Buendía delivers a timely reminder, Werner’s woes continue apace and Jesse Marsch faces a fraught fortnight
Photograph: Shaun Brooks/Action Plus/ShutterstockSteven Gerrard gave Emi Buendía the chance to shine behind Aston Villa’s strikers at Burnley and the Argentinian vindicated his manager’s judgment by scoring and creating a goal. Buendía was selected in favour of Philippe Coutinho, with Gerrard mindful of Villa’s workload in May. “Both Phil and Emi will get enough game time to keep them satisfied,” Gerrard said.
How can it be that Timo Werner does not score hatfuls of goals? His running is relentless and intelligent, he keeps getting in the right positions – and then things keep going wrong. Somehow he has managed just 10 goals in his 56 league appearances for, 44 of them in the starting lineup. At times that has been because of poor finishing, and other when his lack of confidence has been obvious, but he also seems a weirdly luckless striker. Saturday was a case in point.
Leeds’ worries looked likely to abate when they took 11 points in five games but they are now in serious difficulty. They will be relegated if they replicate their first-half showing at Arsenal – and, for that matter, much of what they turned out in the second – over the final three games and Jesse Marsch faces a daunting task to lift them before Wednesday’s visit of Chelsea. Elland Road will need to be at its intimidating best, and Leeds will have to improve markedly at both ends.
they have no option but to find the kind of consistency that would save them from the drop – a fate that seemed unthinkable at the start of the campaign.Suddenly Leicester’s dead rubber at home to Norwich on Wednesday feels a little bit more significant. Leicester were booed off after an insipid defeat at home toextended their winless run to seven matches. After exiting the Europa Conference League at the semi-final stage in Rome last week, their remaining four matches threaten to be a slog.
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