Sports - Football - Premier League - Week 10
The tenth week of the 2019-2020 Premier League season saw:
38 goals - most by Leicester = 9
272 shots - most by Leicester and Man City = 25 each
118 on target - most by Leicester = 15
113 corners - most by Man City = 13
201 fouls - most by Arsenal = 18
38 bookings - most by Watford = 5
3 red cards - Bertrand for Saints, Fernandinho for City, Longstaff for Newcastle
6 penalties - 4 scored (Vardy for Leicester, Maupay for Brighton, Milivojevic for Palace, Salah for Liverpool)
#SOULEI
It started bad enough at St Mary’s, rain bashing, smashing, blowing down and around on Friday night. Initially a good save by Angus Gunn against Jamie Vardy, but Ben Chilwell netted the rebound (10’) to open the scoring. It went from bad to worse and crashed totally to bits from there for the Saints with Ryan Bertrand sent off as VAR spotted a really bad tackle on Ayoze Pérez (12’) in the buildup to the goal. The Foxes pressed and pounced and never stopped, to record their first win on a Friday, equalling the biggest PL win with the biggest top flight victory on the road. Youri Tielemans (17’), Pérez (19’, 39’, 57’), Vardy (45’, 58’, pen 90+4’) and James Maddison (85’) all added up and on to the home side’s misery, with FIVE goals scored before the break alone! It ended NINE-nil (in case you lost count). The ground emptied very quickly with every goal added in the torrential rain! I loved the songs of the leftover Saints faithfuls though, records tumbling all over the place. Wow. Just wow. Brendan Rodgers has produced wonders, seeing his side flourish and climb up to second before the weekend's matches kicked off.
#MCIAVL
The Villans frustrated the hell out of the champions in the goalless first half of the Saturday lunchtime kickoff at the Etihad. But that changed 20 seconds after the restart, Raheem Sterling breaking the deadlock (46’), David Silva (65’) and İlkay Gündoğan (70’) sealing the win and three points to take Pep Guardiola’s men back up to second, three points behind the Reds before their Super Sunday clash against Tottenham, see below for my notes on that clash. VAR played it’s part again, a lot of close calls, handball and offside decisions that could have gone either way, Dean Smith’s lads will feel hard done by, all their hard work for nothing.
#BHAEVE
Two own goals, a VAR penalty, plenty of twists and turns, but despite a promising comeback from 1-0 down to 1-2, the Toffees threw it away and suffered yet another defeat. The Marco Silva curse of no comeback-wins continues. Lucas Digne's injury-time own goal (90+4') just added salt to the very deep wound, dragging the visitors down to 16th, whilst Graham Potter's side climbed up to 12th. Tough luck.
#WATBOU
The bottom side were left waiting for their first win, held to a goalless draw at home after both sides were denied by the woodwork, the visitors having failed to score in their last three games, Ben Foster denying them with five top-notch saves. Hornets boss Quique Sánches Flores feels his side are getting closer to their first league victory after ten games, a run stretching back to April and keeping them rock-bottom, four points from safety.
#WHUSHU
Lys Mousset was the hero again (69'), like last week, this time nicking a point, levelling the score after Robert Snodgrass had given the home side the lead shortly before the interval (44'). The super sub kept the Blades unbeaten on the road, whilst the Hammers were left ruing missed chances and dropped points once again. Both side climbed up to ninth and seventh respectively thanks to the shared point.
#BURCHE
Christian Pulisic’s perfect hat-trick, left, right and header (21’, 45’, 56’), helped beat Burnley comfortably, despite a couple of late goals spoiling the perfect Blue picture, but too late to turn the game on its head completely. Frank Lampard can be a very happy after watching his side records their seventh consecutive win in all competitions, keeping them in the top four, four points clear of the Gunners before their Sunday derby.
#NEWWOL
So close but yet so far... Both sides dropped points yet again. It was clumsy footy, that's the best way to summarise it. Sean Longstaff can have no complaints after his high boot was punished with a straight red card (82'). The visitors could have nicked the three points late on, with the man advantage after fighting back from behind, but it was not to be. The battle ended a goal and point each, keeping the Magpies in 17th, just a point separating them from the relegation zone, whilst Nuno Espírito Santo's side climbed up to 12th.
#ARSCRY
Good old derby drama! And add the new technology to it, you have an even hotter spicy dish! Two goals off two corners in two minutes settled the derby nerves for the Gunners early on, Sokratis (7’) and David Luiz (9’). But Palace hit back, VAR overturning the ref to give a penalty and retract Wilfried Zaha’s booking for diving. But then the video assistant denied the hosts three points: After Jordan Ayew’s equaliser (52') and skipper Granit Xhaka’s brainless antiques as he was subbed (61'), the tech ref disallowed Sokratis' late winner (83') for a foul on Calum Chambers. WTF?! There were more pushes on red shirts than vice versa! Absolute shambles! Boos all round at the Emirates, for the players and the refs, all as bad as each other, they should all be ashamed of each other but most for themselves!
#LIVTOT
48 seconds is all it took to open the scoring! The ball came from a great Son Heung-Min pass, pinged off Dejan Lovren and the post, before the rebound was headed in by Harry Kane! Spurs' replacement keeper Paulo Gazzaniga made save after save after that, it could have been 6-1 at the break, the Reds firing on the target but not into the back of the net thanks to the Argentinian stopper (13 shots on target in total!). But the hosts hit and came back after the break, skipper Jordan Henderson levelling and making up for the early error (52'), and Mohamed Salah hitting his 50th to make it 2:1 from the spot (75'). Son was denied a couple of times, once by the woodwork, and by Alisson as well. Jürgen Klopp’s unstoppable men keep their unbeaten home run going and six-point lead at the top of the table, whilst Spurs drop down to 11th.
#NORMUN
The Red Devils missed TWO spot kicks, the Canaries' keeper Tim Krul starred, saved and denied Marcus Rashford (29') and Anthony Martial (44'), but was he off the line? VAR? However, the visitors still enjoyed a comfortable lead by then thanks to Scott McTimonay (21') and Rashford (30'). With or without question marks over the VAR decisions, Ole Gunnar Solskjær's men stayed in control and ended the game 1-3 and with the three points, taking them up to seventh, whilst the hosts remain in the relegation zone.
My Predictions - Actual Results
Southampton 1:2 Leicester - 0:9
Man City 4:1 Aston Villa - 3:0
Brighton 2:1 Everton - 3:2
Watford 1:3 Bournemouth - 0:0
West Ham 2:2 Sheff United - 1:1
Burnley 1:3 Chelsea - 2:4
Newcastle 1:1 Wolves - 1:1
Arsenal 2:1 Crystal Palace - 2:2
Liverpool 3:1 Tottenham - 2:1
Norwich 2:1 Man United - 1:3
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