16 Conclusions: Manchester City 4-1 Manchester United
Manchester City and Manchester United showed us all where they are in relation to each other, and that’s not good news for United fans.
Manchester City and Manchester United showed us all where they are in relation to each other, and that’s not good news for United fans.
Spurs arrived in Manchester off the back of three straight Premier League defeats, but rumours of their demise proved to be premature.
Chelsea were in a bit of a dip in form, but Spurs were still unbeaten since Conte arrived. Something had to give, and it did.
The NLD between the Gunners and Spurs was called off because Arsenal couldn’t raise a team…
Manchester City cannot and will not be stopped. Chelsea could do with some results now.
Spurs and Liverpool both had a patchwork look about them in north London, but this didn’t make their match any less fun.
Farewell, Rafael Benitez. Hello, mature and quite brilliant Liverpool. That was a pasting.
There were easier and more painless ways for Arsenal to find out Liverpool are a bit better than them.
Manchester United were deemed to be back in some degree of control after winning at Spurs. Haha.
Manchester United needed a performance and a result. Tottenham would snatch your hand off for either.
Liverpool were superb, but this was an abject humiliation for Manchester United, who have no positives to take from a dismal afternoon.
It is tough to say precisely what Spurs are. Newcastle have all the money but that does nothing for them right now.
Manchester City will feel aggrieved at a couple of decisions that went against them, but a draw was probably a fair result.
Arsenal overwhelmed Tottenham Hotspur in the NLD, but Spurs’ problems do not begin and end with the manager.
Manchester City were brilliant and it turns out Romelu Lukaku is not a target man that can hold the ball up. Who knew?
Tactics Tom outwits Spurs as Chelsea ultimately sweep to victory. Are they title favourites?
Sometimes the winning team makes the losing team look awful. This was the opposite. Arsenal are broken.
A great afternoon for Romelu Lukaku and Chelsea, but for Mikel Arteta and Arsenal things look mighty bleak already…
Spurs fans gleefully hailing one of their own after a man-of-the-match display, is it?
It is a sad 16 Conclusions. But being sad that England lost a final is better than being sad England are awful.
This is an England team to be proud of and a boss that continues to master tournament football while silencing the critics.
Bukayo Saka is a star. Jack Grealish is a baller. And Gareth Southgate might actually know what he’s doing.
Kalvin Phillips and Raheem Sterling were all kinds of mint. And so, too, was Gareth sodding Southgate.
Alexander-Arnold made it. And Saka. Lingard did not. All in all, Southgate did a fantastic job.
Guardiola gave Tuchel a gift and he and Chelsea gratefully unwrapped it to win the Champions League.
Well this is a first. We have 16 Conclusions on the Championship play-off final. Soak it in.
Spursiness, missing teeth, West Ham resolutely failing to be remotely West Ham, Chelsea escaping and FANS!
It wasn’t the best game but it was a brilliant final. A reminder that proper football is coming back.
If Manchester United think a marquee right-winger is the answer then they are deluded. Liverpool have hope.
Tuchel’s “process” is working but didn’t work on a night when the absence of Arteta’s worked in Arsenal’s favour…