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3 January 2019 • 10:04pm  Man City 2 Liverpool 1: player ratings  Just 11 millimetres. No more. It may be the difference between this Premier League title race being over, with Liverpool the champions-elect, and back on as Manchester City dug deep to eventually reduce their lead to just four points when it could have been 10. On a night of high-drama Pep Guardiola’s side inflicted Liverpool’s first league defeat of the season, after 22 games, but had John Stones not astonishingly cleared the ball off the line when the game was goalless then the destiny of the campaign could have been settled, already. Goal-line technology showed Stones did so before the remaining 11 millimetres of the ball had crossed. For Jurgen Klopp this was a bitter, frustrating loss especially after his team had drawn level following Sergio Aguero’s opening goal. Tactically he may, also, have got it wrong with his midfield selection while Guardiola varied his … [Read more...] about Leroy Sane scores winner as Man City close in on Liverpool in pulsating victory

There are surely many different ways that the current Manchester United squad can be organised into an XI capable of winning matches but for the meantime their manager Jose Mourinho seems unable to identify any of them. Another fresh creation from the impossible to read United manager this time around – three centre-halves, no Anthony Martial in the first XI and Romelu Lukaku recalled – but it was much the same result again. They were forced to claw their way back from a two-goal deficit established by Southampton within 20 minutes, this from a team that has problems scoring at home, and then once again United lost their way when the game was there for the taking. United have two points from their last three league games and it barely merits the effort to check how far behind the leaders Manchester City they are – for the record the gap is now 16 points. Perhaps more of an immediate concern is that if results go a certain way on Sunday, then Mourinho’s team will … [Read more...] about Man Utd come from behind to draw with Southampton in latest lacklustre showing

There are surely many different ways that the current Manchester United squad can be organised into an XI capable of winning matches but for the meantime their manager Jose Mourinho seems unable to identify any of them. Another fresh creation from the impossible to read United manager this time around – three centre-halves, no Anthony Martial in the first XI and Romelu Lukaku recalled – but it was much the same result again. They were forced to claw their way back from a two-goal deficit established by Southampton within 20 minutes, this from a team that has problems scoring at home, and then once again United lost their way when the game was there for the taking. United have two points from their last three league games and it barely merits the effort to check how far behind the leaders Manchester City they are – for the record the gap is now 16 points. Perhaps more of an immediate concern is that if results go a certain way on Sunday, then Mourinho’s team will … [Read more...] about Man Utd come from behind to draw with Southampton in lacklustre performance

6 October 2018 • 7:24pm Auto update On Off 7:23PM Full time The final whistle goes, and that's it. United have somehow managed to win what was a quite thrilling game.  It finishes: Man Utd 3 Newcastle 2.  7:21PM 90+4 min Sanchez curls in a shot from range that Dubravka holds. Meanwhile, Pogba gets Steve McManaman's man of the match award.  7:19PM 90+ 3 min Benitez looks absolutely furious, as well he might. Not saying it's necessarily because of it, but Newcastle have fallen apart since Kenedy went off injured.  7:19PM 90+ 2 min We're playing five minutes of time added on.  7:17PM GOAL! Man Utd 3 Newcastle 2 (Sanchez 90')  They've done it! Lukau and Pogba work the ball wide to Young. He lofts a cross into the centre that Sanchez meets with a bullet header into the corner. It's Sanchez's first goal of the season, and has he just saved Mourinho?!  … [Read more...] about Jose Mourinho clings on at Man Utd after Alexis Sanchez completes comeback against Newcastle

Pep Guardiola said he wanted this. He felt his Manchester City side needed a scuffle in Europe; a tough away game, a test of character as much of ability, to experience of feeling that they are up against it, but what he really needed was a win. City were made to work by Hoffenheim, they were made to suffer after falling behind after just 44 seconds, to feel the pressure of coming from behind away from home. They got the sort of game Guardiola said they needed, but most importantly they got the three points that once again make them favourites to top their group, the win secured when the two Silvas, David and Bernardo - combined with four minutes left to play, the former drilling home a shot from a tight angle, finally breaking Hoffenheim’s resistance, after the latter’s cross was not cleared. The theory behind Guardiola’s pre-match suggestion that City needed to struggle to qualify for the knockout phase is that his players will be battle hardened to play tough … [Read more...] about David Silva scores winner as Man City leave it late to come from behind against impressive Hoffenheim