He has five goals and ranks second for tackles (evidence of his use offensively and defensively), but the most instructive statistic demonstrates just how dominant he is to their build-up with the ball. Lerma has been one of Bournemouth’s most consistent performers this season. He can hardly be blamed for ambition, but it does leave Bournemouth with a potential headache this summer.
It had crept up on me a little that Jefferson Lerma is out of contract this summer and seems intent on leaving Bournemouth for somewhere a little higher up the Premier League. With England potentially having some dead rubber qualifiers and Nations League games over the next 12 months, it would be no surprise if Gareth Southgate had a look at him. He is ostensibly an attack-minded central midfielder, but has the energy and attitude to chase lost causes, harry opponents and generally firmly move himself from luxury midfielder to dependable, consistent performer. That total of 11 goal contributions puts him joint second with Douglas Luiz at Villa, despite playing significantly fewer minutes.īut it’s Ramsey’s completeness that is most exciting. He’s also scored six goals and assisted five. Ramsey doesn’t turn 22 until this coming week and Saturday was his 100th Aston Villa appearance that’s a fine effort given the upheaval and the competition for places thanks to significant transfer activity. Their goalscorer was Jacob Ramsey, who is perhaps the young English footballer most inexplicably drifting under the radar. Aston VillaĪ fitting end to Aston Villa’s away season, with an excellent point at Anfield that keeps them firmly in the hunt for European football next season.
You can see why Arteta is pushing hard for summer investment.
After that, it’s Eddie Nketiah, Rob Holding, Matt Turner, Amario Cozier-Duberry, Reuell Walters and Mauro Bandeira. Arteta’s bench at the City Ground contained Kieran Tierney and Emile Smith Rowe, a back-up left-back and a fringe midfielder.įabio Vieira was a misstep. This is a young group of players who, over the course of six months, were taught to have complete faith that they could win the league because, if they hadn’t, they would have capitulated earlier.įootball The Score Arsenal season review: Arteta creates something special despite failed title challenge Read MoreĪnd we do have to recognise that Arsenal simply don’t have the options of their erstwhile title rivals. I think we can rule out physical fatigue, given that Arsenal had no European football after March (although injuries in that Sporting tie may have cost them dear), but the impact of mental fatigue is vastly under-appreciated. This was a full-strength Arsenal team (of the players available) and they barely created a clear chance of note. It is true that one team had significantly more motivation than the other, but that’s only half an excuse. If there was a determination internally, decreed by Mikel Arteta, that Arsenal would end a tremendous, over-achieving season on a high, it evaporated entirely in Nottingham on Saturday evening. Here’s i‘s verdict on every team’s penultimate weekend of the Premier League season. There is at once everything, and very little, to play for at the other end of the table, where Leeds are all but doomed after their defeat at a West Ham side with one eye on the Conference League final.
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