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Everton and Carlo Ancelotti – now the hard work begins

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on January 6, 2020

CARLO ANCELOTTI knew he wasn’t taking over a bulge bracket club when he agreed to join Everton, making him one of the most celebrated managers ever to walk into the Goodison Park hot-seat. At Anfield, in his first Merseyside side, the constantly raised eyebrow told you everything you needed to know: the three-times Champions League winner has a major task on his hands at Everton. Losing to an under-strength and inexperienced Liverpool side in the FA Cup is a significant psychological setback. This came on the back of preliminary news that Everton made record losses for 2018-19, a revelation – which will become much clearer soon – that has made life even for challenging. With Liverpool recently and rightly proclaimed the best team in…

Categories: Premier League

Tagged: Carlo Ancelotti, Everton, FA Cup, Liverpool, Premier League, top slot

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Liverpool are actually the best in the world

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on January 4, 2020

REGARDLESS of their recent FIFA World Club Cup triumph in Qatar, Liverpool have every right to claim they are the best team in the world at the moment. It may be a subjective title given the halfway stage of 2019-20 has only just been reached, but 2019 will go down as the year of Liverpool’s resurgence and come May, the project will surely be anointed with the club’s first league title since 1990. Liverpool were agonisingly close to achieving champion status in 2018-19, just one point separating them from Manchester City. However, Liverpool’s league record in the calendar year is better than the Premier champions. Liverpool, up to and including Boxing Day, had accumulated 98 points in the year versus City’s 92. Liverpool’s only…

Categories: Premier League

Tagged: Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool, Manchester City, Premier League, top slot

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Chelsea complete a north London double, but the window has to be used wisely

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on January 3, 2020

WITH seven minutes remaining at the Emirates stadium, Chelsea must have been getting their chequebook ready for action, but two goals later, the shortcomings of the first hour of the game were brushed aside. Recent Chelsea performances have shown that they are very short of experienced talent. The energy and enthusiasm of their young players has carried them through the first half of the campaign, but they have not been able to replace Eden Hazard, whose absence is truly felt. That Chelsea are in fourth place in the league at the halfway stage is a major achievement in itself. True, at times they have been absolutely outstanding, but their home form – one of the staples of the Abramovich era – has been sub-optimal…

Categories: Premier League

Tagged: Arsenal, Chelsea, Eden Hazard, Frank Lampard, Stamford Bridge, top slot

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Arteta’s background makes his appointment exciting

GOTP Editorial Team

Posted on December 20, 2019

SOME Arsenal fans may be a touch disappointed that their club has not hired a marque manager, a black-suited, designer-stubbled touchline acrobat with heaps of attitude. Such people feel that an elite club needs to have an elite manager to match. But the top-name coaches, who go from club to club in a game of musical chairs, are few and far between, and what’s more, this highly-coveted band are, generally, getting older and some may be past their best. Still, however, the same names get thrown into the ring of discussion when a seat at the top table becomes vacant. Arsenal tried to target an up-and-coming manager in Unai Emery. It didn’t work out for a combination of reasons – an unhappy club, a…

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Tagged: Arsenal, Arsene Wenger, Emirates Stadium, Manchester City, Mikel Arteta, Pep Guardiola, top slot

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