The long-awaited return of Erling Haaland couldn't stop Manchester City from tumbling to another poor result in a season to forget for the deposed Premier League champion.
Indeed, after a dire 0-0 draw at already-relegated Southampton on Saturday, even qualification for the lucrative Champions League — something taken for granted by City for so many seasons — is still far from certain with two games left.
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Aston Villa's Ollie Watkins, left, celebrates scoring with Jacob Ramsey during the English Premier League soccer match between Bournemouth and Aston Villa at the Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Steven Paston/PA via AP)
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola follows the action during a Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Southampton, at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Southampton's Mateus Fernandes, left, and Manchester City's Rico Lewis exchange words during their Premier League soccer match at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Southampton's Lesley Ugochukwu, left, and Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne vie for the ball during their Premier League soccer match at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Manchester City's Erling Haaland, center, attempts a shot on goal during their Premier League soccer match at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Manchester City's Erling Haaland, right, controls the ball from Southampton's Jan Bednarek during their Premier League soccer match at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Failing to beat the Premier League’s last-placed team, and one of the worst to ever play in England's top flight, threw City's ambitions of a top-five finish back into doubt.
Even more so with Aston Villa, one of a raft of clubs battling with City to get into the Champions League, beating Bournemouth 1-0 thanks to Ollie Watkins' first-half goal.
It could barely be tighter in that race. Third-placed City moved two points clear of Newcastle and Chelsea — who meet at St. James’ Park on Sunday — and also sixth-placed Villa. Nottingham Forest is two points further back but also has a game in hand, at home to already-relegated Leicester on Sunday.
Six points separate Arsenal in second place and Forest in seventh.
It seemed as if City turned the corner after a terrible run of results from November to February that knocked Pep Guardiola’s team out of contention for a fifth straight Premier League title as well as the Champions League.
Indeed, arriving at Southampton on the back of four straight victories and with star striker Haaland back after six weeks out with an ankle injury, City was even looking good to jump above Arsenal and finish second behind already-crowned champion Liverpool.
Yet City was sluggish, Haaland barely got a chance and the recalled Phil Foden continued to look a shadow of the guy who was English soccer's player of the year last season.
This draw will revive the concerns about Guardiola's team ahead of games to close its Premier League campaign, at home to Bournemouth — a club chasing a first ever qualification for European competition — and away to Fulham. Before that, there is an FA Cup final against Crystal Palace next weekend.
For Guardiola, whose team failed to beat an opponent on the bottom of the standings for the first time since joining City in 2016, it will be a “fight until the end” to qualify for the Champions League.
“We take that point still,” Guardiola said. “It’s in our hands.”
Southampton was able to celebrate no longer being at threat of earning the label of the worst ever Premier League team.
The draw moved the Saints onto 12 points — one more than the lowest ever points haul in a single Premier League season, set by Derby County in 2007-08.
Watkins stretched out his boot and glanced home Morgan Rogers' cross for Villa's winner that also marked a milestone for the striker.
The England international moved into the outright lead as Villa's record scorer in the Premier League with 75 goals, one more than Gabby Agbonlahor.
Villa finished with 10 men after Jacob Ramsey's 80th-minute sending off for two yellow cards but hung on to stay in contention to qualify for the Champions League for a second straight season.
Finishing in eighth place could secure qualification for next season's Conference League — Europe's third-tier competition — and that remains the carrot for Brentford and Brighton after wins on Saturday.
Brentford beat already-relegated Ipswich 1-0 thanks to Kevin Schade's glancing header from a corner in the 18th minute.
Brighton won at Wolverhampton 2-0 after a 10th goal of the season by Danny Welbeck — a penalty in the 28th — and Brajan Gruda, who chipped the goalkeeper in the 85th for his first goal for the south-coast club.
Eighth-placed Brentford and ninth-placed Brighton were tied for points, two more than Bournemouth and four more than Fulham, which lost at home to Everton 3-1.
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Aston Villa's Ollie Watkins, left, celebrates scoring with Jacob Ramsey during the English Premier League soccer match between Bournemouth and Aston Villa at the Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Steven Paston/PA via AP)
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola follows the action during a Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Southampton, at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Southampton's Mateus Fernandes, left, and Manchester City's Rico Lewis exchange words during their Premier League soccer match at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Southampton's Lesley Ugochukwu, left, and Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne vie for the ball during their Premier League soccer match at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Manchester City's Erling Haaland, center, attempts a shot on goal during their Premier League soccer match at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
Manchester City's Erling Haaland, right, controls the ball from Southampton's Jan Bednarek during their Premier League soccer match at St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England, Saturday May 10, 2025. (Andrew Matthews/PA via AP)
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal agents carrying out immigration arrests in Minnesota's Twin Cities region already shaken by the fatal shooting of a woman rammed the door of one home Sunday and pushed their way inside, part of what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest enforcement operation ever.
In a dramatic scene similar to those playing out across Minneapolis, agents captured a man in the home just minutes after pepper spraying protesters outside who had confronted the heavily armed federal agents. Along the residential street, protesters honked car horns, banged on drums and blew whistles in attempts to disrupt the operation.
Video of the clash taken by The Associated Press showed some agents pushing back protesters while a distraught woman later emerged from the house with a document that federal agents presented to arrest the man. Signed by an immigration officer, the document — unlike a warrant signed by a judge — does not authorize forced entry into a private residence. A warrant signed by an immigration officer only authorizes arrest in a public area.
Immigrant advocacy groups have conducted extensive “know-your-rights” campaigns urging people not to open their doors unless agents have a court order signed by a judge.
But within minutes of ramming the door in a neighborhood filled with single-family homes, the handcuffed man was led away.
More than 2,000 immigration arrests have been made in Minnesota since the enforcement operation began at the beginning of December, said Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem told Fox News on Sunday that the administration would send additional federal agents to Minnesota to protect immigration officers and continue enforcement.
The Twin Cities — the latest target in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign — is bracing for what is next after 37-year-old Renee Good was shot and killed by an immigration officer on Wednesday.
“We’re seeing a lot of immigration enforcement across Minneapolis and across the state, federal agents just swarming around our neighborhoods,” said Jason Chavez, a Minneapolis city councilmember. “They’ve definitely been out here.”
Chavez, the son of Mexican immigrants who represents an area with a growing immigrant population, said he is closely monitoring information from chat groups about where residents are seeing agents operating.
People holding whistles positioned themselves in freezing temperatures on street corners Sunday in the neighborhood where Good was killed, watching for any signs of federal agents.
More than 20,000 people have taken part in a variety of trainings to become “observers” of enforcement activities in Minnesota since the 2024 election, said Luis Argueta, a spokesperson for Unidos MN, a local human rights organization .
“It’s a role that people choose to take on voluntarily, because they choose to look out for their neighbors,” Argueta said.
The protests have been largely peaceful, but residents remained anxious. On Monday, Minneapolis public schools will start offering remote learning for the next month in response to concerns that children might feel unsafe venturing out while tensions remain high.
Many schools closed last week after Good’s shooting and the upheaval that followed.
While the enforcement activity continues, two of the state’s leading Democrats said that the investigation into Good's shooting death should not be overseen solely by the federal government.
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and U.S. Sen. Tina Smith said in separate interviews Sunday that state authorities should be included in the investigation because the federal government has already made clear what it believes happened.
“How can we trust the federal government to do an objective, unbiased investigation, without prejudice, when at the beginning of that investigation they have already announced exactly what they saw — what they think happened," Smith said on ABC’s "This Week."
The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents and that Good had “weaponized” her vehicle.
Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, defended the officer on Fox News Channel’s “The Sunday Briefing.”
"That law enforcement officer had milliseconds, if not short time to make a decision to save his life and his other fellow agents,” he said.
Lyons also said the administration’s enforcement operations in Minnesota wouldn't be needed “if local jurisdictions worked with us to turn over these criminally illegal aliens once they are already considered a public safety threat by the locals.”
The killing of Good by an ICE officer and the shooting of two people by federal agents in Portland, Oregon, led to dozens of protests in cities across the country over the weekend, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and Oakland, California.
Contributing were Associated Press journalists Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minneapolis; Thomas Strong in Washington; Bill Barrow in Atlanta; Christopher Weber in Los Angeles; and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio.
A woman gets into an altercation with a federal immigration officer as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A federal immigration officer deploys pepper spray as officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A family member, center, reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Bystanders are treated after being pepper sprayed as federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
A family member reacts after federal immigration officers make an arrest Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Federal agents look on after detaining a person during a patrol in Minneapolis, Minn., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press via AP)
Bystanders react after a man was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
People stand near a memorial at the site where Renee Good was fatally shot by an ICE agent, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
A man looks out of a car window after being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents during a traffic stop, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Robbinsdale, Minn. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Border Patrol agents detain a man, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
People shout toward Border Patrol agents making an arrest, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Demonstrators protest outside the White House in Washington, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey holds a news conference on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jen Golbeck)
Protesters react as they visit a makeshift memorial during a rally for Renee Good, who was fatally shot by an ICE officer earlier in the week, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Locher)
