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VAR shortcomings laid bare in Tottenham’s defeat. PLUS: Another wasted year for Man United?

So, how are people feeling about VAR? Also, Liverpool keep winning, Tottenham look exhausted and Man City showed less than zero mercy in their first league game since defeat at Norwich. Buckle up: it’s Nick Miller’s Weekend Review.

Pressure grows on Tottenham, while Abraham faces his biggest test yet

All you need to know about this weekend’s Premier League action, all in one place.
Jump to: Is Tammy the real deal? | Winless Watford face wounded City | Tune in to the battle of the south | The Premier League team that needs some luck | Why everyone needs to avoid Harry Kane | Good old reliable Burnley | The man with the most thankless task in football |  Best stats of the weekend | –> ESPN’s fearless predictions
THE WEEKEND’S BIG QUESTIONS
Are the Tottenham players listening to…

Norwich’s blueprint for beating Man City, Liverpool become the hunted

Did Norwich reveal City’s kryptonite?
Manchester City…

Liverpool should thrash Newcastle, right? Not so fast. Your Premier League weekend preview

With international break over, The Exploding Heads predict Liverpool vs. Newcastle and ruin some cake in the process.

Craig Burley and Steve Nicol have different opinions on the significance of Aymeric Laporte’s injury to the Premier League title race.

Shaka Hislop examines whether or not Raheem Sterling has what it takes to become an elite star following his top form for club and country.

Club football is back! Nick Miller gets you ready for all the Premier League action with a new-look weekend preview.

THE WEEKEND’S BIG QUESTIONS

Will Newcastle pull another performance out of the bag against Liverpool?

Newcastle United have a case for being the strangest team in the Premier League. They’re a pretty uninspiring bunch, for the most part, but have nonetheless pulled off two of the most impressive results of 2019, being the last team to beat Manchester City and, of course, claiming…

Arsenal-Spurs match had it all — and that’s concerning for both teams

Game of the weekend
In these days of infinite possibilities for interaction between football and the watching public, there should really be button everyone can press which forces a game of football to be extended indefinitely. You can only use …

Pogba’s mixed performance sums up Solskjaer’s problems at Man United

SOUTHAMPTON, England — Is it possible for one man to be his team’s best and worst player in the same game?
Every time Paul Pogba got the ball during Manchester United’s 1-1 draw against Southampton, you sat up, eyes widened, because it looked like something terrific was about to happen, something you would not want to miss. Then, though, more often than not the complete opposite happened.
There was a short period toward the end of the first half, in which Pogba relinquished possession three times…

Premier League W2W4: Arsenal primed to take derby spoils against Tottenham

Ten clubs find themselves with one win, one draw and one loss after three games, making the 2019-20 Premier League picture as clear as mud. Nick Miller tries to make sense of the madness ahead of matchday four.
Jump to: The folly of Man United’s summer | Spotlight on Gracia | Bruce still fighting Rafa’s ghost | Time for the Toffees to unleash Kean
Who will cut through the chaos in north London?
The north London derby arrives this Sunday with two teams in differing sorts of chaos and flux.
Arsenal…

Has something gone stale at Spurs? Where to begin with Man Utd?

Concern of the weekend
At the time, it was easy to ascribe the collapse in Tottenham’s league form at the end of last season to the stresses of the Champions League: they took just 11 points from their last available 36 as Europe became their priority and monopolised their emotional and physical energy.
Now though, it’s equally easy to think that run was the start of a more serious problem, and rather than being the cause of their listlesness, the run to the Champions League final simply masked…

Premier League W2W4: Will Liverpool change style vs. Arsenal to help Adrian?

Two games in and there are already a handful clubs out of form, amid injury crisis, or just plain bad. Here are the the storylines to look out for ahead of matchday three.
Jump to: Where is Lucas? | Chelsea need Rudiger | Watford can’t afford loss | No VAR, please
Will Liverpool have to change their approach?
It’s the weekend’s big game, an encounter between two clubs who sit atop of the nascent and entirely irrelevant Premier League table with 100 percent records. Liverpool vs. Arsenal has proved…

Prem W2W4: Eriksen must play in Spurs’ big clash vs. Man City

The Premier League is back and this weekend has plenty of talking points. Nick Miller runs us through some of the biggest storylines.
Eriksen indispensable for Spurs 
In the end a 3-1 victory over Aston Villa last Saturday was perfectly…

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