16/10/2016 MOTD2 Extra

Good afternoon and welcome to Match Of The Day 2 Extra on BBC Two, Radio

5 Live and the BBC Sport website. With me for the next 45 minutes,

Trevor Sinclair, Dean Saunders and journalist Alyson Rudd. As ever, you

can get involved in the programme using the hashtag #bbcfootball by

texting 85058. Coming up on the show today: Manchester City pay the

penalty, missing twice from the spot to draw with Everton. They are now

without a win in three games in all competitions. Theo Walcott scores

twice as Arsenal win a sixth game in a row. Bournemouth put six past Hull

in Mike Phelan's first match as permanent manager. And we look ahead

to a huge game tomorrow night with Liverpool playing Manchester United.

A number of the back pages focus on Liverpool versus Manchester United.

The Sunday Mirror's headline is Mission Impossible, saying Jose

Mourinho fears that Mancunian referee Anthony Taylor has an

impossible job at Anfield tomorrow night. The Mail on Sunday leads with

the same story and its headline is its ref justice. The Sunday Times

has a big picture of Romelu Lukaku and the headline Spot Of Bother.

That is where we start, because Manchester City are without a win in

three games. They of course had to the Nou Camp on Wednesday night to

face Barcelona. Trevor Sinclair, your former club. For somebody like

Pep Guardiola, is this the start of a bit of a crisis, three matches

without a win? They have not got an easy game coming up, that has got to

be said. I think it is a blip. The players are still focused and buying

into his philosophy. They have had some tough games. Celtic Park was a

difficult game, which started this run, and they got a draw. Very

entertaining for the neutrals. And then going to White Hart Lane is

never going to be easy. They are definitely contenders this season.

It was a difficult game. They started that game well, but Spurs

deserved the win. And then the game at the Etihad yesterday, Ronald

Koeman has completely revitalised them. If you get ten or 11 men

behind the ball and they are disciplined and they make good

decisions and they are brave when they get the ball back, it is

difficult to break down. Manchester City need to get used to that,

because a lot of teams are going to go to the Etihad and take on that

style of play. They didn't quite get the breakthrough when they thought

they could have. It looks a bit like they have run out of ideas.

Mentally, they should have been stronger, but they showed great

resilience to get back in the game after going behind to Lukaku's

opener. Trevor says mentally, they could have been stronger. When you

are on a good run and you hit a blip, do you lose confidence

quicker? And when you have a game against a team like Barcelona, will

they go in low on confidence? I don't think so. They missed two

penalties yesterday. They should have won the game. Ashley Williams

has made the difference to Everton. He made 13 clearances yesterday. At

times, they were battering Everton. They are still getting used to the

system. He changes during the game. Yesterday, there were two wingers.

And he has got the centre-backs. It is all-out attack. Yesterday, they

were unlucky. As Trevor said, Tottenham the week before, who are

really good team. They would not surprise me if they beat Barcelona

midweek. That would certainly get them back on track. Alyson, when you

have seen Manchester City this season and the Guardiola, even

though these results have been a bit sticky, do you see constant

improvement under him, working towards this style he likes to bring

in? He would be very cross if I were to say no, because that has been his

mantra. I was at his press Conference on Friday and every time

I have heard him speak, he has said it is about making sure even the

star players like Guerra, he can be much better. He says it over and

over again. You talked about the wingbacks. He will put someone who

is out on the wing, under pressure, and said, stop crossing like that.

And it might seem to be undermining him, but he says it to everybody.

Even if the journalists say it was a ten out of ten performance, he will

say they can be better. So the answer to your question is yes, they

are improving. But if you take a group of players, it will affect

them in different ways. Some of them will find it difficult to

acclimatise to, the sense that they are not gods on earth and that they

need to improve. So for the next few months, I think you will see

creaking as the layers get used to such a demanding manager. As you

say, players will react differently to being expected to do better. That

is where the management will come into play and he has that good

relationship with individuals. He also puts pressure on himself to

improve, so I feel that if you do that as a leader with a group of

men, and then you question others, that is normal. Because he questions

himself, the lads will feel it is fair. He was coached by Johan

Cruyff, and he said to Pep Guardiola, you're not good enough,

you could be better. And he said, if I hadn't been told that, I wouldn't

be any good. So if he turns to a player and says, this is why I am

telling you this, if you have any sense, you will accept that.

Guardiola played with the back three yesterday. He even put Vincent

Kompany upfront for a. While Do you think he's trying to find the best

ways to win games in this Premier League, which is a new environment

for him? Little changes like he did yesterday make a whole difference to

the Outlook on the team. If you put zapper letter and Kolarov at

wingback, that is getting a result away from home. If you swap the two

wingbacks with wingers, they are not going to run back like defenders and

that becomes all-out attack, especially if you have ballplaying

centre-backs, which he has. He had Kesey and stones yesterday. When he

has got the fire power he has upfront like he has with Aguero,

they will be hard to stop. So they will get stopped in their tracks now

and again or they will have bad luck, but they will out power teams.

Be a lot has been made of the change in formation. I don't think the

squad are worried about it. This is normal for pep. He looks at the

opposition, he takes them into consideration and if he feels he has

the team and the player power to dictate to the opposition, he will

play whatever he wants. But if he respects certain attributes from the

opposition, he will make adjustments. That is just adapting.

He does that during the game, but what has to happen before that, you

have to do the training so that players understand what is expected

if the formation changes. The players need to practise that.

Hiwula said the players, 11 versus 11, we have five minutes, we are 1-0

down and we have five minutes to score. We are going to play like

this. Then he will say, have a drink, back on the pitch. I have

made two substitutions and we are going to defend for five minutes

like this. Then they understand the advantages and disadvantages. So

when it comes to Saturday, they know what they are doing. Ronald Koeman

said yesterday it was the best team he had come across in his managerial

career. He was able to stop them a bit in their tracks, but let's talk

about Ross Barkley. He wasn't used at all yesterday. Alyson, how do you

feel they have handled Ross Barkley's situation? Is too much

pressure being put on him? He is still only 22, which I was surprised

by as he has played so much football already. It is an interesting one.

I'm guessing everyone around this table would have thought he was

going to be a superstar when he first broke into the Premier League.

And he will not have stopped being a classy player with an eye for a

goal. The trouble is, football has become so disciplined. The managers

want you to do exactly what they say. They don't want you to do

things on the hoof, to be overly expressive. You are in a system, and

you play to that system. I suspect when Ross Barkley gets out there, he

sometimes... Overexcited sounds patronising, but he doesn't always

stick to the plan. It is easy for a manager to think, I will have a

break from him now, because it is mucking things up. I remember Roy

Hodgson absolutely losing it with Ross Barkley for England because he

was not doing as he was told. Maverick. Don't you feel it is

harder to be a maverick? It is, yeah. Deano has more managerial

experience, but as a manager, when you get into that technical area,

you want to know what you are getting from a player. If someone

has their own agenda, it becomes more difficult to put them into a

team structure. So I feel that Ross does come into that type of player,

where he will go on his own. But if he's going to do stuff on his own

and be successful, you would take him all day long. But when he is not

successful, that is the problem. You have got the whole team. If he has

played poorly week in, week out and he's still playing, the rest of the

players will question you as a manager. So he has had to give a

rest and hopefully, he can rekindle what he is about. He is similar to

Daniel Sturridge with Liverpool. They have a pressing situation going

on, and Daniel is not as good as some of the other players, so he has

not played as much football. When they haven't got the ball, I don't

think doing enough, Ross. I think the manager is saying, sit and

watch. I can't play you in a two because you run all over the place.

He is not disciplined enough. When I play you at Number Ten, you drift

out of games for half an hour. I don't mind you doing that, provided

that when we lose the ball, you work your socks off. I have seen Ross do

a couple of post-match interviews and been quite concerned at how

heavily he was breathing. So there are maybe fitness issues. Or he

smokes. Let's not get involved with that! That is one thing I would

question. He is a strong looking boy, but maybe not as fit as he

could be. The dynamics are so different. Aguero looks like he has

lost half a stone. The players look so much fitter. I'm not sure if Ross

is as fit as he could be. A quick word on penalties. Dean, you are

striker. Manchester City, four out of eight penalties this season they

have scored, which is not a great return. I have scored lots of

penalties and I have missed loads. Both penalties were similar, and the

perfect height for a goalkeeper to save. Most goalkeepers dive down,

they don't dig up in the air. If that penalty is not right in the

corner, they are on the way down, and if you ask them where they would

want you to put it, they would want you to put it there. I have tried

doing it in training where you don't even look at the ball, they are

looking at the goalkeeper. Aguero take three steps, looks at the

goalkeeper, and he's waiting for the goalkeeper to dive. He doesn't even

look at the ball. I have tried it. It is difficult. You have to give

credit to Stekelenburg. He anticipated it right. That draw at

Manchester City means that Arsenal went level at the top of the table

with their win over Swansea yesterday. It is their sixth league

win in a row. And Theo Walcott's two goals means he has scored five in

eight games. Alyson, you were at the Emirates yesterday. We will chat

about Theo Walcott, because it was the good and the bad, perhaps. Two

goals, but it could have been three or four. Policy of. Even when he has

a good game, one shot hits the upright and skids across. That

happens to the best of players. That doesn't make him poor. Then there

was the glaring miss at the end, but again, it keeps the woodwork. We are

talking a matter of inches. It is not like it looked really stupid. It

just seems to be the way it goes for Theo. Even when he plays well,

something happens to him that makes people say he is not as good as he

could be. He is 27. This could be his season. He spoke very well

afterwards. Nice level of self-confidence. Some players say

the right words and you don't think they mean it. I felt he meant, I am

in a good place at the moment. He's working hard for the team. At times,

Arsenal looked a bit like the German national team, in that you don't

know who is going to score the goal. Anyone could score, and every player

on the pitch by the keeper looks like they could get forward to score

the goal, and they are in tune with each other. It didn't last the whole

game, but there were moments when it was like that and Theo works well in

that sort of free-flowing system where he is allowed to move where he

wants. You mentioned this could be the

season... You heard it before. We've heard it for the last four or five

years. Where do you feel on him's I think he was poor last year and lost

his focus for whatever reason. I was a big fan of his. He's probably not

got the most amount of guile for a player. His pace, his enthusiasm and

the way he dedicates himself to the game, he's been brilliant, but I

just feel last season he lost his focus, lost a lot of confidence and

he was playing poorly. I saw him at Old Trafford and they might as well

have played with ten men, Arsenal, cos he was that poor on the pitch

but I think the way he's reacted, left out of the euro squad for the

summer, he's reacted in the right way. He looks fitter than he is

looked for a long time and books like he's got that zest back for the

game. He is playing well and scoring goals. He hit one post and it nearly

had the other post it that was so one lucky. He have scored six. If

you get the chances, you get yourself in them positions, you will

score goals. There was element is where you just think, he really is

getting towards his best. And as a player, about 28 or 29 is when you

reach your pick. He has already equalled what he managed in the

whole of last season in terms of goals. Only once has he broke a

double figures barrier. He wants to play through the middle. Is he

somebody that Arsenal can rely on to get the goals or is that why he's

being forced out? I think Sanchez is better than him. Sanchez has had a

problem when he was put up as a lone striker, he was getting deep

midfield. Walcott was playing wide. I think it helps Walcott, playing

with Sanchez at the middle. I've always felt, when he gets in on goal

along that byline, he gets it wrong too many times the player of his

ability and it does help the striker you play with making the right runs

for you. I think Sanchez has grown into that role. Is realising that

he's got to be on the end of the last pass and Walcott is looking

better for it. It was Bradley's first game in charge yesterday at

Swansea. What did you make of the team that he put out and how he set

up? He's not had a huge amount of time with the players but there were

certainly moments when they looked very good and they did challenge

Arsenal. First of all, Bradley is a very lucky manager because he has

inherited Sikhism, who I think is one of the best in the Premier

League. -- Goodridge Sigurdsson. He went four for two, which was brave.

I was slightly worried about what that would mean for Goodridge

Sigurdsson's roll. You don't want him isolated but he got very

involved. His athleticism, the way he bails people out, he will get the

tackle in. So as long as he appreciates that he's got one of the

best players in the league, he will be all right but he has come in with

lots of conspiracy theories. Why is an American with no Premier League

experience who has come from France, why is he taking over a Premier

League club? He's got a reputation for being a bit of a Sergeant Major

and yet he has taken over at a club with a reputation for. Football so

that it felt wrong but he has said all the right things - I'm here to

learn, not to tell people what to do. I want to apply discipline. A

lot of people have come out of the woodwork and said that on Dirk

wheedling training was a bit lax. He wants to make training exciting

again. They've played nicely but not had that grit and determination. It

is too early to make the judgment call on Bradley, the manager, except

that he decided it was time to change the web addresses. What is

the chat back in Wales about this appointment and where Swansea are

and what they can achieve because Theo Walcott said he thought they

were a very underrated side. They The manager got sacked the next day

after it was made 2- to. I don't commission of change the manager.

There was no panic. I'm a Swansea fan. Staying in the Premier League,

I'm happy with that. 11 years ago, we were a goal away from the

Conference going into that league so sucking the manager... And I didn't

like the bit where they interviewed the night before the Liverpool game

and he was still the manager, so what would have happened if they'd

equalised against Liverpool? He stays in the job. I don't think

there was any need to panic. They could have waited and especially

letting him go to Arsenal on his first game... They could've left

lasted another week. They are playing Watford. No disrespect but

it is an easy game, especially after two toff once. But we've got to get

behind him now and hopefully he does the job but I didn't think there was

any need to panic. Watford on Stoke are the next two games for Swansea.

That will probably be more of a test of what Bradley can achieve on a

trip to the Emirates. Although they've got a good record against

Arsenal. I do feel the philosophy of Swansea City doesn't fit well with

Bradley. He has... The way you've seen managers come to Swansea and

get headhunted, I'm not sure this is going to be the case for Bradley but

American owners have different ideas and it is their club. I just hope

the fans get what they expect, good football, good philosophy. They've

lost the main man, Ashley Williams. The captain in the dressing room. He

was like the manager, the leader. He is gone to Everton and doing great

it up they will miss him badly. They will. There are two games in the

Premier League today, Southampton against Burnley at 4pm, but first

Middlesbrough against Watford at 1:30pm. Both games are live on Radio

5 live and Alan Greene is at the Riverside. Both teams today have

made a couple of changes. Middlesbrough's the more

interesting. They bring back Negredo and Ramires, the attacking duo who

have been left out for the last league game. They are chosen ahead

of roads and Fisher. Negredo is the out and out striker, Ramires is

playing behind him, otherwise Middlesbrough are unchanged. Ighalo

is in Nigeria after the death of his father and it is another Nigerian

who replaces him, the young Isaac Success who cost 12.5 million, so

this is his debut for Watford. The other alteration is in their

defence, there is no Zuniga. Britos comes into the centre of defence and

we think Kabul will be at the right back. A big game in the

championship. Huddersfield can return to the top with a win over

Sheffield Wednesday. Kicked off at midday and Alistair Yearwood is

watching. It is nil nil at the moment. Sheffield Wednesday hit the

crossbar off David Jones for the home side have grown into this and

Kasey Palmer, the England U21 international on loan from Chelsea,

highly promising, produced a beautiful shot and really tested

Keiren Westwood, the Republic of Ireland international goalkeeper but

without with about seven minutes to go, it is still 0-0. Let's turn our

attention to tomorrow night. Simon Stone has been speaking to

Manchester United and England winger Jesse Lingard header that big match

against Liverpool. Liverpool is the main game of the

season. A tough side, especially now they have a different way of

playing. It is a great place to play. The fans are always behind us

on the awaydays so a great experience for us. We are going to

be working hard to get the win. The team has changed a little bit since

last season, with the flat and, Paul Pogba, obviously. You know him so

well from when he was here before. Did you keep in touch with him when

he was in Italy and is it good to have him back? Of course I kept in

touch with him. It's like he's been away and he's come back, like he's

been on holiday and has come back. He is still the same as when he was

18. He has not changed one bit. Still feet on the ground and

level-headed. He is a good lad. Liverpool against Manchester United

is live on Radio 5 live tomorrow night and you can see highlights on

that of the day two, which is on tomorrow night on BBC One. -- Match

of the Day to. Alison Rodger alongside me, is this just Mourinho

being Mourinho and drawing attention to the fact that there is a referee

from the greater Manchester area refereeing this match or is this a

legitimate problem something they should be concerned about? As soon

as a referee becomes part of the story, as the manager you have to

make sure that is to your advantage so it is in Mourinho's interests to

suggest that Anthony Taylor is going to feel the need to overcompensate,

so the fact that he was born very close to Manchester means he might

therefore feel obliged to be extra strict with decisions that might

have gone for Manchester. It is ridiculous. But that's what you have

to do if you are the manager. This is a nonstory because the one thing

we do have in this country are referees who wouldn't be in the

slightest bit corrupt it up they may not be very good at the job but they

are not corrupt. There is no way Anthony Taylor is going into that

game thinking, "I really love Manchester but I want Liverpool to

get one over on Manchester because I'm an Altrincham fan". It doesn't

work that way so it is a nonstory but soon as it becomes one, you will

find any asked about it will think how they can make it to their

advantage and make out they will have to think again. Goal but you

can understand why., from the Manchester area, it is like when you

referee again frock -- a game for your son, you are going to be harsh.

He is going to be in a position where he feels he has to be harsh

against Manchester United. He is saying, you can't give us anything

so it is going to be scrutinised so what is going to Anthony Taylor's

mind? Has been precedents in this. Liverpool versus Manchester and

Brendan Rodgers, who was fined for his comments after the match and

said, "I hope never again do we see a referee from Greater Manchester

referee a Liverpool/ Manchester game". Is this something that

authorities have to look at, those that appoint referees? Does anything

need to happen or is it just something that we have a certain

number of referees in this country that can referee the top-level

games. Referees have to say who they supported when they were growing up,

where their affiliations are, and then they don't referee that team.

You can't start saying, where were you born? How many Manchester United

fans were born in London? It doesn't mean anything where you were born at

all. It matters a lot to some people, who will only support that

team. What you do if you are a referee and you live in London? You

can't referee any gains in London? So what we're actually saying is

that they're a little bit corrupt, by all this conversation, but

they're not. They're not. Let's get the actual football which is what we

will hopefully be talking about after the match on Monday. A huge

game for both managers and teams in terms title ambitions. Absolutely.

I'm sure Dean is really excited for the game at Anfield. The new

standards erected and it is probably the biggest gain since the new stand

has been erected at Anfield and I feel Liverpool will be looking

forward to this more than Manchester United, the way they've started,

what they've got going forward, that front six, the creativity they've

shown and the way they've been pressing teams and putting teams to

the sword. I feel they'll do that to stay united and it is going to be a

very difficult evening for Manchester United. You mentioned the

forward players. Manchester has a huge character in the forward line

but which forward players excite you most in terms of Liverpool and

Manchester? I think Liverpool are playing well. The whole game is

going to be brilliant. The two managers are characters, their

personalities standout. The club has got everyone behind them. The

supporters love the manager. Mourinho was like public and in the

number one in Liverpool. -- public enemy. But up the front, Manet is

like lightning. He and his team-mate looked like they can create when

teams play against them and they can counterattack so it is going to be

tough for Manchester United but they've got class players as well.

Mourinho will get it right eventually and once he gets it

right, they've got class players and they can beat anybody on the day. We

talk about title ambitions, obviously it is very early in the

season, but Liverpool have a good record against Chelsea, they've

drawn with Cheltenham and beaten Arsenal, beaten Leicester. When it

comes with those round about them, Liverpool are certainly holding

their own. Absolutely. But already, there have been jokes from Jurgen

Klopp about... There is this theory now, starting day one of the season,

that Liverpool won't be able to keep it going all season. How can you

keep up that relentless, pressing... Even their relentless attitude, in a

way? How can you keep that up for the whole season? It is not a stupid

idea to question whether they have that ability but I would say, he's

been there exactly a year now. We knew he did it in Germany, he kept

unfashionable clubs going and going. He's got much better players at

Liverpool, so why can't he keep it going all season? He has proved it

is possible. I think that has been the most fascinating thing about

clock and Liverpool is the fact that it has to implode at some point, but

I respect it doesn't have to. We haven't seen it before. We haven't

seen someone take that Borussia Dortmund approach to football and

make it happen here. Liverpool made a profit over the

summer. He hasn't brought in amazing talents. If he wins the title, it

will be because of his strategy and style. It is the formula. Why is

Daniel Sturridge not playing? For me, his ability is up there with

Aguero when he has got the ball. When he hasn't got the ball, he is

not fitting into the formula. It is the attitude that the players who

are fit and those who fit his style of the ones who are going to play.

At Dortmund, he had a steady change of players. The minute you drop of

what he wants you to do, there is only so bad you can be. The formula

is based around getting the ball back when you have not got the ball.

There is only so bad you can be. Talking about Sturridge not playing

for Liverpool, Rooney is the one who has been missing out for Manchester

United. A huge week for them. They have Fenerbahce at home on Thursday

and then bring placed Chelsea again at the weekend. Where does Rooney

fit in this week? You would have to ask Jose Mourinho that. He has

watched him day in, day out in training. He knows what his form is

like. And if he is good enough, he will play. But as we have seen,

Rooney's performances have not been anywhere near as good as the

standards he set for himself. He is not playing well, but class lasts

and if he works hard to get the form back, it will come back. At the

moment, he has not got the form. But it may come back in training and

Mourinho might feel he has got over his blip. What do you mean by his

form, though? He's not going to be as fast or strong as he was. Rooney

wants to be somebody else. That can happen. If you look at what John

Barnes did, a team-mate of Dean's, he was the action forward and had

agility and mobility and he used to win games. In the end, John Barnes

dropped back and ended up being a playmaker in midfield. Wayne Rooney

has the all-round ability to adapt. I have seen him train and play and I

have seen the impact he has had on football in the last 15 years in

this country. If he starts dropping back, there is a sense of mistake

people don't want to talk about him as a midfielder. It happens to all

players. They come have that speed for the whole of their careers. If

they are good enough, and Wayne is, he's good enough to drop deeper and

play as a midfielder in the right formation. And I agree with you,

Alyson, he's never going to have the same pace and intensity he had ten

years ago. So he needs to adapt. His manager says he is only going to

play him up front. I disagree. I don't feel when has the ability to

play that role so well any more. Not against the top teams. I think he is

getting too much stick. I do. Mourinho takes the flak sometimes.

He will say, have a go at me, so the talking point will be about him. I

think when we'll be saying, don't worry, I have got broad shoulders.

When we are winning, all this .. I know he is not as quick as he was,

but he is class. Of course he is. It seems like there is a vendetta

against him. He's having a bit of a bad time, big deal. He has been top

of the game for 15 years. Players have dipped in form. I remember

Manchester United doing Ryan Giggs, when he nearly went to Inter Milan.

He found himself being a club legend and staying for many years, so I am

sure when can do that, but he will have to adapt. Ryan Giggs adapted

his role as well. It will be a very interesting match between Liverpool

and Manchester United, which is live on BBC radio 5 Live. Let's go to

Alistair Yeomans at that match between Huddersfield and Sheffield

Wednesday, where it is half-time. Yes, you were talking about the

Jurgen Klopp way. Here, they have had five wins at the John Smith's

stadium, all by a single goal margin. So perhaps not surprisingly,

this game against Sheffield Wednesday has been very tight. It is

0-0. We were talking about Manchester United's trip to

Liverpool. After that, they go to Chelsea, who played the league

leaders yesterday and were comfortable 3-0 winners. Let's start

by talking about Leicester. It seems something has gone wrong for them,

Alyson, four games away from home without a win, really looking to

struggle to contain Chelsea. It is not the Leicester we saw last

season. This is what happens when you win the title while you are in

the kitchen. I think they have started this season in a slight

bubble of, did that really happened? They have also put a lot of emphasis

on doing well in Europe, which they are. They are certainly saving their

best performances for the European competition. You could argue that

the teams playing in Europe have never come across Leicester before,

the same way no one in the Premier League took Leicester seriously last

season until it was too late. I was in Bruges for Leicester's first

Champions League game, and the people of Bruges were really annoyed

that it was only Leicester they were getting as the seeded team. They

wanted a big club with big stars. No one had heard of Leicester, so they

couldn't sell enough tickets. They don't have the reputation. But they

have already lost more games this season than they did in the whole of

last season. They are not looking like title challengers. The irony is

that many airy was known as the tank and in his first incarnation in the

Premier League. He is having to learn how to tinker all over again.

I watched the goalless draw against Southampton and afterwards, Ranieri

said, I got that wrong. I should have rested players. I need to work

out what to do. Then he probably rested too many good players for the

game at Stamford Bridge. He has not got the balance right yet. I don't

think anyone in Leicester will mind if they do well in the Champions

League. When did Wes Morgan ever lose a striker from a corner like

that last season? He stood there looking at the ball. Vokes gets down

with the one-two for the next goal. That never happened last season. I

know they have lost Kante and Drinkwater has been injured, but

little things are going on. You can see Ranieri saying it as well. This

is not the team from last season. I don't think anyone in the game is

surprised that they are going to struggle this year. They had an

amazing story last year. Does lightning strike twice for a team

like Leicester? I don't think it does. I think it was a one-off. But

isn't it quite canny than for Ranieri to prioritise the Champions

League? Absolutely. Let's have another bit of romance, but do it in

Europe this time. The same could be said for Chelsea, but in a positive

way. A change of formation, and Eden Hazard looked superb yesterday. Yes.

At the beginning of the season, I put Chelsea down as winning the

league. I thought, they are not in Europe. Their players will not turn

into bad players overnight. They had a bad season. They have a good

manager who could stamp his authority on the players. They

needed a strong character coming in as the leader, and they have got

that. He has changed a few at the back, and that suits Chelsea. As

long as you can get very energetic wingbacks who know when to join in,

they have a fantastic formula. That was a test yesterday. Costa played

really well. They broke away. He has to slip the ball to his right, he

doesn't. The manager shouts to him, and Costa gives him that one take me

off. Then he has a dilemma. As a manager, if your top scorer is doing

that in front of everybody, do you bring him straight off or deal with

it after the game? I imagine he would have called him in and said,

if you ever do that to me again... He is a hothead. He has got to deal

with that. He has to look after him, because he needs him at least until

the January transfer window. I would have brought him straight off. You

would not have thought, I'm going to show him who the manager is

afterwards? That is why I am sat here! I have the under 18s and the

U21s to think of and the rest of the squad. If he can do it, they all

start doing it. In the heat of the moment, if you have made a decision,

Costa would have known he made the wrong decision. You don't mean not

to pick that pass out. That is where your assistant manager comes in. He

should be greeting him as he comes off the pitch and saying, go and

apologise to the manager. Lets end on a positive. Bournemouth, six

goals, what a result. Fantastic stuff for them. A terrible afternoon

for Hull. Top manager. He leads by example. The lads are fit as a

fiddle. He never criticises the players on a match day, as in giving

them a hard time. In training, here's hard as nails. He sees a

snapshot of who is going to play well, he picks those players, and

they perform. Rob has to say falling just served up by Eddie Howe. Five

Englishmen scored yesterday for Bournemouth. When did that last

happened? That is a good question. And Mel says stop looking at our

manager, how about some of the players for an England call-up? Any

chance of that, Alyson? I would be all for building England around an

unfashionable club like Bournemouth. It is not working by picking players

from around Europe. Sorry to put dampener on it, but Hull City's

defending was horrific yesterday. Well, we will try to end on a high,

Bedene has just ruined it. Thank you very much to Trevor, Dean and

Alyson. Match Of The Day 2 is on tomorrow night, with highlights from

Liverpool against Manchester United, and we will be back next week. Hope

to see them. Goodbye now.