Arsenal overcame their final obstacle and Maguire helped show Ten Hag which Manchester United players he can trust. Brentford and Bournemouth are in trouble
.when winning the Community Shield two months ago were guilty of wilful ignorance in this era of incessant and laborious point-scoring. While Rio Ferdinand led the charge of Gunner mockery, Aaron Ramsdale said it best.That scornful reaction was the culmination of a couple of years’ worth of the same pundits wheeling out the same lines about the same old Arsenal: revelling in mediocrity before drowning in hubris.
It was so long ago that Spurs had won a game 1-0 without Kane scoring the decisive goal, that Claudio Ranieri was left to rue Davinson Sanchez’s stoppage-time winner which finally vanquished Watford on New Year’s Day 2022. No longer can Ten Hag pick his favourites without expecting scrutiny. Marcus Rashford has been substituted early in three successive games. Casemiro was taken off because, by the manager’s own admission, he “wanted more football”. Both have been in miserable form this season and must realise their places are not automatically assured.
Things clicked against Bournemouth. The selection from the manager was perfect and the application from the players matched it. James Garner has had to be patient since joining last year but he sums up Everton’s requisite of hard work, Jack Harrison has added a new dimension to the attack and the Toffees have never lost a game in which Abdoulaye Doucoure has scored.
Vinicius was the ideal centre-forward foil for a Fulham side which looked far more functional for his presence; only Willian had more shot-creating actions than his compatriot . And Jimenez should not be too disheartened because his time will come again if Vinicius continues to express himself so freely with those elbows.One year and a week separated Roberto De Zerbi’s first and most recent game as a Premier League manager.
City had learned how to cope as Fernandinho’s body started to struggle under the weight of tactical fouling and an expectation that comes with being an elite safety blanket, to the point that when he was ruled out for seven subsequent games for three different injuries during the rest of that season, City simply won them all.
But this is the sort of quiet crisis Brentford encountered and overcome midway through their first Premier League season. A four-game unbeaten start has morphed into a six-match winless run for a team which has scored the opening goal in five fixtures – only Arsenal and West Ham have done so more often – while dropping 11 points from winning positions. Add those on, crude as such equations can be, and Brentford would be above Liverpool in fourth.
Perhaps that is to be expected with this stage of the Liverpool reboot. Klopp did not build his first Anfield winning machine overnight, nor from scratch. It took time to figure out which parts needed to go where and whether any components would have to be imported. Three of the previous four were relegated in the same season. Hoping to emulate 2018/19 Newcastle is not the best of positions to be in.Six of Sheffield United’s eight opponents have had their most shots in a game so far this season when facing the Blades: Crystal Palace , Nottingham Forest , Manchester City , Spurs , West Ham and Fulham .
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