Author: Adam Bate

Manchester United moved up to sixth in the Premier League table with a dominant 4-1 win over bottom-club Wolves at Molineux.Although Bruno Fernandes’ opener was cancelled out by Jean-Ricner Bellegarde before the break, second-half goals from Bryan Mbeumo, Mason Mount and a Fernandes penalty took the game away from a hapless Wolves to better reflect United’s superiority. Rob Edwards remains without a point from his four games in charge, with Wolves remaining 13 points from safety, adrift at the foot of the table. Ruben Amorim’s team are into the top six after back-to-back Premier League away wins for the first…

Ruben Amorim robustly defended his decision to continually omit Kobbie Mainoo during a spiky press conference ahead of Manchester United’s game against Wolves on Monday Night Football.Mainoo, 20, is yet to start a Premier League game this season and remained an unused substitute throughout the 1-1 draw with West Ham on Thursday evening. Amorim was asked repeatedly about the player during the press conference at Old Trafford. Asked if he could see there was a risk of Mainoo becoming demoralised after another game in which he was left on the bench, Amorim said: “I see it. I just want to…

Liverpool suffered a ninth defeat in just 12 games in all competitions, as they were beaten 4-1 by PSV Eindhoven at Anfield.Here, Sky Sports’ Adam Bate assesses the key issues hampering Arne Slot’s side at present. Van Dijk’s form is a worry Image: Virgil van Dijk conceded an early penalty in Liverpool’s crushing defeat Virgil van Dijk decided to tackle Wayne Rooney’s criticism from a position of strength after a clean sheet and victory over Real Madrid but three consecutive three-goal defeats have put his form firmly back in the spotlight and he was culpable once more. The difficulty for…

Ange Postecoglou was subjected to chants of ‘you’re being sacked in the morning’ by his own supporters as Nottingham Forest succumbed to a 3-2 home defeat to FC Midtjylland on their European return.In front of an expectant crowd of 29,323, there were also chants for Nuno Espirito Santo, the man Postecoglou replaced as Forest boss six winless games ago. The Midlands club face Newcastle away from home live on Sky Sports this Sunday. After being undone by the Danish side at the City Ground, Postecoglou might not have many more chances to get that first win if the Forest fans’…

There was only two players who scored three hat-tricks in a major European league last season. One was Harry Kane. The other was neither Erling Haaland nor Kylian Mbappe. It was Croydon-born former Arsenal striker Mika Biereth for Monaco.He achieved the feat within the first seven games of his Ligue 1 career following a January move from Austrian club Sturm Graz. One year prior to that, Biereth had made his big breakthrough in senior football while on loan in Scotland with Motherwell. “It is fantastic what he is doing,” Stuart Kettlewell tells Sky Sports. Kettlewell, now in charge at Kilmarnock,…