Premier League review: Tottenham's late win was classic Jose

There have been small signs of the old Jose Mourinho since he took over at Tottenham -- the good Jose Mourinho https://www.w88thais.com/w88-promotion-latest-for-new-member-get-free-260-bath/ , the one you probably hated if you didn't support his team but definitely loved if you did. But perhaps Tottenham's 2-1 win over Wolves on Sunday was the biggest one yet, a victory achieved with a late header that was frankly a robbery, Wolves arguably aggrieved they didn't get all three points, let alone none at all.

"It's one of these victories where quality is not enough," said Mourinho after the game. "If you're not a team -- a real team, in the real sense of what the word 'team' means -- it's impossible. "[Tottenham's players] are very, very good. I tell that before the match, and I tell the same after the match." Mourinho's most basic remit is to get the best from this squad, to make them more than the sum of their parts, because his predecessor had seemingly lost the ability to.Results like this suggest he's getting toward doing just that.



City defeat displays all of Arsenal's problems
It's probably a neat summation of how things are and have been at Arsenal that they conceded a third goal to Manchester City when down to 10 men, a scenario completely of their own making. Who knows why they removed Sead Kolasinac before Bukayo Saka was ready, and who knows why Saka wasn't ready in the first place, but it speaks to the dithering attitude that has pervaded this club for years. If you're so inclined, you could throw in Kolasinac himself ducking slightly out of the way for Kevin De Bruyne's first strike, as further evidence of their issues ww88 .

Of course, these were isolated incidents that you can read too much into, but if you really want to understand the state of things at Arsenal you just have to look in the dugout. Freddie Ljungberg might turn out to be a fine coach one day but the only reason he is there is because the club sacked Unai Emery with seemingly no earthly idea of what they would do next. It surely couldn't have taken them by surprise that a change might have to be made, so to have no succession plan in place or even in mind is absurd.

Losing 3-0 to this City side is not the end of the world but the scoreline could have been much, much worse. It turns out those nine electric minutes against West Ham may well have been the exception, rather than the rule.

Chelsea lack players with the 'personality' of a leaderAlejandro Moreno says Chelsea need to figure out a way to get results when things "are not perfect."
Which is the real Chelsea?
How worried should Chelsea fans be about this slump? They have lost four of the last five in the league, three of which have given a previously beleaguered opposition manager a little hope and optimism.

Perhaps the most worrying thing about Saturday's 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth was that, while you'd struggle to say Bournemouth dominated or anything close to it, this wasn't a smash and grab and Chelsea can't really consider themselves unlucky.


"Today wasn't a 'We've created a load of chances day,'" said manager Frank Lampard afterwards. "We created two or three great chances and we need to take them if we want to improve."

So which is the real Chelsea? The one that lost just two of their opening 12 games or the one defeated in four of their last five? Is this a young, inexperienced side with a young, inexperienced manager reverting to the mean or just suffering the sort of blip that is inevitable in such a situation? Their upcoming games should be fascinating: next, Mourinho and Tottenham Hotspur w88 casino .

Regardless of Chelsea's weaknesses, it was still an extraordinary victory for Bournemouth, not only because it was just their second in 11 games and broke a run of five straight defeats, but because they did it with a squad laid waste by injuries. They were without nine first-teamers on Saturday, including the scorers of 13 of their 18 goals before the game, then they lost another three when Josh King was forced off in the second-half.

The trick now for Bournemouth is to make sure this result truly stops the rot rather than it simply being a one-off. Instinctively you think they couldn't get dragged into a relegation scrap given their quality of squad and manager, but teams are only ever too good to go down until they aren't. Getting a few injured players back will be great, but the mental boost of this victory could be just as valuable.