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2019 Pochettino Under PREMIER LEAGUE RESULTS

9th, Brighton & Hove Albion 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur
Saturday October 5th
October Pressure After Spurs Maupay 3 H/T: 2-0
Connolly 32, 65
Att: 30,610

| Collapse In Brighton Burnley 1-0 Everton
Hendrick 72
EXAMINER Att: 20,650 2-1 Leicester City
Red Card: Coleman (Everton) 56 min
H/T: 0-0
Liverpool
Maddison 80
Mané 40
IRISH Milner 95+ (pen) 1-5 Aston Villa
H/T: 1-0
Att: N/A
Norwich City
Drmic 87 Wesley 14, 30
Grealish 49
Hourihane 61
Douglas Luiz 83
Att: 27,045 H/T: 0-2

Watford 0-0 Sheffield United
Att: 20,811 H/T: 0-0
West Ham United 1-2 Crystal Palace
Haller 54 van Aanholt 63 (pen)
J Ayew 87
Att: 59,912 H/T: 0-0
Sunday October 6th
Arsenal 1-0 AFC Bournemouth
David Luiz 9
Att: 60,326 H/T: 1-0
Manchester City 0-2 Wolves
Traoré 80, 94+
Att: 54,435 H/T: 0-0
Newcastle United 1-0 Manchester United
M Longstaff 72
Att: 51,198 H/T: 0-0

Southampton 1-4 Chelsea
Ings 30 Abraham 17
Aaron Connolly runs away to celebrate after his second goal of the match puts Brighton 3-0 up Mount 24
ottenham’s crisis deep- in 2019 continues with an 11th screaming in agony. Kanté 40
ened as they turned in a defeat of the calendar year. It was a horrible way to begin Att: 31,473 Batshuayi 89
H/T: 1-3
Tdesperate performance Their away form is an even the match, but perfect for
in a 3-0 defeat at Brighton, bigger concern as they are now Brighton and they made use of
where Hugo Lloris suffered a 10 games without a league win their leg-up to run Spurs ragged. PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE
serious arm injury after anoth- on the road, going back to A deserved second goal came Team P W D L F A GD Pts.
er howler. January. just after the half-hour as Spurs Liverpool 8 8 0 0 20 6 14 24
Lloris dropped the ball on the In contrast, it was a Red were cut open down the right Manchester City 8 5 1 2 27 9 18 16
goal line and hurt himself in the Letter Day for Graham Potter’s and Connolly got to Dan Burn’s Arsenal 8 4 3 1 13 11 2 15
process in only the third minute, men, but it could have been an cross first, forcing sub goalkeep- Leicester City 8 8 4 4 2 2 2 2 14 7 14 7 4 14
18
14
Chelsea
allowing Neal Maupay to open even bigger win had they not er Paulo Gazzaniga into a smart Crystal Palace 8 4 2 2 8 8 0 14
the scoring, and it only got wasted some late chances. low save, but the teenager was Burnley 8 3 3 2 11 9 2 12
worse after that as Aaron The tone was set by a sham- on hand to ram home the West Ham United 8 3 3 2 11 11 0 12
Connolly’s double gave the bolic start from Spurs. rebound for his first Premier Tottenham 8 3 3 2 2 3 3 14 12 2 0 11
13
AFC Bournemouth 8
13
11
impressive Seagulls a deserved The contest had barely even League goal. Wolves 8 2 4 2 11 11 0 10
three points. started by the time their best-laid This was as bad as it had been Manchester United 8 2 3 3 9 8 1 9
As good as the hosts were, plans were thrown into chaos as under Pochettino and it got Sheffield United 8 2 3 3 7 7 0 9
this must go down as one of the they endured a nightmare start worse 20 minutes into the sec- Brighton 8 2 3 3 8 10 -2 9
worst performances of Mauricio thanks to another Lloris howler. ond half, with another goal that Aston Villa 8 8 2 2 2 2 4 4 13 12 1 -8 8 8
5
Newcastle United
13
Pochettino’s reign and, follow- It was only last week that the came down Spurs’ right. Southampton 8 2 1 5 8 15 -7 7
ing on from Tuesday’s 7-2 France captain tried a Cruyff Connolly was set clear by a Everton 8 2 1 5 6 13 -7 7
Champions League humiliation turn inside his own six-yard box long ball, he was allowed too Norwich City 8 2 0 6 10 21 -11 6
to Bayern Munich, the dark and got tackled to concede, but much space by Toby Watford 8 0 3 5 4 20 -16 3
clouds are mounting over the this was just as unforgivable and Alderweireld and made the most
club. it led to his serious arm injury. of it by cutting inside and firing PREMIER LEAGUE FIXTURES
Pochettino was forced to out- Pascal Gross’ overhit cross into the bottom corner.
line his commitment to the job ought have been a routine tip Spurs pushed for a late Saturday October 19th
in the build-up to this match but over for the goalkeeper, but he response, with Son Heung-min, Aston Villa v Brighton & Hove Albion (10am)
AFC Bournemouth v Norwich City (10am)
the result and, more notably, the chose to try and catch it and, Harry Kane and Lucas Moura all Chelsea v Newcastle United (10am)
performance will only lead to falling backwards on the line, he wasting good chances, but it was Crystal Palace v Manchester City (12.30pm)
more speculation that his time dropped the ball – allowing Brighton who were pushing for Everton v West Ham United (7.30am)
could be coming to an end. Maupay the easiest of nod-ins. an even bigger win. Leicester City v Burnley (10am)
Tottenham Hotspur v Watford (10am)
They look a million miles To make matters worse, Adam Webster and Gross Wolverhampton Wanderers v Southampton (10am)
away from the side that have Lloris suffered a serious arm brought saves out of Gazzaniga Sunday October 20th
challenged at the top end of the injury in his fall, which saw him as they finished strongly, leaving Manchester United v Liverpool (11.30am)
Premier League for the last four eventually leave the pitch on a Spurs with some serious ques- Monday October 21st
seasons and their alarming slide stretcher with gas and air and tions to answer. C Sheffield United v Arsenal (3pm)