For Wenger, it
was a wicked weekend and a dreadful derby. Derby is always enervating to losers
but excitingly passionate to winners. It was a show of wayward passes, cheap
dispossession for Arsenal who could not assert their style of play on
the new generation Spurs, who were properly schooled by Pochettino.
Mkhi was outmuscled to
ineffectiveness. Xhaka was just nowhere. Defense was in utter
confusion. Kane was wasteful, but Spurs making large statement than
Arsenal in London.
#takehome: What keeps a champion's momentum is the
ability to keep improving not the past feat. Arsenal is receding and
Spurs is enlarging.
Guardiola festered on
his teamwork and his team's reduced error rate. Rare loose ball, tough
to dispossess, thorough in attack, Man City were regal. Leicester was short
in all areas in the second half and the punishing score line depicted this.
Aguero did a quadruple and de Bruyne a hat trick of assist.
#takehome: if you can perfect your acts, the half of
the battle is already won.
Mourinho mourned Man
Utd loss as Benitez continued to haunt him. Pogba was
discarded. Sanchez was shine-less. Newcastle totally confused Man Utd game
plan. After that Newcastle goal, It was pathetic display of a spineless
fight-back. Shelvey was a monster that scared Pogba and Matic into
ineffectual bunch.
#takehome: loss is loss but the manner of the loss
can be more harrowing.
In football, players
are to their team, what condiments are to the delicacy. The cost or
the hype of the condiments may not matter but the measurable and
commensurable application of the condiments.
Chelsea's night was
that sublime. Giroud's ball-ricocheting ability got an assist and several
misses. Hazard was balling while Moses waltzed like an Egyptian Sallah. Chelsea
fans kept yelling for Barça. I wondered what that reality would hold.
Will they be shamefaced or proud EPL liberator against the "mighty"
Barça? Time shall tell.
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