Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Elliot Anderson (143) made more successful passes against Coventry than the entire Coventry team combined (139) on just his fourth Manchester City start. He touched the ball 178 times. Won 100 per cent of his six ground duels.
Covered more distance than any other Man City player. In a game where Enzo Fernandez, on his debut, and free-scoring Erling Haaland drew the headlines, Anderson was equally eye-catching. He mopped up nearly every mess Man City got themselves into. 26 line-breaking passes and 21 passes into the final third gives an idea of just how punchy he was on the ball, too.
His role is not simply to recycle possession but progress possession and he's doing it brilliantly. With Fernandez alongside, City's midfield looks refreshed and revived - and ready to rival anything the Premier League has to throw at them.Laura Hunter Many attended Liverpool's game at Ipswich gearing up to see Bradley Barcola for the first time. But it was a player at the other end of Liverpool's transfer window debate who stole the show.
Perhaps the decision to keep hold of Cody Gakpo may be the crossroads moment that defines Andoni Iraola's first season. Liverpool held talks to sell the Dutchman to Man City, with Spurs also interested. But now Gakpo looks like Liverpool's best player.
His performance off the right wing against Nottingham Forest last week was impressive, but his outing at Ipswich was even better. This time from the opposite flank, he set up Alexander Isak twice with some very classy assists. That makes it three Isak goals set up by Gakpo in the last two games.
"Barcola is going to struggle to get a game with this version of Gakpo," said Jamie Carragher on social media at half-time of Liverpool's win at Portman Road. Liverpool's best piece of business may not be the £123m winger they signed, rather the winger they actually kept instead.Sam Blitz There must be something in the water at Ipswich. Because their goalkeeper position appears to have become cursed.
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