Naby Keïta has had quite the week. Restored to the starting XI for the trip to Bournemouth, the Liverpool No.8 scored and assisted as the Reds romped to a 3-0 victory to maintain their eight-point lead over Leicester City. Jürgen Klopp then kept him in the first-team for the must-not-lose Champions League clash against Red Bull Salzburg. On his return to Austria, Keïta scored the opener as the r...
Jamie Vardy is on one again. The striker’s brace in Leicester City’s 4-1 win over Aston Villa took his goal tally to 16 for the season. He’s now just two shy of his total from the 2018/19 campaign and just eight off what he managed when the Foxes stunned the world to win the Premier League title in 2016. And we’re only 16 matches into the top-flight season. Vardy has scored in Leices...
Manchester City have a problem. Just 16 matches into the 2019/20 Premier League campaign and the reigning champions have already lost the same number of matches (four) as they did throughout the previous season. Furthermore, they’ve also matched last year’s tally of two draws. It means unless Pep Guardiola’s side win all their remaining matches, they won’t be getting close to the 100...
The 2019/20 Premier League campaign is a strange one. We may only be into gameweek 16 of the season – and there’s still a long way to go – but outside of the top four, the table is fairly congested. Aston Villa, for example, are currently in 17th position and a single point is keeping them out of the relegation zone. But they’re only eight points off of sixth-placed Tottenham Hotspur. Dean Smith...
Naby Keïta has had quite the week. Restored to the starting XI for the trip to Bournemouth, the Liverpool No.8 scored and assisted as the Reds romped to a 3-0 victory to maintain their eight-point lead over Leicester City. Jürgen Klopp then kept him in the first-team for the must-not-lose Champions League clash against Red Bull Salzburg. On his return to Austria, Keïta scored the opener as the r...
Jamie Vardy is on one again. The striker’s brace in Leicester City’s 4-1 win over Aston Villa took his goal tally to 16 for the season. He’s now just two shy of his total from the 2018/19 campaign and just eight off what he managed when the Foxes stunned the world to win the Premier League title in 2016. And we’re only 16 matches into the top-flight season. Vardy has scored in Leices...
Manchester City have a problem. Just 16 matches into the 2019/20 Premier League campaign and the reigning champions have already lost the same number of matches (four) as they did throughout the previous season. Furthermore, they’ve also matched last year’s tally of two draws. It means unless Pep Guardiola’s side win all their remaining matches, they won’t be getting close to the 100...
The 2019/20 Premier League campaign is a strange one. We may only be into gameweek 16 of the season – and there’s still a long way to go – but outside of the top four, the table is fairly congested. Aston Villa, for example, are currently in 17th position and a single point is keeping them out of the relegation zone. But they’re only eight points off of sixth-placed Tottenham Hotspur. Dean Smith...
Getting the band back together isn’t always a resounding success. Watford found that out the hard way. On Sunday they sacked Quique Sánche Flores less than three months after re-appointing him as head coach for a second time. The hope had been the charming Spaniard would instil some of the solidity, organisation and resoluteness which typified his first spell at Vicarage Road. An 8-0 humilia...
Over the past couple of years, Dele Alli has regularly been derided by many. The 23-year-old exploded onto the scene during the 2015/16 season and over the next three campaigns netted 46 goals across all competitions. However, the 2018/19 season saw him notch just seven times. With Spurs struggling domestically, Alli’s performances were heavily scrutinised. The fact his position had been tweaked...
Over the course of 90 minutes against West Ham United on Saturday, Tammy Abraham established himself as perhaps Chelsea‘s most important player. Quite the achievement, especially given he didn’t even play. The 22-year-old was sat behind the home dugout at Stamford Bridge as a hip injury sustained in the Champions League draw with Valencia kept him out of the contest. In Abraham’...