Chelsea continue to rack up the wins at the expense of Spurs, and Arsenal take a costly stumble. So which XI were the best? No mucking around, you know the drill, let’s get straight into it. Here’s our Team of the Week!
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Time For Change: Giggs, the Back Four, and Stubborn Manchester United
Before I get started, I have to commend Tottenham for their performance against United on the weekend, especially in the first half. They’re starting to click and really mesh together, adapting to AVB’s coaching style and looking like a proper threat again. The likes of Bale, Vertonghen, Lennon, and even ol’ Defoe upstaged United in their own home, and most importantly for the Red Devils, they (hopefully) opened the eyes of SAF and his team, elucidating which areas on the pitch need serious attention.
Juventus On a Roll or Italian Football Stumbling?
Juventus have now extended their undefeated streak in the Serie A to 43 games, an incredible feat and one that deserves a lot of praise, but also one that places a lot of question marks on the standard of the Italian league. The amount of talented players that have come from and into this league over the last few years is remarkable, but it seems that the financial hardships that the nation is facing are starting to catch up to football. Italy has always been one of the best footballing nations in terms of keeping their homegrown talent in the country, albeit for one of the bigger clubs. But if something doesn’t change, we could see the best talent snatched away from Serie A, and have to witness it’s relegation into the 2nd tier of leagues.
Post Transfer Window Concerns: Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, and QPR
Perhaps I’m becoming forgetful, but I feel like this summer transfer window brought about more shuffling of players than previous seasons. Sure we’ve seen Chelsea go on a splurging rampage, and then City, and now we’re seeing the ramifications of that as all the clubs do their best to try stay afloat in the league. We’ve seen so many changes with AVB and Brendan Rodgers taking charge and respectively overhauling their teams, Arsenal losing the best player of last season as well as (the evidently less) important Song, Chelsea splurging some more, and QPR quite literally buying a new team. Now I won’t give a ridiculously long breakdown of every single team like I did in my previous article, but rather, I’ll just go through the ones I think had the most changes, and who I think could struggle (or in Liverpool’s case, are already struggling) as the season develops.
The Spot Kick 