Live Score Babak Pertama Fulham Vs Man Utd Liga Inggris Pekan 26, Pogba dan Martial Bawa The Red Devils Unggul
TRIBUNNEWS.COM - Pertandingan pembuka pekan ke-26 Liga Inggris antara Fulham Vs Man Utd berlangsung di Stadion Craven Cottage, Minggu (9/2/2019).
Babak pertama laga Fulham Vs Man Utd usai dengan skor 2-0.
Manchetr United unggul melalui gol yang dicetak Paul Pogba (14') dan Anthony Martial (23).
Tim tuan rumah mendapatkan peluang di awal babak pertama setelah memanfaatkan serangan balik.
Namun tendangan Aleksandar Mitrovic masih melebar di sisi gawang De Gea.
Tak butuh waktu lama bagi tim tamu untuk buka keunggulan.
Pada menit ke-14 Manchester United unggul dari gol yang dicetak Paul Pogba.
Pogba sukses menceploskan bola ke gawang Sergio Rico setelah mendapat umpan dari Anthony Martial.
Bola.com, Manchester - Manchester United akan menghadapi Fulham pada lanjutan pekan ke-26 Premier League 2018-2019, di Stadion Craven Cottage, London, Sabtu (9/2/2019). The Red Devils berusaha melanjutkan tren positif.
Semenjak ditangani Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Manchester United belum pernah menelan kekalahan. Dari 10 laga di berbagai ajang, sembilan di antara berujung kemenangan.
Performa impresif Manchester United berujung hasil individu bergengsi. Solskjaer terpilih sebagai manajer terbaik Premier League pada Januari 2019, dan striker Marcus Rashford sebagai pemain terbaiknya.
Manchester United berpeluang besar menduduki peringkat tertinggi mereka pada musim ini. Jika mampu mengalahkan Fulham dan pada laga lain Chelsea takluk, Manchester United berhak masuk ke posisi empat besar.
"Masuk empat besar merupakan satu di antara beberapa target kami. Jika mampu, kami akan bertahan di sana dan bisa semakin meningkat," kata Solskjaer.
"Apa yang terjadi selama dua bulan terakhir sungguh luar biasa. Sekarang bagaimana mempertahankan konsistensi dan terus berkembang," lanjut Solskjaer.
Kesempatan Manchester United mengalahkan Fulham cukup besar. Sang lawan merupakan penghuni zona degradasi yang berada di peringkat ke-19.
"Kami tahu di mana posisi kami. Kami tahu ini sangat berat dan sekarang butuh para pemain yang mau berjuang hingga akhir musim ini," ujar manajer Fulham, Claudio Ranieri.
"Kami siap untuk berjuang. Saya harus memotivasi mereka dan memberikan hal positif. Namun, sangat menguntungkan bermain di kandang," tambah Ranieri.
Pada musim ini, Manchester United sudah berjumpa Fulham pada pertemuan di Old Trafford, 8 Desember 2018. Saat itu, Setan Merah menang 4-1 atas The Cottagers.
Fulham : Sergio Rico; Cyrus Christie, Denis Odoi, Maxime Le Marchand, Joe Bryan; Calum Chambers, Jean Michael Seri; Tom Cairney, Luciano Vietto, Ryan Babel; Aleksandar Mitrovic
Manchester United : David de Gea; Diogo Dalot, Eric Bailly, Victor Lindelof, Luke Shaw; Paul Pogba, Nemanja Matic, Ander Herrera; Jesse Lingard, Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial
TEMPO.CO , Jakarta - Manchester United akan berlaga di kandang Fulham dalam lanjutan Liga Inggris, Sabtu malam, 9 Februari 2019. Pertandingan akan berlangsung mulai 19.30 WIB. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer dan Manchester United tengah di atas angin. Dari sepuluh laga yang sudah dimainkan, sembilan di antaranya mereka sikat dengan kemenangan. Hanya satu yang berakhir seri, yakni saat ditahan Burnley 2-2. Baa: Jadwal Bola Sabtu Malam Ini: MU, Liverpool, Inter, Derby Madrid Tak mengherankan bila pelatih yang juga bekas pemain Manchester United itu disembur pujian dari segala penjuru. Tak terkecuali dari pelatih klub yang mereka taklukkan. “Di tangan Solskjaer, United menjadi klub yang baru,” kata Unai Emery, pelatih Arsenal, yang dibantai 1-3 dalam laga babak keempat Piala FA.
Pujian serupa pun keluar dari mulut pelatih calon lawan mereka nanti malam, Fulham. Tak hanya memuji, Claudio Ranieri mendukung penuh bila Solskjaer diangkat menjadi manajer tetap. “Dia pantas mendapatkan itu,” ujar bekas pelatih Leicester itu. “Dia telah menunjukkan pemain dengan sikapnya. Mentalitas pemain United pun berubah.” Namun, di balik itu, Ranieri mengingatkan klub berjuluk Setan Merah itu, bahwa suatu saat mereka juga akan kalah. “Cepat atau lambat, mereka akan mengalami kekalahan,” ujarnya. “Kenapa bukan dengan kami?” Selanjutnya: Kehebatan MU menurut Ranieri
Jakarta - Manchester United akan bertandang ke markas Fulham dalam lanjutan Premier League. Duel tersebut berlangsung di Craven Cottage, Sabtu (9/2/2019) malam WIB. MU saat ini duduk di posisi kelima dengan 48 poin dari 25 laga. Setan Merah cuma tertinggal dua poin dari Chelsea yang ada di posisi keempat. Jika bisa mengalahkan Fulham, MU bakal mengambil alih posisi The Blues, yang baru akan main esok harinya melawan Manchester City.
Kemenangan sangat mungkin di dapat MU jika melihat tren di bawah asuhan Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. The Red Devils sejauh ini belum kalah di 10 pertandingan dengan memetik sembilan kemenangan dan satu imbang. Peluang itu semakin membesar melihat performa Fulham yang sedang merosot. Dari lima laga terakhir di liga, Fulham cuma memetik satu kemenangan dan empat kekalahan. Hasil itu membuat tim besutan Claudio Ranieri tersungkur di posisi ke-19 dengan 17. Selepas laga Fulham melawan MU, ada duel antara Huddersfield Town vs Arsenal. MU bisa melorot posisinya jika kalah dari Fulham dan Arsenal menang. Berikut jadwal lengkap Liga Inggris malam ini: Sabtu (9/2/2019) 19.30 WIB - Fulham vs Manchester United 22.00 WIB - Crystal Palace vs West Ham United 22.00 WIB - Huddersfield Town vs Arsenal 22.00 WIB - Liverpool vs Bournemouth (beIN Sports 1) 22.00 WIB - Southampton vs Cardiff City 22.00 WIB - Watford vs Everton Minggu (10/2/2019) 00.30 WIB - Brighton vs Burnley
Saksikan siaran langsung dan live streaming Fulham vs Manchester United (Man United) di Liga Inggris pekan 26 malam ini, Sabtu (9/2/2019).
Laga Fulham vs Manchester United (Man United) tidak disiarkan langsung (live) RCTI atau MNCTV, namun laga Fulham vs Manchester United (Man United) akan disiarkan langsung beIN Sports 1.
Live Streaming Fulham vs Manchester United (Man United) juga dapat ditonton via beinsports.com (berbayar) atau vidio.com premier.
Live streaming Fulham vs Manchester United (Man United) juga bisa ditonton via aplikasi Maxstream, kemudian memilih channel Bein Sports.
Fulham vs Manchester United (Man United) live Bein Sports 1 digelar di Stadion Craven Cottage pukul 19.30 WIB.
Pertandingan melawan Fulham akan menjadi penguji rekor pelatih interim Manchester United, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Solskjaer belum terkalahkan di Liga Inggris sejak menangani Manchester United pada akhir tahun lalu.
Ia sudah mampu meraih tujuh kemenangan dan satu hasil imbang di Liga Inggris.
Selain laga Fulham vs Manchester United , ada juga pertandingan Liverpool vs Bournemouth.
Cara Live Streaming Liga Inggris Malam Ini: Fulham Vs Man United, Man City Vs Chelsea Live RCTI
TRIBUNNEWS.COM - Cara Live Streaming Liga Inggris pekan ke 26 yang akan di mulai pada malam ini.
Pertandingan pembuka yakni Fulham vs Manchester United (Man United) yang disiarkan secara langsung malam ini pukul 19.30 WIB.
Laga Fulham vs Man United ini akan disiarkan secara secara langsung oleh beIN Sports & MaxStream dari Carven Cottage Stadium.
Sementara laga Big Match pekan ini yakni Man City vs Chelsea yang akan di siarkan langsung oleh beIN Sports, MaxStream & RCTI pada Minggu (10/2/2019) esok hari.
Pertandingan Man City vs Chelsea akan disiarkan secara langsung oleh beIN Sports dari City of Manchester Stadium.
Laga Man City vs Chelsea ini akan di siarkan secara langsung pada Minggu (10/2/2019) pukul 22.55 WIB.
Baca: Cara Live Streaming Atletico Madrid vs Real Madrid Liga Spanyol Pekan 23, Live SCTV Malam Ini
Berhadapan dengan Fulham, Man United pun bersiap menyusul skuat Chelsea.
Man United yang saat ini berada di peringkat ke 5 hanya terpaut 2 poin dengan Chelsea.
Skuat asuhan Ole Gunnar Solskjaer mampu tampil apik setelah hanya mengalahkan Cardiff City dengan skor 1-0.
TRIBUNWOW.COM - Manchester United akan bertandang ke markas Fulham dalam laga lanjutan Liga Inggris pekan ke-26.
Pertandingan ini akan digelar di Stadion Craven Cottage, London, Sabtu (9/2/2019) pukul 19.30 WIB.
Diketahui saat ini The Red Devils berada di posisi kelima klasemen sementara Liga Inggris dengan torehan 48 poin.
Mereka berhasil menggeser Arsenal yang sebelumnya di posisi kelima setelah The Gunners menelan kekalahan dari Manchester City.
• Jelang Lawan Persib Bandung, Manajer Persiwa Dapat Pesan dari Bobotoh yang Membuatnya Termotivasi
Sementara itu, The Cottagers kini berada di zona degradasi, posisi ke-19 klasemen sementara Liga Inggris .
Laga Fulham kontra Manchester United ini rencananya akan disiarkan langsung oleh beIN Sports.
Pertandingan ini juga dapat disaksikan lewat aplikasi video portal milik Telkomsel, MAXstream yang bekerjasama dengan beIN Sports.
Aplikasi MAXstream bisa diunduh melalui Google Play Store dan Apple App Store di tautan berikut:
Link untuk download MAXstream di Google Play Store
* MU tak terkalahkan dalam sepuluh laga terakhirnya di semua kompetisi (M9 S1 K0).
* MU selalu menang dalam empat laga tandang terakhirnya di Liga Inggris: 5-1 vs Cardiff, 2-0 vs Newcastle, 1-0 vs Tottenham, 1-0 vs Leicester.
* MU selalu clean sheet dalam tiga laga tandang terakhirnya di Liga Inggris.
* Marcus Rashford menyumbang enam gol dan satu assist dalam sepuluh penampilan terakhirnya untuk MU di semua kompetisi.
* Gol terbanyak untuk MU di Liga Inggris 2018/19 sejauh ini: Marcus Rashford, Paul Pogba (masing-masing 9).
* MU Assist terbanyak untuk MU di Liga Inggris 2018/19 sejauh ini: Paul Pogba (8).
Sumber: Bola.net
Manchester United moved into the Premier League's top four by beating Fulham 3-0 at Craven Cottage on Saturday, with Paul Pogba scoring two more goals to continue his resurgence under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Pogba gave United the lead with a blistering shot from a tight angle in the 14th minute and converted a penalty for the third goal in the 65th, taking his tally to eight goals in his last eight league games under Solskjaer. The Norwegian manager has now steered the club to eight wins in nine league games since taking over from the fired Jose Mourinho in December. United were 11 points from fourth place at the time, but suddenly looks like a real contender for a Champions League spot.
Anthony Martial also scored for United, who moved provisionally into fourth, one point above Chelsea ahead of the London team's trip to Manchester City on Sunday, while relegation-threatened Fulham remained 19th.
Solksjaer took a bit of a risk by making six changes to his team for this game, with one eye on Tuesday's Champions League home game against Paris Saint-Germain, and Fulham looked like they would cause the visitors plenty of problems when it created two good early chances.
Claudio Ranieri has told his Fulham players their battle against relegation will not be settled against Manchester United and they therefore cannot rely on one result lifting their troubled season.
Of Fulham's coming seven fixtures, three are away from Craven Cottage - they are yet to record an away league victory this season - and the other four against United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Manchester City.
By the end of that run survival could be beyond Fulham's reach, with the club already seven points adrift of safety, but Ranieri is adamant they have to retain their belief if they are to have any hope of succeeding.
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Given the difficulty of that run the Cottagers had been relying on victory last weekend at Crystal Palace, when they again lost, yet while that result appeared defining their manager knows it is a succession of results they require.
It was an unexpected victory at Manchester City that gave Fulham the belief to survive when they were struggling under Roy Hodgson in 2008, but perhaps acknowledging their present circumstances are considerably bleaker, Ranieri said: "We don't need one match to change the mood. We need more matches to change the mood.
Shape Created with Sketch. Miguel Delaney ranks all the Premier League champions Show all 27 left Created with Sketch. right Created with Sketch. Shape Created with Sketch. Miguel Delaney ranks all the Premier League champions 1/27 Who are the greatest Premier League champions? The Independent's Chief Football Writer Miguel Delaney runs through his list of greatest Premier League winning sides. Getty 2/27 26. Blackburn Rovers 1994-95 Points per game: 2.12 Other trophies: none Another win that is memorable for the events that led to it and the unique identity of the winners, rather than what they did. That an Alan Shearer-powered Blackburn Rovers lost on the last day but still won the league said a lot about their quality, but also about how dramatic this campaign was. Getty 3/27 25. Manchester United 2000-01 Points per game: 2.11 Other trophies: none Still too good for England, but the signs were there that United’s treble team were no longer as good as they had been, in what was maybe Ferguson’s most forgettable title win. Getty 4/27 24. Manchester United 1992-93 Points per game: 2 Other trophies: none United’s first in 26 years, as illustrated by just how many moments of doubt they suffered before pretty much learning how to win the league on the job. This was really United’s most emotional wins, rather than their most impressive. Getty 5/27 23. Manchester United 1996-97 Points per game: 1.97 Other trophies: none The Class of 92 were coming into their own, but still not quite the top-class group they would become. It just wasn’t a very high-class season, as the challengers - and retiring Eric Cantona - all faded. Getty 6/27 22. Leicester City 2015-16 Points per game: 2.13 Other trophies: none One of football’s great stories and achievements, and a genuinely fine team when fully functioning, but that doesn’t necessarily make them close to the greatest champions. It still feels like they needed a thousand things to fall into place at exactly the same time, in a way other title-winners would not have. Getty 7/27 21. Manchester United 2012-13 Points per game: 2.34 Other trophies: none Ferguson’s final statement, as he expressly signed the free-scoring Robin van Persie to win the title. Getty 8/27 20. Manchester United 2010-11 Points per game: 2.1 Other trophies: none One of those campaigns when Ferguson had so clearly perfected the rhythm of winning titles. This was far from a brilliant United side in what was a generally underwhelming Premier League campaign, but it was one still able to reach the Champions League final too. Getty 9/27 19. Manchester United 1999-2000 Points per game: 2.4 Other trophies: none United’s 1999 Champions League win had put them onto another level, and well above the rest of the Premier League, but this was almost like Chelsea 2005-06 in that it all felt too easy to really push the side to their best. Getty 10/27 18. Manchester United 2002-03 Points per game: 2.18 Other trophies: none United’s grittiest title win of the Premier League era, as they really ground it out with Arsenal, at the height of the Ferguson-Wenger rivalry. Getty 11/27 17. Manchester City 2013-14 Points per game: 2.34 Other trophies: League Cup So often supreme to watch, and maybe played the best football that season, but the way that Liverpool collapsed and Chelsea lost a lead fosters the feeling that they didn’t quite drive to the title in the way the 2011-12 team did. Getty 12/27 16. Manchester United 1995-96 Points per game: 2.16 Other trophies: FA Cup The most famous run-in, and the most entertaining, as Eric Cantona, Peter Schmeichel and Roy Keane helped a group of kids magnificently mature over the course of a double campaign. The oddity was that, as defining as this season became, it was arguably a team between eras. Getty 13/27 15. Chelsea 2014-15 Points per game: 2.37 Other trophies: League Cup Never budged in the table, but only because were forced to budge in approach, remarkably going from a brilliant open side to a very closed one. There was a slight element of crawling over the line, and signs of what was to come. Getty 14/27 14. Manchester United 1993-94 Points per game: 2.19 Other trophies: FA Cup Ferguson’s most muscular United, as perfectly displayed by how they were the only side other than Chelsea 2014-15 to never move from top spot once in the season. Getty 15/27 13. Chelsea 2005-06 Points per game: 2.4 Other trophies: none A team whose very strength actually maybe took a little off their edge, certainly in terms of perception. Mourinho’s first Chelsea were by that point so much better than everyone else that it made the race a foregone conclusion, but maybe dulled them for both the foregone conclusion of the run-in and the cups. Getty 16/27 12. Manchester United 2006-07 Points per game: 2.34 Other trophies: none Maybe Ferguson’s most thrilling attacking team, and the one that heralded his return to the very top. United were facing one of the most physically intimidating and domineering champions ever in Chelsea, so to best them with such exuberant football was all the more impressive. Getty 17/27 11. Manchester City 2011-12 Points per game: 2.34 Other trophies: none So nearly threw it away on more than one occasion, but that only made their eventual win all the more impressive, and famously spectacular. Their points haul is also hugely creditable for first-time champions, not least for how it saw them hold off all the title experience of a Ferguson United. Getty 18/27 10. Chelsea 2016-17 Points per game: 2.44 Other trophies: FA Cup final This was hyped as one of the most competitive Premier Leagues ever given it had its finest ever collection of managers so, whatever about the debate regarding the lack of European football, it reflects very well on this Chelsea that they have ultimately won it so easily and so early. That cannot be talked around that easily. Getty 19/27 9. Chelsea 2009-10 Points per game: 2.26 Other trophies: FA Cup The top-scoring team in Premier League history, who roared to a double with so many rampant, but the only lingering question is whether they quite had top opposition. United had not signed well after the departures of Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez, while Liverpool fell apart. Getty 20/27 8. Arsenal 1997-98 Points per game: 2.05 Other trophies: FA Cup One of the great title comebacks, from one of the great football revolutions. Wenger’s transformation of Arsenal’s old guard saw them go into overdrive towards the end of the season and win 10 in a row, including a double. Getty 21/27 7. Arsenal 2001-02 Points per game: 2.29 Other trophies: FA Cup A beautifully balanced team, and one that went on a brutally devastating run to sweep all competition away. These were the double-winners that claimed 13 league wins in a row and made it 14 the following season, while also clinching the title away to Manchester United and providing Arsene Wenger with the psychological seed for the Invincible season. Getty 22/27 6. Manchester United 2008-09 Points per game: 2.37 Other trophies: League Cup Not quite as commanding as the previous season, as illustrated by how they just fell in the Champions League final and also recorded fewer points in a more stuttering campaign, but showed immense reserve to respond to Liverpool’s surge by claiming seven runs in a row in the run-in to also win the title. Getty 23/27 5. Arsenal 2003-04 Points per game: 2.37 Other trophies: none An utterly divine side, and Arsenal’s greatest… but also one responsible for one of football’s great ironies. Arsene Wenger’s best team famously and supremely went unbeaten in the domestic league season, only to then lose the biggest game of all - the Champions League quarter-final - to a team a few miles away in Chelsea. Getty 24/27 4. Manchester United 1998-99 Points per game: 2.08 Other trophies: Champions League, FA Cup Perhaps the most entertaining champions of all, but that is oddly the only reason they are not top of this list, despite topping the three major competitions that season - including the continent. They were not necessarily the best Premier League champions, but the most resilient; the most resolute. Unlike United 2007-08 or Chelsea 2004-05, this United were a team oddly easy to get at, but that weakness made them great and made them entertaining because of how many spectacular comebacks it brought. Their return of 79 points is actually surprisingly low, but was just something else they overcame to reach the ultimate heights. Getty 25/27 3. Chelsea 2004-05 Points per game: 2.5 Other trophies: League Cup They weren’t quite invincible, but they often felt untouchable. Whatever about all the debate about Jose Mourinho now, there could be no debate about the overwhelming quality of his first Premier League champions. This Chelsea recorded the highest ever points-per-game record in English history, and simply never looked like they were going to be caught. So many games were so well controlled, as was the destination of the trophy. Getty 26/27 2. Manchester City 2017-18 Points per game: 2.63 Other trophies: League Cup A record-breaking season that saw City reach new magisterial heights under the genius of Pep Guardiola. After struggling to adapt during the Catalan's first season in charge, Guardiola's ideas finally came to fruition in the 2017/18 season in which City blew their rivals out of the water, ending the campaign on 100 points - 19 ahead of second-placed United. Utterly dominant and supreme, from start to finish, City were an expression of near perfection. Getty 27/27 1. Manchester United 2007-08 Points per game: 2.29 Other trophies: Champions League With one of the finest defences England has ever seen, with Cristiano Ronaldo reaching another level, and with the way the Chelsea team they held off were also beaten in the Champions League final, this was probably Sir Alex Ferguson’s most complete United side. They was thereby probably the Premier League’s most complete champions too. Getty 1/27 Who are the greatest Premier League champions? The Independent's Chief Football Writer Miguel Delaney runs through his list of greatest Premier League winning sides. Getty 2/27 26. Blackburn Rovers 1994-95 Points per game: 2.12 Other trophies: none Another win that is memorable for the events that led to it and the unique identity of the winners, rather than what they did. That an Alan Shearer-powered Blackburn Rovers lost on the last day but still won the league said a lot about their quality, but also about how dramatic this campaign was. Getty 3/27 25. Manchester United 2000-01 Points per game: 2.11 Other trophies: none Still too good for England, but the signs were there that United’s treble team were no longer as good as they had been, in what was maybe Ferguson’s most forgettable title win. Getty 4/27 24. Manchester United 1992-93 Points per game: 2 Other trophies: none United’s first in 26 years, as illustrated by just how many moments of doubt they suffered before pretty much learning how to win the league on the job. This was really United’s most emotional wins, rather than their most impressive. Getty 5/27 23. Manchester United 1996-97 Points per game: 1.97 Other trophies: none The Class of 92 were coming into their own, but still not quite the top-class group they would become. It just wasn’t a very high-class season, as the challengers - and retiring Eric Cantona - all faded. Getty 6/27 22. Leicester City 2015-16 Points per game: 2.13 Other trophies: none One of football’s great stories and achievements, and a genuinely fine team when fully functioning, but that doesn’t necessarily make them close to the greatest champions. It still feels like they needed a thousand things to fall into place at exactly the same time, in a way other title-winners would not have. Getty 7/27 21. Manchester United 2012-13 Points per game: 2.34 Other trophies: none Ferguson’s final statement, as he expressly signed the free-scoring Robin van Persie to win the title. Getty 8/27 20. Manchester United 2010-11 Points per game: 2.1 Other trophies: none One of those campaigns when Ferguson had so clearly perfected the rhythm of winning titles. This was far from a brilliant United side in what was a generally underwhelming Premier League campaign, but it was one still able to reach the Champions League final too. Getty 9/27 19. Manchester United 1999-2000 Points per game: 2.4 Other trophies: none United’s 1999 Champions League win had put them onto another level, and well above the rest of the Premier League, but this was almost like Chelsea 2005-06 in that it all felt too easy to really push the side to their best. Getty 10/27 18. Manchester United 2002-03 Points per game: 2.18 Other trophies: none United’s grittiest title win of the Premier League era, as they really ground it out with Arsenal, at the height of the Ferguson-Wenger rivalry. Getty 11/27 17. Manchester City 2013-14 Points per game: 2.34 Other trophies: League Cup So often supreme to watch, and maybe played the best football that season, but the way that Liverpool collapsed and Chelsea lost a lead fosters the feeling that they didn’t quite drive to the title in the way the 2011-12 team did. Getty 12/27 16. Manchester United 1995-96 Points per game: 2.16 Other trophies: FA Cup The most famous run-in, and the most entertaining, as Eric Cantona, Peter Schmeichel and Roy Keane helped a group of kids magnificently mature over the course of a double campaign. The oddity was that, as defining as this season became, it was arguably a team between eras. Getty 13/27 15. Chelsea 2014-15 Points per game: 2.37 Other trophies: League Cup Never budged in the table, but only because were forced to budge in approach, remarkably going from a brilliant open side to a very closed one. There was a slight element of crawling over the line, and signs of what was to come. Getty 14/27 14. Manchester United 1993-94 Points per game: 2.19 Other trophies: FA Cup Ferguson’s most muscular United, as perfectly displayed by how they were the only side other than Chelsea 2014-15 to never move from top spot once in the season. Getty 15/27 13. Chelsea 2005-06 Points per game: 2.4 Other trophies: none A team whose very strength actually maybe took a little off their edge, certainly in terms of perception. Mourinho’s first Chelsea were by that point so much better than everyone else that it made the race a foregone conclusion, but maybe dulled them for both the foregone conclusion of the run-in and the cups. Getty 16/27 12. Manchester United 2006-07 Points per game: 2.34 Other trophies: none Maybe Ferguson’s most thrilling attacking team, and the one that heralded his return to the very top. United were facing one of the most physically intimidating and domineering champions ever in Chelsea, so to best them with such exuberant football was all the more impressive. Getty 17/27 11. Manchester City 2011-12 Points per game: 2.34 Other trophies: none So nearly threw it away on more than one occasion, but that only made their eventual win all the more impressive, and famously spectacular. Their points haul is also hugely creditable for first-time champions, not least for how it saw them hold off all the title experience of a Ferguson United. Getty 18/27 10. Chelsea 2016-17 Points per game: 2.44 Other trophies: FA Cup final This was hyped as one of the most competitive Premier Leagues ever given it had its finest ever collection of managers so, whatever about the debate regarding the lack of European football, it reflects very well on this Chelsea that they have ultimately won it so easily and so early. That cannot be talked around that easily. Getty 19/27 9. Chelsea 2009-10 Points per game: 2.26 Other trophies: FA Cup The top-scoring team in Premier League history, who roared to a double with so many rampant, but the only lingering question is whether they quite had top opposition. United had not signed well after the departures of Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez, while Liverpool fell apart. Getty 20/27 8. Arsenal 1997-98 Points per game: 2.05 Other trophies: FA Cup One of the great title comebacks, from one of the great football revolutions. Wenger’s transformation of Arsenal’s old guard saw them go into overdrive towards the end of the season and win 10 in a row, including a double. Getty 21/27 7. Arsenal 2001-02 Points per game: 2.29 Other trophies: FA Cup A beautifully balanced team, and one that went on a brutally devastating run to sweep all competition away. These were the double-winners that claimed 13 league wins in a row and made it 14 the following season, while also clinching the title away to Manchester United and providing Arsene Wenger with the psychological seed for the Invincible season. Getty 22/27 6. Manchester United 2008-09 Points per game: 2.37 Other trophies: League Cup Not quite as commanding as the previous season, as illustrated by how they just fell in the Champions League final and also recorded fewer points in a more stuttering campaign, but showed immense reserve to respond to Liverpool’s surge by claiming seven runs in a row in the run-in to also win the title. Getty 23/27 5. Arsenal 2003-04 Points per game: 2.37 Other trophies: none An utterly divine side, and Arsenal’s greatest… but also one responsible for one of football’s great ironies. Arsene Wenger’s best team famously and supremely went unbeaten in the domestic league season, only to then lose the biggest game of all - the Champions League quarter-final - to a team a few miles away in Chelsea. Getty 24/27 4. Manchester United 1998-99 Points per game: 2.08 Other trophies: Champions League, FA Cup Perhaps the most entertaining champions of all, but that is oddly the only reason they are not top of this list, despite topping the three major competitions that season - including the continent. They were not necessarily the best Premier League champions, but the most resilient; the most resolute. Unlike United 2007-08 or Chelsea 2004-05, this United were a team oddly easy to get at, but that weakness made them great and made them entertaining because of how many spectacular comebacks it brought. Their return of 79 points is actually surprisingly low, but was just something else they overcame to reach the ultimate heights. Getty 25/27 3. Chelsea 2004-05 Points per game: 2.5 Other trophies: League Cup They weren’t quite invincible, but they often felt untouchable. Whatever about all the debate about Jose Mourinho now, there could be no debate about the overwhelming quality of his first Premier League champions. This Chelsea recorded the highest ever points-per-game record in English history, and simply never looked like they were going to be caught. So many games were so well controlled, as was the destination of the trophy. Getty 26/27 2. Manchester City 2017-18 Points per game: 2.63 Other trophies: League Cup A record-breaking season that saw City reach new magisterial heights under the genius of Pep Guardiola. After struggling to adapt during the Catalan's first season in charge, Guardiola's ideas finally came to fruition in the 2017/18 season in which City blew their rivals out of the water, ending the campaign on 100 points - 19 ahead of second-placed United. Utterly dominant and supreme, from start to finish, City were an expression of near perfection. Getty 27/27 1. Manchester United 2007-08 Points per game: 2.29 Other trophies: Champions League With one of the finest defences England has ever seen, with Cristiano Ronaldo reaching another level, and with the way the Chelsea team they held off were also beaten in the Champions League final, this was probably Sir Alex Ferguson’s most complete United side. They was thereby probably the Premier League’s most complete champions too. Getty
"Of course, if there's a good result against United, the mood could be changed, but you have to see the next match.
"The inspiration I have is that if you continue to fight, you maybe have one opportunity to be safe.
It's not sure. But if you don't fight, you don't have that last opportunity. It's important to fight. After, if they're better than you, it's a pity, and we restart next season.
"It's contagious. Together it's easier. If you see the team, you don't see a team that's not involved in the relegation fight. No, we are fighting, but we lose some matches. Not because we don't fight; because the little details are against us."
Teenager Ryan Sessegnon has been among Fulham's most consistent performers when he has been selected, but under Ranieri he has become increasingly peripheral.
Last month's arrivals of Ryan Babel and Lazar Markovic have provided the 18-year-old with further competition for selection, and the Italian questions whether Sessegnon has the experience and physical maturity to play every week.
"He is a lad," said Ranieri, who at Chelsea oversaw John Terry's development into a first-team player. "It's his first time in the Premier League and sometimes it's not possible to stay every time at the top of your condition.
"(But) now he is getting better and then he can play on Saturday. For me he is a very good player."
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