03/12/2017 MOTD2 Extra

Hello and welcome to Match

of the Day 2 Extra.

We're on BBC Two, 5 Live,

the BBC Sport website & app,

as well as the iPlayer.

Joining me today, Stoke

midfielder Charlie Adam,

Arsenal Women defender Alex Scott

and Shaun Custis, who's

The Sun's Head of Sport.

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Here's what's coming up.

We'll dissect the match

at the Emirates where David De Gea

put in one of the performances

of the season as Manchester

United win at Arsenal.

We'll assess how Sam Allardyce got

on in his first match

in charge of Everton -

three points and a clean sheet

against Huddersfield.

And we'll be in Bournemouth ahead

of the first game of the day

as they take on Southampton.

The newspaper back pages are

dominated by last night's late game.

The Sunday Times says Paul Pogba

went from "Hero to villain"

after starring in United's win.

The Sunday Mirror leads

on Ronald Koeman -

"I'm Broken" is the headline,

as he says his sacking by Everton

was a bolt from the blue.

And the Sunday Telegraph says

Gareth Southgate may rotate

the England captaincy

during the World Cup next year,

or just give the job to the player

with the most caps in the team.

But we're going to

start at the Emirates.

A crucial three points for

Jose Mourinho's Manchester United.

It was a first away win

for him against a "big six"

side in three years.

Arguably Arsenal had one

of their best performances

of the season as well but they lost

3-1, not least because of

the performance of David De Gea.

The one sour note for United,

the red card for Paul Pogba that

will rule him out of next week's

derby with Manchester City.

We'll hear from Arsene Wenger

in a moment, but first Mourinho.

Amazing attitude from every one of

them. It is part of the quality they

showed, they showed also an amazing

character in the difficult moments

of the game. The game gave us

difficult moments. Arsenal gave us

difficult moments with attacking

quality. We have the difficult

moments are playing with ten men for

quite a long time. Amazing character

by the players. They deserve your

words, similar to my words when I

met them in the dressing room.

We

played well and there is nothing

more frustrating than having that

quality of performance and then

nothing to show for it. On one side,

we feel sorry for the players

because their attitude was

impeccable until the end. But I feel

as well, when you go into a big

game, you cannot make the mistakes

we made today from the start.

I have

no thoughts to speak about. I have

this Peter Barrett Koscielny, I

speak a lot of a lot of things, but

I don't.

You were there, Alex. It wasn't a

great result but I thought it would

have been impossible not to leave

the ground with a smile on your

face?

I am still smiling. It is one

of the best games I have been two at

the Emirates in such a long time. It

was end to end, how fast the game

was. Apart from the defensive

errors, Arsenal gave it their all,

they went to it and didn't give up.

Some of the football on display was

a real quality football match.

He

were listening to it on the radio

and you could feel it coming through

on the radio?

It was good

commentary. Interesting to hear one

of the big games being exciting.

Normally they are a bit dull. It was

good to hear end to end and a lot of

action. Manchester United were the

best in the end.

We are used to

cancelling each other out, the big

side. David DeGale, look at his

progress, I remember doing a game at

Stoke when he was there. He wasn't

strong enough to deal with the high

balls. Now he looked like he bosses

his area, strong hands.

A different

keeper. Comes from experience. He

has been in the league for six or

seven years, he is the best

goalkeeper in the world at the

moment. Some of the saves last night

were incredible.

I was off my seat

celebrating thinking we had scored,

but he managed to pull it back out.

It is unbelievable, his performance

yesterday.

There was one he saved

from Romelu Lukaku which was an

astonishing volume in itself. --

volley. He would have been

completely unaware and then the

double save from Alexandra

Lacazette.

33 attempts against

Manchester United team, it is

unheard of.

How did Jesse Lingard

get Man of the Match? I know he did

extremely well, but David DeGale

them in the game. Arsenal probably

would have won the game if it wasn't

for him. He is a top goalkeeper and

has been linked with Real Madrid

over the last few seasons, will be

interesting to see if he can be

kept.

To be fair, Jesse Lingard,

Jose Mourinho has shown a lot of

faith in him. Nobody would have him

as a starter for England, nobody

would have him as a starter for

Manchester United. Usually when he

is in the team, you think, who is

missing.

He is different from what

they have. He wants to pass and run

in behind. He is different. I think

he is a top player. We don't play

for Manchester United if you are a

bad player but he should be on the

plane to Russia.

We have got to take

Harry Winks, Dele Alli, Jack Walsh

if he's fit.

He's always on the

move, he's clever. He's orthodox, he

is different in the Premier League

and Jose Mourinho trusts him in the

bigger games because he knows the

energy he will get from him. Marcus

Rashford is still a little bit

inexperienced but Jesse Lingard

gives you something different. He

gets the goals in the big game.

Why

do you think he is much maligned?

Going from yesterday, his front

foot. His ability to put defenders

under pressure. Which led to the

second goal for Manchester United.

Defenders don't like that, they like

time on the ball to pick passes at.

But when you have Jesse Lingard

constantly on your back, you need to

be on your toes. That is his

strength. I suppose from the other

sort of players and their ability,

some managers like that, go and

harass the player put the defender

under pressure.

He is nearly 25 now,

he was out on loan at Leicester, and

if he is 25 now and hasn't nailed

down a first-team place until now,

maybe he isn't all that. But some

players mature at different ages.

He

probably hasn't had that opportunity

as regular as now since Jose

Mourinho has come in. He is the one

who has said, you are in and he is

producing the goods in the big

games.

Do you think we might get a

change in how big teams approach

playing each other or do read just

strike lucky yesterday with a bit of

a fluid because United scored early

and therefore could invite Arsenal

onto them and then hit them on the

break?

Jose Mourinho is saying it

was a great game, but he was

probably tearing his hair out. Alan

Shearer said in the week, the big

teams play not to lose against each

other.

The game will probably be the

total opposite at the Manchester

derby.

They will not want to lose.

That is not Pep Guardiola's style.

He will want to go for it.

You can

understand why because they don't

want to lose ground against the

opposition who are maybe their

equals.

That is what made the game

is so refreshing yesterday. It was

literally end to end and it was so

entertaining and refreshing from a

fan's perspective.

Even though

Arsenal loss, do you think there

were lots of positives for Arsenal

to take out of the game? If so, what

would they be? Looking at it on

Match Of The Day last night, Ian

Wright was critical of their

defending. The Telegraph said 74%

possession but 100% defensive

mistakes. Surely you can look for

positives in performance rather than

criticise?

It was hard because we

lost the game in the first 11

minutes by two defensive mistakes.

Other than that, one touch passing,

the ability to open up the

Manchester United defence at times.

They other positives we need to

build on, the characters you keep

going. Mesut Ozil again, we need to

keep producing those level of

performance is from Arsenal players

and eradicate those mistakes at the

back.

We have had a period at Stoke

as well, individual errors cost

shoot in the Premier League. That is

what happens, you have got to take

it on the chin but Arsenal will take

the positives out of the

performance. United are the

second-best team in the league,

performance against a team like

that, is encouraging for Arsenal,

but I think they are short.

The

negatives will be, Mazive Ozil

having a great game yesterday, and

nice audition for going to

Manchester United. There is a

chance.

You will always be

mysterious.

They will always be

respectful of each other and polite,

Jose Mourinho and Ozil.

Who would

replace him, he is a top player. I

don't know where he would play in

the Manchester United team.

It is

unlikely he will stay. Going off

yesterday's game, you need to build

the team around them. Going back to

the defensive points, yesterday, it

was clear to see physicality was

lacking defence. The power of Romelu

Lukaku and Paul Pogba to brush off

defenders and get round them.

At

this level, that cannot happen.

Given how Manchester United

performed when Paul Pogba was out

injured, which was the stodgy part

of the season for them and he will

probably be suspended for three

games. He is definitely out of the

Manchester derby. They lose some

fluency, lose an attacking threat.

The way he linked up with Jesse

Lingard and with Romelu Lukaku

yesterday.

He is a matchwinner, a

world-class player and the

difference in the Manchester United

team. He has all of the ability. But

they will bring somebody in. Maka

tearing might come in, Juan Mata

might come in. Not to the level of

Paul Pogba bob but they are very

good players. He did struggle.

He

feel about him, they are less likely

to go for it in a big game than with

him?

Yes, it is the area he covers

on the pitch. He reminds me of the

Patrick Viera style, his ability to

get box to box and his technical

ability. His passing at times, his

ability to switch play. He does make

Manchester United take.

He looked

like he was in control, more so now.

It makes it all the more frustrating

that he was sent off and they will

not have him.

He sees the killer

pass and he does open things up for

Manchester United. Newf have got to

play Romelu Lukaku upfront. Marcus

Rashford is on the bench. Jesse

Lingard will want to run in behind

and it is a dream for a midfielder.

Pick your head up and find the past.

He is a top player and will be

missed for the game next week.

I am

always interesting when a player

says to a journalist, you don't

understand a sending-off, unless you

have played the game. He stamped on

the back of his leg. Nobody can

agree if it was deliberate. It is

still being debated now, but it was

a deliberate stamp, did he mean it?

These things always crop up when you

are on one of my shows.

I have only

seen it once and I think it is a red

card. It is a red card for me. If

you get a couple of clips, I have

probably done the same thing. You

will always try to defend it but he

caught him on the back of the leg.

Slow motion always makes it looks

worse. No matter what sport it is,

whether it it is cricket, rugby

league, rugby union, slow motion

makes things look worse. Whether it

is deliberate or not, only he will

know and the prose can debate it.

I

don't think he has gone to do him.

It is strange to see how Bellerin

tackled like that. His studs have

slid off the ball and gone straight

through.

Does look great.

He thinks he can get there but Paul

Pogba was so fast. He could have

pulled out of it.

Let us move on to

the first game of the day, two games

today, West Ham and Manchester City

later.

The first Premier League game

of the day kicks off at 1.30.

It's Bournemouth at home

to Southampton and Mark Scott

is there for tonights Match

of the Day.

Eddie Howe says he sees it as a

Derby and he believes the rivalry is

growing. Delighted to have Mark

alongside me. What do you make about

Eddie Howe's comments?

Fair

comments. 30 miles apart, both in

the Premier League, we need a bit of

extra rivalry to add to the Premier

League mixture and it is really

good. The two clubs are established

sides now and let us hope it

continues.

A bit of criticism about

Southampton's style of play but they

have very nearly stop the Manchester

City juggernaut in midweek.

They

have had a stop- start season.

Inconsistency. The style has not

been great. But at Manchester City,

I thought they were excellent, and

lucky to concede late on.

Interesting to see how Nathan

Redmond responds after the encounter

with Pep Guardiola post-match -- and

they were unlucky to concede late

on.

Bournemouth have been

inconsistent, Eddie Howe was

disappointed against Burnley.

What

have you made of them? The first

four games of the season, they lost

a huge blow to them, concern around

the Vitality Stadium. But they have

picked up since then. Inconsistency,

biggest problem. They need to make

sure this ground is therefore press.

Last weekend's result was very bad

against Burnley. No disrespect to

Burnley. This needs to be a

homeground advantage for them where

they picked up as many points as

they can.

I am loathe to bring up

Australia given away this weekend

has been going, what do you make of

Australia's group, France, Peru,

Denmark?

Pretty happy. France, one

of the favourites, phenomenal side.

Having them as the first game of the

tournament, you do not know what you

will get. Maybe they will

underestimate us. If they do, there

is a chance. Denmark and Peru,

Christian Eriksen, phenomenal

player, but if we catch him off his

game, if we can contain him,

anything is possible.

We will be

aiming for the second spot. Mark is

part of the team this afternoon

which will have full commentary of

the game on Radio 5 Live and

highlights on Match of the Day to

tonight.

Alistair Bruce-Ball,

who's commentating on the game

for 5 Live, has the team news.

Plenty here after midweek defeats

for both teams. Bournemouth did not

get going, Eddie Howe makes five

changes, Jermain Defoe starts, he is

in full Callum Wilson. Jermain Defoe

and Josh King upfront. Junior

Stanislas is back from injury from

Bournemouth. Lewis Cook comes in in

central midfield. Mauricio

Pellegrino has gone one better with

six changes today, Cedric is injured

so Jeremy Peace -- Jeremy Pied is

in. Shane Long missing today with

injury. Despite being told how good

he is by Pep Guardiola on Wednesday,

Nathan Redmond is on the bench and

Sofiane Boufal start the game.

Eddie Howe has made several changes,

Bournemouth struggling to get some

consistency, rhythm.

That is what I

was thinking, when they mentioned

the changes, sometimes it is hard as

players, you just need to go with

the same starting XI. I know what

Eddie Howe's thinking is, we need

someone to spark something, freshen

it up, but sometimes too many

changes makes the team just wanted.

It does. I'm saying that because the

manager has not made any changes

expert it is trying to get

combinations, different players.

Tough period coming up in the

Premier League, the amount of games.

When it is not going for you, you

try everything, new players,

different players. Like you say,

both teams have made 11 changes

between them.

We discussed this

before, when it is not going for

you, sometimes it is better to be

away from home in games like this

where the expectation is not on you

as much.

I want to be at home. There

is no... You do not want to be away

from home when it is tough. The

advantage of the home team, you

might be under the cosh, you would

rather be at home, under pressure.

You have to take the criticism of

the home fans but you have to be

strong mentally and physically to

take it on. I prefer to be at home

than away somewhere else and the

opposition team have the ball...

What do we expect realistically of

Bournemouth? Playing well above

their weight, they have done

phenomenally well, fifth from

bottom. I do not expect anything

else, really. I do not see where

they would push onto.

What do you

expect from Southampton?

Possibly a

little better.

They are a bigger

club with a bigger ground?

Well

established now in the Premier

League.

Mauricio Pochettino, Ronald

Koeman, they have had the standard,

top ten, a little bit above that,

cup finals and things like that, so

when they dipped below that

standard, they will always get

criticism.

Arguably, they were very

close to going into this game on the

back of a very good week. Charlie

Austin beating Everton last weekend.

It would have been a point at City

if they had held on for another few

seconds.

For me, Southampton has

been frustrating because they have

players, a great team. Sometimes

this season I have been watching, it

is so side to side, no one taking

the chance to open up, you have

Nathan Redmond, give the ball to him

more so he can open up players, get

attacking options. It has been so,

OK, this is nice football, nothing

happening.

Not a lot of penetration

in the team. I noticed that when we

played them. Not negative, but

quite... Happy, nice football.

Players like Steve Davis can open

the past, Nathan Redmond, as you

say, it is frustrating for them

because they are dipping below the

level they are at moment. They are

wonderful club, Southampton, and

what they have done, selling

players, bringing in different

players, great club.

Moving onto one

of yesterday's Premier League games,

Sam Allardyce's first in charge of

Everton, a home win over

Huddersfield.

Learn to dig in, be resilient.

Before I got here, they had let too

many goals in and we had to stop

that and we had started to do it on

Wednesday and again today. We can

build on the attacking play more

once we have established a solid

defensive unit and the players who

are injured, we have to try to get

them fit as quickly as possible. The

players playing at the moment have

to stay fit because there is not a

lot to choose from at the moment.

The players out of the team, a lot

of them will probably play midweek

in the last Europa Cup games so they

can give me a performance,

encouragement in terms of selecting

them if I need to going into this

very, very big Christmas period.

51

second clip, he said, dig in,

resilience, solid defensive unit.

That is what Everton needed. Just

him being there the other night gave

the place a lift, gave the

players... They knew they had to

perform for the new manager. David

Unsworth deserve some credit for

midweek as well but Sam Allardyce

turns up, everyone is thinking, in

no danger of going down. Everton

have struggled to accept they were

even in the relegation battle, the

board and the fans did not want to

even take it on board that they were

in a relegation battle. Now it looks

like they will not be in one. Can

Sam Allardyce take them higher

battling for European places? I

think he can. His best chance in

club management since he was at

Newcastle ten years ago to take the

club into Europe.

Spot on. The

perfect decision to make, bringing

him in. The issue they had was why

they waited so long. They should

have done it weeks ago before the

international break. But he is the

right man for the job. Like you say,

get them solid. The biggest thing

for them is the goals, the goals

they were conceding were incredible.

They have the players, Wayne Rooney,

Gylfi Sigurdsson, Ross Barkley still

to come back, they will win more

games than they lose if they can

defensively shore it up.

If I was

going to play devil's advocate, on

the other side... Why are you

laughing? That is my job! West Ham

and Huddersfield at home, if at the

start of David Unsworth's caretaker

manager run they had played

Westfield and Huddersfield at home,

arguably, they would have got

similar results -- West Ham and

Huddersfield. It is how the fixtures

fall sometimes.

But when you have a

manager like Sam Allardyce,

no-nonsense, the persona,

automatically players are like, I

need to put a performance in.

I have

said before, when he walks in, you

listen. You sit up and you think,

right, the manager is in, the boss

is in, he has a presence about him,

takes no-nonsense.

It is the aura.

As a player, you know you cannot get

away with anything. I have just had

it at Arsenal. We had a period of

caretaker manager, some players

believed in his philosophy, so how

do you get everyone on board? If you

have a no-nonsense manager and that

persona, you do, you are the leader.

Those players who were not on board

with the caretaker manager, they are

letting the club and the fans down.

Absolutely. But you look at the

performance of some of the players

yesterday, where were they in the

other games?

The players at Arsenal

who were a bit dubious about the

caretaker manager, I am assuming you

were not, you were one of the good

ones. Did you say, hang on, you are

being paid by the club, you have fun

supporting you, pull yourself

together?

It taught me the

importance of the top leadership.

You want to win, no one wants to not

perform. But when things are not

going right, you maybe have one

player thinking, they need to do

this. Ultimately, you need the

leader onside, this is what we are

doing, stick to the game plan. It is

just sometimes players might say,

this might help, but when it is to

the detriment of the team.

There are

always one or two who deviate but

that is when the manager needs to

be, right, I am in control, and you

will have situations where the

manager has to stamp his authority

on it. You will have incidents in

clubs for instance training,

something, the manager has to be

there. You will find players who try

to get away with things and it

happens at every club. You need a

manager who is strong and Sam is

that.

Are you treading water a bit

with caretaker manager? You think,

all right, maybe he wants me to do

that, let us see what happens with

the permanent manager. You do not

have to necessarily impress the

caretaker.

I have never been in that

situation, but I still want to show

the caretaker manager because you

never know who was coming in. The

new manager will watch the last five

games, he will be asking how players

are training, so he will get an

update on the players and if they

say, as soon as the manager got

sacked, he dropped his standards,

the manager will be like, OK, take

that on board, he will watch games

and see things.

You hope every

player has that mindset, mentality,

but sometimes people are on

different pages. You try as the

captain...

But players have

different mentalities. Some of the

players, did they let down David

Unsworth?

I think they did. Whether

they do it consciously, I am not

convinced of that. But

subconsciously, Ronald Koeman brings

in certain players, they will be

disappointed. Some might come in...

They might have spent money on

players but he might not want them.

They will be thinking, is my future

up in the air?

#bbcfootball. Here

are some of the ones on Arsenal's

defeat. Standard Arsenal, am I

missing something, been like it for

years? Susan, wondering what Hector

Bellerin's leg was doing in that

position for the red card for Paul

Pogba. Eugene says, there are no

positives, if anything, missing the

chances should worry Arsenal fans.

#bbcfootball. Stoke against Swansea.

I am not understating this, huge win

for your club yesterday.

Yeah. It

has been a difficult period. The

results, you get judged on your

results, for Foreman says have been

OK, we were losing games --

performances have been OK. You have

to stop it and we were lucky we did

that yesterday, played well enough

in parts of the game. We reacted

well to the goals so early, great

finish from Wilfried Bony. A must

win game for us, I thought

yesterday.

What is going wrong? You

look at the squad and you think,

there is a balance there, some good

centre halves, good midfielders,

does it boiled down to struggling to

score?

Well, we are losing goals as

well, that is difficult. Second

worst record in the league for

losing goals. That is a

disappointment. Over the years, and

we still do take pride in... Ryan

harps on about it, keeping clean

sheets, it is big for him, he wants

to do that. We are not used to

goals, 7-2 at Man City, beaten by

Liverpool... It is difficult. We

have good characters in the team.

They are the ones that pull us out

of the trenches when we are

struggling and we will be OK.

And

Mark Hughes, the opposite to the

others in that the players here

selecting he stays with to get you

out of it.

He does. The performances

have been good to a point. We have

got to a certain point in the pitch

when we have done well. Just the

final area, we were lacking for a

little bit. A couple of assists,

goals. That will come. We are coming

into a good period now, we play

three of the big ones in the next

couple of months, so we will look to

win every game, really, but it will

be difficult, the Premier League.

Yesterday, Swansea, one of the teams

we targeted, we felt we could win.

We deserve to be bottom because we

lost those games. A lot of them were

lost by a small margin but I cannot

say we have been unlucky. We should

be in a higher position. We have not

been good enough. Today was typical

us at this time.

Were you angry with

the way things are with your

players, the position they find

themselves in?

Very angry and very

disappointed with what we are

showing at the moment. Monday to

Friday, we focused, working. Teams

coming up against us, we're not

surprised by what they do either

individually or as a team. We are

thorough with our analysis, we go

through our preparation with

professionalism. What we are

managing to do is not turn our good

work in the week into winning

matches at the weekend.

There are

disturbing stats for Swansea fans.

One win in their last 12

Premier League games for Swansea.

They've only collected one point

out of a possible 21,

and that was a 0-0 draw

at home to Bournemouth.

They've also had fewer shots

than any other side at this stage

of a Premier League season

since 2004, mustering only 27.

They've scored eight goals

in their 15 matches.

Wilfried Bony's strike yesterday

was their first since October.

If you sell goofy Sigurdsson and

Fernando Llorente, you get Hamilton

in on loan, and you bring in Wilfred

Bonney, it cannot be a surprise your

goal strop, can it?

Not at all, but

like I was saying about Bournemouth,

Swansea are a success story if you

look back over the last 20 years

where they were, nearly going out of

business. They are a success. Them

being at the bottom of the Premier

League is not the end of the world.

It might feel like it at the moment,

but they are a success story. They

have two balance the books. I don't

think we take into account enough,

geographically, it's not easy. They

are almost cut off from the rest of

the Premier League. Fans, players,

long journeys. How easy is it for

them to attract the top players to

Swansea. They would rather go to

London, Manchester. Various

circumstances conspiring against

them. But as you say, losing players

like that, Sigurdsson, desperately

wanted to get out, he wanted the

move. Eventually you come to the

point where you have got to let him

go. The same goes for Llorente,

you're going to say Spurs, please.

Let's go.

Do you think where they

are makes a massive difference to

attract players?

Players like

Newcastle, David Ginola, he then

wanted to be in London.

And yet

players love it. Their families love

it, kids. A lot of the form players

find it difficult because London and

Manchester are big attractions. When

you get an opportunity to play in

the Premier League, it doesn't

matter where you play, Swansea,

Newcastle, it should be a privilege

to play in the Premier League.

It

comes down to your environment. If

you are going into training, you

create a good environment you are

going into everyday, it doesn't

matter where you are because you

have it every day and you are

enjoying what you're doing.

How bad

weather yesterday, how diplomatic

can you be?

I don't think they were

at the level of previous seasons.

Because Abraham is up there and he

can run in behind, they are a nice

footballing team. Paul Clement said

they are the bottom of the league

because they haven't produced. It

would be more refreshing to hear

other managers coming out and saying

that.

Do you think he sounds like a

man who thinks the game is nearly

up? Some of the newspaper quotes are

pretty defeatist.

It goes back to

the mentality of certain players. I

can take it, you can take it, but

other players will be saying, what

is he saying that for, he is our

manager. It is knowing who you can

say those things do and who you

can't.

Don't the Swansea players

need some home truths, they are the

bottom of the Premier League. He did

say they are as prepared as they can

be Monday to Friday.

The players say

the training is brilliant, everyday

there is something different,

wonderful coach, still learning. He

is still an inexperienced manager,

he has only had two jobs. But he

will learn from this. I like how he

wants his team to play. He has been

at Chelsea, Real Madrid, be in

Munich, he is a good manager and

good coach.

Some managers are

cutouts just to be a number two. Are

some meant to be assistant managers.

I think some are scared to take a

manager's job because they are

comfortable as a number two. But he

wants to take it on the chin, he

wants to be an number one. It is a

difficult situation. If you have an

manager will take you everywhere at

a different club, why would you put

yourself at risk?

Some of those

players have improved under him.

Alfie Mawson. He did improve them

defensively last season. Alfie

Mawson, it is one. He seems to have

developed under Paul Clement. They

have only lost eight games by one

goal. So you are talking fine

margins, would you stick with him?

It is fine margins.

Tony Pulis is

out of a job.

What is the

difference? Wayne Routledge is

enjoying, developing players.

Do you

think the spectre of Tony Pulis is

handing over clubs at the bottom

having changed their manager?

It is

getting goals at the other end, not

just defence.

Yes, you sort your

defence out, you can get one on the

break. One goal margins are big in

the Premier League. Defensively, if

you are losing two or three, you are

having to score four goals every

game, it is going to be difficult.

Do you think he is on his way?

He

sounds like a man who thinks he is.

I have heard Tony Pulis saying

similar things before he has left a

job. There are certain things that

managers when you know things have

come to an end. And that for me was

Paul Clement.

Liverpool beat

Brighton 5-1 yesterday. The free

kick went under the wall. Philip

Coutinho paid tribute to the analyst

he has at the club for spotting

that. Is it the kind of thing you

look at during the week, what a wall

does?

Yes, we have done similar when

I was at Rangers against Celtic. I

looked at the goalkeeper and he was

telling his wall to jump and that is

what made me go under it. But small

margins and the video analysis you

can get now is incredible. Players

look at it, some players don't. When

I am playing I am looking at, can I

get an edge, what about a set play,

like we have just said, under the

wall. Does a person do the same

thing in certain situations.

It is

always getting that edge. I want to

know who I am up against, do they

take you on the outside, so I am

prepared. I suppose you have too

applaud the backroom staff who look

for all those little details and

they feed the players the

information. It is down to the

player whether they take it on board

but after training, they analyse

everything and look for the small

details.

Did you use call the

Rangers goal?

Yes. Under the wall.

We won the game, which was nice as

well.

TV didn't do it as much

justice, if you look at some of the

stills in the papers, with how high

Brighton are jumping and the ball

going under. Some amazing

photographs.

They you at a dinner

Hazard, a little chip and the

goalkeeper going the wrong way.

There are analysts at other clubs

watching how you take free kicks

penalties so you can double bluff

yourself?

Yes, you can do.

This

analyst will know I always put my

penalties this way, do I go the

other way?

Wayne Rooney, practices

penalties with Joe Hart and then he

nearly missed it. Maybe it was a bit

of luck, going under the wall.

The 4pm kick off today

is Manchester City

at home to West Ham.

City looking to go eight

points clear again.

West Ham have conceded

30 goals already,

in advance of going to City.

Can you see them holding out?

Know,

West Ham fans going into this game,

they know it is their expectation.

It is a free pass, every game. If

they get anything out of it, great

but it will be a tough day.

Has been

a tough start for David and will be

worse in the next few games. The

biggest thing for them will be going

there. Manchester City will be big

favourites. But they don't want to

be losing three, four or five goals.

If they can get away with 2-0, maybe

Nick a point, it will be great but

it will be a difficult afternoon.

Nobody could think they could get

everything out of it. Also it is a

big game for Joe Hart. He's out of

the team, so if a dream comes in and

is well it will have a big knock-on

affect the Joe Hart because he might

stay out of the side and a World Cup

chances go with it.

Manchester City

players, on yellow cards, Vincent

Kompany is one of those, will he be

rested in time to the Derby next

week.

It is interesting, will he

rest him?

He has enough options.

He

has a lot of games coming up. It

will be the end of December before

the booking is clear. He will be

looking to see which game to pick.

If West Ham do do anything, it will

be interesting next week. The

specially for the neutrals, they

will be hoping West Ham can just get

it.

They probably will make changes.

They are eight points clear, he

would still think Manchester City

will get this.

If West Ham get this,

it could give David Moyes the spark

to get things going.

He is popular

among the football press, you think

he deserves a break somewhere along

the line. You almost want him to get

a decent result to give him a bit of

confidence, to kick-start his

career.

That's it, we are out of

time.

Thanks to Charlie, Alex and Shaun.

Both of today's Premier League

games are live on 5 Live.

Highlights on Match of the Day

2 on BBC One tonight.

Good bye.