The Good 😀 The Bad 😕 The Ugly 👹: Amazing Antonio, Flakey Foxes | OneFootball

Well, what a weekend of Premier League football that was.

The Champions League race and relegation fight came to life, there were lots of goals and even Liverpool failed to win at home!

The Good 😀

Goals, goals, goals

This was the weekend to end your personal goal drought.

After 26 games and 41 shots, David McGoldrick finally registered a goal in the Premier League after reacting first to a Kepa Arizzabalaga save to give Sheffield United the lead against Chelsea.

The 32-year-old was clearly intent on making up for lost time as later on in the second half he added his second to round the game off for the Blades.

Dominic Solanke was clearly inspired by this as on Sunday, he finally got his name on the scoresheet in Bournemouth colours.

The former Liverpool striker had gone 39 games since arriving at the Vitality Stadium but bagged a brace in a frenetic second half as the Cherries thrashed Leicester 4-1.

Solanke’s goals have given Bournemouth hope of survival while McGoldrick’s double has kept Sheffield United’s European aims alive.

Great time to start firing, lads.

Michail’s on fire

It takes a special kind of player to score four goals in a match.

Especially when they are the goals to confirm a club’s relegation.

Ruthless.

That’s what Michail Antonio was on Saturday, as the right-winger turned right-back, turned centre-forward proved that David Moyes might in fact be a football genius after all.

It’s six goals in six games since the restart now for the 30-year-old and his demolition of Norwich has thrust the Hammers in to the driving seat when it comes to avoiding relegation.

A win in their next game against Watford will likely keep them in the top-flight for another season.

Antonio has always shown he has ability, and now he might have found a position in a system that suits him down to the ground.

The Bad 😕

Canaries tweet for the last time

Arrivederci, Norwich City.

Their relegation back to the Championship after a one-year hiatus was confirmed when they were beaten 4-0 by West Ham on Saturday.

That result alone is probably enough of an explanation for their relegation.

There were some good moments, for example when they shook up the league by beating Manchester City 3-2 in September.

Then there were that two weeks where Teemu Pukki looked like the Brazilian Ronaldo before it turned out he was more like the Finnish Amir Zaki.

With 21 points from 35 games and 67 goals conceded, this relegation is probably about right.

Foxes start to unravel

Leicester City well and truly capitulated in the second-half against Bournemouth.

Leading 1-0 at half-time against the relegation strugglers, you would’ve put your house on the Foxes finishing the job.

However, a red-card, own-goal and Solanke double later, Brendan Rodgers’ side now look in danger of finishing outside the top four.

If Manchester United avoid defeat against Southampton tonight, Leicester will drop out of the top four for the first time since September.

Rodgers has led his team to just four league wins in 2020, and considering Leicester were in the title race until December, that is abysmal.

This could still turn out to be a remarkable season for the Foxes, but they have to pull it together instantly.

The Ugly 👹

Sorry Everton

It was another spineless and uninspiring performance from Everton against Wolves on Sunday.

The Toffees sit in 11th in the table as another season fizzles out towards mid-table mediocrity, but based on this performance they are maybe lucky that they aren’t in danger.

Carlo Ancelotti criticised the attitude and desire of his players post-match and it was clear to see why.

There is reason for genuine optimism for Everton supporters who have one of the best coaches in the world in their dugout but it appears he has one hell of a job on to turn the club around.

Nearly £300m has been spent since Farhad Moshiri arrived at the club but the evidence of that outlay isn’t clear.

It’s going to take another huge investment to get Everton anywhere near the top six again.