The 8 quickest counter-attack objectives of Premier League season up to now

“Pace is at all times essential,” Thierry Henry, one of many quickest gamers to ever grace the Premier League, as soon as mused. “In the event you mix it with energy, precision and approach it is unstoppable.”

In an period when managers spend an rising period of time and vitality setting their groups as much as dismantle the opposition through intricate schemes of passes, a direct surge by the center of a muddled facet provides a splendidly refreshing various.

Pep Guardiola as soon as hailed the Bundesliga as the house of the world’s most harmful counter-attacking groups, however a glut of Premier League groups have produced sequences of concussive pace up to now this season.

Time: 16.13 seconds
Opponent: Everton (17 August)

“Horrible”, was the phrase Sean Dyche selected to explain the nut-and-bolt dismantling which his Everton facet suffered on the opening weekend of the Premier League season.

Brighton romped to a 3-0 win at Goodison Park, propelled to victory by Kaoru Mitoma’s blistering opener. The Japan worldwide completed the transfer simply 16 seconds after successful the ball inside his crew’s penalty field.

Time: 13.84 seconds
Opponent: West Ham (21 September)

The keenness of West Ham’s restoration runs had begun to fade as early because the fourth minute of Chelsea’s journey to the London Stadium. Julen Lopetegui’s lacklustre hosts had been already 2-0 down and mentally shattered by the point Nicolas Jackson started his ahead surge at first of the second half.

Uncharacteristically turning down the prospect to finish his hat-trick, Jackson slid the ball into Cole Palmer’s stride to place a ultimate nail in West Ham’s coffin.

Time: 13.62 seconds
Opponent: Crystal Palace (24 August)

A slick end to spherical off West Ham’s 2-0 victory over Crystal Palace was not probably the most admirable second of Jarrod Bowen’s afternoon at Selhurst Park.

Whereas West Ham’s gamers celebrated Tomas Soucek’s opener, an promoting hoarding crumpled on prime of a ball boy sitting alongside the facet of the pitch. Bowen swiftly whisked the kid out of hurt’s approach and gave him his match shirt on the finish of the sport.

Time: 12.94 seconds
Opponent: Brighton (2 November)

Arne Slot’s record-toppling tenure at Liverpool has been outlined by a extra managed and composed type. The Reds have dialled down the heavy steel tempo of Jurgen Klopp’s iconic reign, however the previous guard nonetheless know when to interrupt right into a blistering solo.

Mohamed Salah fired Liverpool in entrance in opposition to Brighton on the finish of a 13-second burst upfield, chopping onto his left foot and bending the ball into the highest nook with a transfer which Slot dubbed the “Mo Salah particular”. The Dutch coach rightly added: “It isn’t the primary and never the final time he’ll rating from that place.”

Time: 12.15 seconds
Opponent: Newcastle (27 October)

Cole Palmer is not going to be credited with the help for Nicolas Jackson’s opener in opposition to Newcastle United, however he deserves nearly all of the credit score for the sweeping transfer upfield. Slicing between the visiting set of black and white stripes with one swing of his left boot, Palmer nearly pressured Pedro Neto right into a sq. cross for Chelsea’s main striker.

Palmer would go on to attain the successful aim nevertheless it was his outrageous cross which Enzo Maresca described as “the rationale why folks pay” to go to Stamford Bridge. “They wish to see that form of participant,” the Chelsea boss gushed.

Time: 11.11 seconds
Opponent: West Ham (19 October)

Son Heung-min rapidly scrawled the exclamation level to a 4-1 victory, rattling within the third aim of a eight-minute burst to sink a West Ham facet all to keen to wilt.

Tottenham’s crisp counter-attack to finish the second-half rout was watched on by three West Ham substitutes who had additionally been patiently ready on touchline whereas Spurs made it 3-1 5 minutes earlier.

Time: 10.6 seconds
Opponent: Brentford (21 September)

Brentford have been the division’s quickest starters this season. Bryan Mbeumo’s opener in opposition to Tottenham on this September conflict was the second of three consecutive Premier League matches wherein the Bees scored within the first minute.

Nevertheless, Spurs recovered to guide 2-1 going into the interval and sealed all three factors with James Maddison’s swift counter-attack within the eighty fifth minute.

Time: 7.75 seconds
Opponent: Brentford (25 August)

Arne Slot’s first dwelling match as Liverpool supervisor delivered a breath-taking counter-attack which Jurgen Klopp would have been happy with.

Mohamed Salah was first to the second ball from a Brentford nook, forcing possession into the trail of Diogo Jota who confirmed simply sufficient persistence earlier than sliding Luis Diaz into the field. The Colombian ahead was an early beneficiary of Slot’s detailed coaching classes and has lauded the Dutch coach as “spectacular”. The identical may very well be stated of his aim.

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