Monday, January 21, 2019

The waiting for Newcastle is over! Their first victory is now a fact!

Newcastle achieved the first Premier League victory since the start of the season after winning with 1:0 over Watford at St. James`s Park. Ayoze Perez (65 `) was the only one to score, after having missed a couple of good times before, and Pereyra had hit the bar. Thanks to this first success, the club climbed over the falling area. Rafael Benitez made a change - Jose Salomon Rondon began for the first time in the Premier League on 22 September. The Venezuelan replaced Ayoze Perez at the top of the attack. Jose Holebas returned to Watford`s starting lineup at Adam Masina`s.

The guests created several good opportunities in the first part. As early as the 15th minute, Adrian Mariappa was left alone on the far beam where he caught his head. His shot was blocked, but then the ball came back to him. However, his addition from the small penalty area was not accurate. Deulofeu also missed two great chances after shooting off the door from good positio ns.

In the 49th minute Pereyra`s shot hit the beam, and shortly thereafter, Cathcart fired his head above the door. Watford looked very dangerous on the counter, but the guests did not manage to take advantage of the situations they had come to. That`s how it came to 65 minutes when Ki was very good at a foul and Perez`s head was 1:0.

Monday, January 7, 2019

How Emery wonders at Pochettino

Mauricio Pochettino and Tottenham have earned their recognition far and wide due to their intense style of play and the pressing of their opponents. However, they were caught with a downed guard in the derby of North London, as Arsenal would have his eternal enemy with his own stones on his head at his very beginning.
The artillery players were well deserved in the 10th minute with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang`s penalty goal after they executed perfectly the plan of their manager Unai Emery not to give the spurs a shot. So it was not surprising that by the 20th minute Harry Kane had touched the ball only four times -less than half of any other footballer, including Bernd Leno - that`s how the relationship between the leader of the team and his teammates was torn. Arsenal refused to give them a centimeter of field.
Emery`s starting plan to place high-pressure and direct passes on the outside of Tottenham central defenders;especially the corridor between Serge Aurier and Juan Foyth doing a wonderful job. So the spurs were stifled and could not, through Moussa Sissoko and Eric Dier from the heart of the midfield, build a game predicted by fixed tips record through the opponents` press. There was a convincing victory, and Mesut Osil`s absence, officially due to spasm in his back, definitely helped the goal.
He also helped to constantly patch Emery by the touchline. The Arsenal fans are conquered by this approach by their manager.
The positions were changing one after another and the hosts seemed to be close to increasing their lead. Until the 28th minute the expected goals (xG) of gunmen according to the Understat chart. com were 1, 26 against just 0, 08 guests. That`s why it was astonishing how the Pochettino's team managed speedily and undeservedly to turn the score to 1:2 with the goals of Eric Dier and Kane. From here until the end of the half-time, the scorched Arsenal never managed to threaten the door of Hugo Loris, as the pressure dropped and Aubameyang remained isolated.
At the break, saw his team lose height and gave way to the center, Emery touched his system. Otherwise, the excellent Alex Iwobi, who led the pressuring of the actions and harassed Aurier, and the anonymous Henrikh Mkhitaryan were replaced by Aaron Ramsey and Alexandre Lacazette.  The latter formed an offensive tandem with Aubameyang and Ramsey behind them, with 1-3-4-3 going to 1-3-4-1-2.

At first, the Welsh position brought trouble to Dier and Sissoko. The reserve could be calm in the presence of Lucas Torreira and Granit Xhaka behind him to act in the semi-space on both sides, and at the same time to attack with vertical ballless ball the space behind the defense. So did Aubameyang`s equalizing goal. Suddenly Dier and Sissoko were trapped, unable to squeeze for fear of freeing space behind their backs. And then Pochettino blinked first - Dier returned as the third central defender to Vertonghen and Foyth, bringing a new wind to the hosts` sails. 

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

The bad series of LeBron and the Lakers ended in Arizona

The series of three consecutive losses of LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers ended at last. This happened during the visit to Phoenix, which Californians won with 131:113, congratulating themselves with the first victory since the superstar is part of the legendary club. A fantastic second quarter, in which the Lakers pulled 44 points into the opponent`s basket, was the basis for the debut success of James in LA. Luke Walton`s players showed good team-work, and seven of them finished with a double-digit point and the guests did 34 assists and only 8 mistakes. Lans Stevenson scored the most with 23 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists for just 25 minutes as a reserve, while JaVale McGee scored 20 points. LeBron played 28 minutes for a double-out of 19 points, 10 assists, 7 rebounds and 3 balls. The King shoots 6/11 for 2 points, 1/5 of the trophy and 4/4 of the penalty line and stays on the bench throughout the fourth part. Kyle Kuzma (19 points), Josh Hart ( 15 points), Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (14 points) and Lonzo Ball (12 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists) were the other stable players for the Lakers. The team was again without the penalized Brandon Ingram and Rajon Rondo, and Michael Beasley alone did not record game from sport live stream minutes. Devin Booker scored 23 points for Phoenix, while No. 1 in Draft this year, DeAndre Ayton finished with 22 points, 11 rebounds and 3 assists.

Both teams have 1 win and 3 losses.