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Black Cats Hammer home advantage

The game I attended was at Sunderland where West Ham arrived to show the newcomers what the Premier League was all about. The Black Cats were singularly unimpressed, Graham Potter's side looked as lumpen and leggy as the opposition look sprightly and energetic. Sunderland coach Regis Le Bris fielded seven debutants from the start and his team were anything but shy and nervous on their first outing.

Frank's clever kick-off routine

Thomas Frank's Tottenham have adopted many of the same principles we saw work for Brentford last season, and the novel use of dead-ball situations is one. Against Burnley, the ball was passed back to Guglielmo Vicario from kick-off as the home team shuffled up the pitch. The deceptive nature of how Vicario shaped up sold this routine further before a shorter pass to Pedro Porro was played.

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