Bournemouth, Joe Gomez and Nottingham Forest's assistant are praised. But Arsenal and Julen Lopetegui are in trouble and Cole Palmer must improve.
Bournemouth , Joe Gomez and Nottingham Forest ’s assistant are praised. But Arsenal and Julen Lopetegui are in trouble and Cole Palmer must improve.“I think we need to improve, I think, from the games we played against these top three,” said Andoni Iraola in September, since when Bournemouth have lost 3-0 to Liverpool while having 19 shots at Anfield, before beating Arsenal and Manchester City in successive home games within a fortnight.
Bournemouth conquered the reigning champions and their best players on the day were signed from Dynamo Kyiv, Feyenoord, AZ Alkmaar, Celtic and Bristol City, brought together by a manager from Rayo Vallecano who inherited eight of that starting XI. It is no coincidence that Iraola’s last season in La Liga featured home wins over Barcelona and Real Madrid.
But there is no real reason it shouldn’t. This is neither unsustainable form nor unrepeatable performances. While this Chris Wood scoring streak might end soon, other players are chipping in frequently and that wonderful defensive record isn’t nearly as prone to volatility. When it backfires it is infuriating to see Howe lean on them. When it works, Newcastle are not among the absolute best sides in the country but they are the most effective.
Liverpool’s longest-serving player remains one of their most reliable. When he does finally score, the reaction will be biblical.Even in the details of Ramsdale’s last two career clean sheets, the reality of his situation was hidden as Arsenal’s distant second-choice to ineligible loanee David Raya; both of them came against Brentford.
Those are crucial characteristics helping form part of very possibly the most rounded midfield department the Premier League can currently offer.The touch from Jamie Vardy was sublime and the finish produced by the Premier League’s surprise clutch player matched it. But without the work of Soumare in charging back to win the ball, carrying it, shrugging off one challenge and then offloading to the forwards to trigger the match-saving move, it wouldn’t have been possible.
The balance was all wrong; the concept of creativity was abandoned, or at least that entire responsibility was placed on Saka’s shoulders. It is why fans have been calling for Ethan Nwaneri to be trusted as the player most capable of replicating Odegaard’s ability on the ball and energy off it.Manchester City
The first-half stoppage-time sending-off of Edson Alvarez does offer a caveat but when a manager deems it necessary to make multiple half-time substitutions four times in 10 games it is a damning indictment on whatever the initial plan was supposed to resemble. West Ham supporters will be offered humble pie for forcing Moyes out but they need not indulge. There is no point in reminding them to be careful what they wish for when none of them wished for more of the same, only much worse and on an even less explicable scale.It is more a reflection of Palmer’s rapid progress than any actual shortcoming in his game but the narrative is set: this 22-year-old in only his second proper full season as a Premier League player goes missing on the big occasions.
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