Newcastle’s Carrick set to challenge for an England spot? Eight things you might have missed from tonight’s Premier League football

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Tuesday night saw a number of hard fought Premier League games take place across the breadth of the UK, with a number of the teams involved scrapping to ensure they avoid relegation.

Cardiff faced Everton at home but came unstuck, while Wolves travelled to Huddersfield and lost, as did Burnley at Newcastle. Newly appointed Leicester City manager Brendan Rogers meanwhile will be happy as his new team beat Brighton at the King Power Stadium.

But there are likely a few things you might have missed from tonight’s action, so here’s a few of them.

Leicester turned on the style with Puel gone

The Foxes led at home for the first time in two months, while the first goal scorer Damarai Gray hit his fourth league goal of the season, thus notching more than any season previous. A goal from Jamie Vardy in what was a genuinely exciting game topped it off for Leicester, although Brighton did pull a goal back. In sum, it was a classic of the old-manager’s gone, new-one’s-watching-on genre, in that Leicester showed what they can be when fully functional.

Fabian Schar’s pearler

The former Basel man struck a sweet effort in off the post from 25 yards out to break the deadlock for Newcastle. The centre-back picked up the ball with not much on and struck it with a bit of swerve, beating Tom Heaton all ends up on 24 mins. Schar also played an unreal cross-field ball in the 69th minute, and generally had a great night in black and white.

Newcastle’s Carrick 2.0

The 21-year-old English midfielder put another strong performance in for Newcastle and his goal exemplified his game. Starting from the base of midfield, Longstaff worked it wide to the left wing to Matt Ritchie, whose cross almost finds Solomon Rondon’s head only for the ball to drop to Longstaff who kept his run going to finish.

In the end, Longstaff enjoyed an 81% passing success rate against a dogged Burnley outfit, and made one key pass along with grabbing his goal.

Martin Keown said about Sean Longstaff: “It’s like a Michael Carrick performance. “Everyone is talking about Declan Rice, I think this kid might be better. He looks technically better.”

Benitez meanwhile has previously backed his midfielder to succeed for England, saying (via The Guardian): “Sean wouldn’t look out of place with England, there are not too many young English players with his quality.

“I think he will go, he’s doing well and playing in the Premier League. I like to see my players going to the national team. I don’t care if it’s the Under-20s, Under-21s or even the senior side but I think he needs to go one step at a time. If we start talking too much about how well it’s doing, it’s a risk.”

Glenn Murray’s Rony Rosenthal-style miss

The Englishman had a miss to forget/miss of the season tonight as he contrived to blaze over the top of the bar with the goal ‘keeperless. Good work by Anthony Knockaert saw the attacker back-heel the ball past Kasper Smeichel and into the path of Murray, who somehow missed from six yards out.

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Newcastle end Burnley’s unbeaten run in 2019

The success of Rafa Benitez’s men tonight means Burnley’s proud unbeaten run in 2019 comes to an end. Multiple runs came to end, actually.

Newcastle meanwhile are on a three-game unbeaten run since their 1-0 loss at Spurs, which was proceeded by a win over Man City.

Get in my (Sigurds)son

With nine goals and three assists in 27 games going into tonight’s game, there was little doubt of the Icelander’s paramount significance to this Everton side still yet to his any kind of fluency. Tonight was no different, with the 29-year-old’s two goals killing the game for a home Cardiff side who will know wins are needed and needed immediately. That second strike made Sigurddson the highest-scoring Icelander in Premier League history, while Dominic Calvert-Lewin added the third.

And with 35 goals, Sigurdsson has been involved in more Premier League goals in games played in Wales than any other player (14 goals, 21 assists in 68 appearances).

The Welsh side meanwhile are a point above the relegation zone, though 18th-placed Southampton have a game in hand over the blue birds.

Terriers > Wolves

The terriers showed a great deal more tonight than they have in recent games, and, although they seem to be certainly down, it’ll be heartwarming for fans to see the club give a good fist of the run in. Tonight the Yorkshire club dominated the beginning but failed to capitalise, and while Wolves grew into it, the game remained scoreless. It was the first time in six home games that Huddersfield didn’t concede in the first-half, and with more shots and better possession, things were looking up until Mounie’s strike ensured the three points.

That win was Huddersfield’s first league win since November and moves them away from Derby’s record lowest ever Premier League points tally of 11. Meanwhile their last win before today was also against Wolves, meaning six of their 14 points this season came against the west Midlanders, and two of the three games they won this season have come against them.

Maddison creates loads of chances (again)

The former Norwich City man has now created more chances than any other play in the league this season. That’s 39 from set-plays, and 35 from open play.

 

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