da premier bet： Someone in Sunderland’s PR department really should give David Moyes a bit of a slap. Imagine being bottom of the table by a distance and saying, “well if we win all our games from now we will stay up”.
da gbg bet： That wouldn’t have been so bad if Sunderland hadn’t then gone out and lost to a Man United side that usually draw matches like that. Sunderland are not normally a club too shy to sack a manager at strange times. They must really feel Moyes is the man to get them straight back into the Premier League, but does Moyes feel he is too good for the Championship? Time will tell, but for now, I am going to enjoy Moyes whilst I still can.
It was a lovely quirk of the fixture list fate for United’s strike-force. When your manager has been pretty much calling you rubbish in public for a fortnight, what better way to regain some confidence than sticking three past ten men at the Stadium of Light? Zlatan scored a fine goal and then claimed he was Benjamin Button. All in all, a normal Sunday for Ibra.
Liverpool totally reversed what it meant to be Liverpool on Saturday. Normally, they would be leading and looking good before finding a way to undo all their good work. This time Stoke wore the Anfield costume and having led and been in control, were completely undone by a Firmino wonder strike. Matches like this is what we need more of, so we can see the complete range of Klopp emotions in one match.
It’s all too easy for Chelsea now, meaning we are not seeing the full range of Conte emotions in action. That, in itself, is a shame. He can pretend he is not smirking at Tottenham trying to keep up all he wants, but Conte does not lose league titles from here.
Sure Bournemouth gave them a game but Chelsea can afford to lose a couple, give Spurs even more false hope and then seal the deal. Hopefully they do it that way as it would be quite funny to watch Tottenham think they still have a realistic chance.
Mind you, I should start taking Tottenham a little more seriously I suppose. They do have the best English player currently on show, and probably had the best English goal scorer on show before he hurt his ankle. Watford never win at White Hart Lane so the result was not a surprise but Tottenham do look like they are going to wrap up second place, meaning Arsenal have to sack Arsene. It was a drunken agreement at the Emirates that Wenger would walk if Tottenham ever finished above them. Oh, how they laughed at the craziness of that idea.
Manchester City eased past Hull 3-1 and barely broke sweat. A note to Pep, though. We already know you will not win the league with any of your current goalkeepers, but you might even struggle to get Champions League football if you think Jesus Navas is a right-back. Yes, we know Sagna and Zabaletta are somewhat past it, but really? Navas?
Incredibly, beating Swansea City 1-0 led Bilic to the conclusion that “there is still work to be done”. What’s that, Slav? Beating a team that played with so much fear they must have just watched the Blair Witch Project (showing my age there) means you are not the finished article? Someone give that guy a vote of confidence. The three points probably means West Ham won’t go down which is great, or a shame, depending on your views.
When Steve Agnew gets fired at the end of the season, he will look back at a 0-0 draw with Burnley as one of the plus points and that, Steve, is why Middlesbrough are getting relegated and you will be looking for a new job.
If anybody actually cares about what happened between West Brom and Southampton then you clearly care more than the players themselves. Both sets of players are done for the season and will be mentally working out what they need to pack for their various trips away over the summer. I think Southampton won, but I am not 100% sure.
Finally, it’s all over for Craig Shakespeare now. That’s it, run over. Six and out, as they say in cricket. The revival is done. The honeymoon finished. Leicester lost to Everton meaning the new manager has been found out. Or maybe, just maybe, his team had their minds on a trip to Madrid.
Yeah, probably that, actually…