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Premier League HOT or NOT: Aguero, Fellaini, Carroll, possession
What’s sexy, and what’s not, in football this week…
HOT
Sergio Aguero
To miss one penalty is careless, to miss two penalties is outrageous, but to step up and take a third spot-kick after all that - without seeming remotely bothered about it - well, that takes some proper Argentine cojones. Sergio Aguero’s nerveless spot-kick in Manchester City’s 4-1 win at Stoke - after missing two in the Champions League against Steaua Bucharest in midweek - was ballsy, but the 28-year-old hasn’t just improved his penalty-taking over the course of the last few days. What’s more significant is that he’s also started the season in the kind of form that make any suggestion there is a better player in England seem silly. If he can avoid succumbing to injury - and with Aguero it’s always a pretty large if - then he is already the key man in this season’s title race.
Marouane Fellaini
Jose Mourinho has made some high-profile purchases in his first couple of months at Manchester United, but perhaps his most impressive signing is a Belgian defensive midfielder that nobody at Old Trafford had seen before. It’s Good Fellaini. A player last seen at Everton a few years ago, playing behind the striker and winning lots of headers, Good Fellaini has since dropped off the radar while his nemesis Bad Fellaini carved his name into United folklore. It was widely suspected that Good Fellaini had in fact died, or at least retired. But Mourinho, somehow, has searched deep inside Bad Fellaini to find Good Fellaini. All it took was to give him a clearly defined midfield role and - reportedly - a phonecall to say he loved him. All this time, Bad Fellaini just needed to hear those three little words to break the spell.
Diego Costa
Like some people are no fun on a night out unless they’re really drunk, it seems the Chelsea striker is no good on a football pitch unless he’s really angry. Or at least, really dirty. On successive weeks, Costa has scored a late winner when he should have probably already been sent off. Last week he escaped a second booking despite a high lunge on West Ham goalkeeper Adrian - and then scored. This week he avoided a red card despite appearing to take a deliberate dive while already on a booking at Watford - then scored. When Costa stopped being dirty last season, he also became largely ineffective. So Antonio Conte will happily let him run riot for now.
NOT
David Moyes
Here is a 53-year-old Scottish man who is in desperate need of a honeymoon period. A dash of romance, a short burst of adventure, a bit of summer sun on his fair, freckly skin. But no. The football Gods have again sent Moyes straight into the deep end of a potentially unhappy marriage, with none of the carefree giggling and love-making that would ideally precede it. Being booed off at half-time in a local derby in your first home game constitutes Gary Megson levels of icy introductions to your new job. Moyes followed up Sunderland’s second straight defeat by predicting that the club’s season will be a “struggle”, which didn’t help the mood.
Andy Carroll
It’s not Andy’s fault that he gets crocked all the time (well actually it might be, depending on what you believe about his lifestyle choices) but he is responsible for his Twitter account. The West Ham striker responded to his latest setback - a knee injury that will keep him out of action for six weeks - by announcing that he is “still the 15/20 goal man”. Given that he has not even been a “10 goal a season man” since leaving Newcastle in 2011, it appears he may have set himself up for a fall here. And in Carroll’s case, falls happen regularly. You can imagine Carroll writing “20 goal man” in his initial draft tweet and then adding the “15/” afterwards just to cover himself.
Possession
Leicester already proved last season that it’s not how much you have the ball, but what you do with it, that counts. But Burnley’s 2-0 victory against Liverpool with just 19 per cent possession took “without-the-ball football” to a new level. Bearing in mind that throw-ins and goal-kicks also count as possession, when you break down the Clarets’ 19 per cent it essentially boils down to just the two shots they had - both leading to goals. It feels like the kind of landmark match that could trigger a tactical shift whereby teams begin giving the ball to their opponents on purpose and waiting for them to do something rubbish with it.
