Category Premier League

Man City 7-0 Leeds United : Champions surge four points clear!

Manchester City reasserted their title credentials by thrashing Leeds United 7-0 to win their seventh game in a row and extend their lead at the top of the Premier League to four points. After Stuart Dallas’ awful goal-line clearing effort, City were two up after 13 minutes, with Phil Foden’s opening – the 500th Premier League goal of Pep Guardiola’s reign – finding the net, before Jack Grealish added a…

What makes Arsenal the weirdest team in soccer?

Arsenal is now the weirdest team in the history of soccer. Three of the five best teams in the world right now are in the Premier League. Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City are like if there was a third team in LaLiga just as good as Real Madrid and Barcelona in the mid-to-early 2010s. Manchester City has a plus-21 goal differential, Chelsea a plus-27 and Liverpool a plus-31. Figuratively, they’re…

Rangnick’s debut win hints at Man United’s future

Ralf Rangnick’s Manchester United revolution is still in its infancy, but the fans who streamed away from Old Trafford, having watched the German’s managerial reign begin with a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace, will have done so convinced of what his team is supposed to look like. For Rangnick, 63, the most important statistic from his first game as a manager in more than two-and-a-half years was that United scored…

Man United vs Chelsea – 1 vs 1 Draw

Premier League leaders Chelsea were left frustrated as Manchester United’s conservative game plan earned them a 1-1 draw at Stamford Bridge. With Cristiano Ronaldo benched, United redefined the idea of caution in the first half, taking 21 minutes to touch the ball in the final third and 44 minutes to have a touch in Chelsea’s box, but the hosts struggled to break them down. Callum Hudson-Odoi saw an effort well…

Why Solskjaer’s Man United tenure fell apart?

In an alternate universe, Mauricio Pochettino’s Manchester United have just cruised past Watford to keep pace with the Premier League leaders, and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is preparing his Molde team for a trip to Brann. Instead, the reality is that Solskjaer, who was meant to hand over the reins to the Argentine more than two years ago, is only now just saying his goodbyes. When Jose Mourinho was sacked in…

Liverpool 4 vs 0 Arsenal. How Arsenal get banished emphatically

Nobody ever really doubted Liverpool’s Premier League title credentials when they lost at West Ham prior to the international break, but if there were any question marks over the staying power of Jurgen Klopp and his players, they banished them emphatically with a comprehensive 4-0 win Saturday against Arsenal at Anfield. The mark of a great team is how it reacts to a setback and Liverpool did that in brutal…