Michael O’Connor sends emails with news about the Liverpool equalizer in Newcastle: “Oxlade Chamberlain’s ingenious dribbing and then a lovely hanging cross for Van Dijk to head to the upper right corner; the goalkeeper had no chance.
Thank you. I wonder what will happen to Oxlade-Chamberlain; You may not be happy playing as infrequently as you have, but it is difficult to see where it fits into the Klopp system in a registry.
16:55
Halftime Scores
Arsenal 3-1 Watford
Burnley 1-1 Brighton and Hove Albion
Chelsea 2-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Crystal Palace 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur
Everton 1-2 AFC Bournemouth
Leicester City 0-0 Manchester United
Manchester City 2-0 Norwich City
Newcastle United 1-1 Liverpool
Southampton 0-1 Sheffield United
West Ham United 0-0 Aston Villa
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16:53
OBJECTIVE! Burnley 1-1 Brighton (Wood 44)
Burnley needs to match whatever Arsenal does to hold on to the coveted ninth place, so this equalizer is just a start.
16:52
OBJECTIVE! Manchester City 2-0 Norwich (De Bruyne 45 + 1)
I haven’t seen this objective yet, nor any of the games, but I’m surprised that it took so long.
16:51
OBJECTIVE! Chelsea 2-0 Lobos (Giroud 45 + 4)
Chelsea will enter the Champions League! Two injury time goals have deaf the wolves almost ‘aht’!
Everything is going out! Bournemouth needs a West Ham win over Villa …
16:49
WHAT A GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Wolves (Mount (45 + 1)
A free kick, 25 yards out, and Mount climbs up to curl up on the wall and swing toward the left side net, halfway. Beautiful, and AS-IS, Chelsea will finish third and the Spurs will make it to the Europa League.
16:48
Kasper Schmeichel just defeated a blow to Rashford.
16:47
But take a look! McGinn does brilliantly to beat a man out of the box and find Hourihane, who first fires Grealish! He is inside! But he is too deliberate in his ending, looking to bend for the far post and hit it too close to Fabianski.
16:46
OBJECTIVE! Arsenal 3-1 Watford (Deeney pen 43)
Something is happening? If Watford can even score a one-goal loss, that could keep them if West Ham can beat Villa by three.
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16:44
Marcus Rashford just missed a decent shot at Leicester, flipping wide after more good work from Pogba. He is playing with good intensity today; If I could do that every week, no one would have heard of Graeme Souness (yes, that’s a joke).
16:43
OBJECTIVE! Everton 1-1 Bournemouth (Kean 41)
The biggest goal of the afternoon so far! Ferguson’s Kean pulls Everton’s level after a good job from Seamus Coleman on the right. It looks good for Villa!
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16:41
Eeeeesh! Soucek has failed to head-butt Pepe Reina with a sigh. Meanwhile, at the KP, a brilliant slip from Maguire has prevented Vardy from hitting Thomas’s cross past De Gea.
16:40
“I know that adult men (I like to think of myself as one) shouldn’t worry too much about these things.” Digvijay Yadav says. “But United’s loss will really ruin my next month or so. I’m not sure football is that important.”
They still have the Europa League to save themselves with, if they’re wrong today. But the way I try to process my shame at the same time is to enjoy victories and allow defeats to invade me.
16:38
OBJECTIVE! Newcastle 1-1- Liverpool (Van Dijk 38)
Well, that lasted longer than I thought.
“Very good move and excellent shot from Minamino to force a very good stop from Dubravka” says Mike MacKenzie in London, Canada. “I think Minamino will come in handy when it gets installed.”
It looked good when I saw it in the Champions League earlier in the season, and I’m surprised that it had so little impact. But as you say, it was bought for the future, but also because it was cheap.
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16:36
In Leicester, the home team is growing in the game; The united gaze was irregular in the center of the field.
16:34
OBJECTIVE! Arsenal 3-0 Watford (Aubameyang 33)
Ok, Watford is gone. Surprisingly, the trick of hitting Welbeck at the apex of the midfield doesn’t seem to work.
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16:33
In Leicester, Pogba just coiled a lush ball overhead for Fernandes, who came down to score … but he left early, so the flag was raised.
16:32
If Bournemouth can hold on to Everton, they still need West Ham to beat Villa. There is no particular reason to think that this will not happen.
16:30
In Leicester, a brilliant slip from Ndidi stops Williams’ shot and Iheanacho breaks. Pogba chooses not to commit a foul in the center circle because he does not want a card, but it is three against two; Iheanacho carries the ball, has a dig, and De Gea mistakes what should be a statutory save. Now it is a big problem for United.
16:28
OBJECTIVE! Man City 1-0 Norwich (Jesus 11)
I wonder what will become of Jesus. Guardiola did his best to make it the first option, except that Agüero was too bright. Will he get the go-ahead when Agüero calls him one day or does City look for someone better? I would say, as someone whose team competes with them, that Jesus is the lowest level of center-forward that I would expect them to have, although he is a good player.
OBJECTIVE! Southampton 0-1 Sheffield United (Lundstram 26)
More news on that as I understand it.
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16:27
OBJECTIVE! Arsenal 2-0 Watford (Tierney 24)
Ok, I think we can say Watford is downstairs. Kieran Tierney is a great joy, and that is his first goal for his new club.
16:24
Back in KP, both teams seem nervous from the back. Matic and Maguire have gifted the ball in dangerous positions, while United hints that it is putting one of their moves together.
16:22
At Stamford Bridge, it appears to be wolves on the rise, which means they are in possession every time I look at that screen.
16:22
OBJECTIVE! Burnley 0-1 Brighton (Bissouma 20)
Both have done very well since the break, but it’s Brighton who is leading the way.
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16:20
“Re David Silva does nothing in Europe,” tweets Simon Frank. “Nor does Eric Cantona, but that has not tarnished his legacy.”
I don’t think I agree with this. If we’re going to criticize Cantona for anything, other than his support for Ken Loach, it will be that. But he also dominated the league for five seasons, which I don’t think we can say about Silva, however brilliant he was, and his European experience was also different. Cantona was playing when English clubs were still learning what they had missed in the years they were banned, and their team had to leave players out due to foreigners’ rule. Silva, on the other hand, played on the most luxuriously resourceful team in football history, with excellent and experienced players around him, and the city really should have already won big ears.
16:17
I should have said earlier that in Leicester, Harry Maguire … Who used to play for them? – It has been reserved by Kelechi Iheanacho scissors. I wouldn’t have wanted that to happen so early.
Richarlison drives and King opens his body to move to the bottom right. Bournemouth still needs West Ham to do them a favor, but it’s a start!
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16:14
At West Ham, Michail Antonio just passed the post when he’s in goal, that’s a big disappointment for Villa. And in Leicester, Mason Greenwood just nodded exaggeratedly.
16:11
“It’s a shame that Andy Carroll is not starting” Paul Griffin emails. “I fondly remember the brief days of comedy with Suárez and Carroll playing together. When Suarez had the ball, he would draw three defenders to him using movements he learned from Riverdance, then, using special 4-D trigonometry, he would slide the ball behind the defense into space. Carroll would be completely still, looking completely stumped, like a man waiting for bus 36, confronted by 36b, who isn’t even supposed to stop here. When Carroll had the ball, Suarez made shiny, curvy parabolic runs, so cunning that Henry Kissinger would never have been able to counter levels of constructive ambiguity, but he never received the ball. Fortunately, Luis has such an affable Zen guy and never reacted. “
I was at Anfield for Carroll’s debut in which Dirk Kuyt scored a hat-trick from a combined distance of 1.39 yards. However, Suarez’s ability to establish the former was one of the most bafflingly brilliant behaviors I’ve ever seen up close. Too bad the racial abuse that followed, but.