Not the most interesting of weekends really. It almost was, as at one point both City and Arsenal were losing, but we all knew how those movies were going to end. I didn’t get my hopes up even for a second.
That being said, City should have lost at home to Fulham, who apparently gave them all they could handle. The reason City didn’t lose was because Adama Traore missed three one v ones. I fast forwarded through the MOTD highlights of this because, well you know, fuck Man City, but I did see the analysis from Shearer which focused mostly on all the chances Fulham created and missed. Mostly, but not exclusively, Traore.
It’s easy to get pissed off about him but it goes with the territory, this is what he’s done his entire career and he’s pushing 30 now so its not going to change. Bottom line, if he could finish those chances he wouldn’t be playing for Fulham, he’d be at Real Madrid. Because other than end product he’s fucking incredible. He gave Walker a five yard start and absolutely fucking rinsed him. I suspect it’s because Walker is finally starting to slow down a bit, but it was still eye opening seeing what Traore did to him. I love that because you know it will absolutely haunt Walker as that’s the one thing he’s always been able to hang his hat on, and now that air of invincibility to speed has gone.
As I say though, I never got my hopes up when I heard that Fulham were leading and it was even less so when I heard Southampton had gone ahead at Arsenal. Fulham did have an outside chance of extending their lead and then maybe holding on, but Southampton scored way too early and were always going to get rolled over because they're terrible.
They took the lead through Archer and it wasn’t completely against the run of play either as they’d gone close just before. Then they got caught trying to play out and Havertz lashed in the equaliser. I’m saying nothing as I’m boring myself with this shit. It’s Burnley all over again and I’m doing another whole season of pointing out their stupidity.
Martinelli tapped in to make it 2-1 but Dibling saw a shot deflected onto the post by Raya. He looks really good that kid. Southampton hit the bar from the resulting corner too, but then more kamikaze play by Southampton in their own box presented Saka with the third.
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