Premier League review: Jurgen Klopp moans, Jose Mourinho’s miracle, Moise Kean wastes more time, and Divock Origi proves he’s a visionary

I warn you now, we might get through a whole column without VAR being mentioned. Other than me mentioning it there, I mean.

I might be wrong, but I don’t think VAR really got involved this weekend – and if I am wrong, I’ve just been outed as someone who doesn’t really watch the games anyway (I do, honest. Glued to them. Even Burnley. And Newcastle).

King of the Klopp seemed a little grumpy after Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Watford, didn’t he?

Jurgeylad had a good old moan about the alleged plans to expand the Champions League group stage, meaning potentially more football matches for tired legs in years to come.

And then he went all in on the plans to play all of the FIFA Club World Cup on just the one pitch, meaning potentially a rubbish surface for tired legs in the next ten days. You don’t have to be a genius to work out which is the more pressing concern.

Liverpool got the job done against Nigel Pearson’s men in a way they have fashioned on many occasions this season already. Two passes and Mohamed Salah is 1vs1 and a goal is scored.

Just don’t call Liverpool a long-ball team, though.

Firstly, their fans get the right hump when you point out to them that they do actually go from back-to-front rather rapidly (and who can blame them with that front three?).

And secondly, does it really matter? You are allowed to win football matches by playing a little more direct.

Meanwhile, Salah notched the second late-on thanks to a visionary assist from Divock Origi.

So the Reds march on and their nearest rivals, Leicester, stumbled at home to Norwich. And we all know why, don’t we?

James Maddison named him ‘Scrooge’ but whoever decided Jamie Vardy’s header should go down as a Tim Krul OG cost the Foxes’ three big ones.

After all, if Vardy scores, Leicester win. It had happened eight times in a row before this match so you can’t tell me it wouldn’t have happened again.

One of the most confusing things about Tottenham’s Christian Eriksen is not his belief that Real Madrid might try and sign him up one day.

No, for me it was his utter inability to beat the first man at a corner. Of course, Eriksen is perfectly capable of beating the first man at the dead-ball – he is technically gifted. Yet, he never seemed to – Spurs probably scored from a near-post header once and they’ve tried to replicate it five times a match ever since.

Jose’s clearly having none of that though.

He’s been there less at a month, and Eriksen is firing in corners to the far post and Jan is heading them home.

Still no clean sheet for Mourinho though, as the Tottenham defence backed off so much they were sitting with the fans as Adama Traore fizzed the equaliser home.

His goal wasn’t as good as Lucas Moura’s though – there have been some rather tasty goals in the Mourinho era already.

West Ham players, bizarrely, look like they do actually want to keep Mauricio Pellegrini in a job – mind you when David Moyes is again being touted as the firefighter until the end-of-the-season you can understand why.

They cobbled together enough of a performance to see off Southampton 1-0 at St Mary’s – and it looked like Southampton had a great chance of winning after Danny Ings’ goal was disallowed.

Ings has scored nine Premier League goals this season and not been on the winning team with any of them – he is the literal opposite to Jamie Vardy, nearly.

Is it a coincidence that Frank Lampard’s Chelsea’s transfer ban gets lifted and Chelsea forget how to win in the Premier League?

Their players seem to have frozen, especially since Lampard suggested that he wouldn’t mind bringing in an attacking face or two to try and replace Eden Hazard. Saturday’s 1-0 defeat to Bournemouth will have only developed that thought-process and, no doubt, Wilf Zaha’s ears will be burning.

Eddie Howe and Bournemouth needed that win after five successive defeats. I mean, how is Howe going to keep getting linked to the big jobs if the Cherries keep losing?

Is the Arsenal gig still a big job? Well, yes – big in terms of size of task I grant you but big in terms of prestige? Not so much in this day and age – and Freddie Ljungberg would do well to run a mile from it once the first nine candidates say “thanks, but no thanks”.

Arsenal are, frankly, awful – City barely had to get out of first gear to beat them 3-0, Kevin de Bruyne putting the game to bed pretty early on.

Sead Kolasinac not as brave when a ball is going near his head than he is when looking out for Mesut Ozil, eh?

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If Sheffield United keep moving up the table I’m going to have to consider moving them up this column. On Saturday night, the Blades were sitting in fifth place.

Fifth! With a manager who has managed in non-league and a lot of players that would still be in League One if it wasn’t for him.

They beat the Villa 2-0 and it never really looked in doubt, even with Jack Grealish missing a penalty.

There’s a lot of clubs looking for decent managers right now – and I bet Chris Wilder isn’t on any of their lists.

Burnley and Newcastle nailed their colours to the mast nice and early when Steve Bruce went for Joe Linton and Andy Carroll up front for the away team.

Slick little intricate passing was not the order of the day at Turf Moor and Burnley eventually won with a goal from a set-piece. No, I didn’t see that coming either.

For about 70 minutes at Old Trafford, it looked like there might be a win for Ferguson.

Big Dunc set his side up in the same kind of way as the win over Chelsea, less half his squad with a tummy bug.

It didn’t matter as United again struggled to break down a team sitting deep and not really attacking until they threw on the one player they have with the ability to actually get through a team doing just that. Mason Greenwood got the equaliser.

Personally, I didn’t think Moise Kean was that bad in the 18 minutes he had on the pitch as we got a rare instance of a sub being substituted – and it didn’t look particularly tactical, judging by the blatant snub from the stand-in manager to the young striker.

Ferguson said he was doing it to ‘waste time’ which is exactly what many Evertonians feel Kean has been doing ever since he rocked up from Juventus.

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