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Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action
Manchester United’s slump deepens, Ryan Christie inspires Bournemouth and David Moyes lets the good times rollPremier League top scorers | Latest table | FixturesCan winning a game that resembled two lurching drunks swinging at each other at closing time be regarded as vindication for Ange Postecoglou? Perhaps if Manchester United had a more mobile midfield and someone other than Rasmus Højlund at centre-forward – last goal at Plzen on 12 December – flanked by a winger in Alejandro Garnacho who last scored against Bodø/Glimt two weeks before that. It turns out Joshua Zirkzee – who has three goals in the league all season – is United’s most potent forward. The numbers point to this being United’s worst team in decades, and the only good news Ruben Amorim received on Sunday was 17th-placed Wolves’ defeat at Liverpool. Tottenham saw out a second successive Premier League clean sheet for the first time in 16 months but did so nervously. It will take much more than sketchily defeating a crashing clown car to prove Postecoglou’s pronouncement that the true Tottenham would reveal themselves once his injured players started returning. John BrewinMatch report: Tottenham 1-0 Manchester UnitedMatch report: Leicester 0-2 ArsenalMatch report: Manchester City 4-0 NewcastleMatch report: Liverpool 2-1 WolvesMatch report: Aston Villa 1-1 IpswichMatch report: Fulham 2-1 Nottingham ForestMatch report: Southampton 1-3 BournemouthMatch report: Crystal Palace 1-2 Everton Continue reading...
Manchester United’s slump deepens, Ryan Christie inspires Bournemouth and David Moyes lets the good times roll
Can winning a game that resembled two lurching drunks swinging at each other at closing time be regarded as vindication for Ange Postecoglou? Perhaps if Manchester United had a more mobile midfield and someone other than Rasmus Højlund at centre-forward – last goal at Plzen on 12 December – flanked by a winger in Alejandro Garnacho who last scored against Bodø/Glimt two weeks before that. It turns out Joshua Zirkzee – who has three goals in the league all season – is United’s most potent forward. The numbers point to this being United’s worst team in decades, and the only good news Ruben Amorim received on Sunday was 17th-placed Wolves’ defeat at Liverpool. Tottenham saw out a second successive Premier League clean sheet for the first time in 16 months but did so nervously. It will take much more than sketchily defeating a crashing clown car to prove Postecoglou’s pronouncement that the true Tottenham would reveal themselves once his injured players started returning. John Brewin
Match report: Tottenham 1-0 Manchester United
Match report: Leicester 0-2 Arsenal
Match report: Manchester City 4-0 Newcastle
Match report: Liverpool 2-1 Wolves
Match report: Aston Villa 1-1 Ipswich
Match report: Fulham 2-1 Nottingham Forest
Match report: Southampton 1-3 Bournemouth
Match report: Crystal Palace 1-2 Everton Continue reading...
