It’s not the biggest weekend, we admit. Antonio Conte and Spurs will continue to go through the motions, but Arsenal, Liverpool and Dominic Calvert-Lewin should be psyched…
Game to watch – Fulham v Arsenal
We’ll level with you: this is not one of the bigger weekends. There are some interesting fixtures in a variety of contexts but none that really grab you by the balls, twist and demand your undivided attention.
But every weekend now is massive for Arsenal. And, in terms of the table, this is one of toughest tests of the weekend, with just six places separating them and Fulham. Only two other games, both separated by five bottom-half places, are more closely matched.
The Gunners will barely notice. There was almost the entire Premier League between them and last weekend’s visitors but rather than the stroll most outsiders expected, what transpired was one of the most dramatic 98 minutes, from the very start to the very finish, the Emirates has staged.
The euphoria generated from Reiss Nelson’s last-gasp winner and the celebrations that followed could leave Arsenal high or utterly spent. It’s probably a good thing that they’ve had the inconvenience of a Europa League fixture in midweek to help reset and refocus before they make the trip across London.
Joao Palhinha won’t be waiting for them at Craven Cottage as he serves the second match of a two-game suspension. The Portugal midfielder has been pivotal for Marco Silva and in his absence at Brentford, the Cottagers lost their first game in eight.
But Arsenal will be reunited with two players gasping to make a point. Bernd Leno insists he has “no bad energy” towards Arsenal but neither can he believe he was so cheaply sold by the Gunners. Willian has arguably a bigger score to settle after a nightmare spell at the Emirates.
Team to watch – Liverpool
The only side to experience anything like the high Arsenal felt last weekend was Liverpool after their rather more straightforward but similarly satisfying steamrollering of Manchester United.
Now what? They go to bottom-of-the-league Bournemouth on Saturday and the story of their season so far suggests it will be anything but simple on the south coast. Surely the Reds won’t waste last weekend’s achievement and the ground they have gained in the race for the top four by chucking in points to a team they thrashed by even more than the seven goals they put past David De Gea last week?
It should be a routine victory for Liverpool….
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