The weekend’s biggest match pitted a gritty Chelsea against a resurgent Manchester United at Stamford Bridge in the Premier League. The hosts were 4th on the table, with United breathing down their neck at 5th, both teams looking to get a win. The game was expected to be a tactical affair between new bosses Graham …
Taiwo Awoniyi scored early in the 2nd half to secure 3 points for Nottingham Forest against Liverpool with a 1-0 victory on Saturday. Danny Ings had scored a stunner inside 2 minutes to help Southampton beat The Reds 1-0 back in January of 2021 at St. Mary’s stadium and ended the visitor’s 12-game unbeaten run. …
Ahead of this weekend’s blockbuster fixture between two giants of English football, Chelsea and Manchester United, an interesting statistic has come to light in favour of the London club. Academy graduate Trevoh Chalobah is yet to lose a match in which he has started in the Premier League for The Blues. The young defender has …
Tempers ran high and sparks flew at a jam-packed St. James’ Park as Eddie Howe’s resurgent Newcastle United hosted Frank Lampard’s Everton in the midweek clash of Matchday 12 in the Premier League. The incident transpired after Paraguayan Miguel Almiron gave The Toons a 1-0 lead with his stunning first-time strike in the 31st minute. …
In football, there are various options for a player to stay in the game post-retirement. One can become a commentator (like Jamie Carragher), a manager (like Patrick Viera), a development coach (like Leighton Baines), or take up a boardroom role (like Edwin Van Der Sar). You need not stick to your chosen role either. Managers …
And the games keep on coming. The midweek PL GW12 has only just gotten done and we’re already writing an FPL preview for GW13. Oh, but we’re not complaining. Love me a bit of good old Barclays. Before we go further, a moment of silence, and a moment of laughter, for this person. For those …
Amazon Prime has broken into Sky Sports and BT Sports’ duopoly of the live streaming of the Premier League. The midweek fixtures this week were scheduled to be shown to the Prime subscribers at no extra cost added to their existing packages, live and uninterrupted simultaneously. Twitter has erupted with the reaction from the viewers, …
Liverpool summer signing Darwin Núñez has broken the record for the fastest sprint recorded in Premier League history in his eye-catching performance at Merseyside. The lanky Uruguayan turned on the afterburners against West Ham United to register a maximum speed of 38 km/h, surpassing Manchester City fullback Kyle Walker’s record of 37.8 km/h which was …
With two out of three days of the midweek Premier League game week done, we can now look at some of the highs and lows of FPL. This GW, continuing the theme from the weekend, was much better for defenders and not so much for the attackers. Only 8 goals were scored over seven games, …
Manchester City and Liverpool have been the biggest rivalry in the EPL in recent years, even though Liverpool have only won one title compared to City’s five in this era. That is why whenever the two sides match up, it is a sight to behold. By having some of the best players in the world, …
Pictures of Aston Villa manager Steven Gerrard have emerged online which allegedly show him getting drunk at a pub in Liverpool while an enormous cloud looms over his future at Villa Park. Fans were not particularly pleased to see the former Reds’ captain having a night out in Liverpool in the context of Villa struggling …
The 2022/23 season might have only seen a few months of action, but the football designers are hard at work to begin preparations for the next campaign. For football kit manufacturers like Adidas, Nike, Puma etc, the work has only started as they are now in a race against time to come up with attractive …
The Premier League hosted another dramatic and controversial game between Liverpool and Manchester City on Sunday. Despite being heavy underdogs heading into the match, Jurgen Klopp ousted the odds to come out as narrow 1-0 winners – thanks to Mo Salah’s winner. Salah continued his impressive record against the Citizens, having scored 4 goals in …
The dreaded GW12 is upon us. With Man City and Arsenal fixture blanks, this is anyway a challenging week to field a playing XI in FPL. To add to that, Tuesday’s deadline is quite possibly the shortest turnaround time one could possibly get. With just one full day between game weeks, managers need to be …
Haaland blanks in FPL. There. That’s the headline. Liverpool’s somewhat surprising victory over Manchester City ended a very exciting Premier League GW. A much better weekend for defenders, and not so much for the attackers, here is Thick Accent’s FPL review for GW11. You can check out the final results here. Winners: Alisson A clean …
The newly-promoted Nottingham Forest received a fat dose of karma when they faced a struggling Wolves side at the weekend. Things haven’t really been going that well for the Wolves at all. They had to recently sack their manager Bruno Lage after a poor start to the season that left them toiling in the Premier …
Liverpool are having a really difficult season. With Sadio Mane gone and injuries plaguing Jurgen Klopp’s side, the Reds have fallen way behind in the Premier League title race this season and seem nowhere close to competing for the trophy. Having drawn 4 and lost 2 of their first 8 league games, they only have …