Match 5 of 10: Tottenham vs Burnley FC

Result: 1 – 0

Goal Scorers:

  • Tottenham: Christian Eriksen 90+1′

Match Statistics:

Tottenham Team Stats Burnley FC
15 Shots 4
3 Shots On Target 0
71% Possession 29%
626 Passes 263
84% Pass Accuracy 62%
7 Fouls 8
0 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
2 Offsides 1
8 Corners 3

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Last Tuesday, Tottenham played Barcelona in the Camp Nou for a place in the Champions League knockout stages. On Wednesday, they confront Arsenal in a League Cup semi-last. A match against Burnley before a half-full Wembley, rain sheeting down and adding an additional chill to an as of now solidifying Saturday, was continually going to be what publicizing types call an extreme move.
  • Thank the master at that point, for Christian Eriksen. For a hour and a half, it was the kind of bleak evening that may lead everybody to scrutinize their life decisions, the 0-0 scoreline to that point even less fascinating than it may sound.

  • Tottenham are an alternate group when Eriksen is on the pitch: for the most part that is for his creation and the manner in which he appears to tenderly control amusements as though he is a sensitive puppet administrator, however this time it was his wrapping up.
  • The Dane was expedited as a substitute to summon something for a slow Spurs side, which he did similarly as second-half damage time started, clearing home his late victor and making a few Burnley players sink to the turf. Savage old diversion, football.
  • This is actually the kind of match where it is shrewd to leave the transport, against a worn out group with greater things at the forefront of their thoughts and with a group officially baffled at appearing at their leased home once more, months after they figured they would be shot of the place.

  • Right now Tottenham feel like one of those couples on Grand Designs who need to live in a band while their yearning, independent eco-home with a £10,000 shower is hounded by deferrals. As a matter of fact, Wembley is a costly and extremely all around delegated troop, yet the fact of the matter is no one needs to be here, the oddity wore off some time prior and everybody is irritable.
  • Be that as it may, while relatively few of the 41,645 in participation will have appreciated a large portion of their evening, Mauricio Pochettino was enchanted.
  • Spurs came up short on their standard force, resembling a group who simply needed to get this match  off the beaten path; justifiable maybe, given the installations it separated, similar to getting some information about the faucet water that touches base after the lobster and before the steak.

  • They attempted to make risks and misused the ones they created before Eriksen’s victor, most remarkably from Son Heung-min and Dele Alli in the end organizes, as that disappointment nearly graduated to urgency.
  • Yet, at that point arrived Eriksen, comfortable end, scoring from a Harry Kane go after the official had waved play on following a foul on Alli. Eriksen spared Tottenham’s Champions League battle with a late goal against Inter and keeping in mind that it may be excessive to state this one has spared their title provoke, it in any event keeps them in contact with Liverpool and Manchester City.

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Match 6 of 10: Watford vs Cardiff City

Result: 3 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • Watford: Gerard Deuloteu 16′, Jose Holebas 52′, Domingos Quina 68′
  • Cardiff City: Junior Hoilett 80′, Bobby Reid 82′

Match Statistics:

Watford Team Stats Cardiff City
17 Shots 10
8 Shots On Target 3
72% Possession 28%
663 Passes 255
82% Pass Accuracy 61%
7 Fouls 5
0 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
2 Offsides 1
5 Corners 0

Highlights:

  • This was a decent win for Watford. Such was the harebrained idea of the end stages, in any case, that a minute’s appearance was required so as no doubt. Subsequent to commanding ownership and raging to a 3-0 lead with some lavish goals, they nearly discarded it over the most recent 10 minutes. The last minutes saw the hosts sticking on to the outcome, keeping the ball by the corner hail.
  • The time squandering made Neil Warnock laugh a short time later and by and by his Cardiff side had shaken loftier adversaries. Junior Hoilett and Bobby Reid both scored over the most recent 10 minutes to make the outcome close, however even the Cardiff chief needed to let it out was nearer than it ought to have been.

  • Those goals were very something as well. The first was scored by Gerard Deulofeu who gave the sort of execution that reminded you La Masia is in his blood. Grabbing the ball halfway through the Cardiff half he moved effortlessly into the region before spilling past two Cardiff protectors and essentially passing the ball into the net. In the second half José Holebas and Domingos Quina scored coordinating long-go strikes, each twisted past the amazing Neil Etheridge.
  • Watford’s Javi Gracia was slanted to look on the positive side. It was the Spaniard’s first association win since marking an all-inclusive contract. At a club with a notoriety for administrative agitate, this was in itself an abnormal demonstration. In any case, the nature of Watford’s execution – particularly at a specialized dimension – gave a feeling of why the Pozzo family might be certain the club are going the correct way.

  • Gracia has utilized Deulofeu just sparingly since changing over his advance into a changeless move the previous summer and there is a proposal he does not believe his forward to convey in pressurized circumstances. After a critical appearance against Everton, Deulofeu conveyed here, however his director was as yet hesitant to pay him individual tribute.
  • Another champion entertainer, close by the ever-dependable Abdoulaye Doucoré, was Quina who turned into the club’s most youthful ever goalscorer at 19 years and 27 days. The Portuguese youth worldwide was once pined for by Chelsea and after that poached from West Ham. His passing was exact and his consciousness of play remarkable, yet it was his twisted complete from 20 yards that truly cocked eyebrows.

  • For Cardiff their sit tight for an away win goes on and they have still removed just a single point from the Cardiff Stadium. Warnock endeavored to develop a rage about the decision of ref – Andy Madeley showing up in the Premier League while Andre Marriner sat as the fourth official – however his heart was not really in it.

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Match 7 of 10: Fulham vs West Ham

Result: 0 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • West Ham: Robert Snodgrass 17′, Michail Antonio 29′

Match Statistics:

Fulham Team Stats West Ham
16 Shots 6
4 Shots On Target 3
56% Possession 44%
496 Passes 390
79% Pass Accuracy 74%
14 Fouls 10
2 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
6 Offsides 2
6 Corners 4

Highlights:

  • Claudio Ranieri’s rule so far at Fulham has been the dull crash of the truth he has acquired a squad unsuited to the Premier League. Four from the five matches he has managed isn’t an accumulation rate that will keep Fulham out of the Championship.
  • They stay attached to the base of the Premier League having been uncovered by the nature of Felipe Anderson. The Brazilian provided the key goes for both West Ham’s first-half goals, scored by Robert Snodgrass and Michail Antonio.
  • West Ham hope to have another religion saint staring them in the face and somebody who could accept inventive accountability without Marko Arnautovic.
  • Another exhibit of deficient guarding recommended soul would not be sufficient and that his strategies require further time to bed in, time that Fulham don’t have.
  • Fulham every now and again had West Ham’s barrier on the withdraw and made six endeavors on goal in a first half they commanded; however the distinction at the break was that their rivals had scored from both their odds in the wake of being allowed the opportunity of south-west London to do as such.
  • The propensity for Ranieri’s long vocation has been to jolt the indirect access first however he is working with a gathering of players apparently unequipped for doing as such. With Calum Chambers point by point with protecting the guard as midfield accomplices Tom Cairney and Jean Michaël Seri examined, Fulham started on the front foot, with André Schürrle’s ninth-minute flood and gave starting a spell of weight.
  • Seconds after the fact Aboubakar Kamara was through one-on-one on Lukasz Fabianski after a flick from Aleksandar Mitrovic. West Ham’s goalkeeper won that duel by sparing a powerless exertion with his shins.
  • However, that secondary passage swung open extremely effortlessly for West Ham’s seventeenth moment opener. Fulham’s grouping without a Premier League clean sheet was stretched out to 21 matches when Felipe Anderson, turning past Denis Odoi, had the vision and time to set up Snodgrass for a complete from the edge of the container.
  • Snodgrass, scoring his second goal in two matches, is benefitting as much as possible from his arrival to West Ham having spent last season lent to Aston Villa.
  • Fulham before long continued their assaulting weight as Mitrovic and Kamara went close, the Frenchman twice; his second exertion constrained a fine spare from Fabianski, just for the home guard to crumple afresh in the 29th moment.
  • Felipe Anderson was again left unattended and his cross was flicked on by a bended Javier Hernández into Antonio, who opened home. The Fulham goalkeeper, Sergio Rico, did not sugar his objections about the security he had gotten.
  • Ranieri reshuffled his guard at half-time, with Tim Ream supplanted by Cyrus Christie and Odoi moved into the middle having been blameworthy of giving Anderson such space.
  • Fulham kept on assaulting with Fabián Balbuena having speedily to hack the ball clear when Cairney had gotten away to make a cross from the byline.
  • While Ranieri should by one way or another get the pieces, Manuel Pellegrini has his group playing something along the legendary lines of the “West Ham Way”; they are scoring goals and furthermore liable to surrender at any minute. A fourth successive win, the first occasion when they have accomplished that in the Premier League since February 2014, lifted them to ninth and recommended a group heading in totally the other way to adversaries dismantled with exactness.

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