Wow what a fantastic weekend in the premiership! I can’t wait to see the League table at the end of the season, or should I dare say in December?
I looked at the final scores on Saturday and Chelsea were on the receiving end of a 3-1 defeat by the team who refused to sell them John Stones.
It’s the same problems over and over again, as they continue to leak goals from a very porous defence. Three goals from one player and the statistics just keep piling up against Jose Mourinho; first back to back defeats in the Premiership, most goals conceded over 5 games by a Mourinho team, first hatrick against Mou by a premiership player…. Blablabla and the beat goes on……
Chelsea remain vulnerable at the back and no matter who they play, it’s so easy to pick holes inbetween the middle two and the back four.
They still do not look like the same team that won the league last year as Bergovic continued to make saves upon saves to deny Everton a landslide
Whatever it was that Mourinho knew is out in the open now; this team is there for the taking.
Mourinho needs to quickly change it around somehow and fast. Hazard, Fabregas, Willian, Pedro all need to wake up from slumber and force the issue, this is no time for evolution but a revolution.
And as for Mourinho the champions League would be a welcome distraction for him and his players, plus another opportunity to change personnel and try out different things. As long as he can get it right on that front, those having a laugh would soon have a thing to worry about as the blues shake off the early season blues and start winning games.
When Liverpool came close to winning the league two seasons ago, they started the following season badly and eventually got used to losing, they never recovered their dorm back.
When Sir alex left Old Traffird, they started badly the following season and never got back to winning ways.
When you get used to losing, it’s hard to find a way to win.
I hope the special one can avoid the pit that engulfed those two teams and show everyone why he is the special one.
And what an introduction by Antony Martial. How much did he cost United again?
If you come in as a teenager and do to Skirtel and the rest what he did to score against Liverpool on Saturday, he sure has paid off a chunk of that transfer fee with the three points on Saturday.
Yes Manchester United are still not the same team that Alex Ferguson built over the years but what you have to give to them is the consistency of play – at least they know what to do, where to pass, where to run – in their tactic.
They are drilled to detail, play to instruction and move the ball around the pitch in order to get it into the back of the net (at least that is what you’re supposed to do in football, get the ball into the net) and above all, they’re staying close to the leaders on the league table.
And whatever anyone says, Van Gaal is racking the points enroute another top four finish.
Well Arsenal keep doing what they are used to doing; qualifying for the champions league every week, for 38 weeks, each season
Well, if that’s the name of the game, well done to Arsene Wenger! And if they keep doing so year in year out, when would Arsenal finally win the League? This season perhaps? Good start to the season by Arsenal.
I watched Liverpool play at Old Trafford and I must confess they just looked like a team with no pattern at the moment.
They lacked bite upfront, they lost the ball as soon as they retrieved it from the opponent, they didn’t press high as we were used to in their SAS season and Benteke looked lost, just as Lambert and Balotelli.
if you go to the market are pay £38 million for a striker, you’re definitely building your team around the player. I don’t see that with Liverpool play at the moment and I am really getting worried for Benteke, I hope that he doesn’t end up the same way as Balotelli or Lambert
Bendick a had a good strike though against the DeGea, a fantastic goalkeeper but with the way LFC are playing at the moment he’s just scraping out everything and if he gets used to playing that way, he is
going to become frustrated eventually and when frustration sets in, the player starts to lose confidence. Lack of confidence and lack of belief equals to goal drought.
I just hope Brendan can change the way the game is played in Liverpool.
A good welcome to Kevin DeBruyne, started on the bench but came on as a substitute.
With the array of midfielders at the Etihad, and with many midweek games, DeBruyne needs to smile more on the bench as this is a star studded team with everybody fighting for places.
Aguero? Can he stay fit? If not, City may struggle in winter because he is a world class super striker.
If he is missing in action, City suffer.