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Hello, I'll be honest with you, it's been a long day but we have two | :00:22. | :00:52. | |
games to keep us going, Liverpool against Crystal Palace and Burnley | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
versus Manchester United. Danny Murphy and Matthew Upson are with | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
us. The great and good are arriving | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
at a posh London hotel Jurgen Klopp's first defeat | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
as Liverpool manager Can they chuck another spanner | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
in the top-four works? Two sides in outstanding form, | :01:10. | :01:28. | |
albeit with contrasting incentives for victory. One eye on the | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
Champions League, the other trying to avoid the Championship. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Unsurprisingly, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has seen no reason to | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
alter oh winning team. There were doubts over the fitness of Joel | :01:40. | :01:46. | |
Matip and Lucas but both start at the missing training in the week. A | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
youthful looking bench, with four teenagers on it. Sam Allardyce had | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
to make at least one change, as Sakho is ineligible to face his | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
employers. Tomkins is the only alteration. It means Christian | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Benteke makes his first return to Anfield since becoming Palace's | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
record signing. The first thing you have to do is visiting side at | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Anfield is to try and silenced the crowd. There done that, no real | :02:15. | :02:21. | |
chances at all the Liverpool. Still going, Benteke! He should have done | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
better. Goodness me, it opened up all of a sudden for Benteke. I'm not | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
sure it should've done. Liverpool seemed to stand still. He got the | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
better of Lucas, got the better of Joel Matip and it opened up in front | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
of him. That is one of the youngest benches you will see anywhere in the | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Premier League, four teenagers on it for Liverpool. Brewster has a first | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
opportunity to impress from the bench, the young striker. | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
No foul on Firmino, but Ward has given it straight to Wijnaldum. | :03:03. | :03:11. | |
The shot charged down by Jason Puncheon. | :03:12. | :03:17. | |
Well, that is a foul on Philippe Coutinho. I think in fairness to | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
Andre Marriner, he just looked to see if Liverpool had an advantage | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
and there wasn't really an advantage, so it comes back for that | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
challenge on Coutinho. Coutinho very deliberately | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
overseeing the position. Here he goes. It is on target, it is | :03:34. | :03:47. | |
into the net, it is wonderful! It is one thing knowing where he is going | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
to put it, it is another preventing it when he gets it right. A | :03:53. | :04:21. | |
brilliant free kick from Philippe Coutinho. The wall was very | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
carefully set up but it didn't really make a jot of difference, | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
that is right in the corner. The right amount of whip and swerve and | :04:26. | :04:26. | |
the way in which it rippled the side of the netting means even a | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
goalkeeper as tall as Wayne Hennessey could get nowhere near it. | :04:29. | :04:29. | |
Philippe Coutinho brings up double figures for Premier League goals and | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
he is delighted. 13 times he has been a visiting manager here at | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
Anfield. Three draws and ten defeats. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
Cabaye is onside. Real chance for Crystal Palace. It is 1-1! It is | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
Benteke at the Kop end and Crystal Palace, who have been in brilliant | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
form, never looked like they were done at 1-0 and so it has proven. He | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
is containing his emotion, Sam Allardyce, but you could see a smile | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
just breaking out. Cabaye onside and from this moment on, it was all | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
about the delivery of the ball into the area and Cabaye's ball in was | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
inch perfect and Benteke wraps it into the back of the net. It is now | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
four goals in three appearances as a visitor to Anfield and Christian | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Benteke, who left Liverpool last August, weighs in with a goal | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
against them. And Sam Allardyce absolutely loves it. He tried to be | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
respectful in his celebration, Benteke, but he and the Sakho, | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
former players, embark on this routine. Paper, scissors, stone? It | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
is. And I think Benteke won it. Here is Benteke. It was on target. | :05:47. | :06:07. | |
Mignolet was in the right place to make it a fairly routine save. | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
He was talking in his press conference about how there is no | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
such thing as an easy game, particularly at this stage of the | :06:18. | :06:18. | |
season, Jurgen Klopp. It breaks for Firmino. Off the | :06:19. | :06:25. | |
backside of Puncheon. That is nice. He expected it to be | :06:26. | :06:46. | |
on target. He is that kind of player and he has been brilliant today. | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
That is brilliant, but the finish ends up in the middle of the Kop. | :06:53. | :07:02. | |
Coutinho, such a difficult man to dispossess. All the way. Brilliant | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
block from Tomkins. Great defending. There were a couple of challenges | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
that it Coutinho had gone down, he may well have won a penalty. I think | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
that is what he is saying to Andre Marriner. No one wants to get too | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
heavy a touch on him, because they know what will happen, but he rides | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
a challenge when he could have gone down. Tomkins blocks him. The debate | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
is you give him the advantage to score and when he doesn't score, is | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
it not then a penalty? A heartening start to the second half for | :07:41. | :07:41. | |
Liverpool. Coutinho is getting on the end of | :07:42. | :07:55. | |
everything. I think it hits the back of Kelly again. In fact, it is Origi | :07:56. | :08:01. | |
that gets in the way. Would that have gone in? Might have done. Keep | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
going, he says, be patient, it will come. | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Given away to Milivojevic. Up towards Benteke. Kicked away by | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Matip. A foul by Clyne and a free kick to | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
the visitors. Trying to get away from Clyne, who | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
wouldn't let him get away from him. Benteke and inevitable target. It is | :08:34. | :08:51. | |
finally won. Puncheon drives it, probably on target. Strange | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
clearance, Tomkins wins it. And Cabaye! Decent chance. The first | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
that Palace have had in the second half. Came to him quickly and he had | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
to respond very speedily. But he couldn't get over the top of it and | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
he ended up getting too far underneath it and it was some | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
distance over. There is optimism for sure on the Crystal Palace bench. | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
Ward towards Townsend. Townsend is beyond Lovren. Benteke is by the | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
penalty spot. Milner with a terrific tackle. | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
Lovren was never going to get there. Townsend beyond him. But Milner only | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
had his eyes on the ball and made a timely tackle. Crystal Palace | :09:43. | :09:43. | |
corner. Townsend will swing it towards | :09:44. | :09:52. | |
Mignolet. And it's gone through. Benteke! And field silenced, except | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
for the supporters nearest to the goal, who made their way from south | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
London and Christian Benteke quite literally stooped to conquer. Well, | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
he has got this wonderful scoring record as a visiting player at | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
Anfield. He has got the equaliser. Now, maybe, he has got the winner. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
16 minutes or thereabouts to go and Crystal Palace heading for a third | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
straight win at Anfield. And may be heading to the safety line. And all | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
players, Palace's record signing from Liverpool. | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
It doesn't matter how much you dominate possession, if you don't | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
score, you are always in danger. I'm pretty sure they have only had one | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
attempt on target. "We Are staying up." Well, Liverpool were only as | :10:48. | :10:56. | |
good as we allowed them to be and you can talk about all this | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
possession again, they are going to have a lot of it, as did Chelsea, as | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
did Arsenal and like everything else, people always forget that | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
possession is not nine tenths of the law, it is what you do with your | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
possession and everyone should remember that and we did more with | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
our possession, even though it was limited, than Liverpool today and | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
that is why we won. The situation with Phil was maybe the biggest | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
moment. I'm not sure the rest would say it was a penalty, if he saw at | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
this moment, he might decide differently. The midfield tried to | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
pass, we cannot pass, the reference netted run, no advantage, go back. | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
It is all closed up there, you are 12 now. It has been hard work | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
getting where we are it but it is looking up. What has particularly | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
clicked for the team? I think now we all more compact, and we are all | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
confident, I think and feel more like I have the support of Andros | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
Townsend, of Wilfried Zaha and also the midfield. I don't feel any more | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
lonely at the top of the page. I do mention this quite a lot, | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
Danny, but not long after Sam Allardyce took over at Crystal | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
Palace, he did a post match interview where he talked about | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
everybody having to be patient and the performances and results would | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
come late March and into April and he has been proved right. He always | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
takes a bit of time to implement his way. I mean, Liverpool weren't | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
particularly good today, granted. It is not rocket science with | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Liverpool, no Henderson, no Lallana, no side are now. If they don't have | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
the first 11 fit, they struggle at times. Coutinho was excellent. He | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
was the only one. But Palace were sensational, great performance. A | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
team full of confidence after recent wins against Arsenal and Chelsea. | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
They had a game plan, defended deep, broke with pace with the wide man | :13:08. | :13:07. | |
and Benteke They had a game plan, defended deep, | :13:08. | :13:07. | |
broke with pace with the wide man and Benteke looks like a different | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
player now. And that is down to Sam Allardyce, because he has worked on | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
getting people close to him. The balls into him are better, he is | :13:21. | :13:22. | |
staying closer to the goal. He is not travelling all over. This is the | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
Benteke that Liverpool board and he didn't perform there, obviously | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
because they didn't play to his strengths. He has got all the | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
attributes you need to score lots of goals. He got booked for this, I | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
think he is unfortunate. It is not a penalty but certainly not a yellow | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
card. But when he is playing like this, he is a real handful because | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
for a big man, he has got a good touch. He is great in the air, he | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
just has to play the position and he played between the 18 yard box is | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
really well today. Terrible defending but lovely pass from | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
Cabaye and the form he is in, he is never going to miss. You have played | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
against him, haven't you? He is a massive handful physically and in | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
the air but the thing that stood out for me with Palace today was they | :14:06. | :14:08. | |
had a game plan but how well they took the ball. They have some | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
talented players, some skilful wide players and they have the ball and | :14:14. | :14:14. | |
dealt with the ball really well. On Benteke, it's down to what his | :14:15. | :14:24. | |
coach tells him he wants from him, that is, stick in between the goal, | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
and also down to how they set up, so they have players, as you say, near | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
him? Yes, you have to work on it in training. It's when do you go along | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
to him? If you go in too far away it's easier for defenders to read | :14:39. | :14:43. | |
it, topping screen, but from the right areas there were getting good | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
balls to him. Two months ago I was watching him and he was everywhere | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
but in the box. Stamp -- Sam is obviously saying, where are you | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
going? Stay there. The way Palace played today, it's a well-organised, | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
drilled team, it's a Sam team and they are near the top ten, who would | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
have thought that. Is the point with Sam Allardyce, the patients was | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
needed, the first eight games, just one and drawn one, the last eight | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
games they've won six and drawn one and they are up to 12. Jurgen Klopp | :15:15. | :15:20. | |
said only one player reacted for Crystal Palace was Mac second goal | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
and it was none of his. I don't think he was referencing to his own | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
players, that's for sure. When you look at the goal it's a pretty | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
confusing setup to start with. It's not the tidiest of zonal lines. | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
Really, they need to be in unison and understanding what zone each | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
player is taking. But it's a little bit scruffy. But having said that... | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
You'd move them to there, would you? I would, because tide is that the | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
clarity of what's your zone and your area. But when you look at the | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
crossover there a grey of whose responsibility Benteke. Can looks | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
like he's got him, he's locked in, you think, follow it through. | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
Instead, he kind of gets planted and let's Benteke drift off him. Having | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
said that, Lovren does nothing, there's no proactive stepping in to | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
deal with the play, or to contact Benteke to stop him getting a touch. | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
In the near post, the court corner was poor quality. I've never done | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
zonal, but is that a case of Can switching off, or a situation where | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
Can is thinking Lovren is going to pick him up, let him go? I think so. | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
That's the danger of zonal. You have your man, that's your | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
responsibility, you know what your role is. So when Can sees Benteke | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
go, he thinks, I'm passing onto Lovren? He passes Hibs on, Can, new | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
lock him, even if he comes out of your zone. He's the only threat to | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
score in that position and you have to stay with him and just contact | :16:58. | :17:01. | |
him. You don't have to win it, just make sure he doesn't get a touch on | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
it. They need a centre-half in the summer. On Coutinho, it's an age-old | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
argument about whether referees make decisions on how a player reacts. | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
Matt and I have looked at this a lot and we think it's a perfect | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
opportunity for a referee to pull it back and give a penalty. Now I'm all | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
for letting play go on and to try to stay on your feet to score because | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
it was a brilliant run, but it does hamper his path. It does hamper his | :17:33. | :17:39. | |
rhythm. So can the referees say you haven't scored, but I'm going to | :17:40. | :17:42. | |
give a penalty anyway? Yes, he can. But he didn't. Of course, what does | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
that mean? It means players will continually go over in the box and | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
exaggerate dives, because they know that's the only way they'll get a | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
penalty. It's something we will criticise Ms programme, we will sit | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
and criticise that. The flip side is let's support the players, innocence | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
if they don't go down but there is interference that stops them | :18:03. | :18:11. | |
scoring, let's pull it up and and give the appropriate awarded penalty | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
or free kick or whatever. Next, to Burnley, and today's visitors, | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
Manchester United, who kept their top four lives hopes alive with a | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
victory over Chelsea. COMMENTATOR: | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
United have given notice top four hopes are far from over yet. On | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
Thursday night the jinx struck again. I think we've played six | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
matches in a row, we don't have Jones, we don't have Smalling, we | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
lose Zlatan as well. We have seven matches to play in the Premier | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
League, the Europa League, we needed everyone that can and hopefully we | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
can have helped. So how does the team line-up # Steve Bower is your | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
commentator for Burnley against Manchester United. | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
As the problems mount up, it's all hands on deck for Manchester United | :19:07. | :19:14. | |
to maintain hopes of the top four finish. Today's rotation includes | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
just a second start in the last 19 games for captain Wayne Rooney. Far | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
more subtle from Burnley's point of view as they protect the six best | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
home record in the league, Sam Vokes has a hamstring injury so Andre Gray | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
is recall. Heaton, Keane and Brady faced the club where they began | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
their footballing education. The amount of Jose Mourinho changes are | :19:35. | :19:43. | |
state total, eight, as well as Rooney, there's a start for Anthony | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
Martial and Daley Blind in the centre of defence, Marcus Rashford | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
is only a substitute, along with Mkhitaryan and Carrick. | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
Given away by Pogba. Sloppy and sluggish start from both teams. | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
That's a Burnley free kick. Heaton takes, looking for Ashley | :20:00. | :20:12. | |
Barnes. He's been picked up early in this game by Fellaini, but Barnes | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
won that one. Robbie Brady with the left footed volley wide. Barnes, who | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
wins so much in the air for Burnley. Manchester United know they are | :20:21. | :20:30. | |
going to have to battle for anything they get here today. Martial, his | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
50th Premier League appearance up against Keane. | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
Martial once more. Taking on Keane. He's got it across as well. Herrera | :20:42. | :20:49. | |
is in there, and it's Wayne Rooney, denied by Heaton. You do feel any | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
kind of contact there from Rooney would have resulted in a goal. Ben | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
Mee did well to take some power off the shot. His second Premier League | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
start since December. That's a good ball from Herrera, if | :21:05. | :21:19. | |
Young can keep it in. Time to return the favour, early from Herrera. | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Rooney was in there, needed the intervention of Matt Lowton. A first | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
corner of the game after 11 minutes, is Manchester United's. Fellaini | :21:27. | :21:36. | |
arriving, straight at Heaton. He was allowed to attack risk Marouane | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
Fellaini, away from Keane, the direction was never going to trouble | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
the Burnley captain. Marcus Rashford being wrapped in the proverbial | :21:47. | :21:47. | |
cotton wool. Burnley free kick. Fellaini | :21:48. | :22:03. | |
penalised again. A little nudge. It was little, was it? A prominent | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
nudge on Ashley Barnes. Robbie Brady's delivery. Michael Keane | :22:09. | :22:10. | |
coming in. Still alive. Gray. Another chance for Brady to deliver | :22:11. | :22:26. | |
this. Away by Rooney. Martial, he's got Herrera to his right. Still | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
Martial. He'd seen the Spaniard Pogba is totally free. It's back to | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
Martial. What a devastating break. Anthony Martial marks his 50th | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
Premier League appearance and his recall to the Manchester United team | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
with a goal. After ten games without one, clinical. Rulli started it with | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
a clearance inside his own penalty area. -- Rooney. Martial took up the | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
battered. He knew exactly where Herrera was. A terrific ball back to | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
him and Martial did the rest. His 15th career Premier League goal, one | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
touch controlled it. The second one finished it. And after 21 minutes, | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
Manchester United are in front at Turf Moor. Burnley nil, Manchester | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
United one. I'm not so sure Burnley would have | :23:18. | :23:27. | |
planned for this game with Anthony Martial as a leading figure in the | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
Manchester United line. He has the telling contribution. On his recall | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
so far. Here's the Frenchman again. In two Rooney. It was just about a | :23:38. | :23:48. | |
clean challenge. Didn't look as though Barton got any of the ball | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
well. Just watching Barton coming from behind him. He doesn't get the | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
ball. I can understand Wayne Rooney's question to Anthony Taylor. | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
Burnley certainly affected, conceding a goal. | :24:05. | :24:15. | |
Gray trying to get the better of Blind. The header was from Ashley | :24:16. | :24:23. | |
Young. The hair came along way, got there first Burnley throw. | :24:24. | :24:32. | |
Lowton with it, towards Barnes. Just beaten to it by Darmian. Fellaini | :24:33. | :24:40. | |
first with the second ball. Pogba 40 was being held. Anthony Taylor | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
agreed. -- Pogba thought he was being held. That's falling guard to | :24:46. | :24:54. | |
chase, and chase he will. -- that's for Lingard to chase. Martial in | :24:55. | :24:56. | |
support. The header, straight to Pogba. Good | :24:57. | :25:06. | |
feet from him. Martial is away from Ben he. It's squeezed in by Rooney. | :25:07. | :25:15. | |
2-0 Manchester United. Wayne Rooney, on his return to the team, has his | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
goal. He didn't give this up. Martial is definitely onside. Tom | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
Heaton did well initially. Couldn't quite get there. Rooney was the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
first to react, most certainly over the line and the visitors have their | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
second. A little untidy there but credit Rooney. He got there first, | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
bobbled off Michael Keane as well, and over the line. Majesty and I | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
to's all-time goal-scorer has his 251st for the clubs Manchester | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
United's all-time goal-scorer. Ward couldn't keep it out. Burnley nil, | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
Manchester United two. Pogba has got it back from Marty. | :25:56. | :26:13. | |
Might fancy ago. He does. A decent try. Denied by Heaton. Still alive | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
here potentially with Young. Afflict off Lingard. Away by Tom Heaton, for | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
Burnley. You just wonder whether this took a touch on the way | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
through. It did. Caught it sweetly, Paul Pogba. Just clipped off Jeff | :26:33. | :26:40. | |
Hendrick. Well, he had to turn to Martial and two Rooney today. Both | :26:41. | :26:42. | |
have responded with goals. Mkhitaryan trying to bend it into | :26:43. | :26:54. | |
the run of Rashford. Heaton was committed and trying to squeeze it | :26:55. | :26:57. | |
home for the near post, Marcus Rashford. And how that isn't a | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
corner, I don't know. Tom Heaton saved it. Peter Kirkup, the | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
referee's assistant has said goal kick. Heaton outcome, backpedalled, | :27:08. | :27:11. | |
and saves it. As it stands, this run will stretch to one win in 11 | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
Premier League Elding -- games. He said to me earlier this week they | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
still don't feel safe. Pogba won it back. Now Rashford to Pogba's left. | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
Mkhitaryan to his right. They all stood off Pogba, just wide of the | :27:31. | :27:34. | |
target in the end and they backed off, he saw the gap and it just went | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
the wrong side of the post from Paul Pogba. His last Premier League goal | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
was back in 2016. I'm sure he expected a tough day at the office, | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
but ultimately a good end to a great week. | :27:51. | :27:53. | |
Point behind Manchester City heading to the Etihad on Thursday? Yes, now | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
we have the same number of matches and one pointless, obviously. They | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
play now one match per week until the end of the season. We have the | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
semifinals that are very important for us. It's more difficult for us, | :28:11. | :28:18. | |
but we are going to try. How pleased were you to be back in the starting | :28:19. | :28:23. | |
XI today? Yes, of course, you want to play games and I'm thankful I've | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
done that today. I'm pleased I got the goal. I think the most important | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
thing of course was the three points and keeping a good run going and | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
building momentum. Although you've done 250 times for this club, when | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
you get a goal like today, is it still was a rush, the same feeling? | :28:40. | :28:47. | |
Yes, scoring the goal is the best feeling in football and obviously | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
winning trophies is the pinnacle in terms of your team, but on an | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
individual point of view it's the best feeling is scoring goals. You | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
said earlier in the week you still don't feel 100% safe. Is that the | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
same after the weekend results? I don't think anybody does. You have | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
to do what you have to do unknown to the -- and until it's done we keep | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
fighting and working until we've got everything we can get. You want | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
another win as soon as possible you want as many wins on the table, the | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
fact is we've been down this road a few times at the other end of the | :29:18. | :29:21. | |
market. Obviously the Championship at once before, when we are fighting | :29:22. | :29:24. | |
for every point so we know what it's about. It's about taking the next | :29:25. | :29:26. | |
four. Let's start with Anthony Martial who | :29:27. | :29:33. | |
flourished today in a season where he maybe hasn't flourished in. He | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
has had some problems off the pitch and taken some criticism from the | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
merger, which is never nice but responded in the right way. He | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
played centrally, which was a bit of a surprise when Rooney was starting | :29:45. | :29:49. | |
as well. I like this, I want to run behind. With his pace... He is a bit | :29:50. | :29:54. | |
short on matches but the intention was there and I like that. Strong, | :29:55. | :29:58. | |
powerful. We have seen his talent last season, we know the qualities | :29:59. | :30:02. | |
he has got, it is the consistency and desires sometimes that has been | :30:03. | :30:07. | |
questioned. This is unbelievable, great feat, he is off. I would | :30:08. | :30:11. | |
suggest jury could have been a bit more cynical there and brought him | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
down but he tries to do the honest thing. Good pass from Herera and it | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
is calmness in front of goal, it is a good finish from Marshall. There | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
are parts of his game he could work on -- from Martial. There are times | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
when you play the lone striker role and you need to be a bit more | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
dependent and reliable, but when he gets in the final third, he goes at | :30:33. | :30:36. | |
people, he scares defenders. Nice and positive. The more games he | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
gets, the more confident he will get, but the linkup play with Rooney | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
was nice. He mixes his game up quite well, comes to feed, spins behind. | :30:47. | :30:51. | |
But when you play in that role, you do have to be a team player and | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
there, I am thinking you have the bust a gut to get into the box | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
because Rooney has no one to cross do. The more he plays that, the | :30:59. | :31:03. | |
better he will get at it. Again, bust a gut, give your partner | :31:04. | :31:11. | |
adoption, but -- an option, but overall, very good after the | :31:12. | :31:14. | |
negativity he has had. Is that the way he should be playing? You can | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
look at Rashford over the last month and his impressive form has come | :31:18. | :31:20. | |
when he has gone through the middle and now you see it with Martial. You | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
can't just play one position and expect to play there. Matty Blair | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
get back, I had to play right midfield to get in the Liverpool | :31:30. | :31:36. | |
team -- Matty played left back. You have to work hard whatever position | :31:37. | :31:39. | |
new player and the more comfortable you get and the more wisdom you get | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
on the pitch, you might move centrally. You can't just want to | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
play in one position. But, yes, he is better there. It might have | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
sounded ridiculous in September or October, but Manchester United fans, | :31:52. | :31:56. | |
I think, would be more concerned about Marcos Rojo's injury, because | :31:57. | :32:06. | |
they have people to replace others, but how did his understudy do today? | :32:07. | :32:11. | |
I don't think they had too much to worry about today, they were | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
massively tested that what they did do, they did very well and formed | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
quite a classic partnership. You have Bailey, who is more of the | :32:18. | :32:22. | |
enforcer, and blind is a lot more composed -- Eric Bailly. Lined | :32:23. | :32:33. | |
showing real instinct to get at the near post and cover. Pace isn't an | :32:34. | :32:40. | |
asset, so he shows his intelligence there to hold him up. It is using | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
his brain and understanding his limitations. His distribution looks | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
effortless, but I can tell you it is well skilled, the accuracy of his | :32:49. | :32:55. | |
balls and the weight of his passing. And then you have his partner, who | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
is very different. He is a bit all action and throws himself in the way | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
of things. Desperate to get a block in on the edge of the box. He makes | :33:03. | :33:06. | |
aggressive choices and he is the out and out defender, he enjoys getting | :33:07. | :33:14. | |
blocks in American tackles and today, they formed a really good | :33:15. | :33:17. | |
partnership. They coped really well today. Are you concerned about | :33:18. | :33:22. | |
Burnley, given the situation and given the momentum that Hull and | :33:23. | :33:29. | |
Swansea have below them? Only Middlesbrough have one fewer matches | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
over ten games and there is a 5-point gap between them and | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
Swansea. I think there is a little concerned there but they have two | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
home games coming up against teams they will really fancy themselves | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
against. It wasn't one of Burnley's best performances today but I think | :33:44. | :33:47. | |
they will be OK. I would rather have points on the board, because the | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
others have got to win some games. And West Brom and West Ham, to use a | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
cliche, haven't really got anything to play for. No, absolutely. Burnley | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
are looking over their shoulder a little bit, it is a dangerous | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
situation for them. Sean Dyche won't let them rest on their laurels. | :34:05. | :34:06. | |
Following us tonight - highlights of today's FA Cup | :34:07. | :34:08. | |
semifinal between Arsenal and Manchester City. | :34:09. | :34:10. | |
The opening day of the Spring Series and highlights of Manchester City | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
Women's Champions League semifinal feature on the Women's | :34:14. | :34:15. | |
And on Wednesday, I'll bring you commentary of Crystal Palace | :34:16. | :34:23. | |
against Tottenham over on BBC 5 Live. | :34:24. | :34:25. | |
We're about to find out who's won the PFA Players' | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
but first, let's take a look at the nominees. | :34:29. | :34:44. | |
A world-class finish from a world-class player! What strike. To | :34:45. | :35:04. | |
add to the collection of Harry Kane. Look at this from N'Golo Kante, | :35:05. | :35:10. | |
brilliant. And Lukaku finishes as Lukaku does. | :35:11. | :35:17. | |
The shimmy, the pink, its magnificent -- the dink. And the | :35:18. | :35:30. | |
2017 men's player's Player of the Year is N'Golo Kante. | :35:31. | :35:31. | |
APPLAUSE This season, N'Golo Kante has | :35:32. | :35:41. | |
featured in the PFA Premier League team of the year. He of course won | :35:42. | :35:46. | |
the Premier League title in only his first season last year and | :35:47. | :35:48. | |
successfully broke into the French starting line-up. | :35:49. | :35:56. | |
Very, very many congratulations. How does it feel here to be honoured | :35:57. | :36:05. | |
with the men's PFA players' Player of the Year. Good evening everyone. | :36:06. | :36:13. | |
It is unusual to be chosen by the players and it is very special. What | :36:14. | :36:19. | |
an impact you have made to live in the Premier League, obviously with | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
Leicester, you won the Premier League title. Quite possibly on | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
course for another one. It is not a bad beginning to live in England's | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
top-flight. My first two seasons are very beautiful, last season was very | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
beautiful and so far, this is a good season and we have to finish well | :36:37. | :36:42. | |
but so far, very good season. What is the secret behind your success? I | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
have to improve to work for the team, to win, to win every time and | :36:48. | :36:53. | |
we have to finish the season very well. You are a very, very popular | :36:54. | :36:57. | |
winner here tonight. So very many congratulations. Ladies and | :36:58. | :37:06. | |
gentlemen, the men's PFA Players' Player of the Year, N'Golo Kante. | :37:07. | :37:15. | |
Deserved, Matthew? 100%. I know, Danny, you kind of agree but | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
has slightly different views but for me, he is the most valuable player | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
in the Premier League with his contribution. He might not be the | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
most creative or sudden impact wise, but over the course of the season, | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
the most valuable player in the Premier League. You are learning, | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
Danny agrees are some things and then will disagree. I said before he | :37:36. | :37:41. | |
is the one you can't replace. So if Hazard isn't there, you can put | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
Will.i.am in but Hazard against the other big boys has turned the game | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
the Chelsea -- you can put Willian in. Kante is the best midfielder in | :37:51. | :37:55. | |
the Premier League, if not Europe. The other thing that came through | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
from watching those pictures, the warmth in the room towards him, | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
which I guess might not always be the case when you go to these | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
things, I have never been, but real warmth. But the way he plays, who | :38:06. | :38:10. | |
plays with a smile, he has this big smile on his face and his attitude | :38:11. | :38:15. | |
and the way... I think that is the other thing, every week, you know | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
what this guy is delivering. I don't know if you can say that about | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
Hazard but week in, week out, this guy does the business. | :38:23. | :38:23. | |
And a few minutes ago, the Women's Player of | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
These were the names to look out for. | :38:27. | :38:35. | |
And Lucy Bronze scores the opening goal. | :38:36. | :38:43. | |
And it is in from Ross. It is Jill Scott who has applied the finish. | :38:44. | :38:55. | |
And the women's Player of the Year goes to Lucy Bronze. Lucy wins this | :38:56. | :39:10. | |
award for the second time, having previously won it back in 2014. She | :39:11. | :39:17. | |
scored the winning goal... To win the award and as a defender as well, | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
you don't really get a lot of accolades but it is a great award to | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
win and to have it voted for by all of the opposition players, it makes | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
it really special. And you have been part of what we have spoken about, | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
the invincible team at Manchester City. How proud are you to have | :39:33. | :39:37. | |
played a part in that? Very proud, it shows in the team of the year and | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
the nominees for both young and senior player that, as a team, we | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
have been very successful and all the individuals have performed | :39:45. | :39:47. | |
really well in the team. And this award for me is with all of my | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
thanks for the players on the team, because without them, I would be | :39:53. | :39:57. | |
anywhere near this. Too good to bad still to come but first, Saturday's | :39:58. | :40:05. | |
goals and we start in the Vitality stadium -- two Good two Bad still to | :40:06. | :40:08. | |
come. Queue goes to the return from | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
Daniels. What a goal, absolutely superb from Joshua King. Bournemouth | :40:15. | :40:19. | |
ahead in just over a minute and a half. Daniels. He has got the | :40:20. | :40:26. | |
beating of him and he nearly found King again. That is a profitable | :40:27. | :40:34. | |
route. And now it is Afobe! 2-0. We are any 16 minutes into this game. | :40:35. | :40:42. | |
-- only 16 minutes into this game. That'll be a free kick for the | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
challenge by Gaston Ramirez, who has already been booked by the referee. | :40:47. | :40:49. | |
It is a second yellow card and it goes from bad to worse for | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
Middlesbrough. And gain, they don't get the ball | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
away. It could open up for Bournemouth once more. And it is | :40:59. | :41:05. | |
three time. Marc Pugh. Yet again, Middlesbrough didn't clear their | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
lines and once more, they are made to pay for it. | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
Fraser to Charlie Daniels. Daniel is still going. It is four. And it is | :41:15. | :41:20. | |
turning into quite a party for Bournemouth against the ten men of | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
Middlesbrough, who are enduring a wretched afternoon. | :41:25. | :41:35. | |
Half Mason Holgate's cross for Lukaku to attack and it nearly came | :41:36. | :41:41. | |
through the Calvert-Lewin. The first meaningful ball hit into the West | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
Ham box for Lukaku to attack in the entire game. | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
Lanzini with it, up comes Collins and Winston Reid. Aimed past the far | :41:51. | :42:00. | |
post. Fonte. And is that the last chance we will have? West Ham have | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
created more chances, certainly and Everton, very disappointing day. If | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
they are to finish in the top five, they've got to be better than this. | :42:09. | :42:15. | |
Fernando Llorente! Swansea make the breakthrough. Just the start that | :42:16. | :42:23. | |
Paul Clement and this part of south Wales have been dreaming of. | :42:24. | :42:31. | |
Carol. Drives it towards goal and scores! -- Tom Carroll. Fortune is | :42:32. | :42:42. | |
favouring Swansea City. And that's the reaction down in the Swansea | :42:43. | :42:44. | |
technical area. Unbridled joy. Then going through on Niang. And | :42:45. | :43:02. | |
it's a red card! It's a red card for Oumar Niasse. And what a turning | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
point that might be, not just today but in Hull City's season. | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
Suddenly Hull City have a few players forward if they can use it | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
quickly. Robertson has found Grosicki. Markovic is in the middle. | :43:16. | :43:23. | |
Against the bar... And in! What a turnaround, what a counterattack, | :43:24. | :43:25. | |
what an important goal for Hull City. Another chance for Hull. | :43:26. | :43:32. | |
Grosicki over it once more. It is going to drop for Clucas this time. | :43:33. | :43:39. | |
Good shot! Fantastic shot! First Markovic and now Sam Clucas have | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
Hull City heading for another three points won at home. | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
Liverpool's defeat has dented their top-four ambitions, | :43:51. | :43:57. | |
with both Manchester clubs in striking distance | :43:58. | :43:58. | |
United are now just a point behind City, who they play on Thursday. | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
Crystal Palace have taken a big stride towards survival, | :44:04. | :44:05. | |
jumping four places to 12th with their sixth win | :44:06. | :44:07. | |
Maybe Hull City's amazing home form is down to the pre-match | :44:08. | :44:29. | |
entertainment at the KCOM. Maybe not. They celebrate a goal with | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
passion, Hull, although where did he come from? And our latest hand | :44:34. | :44:42. | |
coordination celebration ends in Rock, paper scissors, with Benteke | :44:43. | :44:49. | |
and Sako. Can you talk us through... Have you got your black tights on? | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
What are you wearing? Why have you put that on? Anything, any excuse! | :44:55. | :45:03. | |
Well done, mate. You must be really pleased, great achievement. I was | :45:04. | :45:07. | |
really pleased until you put that on! I'll get you back, Danny Murphy, | :45:08. | :45:09. | |
I'll get you back! Back to the PFA now and let's catch | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
up on the night's other winners. The winner of the Women's | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
Young Player of the Year She's looking forward | :45:18. | :45:19. | |
to an FA Cup final in May. And Tottenham's Dele Alli picked up | :45:20. | :45:24. | |
the Men's Young Player award It's an unbelievable feeling, | :45:25. | :45:36. | |
especially to be voted by the other players as well, it's a huge honour | :45:37. | :45:39. | |
and I couldn't have done it without my team-mates and the other boys at | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
Tottenham. It's been an unbelievable season for resource. We've just got | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
keep going, keep fighting and keep improving a team. | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
And this year's PFA Merit Award winner - | :45:52. | :45:55. | |
The former England captain. Of playing for Manchester United and | :45:56. | :46:06. | |
England my whole young life and obviously to have represented my | :46:07. | :46:10. | |
country for the amount of times I did, that is my proudest thing as a | :46:11. | :46:16. | |
footballer. To be captain as well, winning trophies, every one of them | :46:17. | :46:23. | |
means exactly the same thing. You'll ask any professional athlete to win | :46:24. | :46:26. | |
a trophy, it doesn't matter where you win it, they all mean the same | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
thing. Obviously 99 was a special year for me. To win a trouble with | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
players that I'd grown up with from a very young age and to get married | :46:36. | :46:42. | |
that year and to have a son, my first son in that year, it was a | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
busy year, but a good one -- to win at treble. I look back on 1999 is | :46:48. | :46:54. | |
one of my most successful years as a player. To play for the teams I've | :46:55. | :46:56. | |
played for in different countries, the managers I've played and runs | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
the players I've played with and the fans I've played in front of, 22 | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
years of playing the sport that I never saw as a job, I always saw as | :47:05. | :47:08. | |
a hobby because I would have done it whether I'd been paid or not, so at | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
the end of the day, you know, I lived my dream and I had a lot of | :47:13. | :47:14. | |
people to support me. And England's record goalscorer | :47:15. | :47:19. | |
Kelly Smith received the Women's Merit Award | :47:20. | :47:21. | |
for her contribution to football. Smith, who had three spells | :47:22. | :47:23. | |
at Arsenal, winning 11 trophies, including three FA Cups, | :47:24. | :47:25. | |
retired earlier this year. We leave you with | :47:26. | :47:33. | |
the PFA Team of the Year, COMMENTATOR: | :47:34. | :47:56. | |
It's another brilliant De Gea stop. That's better from Walker, really | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
good play from him. Oh, it came back to Cahill. He caught them out. 1-1! | :48:01. | :48:14. | |
Chelsea fans rise to Eden Hazard. Brilliant! Brilliant, Eden Hazard. | :48:15. | :48:21. | |
Oh, what a goal, what a season, what a player. Kante finds a way. He's a | :48:22. | :48:29. | |
man for all positions. Scores with another cracking goal! Oh, yes, what | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
a special strike to add to the collection of Harry Kane! And Lukaku | :48:36. | :48:41. | |
finishes as Lukaku does. He has the power and he has the poise. | :48:42. | :48:51. | |
MUSIC: Pure And Simple by Hear'Say It's like old times! | :48:52. | :49:00. | |
You look fantastic! I look ridiculous. | :49:01. | :49:03. | |
Ready to take on the new series of Car Share? | :49:04. | :49:06. | |
Then book a look, as Series 2 is now available in full | :49:07. | :49:10. |