Month: December 2018

Paul Merson reckons that Tottenham Hotspur in the recent London derby managed to expose the Gunners’ new sensation Jorginho who, in that game, appears as if he was Alberto Aquilani.

Aquilani’s case is well known to everyone who follows the Premier League. When he made the switch from Italy to UK and landed at Anfield, everybody was talking about him as he was tipped to be the next Premier League superstar. But he couldn’t do any bit of justice to the reputation he had come up with and proved to be mighty inconsistent for the Reds.

Paul Merson reckons that Tottenham Hotspur in the recent London derby managed to expose the Gunners’ new sensation Jorginho who, in that game, appears as if he was Alberto Aquilani.

Aquilani’s case is well known to everyone who follows the Premier League. When he made the switch from Italy to UK and landed at Anfield, everybody was talking about him as he was tipped to be the next Premier League superstar. But he couldn’t do any bit of justice to the reputation he had come up with and proved to be mighty inconsistent for the Reds.

The Italian got a lot of opportunities in his debut season, but hardly in any of the games did he make any mark and as a result of that, he was found sitting on the bench in most parts of his second season. He was thereafter placed on loan for two consecutive seasons before eventually being sold to Fiorentina.

By drawing the comparison between Jorginho and Aquilani, Merson was trying to give the impression that the former is also not as good as everybody is thinking. Jorginho, however, so far has lived up to the hype and has stitched a string of impressive performances for Chelsea. So for anyone to say that he is appearing the same as Aquilani will be a bit of an overstatement.

“Merson’s comparison of Jorginho and Aquilani was more in relation to the London derby than in general. “According to Merson, Jorginho passing skills are fantastic, but whenever the opposition marks him and “he is surrounded by “ a few players, he fails to keep possession of the ball.

“As soon as you get around him he couldn’t get around anybody.” Merson was quoted saying about Jorginho by EXPRESS.

“His passing is great but if you put him under pressure he lost the ball.” Merson added.

Italy international Matteo Politano has said that Inter Milan will focus on winning the final Champions League game against PSV Eindhoven next month following the club’s 1-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in midweek. The Nerazzurri had a three-point advantage coming into Wednesday night’s game versus Spurs but that was, however, nullified with the north London side bagging the sole goal through Christian Eriksen off the bench.

Speaking after the game, Politano acknowledged that the club were expecting a difficult encounter against Spurs and they were eventually left disappointed after conceding during the dying stages of the encounter, he said: “We knew that today’s match would be a very difficult one with Tottenham at their best. We played well in the first half when we did not concede much, in the second half it felt like we controlled the game, when all of a sudden their goal came out of the blue.”

Italy international Matteo Politano has said that Inter Milan will focus on winning the final Champions League game against PSV Eindhoven next month following the club’s 1-0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur in midweek. The Nerazzurri had a three-point advantage coming into Wednesday night’s game versus Spurs but that was, however, nullified with the north London side bagging the sole goal through Christian Eriksen off the bench.

Speaking after the game, Politano acknowledged that the club were expecting a difficult encounter against Spurs and they were eventually left disappointed after conceding during the dying stages of the encounter, he said: “We knew that today’s match would be a very difficult one with Tottenham at their best. We played well in the first half when we did not concede much, in the second half it felt like we controlled the game, when all of a sudden their goal came out of the blue.”

Meanwhile, Spurs have now leapfrogged Inter to second in the standings with the better head-to-head record but Politano insists that the Nerazzurri won’t be focusing on the outcome of the Spurs-Barcelona game until they have managed to achieve their own requirement of beating PSV Eindhoven at San Siro.

He added:“We always take the pitch with the intent to win, “something we will also do against PSV, at the end of that game we will see what happened in Barcelona.“ But we know how strong we are and tomorrow we will go back to work because on Sunday there “is another very important game“ in the Serie A.”

Inter will now shift their attention to the Serie A for the upcoming weekend where they have a tricky game against AS Roma on the road. The Nerazzurri are currently third on the Serie A table with a nine-point deficit to table-toppers Juventus. Their most recent league meeting against Frosinone witnessed them secure a comfortable 3-0 win on their home patch.