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Alexander Isak grabbed the only goal of the game as the Gunners slipped up again
Newcastle get the ball rolling. They’re playing towards the Gallowgate End in this first half.
… but not before a rendition of the Last Post, with Remembrance Sunday upcoming. RIP the fallen. All perfectly observed, applause ripping through the silence at the end.
Continue reading...Declan Rice headed down the tunnel shaking his head and muttering to himself. Arsenal had just forfeited precious ground in the Premier League title race, Mikel Arteta looked incapable of ever smiling again and Rice seemed to be struggling to comprehend his inability to exert any sort of real control over midfield.
With Arteta’s defence incapable of suppressing the excellent Anthony Gordon and the outstanding match winner Alexander Isak on a day when Arsenal made a litany of uncharacteristic unforced errors, Eddie Howe’s team remembered how to be streetwise and reaped deserved rewards. After five Premier League games without a win, Newcastle look upwardly mobile once more.
Continue reading...Head coach is showing he does have a Plan B as his detailed management is at last instilling maturity in a young squad
Chelsea were looking for someone innovative and fresh when they parted company with Mauricio Pochettino at the end of last season. They did not chase a big-name manager past his best. What they wanted was a coach on the up, with the vision to bring order to a talented but sprawling and inexperienced squad.
Enter Enzo Maresca: 44, humble, smart, obsessive about the smallest tactical details. Some might have shied away from the Chelsea job, seeing it as a graveyard for managerial aspirations given the fate of Pochettino, Graham Potter and Thomas Tuchel under the ownership of Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, but the Italian saw opportunity after leading Leicester to the Championship title in his debut season. “I’m interested in the job because I see a squad that can win the Premier League one day,” Maresca said during talks with his potential new employers.
Continue reading...Arsenal visit Newcastle in Saturday’s early kick-off while Manchester United face Chelsea at Old Trafford on Sunday
Saturday 12.30pm TNT Sports 1 Venue St James’ Park
Continue reading...A chance for Manchester United’s players to impress, an audition for Iraola and a pivotal clash at Portman Road
Dilemmas, dilemmas. Eddie Howe has a few in advance of Arsenal’s visit to Tyneside on Saturday as Newcastle aim to correct a run of five league games without a win. Wednesday’s restorative Carabao Cup victory against Chelsea has surely created competition for places, particularly at right-back where Emil Krafth’s strong performance suggests he should arguably start in front of Tino Livramento. Significantly, with Bruno Guimarães benched for most of the evening, Sandro Tonali shone at the heart of midfield. Is now the moment to leave the Italy international in the centre and relocate Guimarães to Tonali’s right or even start the Brazil midfielder on the bench again? Similarly Joe Willock, once of Arsenal, impressed on the left of that department, pressing well and carrying the ball considerable distances. Can Newcastle’s manager afford to drop Willock? Then there’s Lloyd Kelly who did very well on a rare left-sided central defensive outing. Should Kelly get the nod ahead of Dan Burn? Dilemmas … Louise Taylor
Newcastle v Arsenal, Saturday 12.30pm
Bournemouth v Manchester City, 3pm Saturday
Liverpool v Brighton, Saturday 3pm
Ipswich v Leicester, Saturday 3pm
Southampton v Everton, Saturday 3pm
Continue reading...West Ham’s Aaron Wan-Bissaka shines against former club, Alex Iwobi has gone up a level and Brentford find new hero
Aaron Wan-Bissaka looked as if he had a point to prove against Manchester United. The right-back has had an intriguing role for West Ham this season. Julen Lopetegui has spotted hidden creative tendencies in the defender and given him freedom to attack. Wan-Bissaka has inverted and he was irrepressible against United. Noussair Mazraoui, his replacement at United, could not contain the former Crystal Palace player. Wan-Bissaka kept running clear and delivering crosses, and he should have had an assist when his ball reached Emerson Palmieri, who scuffed wide. If there is a concern, though, it is that Wan-Bissaka’s positioning does make West Ham open. Alejandro Garnacho had a lot of space and did not make enough of it. United were ridiculously frustrating in front of goal. A better team would have punished West Ham during the first half. They got the win, though, and at the end Wan-Bissaka was making a vital lunging tackle to deny Garnacho. Jacob Steinberg
Match report: West Ham 2-1 Manchester United
Match report: Everton 1-1 Fulham
Match report: Arsenal 2-2 Liverpool
Match report: Chelsea 2-1 Newcastle
Match report: Leicester 1-3 Nottingham Forest
Match report: Crystal Palace 1-0 Tottenham
Continue reading...Erik ten Hag said 'football is not always the best team winning' after Manchester United's 2-1 defeat by West Ham. The home side were awarded a controversial late penalty that was awarded after a VAR intervention. Ten Hag criticised the process after the game, complaining that it was 'a wrong decision' which 'had a big impact on the score'.
Continue reading...Mo Salah’s late goal earned Liverpool a point in a tense match with injury-hit Arsenal
1 min Peep peep! After a performance of the Last Post, Curtis Jones gets the match underway. Liverpool, in their black change strip, are kicking from right to left as we watch.
A reminder of the teams
Continue reading...Cole Palmer stars once again as Chelsea hold off late Newcastle fightback at Stamford Bridge.
Chelsea fans, what do you make of Nicolas Jackson?
A goal or two today could bring a few more doubters on his side. But another tough day in what has been described as a ‘faltering start’ to the season could heap more pressure on the lad and force his manager to make a tough decision moving forward.
Good morning from Pittsburgh! Slogging through the most annoying weekend of my Premier League season: when the UK departs daylight savings time and the USA has yet to do so. This totally upsets my established Sunday rhythm of the Premier League dovetailing with the NFL. Annoying. With this comes the inevitable anxious lap around this website’s sports links wondering why I can’t find the doggone link to the early MBM - because it won’t be put online for another hour, Eric. Sigh. Year after year. I never learn. The highest-quality pranks, Halloween or otherwise, self-inflicted or not, are the inadvertent ones.
Continue reading...Marco Silva had shown respect but no mercy to the club that sacked him in 2019 when returning to Goodison Park with Fulham, beating Everton every time. Victory number four was in hand, and deservedly so, when the head of Beto left the Fulham manager cursing the fickle fates of football.
The Everton substitute’s 94th-minute header salvaged a point for Sean Dyche’s team and extended their unbeaten run to five matches. It was larceny. Fulham were superior until stoppage time, controlling the play and their opponent throughout. Like his manager, Alex Iwobi looked set to haunt his former club having scored an excellent goal engineered by Emile Smith Rowe. The visitors’ only concern was not adding to it.
Continue reading...The points were shared as a late, late headed equaliser from Everton substitute Beto cancelled out Alex Iwobi’s opener against his former club
The Premier League table: Today’s results, not least Brentford’s whiteknuckle win against Ipswich Town, means that Fulham go into this match in 12th place, while Everton remain in 16th.
Continue reading...Manchester City keep powering on in a relentless mode that tells Liverpool and Arsenal they must do the same. Pep Guardiola’s champions took top spot with this tight victory and if either Arsenal or Arne Slot’s side can win Sunday’s late kick-off, they will land a bodyblow to the other.
City, with 23 points, lead Liverpool by two and Arsenal by a yawning six, so Mikel Arteta’s team dare not lose. Guardiola’s charges were a touch flat here. Recently, he has preached the need to be patient and though Erling Haaland could have had a hat-trick instead of his solitary winner, injuries meant the manager had scant resources on the bench to change up his team, with only Ilkay Gündogan an attack-minded senior option.
Continue reading...There were dramatic twists in three of the four Premier League games and a predictable outcome at the Etihad
84 min: Bristol City 0-0 Leeds
Still goalless at Ashton Gate, though it sounds like Leeds have been all over Bristol City in the second half.
Continue reading...Chris Wood was Forest’s two-goal hero as Nuno Espírito Santo’s increasingly impressive side deservedly won an open and entertaining match
5 min: Moreno and Hudson-Odoi one-two their way down the left, the former winning the first corner of the evening. Elanga to take.
4 min: Mavididi tries to release Winks down the left but Milenkovic spots the danger and comes across to usher the ball out for a goal kick.
Continue reading...Manchester City host bottom-side Southampton on Saturday while leaders Liverpool visit Arsenal on Sunday
Saturday 3pm Venue Villa Park
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