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Manchester United
Their haul of 18 goals from their opening four matches is a Premier League record.


Manchester City
Winners of their last seven league matches by a cumulative scoreline of 21-3.


Wayne Rooney
When he's on a spurt, he's really worth gushing over. So to speak. Back-to-back hat-tricks are a rare feat but it's the quality of Rooney's finishing which is really standing out at present. Note just how many of his recent goals have been scored into the corner of the net, either high or low but almost always unsavable.


Phil Jones
He can play centre-half, right-back and in midfield. No wonder Sir splashed out - and no wonder he advised John O'Shea to depart as he was all out of opportunites.


Sergio Aguero
A wonderfully calm finish with the completion of his hat-trick ably assisted by the sublimely wonderful play of David Silva. If the Spaniard was the national of any other country, he'd be heralded as world class.


Samir Nasri
After being credited with just a solitary assist in the entirety of last season, Nasri has produced four in his first 100 or so minutes at City.


Chelsea
Even as third favourites in what's perceived to be a two-horse race, the potential of Chelsea making a dramatic appearance in a photo finish should not be discounted. In a league of also-rans, there is nothing unrealistic about expecting Chelsea to stay in the chase so long as they cause at least one of the Manchester Massives trouble down at the Bridge.


Juan Mata and Daniel Sturridge
Chelsea's evolution is finally underway. Sturridge's finish at Sunderland was a stamp of class, whilst Mata's performance had the mark of true class throughout. They will not be able to fix the Fernando Torres problem unless the Spaniard finds his lost yards of pace, but the evidence of this weekend is that they will provide attractive solutions all of their own.

Sturridge's finish had an element of fortune - technically, 'his' goal may in fact have been an own-goal - but it was a 'trick' he has practiced in training and there is nothing fortunate about a return of nine goals in his last 13 matches.


Emmanuel Adebayor
A scorer on debut for Arsenal, Manchester City and Tottenham, fast starts are Adebayor's forte. Yet Spurs only need to look at the details of Adebayor's last outing at Molineux, which wasn't by coincidence his last start for City, to appreciate the level of difference between an inspired Adebayor and an uninterested Adebayor: One converted penalty, two blocked shots, 22 successful passes, nine unsuccessful, one foul won and zero blocks or interceptions contributed. This Saturday, in contrast, he completed 40 successful passes, contributed six attempted tackles, and produced four shots in addition to his deftly taken goal.

On his day, he's a world-beater. The problem is that day only ever seems to occur on his first.


Aston Villa
Three shots on target, two goals, one point.


West Brom
Winners of the first six-pointer of the campaign.


Losers

Kenny Dalglish
Not his finest hour.


Alan Hansen
Since when has an opinion been a "fact"?


Luis Suarez
A stat which might be worth keeping an eye on is the percentage of Suarez's shots which actually hit the target. So far this term, just five of his 14 shots have required saving, which is a woeful return for a player of his talent and task.

Whatever the validity of Dalglish's grievances, neither of his complaints following Liverpool's frustrations against Sunderland and Stoke would have been necessary had Suarez converted a penalty on the opening day and capitalised on an open goal in the last minute this weekend.


Kevin Davies and Tom Cleverley
Only the second player in Premier League history to have cautioned 100 times - Lee Bowyer, in case you were wondering, was the first - the question is how many fouls he has committed to reach that landmark. The unofficial answer - short of being definitive because the available records do not extend beyond 2003 - will be far in excess of a 1000, with Davies' account debited with 807 fouls for his last 70 cautions since moving to Bolton in 2004.

Alan Shearer's deplorably feeble 'analysis' of Davies' latest let-off - rather than being cautioned for his foul on Tom Cleverley, which has left the United midfielder with a suspected broken foot, he was only belatedly yellowed for a foul, not broadcast on MoTD, on Patrice Evra - was to breezily dismiss it as "clumsy" and acquit the Bolton captain of deliberate intent, a charge which nobody had levelled against him. Yet the numbers apply an alternative commentary on a player whose prolific unlawful carelessness makes Cleverley's calamity an overdue accident waiting to happen.


Bolton Wanderers
Obituaries ought not to be drafted in the wake of disgrace-less defeats to the two Manchester Massives and Liverpool, but the alarm bell which first sounded four months ago when Bolton's season culminated in five successive defeats in opposition to Fulham, Blackburn, Sunderland, Blackpool and City is ringing ever louder. A blip has become a slump and will become a crisis without victory next week against Norwich.

The Owen Coyle myth is on the point of explosion and, whilst these are early days to talk of relegation, the only optimistic hope at this stage is that Bolton will be bad enough not to survive on account of the three points they were donated on the opening day by a QPR team not fit for the Premier League.


Gary Cahill
Literally given the run-around by Javier Hernandez for United's first at Bolton, Cahill was made to look clueless as to his man's whereabouts for the second as well. £17m, you say?


Nicklas Bendtner
If the reckoning is that Bendtner is half the player he thinks but the twice as good as his critics tend to depict, the halfway house is the acceptance that he requires at least one too many chances to score than a truly top player. His failures to convert against Barcelona late in one of his last matches for Arsenal and very early on in his first for Sunderland against Chelsea, demonstrate that to the detriment of any further dispute.


Sunderland
The vultures are finally circling around Steve Bruce. So much has been spent and so little is being returned. The defeat to Chelsea was the seventh at the Stadium of Light in eight games and all that is emerging from the darkness is the unexpected threat of relegation.

Bruce might be entitled to feel aggrieved at the sudden departure of Asamoah Gyan but his insinuation that the African had been motivated by money to agitate for his departure has been made hypocritical by reports that Sunderland received a world-record compensation fee of £6m for agreeing to the loan. And agreement, lest we forget in the wake of Bruce's unchallenged umbrage, was required for the deal to take place.



Everton
Everything is tight at Everton these days. Short of funds, short of luck with referee Michael Oliver in appropriately stingy mood, the mean stalemate against Villa was the Toffees' ninth match in a row to end in either a draw or single-goal separation. Austerity has seeped into Goodison's foundations to the point where it almost impossible to imagine them living the high life.


Swansea
The third side in Premier League history to fail to score a goal in any of their opening four matches at the start of a season. Even at so early a stage, it's all too easy to foresee their epitaph in advance: nice passing, but no cutting edge.


Fulham
The bad news is that they are too good to go down.


David Goodwillie
With a name like that he shouldn't lack penetration, but...

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they write some f***ing shite on that section anyway mate
dont think theyve ever been positive about us
 
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