Premier League winners and losers. Winners. Mauricio Pochettino and the Tottenham swarm. On Saturday, Sarah Winterburn quite reasonably asked whether Tottenham had the best XI in the Premier League. I’m going to ask a slightly different version of that question: Do Tottenham have the XI capable of producing the most complete performance? I’m going to answer it too: On current evidence, yes. When Tottenham click, they are a force like no other.
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Ask Manchester City, humbled in October. Ask Chelsea, brushed aside a week ago. Ask West Brom, eviscerated in potentially the most complete performance of the lot.
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Spurs had 2. 1 shots and allowed only three. They registered 7. Anyone who accuses me of praising a team for only beating West Brom should go back and watch that display.
There was nothing the opposition could do. West Brom have been Tottenham’s bogey team in recent seasons, but were blown away by an attacking performance that started with the central defenders and ended with Harry Kane’s magic right boot. Competent defenders like Gareth Mc. Auley were made to look like bumbling amateurs. Spurs did not allow West Brom either a shot on target or corner, restricting them to a 5. When you play against such a good team like Tottenham they punish you,” said Pulis after the game. Today we were off it and they deserve all the credit – full stop.”Tottenham do indeed punish you.
More than any other team in the Premier League, they can swarm over you like a line of army ants destroying anything in their path. The central defenders are rock solid, the full- backs the best in the league, the attacking midfielders full of energy without the ball and full of invention with it and the striker on top of his game again. Even more than Chelsea seven points above them, if Tottenham play to their full potential nobody can stop them. Chelsea have the edge on consistency. Even if Hugo Lloris had conceded every shot on target he faced in the last four league games, Spurs would still have taken 1. In their last eight they have created 1.
Chelsea. They have had 6. Manchester City. They have faced only 1. Arsenal. By any measure, they are the team in form. While both Sarah and I asked questions regarding the ability of the players, the obvious answer is that it is Pochettino playing the role of teacher to perfection. While the star pupils receive adoration and adulation, the Argentinean smiles to himself and prepares lesson plans for the next week.
They are gauche comparisons, but Tottenham’s XI against West Brom cost . They may have won seven matches on the spin by an aggregate of 2. Spurs only have the sixth best away record in the league, and face Manchester City and Liverpool in two of their next three on the road. Yet the astonishing thing is that Tottenham are here at all, ahead of the Manchester clubs on merit.
They tailed away last season, beset by fatigue, and yet vowed to work even harder. The majority of their players took part in major tournaments last summer (where most of them failed), and yet are full of bounce again. They flunked in the Champions League, and yet it made them stronger domestically. They bought badly in the summer, and yet the squad looks more complete. The starting XIs of the top six clubs this weekend contained 3.
None. Harry Kane. Now 2. 2 goals in his last 2. Since the start of 2. Premier League goalscorers reads as follows: Harry Kane – 5. Sergio Aguero – 4.
Romelu Lukaku – 3. Diego Costa – 3. 3Jamie Vardy – 3. Alexis Sanchez – 3. Olivier Giroud – 3. Jermain Defoe – 3. He actually is real, and he actually is really good.
Christian Eriksen. Eriksen is often the first Tottenham player to be criticised and the last to be praised, his languid demeanour mis- selling him as an uncomfortable fit within Pochettino’s pressing army. I’m biased because he’s one of my favourite players to watch, but this might just be the best run of form of Eriksen’s career. In his last eight games, the Dane has created 3.
Kyle Walker and Danny Rose. Over that same eight- game period, the list of the top 2. Premier League contains only three full- backs. No prizes for guessing the identity of the top two. The relegation battle. It might not have the glamour, the coverage or the world- renowned managers of the title and top- four races, but this season’s relegation battle should be intriguing. After 2. 1 games, the bottom six are separated by just six points.
Three of them have new managers, one of them are the current champions and another have the fourth- best defence in the league. Importantly, this is not just a war of attrition. Last season, matches played by the bottom four clubs in the Premier League contained 2. This season, those figures are 3. Everyone wants to attack! Nobody can defend! Hurrah! Chelsea. No Costa, no problem.
Defeat at Tottenham immediately becomes a blip in Chelsea’s title challenge rather than the start of the decline. After Hull at home comes Liverpool away and Arsenal at Stamford Bridge. Bar a tough three- game stretch in April, it’s plain sailing from then on. Marcos Alonso. For a while there, you had us dreaming of Steve Watson. That’s always a lovely place to be. Adam Lallana. The energy levels are outrageous. At Old Trafford, Lallana made 8.
Not only were both comfortably the highest on the pitch (1. Manchester United player), but the distance covered was again the highest in the league this weekend.
Nobody else made it beyond 1. Tom Davies and Ademola Lookman. Three years ago it was Raheem Sterling. Two years ago it was Harry Kane.
Last year it was Dele Alli and Marcus Rashford. For all England’s struggles in major tournaments, there are signs that the country is producing talented footballers, whether in lower league or through academies. Everton might just have the next two to progress. Davies is exactly the type of young player who is so easy to love. With his socks rolled down, he tears around the midfield like an excited puppy chasing a stick in the park for the first time.
He also has the technique to pass the ball beautifully and the discipline to hold his own against more senior opponents. Only turning 1. 8 in the summer, there are reasons to believe in a player born on the same day Michael Owen scored his wonder goal against Argentina. Lookman’s journey is very different, as this piece details. Three years ago he was playing Sunday League football, but on Sunday scored on his Premier League debut after moving for an initial .
Has Romelu Lukaku found his support striker in a surprising place? Ronald Koeman and the positive spin. A roaring win for Everton, and one that should keep the wolf from Koeman’s door for another fortnight at least. This column has been criticised for its praise of the Dutchman this season but, when the top six teams are streaking away, seventh is a fine improvement upon last season and the foundation for success. Part of the frustration with Koeman has been Everton’s form against the league’s lesser lights: They have taken three points from games against Bournemouth, Crystal Palace, Burnley, Watford, Swansea and Hull.
The positive spin is that fans can reasonably expect improvement in those games, and that Everton have won four, drawn three and lost one of their eight games against last season’s top six. Manchester City were torn apart.
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Abel Hernandez. Harry scored a hat- trick but Hernandez scored two; very much a weekend tale of Kane and Abel. Let’s just hope it doesn’t end in human sacrifice, envy and wrath (it probably won’t). Arsenal. Beating this Swansea is hardly something worth cherishing, but Arsene Wenger will be mightily pleased to halt the short run of away games without a win. Six points from the final two games of their gentle run of six league fixtures, and Arsenal will still be clinging on to a title challenge before the trip to Stamford Bridge.
Olivier Giroud. Seven goals from his 1. That’s the best in the Premier League in that time, bar none. Slaven Bilic. The most important result of Slaven Bilic’s West Ham tenure, whatever he achieved last season. The Croatian was praised for publicly calling out Dimitri Payet for engineering a move, but the real proof of that pudding was in the eating. If West Ham had lost at home to Crystal Palace and former manager Sam Allardyce, plenty would have called for hammer, nails and coffin. As it was, West Ham achieved their most convincing victory – by scoreline at least – since pumping Southampton 4- 1 in October 2. B. Sam was in the home dug- out.
That not only strengthened Bilic’s job security, but allowed him to issue a call to arms after the match.“I can call it almost the perfect result. Well done to the lads and to the crowd,” he said. This is a great example for that.
Let’s talk about Carroll, or Darren Randolph, or Mark Noble, for f**k’s sake. Michail Antonio had flu and a temperature of 3.
Bilic is right, too. Payet has been a wonderful performer for West Ham, but Leicester demonstrated last season that the power of the collective is far greater than the individual.
Hearing Andy Carroll’s pointed message to Payet after the game told you plenty about the mindset of West Ham’s players: We’ll do it with or without you. Plenty of West Ham fans will continue to look down rather than up the Premier League table, but the gap is now comfortable. Everton in seventh are closer in points than Crystal Palace in 1. Andy Carroll. A sensational finish.
While Olivier Giroud and Henrikh Mkhitaryan’s goals contained strands of good fortune, Carroll’s overhead volley demonstrated sensational technique. Better than any dipping free- kick, Dimi. Burnley. Burnley have the third best home record in the Premier League. While the temptation is to use that statistic as a stick with which to beat plenty of stronger, richer clubs, let’s instead just praise Sean Dyche for a magnificent job. He’s currently second only to Antonio Conte in the running for Manager of the Year. Losers. Pep Guardiola. It was the image of the weekend.