Matchday 34 – Quick Round Up

Match Day 34 Round Up

Tuesday 21st April

Brighton 3-0 Chelsea

It was no surprise that this was the end of Liam Rosenior, a ridiculous appointment from the first who was making himself a laughing stock with his idiotic interviews. A carefully cultivated look, to try and look intelligent, added to ridiculous pronouncements, also intended to make him seem intelligent, failed miserably to actually work because he was unable to get performances out of the players and had little to no tactical acumen. Brighton overran them for pretty much the whole match and it was clear Rosenior just could not figure out how to stop them.

Starmen:
Kadioglu – got forward at will and scored a goal.
van Hecke – was having such an easy day in defence that he was charging forward at will.
Gross – ran the midfield.

Flops:
Delap – got no service to be fair, but he does not look suited to Chelsea at all.
Lavia – pairing him with Caicedo did not work at all.
Garnacho – a disastrous choice to bring on at half-time, he was abysmal.

Wednesday 22nd April

Burnley 0-1 Manchester City

Not a straightforward win, despite Citeh taking an early lead. Nerves were definitely jangling in the final minutes, despite the Clarets offering very little threat, there was just enough there for the crowd to be on edge. At this point of the season, all that matters is they keep picking up the wins and applying pressure to Arsenal, so Guardiola will not be too worried that it was more difficult then it needed to be.

Starmen:
Dubravka – while he did nothing extraordinary, he still kept Burnley in it with a fair few saves.
Haaland – hard to believe he only got one.
Doku – always a threat with his pace and skill, but does need to improve his end product.
Khusanov – has come on in leaps and bounds over the course of the season and is looking a much better player.

Flops:
Tchaouna – lacks quality.
Flemming – got little service and kept dropping too deep to help out the defence leaving no options to play out.
Semenyo – had an off day.

Bournemouth 2-2 Leeds United

Leeds struggled at first, as their back three, which has been so successful for them since they changed to it, was unable to handle the way the Cherries play. Some better quality with their final ball would have seen Bournemouth get a number of chances. Farke switched back to a four instead and it made the game a much more even contest. Though it was only really once they equalised via a Hill own goal that Leeds really stepped up and took the game to Bournemouth….