Premier League ’18-19 – Highlights: Mohamed Salah Easing Into Form

These are the first 8 matches of Premier League, Match Day 9 of 38. The highlights are appended below the points table.

Premier League ’18-19 – Highlights: Manchester City Continue To Dominate

Points Table – Premier League ’18-19

Rank Name Won Draw Lost Points
1 Manchester City 7 2 0 23
2 Liverpool 7 2 0 23
3 Chelsea 6 3 0 21
4 Tottenham 7 0 2 21
5 Arsenal 6 0 2 18
6 Bournemouth 5 2 2 17
7 Watford 5 1 1 16
8 Wolves 4 3 3 15
9 Manchester United 4 2 2 14
10 Leicester City 4 0 0 12

For Complete Premier League 2018-19 team rankings, click here

English Premier League 2018-19 – Full Schedule

Match 1 of 10: Chelsea vs Manchester United

Result: 2 – 2

Goal Scorers:

  • Chelsea: Antonio Rudiger 21′, Ross Barkley 90+6′
  • Manchester United: Anthony Martial 55′, 73′

Match Statistics:

Chelsea Team Stats Manchester United
21 Shots 7
6 Shots On Target 4
63% Possession 37%
611 Passes 369
88% Pass Accuracy 76%
9 Fouls 17
2 Yellow Cards 5
0 Red Cards 0
2 Offsides 1
5 Corners 3

Highlights:

Premier League

  • There is little they like less at Chelsea than Jose Mourinho having the capacity to grab the ethical high-ground over them, and his grand acknowledgment of a cowering conciliatory sentiment from Marco Ianni, the club’s edgy second partner mentor, left his old business with no place to go.
  • There was a message comprehended from the match that Chelsea were in danger of losing anyway there was also the issue of being viewed as an antagonistic, ungracious club which they had somewhat needed to put behind them with Mourinho’s departure second time around.
  • While Ianni’s provocative celebrations may have earned him fearless status among those Chelsea supporters for whom such things matter, it is not the kind of face that the club needs to show to the world.

  • They would much rather be seen through the exercises of Maurizio Sarri who in reality made sense of how to defuse an unpleasant condition by checking out the opposite sides and rapidly touching base at the correct end that his guide Ianni expected to apologize to Mourinho.
  • More circumspection of that kind would not have left request in the previous 15 years that have seen Chelsea ended up being one of the world’s super-clubs yet tragically the describing image of the day had recently been set.
  • That was Ianni previously the United seat with the two grasp hands held – the worsening made it to a great degree drawing in for whatever is left of us anyway for Chelsea it commanded a fightback that spared Sarri’s significant unbeaten record. It in like manner inferred the thunder was stolen from Ross Barkley, whose 2nd goal for the club was really the kind of basic intervention for which he was acquired.

  • As a match, this showed while Chelsea may have the more significant masterplan, United under Mourinho still have a significant fear of destruction, and act in like way.
  • A goal behind, they watched out of advance in the primary a large portion of, whatever the supervisor’s revisionism in his post-coordinate public interview. After the break, the tremendous names like Paul Pogba and Nemanja Matic comprehended the match and they bounced on oversights in the custom of the best Mourinho gatherings.
  • Sarri said his group had lost their way following 60 minutes, endeavoring to go long as opposed to moving the ball in their short, sweet passing developments that appear to keep going for a very long time.

  • It appeared in the primary a large portion of that Eden Hazard could choose the match all alone and continuously a large portion of his partners had progressed toward becoming in thrall to that thought.
  • He about did yet there was altogether to a lesser extent a dedication from a part of the other potential matchwinners in the gathering like Willian and Alvaro Morata.
  • Or maybe Chelsea’s strong presentations started from elsewhere, particularly Antonio Rudiger who scored the primary, headed in from a Willian corner, and after that David Luiz, whose header against the post was the prelude to Barkley’s equalizer. Mourinho would later say that his gathering had controlled the match, or if nothing else the peril from Chelsea, and that the primary goals they yielded were from set-pieces, anyway there were diverse shots also.

  • It was a decent day for Anthony Martial who scored twice before being substituted, them two after blunders in the Chelsea zone. He had attempted to establish a connection in the main half in what was a switched United line-up, with Alexis Sanchez on the seat and Victor Lindelof and Chris Smalling matched in resistance.
  • Manchester United had started with an anticipated arrangement to clack Hazard however early appointments for Matic and Ashley Young from arbitrator Mike Dean before long disheartened them.
  • In the primary a large portion of, Chelsea’s passing was getting it done and they completed the amusement with 62 percent of the ownership. One arrangement just before half-time appeared to continue for quite a long time with United re-gathering behind the ball over and over.

  • Chelsea required a 2nd goal after half-time to break United yet as long as the deficiency stayed at only one there was dependably a shot that Mourinho’s side would return into it.
  • In the long run the possibility arrived, a shot from Juan Mata that was spared by Kepa Arrizabalaga and afterward returned through two poor clearing headers from Chelsea. Meanwhile Marcos Alonso had figured that going down in the zone and remaining there would be sufficient to impact ref Dean to stop the match.
  • Young’s shot had a twofold redirection, tumbled to Martial and he completed the goal with time and space.
  • There was sufficient in what pursued for United to sniff a possibility. N’Golo Kante’s shot was spared one-given by David De Gea, and there was an uneasiness about Chelsea that they could not finish the match off.

  • At that point they were gotten flabby. Mata scratched the ball past Luiz on the right. His pass discovered Rashford whose first touch opened the space for him to pass onto Martial. Anthony Martial’s first touch appeared to be overwhelming yet he whipped his second past Arrizabalaga.
  • Mourinho detected a popular triumph and sent on Ander Herrera to clean things up, with Andreas Pereira and afterward at last Alexis Sanchez additionally entering the shred. His group just could not hold out when Chelsea reused a late free-kick. Luiz’s header hit the post, De Gea spared a follow-up from Rudiger and it was third time fortunate for Barkley from short proximity.

  • At that point came the clash after Ianni’s festivals, which overflowed into a contention among the two arrangements of players over the re-begin. Before the end Mourinho was waving three fingers at the Chelsea fans to help them to remember the three class titles he had won there. Ordinarily that would place him in the spotlight however minutes after the fact he could sway the famous finger at Chelsea and, on this event, there was nothing they could state to contend.

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Match 2 of 10: West Ham vs Tottenham

Result: 0 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Tottenham: Eric Lamela 44′

Match Statistics:

West Ham Team Stats Tottenham
13 Shots 10
4 Shots On Target 2
44% Possession 56%
377 Passes 505
81% Pass Accuracy 86%
8 Fouls 10
3 Yellow Cards 0
0 Red Cards 0
3 Offsides 2
10 Corners 6

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Tottenham Hotspur anchored a hard-battled 1-0 prevail upon modest London equals West Ham United because of a deft first-half complete from Erik Lamela in their Premier League derby on Saturday.
  • Tottenham led the pack just before the break with a header from Argentine Lamela into the most distant corner of the net after a spill and cross by Moussa Sissoko from the right.

  • Tottenham had another possibility before the break at a pressed London Stadium yet focal defemder Davinson Sanchez’s low shot was all around obstructed by West Ham goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski.
  • The home side nearly adjusted three minutes into the second time frame yet Marko Arnautovic’s fine header from Aaron Cresswell’s traverse the bar by Spurs manager Hugo Lloris.

  • West Ham continued squeezing and their energetic Austria forward Arnautovic again tried Lloris on the hour with a scratching low drive however they could not discover a path through the Spurs defender.
  • The win takes Tottenham up to temporary third place with 21 points from 9 matches previously Saturday’s late match, while battling West Ham stay in fifteenth spot on seven points.

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Match 3 of 10: Newcastle vs Brighton

Result: 0 – 1

Goal Scorers:

  • Brighton: Beram Kayal 29′

Match Statistics:

Newcastle Team Stats Brighton
27 Shots 8
6 Shots On Target 2
68% Possession 32%
504 Passes 247
82% Pass Accuracy 61%
13 Fouls 17
0 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
1 Offsides 1
10 Corners 2

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Newcastle United endured their fifth home thrashing of the season in the Premier League as Brighton and Hove Albion guaranteed a 1-0 triumph.
  • Beram Kayal redirected Jose Izquierdo’s shot into the net just before the half-hour stamp to give Chris Hughton every one of the three against his old club far from home out of the blue.
  • The outcome sends Newcastle to the foot of the table, three points from security and still without a win in the best flight this season.

  • Rafael Benitez’s side controlled a significant part of the ownership yet could marshal minimal the greater part risks before a St. James’ Park swarm that turned out to be progressively baffled as the match wore on.
  • Glenn Murray conflicted heads with Federico Fernandez and got six minutes of treatment on the pitch, having evidently been thumped out before he was taken off on a stretcher while getting oxygen.
  • The match continued at a quiet rhythm until the 29th moment, when Izquierdo’s shot redirected through the swarmed Newcastle box before getting Kayal’s foot and settling in the net.

  • Newcastle ventured up the weight and ought to have leveled before the break, Yoshinori Muto heading over with the goal expanding after Mat Ryan had spared well from Jonjo Shelvey.
  • Benitez’s side were relentless in making chances however neglecting to hit the goal, with Kenedy and Matt Ritchie each shooting high from promising positions and Fernandez heading another open door over the bar.

  • Many home fans set out toward the ways out before hour and a half stamp, apparently surrendered to a seventh loss of the season, which would have been aggravated had Yves Bissouma not missed a one-on-one with Dubravka in injury time.

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Match 4 of 10: Bournemouth vs Southampton

Result: 0 – 0

Match Statistics:

Bournemouth Team Stats Southampton
10 Shots 8
2 Shots On Target 4
58% Possession 42%
462 Passes 342
76% Pass Accuracy 72%
10 Fouls 14
1 Yellow Cards 2
0 Red Cards 0
1 Offsides 4
6 Corners 4

Highlights:

Premier League

  • Bournemouth neglected to make it three Premier League wins in succession as they were held to a grim 0-0 draw by Southampton at the Vitality Stadium on Saturday.
  • Eddie Howe’s side had beaten Crystal Palace and Watford before the international matches break to keep up their fine beginning to the season, however they were not able discover a route past the battling Saints – who have still won just once this crusade.

  • Hughes’ side had the better of a limp first half, yet once in a while tried Cherries goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, as Callum Wilson and Josh King cut segregated figures in advance for the hosts.
  • King misused a fine chance to seal the most points for his side, cutting wide from short proximity, as the hosts’ radiant beginning to the season endured a minor difficulty.
  • Following a lukewarm opening half-hour, Charlie Austin squandered a reasonable open door for the guests. Rather than shooting, the striker selected to take a touch around the onrushing Begovic, yet just prevailing with regards to rolling the ball out of play.

  • Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg at that point tried Begovic with the match’s previously shot on focus on the stroke of half-time, releasing a plunging long-extend volley that was well held by the goalkeeper.
  • Howe’s men begun the 2nd half with a spring in their progression, King blazing a header wide from Jefferson Lerma’s prodding cross, however they neglected to compel Alex McCarthy into a significant spare.
  • King at that point botched a brilliant opportunity soon after the hour, scraping wide from eight yards from Wilson’s draw back, while Begovic again must be aware of tip over another long-run volley from Hojbjerg.

  • Shane Long let go at Begovic late on and Manolo Gabbiadini headed over profound into stoppage time as Southampton eventually neglected to create an emotional finale to a match frantically ailing in quality.

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