Author: Steven Sahiounie

If Marcelo Bielsa is to take over the reins at Bournemouth, he will inherit a player in Marcus Tavernier few in the Premier League can rival on present form. Even before Everton surrendered to a second meek collapse in a matter of days, the former Middlesbrough midfielder was already terrorising Vitalii Mykolenko.The right flank was a constant outlet before a two-goal lead was established inside 25 minutes. Tavernier already looks well-suited to Bielsa’s infamous murderball.The 23-year-old enjoyed a slice of good fortune in capitalising on Jordan Pickford’s error but he was alert to the loose ball, duly becoming the first…

For the first time since the 2003/04 season, when they were relegated to the Championship, Wolves will be bottom of the Premier League at Christmas. But there were reasons to be positive, despite Saturday’s 2-0 defeat to league leaders Arsenal, with the start of Julen Lopetegui’s era at Molineux imminent. Introduced to the home fans before the game, Lopetegui took the acclaim during a lap of the pitch six years after Wolves first tried to appoint him. It has been a long wait and the former Spain and Real Madrid manager will be expected to work wonders to beat the…

Ask any Evertonian, and they will tell you how regularly the club leave it until the final day of the January transfer window to complete the biggest chunk of their mid-season business. But there can be no excuse this time. This time, it cannot pass by as a window remembered for the business that was not done. This result peaks the anxiety among supporters. It is a squad weak on the ground and it is a group that looks jaded just 15 Premier League games into the season. Lampard has worked through the thirds. He has a world-class goalkeeper behind…

A ninth Premier League defeat of the season saw Southampton slip to 19th in the Premier League table but this one felt a little different. Nathan Jones left Anfield empty-handed but with plenty to build on. He had only had one full training session with his new players following his appointment as Ralph Hasenhuttl’s successor on Thursday but his impact could be seen in their performance. There was a change of system, the 49-year-old switching to a back three, the same formation he used at Luton Town, but most striking was the positivity and adventurousness of their play. Southampton attacked…

Many fingers pointed towards Sadio Mane’s departure as one of the reasons Liverpool are not performing at the level of recent seasons this term. A key figure in that argument was Mane’s replacement Darwin Nunez, who was not producing the numbers despite being an £85m arrival from Benfica. But Nunez’s confident display against Southampton epitomises the confident forward the Uruguayan is now becoming. He now has seven goal contributions in his last seven Liverpool games in all competitions, six of those are goals. this article is originally published at SkySports.com

Tottenham have long been regarded, perhaps lazily, as a one-man team. When Harry Kane’s out, they have no chance, is the common perception. That is no longer the case. Well, perhaps Spurs are still a one-man team but that man is no longer specifically Kane. It’s Dejan Kulusevski. He has now started seven Premier League games this season, Spurs are unbeaten in those matches, winning five and scoring on average 2.9 goals per 90 minutes. Without him in the starting XI, Spurs have lost four of those matches and the average goals per 90 drops to 1.4. The flying Swede…

It was not just Ivan Toney’s two goals at Manchester City that might have left Gareth Southgate wondering if he had made the right decision not to take him to Qatar.Man City 1-2 Brentford: Match report and highlightsHow the teams lined up | Match statsWatch Premier League highlights for free on Sky SportsGet Sky Sports | Download the Sky Sports AppIt was the way Toney played with a presence, almost a swagger up against the champions. In the very first minute he fancily flicked the ball into a team-mate. In the 97th, he flicked in the winner. From start to…

Martin Odegaard tends not to attract as many plaudits as fellow Arsenal attackers Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli and Gabriel Jesus but it was indisputably his night at Molineux. His two goals, struck in the space of 21 second-half minutes, ensured Arsenal capitalised on Manchester City’s defeat by Brentford and went five points clear at the top of the Premier League. The win capped a remarkable start to the season and Odegaard’s contribution at Molineux underlines his importance to it. Arsenal’s playmaker has now added goals to his game. With six, he is in fact their top scorer in the Premier…

BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) — China’s cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-5, delivering supplies for the space station, successfully completed its status setting and docked with the combination of the country’s space station on Saturday, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). At 12:10 p.m. (Beijing Time), Tianzhou-5 conducted a fast automated rendezvous and docking at the rear docking port of the space station’s core module Tianhe, the CMSA said. This is the first time that Chinese astronauts witness the arrival of a cargo craft in the country’s space station. This mission achieved fast automated rendezvous and docking within about two hours.…

BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a written speech at the International Forum on Hybrid Rice Assistance and Global Food Security, which was held Saturday in Beijing.In his speech, Xi noted that food security is fundamental to human survival. Half a century ago, hybrid rice was first successfully developed and planted widely in China. Thanks to this technology, China has managed to feed nearly 20 percent of the world’s population with less than 9 percent of the world’s arable land, and become the largest food producer and the third largest food exporter in the world.From 1979,…