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From Garth Crooks
Football analyst
Manchester City kept up the pressure with a thrashing of Watford although liverpool extended their ideal start to the season with victory in Chelsea.
Pep Guardiola’s side defeat the Hornets 8-0 that are struggling but remain five points behind Premier League leaders Liverpool, who won.
While Leicester beat Sheffield United and Tottenham 2-1 picked up an impressive 2-0 away win at Everton, elsewhere, Manchester United lost 2-0 to West Ham.
Here’s my group of the week have a read and choose your very own below.
Adrian: The stand at goalkeeper seems to improve every time I see him. The save from Tammy Abraham in the match early exchanges was as good if not as important as it receives. The keeper plucked the ball out of the atmosphere with supreme confidence and came for a cross.
It was the first-half functionality that supplied the stage to Liverpool to continue and win this game of Adrian. Chelsea, on the other hand, had chances to come away with a point but fluffed their lines.
When not playing well when Liverpool begin winning games it’s a bad sign for the remainder of the league.
Did you know? Adrian has not surrendered more than in some of the past nine Premier League appearances, ending on the winning side in eight of these games (one draw).
Ricardo Pereira: If full-backs have a desire for going into the heart of the opposition’s penalty area, not only do they capture my eye but I start to take them. Ricardo Pereira is one such player.
He is adventurous and fast and not afraid to put herself up for scrutiny at the opposing group’s box. He also took his goal well and at a time .
As Tottenham; things that should not change them easily offend them for. They’ve experienced more than their fair share of great luck where VAR is concerned and once the technology moves against them they should be in a position to adjust as quickly as when it is in their favour.
Did you know? Leicester’s Ricardo Pereira scored his third goal in 41 Premier League appearances — .
Nathan Ake: The shot at Nathan Ake suspended buried a bullet header past Angus Gunn in the goal of Southampton and having assaulted a set bit was a film to behold.
It was not only Bournemouth goal in a historic win from the south coast rivals but a clear indication that the Cherries meant business.
I really don’t know what Ake would price for Chelsea to buy him back but when I was them I would think about it.
Did you know? Eight of the 11 Premier League goals of Bournemouth defender Nathan Ake have been scored by corners, such as seven of the last eight at the competition.
Fabian Schar: The processor by Aaron Connolly was a goal that is definite and it had something really special from a guardian to clear the danger. That moment of magic came from Fabian Schar whose payoff off the line was nothing short of awesome.
The clearance off the line by Schar might, come the season’s end, be Newcastle and Steve Bruce’s lifeline.
Did you know? Since the start of last season, Newcastle have won 43% of the Premier League matches when Fabian Schar has begun (12/28), compared to only 6 percent when he has not (1/16).
Chris Basham: I might have chosen anyone in the Sheffield United rear three but I have gone to get Chris Basham.
The 31-year-old isn’t a spring chicken but when it has to do with defenders winning headers, putting his body on the line and staying cool under pressure, then he’s the man.
This has been. When you set players on massive salaries you are entitled to enormous performances and a lot of players in blue are not multiplying their earnings.
Did you know? No Sheffield United player has made more cubes than Chris Basham (four) in the Premier League this year.
James Maddison: Alas we have found another player whose first idea is can I play with not and ahead backwards or sideways. James Maddison is quickly making a name for himself as a player that believes of this forwards first and not himself.
He can In case Maddison can locate Jamie Vardy onto a football pitch and without a moment’s hesitation. I am sick and tired of stats that tell me this a midfielder has made the most passes when they’ve spent the vast area of the game going from side to side and backward.
Maddison’s passes can cut through a defence like a knife through butter and that’s the reason I am convinced this lad can go all the way. Read about what I have to mention about Maddison at the Crooks of the Issue below.
Did you know? Because netting versus Huddersfield in April leicester’s James Maddison finished a streak of 31 shots in the Premier League with no target.
Kevin de Bruyne: » There was on the clock along with Kevin de Bruyne had delivered Watford their blow.
The ball in the genius for David Silva into side-foot home killed the stone deceased. What then followed was total and full humiliation.
The pass that inflicted this deadly wound was really deliberate and precise that there was not one Watford guardian prepared to touch it for fear of placing the ball in his own net.
In fact Craig Dawson was paralysed by the pace and precision of this pass to the six yard area he froze as if he had been struck by the ice maiden! Now Watford understood the match was finished and it was down into the new’baby-faced assassin’.
Did you know? Since his Man City introduction in September 2015, Kevin de Bruyne has provided greater Premier League aids than any other player (52).
Bernardo Silva: Normally you can’t score a hat-trick, not buy in my TOTW however I need to declare that the primary reason for selecting Bernardo Silva is because it offers me a few more sentences to talk about De Bruyne.
With this time Manchester City were 6-0 up and rampant while De Bruyne continued to mercilessly inflict the most barbarous moves on the traffic. Silva finished his hat-trick courtesy of another deadly missile from De Bruyne who was not only intent on reaping total and total devastation on Watford but decided to lace their own defeat using utter embarrassment.
Did you know? Manchester City’s Bernardo Silva scored his first top-flight hat-trick in what is his 178th look across the English, French and Portuguese top tiers.
Mark Noble: When West Ham beat Manchester United something rather strange tends to be going on.
The Hammers ceased United out of winning the title on the final day of this season in 1995; while Carlos Tevez kept West Ham from the Premier League away at Old Trafford in 2007. What took place was just spooky.
Mark Noble spearheaded a famous victory from a Manchester United side who looked in disarray and lead by a manager who’s starting to look from his depth.
Whatever sentiment you will have for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Manchester United isn’t a club for most novices.
Did you know? West Ham have won 47 percent of their Premier League matches when Mark Noble has begun beneath Manuel Pellegrini (15/32), compared to just 18 percent when he hasn’t (2/11).
Roberto Firmino: » I think VAR is currently going to be the death of us in the end. Nevertheless, Liverpool used the technology in particular for Roberto Firmino and their advantage.
There’s absolutely little doubt in my mind that when VAR comes to activity a single group endures along with another benefits a massive benefit.
While Chelsea were suffering from VAR’s discovery which Mason Mount’s big toe had been offside the Brazil international took complete advantage of this problem and put the game outside of the Blues.
This wasn’t a traditional Liverpool performance but even VAR can’t stop a group from winning ugly.
Did you know? Roberto Firmino has been directly involved in 10 goals in his past 11 Premier League games for Liverpool, scoring 5 and helping five.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang: Arsenal find themselves at the best four and it is down to Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
Since his arrival at the Emirates he has rescued Arsenal’s often performances and forced them more palatable. Their match from a Aston Villa who appear to be adapting to life at the Premier League, though it might be a bit slow to live in the Premier League, was bad and they rely far too much over the international.
I’ve seen this before when strikers are used by managers as a get out of jail card and the second the striker’s objectives dry up they are the first out the door. Aubameyang is owed by arsenal and if he is fighting, and he can, give him a little latitude.
Did you know? Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has scored 16 goals in his past 16 games across all competitions for Arsenal, including in each of the last four matches in a row (five goals).
You’ve seen my selections this season. However, that would you go for?
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When is a rucksack not a rucksack? If it costs #6,500!
James Maddison made a bit of a stir at the BBC Green Room when he had been seen sporting his brand new Louis Vuitton rucksack. The item that was see-through looked very interesting not least because we could see everything.
I had just arrived for Score at the BBC studios to hear that a galaxy of celebrity pundits musing on the necessity of a purchase. I had only arrived and hearing that the fuss asked the pundits what had been global with the carrier luggage and picked up a store bag I was holding in my hand?
I admit it did not look especially sophisticated but it was hardy, kept a discretion that is particular and was economical. I asked my fellow pundits could Maddison have created the identical type of curiosity had arrived on his hands with my carrier bag for work — much to the amusement of everyone.
I believe Maddison carrying a plastic carrier bag with his designer odor, hair gel and particular toothbrush could have caused even more controversy.
There is nothing new in professional footballers making style statements; nightclubs pay them the money and they are eligible to spend it anyway they select. However there’s a price to be paid, as much as the public is concerned, for this sort of showmanship and it might prove be very costly.
Players that make such statements have to ask themselves is it a price worth payingfor?
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