Premier League Talking Points

Talking Points from the Premier League weekend:
DE BRUYNE HITTING FORM JUST IN TIME
Kevin De Bruyne has delivered so many excellent performances for Manchester City that it’s pointless attempting to rank them however his show in Saturday’s 2-0 win was definitely an exhibition of his qualities.
Back to full health and again in his most well-liked central midfield function, the Belgian struck the bar with a thundering free-kick earlier than the break after which set-up City’s opener along with his excellent defence splitting move to Gabriel Jesus.
With City nonetheless within the operating for an unprecedented 4 trophies and an enormous Champions League quarter-final towards Borussia Dortmund arising on Tuesday, De Bruyne is hitting peak type at simply the speed second.
“Kevin was injured for some part (of the season) and some players struggled after we finished late last season. He has arrived in a good moment,” stated City supervisor Pep Guardiola.
“Kevin is talent. I say to Kevin to score goals. He was unlucky he hit the post – but he has his vision and ideas”.
ARSENAL SURRENDER A WORRY FOR ARTETA
When Mikel Arteta described Arsenal’s 3-3 with West Ham United earlier than the worldwide break as proof of the “two-faced” nature of his facet, he presumably hoped it might be the higher one which emerged when the Premier League resumed.
Sadly for the Spaniard, his Arsenal facet supplied up meek, delicate and sterile show towards Liverpool and have been duly spanked 3-0 and in reality it may have been much more.

As the season reaches its closing weeks the fear for Arteta is that moderately than present indicators of progress, his facet seem like regressing and loud questions are being raised about whether or not he’s the person to level the membership again in the appropriate course.
He has now been accountable for 50 Premier League video games, successful solely 21 and shedding 17 — a worse report than Unai Emery, the person he changed, who received 25 of his 51 video games on the helm.
MAN UNITED GRIND OUT ANOTHER VITAL WIN
Manchester United took an enormous step in direction of securing Champions League soccer subsequent season after they got here from behind to beat Brighton and Hove Albion 2-1 at Old Trafford and keep second.
Despite yet one more unimpressive house efficiency towards struggling opposition, United eked out three useful factors as their newly-found metal below supervisor Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made the distinction.

With eight video games remaining, United are in a commanding place to seal a top-four end as they head into the Europa League quarter-finals towards Spanish facet Granada aiming to win the continent’s second-tier competitors.
NEWCASTLE TUNE OUT THE NOISE IN SURVIVAL BID
While it looks as if Newcastle United followers need Steve Bruce out with the membership hovering above the relegation zone, the gamers appear to preventing for him and it was evident after they snatched a degree towards Tottenham Hotspur.
“We all believe in the manager,” Joe Willock, who scored an Eighty fifth-minute equaliser, stated after the sport, whereas Bruce praised the “spirit and togetherness” within the squad after placing up with “so much nonsense” in latest weeks.

Newcastle sit three factors above 18th-placed Fulham with a sport in hand however Bruce’s facet are but to play Liverpool, Arsenal, Leicester City and Manchester City — with Fulham on the ultimate day probably changing into a relegation dogfight.
HOPE FOR WEST BROM AND ALLARDYCE?
Chelsea supervisor Thomas Tuchel discovered the onerous means how unforgiving the Premier League will be as he suffered his first defeat, the membership’s worst house loss in a decade, as West Bromwich Albion ran riot in a 5-2 hammering.
The end result was not merely a case of man benefit after Thiago Silva was despatched off and Sam Allardyce will be optimistic about their survival hopes with Seventeenth-placed Newcastle United eight factors above them with eight video games to go.
Matheus Pereira and Callum Robinson proved West Brom can flip it on when wanted however the one query is that if the crew can maintain that tempo within the closing stretch to assist Allardyce maintain his report of by no means being relegated from the highest flight intact.