🚨 This week's The Score has landed danielstorey85 gives his verdict on all the 18 Premier League clubs in action this weekend ➡️ via iPaperSport
Until recently, Mitoma was just a winger. He took four shots in all competitions before the World Cup. Now he’s a wide forward who had four shots in one game against Liverpool last weekend. He’s also had 31 touches in the penalty area across his last five league games and has apparently been hiding the fact that he can pop curled shots from outside the box into the top corner.
So, you surmise, they should buy a striker in this transfer window and move Zaha back to the wing. Except that Palace have basically done exactly this in each of the last five years and it hasn’t worked. If that was a reaction to the events of last weekend, when some players were stopped and asked to explain themselves, that is only more proof of a broken club. But those supporters earn an awful lot less money than you do and they have travelled a couple of hundred miles to watch you lose again and they will travel a couple of hundred miles home again. They are used to these trips: Everton have won two away league games since August 2021.
Instead, Leicester sat back and, almost immediately, Wout Faes and Daniel Amartey looked jumpy. Faes has a tendency to “do a Soyuncu”, namely sprint out from defence to attempt a tackle that he doesn’t need to make. Amartey looked fairly solid but was clearly made more nervous by his team inviting pressure he could not cope with.
That was the overriding feeling of Saturday lunchtime’s game: disorganised hopefulness. It is not that these two clubs are not trying. It isn’t that they do not possess the individual players to concoct something fabulous. It is that these two managers, one newly arrived and one managing the 1,000th match of his career, are out to prove that they can take their clubs into a new era.
1) Aaron Wan Bissaka is an excellent one-on-one defender because he is capable of standing up a winger, matching them for pace and has a knack of winning the ball in tackles that make you wince because you think that he’s going to give away a penalty. The problem comes because Saka takes his shot early. Watch how far the ball has travelled before De Gea lands back on his feet and then dives. It might only be a fraction of a second, but Saka’s shot has probably travelled three or four yards. Were De Gea on the balls of his feet, he could have made the customary move to shift slightly to his right, then dive and perhaps get a glove on the shot.Given the club’s unlikely league position, the focus should remain on Newcastle’s exceptional defence.
I wonder if the issue was an unfamiliarity with possession. Steve Cooper has been vocal about his demands that Forest are more proactive away from home, where they have routinely been poor in stark contrast to excellent, energetic home performances. Doing that might mean having more of the ball and that’s going to take some getting used to.
This was a marginal defeat, no doubt. The vigour of the Manchester City win wasn’t quite apparent and one effect of James Ward-Prowse pushing up the pitch is that Southampton do look quite easy to pass through, but Southampton were denied a goal by VAR that would have changed the game entirely. It was probably the right call; it was also a punch to the gut.
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