Match 4 of 10: West Ham vs Brighton

Result: 2 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • West Ham: Marko Arnautovic 66′, 68′
  • Brighton: Dale Stephens 56′, Shane Duffy 58′

Match Statistics:

West Ham Team Stats Brighton
14 Shots 13
6 Shots On Target 6
55% Possession 45%
492 Passes 408
78% Pass Accuracy 75%
9 Fouls 11
0 Yellow Cards 1
0 Red Cards 0
0 Offsides 4
1 Corners 5

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Two snapshots of predominant completing from Marko Arnautovic spared West Ham United from a humiliating thrashing in a poor match that by one way or another detonated into life for 10 minutes.
  • Brighton had taken a two goal lead with progressive second-half corners and the group at the Olympic Stadium were developing fretful when West Ham’s Austrian number seven ventured up to change over two open doors laid on by substitutes expedited in urgency by Manuel Pellegrini. By that point the Chilean had just hauled Andy Carroll off at half-time, a move that summed up the house side’s inability to have an effect on the match.

  • Carroll was, not without precedent for his Hammers vocation, the focal point of consideration as he made his arrival to the group. Recording his first beginning in absolutely a year, when he scored a brace in a 2-1 prevail upon West Brom, the number nine acquired a change faculty as well as fit as a fiddle, playing before Marco Arnautović who took up a number 10 position, with Felipe Anderson and Robert Snodgrass on either side.
  • It was a clearly assaulting development, with two crossers all around set to whip the ball onto Carroll’s head. Be that as it may, in a bloated first half, West Ham scarcely even attempted and appeared got between changed styles of play.
  • Felipe Anderson, a main impetus behind the group’s uptick in shape amid December, looked especially lost. He was edgy to be associated with play, yet either got tangled up in a clogged focal region, or saw his flicks and traps on the left wing neglect to fall off.

  • The guests most likely edged the main half, they were more honed in the handle and the touch if nothing else. With Glenn Murray their one change from triumph over Everton, and Jürgen Locadia keeping his place after two goals in two matches, there were indications of comprehension among the Seagull’s assaulting line.
  • Solly March, specifically, inspired with a progression of crosses. He likewise beat Felipe Anderson out wide and sent the Brazilian onto his back.
  • Carroll was disgracefully pulled back at half time having made only 15 contacts, finishing four of his eight passes. Lucas Peréz had his spot and, for a minute, it looked like things were clearer for the hosts.
  • In the 53rd moment Felipe Anderson got on the ball in the middle circle and drove at the Brighton goal, his low left-footed shot that rolled only wide of Button’s left hand post the main snapshot of genuine quality in the match.

  • After three minutes Brighton led the pack. A Locadia cross was shanked out of play for a corner by Issa Diop. Pascal Gross conveyed the set piece from the left and landed it on the punishment spot, Lukasz Fabianski turned out and punched clear, yet just to the extent the edge of the container, where Dale Stephens immediately turned it back past the Polish global with his left foot and into the edge of the net.
  • On the off chance that that was harsh for Manuel Pellegrini it before long deteriorated in a minute that nearly qualified as this feels familiar. Another Gross corner, another outswinger onto the punishment spot. This time the ball skiped, making a trip under Pablo Zabaleta to the back post where Shane Duffy was hanging tight to guide the ball into the net.

  • Pellegrini promptly made a twofold change including Mark Noble and Michail Antonio for Snodgrass and Pedro Obiang and soon West Ham were back even. Respectable began it off, his long pass perused by Arnautovic who moved Duffy and shot low under Button. No sooner was it three than the fourth arrived, Antonio this time making his check cutting inside the container and discovering Arnautovic again who drove his shot in off the bar and went wild in festivity.
  • Brighton, surprisingly, did not lock notwithstanding the rebound and the sudden, gigantic clamor in the ground. Hughton’s men steadied themselves and, when they had, the match came back to the gawky issue from which that impossible free for all of goals had developed.

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Match 5 of 10: Huddersfield vs Burnley FC

Result: 1 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • Huddersfield: Steve Mounie 33′
  • Burnley FC: Chris Wood 40′, Ashley Barnes 74′

Match Statistics:

Huddersfield Team Stats Burnley FC
9 Shots 16
2 Shots On Target 8
43% Possession 57%
363 Passes 483
64% Pass Accuracy 77%
11 Fouls 9
0 Yellow Cards 4
1 Red Cards 1
0 Offsides 2
5 Corners 2

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Burnley exploited Huddersfield liberality to guarantee a second progressive triumph, when the home side demonstrated unequipped for ensuring a first half lead even before the rejection of their most dependable defender.
  • The Yorkshire side have discovered this season sufficiently hard running with 11 men on the pitch, so playing the entire of the second half without Christopher Schindler was continually going to test, and Ashley Barnes had the capacity to make the most of Burnley’s additional man before the end.
  • The two groups were down to 10 men by the last whistle, Robbie Brady having seen red for a careless endeavor to end an Isaac Mbenza breakaway as the amusement moved into stoppage time, however there was no time left for Huddersfield and the equivalent may before long be valid for their stay in the Premier League.

  • Huddersfield have not been scoring enough goals to be something besides base of the table, however David Wagner feels that the football his side has been delivering merits a superior focuses remunerate, if just his advances could be increasingly clinical before goal.
  • A genuine case of what he implied arrived sooner than required in this amusement, when a perplexing home passing move in the long run discovered Elias Kachunga in space on the right, just to create a cross that obliged Steve Mounié to endeavor an overhead kick. Obviously, the exertion flew innocuously over the bar.

  • It was genuinely agreeable stuff for the main half hour, however with somewhat more poise Dwight McNeil may have either tried Jonas Lössl or permitted Chris Wood to do as such when Burnley propelled a counter assault halfway through the primary half. With both Wood and Barnes in advance Burnley dependably looked fit for hitting their adversaries on the break, however the nearest they went to a first-half lead was from a set piece, Lössl getting down low to keep out Ben Mee’s header from an Ashley Westwood free kick.
  • That appeared to go about as a reminder to the home side, who increased their assaulting endeavors very quickly. Phil Bardsley needed to make a beeline for keep a firm Kachunga header achieving the goal, and when the subsequent corner was not completely cleared Isaac Mbenza’s cross from the left discovered Mounié at the far post.
  • The striker has not actually been wild this season, this was his first goal of the battle, however he created enough power on his descending header to drive the ball past Tom Heaton.

  • No sooner had Huddersfield gone in front than their night started to go into disrepair. Fortunes had an impact in the ball coming to McNeil when the youngster set up Burnley’s equalizer, yet regardless he beat Florent Hadergjonaj’s endeavored test before sliding the ball crosswise over for Wood to score from six yards.
  • Two minutes in the wake of being pegged back the Terriers wound up down to 10 men when Schindler got a second yellow for a rambling tackle on McNeil. Neither of the protector’s offenses were especially egregious, the main booking was for an ungainly foul on Wood, however a middle half on one alert must be watchful when his side are frantic for focuses. Wagner’s response was to substitute a miserable looking Alex Pritchard, quickly victimizing the home side of one of its more brilliant assaulting entertainers.

  • Huddersfield thought that it was hard to contain McNeil once the second half began, which made it all the harder to comprehend why Sean Dyche supplanted him following 60 minutes.
  • A fit again Robbie Brady was a more than skilled substitute, however McNeil had been passing Hadergjonaj for the sake of entertainment down the left wing, and also sending Charlie Taylor into space on the cover. Burnley nearly abused Huddersfield’s requirement for another goal when the home side sent an excessive number of men forward and Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Ashley Westwood parted from mostly, just for the previous to shoot early and directly at Lössl.

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Match 6 of 10: Newcastle vs Manchester United

Result: 0 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • Manchester United: Romelu Lukaku 64′, Marcus Rashford 80′

Match Statistics:

Newcastle Team Stats Manchester United
14 Shots 16
3 Shots On Target 7
34% Possession 66%
348 Passes 686
71% Pass Accuracy 86%
10 Fouls 9
1 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
0 Offsides 0
1 Corners 2

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Ole Gunnar Solskjær knows a thing or three about effective substitutions yet much Manchester United’s previous supersub specialist more likely than not been enjoyably shocked to see Romelu Lukaku venture off the seat and score with his first touch.
  • Until the point that the Belgian opened the scoring close to supplanting Anthony Martial, Solskjær had appeared outsmarted by Rafael Benítez’s contain-and-counter strategies yet before the finish of a harshly chilly Tyneside night Marcus Rashford had added one moment to make it four successes out of four for José Mourinho’s substitution.
  • On the off chance that Manchester United’s trip to the glow of Dubai on Saturday evening for a mid-season preparing break ought to be a cheerful one, Newcastle United stay awfully near the assignment zone for solace.
  • In the event that it spoke to a convenient update that the group from Old Trafford don’t have an imposing business model on “United together” all things considered, the awful news for Rafael Benítez’s group was that, sincerely in any event, Ole Gunnar Solskjær’s side landed in apparently reunified inclination.

  • Three successes and 12 goals since the Norwegian assumed control from Mourinho had conceived demonstration of the freshly discovered feeling of innovative freedom abruptly suffusing this Manchester United side.
  • As the full-backs Anthony Valencia and Luke Shaw pushed forward against Benítez’s five-man protection and Martin Dubravka mixed an unbalanced early Rashford shot to security, it felt as though it may be a difficult night for Newcastle.
  • Things absolutely seemed to have changed since the last time Solskjær watched the away specialized territory here in the spring of 2014; in those days Alan Pardew was accountable for a home group whose 3-0 win affirmed Cardiff’s transfer from the Premier League.
  • Not that Mourinho’s between time successor could stand to unwind as he reviewed a backline still to hold a spotless sheet under his charge. In reality, Manchester United could without much of a stretch have yielded another goal when Phil Jones’ less than ideal back pass played Salomón Rondón onside and the up to this point loud voyaging fans congregated high in the Leazes End incidentally fell quiet.

  • At last Jones recouped eminently to save the circumstance and inside seconds Martial had almost scored toward the finish of a rapid counterattack, yet Benítez had a gleam of positive thinking to stick to.
  • Allowed just Dubravka’s insightful situating kept Rashford from scoring after Jamaal Lascelles and Fabian Schär crashed in their very own zone, and Paul Pogba routinely progressed down within left channel with damaging purpose, yet the guests’ last ball was not exactly falling off.
  • Nor was Newcastle’s yet at any rate Christian Atsu utilized his pace to great impact down the home left, misusing the space frequently let by Valencia’s swashbuckling assaulting propels. The main issue was that, when given two half possibilities, Atsu could just direct the primary shot directly at De Gea and send the not exactly splendidly controlled second moving quickly over the substance of goal.

  • Another half shot arrived when Rondón associated with a good Atsu cross yet despite the fact that Newcastle’s solitary forward had prevailing with regards to bothering Jones and Victor Lindelöf, on this event in any event Jones’ quality appeared to confine his jump. As the resultant header flew innocuously over the bar some Newcastle fans conjectured with respect to whether the viewing Alan Shearer would have scored in a similar circumstance.
  • He conceivably would have done however in any event Rondón was giving Solskjær’s protectors motivation to check their assaulting tendencies. That made a difference; especially as, at the opposite end, Lascelles’ style had additionally been confined, though for various reasons.
  • An abnormally vivified Benítez was very disappointed with a portion of the arbitrator Andre Marriner’s choices however he could barely contend with the yellow card wielded after Lascelles fouled Ander Herrera.

  • Whenever left Newcastle’s skipper strolling a disciplinary tightrope and this high-wire act could without much of a stretch have finished in tears when an ensuing test on Pogba sent the France World Cup-champ slamming. Marriner declared that intercession to be reasonable and he was most likely right yet another authority could possibly have reached an elective resolution.
  • Indeed, even so Benítez had cause for calm fulfillment at the interim. The inexorably critical little visits Solskjær and his right hand, Mike Phelan, had been holding with Juan Mata and organization amid breaks in play underlined that Manchester United had still to subside into any kind of familiar passing section.
  • Rather Newcastle had prevailing with regards to denying their visitors space for liquid assaulting move and thoroughly enjoyed stopping the edges the guests expected to weave the entrancing geometrical passing examples required to stupefy Lascelles and companions.

  • An impossible saint in this home exertion was Matt Ritchie. Newcastle’s conservative turned left wing-back ended up being knowledge and industry represented as he attempted to confine the danger from Valencia and Juan Mata.
  • However this was especially an aggregate home exertion, a masterclass in the specialty of indefatigable shutting down and as his side’s disappointment developed, Solskjær can just have trusted that the upheld switch which saw Mo Diamé limp off to be supplanted by Jonjo Shelvey – recently recouped from damage – would upset Benítez’s blueprint.
  • As it unfolded Shelvey quickly raised Newcastle’s amusement. Subsequent to seeing the eventual England midfielder cut up his protection cordiality of a brilliant go to Ayzoe Perez dispatched with the outside of his correct foot, the Norwegian – who had Luke Shaw to thank for notwithstanding Perez’s way to goal – chose the time had sought a twofold substitution.

  • On jogged Lukaku and Alexis Sánchez, the last showing up since pulling a hamstring in November. Inside a moment Lukaku had scored. At the point when Dubravka uniquely spilled Rashford’s plunging, 25-yard free-kick the Belgian focus forward responded with energetic willingness, reacting quicker than Lascelles to drive the bounce back over the line from six yards.
  • All that remained was for a plain Rashford to slide a shot through Dubravka’s legs toward the finish of a move which, suitably, he had begun himself. In the wake of playing in Lukaku the Belgian discovered Sánchez who denoted his arrival with a protector disorientating pass which selected Rashford as well as revived any desires for a main four wrap up.

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