LONDON — Against all the odds, it’s been a pretty positive week for Maurizio Sarri.
Ten days ago he looked on the brink, the sounds of Chelsea fans telling him just what they thought of “Sarriball” ringing in his ears. They were 10 points behind Tottenham and preparing for a thrashing in the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City, who famously beat them 6-0 on Feb. 10. Now they’re five points back from Spurs having beaten them on Wednesday and played pretty well despite losing on penalties…
Nick Miller recaps another wild weekend in the Premier League, as Liverpool continued to confound and Scott Parker tried something revolutionary in his team selection.
Confusion of the weekend
Let’s start with the good news. Liverpool are unbeaten in eight league games. Liverpool’s toughest tests to come (games against Chelsea and Spurs) are at home, where they haven’t lost a league game since April 2017. Liverpool have six of their remaining nine games against teams currently in the bottom seven.
Now…
Nick Miller recaps another wild weekend in the Premier League, where Liverpool continued to confound and Scott Parker tried something revolutionary in his team selection.
Confusion of the weekend
Let’s start with the good news. Liverpool are unbeaten in eight league games. Liverpool’s toughest tests to come (games against Chelsea and Spurs) are at home, where they haven’t lost a league game since April 2017. Liverpool have six of their remaining nine games against teams currently in the bottom…
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Who will win the league?
It’s a bit of a shame because it would be at least a bit more interesting for the rest of us if someone different took the Premier League title, but Manchester City just look too strong. They have that relentless, dead-eyed, Terminator look about them at the moment. With Liverpool’s frailties beginning to not…
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A change might be helpful for Liverpool
Something isn’t quite right at Liverpool. The defence has been fine and the midfield is doing a solid enough job, but the forward line has lost some zip. The difficulty of having such a finely tuned attacking trio is that it only takes a couple of small things to be awry to throw the whole thing off: That…
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MANCHESTER, England — For the second time in a week, Liverpool drew a massive game 0-0 and they probably don’t know how to feel about it.
In theory they should probably be relatively pleased with stalemates against first Bayern Munich and now Manchester United. But it’s impossible to think of this point as anything other than an enormous missed opportunity against a United side who were forced into all three of their substitutions by the 43rd minute.
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Audition of the weekend
It’s often said that the best teams always find a way to win, but almost as valuable on Sunday was Manchester United finding a way not to lose. Most of the attention will rightly be on how anemic title challengers Liverpool were but a more generous way to look at things is to say they weren’t allowed to be anything else by the way United defended.
Usually when United have kept a clean sheet you can…
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Could Liverpool give the title away?
Some games feel too big to fail. So much of the meeting between Manchester United and Liverpool on Sunday points towards a classic — the sort of sensational, spiteful, meaningful game that everyone present will remember for years — that you can trick yourself into thinking there’s no possible way it can be anything else.
We have Liverpool with their best chance…
Mesut Ozil made a rare start for Arsenal, but turned in a spasmodic performance.
LONDON — There is undoubtedly a whiff of the unwanted to the Europa League, particularly its early stages before the dream of winning it to qualify for the Champions League is close to being realised. By extension, then, the implication can be that players asked to appear on Thursday nights are not in the manager’s favour when it comes to his first-choice XI.
On that basis, it was not exactly a surprise that Mesut Ozil was named by Unai Emery in an Arsenal starting XI for the first time since Dec….
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