The Briefing: Liverpool’s odd ending, a derby of nothingness and Southampton’s anti-survival blueprint

Welcome to the briefing, where every Monday during this season Athlete Three of the biggest questions that will arise from football in the Premier League will be discussed at the end of the week.

This was the weekend when Aston closed Villa in the UEFA Champions League places, and Brighton, Hof Albion and Crystal Palace participated in many red cards such as goals, and Arsenal slipped again, and Chelsea played a pleasant tie with Princeford.

Here, we will ask about the few strange weeks of the season for the two team champions, whether the horrific Manchester Derby is suitable for the Premier League as a whole, and if Southampton has shown the aspects that were promoted in the next season exactly how things do not.

Has the end of the Liverpool season become this … a little strange?

Arni Sleve and Vergeal Van Digk were lured with Michael Owen this week when the former striker suggested that the Liverpool season ended as a wonderful, not historical, in one of the stages they looked at in a wardrobe full of constants, but now it is left with the league title only.

SLOT indicated that there is no such thing as “the Premier League title”, especially for the club, which only won one of the things in the past 35 years. This season cannot be considered anything other than a victory if and when they are confirmed as heroes. It was the best team in the country with a fair distance and the fact that in the first season of the opening it makes it more impressive.

They will win the title quite easily. You have advanced 11 points with seven games remaining, and even if their shape collapses, do you trust Arsenal to benefit?

However, the season ends strange, right?

The last four matches in Liverpool witnessed all competitions out of the Champions League, after Paris Saint -Germain beat them twice, and defeated Newcastle United in a convincing way in the Carabau Cup final, a little won against Everton, and lost in a somewhat lavage fashion for Fulham.

Perhaps this is because we all have been brought back by our brains by Manchester City in Pep Guardiola, who re -defined what the heroes seem to be: the uncompromising tyrants that rarely decrease to the mid -1980s when it comes to the total points. It may be better for all of us to appear to be a fragile abandonment.

But it should still be a little strange for Liverpool and their supporters. If there is nothing else because when they watch the shows like Sunday, they may think: How many of this team will there next season?

Trent Alexander Arnold (absent from this game) It seems that getting one foot and four fingers from the doorVan Dick and Mohamed Salah’s futures are still unconfirmed, and it is the triple mistake that Andrew Robertson is the least amazing goal of Fulham is the symbol of its decline, the physical fitness of Diogo Jota is unreliable, as well as most things about Darwin Nones. The midfield looks good on a large scale, but it is likely that there is a large surgery elsewhere, to the extent that half of the team may be different.

It is not something that you usually say about fleeing heroes.

When the time comes, they will celebrate a great achievement with enthusiasm and pleasure. But at the same time, there may be a strange strange feeling at the back of their collective minds.

What did Manchester Derby say about both clubs – the Premier League?

I felt suitable that Manchester Derby had ended in passing Manchester United the ball along the edge of the penalty area, and no one is ready or able to shoot or provide a decent final ball, until the referee in the end became exhausting from all of that and the final whistle dawn.

To describe this game as a bleak, it may give it a lot of credit. The best you can say is that it happened. It was a football match. Beyond that, what can anyone take from it? What will you remember, if you reach the end?

There were no moments of real quality, perhaps regardless of the Omar Marmoush missile in the closing stages of André Onana well, and the performance of Bruno Fernandez General.

You have to feel sorry for the United captain, the only player in any real chapter in his team seems to try to do everything himself – not for misleading reasons, but because he clearly knows that he is the only one who can.

Bruno Fernandez after the global draw with City (Michael Steel/Getty Imach)

The remainder of it was not boring or calm, but very sad.

There is Robin Amorim on the touch line, in a desperate hope to see some signs of progress but having to shift severely.

Then there is his team, a group of young players who currently seem to somewhat, but it may be much better in a different environment.

Take Patrick Durgo, who was somewhat horrific, but you have a meaning that could be a decent player: he was signed by United in January because they were desperate, very specific player, there are very few in the world, so he had to go directly and be well immediately, which increases pressure on a 20 -year -old child. If Brighton has signed it, and relieved him reasonably, he will be fine.

Then there is Kevin de Bruyne, which is bringing a great player to try to try it that made him very great, but it is no longer launched anymore. The city and the Premier League will leave a summer legend But watching now, I left with a feeling that it would have been a better end if he left last year.

It was appropriate for the weekend as a whole: the best five points decreased, and the big winners are Newcastle who are not playing until Monday and find themselves two points from the possible European Champions League places with two games all over all of them.

The longest current winning series in the section is three games, which was held in conjunction with Aston Villa and … Wolves.

Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest, Liverpool, United and all of them, to one degree or another, were very poor.

So yes, Manchester Derby was horrific. But at the same time, it did not look out of the place.

Did Southampton provide energy control for the teams that were promoted?

It is an official then: Southampton is a decline, Their defeat on Tottenham on Sunday In the sense that their return to the tournament was confirmed with the survival of seven games, making it closer in terms of games that were officially transferred. Even Derby in 2007-2008 kept 32 games.

Being up to nearly the fifth season is embarrassing, as is the case to emerge as a terrible between this bad bottom historically.

Are they the worst team in the Premier League ever? maybe. All they have left now is to collect the two points that mean that they do not end with the least points, and a kind of small extraction of dignity that is concerned with no one but the persons concerned, and perhaps This aspect is 17 years ago.

What they might do, of wider importance, is to provide a plan on how to approach the Premier League season as a promotion team.

Their transportation is one place to start, as all of them have been disappointed in the first place, with a possible exception from Matheus Fernandes. Of course, the assembly of a team for a challenge in the Premier League is very difficult but there was a lack of imagination in their employment, and some of the main expatriates in theory (Aaron Ramzdale, for example) came at the last minute.

Aaron Ramzdale was unable

Then there is how they played. There was no real point in a proposal Russell Martin that he should play in a different wayBecause he was always a stubborn fundamentalist and indeed, and for this reason Southampton rented it. Therefore, in fact, the blame does not lie with Martin, but with the people who appointed him.

They should also be blamed for the time they waited to act: it was clear from a very early time that he was not working during the Martin era, but they kept him until the sixteenth match, and its loudness was everywhere anyway.

What this chaos proves in the season is that, as an upgrade side, the way you play does not really concern: The first season is an act of what you can to survive, by any necessary means, regardless of the ugly extent. This is what Nutingham Forest did, and to some extent, Bournemouth and Fulham did two seasons before and Pruntford before that.

Then, when you are established and have a foundation for a sufficient team, you start thinking about football that you want to play already.

All this is easier than doing it, and even with the approach they chose, Southampton does not have many excuses for their misfortune. But this is something for the teams at the top of the tournament to think.

Upcoming

• Another match for a strange round in the Premier League Premier League to go, which is Newcastle, which is, after a harsh weekend for most of those around them, suddenly very good for the Champions League – more than that given that they will play Leicester City on Monday evening.
• On Tuesday, he believes that some of the Association of Women’s States: England outside Belgium, while Spain against Portugal can be vital and Germany faces Scotland.
• Bored from the Premier League season increasingly? Good news! The Champions League returns on Tuesday, and there is a couple of big dogs, and the heavy weight of our appearance: It is Bayern Munich Winter in Germany, while in London, he is Arsenal against Real Madrid. There is no wrong answer when choosing any of those who must be seen.
• Then on Wednesday, Barcelona is against Borussia Dortmund, and it can be said that it is preferred for everything, Paris Saint -Germain, against Aston Villa, who will bring a familiar face: Marco Asensio, of course, of course, Technically, PSG player.
• A few seasons will stop Thursday evening in the European League-Mudda Spears Einstest Frankfurt in the first stage of the quarter-finals, while Manchester United will host Lyon and Rangers Sports Club, with the completion of Budo/Glimt and Lazo.
• Finally, your euro squad has been completed with some work in the hot conference: Chelsea in Legia Warsaw in the first stage of the quarter -finals, while elsewhere, Djurgarden Vs Rapid Vienna, Real Betis Vs Jagiellonia Biylystok and NK Celje Vs Fiorentina.
• Manchester City. 115 (at least) Fees. Judgment? who knows.

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