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The Guardian // Sport // Football

Football Daily | Hair pulls, wobbles and Pep talks on another wild night in the Premier League

Wednesday 15th January 2025, 4:13PM

Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Oof. Eek! Yikes. Woof! Tuesday’s final score sheet might show three draws and West Ham edging a mid-table battle, but this was another white-hot night of Premier League action. There were great goals, brilliant saves, hair pulls, late wobbles, Pep talks and some of the worst defending seen in the Barclays multiverse. Where to start? Well, why not at the Potterdome, where the Hammers rediscovered the concept of pressing after the fatally languid Julen Lopetegui era. The result was two goals gleaned from errant Fulham passes at the back, a platform the hosts clung on to as Fulham fought back, recording 21 shots to West Ham’s four but losing the game 3-2. “The best team didn’t win, but we have to be strong at both ends. We gave West Ham two goals,” fumed Marco Silva afterwards.A doctor doesn’t differentiate when a patient is coming from a different city. A lawyer doesn’t, either. If you like, I’m Dr Football. I love helping wherever I can, where I can give my all” – Jürgen Klopp does his best to spin his “global head of soccer” role at Red Bull to make it sound a smidgin less corporate and depressingly dull.I presume until now Lazio (yesterday’s Football Daily) didn’t have the cajones to sack Juan Bernabe last time he got his bird out and cheered for the bald man” – Thomas Ayre.

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