Liverpool maintain their perfect start to the season
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| Roberto Firmino on the score sheet against Tottenham |
Liverpool maintain their perfect start to the season with their fifth win in five Premier League matches so far thanks to a 2-1 victory over Tottenham at Wembley.
Liverpool's goals were scored by Georginio Wijnaldum and Roberto Firmino and Tottenham had a late consolation goal through Erik Lamela. Liverpool remain top of the league with 15 points while Tottenham have 9 points from five matches.
The fixtures between Tottenham and Liverpool has seen the highest goals scored in Premier League history- 152 goals.
This is the first time since the final two matches of the 2015/16 season that Tottenham would lose consecutive Premier League games.
This is the third time Liverpool would ever win their opening five matches in Premier League.
This is the first time Georginio Wijnaldum would score his first away goal out of his total 19 Premier League goals coming via his 55th attempted shot away from home.
Roberto Firmino has had a hand directly in 61 Premier League goals with 38 goals and 23 assists under Jurgen Klopp, 16 more than any other Liverpool player.
Tottenham faced up to 10 on target shots in a Premier League home game for the first time since against Manchester City in January 2014.
Christian Eriksen has now provided 50 Premier League assists with his assist for Erik Lamela's goal.
10-man Manchester United put a end to Watford's perfect start to the season with a 2-1 victory at the Vicarage Road. Goals were scored by Romelu Lukaku and Chris Smalling and United now have as many as 9 points this season.
Watford have only won one of their last 14 league matches against Manchester United.
Jose Mourinho has won each of his last four games against Watford, he has won a total of six out of seven, losing only one.
Chris Smalling has won all 11 Premier League games in which he has found the back of the net.
This is the first time since September 2014 that Manchester United would get awarded a red card in consecutive Premier League matches.
Arsenal now with three wins in a row and a total of 9 points thanks to an important 2-1 away win against Newcastle. Granit Xhaka and Mesut Ozil got the goals for Arsenal and Newcastle could only secure a late consolation goal.
This is the first time since May last year that Arsenal have won consecutive away games in the Premier League.
Arsenal have now scored first in every of their last 11 Premier League matches against Newcastle.
This is Newcastle's worst start to a Premier League campaign since 1999/00 with only one point in five games.
This is the first time since 1988/89 season that Arsenal will fail to have a clean sheet in their first five league matches.
Different players have scored all of Arsenal's 10 goals this season which includes own goals.
Granit Xhaka has scored all his four Premier League goals for Arsenal from outside the box. And his goal was the first free kick goal Arsenal would score since April 2017.
Manchester City continue with their top form thanks to a wonderful 3-0 win over Fulham. David Silva, Leroy Sane and Raheem Sterling all got on the score sheet.
Manchester City are yet to lose a Premier League match in their last 34 home matches against newly promoted clubs.
Leroy Sane has scored 6 and assisted 12 in his last 16 league matches at the Etihad Stadium.
Only Sergio Aguero has scored more goals for Manchester City under Pep Guardiola more than Raheem Sterling. Aguero has 68 while Sterling 36.
Eden Hazard was in wonderful form scoring a hat-trick as Chelsea continue their perfect start to the season smashing aside Cardiff at the Stamford bridge, the match ended 4-1 with Willian scoring the last goal.
Chelsea have now won their first five matches of the Premier League season for the fourth time ever more than any other club in the League, their last time being 2010/11.
Cardiff are yet to win any match in their first five games this season, this is happening for the first time since 1921/22 season.
Cardiff manager Neil Warnock is yet to get a win in his last 11 Premier League games, drawing 5 and losing 6. The club is winless in 7 matches in all competitions so far with 3 draws and 4 losses.
Eden Hazard has since his debut in August 2012 been involved in more goals with a total of 115 than any other midfielder in the Premier League, he has scored 74 times and made 41 assists. The Belgian is now the fourth Chelsea player to score more than one hat-trick in the Premier League.
Olivier Giroud provided two assists in this match, this is the third time he would do that in a single Premier League game and the last was against Bournemouth in January 2017.
Barcelona continue to make waves in La Liga thanks to a hard fought victory over Real Sociedad with goals from Luis Suarez and Ousmane Dembele.
Isco however rescued a point for Real Madrid against Athletic Bilbao.
Results in full...
Premier League
Tottenham 1-2 Liverpool
AFC Bournemouth 4-2 Leicester
Chelsea 4-1 Cardiff City
Huddersfield Town 0-1 Crystal Palace
Manchester City 3-0 Fulham
Newcastle 1-2 Arsenal
Watford 1-2 Manchester United
Serie A
Inter 0-1 Parma
Napoli 1-0 Fiorentina
Frosinone 0-5 Sampdoria
LaLiga
Atletico Madrid 1-1 SD Eibar
Real Sociedad 1-2 Barcelona
Valencia 0-0 Real Betis
Athletic Bilbao 1-1 Real Madrid
Bundesliga
Mainz 05 2-1 Augsburg
Bayern Munich 3-1 Bayer Leverkusen
Fortuna Duesseldorf 2-1 Hoffenheim
RB Leipzig 3-2 Hannover 96
Wolfsburg 2-2 Hertha Berlin
Monchengladbach 2-1 Schalke 04
Ligue 1
Caen 2-2 Lyon
Dijon 1-3 Angers
Montpellier 1-1 Strasbourg
Amiens 2-3 Lille
Toulouse 1-1 Monaco
Matches continue today with the following fixtures...
Premier League
Wolverhampton Vs Burnley 1:30pm
Everton Vs West Ham 4:00pm
Serie A
Roma VsChievo Verona 11:30am
Genoa Vs Bologna 2:00pm
Juventus Vs Sassuolo 2:00pm
Udinese Vs Torino 2:00pm
Empoli Vs Lazio 5:00pm
Cagliari Vs Milan 7:30pm
LaLiga
Leganes Vs Villarreal 11:00am
Espanyol Barcelona Vs Levante 3:15pm
Real Valladolid Vs Deportivo Alaves 5:30pm
Sevilla Vs Getafe 7:45pm
Bundesliga
Werder Bremen Vs Nuernberg 2:30pm
Freiburg Vs VfB Stuttgart 5:00pm
Ligue 1
Nantes Vs Stade Reims 2:00pm
Bordeaux Vs Nimes 4:00pm
Marseille Vs Guingamp 8:00pm
That would be all for now, enjoy your day ahead.

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