Sports - Football - Premier League - Week 2
The second week of the Premier League action saw:
22 goals - most by Man United = 4
254 shots - most by Liverpool = 23
89 on target - most by Liverpool = 13
100 corners - most by Tottenham = 14
227 fouls - most by Chelsea = 21
33 yellow cards - most by Newcastle & Spurs = 4
4 red cards - Marko Arnautovic for West Ham, Hal Robson-Kanu for West Brom, Kyle Walker for Man City, Morgan Schneiderlin for Everton.
2 penalties - 2 scored (Duran Tadic & Charlie Austin for Southampton, see below for more details)
What a game! Referee
Lee Mason was very busy at St Mary's as Southampton ended up on top beating 10-man West Ham 3-2, but the game just had everything! We saw two penalties, a red card, chances galore, the bar hit twice, the Hammers ending up very unhappy conceding all of that whilst being denied a handball appeal against
Jack Stephens. However,
Mark Noble was lucky to escape any further punishment after his dangerous challenge on
Mario Lemina. Hammer boss
Slaven Bilic was surprisingly positive despite all that, no comment on the penalty incident and keeping it inside the dressing room whatever was said about the red card.
Mauricio Pellegrino wants to learn from the difficult win. It ended their nine-hour wait for a Premier League goal at St Mary's ( = 9:15h) with a bang! City and Everton also didn't hold back... More below... ⚽👊😱👊⚽
What a team! Huddersfield, Manchester United and Chelsea all impressed with convincing wins. The newly promoted team are living in dreamland after recording their first home win beating Newcastle 1-0 to make it two out of two wins. Awesome! Meanwhile, the Reds Devils are already being crowned champions after they thrashed the great Swansea 0-4 in Wales. And seeing as their big boss
José Mourinho always wins the title in his second season... So, cancel the next 36 games, we're done... Back to reality: The Blues have never lost a game where they scored first under
Antonio Conte. The feisty Italian ditched the unlucky tracksuit from last weekend's hapless home loss to Burnley and was wearing his trademark dark suit again. And his team got back into gear and winning ways with it, despite Tottenham's utter dominance! And Watford! They were overlooked recording a great 0-2 away win at Bournemouth. And
after frustrating Liverpool to a 3-3 draw last week, I think no one should underestimate
Marco Silva's side! Well organised, well deserved! 👏👊⚽👊👍
What a man! It's now eight goals in 33 Premier League appearances for Chelsea's
Marcos Alonso following his double against Tottenham. Not bad for a wing-back. Sub
Hal Robson-Kanu went from hero to zero for West Brom, scoring the winner and then being sent off 71' and 83' respectively. It was a brilliant low right-footed strike that brightened up an otherwise dull match - it was the only shot on target! But
Tony Pulis won't be too hard on the 28-year-old Wales forward, thanks to him, they recorded back-to-back wins at the start of the season for the first time since
1978! Joining the super-duper-early title race? Liverpool debutant left-back
Andrew Robertson deserves a mention as well after a great performance, creating a lot and combining well with
Sadio Mané when the striker scored the winner for the Reds. The former Hull man fully deserved the MOTM award! Keep your eyes on this one! ⚽👏👀👍⚽
What a goal! Alonso's first, the free kick curl through the wall into the right corner of the net was gobsmacking! It silenced Wembley as Chelsea took the lead against the run of play, shocking Tottenham. The opener for Huddersfield was lovely, too. The build-up into the box and shot by number 10 Aussie
Aaron Mooy was just beautiful! It made John Smith's just that much noisier! If it wasn't loud enough already! Huddersfield for the league?! Definitely in the race with United atm! 👊👌😂👍👊
Talking about the devils, former Red Devil
Wayne Rooney made it two in two for Everton scoring his 200th goal, totally against the run of play at Man City, where he also scored his 50th and 150th. He likes them! 😝😜😉😜😝 What a comeback it has been for the Evertonian! But
Raheem Sterling's smacking equaliser made sure Man City fought out a point after a frustrating clash at home against the Toffees which saw
Kyle Walker sent off and loads of chances missed and wasted.
Morgan Schneiderlin was sent off late on, too, to add to all the action and drama, but
Ronald Koeman can definitely be more confident and satisfied than
Pep Guardiola after that away display, frustrating the hell out of the home side. Nice one. 👊👏⚽👍👊
What the hell?! Oh Arsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal...
Arsène Wenger was not a happy man after being denied a penalty when
Héctor Bellerín fell under a clumsy challenge by
Mame Biram Diouf and
Alexandre Lacazette's rifled-in equaliser was disallowed for offside. They were both 50%-50% decisions, but not refereeing howlers like I have bemoaned often enough in my weekly blog! The Frenchman needs to wake up! Stoke capitalised where his side just fell to pieces and just watched. They seem to be his bogey team having lost just once in their past eight home Premier League games against the Gunners, winning four, drawing three. Oh putain! 💩🙈😝🙈💩
On a completely separate note: Where has the players' discipline gone?! Or have the referees upped their game for more control? Seven red cards in the first two weeks! Last season it took till
week eight to reach that total, two months rather than two weeks! WTF?! ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
My Predictions - Actual Results
Swansea 1:4 Man United -
0:4
Bournemouth 2:2 Watford -
0:2
Burnley 1:1 West Brom -
0:1
Leicester 2:1 Brighton -
2:0
Liverpool 2:2 Crystal Palace -
1:0
Southampton 1:2 West Ham -
3:2
Stoke City 1:1 Arsenal -
1:0
Huddersfield 3:3 Newcastle -
1:0
Tottenham 1:1 Chelsea -
1:2
Man City 3:1 Everton -
1:1
All pictures, facts and stats were taken from the
BBC match reports, MOTD, Twitter and SFR coverage.
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