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Delap’s talents resurface in style, Gómez delights Brighton with more fireworks, and hair-pulling confusion at EvertonIt would have been very easy for Oliver Glasner to lose patience with Liam Delap. The forward is still only 23, yet the days when he was rattling in 12 in a Premier League season for Ipswich have come to seem a very long time ago (and his six games for Manchester City even longer). A season at Chelsea had left him bereft of confidence, an odd mix of diffidence and over-aggression, devoid of composure in the box, arms flailing like a broken windmill. But the old gifts have not left him. Both goals on Saturday were the result of great muscular surges and if the first finish seemed essentially about hitting the ball as hard as possible on target, the second was a precise – and still powerful – finish in off the far post. After games like this it’s possible to imagine him as England’s long-term replacement for Harry Kane. Jonathan WilsonMatch report: Nottingham Forest 3-1 Manchester CityMatch report: Manchester United 4-4 Aston VillaMatch report: Brighton 2-0 BrentfordMatch report: Arsenal 1-0 HullMatch report: Sunderland 1-0 ChelseaMatch report: Leeds 1-0 Tottenham Continue reading...

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