikel was on the shortlist after helping Nigeria to the African Nations Cup title in February. Toure joins an elite club following his hat-trick of wins. Ghanaian Abedi Pele won three in a row between 1991-93 while Cameroonian Eto'o took the award from 2003-05. Eto'o, who plays up front for Chelsea, also won it in 2010. (Reuters)
