EPL Match Week 3 - CleanSheet Recap

In Today’s CleanSheet:

• Headlines 📌

• Current Situation📈📉

• Hot Topic 🔥🔥🔥- Double-Click

• Off Island 🏝️ - Area’s of interest outside the PL

• Best Bets 💰- Predictions & Results

REMINDER - check out the hyper-links! Some great goals and saves this week.

Headlines 📌

• Drama & Suspense. Liverpool wins 2-1 after questionable call that took them down to 10 men early. Man United goes down 2-0 in first 4 min (fastest that has ever happened to MU) but come all the way back to win 3-2. City struggle at SU, finally get their goal to lead 1-0, concede at 86’ min and then score at 88’ to pull out the W. Arsenal concedes in first AND last min of match for a 2-2 D. Wolves score on road in 87’ for a key 3 points.

• Best Result of Match Week 2. 3-1 West Ham over Brighton & Hove Albion. BHA was top of table, at home and had outscored opponents 8-1. West Ham lost their best player, Declan Rice, to start the season and the front office was declining manager Moyes requests to sign players. So, circle the wagons and take on an us versus them mentality. Moyes tactics have been great, and this team is energized, prepared and relentless. WH allowed BHA to keep possession (67%) and focused on their counterattack. It worked, can they sustain it?

• Biggest Disappointment. Everton losing 1-0 at home to Wolves, and more importantly have yet to score this season after missing several “great” chances.

• Plenty of disappointment to go around. Newcastle losing their lead to 10-man Liverpool at home. Forest lose their 2-0 lead to Man U. Burnley get hammered, again, at home to Villa. Arsenal conceding to 10-man Fulham late. But nothing is more disappointing than Everton.

• Save of the Week Year? Watch Jose Sa, Wolverhampton GK with a brilliant save. (30s)

• How to win over away fans. Watch James Maddison f with (win over) Bournemouth fans for Spurs - Sound On (15s)

• Carabao Cup. This week most PL teams will be playing mid-week in other tournaments. All you need to know about the Carabao Cup.

• Liverpool & Klopp. Heading into the match superstar striker Mo Salah was rumored to be considering a transfer to the Saudi League for 7x his current salary. Liverpool went down early 1-0, and then down a man after a controversial red card to superstar defenseman Virgil van Dijk at 28’. Fast forward and The Red’s find two goals in the final 10 minutes to pull off the improbable on the road at a top club with a great home field.

  • Red card or no? (30s watch, 3 min for reaction)

  • Draw even to 1-1 (1 min)

  • Comeback Complete, listen to that away crowd! (1 min)

  • And, THIS shot and save (30s)

  Klopp is a top manager in the world, and a GREAT interview. Here is his post match reaction. (7 min)

• Things got heated when Newcastle Assistant Manager Jason Tindall (left) may have overstepped too early and poked the bear?

Current Situation 📈📉

Clean Sheets Counter - Here at the CleanSheet we have an affinity for Keepers and will be tracking clean sheets (A Shut Out posted by the GK).

Hot Topic 🔥🔥🔥

Burnley, Sheffield United and Luton Town were promoted to the PL this year and all three have yet to win or draw. Will any of them stay up? All? None?

Since 1992…

• 1 time have all three promoted teams gone straight back down. (1997/98)

• 4 times have all three promotes teams stayed up, including last year.

• The highest finish of a newly promoted club? 3rd. Newcastle (94) and Forest (95).

This year all three teams will be in play for relegation late into the season. There seems to be a much BIGGER gap between the have and have nots than normal. Teams who were in the PL last year are much better positioned to make moves that could be enough to help them stay up - see Everton, Bournemouth, Forest, Wolves.

Although, Everton are acting like they want to be relegated and that would be history making. Everton have been in the top league since 1951, 68 seasons. Only Arsenal have been in the top flight longer, 103 seasons.

For more on Promotion & Relegation…

Off Island 🏝️

Pulisic. Part 2. Captain America is at it again! In Italian. (30s)

2 goals, 2 games for AC Milan. Last season at Chelsea, 1 goal total. Looks like a good move so far.

Best Bets 💰

A rough 1-4 on the weekend. This coming weekend looks better.