Well, that didn’t go very well did it? All things considered it has been a pretty devastating few days for the top end of Premier League, which will resume looking, beneath the powder and paint, a little bruised and bleary, wounds bound up with vinegar and brown paper. On the plus side the world’s richest league finally found a team it could beat on Thursday (in your face, Young Boys of Berne). But beyond this four lost matches out of five with an aggregate score of 8-3 to Abroad represents a pretty clear sense of collective defeat.
Exposed to tactically refined elite-level modern football the Premier League’s second- and third-placed teams came stumbling out of the trees like a group of 19th-century goat-herders catching a first glimpse across the plains of the steam-driven iron horse. Defeats for Liverpool and Tottenham simply maintained a pattern of energetic B-listerdom that has left English football providing three Europa League semi-finalists in the past eight years.
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