Brighton answer Roberto De Zerbi’s call, is Roy Hodgson Crystal Palace’s solution? Premier League hits and misses | Football News

Brighton heed De Zerbi’s call

Roberto De Zerbi requested an necessary query of his Brighton squad they usually responded with an ideal reply as they beat Wolves 6-0.

It was on Deniz Undav, Billy Gilmour and Julio Enciso to exchange the excellent Kaoru Mitoma, Alexis Mac Allister and Moises Caicedo, who had been all benched after a gruelling week.

Brighton wanted a response to their midweek defeat at Nottingham Forest which felt like a hangover from their Wembley heartbreak towards Manchester United final weekend. They received it.

Undav scored twice, Enciso supplied two assists and Gilmour was “the most effective participant on the pitch” in response to his supervisor. Danny Welbeck additionally got here into the beginning line-up and netted a double.

Their hopes of European soccer are very a lot alive with De Zerbi understanding he can throw in his fringe gamers throughout their busy schedule. In the event that they carry out like this then few will cease them.

Wolves performed like they knew they’d already averted relegation. That could be the case but it surely was a dreadful show, one which lacked any of the combat that has received them out of hassle this season.

Each groups will hope for higher instances forward. Brighton can solely enhance their league place.
David Richardson

Is Hodgson the solution at Palace?

Roy Hodgson’s return to Selhurst Park has coincided with nearly as good a spell as any throughout this season of inconsistency at Crystal Palace. 13 factors have been secured from a potential 18 because the former England supervisor changed Patrick Vieira in March, as has one other season of Premier League soccer, with Saturday’s thrilling 4-3 win over West Ham seeing the Eagles hit the coveted 40-point mark of their battle towards relegation.

Hodgson stated after the sport he not thought of Palace as relegation candidates and they’re inside touching distance of constructing {that a} mathematical actuality, however there may be a lot extra to be achieved earlier than the season concludes. Given a remit of steering the Palace ship till the tip of the season, Hodgson has performed that and a few, with stable foundations established for his successor to construct on.

However with Palace slicing free in assault since Hodgson’s return, with the abundance of expertise they’ve of their ranks persistently fulfilling its potential on the pitch, the 75-year-old has delivered an emphatic response to the criticism he obtained when his first spell in cost ended. Whether or not he would wish to, or whether or not he would admit it, Hodgson stands out as the answer Palace are trying to find.
Jack Wilkinson

Unlucky 13 for Navas

Nottingham Forest signed Keylor Navas to herald his wealth of expertise to assist their survival cost.

The goalkeeper made very important saves to maintain a clear sheet on his debut towards Leeds – and plenty of thought it was a shrewd signing.

However within the 2-1 defeat at Brentford he took his facet from transferring three factors nearer to security to proper again within the mire because the Bees scored two late objectives.

The four-time European champion had had a comparatively straightforward recreation up till that time. He made three very important saves to disclaim Kevin Schade, Ethan Pinnock and Mikkel Damsgaard within the minutes earlier than his facet took the lead – and was comparatively untroubled within the second interval.

However the man for the large second let two Brentford objectives squirm by means of him and Forest ended up with nothing. There was a little bit of misfortune concerning the two objectives – however a participant of his expertise has to do higher.

Since that debut towards Leeds, Navas has not saved a clear sheet in 13 video games. Unfortunate for him and his membership.
Sam Blitz

Brentford’s next step is clear

Fairly frankly, Brentford had been terrible for a lot of their comeback win over Nottingham Forest. At one stage, the cliche of “they may have performed for X quantity of hours they usually nonetheless would not have scored” was on everybody’s lips.

However Brentford do what Brentford do. It was the fifth time the Bees have scored within the ninetieth minute or later this season, greater than some other facet within the Premier League.

One other statistic hits residence about how Thomas Frank’s facet want to enhance. This was the primary time they’ve gained a league recreation this season whereas holding greater than 50 per cent of the possession.

Again-to-back comfy survivals imply Brentford need to now begin performing like a Premier League common.

Frank’s Bees want to start out punishing groups extra typically by ending possibilities and be extra prolific with the ball. Having fun with practically 70 per cent of possession nearly noticed them find yourself with a defeat towards Forest.

They received away with it, however making Brentford extra ruthless needs to be excessive up on Frank’s summer season tasklist.
Sam Blitz