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Premier League HOT or NOT
What is sexy - and what is not sexy - in football this week…
HOT
Shinji Okazaki
All eyes were on Jamie Vardy as Leicester won at Newcastle to go top of the Premier League. But although the Foxes striker’s record-equalling 10th goal in 10 games in the 3-0 win was impressive, for sheer entertainment value it fell short of Okazaki’s achievement in scoring the most wonderfully rubbish goal of the season. Faced with the simple task of heading the ball across the goal-line from about four centimetres out, the Japanese forward managed to miss his connection entirely. This allowed the ball to bounce into the ground and back up into his face, which inadvertently diverted it where it was supposed to have gone in the first place. Vardy may have taken the headlines, but with one goal each the stats say that Okazaki’s contribution was equally important.
Pressing
The energetic playing style favoured by Jurgen Klopp and Mauricio Pochettino is so hot right now that even the world’s laziest strikers have started to wonder whether they should start tackling people. Pochettino has claimed that Tottenham’s pressing is different to Klopp’s gegenpressing, but both managers’ tactics yielded similarly successful results this weekend. Liverpool’s attackers repeatedly took advantage of Man City’s dawdling defenders in the Reds’ spectacular 4-1 win at the Etihad, while West Ham were left wishing they had adopted a more Sam Allardyce-style approach as their attempts to play passing football at White Hart Lane backfired - resulting in another 4-1 scoreline.
Tim Sherwood
A manager whose Spurs win ratio is still better Pochettino’s, Sherwood would have shuffled uncomfortably two weeks ago as his Aston Villa replacement Remi Garde started his Premier League career with a creditable goalless draw against Man City with a load of French players. But Garde’s second game in charge, a woeful 4-0 defeat by Everton, demonstrated what Sherwood had been trying to tell us all along. Namely, it’s not the manager’s fault that Villa are so useless, and by extension that Sherwood is still potentially a tactical genius whose time will come again.
NOT
Mikel Arteta
There are various candidates for ridicule from Arsenal’s calamitous defeat to West Brom, such as Santi Cazorla for his inability to kick a ball that was lying perfectly still on a penalty spot, but no Gunner had a more unfortunate afternoon than Spanish midfielder Arteta. Handed a rare chance to impress after replacing Francis Coquelin in the 14th minute, the club captain conceded the free-kick that led to West Brom’s 35th minute equaliser, before diverting James McClean’s not especially wicked cross into his own net five minutes later. Having been directly responsible for the concession of both Baggies goals, Arteta went off injured shortly after half-time to complete one of the least successful 35-minute outings you will ever see.
Garry Monk
Anyone who questioned Garry Monk’s position at Swansea after the first four matches of the season would have been considered insane. Anyone who did it after the next four matches was deemed unfair. Anyone who did it after the following four games was accused of lacking perspective. But now, 13 matches in, amid a run of just one win in 10 games, speculating about the Swans manager’s job security is fair game. So much so that even Swansea’s board are doing it. A home match against Bournemouth was Monk’s golden opportunity to make everyone shut up, but he ended up lucky to escape with a 2-2 draw thanks to Andre Ayew’s cheeky backheel and dubious penalty award.
Barcelona
The Catalan giants were probably too busy thrashing Real Madrid 4-0 on Saturday to notice, but this was a Premier League weekend for them to ponder their mistakes. Former Nou Camp wonderkid Bojan - sold to Stoke for under a million pounds - shone and scored the Potters’ winner at Southampton as he continued his impressive comeback from a serious injury. Meanwhile, Gerard Deolofeu - offloaded by Luis Enrique for £4.3m - was Everton’s star performer as he repeatedly made Villa full-back Kieran Richardson look silly in the Toffees’ easy win at Goodison Park. Barca retain a £6.3m buyback option on Deolufeu, so maybe it’s Everton who should be more concerned with the winger’s form.
