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Premier League HOT or NOT: Everton win twice, Niasse wins Twitter, Van Aanholt eats his words, Klopp loses his cool
What’s sexy, and what’s unsexy, in football this week…
HOT
Everton through the ages
While Ronald Koeman’s current crop of Blues smashed six goals past Bournemouth to wrap up their fifth win in seven games, a selection of former Evertonians brought together for a fun reunion by Sunderland manager (and supreme Toffees social organiser) David Moyes were demolishing Crystal Palace. From the 2008/09 Goodison vintage, you had Joleon Lescott and Steven Piennar adding some experience, then from Moyes’ 2012/13 side there was Bryan Oveido and Darron Gibson doing their things. Victor Anichebe cheered on his mates from the stands, while – best of all – former Everton youth team genius Jack Rodwell won his first game in a Sunderland shirt after 725 previous attempts. It was simply a good day to be, or to have been, an Evertonian, speaking of which…
Oumar Niasse
“I don’t like social media. You have people who don’t love you and people who don’t know football.” It was hard to argue with the on-loan Hull City striker’s recent assessment of Twitter, which does indeed include a lot of people who don’t know much about football and a lot of people who don’t love Oumar Niasse – most of them Everton fans. But if the Senegal and Toffees striker (who hasn’t been picked for Senegal or the Toffees since last season) checks out social media this week, he will find he has earned a whole lotta love. Mainly from the Tigers fans heralding his victory-securing strike in a momentous 2-0 win against Liverpool, but also from Evertonians who are finally seeing some value for the £13.5m they spent on him a year ago after he have them a laugh by scoring against their arch rivals.
Relegation
Not actual relegation, that’s never going to be hot. But the battle to avoid it certainly will be. A few weeks ago, Swansea, Hull and Sunderland looked to have the bottom three places sewn up. But a few spectacular results later, just two points separate the bottom six, with Leicester, Crystal Palace and Middlesbrough also dragged into the dogfight in a very big and doglike way. With the title race looking about as exciting as a Cesar Azpilicueta heat map, the relegation fight it’s where it’s at between now and the end of the season, featuring dramatic six-pointers, larger than life characters and guaranteed awkward comedy. And that’s just Sam Allardyce.
NOT
PVA
Patrick van Aanholt didn’t make his £14m move from Sunderland to Crystal Palace lightly. After all, he knew he would have to move house, make friends in a new city, get himself an Oyster card and all that palaver. But the one guiding truth that helped him make the decision was that he was moving to a “better team”, as he stated following the switch, and no one could begrudge him that. But although PVA left the north-east with a clear conscience, he unfortunately found himself on the receiving end of quite a lot of begrudging. Firstly, from the Sunderland fans – apparently irked by his comments – who booed his every touch when the Black Cats travelled to Selhurst Park. And secondly, from the Crystal Palace fans, who also booed him – along with the rest of his team-mates – as they trudged off following a scarcely believable 4-0 home defeat that left Eagles boss Allardyce looking for something even bigger than a pint glass to put his wine in. As for the “better team” bit, Van Aanholt might want to revisit that opinion too.
Saido Berahino
On a similar theme, the whole reason Berahino wanted to leave West Brom for the past 18 months was because he wanted to go somewhere bigger and better. He’s ended up at Stoke, which on this weekend’s evidence is a sideways step at best. Coming on as a substitute with 30 minutes remaining of his new club’s trip to the Hawthorns, it took the striker 20 minutes to touch the ball – and when he eventually did it wasn’t worth the wait. Potters boss Mark Hughes also accused the Baggies of waiting for Berahino’s departure before “leaking” a story about his recent ban for recreational drug use. Such a shame – Saido always treated his former club with such respect.
Jurgen Klopp
It doesn’t matter how cool or talented you are – put your guard down for just a second and the Premier League will chew you up and spit you it until it really hurts. In a few short weeks, English football has transformed Liverpool’s manager from Mr Laughy Laughy Genius Guy into Mr Angry Shouting in Linesman’s Faces as Everything Falls Apart Guy. Defeat to supposed relegation certs Hull, amid some familiarly atrocious Reds defending, leaves Klopp staring at the prospect of a season of abject failure. For all his side’s verve against the top sides, the German hasn’t found a way to beat the smaller ones. Ten matches into the year, the only team Liverpool have beaten in 2017 is Plymouth, and even that was painful.
