The Weekend – Winners and Losers

Another look at who had a good weekend and who had a bad one.

Winners:

Roberto Mancini: In this column again mainly for the fact that he has had such a tough time of it in the Champions League but has come back after difficult mid-week results to win. It might just be that if he stays in touch with the top of the table his league form will save his job.

Liverpool: Proving that they can still play with the big boys, Liverpool make it 5 league games in a row unbeaten against Chelsea. They are also unbeaten in the league in 6. Now they just have to start getting good results against the little teams.

Comebacks: Fulham and then Arsenal both staged comebacks only to draw with each other. Everton, Man United and Man City all came from behind this weekend to win in what seems to be the season of the comeback.

West Ham: Surprise results like this could see Sam Allardyce’s men stay in the top half of the table all season long.

Losers:

Newcastle: For every winner there is a loser and on the other side of the West Ham coin lie Newcastle, Alan Pardew will be wondering exactly what has happened to last season’s form, especially as his squad lost no key players.

Chelsea: The Blues have 2 points from three games. Admittedly two of those games were against Man United and Liverpool but they were at home, Roberto Di Matteo will have to drag Chelsea out of this ‘rut’ very quickly.

Mark Hughes: Things are just going from bad to worse and Rangers now sit dead last, the odds on him being first manager to be sacked have shortened over this weekend and you can now get odds of 6/5.