Manchester City and Liverpool, a game purportedly between the two best teams in the country, was remarkably Sunday league on occasion. But last season Gylfi Sigurdsson came in for criticism after his big-money move from Swansea to Everton. Hodgson’s task is to stop the Palace slideNo start to a Crystal Palace season could ever be worse than 2017/18, when they lost their first seven league fixtures without scoring. Look at the teams Palace have failed to beat on that run: Watford, Southampton, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Wolves. The negative spin is that this is surely the end of Morata at Chelsea, who cannot be content as a Europa league striker.

Source: Irish Examiner October 08, 2018 04:30 UTC