Chelsea 2 Newcastle 1
Lacazette (Neymar 35)
Chiesa 83
---------------------------------------Salah 52 (Firmino)
MOTM - Lacazette
A tight affair with the home side edging it. I do think the Newcastle midfield is lacking a bit creativity wise but they did stifle the attacking flow of Chelsea expertly with Milner and Henderson putting a shift in defensively. Lacazette got the opening goal after good work by Neymar saw him play a pass to Lacazette just inside the box who hit a snap shot on the turn to open the scoring. Salah got the equaliser when TAA got to the byline and whipped in a cross into Firmino who got away from Van Djik and leaped over Lenglet and knocked the ball into the path of the onrushing Salah, who blasted home the equaliser. Newcastle brought on Mount who added some much needed pace and drive into their midfield but it was Chiesa who got the winner after reacting quickest to a loose ball in the area.
Leicester v Southampton
Tough afternoon for the visitors with the home side really purring at the moment and they got off to a quick start. Hazard caused Dalot problems all afternoon and it was the Belgian who put his side ahead. A youthful Southampton backline was really tested by the high powered Leicester attack and it was soon two as Hazard again heavily involved, beating his man before squaring for Sane to tap home.
I like the look of the Southamption midfield trio and feel that as a well balanced unit they were able to give their side a foothold in the game, some neat interchanging between Tielemans and James resulted in the Colombian finding space on the edge of the box to power home and get his side back in the game.
Southampton pushed for an equaliser and came close late in the game with Rashford squandering a glorious opportunity after an exquisite through ball from Lo Celso. They were however duly punished as Hazard capped off a fine afternoon with his second and his side's third to wrap up the points.
Leicester 3 - 1 Southampton
Hazard (Neves, 7), Sane (Hazard, 16), Hazard, 89
James (Tielemans, 42)
MOTM - Hazard
Norwich City v Manchester City
Interesting match up between two contrasting sides. The home side very much fresh faced with a host of promising youngsters whilst the visitors foundations built very much on some stellar names. It was however to be the first blow landed by the youth, Harry Wilson spotting the run of Daniel James with the man in form firing his side into the lead.
The home side tried to press on and get a second however Dolberg had no success against the two mountains at the back for City as he was well shackled by Bonucci and Skriniar. Wilson v Marcelo was a fascinating match up. Round one went to the Welshman with a fine assist however the Brazilian soon hit back, a fantastic piece of attacking play culminated with a fine cross for Lewandowski to head home. 1-1 at the interval.
As the game wore on the visitors began to edge proceedings with the difference in quality at CF really beginning to show as Lewandowski got the better of Soyuncu before smashing home his second of the game. Credit to the home side however as their heads never dropped and it was their bright AM trio that stepped up. A fast counter attack saw some lovely interplay between the three. James breaking away at speed, laying the ball off to Brooks who in turn found Wilson, Wilson back to Brooks, Brooks to James, James fakes the shot and squares back to Brooks who slots home. Lovely. A great team goal and one worthy of earning the home side a share of the spoils.
Norwich City 2-2 Man City
James (Wilson, 14), Brooks (James, 65)
Lewandowski (Marcelo, 28) Lewandowski (Pjanic, 50)
MOTM - James
Week 3
posted on 18/9/19
Wolves v Liverpool
Despite Liverpool having one of the best forward lines in the league, I thought the back four of Wolves and Allan would cope fairly well with them, and the same at the other end. The midfield battle was won by neither and possession was pretty much 50/50
Chances were few and far between due to two solid defences and neither midfield dominating enough, when chances came both GKs were pretty comfortable with the efforts on goal
Wolves 0 - 0 Liverpool
MOTM - Allan
Arsenal v Bournemouth
Arsenal have improved and with Aubameyang up top they are always going to get goals, especially v a fairly inexperienced back 4, Bournemouth are an exciting team with lots of talent, but just felt today the Arsenal line up and set was just a bit too much for the Bournemouth team, they did score with good movement from Cunha and Malcom combing, but Aubameyand struck twice in the second half to give the home side all three points
Arsenal 2 - 1 Bournemouth
Aubameyang x 2 ( Pepe, Isco)
Cunha(Malcom)
MOTM - Aubameyang
posted on 18/9/19
Portsmouth v Tottenham
I like both set ups, but fear Sessegnon would struggle v Bernardo, and this was this case as the latter set up Icardi beautifully early on in the game, the attacking set up of Portsmouth pushed the Spurs team back as a whole and they failed to capitilise on their lead, Jovic found the net early in the second half through a penalty after being hacked down by Umtiti, to even up the scores, and it was soon to be Red for Umtiti as another rash challenge this time on Martial who had the better of him for pace, this was on 72 mins,, Spurs went to 441 but despite being a man down, they held on to a take a good point
Portsmout 1 v 1 Tottenham
Jovic(Pen, 50)
Icardi(Bernardo, 11)
Umtiti 72
MOTM - Koulibaly
posted on 18/9/19
Salah
James
Hazard x 2
Aubameyang x 2
D.James
Brooks
LAcazette
Chiesa
Sane
Cunha
Jovic
Icardi
Firmino
Tielemans,
Bernardo
Malcom
Neves
Hazard
Neymar
Pepe
Isco
Marcelo
Pjanic
D.James
Wilson