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CAN LIVERPOOL BOUNCE?
At the beginning of this season, questions were asked about Liverpool’s appetite after the Reds’ form slowed towards the end of their winning campaign. Jurgen Klopp’s team solved the problems by winning their first 3 games on the trot, dominating all six. Great matches against Chelsea (2-0) and Arsenal (3-1), only to lose embarrassingly 7-2 to Aston Villa.
This attack caused the villains to decide by holes in a Liverpool defence that lately seemed porous, with Virgil van Dijk suffering an unusually volatile night as Joe Gomez’s season continues.
However, there were more unrest with Liverpool’s functionality than the last four, with players such as Jack Grealish and Ross Barkley taking the infrequent luxury of spending time with the ball, locating unrthodox positions between Liverpool’s lines. defensive line, your midfield can’t give rival players a chance to decide their passes.
There was also a transparent disconnect between replacement goalkeeper Adrian and Liverpool’s relatively recovered goalkeeper, and that’s a big deal given that Alisson, and his organizing and distribution skills, will be out of the game for some time. time due to shoulder injury.
The good news for Liverpool is that Sadio Mane and Thiago will be available for selection, as they missed the last game due to positive COVID-19 tests, while Captain Jordan Henderson also deserves to be compatible after just making the bench opposite Villa. No one brings more intensity to this Liverpool team than Henderson and is very unlikely to believe that he would have allowed Liverpool to lose 7-2 to Aston Villa in its current form as an ordinary captain.
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Liverpool will want each and every effort to regain the defense of their name, pitting everton city rivals against Goodison Park. It would be an exaggeration to say that Liverpool will start this game as a loser, but the Toffees will be as confident in victory as they have been in the last decade; not only because of Liverpool’s implosion against Aston Villa, but also because of the ideal way they have shown.
Everton is the most sensitive in the Premier League standings after his first four games, scoring the top 12 points, with striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin leading the race to the golden boot and the new James Rodriguez among the players in the form of the competition. .
It’s the most productive and worst imaginable game for Liverpool after Villa Park’s nightmare: it’s a simple game for the Reds, but also an attack in which the opponent won’t strike.
THE BEST OR WORST TIME TO TAKE THE CITY?
Manchester City entered the season as the favourite for the top of the big experts despite completing 18 issues with Liverpool last time.
Three towers in the city countryside, and things look sinister. The city is already lagging behind this year’s leaders in 8 problems, albeit with a game in hand, after suffering a 5–2 defeat to Leicester and being held in a 1–1 draw via Leeds. Kingdom.
Despite all the riches in the world, this City team still has unrest to resolve, Rodri is still not offering enough screen to his defenders and bad decisions are made in the back. Sergio Aguero returns this week, giving the team a trusted finisher to take credit for Kevin de Bruyne’s paintings and lose Raheem Sterling and Riyad Mahrez to do what they do so well.
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However, no one ever participates in an attack on Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City as a favorite (except Liverpool) and having had a week out by the outside break, the tactical master will have had time to fine-tune what he thinks he wants to be tuned.
This week, his team faces an emerging Arsenal that has won 3 of its first four matches.
The crash will give Mikel Arteta the best chance to see where his team is right now. While the Gunners are 3rd in the PL standings, the three games they have won are games that deserve to play: 3-0 against Fulham, 2-1 against West Ham and 2-1 against Leicester. In front of the team they must fight, Liverpool kept at bay, losing 3-1.
If the London team can oppose the City, it will be a big step forward in Arteta’s revolution.
CAN MANCHESTER UNITED DRY THE TEMPORARY MALAISE?
All the goodwill surrounding Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after Manchester United secured a place in the Champions League has dissipated after a torrid start to the season, with their team already tired and disorganized.
United are after three games, after suffering a 3–1 loss to Crystal Palace and a chaotic 6–1 loss to Tottenham. In the middle, he controlled a 3–2 win over Brighton that required a penalty in the 100th minute of Bruno Fernandes.
Solskjaer was not favored through his board in the movement window, jadon Sancho’s doomed chase saw him lose the attack reinforcements he dreamed of, but setting the start of United’s season on that would let him pass too lightly.
Solskjaer’s game plan comes down to sitting back and hitting groups at half-time, taking advantage of Fernandes’ moments of inspiration and the speed and dynamism of Marcus Rashford and Anthony Martial. But for now, that game plan doesn’t work, thanks in large part to Harry Maguire’s Disastrous Form.
The world’s greatest beloved defender has seemed like a shadow of himself this season, he was at the center of the challenge against Tottenham, comically moving his own teammate away from the ball when he was about to transparent it to give Tanguy Ndombele a goal. Things didn’t happen to him on a mission abroad, committing two apparent yellow card fouls in the first 31 minutes against Denmark and correctly receiving his marching orders.
Having Maguire fired might not possibly solve everything for United, however it will be a big step in the right direction.
IS IT TIME TO SORT THE PRE-CONTAINERS?
The first bankruptcy of the Premier League season has produced minimal effects and the image reflects it.
The 3 most sensitive are read lately in Everton, Aston Villa and Leicester, while Leeds, Newcastle and West Ham are among the 10 most sensitive, strikers of Manchester clubs and an aspect of the Wolves who have been fighting for European football for the last few seasons. .
The next bankruptcy of the season, with four more rounds before the next foreign break, will outperform the contenders’ contenders.
Only this week brings a lot of light, with aston Villa, second seed, facing Leicester City. Villa has been the best so far this season, with 3 wins in the same number of games, while Leicester has won 3 out of four. beats PL giants, villa beats Liverpool and Leicester doing the same with City.
For both sides, those victories were built through the game of soccer against the forward. Now it’s up to them to prove that they can secure the lock on a closed defense, sneaking out the window of an attacking team.
Everton has been very impressive all season, with coach Carlo Ancelotti hiring in mid-season demonstrating a masterstroke: he remodeled his midfield, reinforced the defense and made the most of Calvert-Lewin.
The next big problem is overthrowing a big six-year-old club and they’re no bigger than Liverpool right now.
It will be 10 years since Everton last beat Liverpool when the two groups face off on Saturday night (AEDT) and the Toffees will only be eager to kick their rivals when they are down, but also to legitimize their main ambitions for the season.
THE CLAIM STRUERS WILL COLLECT THE FIRST POINTS, BUT WHICH TEAM WILL GET THEM?
Three are still having trouble scoring this season: Burnley, Sheffield United and Fulham. At least one of them will open their account this weekend.
Last season, Chris Wilder’s Sheffield United seemed destined for safe European football, wasting their last three crusade games to fall to ninth. Since this was the Blades’ first season in the first division, it was an unfortunate but more than forgivable slip. , especially given his injuries.
The challenge for the Blades now is that the form has followed them in the existing campaign, recording losses in their last 4 league games and taking the loss streak to seven games. The biggest challenge for the team is to move forward, due to the lack of Goals it hurts a lot. Despite leaving without winning, the Blades played in both one and two games they played, wasting only one with a two-goal margin.
This week they face Fulham, just as useless, and there may not be a greater chance of, however, opening his account and accepting as true with new striker Rhian Brewster. The newly promoted team has conceded more than 3 goals in 3 of their 4 games so far, wasting the fourth 1-0.
The third team to be somewhat unarmed in what’s going on in the season is Burnley, who faces the new boys at THE West Brom PL. Not that Burnley can underestimate West Brom: the only point given to the team was through a 3-3 draw against Chelsea in which he led 3-0 in the first half of the hour.
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