Match 5 of 10: Brighton vs Liverpool

Result:  0 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Liverpool: Mohammad Salah 50′ (P)

Match Statistics:

Brighton Team Stats Liverpool
7 Shots 10
0 Shots On Target 3
29% Possession 71%
300 Passes 753
69% Pass Accuracy 85%
15 Fouls 5
0 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
5 Offsides 0
2 Corners 7

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Liverpool did not shimmer here but rather, more essentially, nor did they wobble. Subsequent to losing their unbeaten record to Manchester City they came back to winning routes on account of a second-half penalty by Mohamed Salah. It was a tight triumph yet one that reestablishes Liverpool’s important lead at the highest point of the Premier League and difficulties City to close the hole again when they have Wolves .
  • Thrashings in their two past matches prompted this being charged as an especially noteworthy cross examination of Liverpool, with a group trying to be champions required to give convincing answers. The inquiries extended from the basic to the dubious.

  • Could Liverpool’s certainty truly be brittle to the point that a limited misfortune at City and an essentially welcomed one at Wolves in the FA Cup would make it disintegrate in spite of a large portion of a period of domestic invulnerability preceding that? Reply: No.
  • Shouldn’t something be said about their capacity to adapt to the weight of a title race when their nearest matches have undoubted family? Their reaction was sure. They will be asked it again over the rest of the 16 matches of the battle.
  • At the point when Trent Alexander-Arnold fallen amid the warm-up it looked like Jürgen Klopp would be constrained into further impromptu creation at the same time, in the wake of having his lower leg tied up, the right-back proclaimed himself fit enough to play. He played well, as did Fabinho regardless of a pass in the fifteenth moment that permitted Glenn Murray a free header from 12 yards. The striker sent his exertion over the bar.

  • That was Brighton’s solitary possibility in a first half when they invested the majority of the energy dug in behind the ball in an unbending 4-5-1 development. This, at that point, was not a trial of Liverpool’s temporary protection as much as of their innovativeness. They failed it in the main time frame however never lost tolerance.
  • Their play from the begin was moderate and unsurprising, predominantly before the hosts. Ordinarily this season there has been a distinction between their safeguard and assault and for the most part Xherdan Shaqiri has helped overcome any issues, with Jordan Henderson and Georginio Wijnaldum productive yet not astute.
  • Shaqiri began in a job that enabled him to flutter about yet he attempted to get included, despite the fact that he had the guests’ most obvious opportunity in the primary half, gesturing wide from 10 yards after a cross from the privilege by Alexander-Arnold.

  • Liverpool’s full-backs were their most penetrative players, as Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mané would in general get impeded in excessively complex moves in clogged focal territories.
  • It would have been fascinating to see at what organize Klopp may have shifted the methodology be that as it may, as it turned out, there was no requirement for him to do as such in light of the fact that Brighton abruptly played into Liverpool’s hands. A mix-up by Martin Montoya from the get-go in the second half given them a chance to dispatch the kind of quick counterattack at which they exceed expectations. Salah required no second welcome, plunging into the crate and giving fly with a low shot that David A chance to catch did well to hold.

  • The onus was on Brighton to differ their methodology and subject Liverpool’s resistance to a progressively vivacious test. Hughton made a twofold substitution in the 65th moment with an end goal to give his group all the more assaulting stimulus, however the hosts never dedicated completely to assault.
  • With 20 minutes to go Jürgen Locadia slice in from the left to empty a 20-yard shot that Alisson pushed around the post. In any case, that was as unsafe as Brighton got.

  • Liverpool discovered more liveliness as the diversion slackened up and had opportunities to make their lead increasingly agreeable in the 75th moment yet Button batted away his swerving long-run shot. Wijnaldum then flashed a low shot inches wide from the edge of the case after a deft develop including Salah, who botched a greatly improved opportunity in the 87th moment, hauling a shot wide from seven yards after a draw back by James Milner.

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Match 6 of 10: Leicester City vs Southampton

Result:  1 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • Leicester City: Wilfred Ndidi 58′
  • Southampton: James Ward-Prowse 11′ (P), Shane Long 45+2′

Match Statistics:

Leicester City Team Stats Southampton
23 Shots 8
6 Shots On Target 3
72% Possession 28%
552 Passes 226
79% Pass Accuracy 56%
7 Fouls 9
2 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 1
4 Offsides 4
10 Corners 3

Highlights:

  • The exact opposite thing Claude Puel required on the back of a mortifying FA Cup exit was a third home annihilation in four Premier League matches. That Southampton played for 45 minutes with 10 men, following the expulsion of Yan Valery, made an already difficult situation even worse on another reprimanding evening for the Leicester administrator, who, indeed, ends up under the spotlight.
  • The feature measurement is that Leicester are eighth in the table, yet that neglects to recount the full story of their season. Puel’s choice to field debilitated groups in the Carabao Cup and the FA Cup has done him no favors and the booing that welcomed the last whistle gave a sensible indicator of the inclination.

  • It is 18 days since Leicester beat Manchester City at home, hot on the impact points of a noteworthy triumph at Chelsea, yet those outcomes as of now feel like ancient remnants of the past. They have lost against Cardiff and Southampton at home since and been dumped out of the FA Cup by Newport County, who are in the base portion of League Two.
  • Puel had emerged cocked and locked before the diversion, yet it was his previous club who conveyed the blows that made a difference. James Ward-Prowse changed over from the spot and Shane Long, minutes after Valery had been sent off, multiplied Southampton’s lead in first-half damage time.

  • Despite the fact that Wilfred Ndidi pulled a goal back just before the hour check and Leicester overwhelmed from there on, Southampton shielded with enormous assurance and boldness, typified by the execution of the incredible Jannik Vestergaard, and hung on for the most valuable of triumphs. They are currently out of the last three and have a good kept running of matches to come.
  • Brilliant from the beginning, Southampton got off to an extraordinary begin. Nampalys Mendy, who persevered through a hopeless evening and was pulled back at half-time, awkwardly cut down Long as the Southampton forward kept running on to Stuart Armstrong’s pass. Kasper Schmeichel inspired his hands to Ward-Prowse’s penalty yet was not able keep it out.

  • The principal half was floating and felt somewhat level until Valery got the first of his two yellow cards for a high and late test on Ben Chilwell, who was likewise reserved for his response. Wes Morgan had a shot cleaned up the line by Jan Bednarek from the free-kick that pursued yet that was an uncommon Leicester chance in a first a large portion of that completed in sensational form.
  • The clock had quite recently ticked into the 45th moment when Valery was gotten the wrong side of Marc Albrighton and pulled the midfielder back, giving Michael Oliver, the arbitrator, little choice yet to wield a red card. Ralph Hasenhüttl conceded he dreaded the most noticeably awful by then, yet Southampton’s day showed signs of improvement.
  • Alex McCarthy punted upfield, Ricardo Pereira’s header was wayward and Mendy enabled Long to pick his pocket. With the edge against him, the Southampton striker endeavored to twist his shot into the far corner and Schmeichel incidentally transformed the ball into his very own net. It was his first goal for nine months.
  • Ndidi’s short proximity finish, from Pereira’s reduced, gave Leicester trust, however Southampton were in no mind-set to surrender.

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Match 7 of 10: Chelsea vs Newcastle

Result:  2 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Chelsea: Pedro 9′, Willian 57′
  • Newcastle: Ciaran Clark 40′

Match Statistics:

Chelsea Team Stats Newcastle
10 Shots 9
6 Shots On Target 2
66% Possession 34%
697 Passes 351
85% Pass Accuracy 74%
6 Fouls 13
1 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
5 Offsides 1
8 Corners 5

Highlights:

Premier League

  • In seven days that has seen their £58m striker offered around on credit and their most splendid youthful star openly sought by one of Europe’s greatest clubs, how Chelsea supporters must be appreciative for Eden Hazard.
  • The Belgium forward’s agreement terminates toward the finish of next season and he could yet end up at Real Madrid one day, however he stays by a long shot the most imperative player at Maurizio Sarri’s transfer as the Italian battles to force himself on English football.
  • It paused for a minute of splendor to settle this as Hazard set up Willian – himself the subject of a rejected offer from Barcelona this week – to twist home from an intense edge and end Newcastle’s expectations of a point after they had adjusted Pedro’s opener.

  • Viewed by referee Mike Ashley as he keeps on being baffled in his endeavors to move the club, Rafael Benítez’s side struggled hard however were fixed by an absence of value in the last third as they slipped into the last three.
  • With Álvaro Morata harmed and conceivably on out on advance, Sarri swung to Hazard to lead the line as Hudson-Odoi cleared a path for Pedro on the correct flank. The 18-year-old – the subject of a £35m offer from Bayern Munich this week – has still to begin a Premier League amusement and ended up on the substitute’s seat in spite of inspiring in both glass rivalries.
  • Obviously Benítez settled on a security first methodology before his boss. Having remained away for over a year prior to he appeared at Selhurst Park in September for the 0-0 draw with Crystal Palace, Ashley went to six matches in progression yet had not been seen since November, when news of a potential takeover driven by previous Chelsea CEO Peter Kenyon first rose.

  • Indeed, even less shockingly, he was welcomed with a chorale of objection from the away end inside the initial 60 seconds of the match. In any case, on his arrival to Stamford Bridge, Benítez got off to a horrible begin when David Luiz’s splendid long ball chose Pedro’s run and he tranquilly hurled the ball over Martin Dubravka.
  • However Chelsea did not make another genuine possibility until David Luiz headed wide in the 25th moment and they were pegged back just before the break. Ayoze Pérez had just served cautioning of Newcastle’s danger when he dashed on to Salomón Rondón’s flick and jabbed his shot wide, however Ciaran Clark committed no error with his header from Matt Ritchie’s corner.

  • Christian Atsu squandered a decent possibility for Newcastle in front however couldn’t immediate Ritchie’s cross goalwards. Pedro squandered another incredible possibility from Marcos Alonso’s cross however after Newcastle neglected to clear legitimately, Hazard jumped free to move around at will ball, wriggled past three markers and played in Willian to twist a rich exertion in off the far post.
  • It was Hazard’s tenth help of the season, joining Lionel Messi as the main player from Europe’s best five alliances to have achieved both that check and 10 goals. Hudson-Odoi was serenaded with serenades entreating him to remain when he went ahead for Pedro however Newcastle could have stolen the show had Rondón changed over Javier Manquillo’s profound cross.

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