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COMMENTATOR: Just brilliant, just brilliant! | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
COMMENTATOR: What a turn, what a goal! | :00:24. | :00:35. | |
COMMENTATOR: Look at that. Oh, look at that! | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
We're into March and on the long run for home in the Premier League. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
Coming up, we've got seven games, loads of goals, | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
Danny Murphy and Martin Keown will provide the analysis. | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
The perfect guests for our opening match, | :00:54. | :00:54. | |
When the sides met on the opening day of the season, Liverpool won 4-3 | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
But they've struggled since the new year, and like Arsenal | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
face a battle to secure a Champions League place. | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
On the might of the much hyped trash talked heavyweight bout elsewhere, | :01:08. | :01:22. | |
two reportedly top five lightweights meet with social media criticism of | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
both clanging like alarm bells. Jurgen Klopp denies he's ignoring | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
the deficiencies of 2017, promises summer signings, says there are no | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
excuses for Monday's defeat at Leicester and replaces Lucas with | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Klavan. Lovren, on the benches, isn't ready for return. Arsene | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
Wenger needs to improve on two wins in 22 away games. He's without Ozil, | :01:46. | :01:52. | |
who is ill. Giroud comes in as they prepare to go along to avoid | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
Liverpool's midfield press. Welbeck starts for the first time in ten | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
months. Granit Xhaka sees the run-off | :01:58. | :02:10. | |
Monreal. Too much pace on it for the Spanish fullback. Back in the | :02:11. | :02:11. | |
starting line-up. Lallana wide. Back across the goal, | :02:12. | :02:27. | |
the dummy, Firmino puts Liverpool 1-0 up on the counterattack with | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
eight minutes gone and the Arsenal defence look to midfielders who | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
didn't track back. The first header was missed. Too much space for | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
Lallana. Mane is onside. Defenders trying to get back quickly, but look | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
at the way the ball made its way through that penalty area and | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
Firmino arriving on the far post listed it in. The ninth of the | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
season for him. Liverpool head. -- ahead. Wijnaldum gets a to Coutinho. | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
The referee has played the advantage. Liverpool nearly took it, | :03:04. | :03:08. | |
Cech to deny Coutinho. Good refereeing. A fine strike, good | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
goalkeeping. Milner, hugging the left touchline. | :03:13. | :03:27. | |
Always a workmanlike player, inter-Wijnaldum. It should be two, | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
and is. Liverpool in the driving seat now. Six minutes before | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
half-time, they've doubled the lead. From this position, Arsenal | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
shouldn't have conceded. Look at Mane, topped of the picture, no one | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
has picked him up. They know he's there, they haven't covered it. No | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
one, Don Mane. As soon as Firmino played it across, he's in acres of | :03:52. | :03:58. | |
space. And took it well, drilled it in for his 12th of the season. Steve | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
Bould glares, Arsene Wenger looks perplexed. | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
Lallana again, look at the weighing one passes, bypass the midfield. | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
Coquelin got back at Lallana. It's come through to Coutinho, it would | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
have been sweet, the way he took the ball down. Couldn't beat Cech. So | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
neat and tidy. Away by Milner, good clearance. | :04:24. | :04:34. | |
Firmino allowed to come, bring it down and play the ball away. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
Midfielders seem to stand and watch. Just hasn't been at the races, | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
Granit Xhaka. Giroud waiting in the middle. A splendid save off the bar. | :04:47. | :04:54. | |
Arsenal very nearly back into the game. Giroud Rose, hung in the air, | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
great header back across goal. Mignolet reacted sharply. It's the | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
first worth the effort Arsenal have had on goal and we are in the 49th | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
minute. Granit Xhaka wanted too much time on the ball. Firmino isolated | :05:15. | :05:24. | |
with Bellerin. Went down far too easily there. The referee should | :05:25. | :05:25. | |
have a look at that. Oxlade-Chamberlain brings it out. | :05:26. | :05:38. | |
Here's Sanchez. A darting dash, a lovely ball through to Welbeck. | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Arsenal have won back, set up by Sanchez, scored by Welbeck. The | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
impact of Sanchez off the bench almost immediate. Arsenal back in | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
the game. He made the decision not to start Sanchez. He's brought him | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
on now with telling effect, because from the moment Sanchez picked it up | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
here and run at Liverpool, the home team were troubled. A little gap | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
appeared, slipped through to Welbeck. He finished brilliantly. | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
The keeper came out, but not really convincingly. Arsenal, so boring the | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
first half, have halved the arrears. Mane, brilliant at holding it up. | :06:12. | :06:27. | |
Brilliantly done by Mane. Brings it to Coutinho, over his own barred by | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
Mustafi am saving Arsenal. Lovely movement by Liverpool again. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Coutinho's Cross darted towards the far post. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Iwobi is in the middle. Sanchez completely taken out by Can, I'm | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
sure the referee will go back to that. Iwobi, to Welbeck. Bellerin | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
arriving. He's taken it brilliantly. Look at -- looking forward Giroud. | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
The referee will go back and book Can. It's good refereeing. Took out | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Sanchez cynically. Mane fouled. Why foul there? Sanchez | :07:06. | :07:16. | |
is protesting that Mane went down too easily. | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
Coutinho with the free kick, dangerous. Cech had to fly. That | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
would have settled it. Matip got goal side of the staff, who didn't | :07:32. | :07:38. | |
defend well. Cech seemed to go down in stages, but the 34-year-old | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
keeper got down for the save. Taken out there, and if it's Can, he | :07:41. | :07:53. | |
should go off. The referee might decide it was Matip. Who committed | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
foul. If it's Can, he would have to go, I would think. That's what the | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
Arsenal players are saying. Walcott with the run, Can coming in. The | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
referee's view here, for me, is that Matic commits the foul, but it was | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
definitely Can and it would have been a second bookable offence. Can | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
over the top four Origi's pace. Mustafi there with him. He's stole | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
it away at the referee said he did it unfairly and Mustafi says he got | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
the ball, but was he pulling back? He had his hand on Origi's shirt. | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
That's where the free kick was given. Pulling his shirt. It doesn't | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
matter that he won the ball. Liverpool could clinch it here. In | :08:45. | :08:54. | |
comes the Milner free kick, it's off the post. Origi is so unlucky! I did | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
the free kick on, used the pace of the free kick. To just guide it | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
towards the goal. Here's Mane. Lovely header here by Divock Origi, | :09:03. | :09:13. | |
using the whip of the Milner free kick off the post. Liverpool, so | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
close to being home. Here's Sanchez, great ball. This is Arsenal's last | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
chance. Sanchez, terrific block by Matip. He's struggling for fitness. | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
Lallana on the counter. What about getting the pass away to Origi? You | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
does so now. Read you looking at Wijnaldum through the middle. This | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
is to finish it. That finishes it! Liverpool three, Arsenal one. | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
Another classic Liverpool counterattack to finish off Arsenal | :09:51. | :09:56. | |
and take Jurgen Klopp further forward in the chase for a top four | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
place. Arsene Wenger's team improved in the second period, got back into | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
it, but in the end, Petr Cech beaten. Arsenal's heads are low, and | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
is this a mighty stride forward for Liverpool and a huge step backwards | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
for Arsenal? We went for Giroud and Welbeck and I think of course | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
Sanchez is a great player, but he came on in the second half but I | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
think in the second half it was easier for the strikers because we | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
are more dominant in midfield and the back. We knew Arsenal would | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
bounce back in the second half and with Sanchez, the highest quality | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
player, but the problem was he plays completely different to Welbeck and | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
so we had to adapt until we adapted, we had already two big chances, and | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
Simon saved our lives in this situation. People say its top 16 but | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
the Premier League is the best league in the world, it's not just | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
the top six that are good teams. As Leicester showed last season. We've | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
just got to keep working hard and hopefully gain some consistency. We | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
speak about a long-term project and nobody is in doubt about each other. | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
I'm not about the players, the play is not about me, the owner is not | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
about me, so it's completely fine apart from the few results and | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
performances that are right. You're out of the top four since the turn | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
of the year for the first time and people will say that it now, but | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
there's a long way to go. That's always it and I've been asked that | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
question is many times. Let's see where we are in May. We are in a job | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
where we have to perform and we have to focus on that. We'll come to | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Arsene Wenger and Arsenal shortly, but it was the finest play from | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
Liverpool, played Xumetra Mendis football. You could have picked out | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
a number of players, but you've gone for Lallana. -- played tremendous | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
football. I have, he epitomised what was good about Liverpool today. It | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
was Liverpool of pre-Christmas, the one we expect to see when they play | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
anybody at Anfield on the front foot, energy, tenacity, and I think | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
he's added everything to his game this year. He's had a little low, | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
like all the team have, but he had a point to prove today. I had to put | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
this down from so many different examples to a few, but his pressing | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
and his willingness to get the team, to win the ball back in the opposing | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
half and get the team on the front foot, was incredible. He continued | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
this energy. People talk about blowing up in the second-half as a | :12:27. | :12:33. | |
team, he didn't. He was sensational. Arsenal were playing into his hands | :12:34. | :12:36. | |
in many ways, stupid little balls into the middle of the pitch when | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
they've got a high press. Of course, I accept that, but you still got to | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
have the energy and the desire to win the ball back. We know he's a | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
good footballer, he is creative, but this part of this game, playing in a | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
central position is so much better for Lallana. He is so much more | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
involved in the game and every aspect. In the last few | :12:55. | :13:06. | |
minutes of the ball. Look at that for a pass outside his foot. In | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
those central areas with his energy and ability to see the whole pitch, | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
he's becoming Liverpool's most influential player. He certainly is. | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
Alexis Sanchez left out, he scored or assisted in 26 goals this season. | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
Can you make any sense of that decision? | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
Stunning, I can't understand why Arsene Wenger would not play him, he | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
is their best player. He said he wants to play more direct. They | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
didn't play the long ball. They didn't do that in the match, as | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
Danny has shown with Lallana. I'm struggling to remember a more tepid | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
Arsenal performance in the last 20 years under Arsene Wenger. There was | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
a lack of spirit, of fire in their bellies. They just basically didn't | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
turn up in the first half and left themselves far too much to do. Some | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
of the defending had you hiding behind the sofa. Gary, there is a | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
thing about territory when you are on the pitch. Where are you as a | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
back four? This is far too deep, this is the back four, they should | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
be on the edge of the centre circle where you can win the ball and in | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
the opposition half. Koscielny leaves too much to do, he should | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
still win this, he's coming from such a long way back, flies through | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
the air, all of a sudden they are in trouble, Firmino makes a run, nobody | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
tracks him, easy as you like, these are basics and it's a good quality | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
finish lifted over the keeper. But that can be dealt with, I'm sure it | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
can be dealt with on the day and on the training pitch. Look at this | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
situation, 13 yards before they engage an opposition player. They | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
should be doing that on the halfway line. Too much time and space. Look | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
at this, Iwobi, he lets Wijnaldum run off his shoulder, and all of a | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
sudden they are in trouble and look, you can see where he wants to run, | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
Mustafi has to come across and then it is a numbers game, that is what | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
football is. Three versus two and they played Lallana with a really | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
clever pass and it is cleared Danac switched to the back post and Sadio | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
Mane does the rest. Basic errors, make one mistake and accommodation | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
of mistakes come from that. That should be sorted out on the training | :15:13. | :15:13. | |
pitch. The form book suggested a home win | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
at the Liberty Stadium. Swansea City have been much | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
improved under Paul Clement, while Burnley had won just two | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
points on their travels all season. Commentary from John Roder. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
Dutch international Luciano Narsingh makes his first offer Swansea since | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
joining in January from PSV. The Swans have won the last two at The | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
Liberty Stadium, Leroy Fer got the winner when they won by a single | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
goal at Burnley on the opening weekend of the season. 37-year-old | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
Paul Robinson replaces Tom Heaton in gold, Paul Heaton was taken ill | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
overnight. Welsh international Sam Vokes comes in for Ashley Barnes who | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
was suspended. This is the second of four successive away matches for | :15:55. | :15:55. | |
Sean Dyche's team. Vokes hoping to let that ball run. | :15:56. | :16:09. | |
Naughton gets it away. Narsingh. Looking to shrug off the attentions | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
of Ward. This will be a caution, the first of the afternoon. Stephen Ward | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
has had problems with Luciano Narsingh right throughout the early | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
stages of the match and it is a booking inside the opening ten | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
minutes for the Burnley left-back. Sigurdsson will take. Plenty of | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
heads trying to get on the end of it and it is Mawson macro against the | :16:32. | :16:40. | |
bar. Through for a Narsingh command against the bar! Swansea so close to | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
scoring. Real problems for Burnley at the back. The header against the | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
bar from Mawson, and as it fell kindly here for Swansea, the shot in | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
the end from Mawson also against the frame of the goal. | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
Leroy Fer trying to get away from Hendrick. Year-ends Llorente! | :17:06. | :17:15. | |
Fernando Llorente moves into double figures for the season and scores | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
for the second week in succession. Swansea were so unfortunate not to | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
score just a few moments earlier, Alfie Mawson hitting the bar and the | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
post-. But how about this for a cross? Leroy Fer bending it into | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
absolute perfection back across goal in between the two defenders. | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
Nothing Robinson could do about that. | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
Ward. Gray trying to spin away from Fernandez and it got a touch off | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
Fernandez on the way through. Fabianski stretching to push that | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
behind for the corner. Andre Gray battling hard here, and you can see | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
the ball off the foot of the Swansea defender. Fabianski readjusts | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
superbly. Burnley's first corner of the match. Keane's header. It will | :18:06. | :18:15. | |
be another corner. Fernandez could have left that, didn't get a shout. | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
In towards Mee. Appeals for a handball. | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
WHISTLE And it's been given. Penalty kick to | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
Burnley, and you can see what Swansea think of that. Anthony | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
Taylor had a think and then pointed to the spot. There's the handball. | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
Now, that looked as if it came off the arm of Sam Vokes. No further | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
action taken by Anthony Taylor. Andre Gray up against Lukasz | :18:47. | :18:56. | |
Fabianski. And Gray makes it 1-1. It's only the seventh goal Burnley | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
have scored on their travels this season and it has brought them back | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
on level terms here in South Wales. Simple execution of the penalty, a | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
far from simple explanation for the penalty. You can see here the | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
reaction of the Swansea players in particular, and it clearly strikes | :19:17. | :19:23. | |
the arm of Sam Vokes. That's the referee's view. Certain to be a | :19:24. | :19:31. | |
major talking point. Cork steps away from Hendrick. Options left and | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
right here for Jack Cork. Sigurdsson. He goes for goal and | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
almost found it as well. Carroll. The chase is on here for | :19:38. | :19:53. | |
Sigurdsson. Olsson, terrific run. Can he provide the cross to match? | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
Llorente! Off the bar, and that is the third time in this first half | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
that Swansea have found the frame of the goal. Twice from Mawson, and now | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
from Llorente. The rain continues to come down | :20:08. | :20:19. | |
quite heavily here at the Validity. Leroy Fer finds Sigurdsson. Looking | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
to place it in the bottom corner and he would have done as well but it | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
was Ben Mee in the right place to clear that one away. -- Liberty | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
Stadium. Swansea again come close to scoring. | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
Lowton towards Vokes. Gray able to turn and fire it in past Fabianski. | :20:42. | :21:04. | |
Brilliant piece of play from Andre Gray. His second goal today takes | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
him up to nine for the season and puts Burnley in front. They've | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
scored only six goals on their travels in the Premier League before | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
today the season, and they've scored twice here today and we're just past | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
the hour mark. Vokes with the knock-down and Andrey Kraitor able | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
to spin, turn, shoot and score -- Andre Gray. Vokes. Forward by Brady. | :21:31. | :21:42. | |
Gray. Vokes making the running to the area. Couldn't quite provide the | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
finishing touch. Having taken the lead just a few moments ago, Burnley | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
almost extending it here. Carroll. Sigurdsson. Olsson. | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
Sigurdsson. The little back heeled to find Olsson who is in behind and | :22:02. | :22:15. | |
scores Martin Olsson makes it 2-2. How about that for the backheel? | :22:16. | :22:25. | |
Olsson still had plenty to do but beats Robinson with a firm strike. | :22:26. | :22:34. | |
Swansea 2-2 Burnley. Ayew with a burst of pace. He wins a | :22:35. | :22:36. | |
corner off Keane. Sigurdsson's wafted corner is a deep | :22:37. | :22:52. | |
one. It came off Mee. Fernandez. Keane with the header. Olsson. If | :22:53. | :23:02. | |
he'd caught that correctly it could have been a very spectacular goal | :23:03. | :23:05. | |
indeed. Llorente. Fer just able to hold off | :23:06. | :23:14. | |
the challenge there. Carroll. Curling it in towards | :23:15. | :23:24. | |
Llorente! He's done it again! It's his fourth brace of the season and | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
Fernando Llorente may have given Swansea a huge three points in their | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
battle for survival. Paul Clement has gone off down the touchline. | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
Barry Frei style. How about this for a precise delivery? And what about | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
that for a header from Fernando Llorente? Firmly struck beyond | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
Robinson and Swansea City will get another three points. | :23:50. | :23:55. | |
I was a centre-half and I know how Centre forwards get that high in the | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
air to win a header like that and that is usually by pushing or | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
climbing on the other player's back and it was clear, I thought. We | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
would have nicked a point today but you have to do that and we've done | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
it before and teams have done it against us. Over the balance of the | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
season you get one back somewhere. The only disappointment is that late | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
on in the game to have a big decision go against you, we have had | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
a few go against us this season. Amazing, amazing cross, very good | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
goal for all my team. We are improving every day and I'm really | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
happy for this. After the game I spoke to the Swansea manager Paul | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
Clement. Congratulations, Paul. Another vital | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
victory and it was a late one. It's a massive win for us, we put | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
pressure on ourselves today to really get that win. It's a very | :24:44. | :24:49. | |
important month for us. We've been playing well, especially at home and | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
that's the third victory in a row now. Wins against Leicester and | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
Southampton. I think we were thoroughly deserving of the win as | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
well. We pushed hard. I think two crossbars and a post and a penalty | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
for them that shouldn't have been. And then having them behind, though, | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
fantastic resilience and character from the players to push right to be | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
very last moment to get the victory. You mentioned a penalty, Paul, it | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
was an extraordinary decision, wasn't it? | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
Pretty bizarre. There was a brief moment where everyone was waiting to | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
see what he'd given and a big surprise. I couldn't see what had | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
happened. And I asked and the linesman and the fourth official | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
didn't know either. We later found out he had given it for handball. | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
The video clearly shows it wasn't a handball by us anyway. What's the | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
significant change you've made to things since you've come in, Paul, | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
that's obviously made things turn around so quickly and so well? I | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
only know what I've done and not necessarily what happened before. I | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
got to say, we try and have a hard week and an easier weekend. It's | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
never an easy weekend, that's for sure. But if you really put the | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
effort in on the training ground in all areas physically and mentally, | :26:08. | :26:11. | |
technically and tactically as well, you've got a much better chance when | :26:12. | :26:14. | |
it comes to the weekends. That's the way we've been working altogether. | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
With the winning goal which was a fabulous you were charging down the | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
touchline, Mourinhoesque. I wish I'd not that because I'm | :26:23. | :26:29. | |
still out of breath from it! But that's the excitement of a | :26:30. | :26:35. | |
last-second win a. Is a fantastic feeling. | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
Paul, congratulations, thank you for talking to us and good luck for the | :26:38. | :26:43. | |
rest of the season. Swansea's resigned or continues. I suppose | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
when you have a striker of the aerial presence of Fernando Llorente | :26:47. | :26:49. | |
you just have to get the ball in the box. -- revival continues. They did | :26:50. | :26:56. | |
and they worked on it, and they have more crosses into the box than they | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
have in any other game in the season. They are playing some good | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
football, their performance has been great. Putting crosses in the box is | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
fine but you have to put them in with quality and the quality of | :27:08. | :27:09. | |
Swansea's crosses today was sensational. This is one of the best | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
I've seen the season from Fer. When you bubbles like this in the box, | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
he's that good in the air he is going to score. It kept happening. | :27:20. | :27:25. | |
-- when you put crosses like this in the box. Again, hitting the | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
woodwork. Carroll has been playing so well, he is a great technician, | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
good little footballer, keeps them ticking. He found himself on the | :27:34. | :27:36. | |
left-hand side and again and again he kept putting in quality. This | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
time the Sigurdsson getting on the end of that one. Look at this for a | :27:41. | :27:45. | |
cross. He's just caressing it into the box, he's not trying to hit it | :27:46. | :27:54. | |
too hard, giving him a chance. Very difficult to defend against. And the | :27:55. | :27:57. | |
winning goal, foul or no foul, that is just top-quality football. When | :27:58. | :27:59. | |
you are that powerful and have that presence you worry defenders and | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
they backed off and they were scared of him today. How, as a central | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
defender, do you deal with somebody that good in the air? Tricky, he's a | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
sweet header of the ball, he hits it like a peach every time, very good | :28:11. | :28:16. | |
size and he has a good leap. You have to work out, calculating the | :28:17. | :28:19. | |
situation, Michael Keane should be thinking about nothing else other | :28:20. | :28:24. | |
than marking in the box, I don't care what is out wide, calculate on | :28:25. | :28:27. | |
the angle, I think it is going in there, drop off and give yourself | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
the best chance, body shape goes out of the window, if I get in the right | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
position I should be able to clear it. He is not a near post merchant. | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
Again, beautiful the way he does that back across the goal. Can his | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
full-back let him know? He can but don't rely on your full-back. | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
Another one, Ben Mee, too far apart, the full-back could tuck in, | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
calculate where it is going, Llorente can do it but why can't the | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
defender? But I will say it is definitely a foul, he has his arm on | :28:57. | :29:01. | |
his back, it's happening a lot and referees are letting it go, in my | :29:02. | :29:04. | |
day it would have been blown up. He got away with that one but probably | :29:05. | :29:08. | |
deserves it. Talking about that, Anthony Taylor had a wrong one, he | :29:09. | :29:13. | |
has made a bad decision. He's been on his stag week this week so maybe | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
he has a hangover and an excuse. There is no excuse, we have looked | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
at it from different angles. I don't know what he's seeing because every | :29:23. | :29:25. | |
angle we look at it it looks like a Burnley player, well, it is a | :29:26. | :29:30. | |
Burnley player. He should only blow if he really knows. He is guessing. | :29:31. | :29:35. | |
He has guest. That's the closest to the referee's angle. Looks like he | :29:36. | :29:40. | |
has a decent line of sight. That's what I'm saying. Swansea coming back | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
from that takes a lot of mental strength. Two matches down, five | :29:45. | :29:46. | |
more on the way. Pogba. Chadli with the shot. The | :29:47. | :29:56. | |
diving header by Ramadan. Leicester met Hull in what looked | :29:57. | :30:10. | |
like a crucial match near the bottom of the table. | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
On Monday, the champions had finally woken from their slumber | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
with a superb performance to beat Liverpool. | :30:17. | :30:25. | |
The English champions Leicester have sacked their manager, Ranieri. They | :30:26. | :30:35. | |
weren't expecting it. Surely you've got to point the finger at the | :30:36. | :30:39. | |
players. Surely. This time last year, Leicester were ten games from | :30:40. | :30:45. | |
the title. Now they are on the bottom three and without a manager. | :30:46. | :30:55. | |
Vardy was... What a goal! Fantastic strike. Absolutely brilliant from | :30:56. | :31:07. | |
Leicester City. Crisis, what crisis? Your commentator at the King Power | :31:08. | :31:14. | |
Stadium was John Motson. COMMENTATOR: | :31:15. | :31:16. | |
Craig Shakespeare looks for a second Leicester win in six days, which | :31:17. | :31:22. | |
would surely boost his chances of being appointed permanently. He's | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
taking the squad to do by lap next week for a four daybreak before they | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
face Seville in the Champions League in their next match here, a week on | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
Tuesday. The Leicester line-up is unchanged from that victory over | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
Liverpool. It's the 4-4- two that the players are used. Job Marco | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
Silva is doing at Hull has been under the radar this week. Is | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
integrating six new signings into the team and results have improved. | :31:48. | :31:52. | |
The injury to Ember Carney wins the start up front for Oumar Niasse. Sam | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
Clucas returns after suspension. Craig Shakespeare did say this would | :31:58. | :32:05. | |
be a harder game than Liverpool, and possibly more important. Vardy is | :32:06. | :32:07. | |
really putting himself about here. And he's got, it comes to | :32:08. | :32:15. | |
Albrighton, oh my word, and Vardy here was the provider. Was the | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
onside there? Well, only just, I would say, but Albrighton comes in | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
on the far post. A good start by Leicester City. Mahrez. | :32:25. | :32:32. | |
A flying save from Jakupovic. Mrs Ndidi and he's lost it to Clucas and | :32:33. | :32:42. | |
Hull City break away. On this side is Niasse. Supporting him here. | :32:43. | :32:51. | |
Clucas is in there and Hull City have taken the lead. Marco Silva's | :32:52. | :32:58. | |
team, under the cosh from Leicester for most of the opening period. But | :32:59. | :33:02. | |
look what happens here. Leicester gives the ball away. Well, almost | :33:03. | :33:10. | |
suicidal position, if the opposing team brake properly. This is Niasse. | :33:11. | :33:18. | |
It's a good cut back by Brzezinski but Clucas comes in Dunt took that | :33:19. | :33:24. | |
away for Hull, who lead 1-0 -- a good cut back by Rosicky. Sam Clucas | :33:25. | :33:32. | |
was released by Leicester as a schoolboy, that is the irony. Vardy. | :33:33. | :33:42. | |
Okazaki goes near post. Leicester City have equalised. | :33:43. | :33:54. | |
Leicester are level. Christian Fuchs, who was outstanding last | :33:55. | :34:04. | |
season, not so much this up until now, gets involved here with a | :34:05. | :34:11. | |
deadly effects. Vardy plays the ball in, Christian Fuchs has made his run | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
into the penalty area and tucks it away from Jakupovic and its | :34:16. | :34:22. | |
Leicester City one, Hull City one. Hull beat Leicester 2-1 on the | :34:23. | :34:26. | |
opening day of the season. At their stadium. Then they won at Swansea, | :34:27. | :34:31. | |
but they've since gone 12 away games without a win, Hull City, losing ten | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
of them. Hull City then have got a corner. Maguire has come forward. So | :34:38. | :34:42. | |
too has Ranocchia. Ranocchia tries to get a flick on there. That was | :34:43. | :34:50. | |
mighty close for Harry Maguire. He is a player that is attracting a lot | :34:51. | :35:01. | |
of attention, recently. Markovic, oh, yes, Albrighton for Leicester. | :35:02. | :35:08. | |
As sliding challenge. Maguire getting across the box to stop | :35:09. | :35:10. | |
Vardy. Corner to Leicester. A bit of trickery down by the line. | :35:11. | :35:28. | |
Corner again. This is where Mahrez can be so clever. Okazaki standing | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
in the middle of the six yard box is well aware of it. He was trying to | :35:35. | :35:39. | |
get in on the nearby -- near post, stop by Robertson. Leicester's | :35:40. | :35:45. | |
corner. Drinkwater was trying to latch onto that. Hull have three | :35:46. | :35:52. | |
players making the break-out. Bus with possession for Leicester. -- | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
Huth. Mahrez, and still, trying to work the space. Mahrez, oh! He's | :35:59. | :36:08. | |
back at the forefront of Leicester City's attack, Riyad Mahrez. | :36:09. | :36:14. | |
He had the ball for a long time. Drinking about. But when he fired | :36:15. | :36:24. | |
his shot I think he surprised Jakupovic a bit, going in at the | :36:25. | :36:32. | |
near post. Look how hard he works for the opportunity, and it was his | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
right but that finally finished it. Off Leicester City two, Hull City | :36:38. | :36:38. | |
one. Niasse thought that might creep | :36:39. | :36:59. | |
inside Schmeichel's near post, it didn't. The goalkeeper got a very | :37:00. | :37:01. | |
good hand to that. Demarai Gray will makes the | :37:02. | :37:13. | |
challenge, wins the ball. This is Christian Fuchs, Gray. Takes on | :37:14. | :37:21. | |
Elmohamady, Demarai Gray. Jakupovic just turned it round the near post. | :37:22. | :37:27. | |
Gray scored at Manchester United for Leicester and also in the FA Cup | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
against Derby. He might have had a third there. What a finish. It's in. | :37:31. | :37:45. | |
I think it might have come off Hull player. It's Tom Huddlestone who | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
looks very dejected. Well, the corner swung in and I do think | :37:50. | :37:54. | |
that's gone in off Tom Huddlestone. Leicester City now leads 3-1 and Tom | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
Huddlestone, who scored last week against Burnley penalty now sees the | :37:59. | :38:04. | |
ball go in at the other end, off his head. It's six points out of 64 | :38:05. | :38:12. | |
Craig Shakespeare. Leicester City three, Hull City one. Coming from | :38:13. | :38:18. | |
behind to win, that's the rest of last season, isn't it? Yes, I spoke | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
to the players, the character they showed. It was against the run of | :38:23. | :38:26. | |
play when we went 1-0 down, but to bounce back the way we did, it | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
showed resilience in the side. Talk us through your goal. You don't | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
score many. If I score they are least effective and important. We | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
had a couple of them on the side and thank God he saw me with cut back | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
and I was trying to get the ball and I'm thankful it when my way. How | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
concerned are you about your team's away form. One winner look -- away | :38:53. | :38:56. | |
from home all season. Of course, it's clear we need to be strong and | :38:57. | :39:04. | |
to fight like we fight today, but most important is when you have a | :39:05. | :39:07. | |
chance to score, you need to score, because it makes the difference | :39:08. | :39:12. | |
during the matches. You go away to Dubai for some warm weather | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
training. Have you been told what happens after that in terms of your | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
position? No, I haven't and I'm quite comfortable with that. We'll | :39:20. | :39:22. | |
have a few days away, we'll get back and that will take care of itself. | :39:23. | :39:27. | |
We'll come to that shortly. Leicester were revitalised in many | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
ways and although he didn't score today, so is Jamie Vardy. I thought | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
after Monday nights, are we going to see Leicester continue and kick on | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
from that, or are we going to go back to Leicester of a few weeks ago | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
and it be a one off. And it wasn't. It was like watching Leicester of | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
last season in many ways. Vardy setting the tone, running himself | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
into Walsall South areas to help his team. He started on the right side, | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
playing on Maguire and he realised early in the game he wasn't going to | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
have too much joy over there. There was a run he got tackled on and he | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
went over to the left side, that's a Super Bowl by the way, and he got | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
joy, because he was quick. -- a super ball by the way. He was | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
causing all sorts of problems. That was a great chance. The good thing | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
about Leicester ran Vardy, even when they are goal down they play with | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
confidence, getting forward, trying to score goals. Unlucky with his | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
touch. This is what we remember Vardy for last season, not just | :40:24. | :40:27. | |
running in behind and scoring goals, it's constantly putting defenders | :40:28. | :40:30. | |
under pressure. It's that classic run. Albrighton, I don't know what | :40:31. | :40:33. | |
he's waiting for, he should be running into that and tapping it in. | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
For the goal he becomes provider, a little give and go, too tight, | :40:39. | :40:44. | |
centre-half. Can he pick someone out? Confident Vardy does. Although | :40:45. | :40:49. | |
he didn't score today, really, really good performance, pleased for | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
him. Craig Shakespeare is now in control, he's two wins out of two. | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
What do you make of this sudden change now that Ranieri has gone? | :40:59. | :41:07. | |
Suddenly he was to be manager. Why is it you suddenly want to be... | :41:08. | :41:13. | |
He's not necessarily Ranieri's man who he's brought in. Yes, but you | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
have personal ambition but I do feel it's almost out of order that he | :41:19. | :41:21. | |
wants to jump in for that job. Surely they will go for a manager | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
that is bigger, with more experience. It's a big club to | :41:25. | :41:27. | |
manage now, Leicester. They are playing in the Champions League. | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
What do you reckon? While he's winning, leaving men charge, what's | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
the rush? Why rush in? No point, carry on. As for Hull, Garraway | :41:39. | :41:41. | |
form, they will have to turn it around if they are going to win. | :41:42. | :41:46. | |
Very much so, that's the story, a very disappointing afternoon for | :41:47. | :41:46. | |
them. Southampton may have lost the EFL | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
Cup Final last Sunday, but they took Manchester United | :41:51. | :41:52. | |
all the way with an Could they continue that form | :41:53. | :41:54. | |
in the league, at Watford? Watching at Vicarage | :41:55. | :41:58. | |
Road was Steve Wilson. Two Italian strikers feature at | :41:59. | :42:10. | |
Vicarage Road today. It's fair to say Okaka's career in England is yet | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
to get off the ground. Gabbiadini has scored five goals in three | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
appearances for Southampton so far, so to say his career in England has | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
hit the ground running. This Southampton was not only league game | :42:24. | :42:26. | |
in five weeks they haven't lost here in almost a decade. -- it is | :42:27. | :42:37. | |
Southampton's only league game here in five weeks. They haven't lost | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
here in almost a decade. Behrami, into Deeney. Kaboul, for Watford. | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
This is Niang. Watford get the throwing. Won by | :42:46. | :42:50. | |
Niang. It's Kaboul's throw. That's | :42:51. | :43:02. | |
Gabbiadini with the clearing header. Deeney's flick on, Davis came | :43:03. | :43:16. | |
across. Deeney in! Great reactions from Drogba Deeney -- Troy Deeney to | :43:17. | :43:24. | |
volley Watford in front. Only the fourth minute of the game at | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
Vicarage Road. Troy Deeney. It's his flick, Okaka on the turn. Davis half | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
away and Deeney, with the ball at an awkward hip height, manages to | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
volley it into the corner of the Southampton net. His ninth goal of | :43:42. | :43:43. | |
the season. Ward-Prowse. Davies. Ward-Prowse | :43:44. | :43:55. | |
finding Tadic, not sure he meant it, it has come back to James | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
Ward-Prowse and Heurelho Gomes got a touch on that. It's a corner. They | :44:00. | :44:05. | |
cut a way through here, albeit with a bit of fortune on the way through. | :44:06. | :44:11. | |
Ward-Prowse is onside, definitely. Gomes got something on it, not | :44:12. | :44:18. | |
entirely intentionally. There will be more goals in this. Southampton | :44:19. | :44:22. | |
will feel they started the better of the two teams but fell behind. Nice | :44:23. | :44:26. | |
from Redmond. Tadic Vostok Tadic ghosting in, Kaboul got a foot on | :44:27. | :44:36. | |
it, Tadic, 1-1. Watford are saying that as the shot went through the | :44:37. | :44:39. | |
crowd into the back of the net there was a Southampton man of sight. Nice | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
flick from Redmond, little flitting run from Tadic. Not a great | :44:46. | :44:49. | |
intervention from the Watford defender Kaboul, straight back to | :44:50. | :44:52. | |
Tadic, and Redmond who is standing in an offside position and very | :44:53. | :44:58. | |
close to goalkeeper Gomes, adjudged to have made no attempt to play the | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
ball. Indeed he made every attempt not to play the ball, jumping over | :45:03. | :45:04. | |
it. Redmond, away from Behrami easily | :45:05. | :45:13. | |
and away from Kabul, Ward-Prowse on the turn, Tadic, Gabbiadini in the | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
middle, pulled back. Redmond! And in. Beautiful goal. | :45:18. | :45:25. | |
Wonderful team goal by Southampton finished off by Redmond. And in | :45:26. | :45:30. | |
stoppage time at the end of the first half Southampton are in front. | :45:31. | :45:38. | |
A lovely, lovely goal. Redmond's drive really got them on the front | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
foot. Lovely turn by Ward-Prowse. Great awareness from Tadic and a | :45:43. | :45:46. | |
super finish. Watford 1-2 Southampton. High-quality goal. He | :45:47. | :45:49. | |
enjoyed that one, and why not? Southampton where one place and one | :45:50. | :45:59. | |
point behind Watford at start of play with one game in hand. At the | :46:00. | :46:05. | |
moment, if it stays like this, they will be moving above the Hornets. | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
Both in mid-table, both looking safe. 61 play, Southampton free | :46:10. | :46:19. | |
kick, Dusan Tadic. Good save by Gomes to deny Yoshida. As this is | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
whipped in it's a really good save by Heurelho Gomes again, who has | :46:27. | :46:32. | |
been by far the busier goalkeeper. Blocked by Younes Kaboul. M'Baye | :46:33. | :46:41. | |
Niang here, Flintoff Romeu's head, to Stefano Okaka and now Isaac | :46:42. | :46:42. | |
Success. -- flicked off. Okaka! 2-2. Took it really well. Really laid | :46:43. | :47:03. | |
into his feet by Isaac Success and a very smart finish. | :47:04. | :47:12. | |
Here is Davies, and he's lost it, and here is a Kakko, Behrami to his | :47:13. | :47:20. | |
right. Stefano Okaka... Well covered by Stevens. Southampton have started | :47:21. | :47:26. | |
making mistakes and giving Watford gifts. They have got away with that | :47:27. | :47:40. | |
one. Here is Redmond. Boufal. Went for Carol, and Gabbiadini scorers | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
again for Southampton! Heurelho Gomes with the mistake, and who is | :47:45. | :47:50. | |
there? Gabbiadini is there an Southampton lead 3-2. End to end. | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
Watford almost at one end, Southampton straight down the other. | :47:56. | :48:01. | |
Boufal took the shot. It wasn't a great one, it should be meat and | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
drink, but somehow Gomes drops it straight to the feet of Manolo | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
Gabbiadini. Well, it did bounce in front of the Watford goalkeeper, but | :48:11. | :48:18. | |
really, really, Gomes knows. All the quality is coming from the team in | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
red and white. Here is Dusan Tadic, Redmond gets it, Long in the middle, | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
Redmond running at Prodl. It's four! Nathan Redmond surely seals the game | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
with Southampton's fourth and his second of the game. So much space | :48:35. | :48:41. | |
down the left-hand side, Redmond. Prodl gets across. Redmond, well, | :48:42. | :48:49. | |
it's really poorly defended, but Redmond is not complaining. | :48:50. | :48:58. | |
It's a free kick to Watford for a foul by Stevens on Deeney. Not too | :48:59. | :49:06. | |
many Watford fans are left inside the stadium to see what happens from | :49:07. | :49:07. | |
this free kick. Holebas. M'Baye Niang. Watford have | :49:08. | :49:24. | |
six yellow shirts in the box. M'Baye Niang delivers and it is flicked in. | :49:25. | :49:34. | |
Watford have one back through Abdoulaye Doucoure. In it goes from | :49:35. | :49:40. | |
M'Baye Niang, flashes through a lot of bodies, Doucoure on the back post | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
just had to knock it over the line. Watford 3-4 Southampton. | :49:45. | :49:50. | |
This team is always difficult to play against and it was important to | :49:51. | :49:58. | |
keep possession and to try and play good football with good action and | :49:59. | :50:03. | |
all the goals are beautiful. TRANSLATION: There were defensive | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
mistakes in the second half but I wouldn't say it was a bad | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
performance, we deserved the draw. At a certain point we almost went | :50:12. | :50:14. | |
for the victory because we had the ball from 3-2 and on the | :50:15. | :50:20. | |
counterattack they scored 3-3 and then 4-3. It was important today to | :50:21. | :50:27. | |
play well and with the rotation of the forward three Oliver Kirch gives | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
us freedom to play where we want and for a player like myself and Dusan | :50:33. | :50:39. | |
and Gabbiadini, the most important thing is the three points and is not | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
important how we get them. Another terrific game of football | :50:44. | :50:46. | |
and Nathan Redmond continues to improve and impress, doesn't he? | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
It's all about end product for him, great travelling with the ball. I | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
have to say, considering the cup final defeat by great reaction from | :50:56. | :51:00. | |
the whole team. He's confident and goes by people easily. I prefer him | :51:01. | :51:03. | |
in central areas where he can go both ways because his left foot is | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
not bad, that was a little site. That awareness, he's not just about | :51:09. | :51:11. | |
pace, he has a good football brain and he is threatening the gold more. | :51:12. | :51:15. | |
Everything is so measured. He receives the ball on his back foot. | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
That is something they do on the training pitch. This is like a | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
routine here, imagine doing this on the training pitch. He comes back | :51:26. | :51:28. | |
here, picks his spot. Really good finish. He really has developed from | :51:29. | :51:35. | |
the U21 team, Gareth Southgate must be looking to include him. Here he | :51:36. | :51:39. | |
is with his second goal. The keeper should do better. I thought he was | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
outstanding. All in all Southampton are having a good season. They | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
played so well last week in the final as well. They were so, so | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
unlucky and have had another good season considering the | :51:53. | :51:54. | |
transformation of players in the summer. They do it every year. | :51:55. | :51:55. | |
Remarkable really. Manchester United returned to league | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
action having lifted the EFL Cup last weekend. | :52:03. | :52:05. | |
They hosted a Bournemouth side whose poor recent run had left them | :52:06. | :52:07. | |
just four points off the relegation places. | :52:08. | :52:08. | |
Commentary comes from Guy Mowbray. The goals of splattered Ibrahimovic | :52:09. | :52:17. | |
grabbed the glory and the EFL Cup for Manchester United last week but | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
the performance of Paul Bob Ehrlich drew praise from Jeison Murillo and | :52:22. | :52:24. | |
is poised to play a big part today against struggling Bournemouth who | :52:25. | :52:27. | |
have Benik Afobe selected and Jack Wilshere dropping out for this one, | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
and their manager Eddie Howe struggling with a stomach bug. He | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
travelled to the games separately from his team. | :52:35. | :52:38. | |
The game that almost never was at the end of last season, the original | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
fixture on the final day of the Premier League campaign looked to be | :52:43. | :52:47. | |
abandoned before it started before the Mac because of a bomb scare. | :52:48. | :52:52. | |
Surman does well to skip past Mata. Joshua King. Barges into the back of | :52:53. | :52:59. | |
Jones. The referee thinks it was all OK. Now Bournemouth get a corner | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
much to the annoyance of Manchester United's players. | :53:04. | :53:08. | |
Surman. Fraser returns the ball to Andrew Surman. It's not a bad ball | :53:09. | :53:20. | |
into the middle. Mings couldn't get it under control. It's Luke Shaw who | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
carries it away for United. He was looking for Martial who felt he was | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
impeded. Nonetheless United are on the charge with Pogba. And it goes | :53:31. | :53:36. | |
behind. It's an action packed start to the game and just enough on that | :53:37. | :53:43. | |
from Boruc to turn it behind. Mings with an awful pass, Rooney is onto | :53:44. | :53:48. | |
it, Ibrahimovic is with him. Here is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, or there he was. | :53:49. | :53:54. | |
He keeps the attack going at least. Daniels Cooley gets away from Rooney | :53:55. | :54:00. | |
and Bournemouth have got away, or to be more accurate, Tyrone Mings has | :54:01. | :54:03. | |
got away with a huge mistake and now Afobe has got away from Marcos Rojo | :54:04. | :54:11. | |
and slipped. Mistakes all over the field. Bournemouth lost the chance | :54:12. | :54:20. | |
to take the lead. King holds off Carrick successfully. Carrick wins | :54:21. | :54:27. | |
round two, lovely ball for Martial who has Boruc in the way again. | :54:28. | :54:37. | |
Pogba. Valencia. Turned in by Marcos Rojo. | :54:38. | :54:54. | |
Manchester United's dominance gets reward and Marcos Rojo, whose | :54:55. | :54:59. | |
performance at Wembley drew quite a bit of criticism last weekend has | :55:00. | :55:04. | |
just scored his first Premier League goal. Valencia with a chance to | :55:05. | :55:13. | |
drill it and you can see Rojo is onside, played on by Steve Cook | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
behind him, and all he had to do was divert it passed Boruc to make it | :55:20. | :55:21. | |
Manchester United 1-0 Bournemouth. Surman. The referee has blown for a | :55:22. | :55:37. | |
free kick to Manchester United. Surman saying he took the ball | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
cleanly. The yellow card indicates it was on the reckless side of | :55:42. | :55:48. | |
things. Surman. Afobe keeps it away from Carrick. Now here is Pugh and | :55:49. | :55:54. | |
Pugh goes down under the challenge of Phil Jones and Bournemouth have a | :55:55. | :55:57. | |
penalty and possibly a way back into the game. Good work from Afobe. And | :55:58. | :56:06. | |
a sharp turn from pew with Jones already drawn into the challenge. | :56:07. | :56:14. | |
Yellow card for Ibrahimovic for talking too much again. Josh King. | :56:15. | :56:24. | |
Hey scores for Bournemouth and makes it Manchester United 1-1 | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
Bournemouth, and it's all level again. That was very confidently | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
dispatched. O'Hehir is not reaching that one. Marcos Rojo. Ibrahimovic. | :56:35. | :56:41. | |
Rooney beaten to it by Mings, and it has broken to Martial. He took him | :56:42. | :56:50. | |
out and went tumbling after the tackle. Pogba. Rooney back to his | :56:51. | :56:54. | |
feet now. Once again the hands of Boruc save Bournemouth. Rooney to | :56:55. | :57:08. | |
Mata. Up goes Ibrahimovic. Not high enough and down went Mings after | :57:09. | :57:17. | |
that brush with Eslad -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic. There was a push from | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
Surman. Kevin Friend is going to call Ibrahimovic over to him first. | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
Mings is still down, and if he was put to the floor by Ibrahimovic, | :57:27. | :57:31. | |
already in the book, then Manchester United's Towers man, their number | :57:32. | :57:38. | |
nine, is in serious trouble here. Yellow card for Surman. He's already | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
been booked. Is he going to show a second yellow to Ibrahimovic in a | :57:44. | :57:47. | |
moment? That was the challenge from Mings on Rooney and you can see that | :57:48. | :57:54. | |
the boot catches Ibrahimovic's head and Ibrahimovic knew who it was and | :57:55. | :57:58. | |
thrust his elbow back into the face of Mings. He has to go but he | :57:59. | :58:02. | |
hasn't. I think Mings, he's having a look at it, but I wonder if he could | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
got her might have got out of the way. He is lucky to stay on and so | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
is Ibrahimovic. This all adds to the tension. We've still got to sort out | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
the Andrew Surman confusion in a moment. I wonder if Wayne Rooney has | :58:17. | :58:22. | |
just reminded Kevin Friend about the Bournemouth captain. Yes. Kevin | :58:23. | :58:31. | |
Friend's pointing to the touchline. Surman got a yellow for the first | :58:32. | :58:36. | |
challenge, the second one was a soft shelf on Ibrahimovic. In the end all | :58:37. | :58:43. | |
that has happened is that very belatedly -- Szot shove. Andrew | :58:44. | :58:45. | |
Surman has got a red card for the second yellow. -- shelf | :58:46. | :58:53. | |
you don't want to take your eyes off this game for more than a few | :58:54. | :58:59. | |
seconds, otherwise you are going to miss something. Pogba flying through | :59:00. | :59:05. | |
the air, Artur Boruc keeps Bournemouth level. The man that | :59:06. | :59:12. | |
Celtic fans call the holy goalie is blessed today. Ibrahimovic. Back to | :59:13. | :59:15. | |
Valencia. Valencia's ball across, Pogba will | :59:16. | :59:27. | |
try to keep it in. It's going to be a corner. It should be a penalty. It | :59:28. | :59:34. | |
is a penalty! Kevin Friend took his time pointing to the spot. But | :59:35. | :59:38. | |
eventually, he decided that the appeals were right. The hand does | :59:39. | :59:49. | |
flap at the ball all right. Pogba is absolutely certain. The closeness of | :59:50. | :59:53. | |
Adam Smith has to be an issue. And a chance for Zlatan Ibrahimovic. Of | :59:54. | :59:56. | |
course, it would be him. Ibrahimovic against Boruc, and it is | :59:57. | :00:07. | |
saved by Artur Boruc. Martial misses. | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
Really well anticipated by Boruc. Struck firmly, maybe not cleanly, | :00:13. | :00:22. | |
but he had to get across and down really sharply, and he did. | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
Real red urgency now. Mata breezes past Gosling. Here's Martial. It's | :00:30. | :00:42. | |
blocked by Smith. Nothing that time. Adam Smith was penalised for hand | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
ball for the Manchester United penalty. He was even closer to the | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
ball than he was then. That time, his arms definitely went in the air | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
to try to stop the ball's pass. Five minutes, too long for Bournemouth, | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
not enough for United. Fellaini is down. Ibrahimovic with | :01:03. | :01:18. | |
the header. Rojo has lifted one through towards Ibrahimovic and | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
there's Pogba. He has scuffed it. That was the moment for Manchester | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
United. It's a scruffy build-up, but when it falls to Paul Pogba, you | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
feel certain that he's going to hit back and at least forced a save from | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
Boruc. And it's a messy mis-hit. And a howl of anguish to follow. Who can | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
I blame? Ourselves. Nobody else. We missed big chances, but as I told | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
them at half-time, we played well. It was clear the level of effort the | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
lads put in, the way we defended when we needed to defend and I think | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
we are going to need that fight and that spirit from now until the end | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
of the season to get the point is that we need to stay up. For me, the | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
two big decisions of the game, the referee was very good. I think it | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
was a penalty against us will stop I think it was a clear penalty for us | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
and the referee was spot on. Can you shed some light is on what happened | :02:21. | :02:24. | |
between yourself and Tyrone Mings. There was all sorts going on. What | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
happens on the field stays on the field. I jumped up, hi, I'm lucky he | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
jumps into me and he jumps into my elbow. There will be things | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
highlighted more than others, but I enjoyed it. It was a good battle all | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
day. You know what you are going to come up against and we certainly had | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
to stand up to the test. There's so many incidents in that game to talk | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
about. Let's stick with the major ones. Of which there were a few. Can | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
you start with mine, please? Obviously these two players early in | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
the game, Ibrahimovic, Tyrone Mings, he's saying, I'm in charge, not you, | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
and Tyrone Mings isn't having any of it. This is a tackle that comes in | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
and is there a stamp there? There's definitely a stamp there. Really, | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
this is down to interpretation, what team do you support? For me, | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
Ibrahimovic has had a little bit of stamp and Tyrone Mings is very | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
definitely, I think he can get out of the Wales Ibrahimovic but there's | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
a little stamp there. The players would know. Mings is looking there, | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
he's got to jump over him. He's got an age to find somewhere else. He | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
doesn't need to tread on his head there. Dangerous play. It's whether | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
it's intentional or not. I don't think we can say for sure. The more | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
I have seen it, I don't think he meant it. No, I don't. My initial | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
reaction was, that's horrible but I don't think Mings meant it. Watch | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
the -- watch Zlatan. Mings gets up, have a look at the ball, has a quick | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
look at what I've got to jump over. I feel he can put his foot somewhere | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
else. Maybe, my gut tells me that was an accident. What about the | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
following incident, Ibrahimovic elbow? That's more obvious. This is | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
definitely an elbow and it could have caused just as much damage. | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
Zlatan says he bumped into his elbow, he headed his elbow. No, | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
that's a free shot he's had there. All I would say, you can never | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
condone that, ever, but if he thinks someone has stamped on his head he's | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
going to be a tad angry. So I kind of get where he's even though it's | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
not acceptable. Do you think there might be retrospective action? | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Certainly. There can't be on Mings, if he says he didn't mean it, how | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
can you prove he did only the players really know what happened | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
there. It's up to the authorities whether they want to step in. There | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
was another incident, with Surman. Mrs Shaw's tackle early in the game, | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
a good solid tackle. Left foot follows through momentum. This is | :05:11. | :05:18. | |
Surman, on Shaw, who goes down, poleaxed for some reason. Good | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
tackle. What's the difference? So Surman gets books, wrongly. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
Ridiculous, it annoys me. Now that is a booking because he has pushed | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
the latter. Now Zlatan is a big, strong boy and I'm not sure he would | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
have gone up to him in the middle of the street and he would have gone | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
over like that. Surman should not have been sent off. A tough day for | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
Kevin Friend. He was landed in the -- Anthony Taylor's stag do this | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
week as well! Have full Premier League permission that apparently. | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
He had a terrible day. Stop the rot for Bournemouth. They were | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
fantastic. To our mandate put in a hell of a shift and made sure that | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
losing run ended. Fantastic. Match of the Day 2 has two | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
more matches for you, as well as February's Goal | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
of the Month. You can hear commentary | :06:15. | :06:29. | |
on Sunderland against The European Indoor Athletics | :06:30. | :06:38. | |
Championships continue in Belgrade, Tottenham versus Millwall in the FA | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
Cup quarterfinals is live And the next day we've also got | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
the big one between Chelsea West Brom have had an excellent | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
season and were just three wins away from equalling their record points | :06:52. | :07:00. | |
total in the Premier League. They faced Crystal Palace, | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
who started the day Simon Brotherton | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
was at the Hawthorns. Salomon Rondon sculpt the only goal | :07:06. | :07:15. | |
when the sides met on the opening day of the season at Selhurst Park. | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
He leads the attack from an unchanged derby in 11 today. | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Christian Benteke does the same for Crystal Palace. Seven of his nine | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
Premier League goals this season have come away from home. Sam | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
Allardyce continues to try to lift Palace above the trapdoor, with Tony | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Pulis and West Brom already on 40 points and handily placed, eighth in | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
the table. Both teams are unchanged this afternoon. Forward by Sako Webb | :07:39. | :07:52. | |
Sakho. Benteke underneath it. Zaha and Dawson continued gradual. It's | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
going to be a Crystal Palace throw. The flag stays down and Van Aanholt | :07:55. | :08:10. | |
tries to drill it in and Crystal Palace have their first corner. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
Tomkins and Mamadou Sakho coming up for this one, joining a group of | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
players huddled around the penalty spot at the moment. It comes, | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
Benteke with a header, it's headed off the line by Brunt. The first | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
real sighting of goal for Christian Benteke. Got up well, good header, | :08:32. | :08:38. | |
but on the post. Able to clear the ball. Sunshine and showers, spring | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
is around the corner, hurray. A springlike scene at the Hawthorns. I | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
was about to say he is Zaha Matt Dawson was too quick for him. He's | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
done really well. Salomon Rondon with a chance to run as Yohan Cabaye | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
tries to get back with him and Rondon has brilliantly. No penalty. | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
Cabaye gives Rondon an absolute earful, as the ball is cleared away. | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
Mike Jones felt there wasn't a dive. From that angle it doesn't look like | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
a penalty. Let's look here. If that's not a penalty and he wasn't | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
fouled, why has he not been booked by the referee? | :09:15. | :09:24. | |
Cabaye to Townsend, Nyom is right there with him. Possession here from | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
Palace. That's not a new thing, it won't trouble West Bromwich Albion. | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
Who haven't had the majority of possession in any much they've | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
played in the Premier League all season. Forward by Cabaye, looking | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
for Wilfried Zaha. Brings it down well and puts it away with aplomb. A | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
cracking strike from Wilfried Zaha. West Bromwich Albion nil, Crystal | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
Palace one. Big, big goal, potentially. Well Palace had had | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
good possession. And finally, they made it count. The long ball floated | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
forward, beautifully taken and controlled by Wilfried Zaha. It was | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
Yohan Cabaye who picked up the bass, Zaha bringing it down, cutting | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
inside the defence. He gets away from Chris Brunt here and slams the | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
ball home, before Dawson can make the block and Palace are ahead. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
Wilfried Zaha with his fifth goal of the season. Livermore into Brunt. | :10:26. | :10:35. | |
Chadli with the shot. There was body of time for Hennessey to see that | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
one coming. -- there was plenty of time for Hennessey to see that one | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
coming. And Zaha now skips away from Dawson. It's Wilfried Zaha for | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
Crystal Palace. Almost going all the way through! He's challenged. He | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
once a penalty. It is still with Palace and it's just wide. Puncheon | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
can't put it in and it's the corner. A superb run from Wilfried Zaha, | :11:01. | :11:06. | |
went down under pressure. No penalty and Bishop deflected wide. -- the | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
shot deflected wide. Sliding it through, a great chance for Andros | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Townsend, a vital saves by Ben Foster. A big save. Benteke with the | :11:19. | :11:26. | |
little lay off Conor Townsend racing through, denied by Ben Foster. | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
There's been plenty of his barking at his team today. Palace have | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
scored plenty of goals in the last ten minutes of matches this season, | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
today, it's Albion who are looking to do so. Blocked by Puncheon. All | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
hands on deck here for Palace. Leko can't get past Townsend. Well, a | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
chance to break away as Townsend holds off the Albion youngster. He's | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
done really well. Benteke gets on his bike and Townsend may take it | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
all the way here for Palace. It's Andros Townsend. Oh, sensational | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
goal! Brilliant, brilliant play! ROM Andros Townsend. He just kept going | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
and going and going and West Bromwich Albion could do nothing | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
about it. Just watch this. From one penalty area, to the other, Townsend | :12:20. | :12:23. | |
did well to keep his feet here. He brushed off the West Bromwich Albion | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
substitute. He had options, as you could see, but he didn't need any of | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
them. It's only the second goal he's scored for Crystal Palace since his | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
move from Tottenham Hotspur, but what a goal it was. Back-to-back | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
wins for Crystal Palace. A 2-0 factory here at the Hawthorns to | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
lift them out of the bottom three. A perfect awayday performance. We knew | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
it would be difficult. The aim was to keep it 0- 01 the minimum we | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
would get out of it was a point and if we could hit them on the counter | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
it would be perfect. We followed that and we are delighted with the | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
three points. There's no excuses today. We weren't at it from the | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
start. Right the way through. Congratulations to Palace. But I'm | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
not going to criticise the players. We've been fantastic so far this | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
season. We've had an off day and it was a off day. We are just doing the | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
basics right and when you start from the basics everything else just | :13:20. | :13:21. | |
works out better, so that's what we've managed to nail down. Now we | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
just have to get the wins and the points. To put back-to-back wins | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
together at West Brom, who are in such good form here at the Hawthorns | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
is a big statement and then the outstanding quality of the two | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
goals, when Andros is an off on a mazy, this was a goal and it it | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
deserves the credit it will get across the board this weekend. | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
I'm sure we'll give it plenty of credit, Martin. A terrific win, a | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
huge win for Crystal Palace and Townsend the stars of the show. This | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
was a game of two sets of real men. Really good game, by the way. Zaha, | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
can he get crosses in the box? Can he beat people? Does he make the | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
right decisions? Yes, he did today, Townsend as well, with the balls in. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
They are the weapons Benteke is going to feed off of and they just | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
seem to get better and better. Look at this for a touch, almost as if he | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
puts it there with his hand. We couldn't really miss. A great | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
strike, with his left foot as well. This is Townsend making good | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
movement, good save from the goalkeepers, that denied him. He | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
wants to get at people, Zaha. He's going to test you. He's going into | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
the heart of the West Brom defence, asking questions, the keeper denied | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
him again. Look at this from Andros Townsend. I think this is a player | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
that went down with Newcastle last season and he's saying, I'm not | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
going down again. I'm giving it everything. Leko rag dolls him like | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
he's not there. McAuley wins to get on the left foot, he's still got the | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
power to finish and that's great desire. Look at him, he's shattered, | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
but he deserves the credit he gets. A tough run at the end of the | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
season. A clean sheet as well. The statistics were stark | :15:04. | :15:11. | |
for Middlesbrough going They'd slipped down the table | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
after a run of nine matches without a win, having scored just | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
three goals in that time. Glen Johnson back in the Stoke team | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
today, making the 350th appearance of his league career. Peter Crouch | :15:27. | :15:28. | |
is stuck's top scorer in all competitions this season, he scored | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
against Middlesbrough last time he faced them all the way back in his | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
Portsmouth days. Five substitute appearances in the Premier League | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
for Middlesbrough since joining from Aston Villa in January, today Rudy | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
Gestede is given his first league start for his new club. Johnson. | :15:45. | :15:56. | |
Whelan. Ramadan. Nice touch from crouch. Lovely build-up. Arnautovic. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
And off the crossbar and then wide by Joe Allen. Delicate touch from | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
Crouch. Plenty of pace on the whipped cross from Arnautovic. | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
Ramathan will feel he should have finished off the move he started. | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
Two thirds of the position in the opening half-hour or so here. | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
Whelan. He made some good runs today. Good first touch, around the | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
goalkeeper, and that is brilliant from Marko Arnautovic. How about | :16:31. | :16:39. | |
this for a trapped in the penalty area to take the sting out of the | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
ball and creates an space and to finish with aplomb for his fifth | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
goal of the season? Middlesbrough have won fewer Premier League games | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
than any other team this season, just four victories so far. Good | :16:54. | :17:00. | |
control again by Marko Arnautovic, good vision to spot Joe Allen, and | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
good recovery by George Friend to put it out for the corner. That is | :17:04. | :17:12. | |
Stoke's first corner of the game. The delivery by Glenn Whelan. The | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
header by Peter Crouch and its 2-0 to Stoke and two goals from Marko | :17:20. | :17:27. | |
Arnautovic. Just over three minutes to go until half-time, and Stoke | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
have now got themselves a cushion. You know what they are going to do | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
but it's so difficult to stop them. Crouch's header and a smart swivel | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
and finish from the Austrian. Pieters is the defender. The | :17:44. | :17:51. | |
referee's assistant has flagged to say that Erik Pieters was fouling | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
Adama Traore there, free kick to the visitors. Grant Leadbitter to take. | :17:55. | :18:04. | |
That is a really good delivery and it hit Crouch and ends up in the net | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
but the flag had been raised for offside. Ben Gibson thought that was | :18:09. | :18:17. | |
his moment. It was Bernardo offside. Gibson wasn't but the decision had | :18:18. | :18:25. | |
already been made. The famous Stoke custodian of the past, Gordan Banks | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
here, part of the Stoke City squad that won the League Cup 45 years ago | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
today and they have been down on the pitch earlier on being honoured. | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
That was a good ball by Bernardo. Shawcross under pressure, Gestede to | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
Guedioura. And always rising up and over the top. It's probably | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
Middlesbrough's best chance of the second half. Difficult to hit the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
target from there from Guedioura. The Middlesbrough fans singing laced | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
with irony that they've had a shot. It's been a disappointing game for | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
Karanka's team. It could be about to get worse. Here is Cameron and a | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
diving header by Ramadan, and a really top drawer save from Victor | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Valdes. Well, if he had ten chances to strike that ball Ramadan Sobhi | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
would not have wanted to put the shot anywhere else but there. That | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
is the most difficult position for the goalkeeper to get down to. | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Ramadan so close to his first-ever Stoke City goal. | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
De Roon. Plenty up there but it too high for Gestede. Given away by | :19:36. | :19:50. | |
Diouf Affellay. A bit of room here for Ramadan. He has Berahino ahead | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
of him. It is a good strong run from the Egyptian. What's at the end of | :19:56. | :20:05. | |
it? That's brilliant and Allen tried with the flick to finish it and what | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
a goal that would have been after a storming drivel by Ramadan Sobhi. | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
His reputation is growing all the time. There were so many changes of | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
direction and so many swivels and Allen almost provided the perfect | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
finish. Ramadan. Sparkling. He really is sparkling in his | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
performance. Affellay, lovely first touch, and Victor Valdes, one former | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
Barcelona player denies another, such has been stuck's dominance. 3-0 | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
would not flatter them, it has been disappointing from Middlesbrough. | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
You have done well all season not to drop into the bottom three but | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
today's the day you are the relegation zone. Yes, in this kind | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
of moment we need to be positive and has recently promoted team, it's the | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
first we are in that position in March. We have to know we have done | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
a lot of good things so far, so we have to keep believing in this group | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
of players, in this team, because until the last day we will keep | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
fighting. Deserved lead in the first half, two goals from Marko | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
Arnautovic and we really didn't command any sustained pressure | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
throughout the game. With a bit more care in the final third we could | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
have won more comprehensive labour we take 2-0. The performance and | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
good result. It was a very good ball from Glenn Whelan and it was | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
perfect, it was a good goal but I don't talk about my goals. I talk | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
about the team, the effort and the performance was amazing. We have to | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
keep doing like that, I say this always in every interview. | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
Great reaction to Stoke's defeat last week and Arnautovic with a | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
couple of vital goals for them. He is an impressive player, no doubt, | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
but with only six goals he is a player that needs to be challenged | :22:02. | :22:05. | |
because he has great ability, no doubt in wide positions where you | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
often see him, he whips balls in, but I like him particularly in the | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
central position. This is the goal, what a touch this is, defines the | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
extra touch to find the back of the net and if he can work on that, be | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
much tougher with himself foremost, we kept the week, Mark Hughes could | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
work with him. Poacher's finish, and then he could go on to the next | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
level. Mark Hughes must work hard and he was definitely in the mood | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
today. Getting him up to boiling point is the challenge. It certainly | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
was. We are just about out of time but Middlesbrough need to start | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
scoring goals, that's for sure. Danny and Martin, thank you. Before | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
we go let's look at the Premier League table. | :22:48. | :22:55. | |
The top two didn't play on Saturday, so Chelsea remain ten | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
points clear of Spurs. Liverpool have moved up to third, | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
but Manchester City could reclaim that spot on Sunday. | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
Arsenal drop out of the top four. At the bottom, Crystal Palace's | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
second victory in a row means they have moved out | :23:08. | :23:08. | |
of the relegation zone at Middlesbrough's expense. | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
Leicester and Swansea have done their survival | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
prospects a power of good, with wins that lift them five | :23:14. | :23:14. | |
points clear of danger. Before we go let's have a quick look | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
at the Sunday back pages, which are dominated by a couple of flash | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
points in Manchester United's draw with Bournemouth, summed up by the | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
Sunday Times. The Sun newspaper doesn't mince its words, while the | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
Express reckons the players involved, is glad that Ibrahimovic | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
and Tyrone Mings, could be in trouble with the FA. | :23:40. | :23:41. | |
That's it, we're off to find a referee's stag do. | :23:42. | :23:56. | |
Ibrahimovic and Tyrone Mings could be in trouble with the FA. | :23:57. | :23:59. |