EPL: Leicester City cement second after beating West Ham, Manchester United beat Burnley

Leicester have returned to winning ways to cut the gap on English Premier League leaders Liverpool to 10 points after beating West Ham 2-1 on Sunday (NZ time). 

Kelechi Iheanacho and Demarai Gray were on target either side of Pablo Fornals' leveller on the stroke of halftime, handing Leicester victory after successive defeats to Manchester City and Liverpool.

West Ham have won just twice since September 22 their poor form led to Manuel Pellegrini getting sacked with the Londoners just one point above the relegation zone.

Meanwhile, Manchester United moved up to fifth place after goals from Anthony Martial and Marcus Rashford gave them a 2-0 win at Burnley.

Martial struck a minute before the break with a simple finish, while Rashford scored in injury time.

There was no shortage of VAR controversy on a day when three goals were disallowed for offside by the tiniest of margins.

One of them came at Carrow Road where Norwich and Tottenham drew 2-2.

Mario Vrancic's first Premier League goal had given Norwich an 18th-minute lead before Teemu Pukki's brilliant finish was ruled out by VAR.

Tottenham made the most of their good fortune as Christian Eriksen levelled with a brilliant 55th-minute free-kick.

Norwich were back in front within six minutes when Serge Aurier put through his own net.

But Harry Kane equalised from the penalty spot seven minutes from time after Christoph Zimmermann had brought down the England captain.

Dominic Calvert-Lewin was the hero again as Carlo Ancelotti's Everton continued to climb the table with a 2-1 win at Newcastle.

Calvert-Lewin was the match-winner on Boxing Day as Ancelotti began his Everton reign with a 1-0 victory over Burnley.

And the 22-year-old striker took his season's goal tally to 10 with two more at St James' Park inflicting a third defeat in four games on Newcastle, with Fabian Schar grabbing a consolation.

Troy Deeney scored twice and Ismaila Sarr grabbed the other despite Watford losing Adrian Mariappa to a second yellow in the 57th minute to beat Aston Villa 3-0 to maintain their revival under new manager Nigel Pearson.

Brighton recorded their first home win since November 2 with a convincing 2-0 home victory over struggling Bournemouth with Aaron Mooy dominating the midfield.

Iran international Alireza Jahanbakhsh gave the Seagulls a third-minute lead with a powerful shot, his first goal for the club.

VAR ruled out a second-half goal from Dan Burn after the Brighton left-back was judged to be offside by the tightest of margins.

But Mooy rewarded Brighton's domination with a brilliant second goal 11 minutes from time.

Southampton and Crystal Palace drew 1-1 at St Mary's. Palace were denied an early lead when Max Meyer smashed home, only for Wilfried Zaha to be ruled marginally offside by VAR in the build-up.

James Tomkins headed Palace in front before Danny Ings levelled with his 12th goal of the season.

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