Liverpool return to top of Premier League winners and losers

Liverpool were brilliant but aided by an awful Arsenal side. Mikel Arteta is in trouble; the entire club needs to pull in the same direction.   Winners Round Liverpool pegs in round Liverpool holes I was one of many who praised Fabinho for his role as an emergency central defender. His attributes – reading the […]

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‘Shocking’ Manchester United only second best in poor league

Send your thoughts on Manchester United to theeditor@football365.com.   Quick question just asking, what happened to the Arteta>Lampard>”PE teacher” ole debate? Liam   Shocking, shocking Man United Taken from the Utd v Brighton article after last night’s game: ‘The best and worst of a team that have a truly astonishing record of winning points having […]

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We are once again asking are Manchester United actually good or what?

Don’t say it, don’t say it, don’t say it… that was a game of two halves. Sorry, but it’s sometimes simply impossible to resist. Manchester United, not for the first time, were utterly rotten in the first half. Manchester United, not for the first time, were far better in the second half. Manchester United, not […]

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On Fulham, substitutions, and 13 minutes to change everything

Aston Villa’s two substitutes combined to change this game in a possibly season-defining quarter of an hour for Fulham and Newcastle. Fulham were out of the relegation zone for a tantalising 17 minutes of this sunny Easter afternoon after Aleksandar Mitrovic took his Serbia form into the Premier League and gave them the second-half lead […]

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Nobody happy at the end of a bleakly comic Misery Derby

There was never really any doubt that the Misery Derby would produce a game and result that meant neither side was happy. And it wouldn’t have taken much psychic ability to imagine Spurs leading through Harry Kane late in the game before conceding an equaliser bundled home from an unlikely source – we got pretty […]

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Edwin van der Sar might just have been the perfect keeper

Edwin van der Sar was serenity personified and the ideal replacement for Peter Schmeichel at Manchester United, just a few years too late.   Who’s this then? Edwin van der Sar is now 50 years old and was, in his time, one of the world’s finest goalkeepers. A Dutchman born in Voorhout, he only played […]

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16 Conclusions: Arsenal 0-3 Liverpool

Liverpool were excellent against Arsenal, for whom failure to “do the basics” means desperate trouble for head coach Mikel Arteta.   1) When Arsenal beat Chelsea on Boxing Day it felt like a corner had been turned. A run of seven games without a Premier League win was punctured by a vibrant and youthful victory […]

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Early winners: Any and every witness to that De Bruyne pass

Pass of the season? Probably. Kevin de Bruyne conjured a moment of effortless brilliance at Leicester to keep Manchester City ploughing on.   “Well he doesn’t get the assist, Kevin de Bruyne, but this goal’s all about him,” said Jamie Carragher, for whom watching Manchester City double their lead against Leicester at the King Power […]

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Early losers: Chelsea and Jorginho’s nightmare first half

The warning signs were there after only four minutes for Thomas Tuchel and Chelsea. A tame shot from Matheus Pereira came at the end of a passage of play that saw the Blues robbed of the ball in midfield. They got away with it on that occasion but it was a familiar sight as Chelsea conceded […]

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Ranking every PL club by unwanted player sale funds

With less than a third of the current Premier League season to go, the powers that be will be starting to look to the future and working out how they can cobble funds together to improve their squads. We’ve attempted to work out how much they can raise through unwanted player sales. Players whose contracts […]

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