05/03/2017 Match of the Day 2

Comment and analysis comes from Jermaine. We begin a White Hart Lane

and a A talisman make sure hard to beat a

little faster. When you need a goal, they score. When you need a winner,

they deliver. When you need a performance, they play. Spurs have

Kane. Everton look to Lukaku. Which talisman will bring the team fortune

today? COMMENTATOR: Since the start of last

season, they have 77 goals between them, same age, same job, both

determined to maintain recent headlines. ASBOs aim for a

consecutive ninth record home win, -- as Spurs aim for. The top scorer

has 12 goals in his last 11 games. Ronald Koeman makes one change to

the Everton team that beat Sunderland. Gareth

Asking for an option. He puts it square to Wanyama. KG possession

from Tottenham. -- kilograms. Davies. Being closely marshalled.

Might be able to get a shot in here. And he is. And what a special strike

to add to the collection of Harry Kane. You can't keep them out of the

headlines at the moment. And that is another headline strike. There

looked to be nothing on, and then Everton just stood off. And he

drilled that pass Joel Robles. 11 goals in his last 11 Premier League

games. 18 league goals for the season, and what a way to start

scoring today. -- the scoring. The rehearsed celebrations not quite

meeting the standards of the strike. 12 goals in the last nine at White

Hart Lane alone. Here he is again. Into Eriksen. Kane is on-site. Still

Kane. Good save by Rob Les, and Eriksen miscues. Joel Robles denies

Kane and Tottenham a second. He came out quickly and stood his ground.

Then Eriksen made a mess of the second ball.

Schneiderlin could not get it under control. Walker, into Eriksen. Took

it early. It was the speed again of Tottenham's passing. One touch from

Eriksen, and the second was also -- almost in the back of the net. You

can see the cotton -- confidence in Tottenham's play. A wild challenge

from Funes Mori from behind on Harry Kane. It has upset the Tottenham

players. Just a warning for the Argentinian on his 26th birthday.

Eriksen's delivery. All the way through. I guess -- Guess who was

closest to it. He was in there again. Just watch Ashley Williams. I

wonder if he has slightly pulled Harry Kane back.

Or was that just a normal grapple? Not in One's opinion. -- in Kane's

opinion. Here come Tottenham again. Vertonghen. Away by Coleman.

Wanyama. Kane. It wouldn't have counted, I don't

think. The offside flag was up. But Everton were almost punished here.

Watch this clearance from Coleman. Sloppily on to Wanyama, and Kane is

offside. Ronald Koeman has only beaten Spurs once in five attempts

as a Premier League manager. He will have something to think about at

half-time. Short to Davies. Back in from the Welshman. A free header,

Dele Alli. Didn't really have enough power to fully stretched Joel

Robles. He wasn't picked up, that is sure. Schneiderlin. Walker, the

covering defender for Spurs. A very solid outfit, but Everton yet

to trouble Hugo Lloris. They might be trouble defensively again.

Vertonghen, and what a run from the Belgian. This was right from inside

his own half, Vertonghen. Went past Ashley Williams and he would have

done well to beat Joel Robles from there. Everton needing a source of

inspiration at the moment. He won't get to that, no, he did, he kept it

in. Did really well. Schneiderlin caught in possession. And it drops

to Harry Kane. Well, Everton punished, Kane again. At the double.

On that one was gifted to him. -- and that one. Rolled out to Morgan

Schneiderlin, who did not see Dembele coming, and from that moment

on, Everton were in trouble. Took the gamble, and credit to Dele Alli

as well. You quite simply know that when Harry Kane is in that kind of

situation, more often than not, there is only one end result. Look

what it means to Mauricio Pinilla Pochettino. Harry Kane has three

hat-tricks in nine games and is one goal away from a fourth now. Morale

ass. -- Kevin Mirallas. Trying to find luh khaki. A slip from

Vertonghen, and a chance for Luke RQ. Everton have hoped -- Lukaku. 24

Harry Kane and one for Lukaku. His first-ever goal against Tottenham

and there is light against -- at the end of the tunnel for Everton. The

Tongan lost his footing, and Lukaku kept his cool and composure --

Vertonghen. Nine goals in nine games in 2017. 18 Premier League goals for

the season. And he now is Everton's record Premier League goal-scorer.

His 61st taking him past that man, Duncan Ferguson. More importantly,

he has got Everton right back in this game. The two stars of the show

both on the scoresheet. But Kane has won more than Lukaku. Only the

second goal Spurs has conceded in eight home league games. Harry Kane

with a hat-trick opportunity. Denied by Joel Robles. How important might

that save me from the Spaniard? Harry Kane just tried to chip this

over him. And a fourth hat-trick in ten games is in sight. Tussling with

Williams, and Ashley Williams is penalised. A Tottenham free kick.

In towards Dele Alli from Harry winks. -- Harry Winks. Nine home

league wins in a row for Spurs confirmed. That is a new club

record. Dele Alli with his 13th league goal of the season. That

settles it once and for all. Clever from Winks and a perfectly timed run

from Dele Alli and he helped it along its way. Steered it past Joel

Robles. Clever, clinical and another win for Moritz your Pochettino. 16

for the season now. Just the 24 goals in the last ten games. 3-1.

That is in towards Valencia. It is 3-2. Spurs were still celebrating.

And in the third minute of stoppage time, he might well look at his

watch. They have reduced the deficit again. A quickly taken free kick and

Enner Valencia, unmarked, the substitute, scoring his second

Premier League goal for Everton. We have had almost five minutes of

stoppage time. Michael Oliver has had to looks at his watch. There is

the whistle. Moritz your Pochettino has led Tottenham to nine

consecutive is league victories for the first time in the Premier League

era and in doing so has ended Everton's nine-game unbeaten run.

Both Lukaku and Kane on the scoresheet, but it is Tottenham who

take the three points. 3-2. When Harry Kane does what he does today,

do you take it for granted? Yes, for me, Harry is one of the best. We saw

it today. It was a good game and he was fantastic. He has a brace and

it's fantastic that he is in our side. I wanted that third goal. I

had a chance in the first half after my first at the type probably should

have scored on the keeper made a good save and I should have put my

foot through it. The most important thing is winning the game and we are

delighted. We know they are strong but they have had two or three

seasons in a row with the same plays -- players, and they bought some

better players and that is all about timing. That is what we need to have

at Everton. If we get the time to improve that is the next step for

the club. Romelu Lukaku has 61 Premier League goals, and broken the

record for Duncan Ferguson. That is some feed for this player. It is

fantastic. He showed again today he is so strong and dangerous. If he

gets a chance, it is a goal. OK, it's not a competition between one

strike and the other striker. Both strikers showed today their quality

in finishing and also Romelu Lukaku today. Nine consecutive home league

wins. A new club record. In this season, that is some record. Yes,

it's another fantastic achievement for that group. We feel very proud

about that. To build that home record, I think that has made

history and we can start to make history with that group. They are

young players. It is only the start of the good things that is coming in

the future. A good win for Spurs. Both managers talking about their

star strikers in the post-match interviews and even pre-match we

were talking about Kane against Lukaku, who you would rather have.

After the game, the stats are still very, very fine to separate them.

Romelu Lukaku are a bit faster than Harry Kane today. But it's not just

about looking at the individuals. It's more subtle than that. It's not

just Kane against Lukaku. You will be looking at goals when it comes to

strikers and there are two of the best young strikers in Europe in

these two. If Lukaku had what Kane had in terms

of the support, Eriksen and Dele Alli, what they do, they occupy

defenders. They keep them thinking. Rogat Eriksen -- look at Eriksen

with Williams. Funes Mori is thinking, do I go in there or not?

Not many keepers. This. A fantastic strike. But the point is, Harry

Kane, with the players around him he has that. It is about occupying

players. We can do things on his own. Look at this, fantastic touch.

He has the option, and when he gets the strike, it's the composure first

and foremost, but the other option. They are there, Dalyan -- ready and

waiting. Who is the man who strikes the rebound? Christian Eriksen, who

is always there or thereabouts. Usually the strikers coming short.

If Lukaku comes in short, he hasn't got the run. Dele Alli comes in and

mix it around the corner. That allows Harry Kane to be where he

wants to be. In between the sticks, making runs, trying to get across

centre halves. Even then Eriksen and Dele Alli you saw them following up.

This is poor play from Everton. Williams and Schneiderlin getting

mixed up. Spurs have done this all season, press high, sharing the

workload and when Harry Kane gets in these positions he doesn't miss

many. Another fine data Harry Kane. so you are not looking at the

interaction between the two of them, just positioning? It is more what

they are going to occupy defenders, it allows this man to have as much

time and space it needs to do his business. When he is more isolated,

who were discussing in the office, England at the Euros, that is when

he will struggle more. He does struggle, when he is on his own

isolated he is nowhere near as effective for club and country.

Whereas you think Lukaku is happy to be isolated and work on his own, and

yet there were signs for Everton at the Ritz partnership developing. He

is definitely better on his own. But you need somebody there to find the

final pass. What we have seen in the last four or five weeks, Ross

Barkley, who I thought was Everton's best player today. He has a

combination, a bit of an understanding. In behind Vertonghen.

Good defending by him in the end but there is definitely an

understanding. They play passes to each other, they understand what

each other's doing. There is only one thing on the mind of Lukaku. He

knows if he gets to the far post, Ross Barkley will put it into a

really good area. That is what he does, he sees the run from Lukaku.

Williams defending again. Another counterattack. Again, Lukaku,

because he knows that Ross Barkley has the ability to play that pass,

the pass around the corner, he makes the run. He doesn't get it first

time. Ross Barkley wants to get into a better position, who is he looking

for in the box, Romelu Lukaku. Still bits of the game they can improve.

This is a perfect opportunity. Just take it forward a little bit more.

Now Lukaku, on your bike. Like how high the top and back three. Ross

Barkley has got to play that ball. That is a one-on-one opportunity. He

makes the wrong decision. He keeps possession of the ball but when you

are in that position you have got to play that pass and take the risk. He

ended up on the right-hand side, Ross Barkley. When the ball comes

out the Seamus Coleman, again, this is Romelu Lukaku, he wants the ball

played in behind and he wants the ball from Seamus Coleman just

tricked into that space there. That doesn't come. Ends up coming back to

Ross Barkley and he is the one person in the Everton team, unlike

Spurs, he is the only player in the team who can play that pass through.

This is my one criticism. He has got to make the second one. Are you

saying the disappointment...? As a striker you have to continue to make

that run, with Ross Barkley on the ball, he can play that pass. This is

the gold. This is unbelievable power. He can barge is way through

as core goes like flirt and break the all-time record for Everton in

the premier Li Keqiang Ronald Koeman said they are a work in progress,

Everton, and might need a funeral players -- a few more players. The

one Show that the shape was right. I think Ronald Koeman got the shape

wrong. I thought they were far too conservative, not really attacking,

especially the good form they have been in. Look at this here, your

whole team down the left-hand side of the pitch will stop trying to win

the ball -- the ball back, granted, but once you do that you have a

problem. As a full-back, he needs runners in here. They want someone

busting a gut to try to get into these types of position. He runs it

into a channel, when they did have the ball, another thing they

struggled with in the first half was lack of runners. Nobody was willing

to break the lines of the Spurs defence. As they pick up the ball

here, you have brains out wide. Baines is the obvious ball but

everybody wants to go towards the ball. You haven't got anyone wanting

to make that run in there, bend your run, get the Spurs defence going. I

think naturally Mirallas and Lookman would look to do that. They are

players that like to break the lines and get those Spurs defenders

running towards the own goal. We have seen the whole Everton side,

again very one sided. As a midfield player, that is your ball in. You

want your front three, which are here, making those runs. They are

too bunched up together. They play the easy pass. Can you partly

understand why Ronald Koeman went with the team he did given the

strength of Spurs at home? No, because they have been on such a

good run, this is a real opportunity for Ronald Koeman to see what his

side is about. If we are going to break into the top six, let's do it

the way we do. I don't see Spurs changing the way they play. Do you

feel Everton have been here before in times in recent years, ready to

take the next step and then maybe haven't in a particular game? It

happen a lot when I was at Everton just when you thought you were ready

to break into the top six, top five. Ronald Koeman hit it on the head.

One or two players of real quality, that means he will have to invest in

a better quality of player than they have. They are very close to

breaking into the top six. I feel like we should do some contrived

hand routine but we won't. Time for the goal of the month, six to choose

from. COMMENTATOR: Nothing to suggest at

the moment Arsenal can get back into the game. Diego Costa to Hazard.

Chased by Coquelin, too strong for him, Chelsea fans rise to Eden

Hazard, into the box, brilliant! A brilliant goal by Eden Hazard!

Strength, purpose, technique come it had everything. A goal to savour.

Danger here, and brilliant! Didier undying with a wonderful strike and

a huge goal for Sunderland -- Didier N'dong.

Here comes Brady, good try, brilliant goal! Brilliant,

brilliant, brilliant for Burnley, around the edge of the wall. And all

the time curling into the top corner past Courtois. That's as good as it

gets. Davis tries to find him, I'm not

sure it was necessarily aimed at Coleman, who gets to it, and here

comes Gueye, and Everton score! And Idrissa Gueye maguey scores his

first Everton goal. Out towards Kane! Oh yes, he does it

again. He's on a hat-trick again. Tottenham's terrific number ten.

We know this one's heading. Tin hat time. Getting up well. Spring heeled

leap. Headed away by Milner, only as far as Drinkwater! Oh, what a goal,

fantastic strike from Danny Drinkwater! And he absolutely loved

that home. What a finish! STUDIO: To vote, head for the BBC Sport

website, click on the go of your choice. We will close the vote at

11:15pm and give you the result was the end of the programme. On the

Sunderland against Manchester City. Just the sort of match the home side

don't need right now. Times are tough for Sunderland, bottom of the

Premier League again after a decade of struggles. This is the lowest

points total in that time. They have lost by four today, it's

embarrassing. They've had many great escapes before but commit possibly

do it again? Jermain Defoe, so often the saviour. Can Jermain Defoe

supply enough goals? It is literally on his shoulders, week in, week out.

Facing them, inform Manchester City. It is a thrashing Manchester City

have dished out tonight. Your commentator is Guy Mowbray.

COMMENTATOR: In the early part of the decade, City lost four in a row

here for 1-0 in the same time that they could barely buy a win against

David Moyes's Everton. The prospect of a return to that sort of history

seems a slim one. Sunderland side is an unchanged one. Billy Jones is OK

despite a head injury at Everton last week whilst Jordan Pickford

plays the second game back after his two-month absence with a knee

injury, and he might be a busy goalkeeper. City's keeper is Willy

Caballero for the fourth league game in a row after heavy praise was

lavished on Claudio Bravo by his manager this week. Today's answer to

the weekly question where Will Fernandinho play is midfield. It is

a play all about closing the gap. For City to Chelsea, for Sunderland

to safety. The former seems much more likely that this is the Premier

League, and we do know that surprises are in place. Stones.

Ndong quickly on Kolarov. A great roar of support for the team in red

and white, who have started with so much energy and enthusiasm. That one

cannons off Kolarov, it has winded him and Billy Jones has the better

of cliche. Just behind Jermain Defoe and Cabella row able to collect. But

that has got the Stadium Of Light absolutely pumping. Just the sort of

start that the fans on Wearside demand. If the bookies are going to

be right and Manchester City are going to win today, Sunderland look

like they will make them work very hard for it.

Defoe has had a go, and the rebound as well away from the target from

Bellini. Cabaye Yarrow oh well beaten by Defoe's strike. Sunderland

are making a brilliant fist of this. That is a heck of a shot. It caught

Cabella row by surprise and look how close it is to giving Sunderland and

unlikely lead. Bellini instinctively got there on the rebound but could

not corrected. Sunderland's confidence is up, their enthusiasm

is plain to see. How long can they keep it going? Kolarov deals with

the phone. Jones chugs forward down the right. Larsson. Januzaj. Jones

is still there. Across the face, well it never got there, because of

Kolarov, but it is a Sunderland corner. Another moment of high

promise for them. Januzaj. Good header, but straight at Caballero.

Billy Jones climbed highest of all and got above Bacary Sagna and got

his effort on target. Anywhere that there, and he scores. For all of

city's mastery of the ball, it is Sunderland who have forced the save

from Caballero and hit the right-hand post firmly through

Defoe. Sane. He leaves Jones on the decks. And David Silva is an inch or

so from finishing. Leroy Sane has really found his Premier League

defeat in the last couple of months. -- Premier League feet. Defoe.

Jones. Defoe. Keeps the ball. It is

deflected off Kolarov and it spirals away for a Sunderland corner.

Arun Ikone hanging back, and he makes his move. The barges into

David Silva. Jones again. Did not get the hang time this time. He is

just about on his way back down when the ball arrived. Would you believe,

six minutes before the break, that Billy Jones has been Sunderland's

most likely scorer in the City box. Starting to pace up and down a bit,

Pep Guardiola. Januzaj was in on it and Yaya Toure Toure did well to

help out the goalkeeper. Toure. Finding David Silva. Raheem

Sterling. Looking for Aguero, and Aguero with his customary goal

against Sunderland. What a fine finish that was. He made that look

so easy. Sergio Aguero scores against Sunderland for the fifth

game he has played against them in a row. David Silva to Stirling, you

wonder what will happen next, but look at the movement Aguero. Perfect

timing and the perfect touch applied to the ball. Goal number 23 of the

season for him. He really is a master of his art. You do just have

the feeling that there is another gear in Manchester City that they

have yet to go to. Aguero. Toure. He keeps the ball and gives it to

Raheem Sterling. Toure. O Shea not letting him shoot. Raheem Sterling.

David Silva. He will have a go. Parried by Pickford and cleared

further away by Januzaj. David Silva playing his own game, wandering

around, finding the space. The ghosts into positions in which he

can shoot. -- he ghosts. End dong. -- Ndong. Fernandinho. Sane to the

left. Leroy Sane with a dart into the penalty area and he hits the

post and scores. Manchester City went up through the gears like a

Formula 1 car there. And through they drove into a 2-0 lead. Here

they go. It is Fernandinho. David Silva and Sane is just waiting to

go. And when he went, he was able to find a finish as well. Yet another

goal made by the brilliant David Silva. Leroy Sane has now scored in

three games in a row man Monaco, Huddersfield and now Sunderland and

that might be the goal that sees them off today.

You can see another goal or more for Manchester City here because all of

the Sunderland chasing of the ball has to take its toll. Januzaj wins

it. Fernandinho. Ndong. Fernandinho back at him and the ball breaks to

Larsson, and Caballero makes the save, with a message to his

team-mates that they must stay stretched on. Januzaj with the

Sunderland corner. Caballero makes another save. Gratefully clutching

the ball. Laming Kone got it on target but did not have the power to

be Caballero. -- beat Caballero. That is a good ball out from Januzaj

to Larsson. He tries to get away from Gael Clichy. Up to Defoe.

Januzaj, Ndong to the left. Here is the aid. The cross is a good

one, and the header is wide from Januzaj -- here is Bryan Oviedo.

Just needed a little more on it. Larsson. Away from John O'Shea. Here

is Sane on the ball. De Bruyne. Lovely poke through to Aguero,

trying to catch Pickford out with an early shot. Pickford caught the

ball. De Bruyne. Well, he hit it hard, but

he hit it wide. Aguero did well to get out of the way of that.

Sunderland being opened up all too easily now.

Ndong. Fernandinho cuts him off in his prime. Clichy. Aguero.

De Bruyne. Nolito with a spirited run to the left-hand side. Here is

Sane. Bryan Oviedo in his way. Aguero, with nobody in his way

except Pickford. Brilliant save. The way he shifted his weight and got

his hand out there was quite fantastic. That is why Jordan

Pickford is one of the hottest goalkeeping prospects around. It is

all about results. Sunderland need points. That will frustrate David

Moyes, of course, but he must be able to take some solace about the

way his team have applied themselves to the task today. For Pep

Guardiola, another game to take off. Three more points on the board and

they continue their pursuits on all fronts.

We are happy, we played good and we made a good performance. The first

ten minutes was tough because in the first few minutes for Sunderland we

expected they would be aggressive in terms of the intensity they played,

but afterwards we controlled the game. We made a very good first goal

but we got to half-time at 1-0 and then it was completely different to

draw or lose and in the second half we played really good. I think we

are very happy with the performance. Sunderland made us suffer today in

the first half on the first was close. The game is never finished

but we got lucky today. I think the level has been improving. When you

are at the bottom it's difficult to say that because you are not picking

up three points or winning, it's not noticeable. But when you are in it

every day you can see it gradually getting a bit better. But obviously

we have big games coming up and we will have to do it. We have to keep

going and grinding it out. They got two goals and we were chasing the

game today. We go to Burnley and Hull City and then those are the

games to target and get the wins. I believe the one that hits the post

today, when that comes out, maybe we can hit the other side of the post

and we hit the underside of the bar last week. Just a couple of things

are not going. Hopefully we will be a bit luckier in the coming games.

Pep Guardiola said in the post match interview that they expected someone

to play with intensity at the start, which they did. But they lacked the

control. For the first 30 minutes Sunderland were the better team.

They stopped the rid of them playing out from the back and I think it's

the best I've seen a Sunderland side play this season. David Moyes can be

proud of the way his team played. He had set them up to just stop --

disrupt the rhythm of Manchester City and was pressing from the

front. He stopped the man city centre-backs from playing out from

the back. But there is not that much pressure on the ball, but the minute

it is transferred back, there is pressure.

You have to have two or three men going behind you, and Defoe goes

tight. He goes back again and they are forcing Man City to play

backwards. They do like to control possession of the ball and they like

to do it in the opposition half. The good though Sunderland players.

David Moyes told his players to flood the Man City half and make

them make mistakes. For about 42 minutes they were fantastic. If

there was ever a point in the game that described in a nutshell what

Pep Guardiola is about, it was the goal they scored. It was fantastic

in terms of options on the ball. The minute Caballero gets the ball the

centre-backs split so there are two options. Fernandinho drops in. There

are three options straightaway and then the full-backs split as high

and wide so you can ship it to them. That creates the space in midfield

for Yaya Toure A. That is created, because look out wide and high the

wingers are playing there. Aguero is playing high as well and stretching

the team. Look how big Man City make the pitch. This is how Man City

scored the goal. A bit of fortune there. But look at the passing, the

movement and the space created. And there is one man I have not

mentioned, and that is David Silva. Probably the best player at the

moment though Manchester City. He plays the ball wide, sterling

knocked it in the box and that has gone from one end of the field to

the other and that is Pep Guardiola creating space and the overload.

Fantastic and great to watch. There are two things about that and it

might sound stupid, but when you see it like that you realise how big the

pitch can be. Is that stoppable? At times when you have genuine quality,

no. The details are so fine. Gibson could be a bit closer to split the

difference and Januzaj could have been a bit closer as well but the

problem they have got is that they were very brave and to press that

high up the pitch and press the back four of Manchester City, but when

there is a break in the chain of the pressing, which there was there and

you get a team like Manchester City running at the back four. They were

five against five and then you have David Silva on the ball, five

against five and then you have a problem. Why don't more teams do

that? It looks so affected. The teams that have caused Manchester

City problems have pressed tight and dropped the ball. Why don't more

teams do what Manchester City did because it looks so affected? With

Pep Guardiola, you see them make mistakes at times and he doesn't

care. They have to play that way. Sometimes as a manager you make one

or two mistakes, but Pep Guardiola, though centre-backs have to go wide

and the full-backs go high and the wingers go high. That is his

philosophy. If there was ever a picture painted of Pep Guardiola,

that was it. And speaking of the wingers, the city fans could have

some exciting times over the next two years. These two wingers are

seriously exciting. Good, young prospects and they have been

brilliant all season. Saint has been a fantastic addition to the squad,

but Raheem Sterling is another player in -- Leroy Sane. Very good

at holding the width and breaking the line when he needs to. He set

the goal up. But what I was impressed with today, and he doesn't

quite go past the full-back, but watching give the ball to David

Silva. Makes one run, makes another, didn't get the ball, but that is his

attitude. He is prepared to make room after room to get the ball.

Gets himself centrally -- run after run. Get the Sunderland players

running towards the Rome goal, and that is what he did. He squares it

but there's no Manchester City player inside. Saying was definitely

the pick of the bunch. Pep Guardiola says he's getting better every day.

He is getting stronger and quicker and scoring goals. He ran Sunderland

ragged. Playing one twos, getting behind the back four. He is getting

more character about him, pointing to where he wants the ball, give me

the ball. Should have found David Silva but he tried the right thing.

You can highlight them both here will stop great finish, great run

and he's in the boxing Casey wants to square it. As a partnership

upfront -- and he is in the box if he wants to square it. As a

partnership upfront, those three, it's exciting. I remember Gareth

Bale when he went from Southampton to Tottenham. Early in the season is

all, Leroy Sane, he's young, bit weak. Gareth Bale was like that. And

I am seeing something similar to him, the way he has devastating pace

and goes past people with power and pace. Simplicity at times. He is not

going to do two or three step overs. Running behind with pace and the

devastating finish. He could be a great player. Some good shots at the

end of the game when Guardiola was still talking to the players as they

came up and still coaching them, giving them advice.

He wasn't happy the last 25 minutes, they were passing the ball around

the back four. Taking too many risks. He wanted them to play in

Sunderland's half. Yes, keep possession, but keep possession with

purpose. There is no better place to do it. He wants to point his issues

out on the pitch so players are aware and it is fresh in their

minds. Or analysis -- more analysis to come, but we stuck with

yesterday's calls at Anfield. COMMENTATOR: Lallana wide. Coutinho,

the dummy, and Firmino puts them up. Liverpool ahead. Milner in to

Firmino. It should be two and it is. Liverpool in the driving seat now.

Arsene Wenger looks perplexed. A big half-time change for Arsenal. Alexis

Sanchez comes on. Sanchez, lovely ball through the Welbeck. Out comes

the keeper. Arsenal have won back. The impact of Sanchez off the bench

almost immediate. Arsenal back in the game. Bellerin, is this

Arsenal's last chance? Sanchez, terrific block. He is struggling for

fitness. Lallana now on the counter. Thought about getting the pass away

from Origi. It does so now. This to finish it, that finishes it.

Liverpool 3-1 Arsenal, another classic counterattack.

Pogba. Turned in by Marcos Rojo! Manchester United's dominance gets

reward. Pugh goes down under challenge from

Phil Jones and Bournemouth have a penalty and possibly a way back into

the game. Scores for Bournemouth, and makes it 1-1.

It has broken to Martial. He took Ibrahimovic out. Pogba, Rooney back

to his feet now. Once again that they hands of Artur Boruc save

Bournemouth. Rooney to Mata. Up goes Ibrahimovic. Not high enough and

down went mains after that brush. Down goes Ibrahimovic after a push

from Sermon. He has already been booked. Is he going to show a second

yellow to Ibrahimovic in a moment? That was the challenge from mains on

Rooney. You can see that the boot catches the head of Ibrahimovic, and

he knew who it was an thrust his elbow back into the face of means.

He has to go but he hasn't. In my situation I jumped up, I jump

higher, at the same time I protect myself and I'm lucky he jumps into

me. He jumps into my elbow. We still have to sort out the Andrew Surman

confusion in the moment. I wonder the Wayne Rooney has just reminded

Kevin Friend about the Bournemouth captain. Yes. In the end, all that

has happened is that, very belatedly, Andrew Surman has a red

card for the second yellow. Pogba will try to keep it in. It should be

a penalty, it is a penalty. Ibrahimovic against Boruc. And it is

saved by Artur Boruc! Martial misses. Really well anticipated by

Boruc. Lorenzi! Fernando Llorente moves

into double fingers -- Fernando Llorente moves

his scores for the second week in succession. Appeals for a handball.

It has been given. Penalty kick to Burnley and you can see what Swansea

thinks of that. There is the handball. Looked as though it came

off the arm of Sam Vokes. Andre Gray. Up against Lukasz Fabianski

and he makes it 1-1. Luton towards folks. Gray able to

turn and fires it in past Fabianski. Brilliant piece of play from Andre

Gray. His second goal today takes him up to nine for the season and

puts Burnley in front. Little backheel the fied also, the

behind. And his cause. -- Olsson. How about that for a backheel from

Sigurdsson. Olsson still had plenty to do.

Carol curling it in towards Llorente! He has done it again! It

is his fourth race of the season and Fernando Llorente may well have

given Swansea a huge three points in their battle force a viable! You

watched the skin yesterday, aside from the fact they have a centre

forward who can't stop firing bullet headers into the net, what else is

going their way? When people say what has Paul Clement done, what

would you answer? The three in midfield I really like, the deep

lying midfield Jack Cork with Leroy Fer has started to build a

relationship. Cork is always an option deep. Leroy Fer provides an

option on the right-hand side. What a ball that is into the box and

Llorente just won't stop scoring. On the other side of the pitch

perimeter well as a team. Tom Carroll has won four of the six

games at Swansea since he joined. It is that little play, Leroy Fer

sustaining the attack, that tells me they have a structure to the way

they play. The delivery is getting into the box were constant yesterday

as well. Llorente must be licking his lips every game. And take some

of the pressure off Sigurdsson? It takes a lot of it. They can fight.

You If give Sigurdsson the ball enough he will not miss too many. He

has such a good return when it comes to goal. But this goal was the

Swansea of old. I am watching the game thinking, this is the Swansea

are used watched three years ago, popping it around with confidence.

Great flick from Gylfi Sigurdsson and what a finish it was from

Olsson. It was a performance that tells me they will stay in the

league. Let's deal with the story that started to develop last night

after Alexis Sanchez started on the bench for Arsenal against Liverpool.

This afternoon and into the evening stories have started to come out.

BBC Sport website said he was dropped not for tactical decisions

but because of a row in training. Newspapers following suit. This will

be the Daily Mail tomorrow back page. The Mirror. Saying he is on

his way out after a series of rows and training. When so many

newspapers have it at the BBC Sport website have it, the stories have

come from somewhere and you would imagine if everyone has at somebody

is briefing. The minute that team got announced yesterday, Arsenal

going away to Liverpool when you need your best players the pitch.

Alexis Canter is is some. Straightaway I thought this is not

tactical, this is not Arsene Wenger changing to go direct because he

never does that. It is coming to a head I think for Arsene Wenger as

well. He has to sort out his contract out, is he staying or

going? I think players take advantage of situations like this

when a manager is undecided whether to stay. How can Arsenal look for

players for next season? The players they have at the moment, who will be

the manager next season? If Sanchez wants to leave Comey can play on the

fact that Arsene Wenger is not committed. The rumours of dressing

room unrest, there have been arguments. But Phil is right, if the

manager is not committed, how can they expect players to do? Players

sign long contracts are measured look at that they are there for that

period of time. What will happen with Arsene Wenger sort itself out.

He is well within his rights to be upset with what has happened with

Arsenal. In the second half it was hardly a show of strength to say

you're not playing any more. If you are upset, do you show it publicly,

which is one of the problems, because he was so publicly

disheartened in the defeat at Bayern Munich and matters one of the

problems. Publicly how? What do you want to be, happy? I am just asking

the questions! He showed a lot of disappointment after the Bayern

Munich game. They lost 5-1, what do you want to do? Get an ice cream

out, have a party? LAUGHTER Now I don't, Philip.

Still to come, too good to bad and the results of goal of the month.

First the rest of yesterday's action. Hull City break away.

Supporting him here, Clucas is in there, and Hull City have taken the

lead! Vardy, he is going to get this one

back. Leicester City with a goal by fax have equalised. -- by Fuchs.

Mahrez. And still. Trying to work the space for a shot, Mahrez! Oh I

say, he's back at the forefront of Leicester City's attack! They are

all up for this and it is in! I think it might have got a Hull head

there. Tom Huddlestone very dejected.

Deeney's flick on. Pocock. Davis Cup across, Deeney in. Great reactions

from Troy Deeney to volley Watford in front! Nice from Redmond. Tadic.

Ghosting in. 1-1! Redmond, who is standing in an

offside position are judged to have made no attempt to play the ball.

Redmond. Away from the Rani easily and away from, Gabbiadini is in the

middle. Redmond, and income beautiful goal! Wonderful team goal

by Southampton finished off by Redmond.

2-2! Laid into his feet by Isaac Success, and a very smart finish.

Here's Redmond. Profile went for Koelle, and

Gabbiadini scores again for Southampton! Heurelho Gomes with the

mistake and who is there, Gabbiadini is there an Southampton lead 3-2.

Doussain Tadic, Redmond wants it and gets it. Long is in the middle. It

is four. Nathan Redmond surely seals the game. Niang delivers, it flashes

a long way and it is touched in. Watford have got one back. Watford

free- for Southampton. Forward by Yohan Cabaye. Looking for

Wilfred Zaha. Brings it down well, and he puts it away with aplomb.

Cracking strike from Wilfred Zaha. All hands on deck here for Crystal

Palace. Can't get past Townsend. Palace with a chance to break away

as Townsend holds on the youngster -- holds off. He's done well.

Benteke gets on his bike. Townsend might take it all the way. Andros

Townsend. Sensational goal. Brilliant, brilliant play from

Andros Townsend. He just kept going and going and going, and West

Bromwich Albion could do nothing about it.

Arnautovic has made some good runs today. A good first touch, around

the goalkeeper, and that is brilliant from Marko Arnautovic. How

about this for a trap in the penalty area to kill the sting of the ball

and finish with aplomb? Delivery by Glenn Whelan. Header by Peter

Crouch, and it is 2-0 to Stoke and two goals for Marko Arnautovic. The

votes Orrin, time for the result of February's goal of the month -- the

results are in. So here are the top three. Harry

Kane in third, Danny Drinkwater second, and the winner of goal of

the month with 36% of the vote, Chelsea's Eden Hazard.

Nothing to suggest at the moment that Arsenal can get back into the

game. Diego Costa, to Hazard. Chased by Coquelin. Too strong for

him. The Chelsea fans rise for Eden Hazard. Into the box. Brilliant. A

brilliant goal by Eden Hazard. Strength, purpose, technique, it had

everything. A goal to savour. Here is the Premier League table.

Spurs have cut the lead to seven points behind Chelsea. Manchester

City a point behind having played a game fewer. Sunderland's loss means

sure they are bottom, six points from safety with 11 games left. Here

is Januzaj. Spurs TV took the brief jokey approach to interviews. This

is a quick one. What did you think of the game today? Very good. Thanks

very much. In the office, if you think you are young and down with

the kids, you enjoy the routine, if you are grumpy middle-aged, you

didn't. Did you like it? Spot on. Did you like it, Phil? Not for me.

There you go. The benching of Alexis Sanchez was all the more surprising

given the percentage of goals he contributes to Arsenal. So we will

leave you with the players that their clubs could not do without.

Philly offer an ice cream. -- Phil is off for an ice cream. What a

special strike to add to the collection of Harry Kane. It has

dropped to Harry Kane. Harry Kane at the double again. Here is the cross

towards Sanchez. Fantastic goal. Alexis Sanchez, the shimmy, it is

magnificent. Into Ibrahimovic. What a brilliant goal. A world-class

finish. Ibrahimovic, in the net. Zlatan Ibrahimovic for Manchester

United. The chance for Romelu Lukaku. And he now is ever to's

record Premier League goal-scorer. Sigurdsson. A backheel for Olson.

He's in behind, and he scores. How about that with the backheel from

Sigurdsson? Sigurdsson, it is in. When Swansea needed, Gylfi

Sigurdsson delivers. What a finish that is by Alvaro Negredo. Danger

here. Jermaine Defoe. Incredible. I attended Mr Delaney's funeral

and a ghost appeared. I witnessed and participated in

darkness that you cannot conceive.