Brighton have one big flaw, Man City's empire teeters on the brink, Southampton's only hope and why things aren't working at West Ham
Brighton have one big flaw, Man City's empire teeters on the brink, Southampton's only hope and why things aren't working at West HamAlso at the bottom of the league, Ipswich Town struggled again when given lots of the ball and Leicester City just struggled to keep the ball out of their net. Wolves gave away three penalties and one of their fans tried to attack goalkeeper Jose Sa, if you’re wondering how that’s going.
That first period showed how Liverpool felt about themselves, never mind what they thought of City. They were full of it, cocksure, dynamic, toying with their ragged foe. Even before Cody Gakpo put them ahead, Virgil van Dijk smacked a post and sent another header narrowly wide. But Arsenal will keep finding ways to keep their opponents second guessing and in Saka they possess a superb corner taker.
“They are feeling stronger. They don’t have doubts like last year, for example. The power and capacity as well is higher.” If you ended matches at half-time , then Brighton would have 25 points and would have gone top of the Premier League by that measure on Friday evening on a points-per-game basis. Create a table of second-half results and Brighton would have moved to 11th on Friday night.
Take that as a pre-January summit to freshen the squad in the new year. City improved with the introduction of wingers Jeremy Doku and Savinho in the second half, the former in particular stretching the Liverpool defence down the left. During their first season back in the Premier League, Forest survived relegation because of Steve Cooper’s ability to play backs-to-the-wall football and close out 1-0 leads via whatever means necessary. Forest won six games via that scoreline, all six of which came after games they failed to win. It was their cheat code to staying up.
He was attempting to justify how Spurs can beat Manchester City 4-0 one week, then come desperately close to losing to Fulham the next. He pointed to Guglielmo Vicario’s ankle injury, as well as being forced to start Johnson and Werner rather than bringing them off the bench. That’s changed this season. Damsgaard has started 11 league games, trusted by Thomas Frank to be a creator from central areas. He’s repaid that faith with four assists already.
Everton created chances and had breaks. Play like this against Arsenal, home supporters worried, and we will be humbled. This season, they are similarly impressive in key statistics such as shots on target per game – Spurs are third, Fulham fifth – and shots conceded per game – Spurs fourth best, Fulham fifth. Both can be inconsistent but are brilliant at their best. And it’s increasingly hard to say Ange Postecoglou is a stronger manager than Marco Silva – in fact quite the opposite.
Captain Bruno Guimaraes was playing No 8 for the first time in the league this season, a shift up from No 6 with Sandro Tonali dropping back against Crystal Palace. “It’s a strange performance from us,” Howe said. “Nothing in the final third. A lot of set-plays, opportunities to get a head on something, but we look a little low on confidence. We were without a recognised striker , we were just lacking a cutting edge.”
“When you miss chances, you do start to doubt yourself,” said Daniel Sturridge on Sky Sports’ coverage, stating the obvious. The former is one of those nuggets that you feel should have happened more often. Five different players have taken three penalties in a Premier League game, but Kluivert was the first to actually score all three. The others who missed at least one: Craig Burley, Darren Bent, Steven Gerrard and Sergio Aguero. You may remember Gerrard missing his third against Manchester United.
The first 35 minutes was as bad as it gets, the type of performance that encourages irate fans to call up radio phone-ins and have a rant. There was an improvement from that point onwards but at 4-0 down it hardly mattered. Further up the pitch, United are able to play two quick passes without anyone bothering to spot the counter attack. Amad Diallo is then set free on the right because nobody has tracked him. To complete the set, Marcus Rashford then makes a run in behind that no centre-back tracks. He scores.
Now go and look at the social media posts from Leicester City’s official accounts after each Brentford goal on Saturday. Without fail, the replies are abusing Justin. He should never play again, apparently. Or go to hell. Or be punished by the club. Or be made to apologise to supporters personally. Fifteen shots came and went, only four hitting the target, with Daniel Munoz guilty of being the wrong man in the right place in the first half, firing wide with the goal at his mercy.
Failure to convert these displays into three points may yet come back to haunt Palace, but they are at least buying Glasner time, and you cannot fault his players in that regard. They are playing for their manager, they are creating chances, and may just have had the moment this season needed.
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