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Premier League Winners And Losers – Ramsey, Rooney And Liverpool Take The Headlines

Losers:

Martin Jol

After failing to get the best out of his team all season and finding himself in the relegation battle, the writing was on the wall when the owners at Craven cottage hired Rene Meulensteen as the ‘head coach’. Perhaps a first in professional football when the present manager is forcibly [surely Jol didn’t voluntarily agree] paired with his future replacement. Perhaps the owners were hoping for a seamless transition between both managers but the players needed to know who was in charge and the last man standing is the one charged with resuscitating the Cottagers’ season. Suddenly, Fulham’s games have become a must-watch as Meulensteen is by all accounts a fantastic coach and it’d be interesting to see if he can hack it as a Premier League manager.

David Moyes

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Perhaps the most contentious decision this week [for United fans maybe]. Yes his team is on an eleven game unbeaten run but those draws really should have been wins. Instead they find themselves languishing in the middle of the table. Surely with the gap opening up at the top of the table, Moyes’ chance of winning the title in his maiden season at United just got infinitely more difficult.

It’s not all doom and gloom for United, Moyes brought on Hernandez and Nani on as he looked to kill the game. Earlier on in the season, chances are that he would have opted to protect the point. The team also showed fight to come back twice but lacked the ruthlessness to grab the all-important lead. RVP cannot come back soon enough.

Southampton

It is a testament to how well they have played this season that many consider their loss against a Chelsea team playing to protect their home record under Mourinho and make up for a bad European performance. Can they continue their high-tempo all season and finish in the top 6? I for one would love to see this team feature in Europe. Watch this space.

Michael Essien

He continued the trend of bad back passes and goal-keepers playing footy with the ball resulting in goals. His lobbed back pass which resulted in the Jay Rodriguez goal certainly made the tie interesting.

 Liverpool

Brendan Rodgers

Well. No one saw that one coming—all 3 goals. The coach rotated himself out of a win. With Sturridge out with an injury, there was no need to make whole sale changes. Sterling showed his lack of playing time as he was not on the same wavelength with Suarez. Kolo Toure seemed to be nursing a back injury prompting questions as to why Brendon Rogers would start him ahead of Agger.

Coutinho was one of the stars for Liverpool last week and why he lost his starting berth makes no sense. Tactically, they lost a player of great playmaking ability and replaced him with a winger in Sterling that just failed to justify his manager’s faith in him. Suarez resorted to his old tricks [or in more harsh language, cheating] with things not going his way. He cut a frustrated figure and whiles Liverpool was just awful, Hull played determined to make the KC Stadium a difficult ground to grab a point and they succeeded.

Thanks for reading and makes sure to check next week after this week’s rounds of double-headers.