It was a comfortable ‘3-1’ victory for Manchester City, the projected league winner. Raheem Sterling scored the fastest goal so far in the season to kick-start Manchester City’s return to winning ways in the league. Manchester City remains on top of the league table with a 15 point cushion between them and the rest of the Premier League.
Andy Carroll guided West Ham United to a victory over West Bromwich Albion.
Manchester United started the year with a victory after getting 2 second-half goals to beat Everton.
Ayoze Perez scored the only goal of the match to make it a consecutive defeat for Stoke City while getting his Newcastle United side back to winning.
Liverpool had to restore a goal lead late in ‘additional time’ to beat Burnley.
Crystal Palace came from a goal down in the first half to win by a goal after getting two in the second half.
Swansea City remains bottom of the table after falling at home to Tottenham.
And in the big match of the round, Arsenal got a late goal to avoid a home defeat to Chelsea and keep the 7-point gap between the two sides while dropping Chelsea back to third place in the league standings.
With a game in hand, Tottenham’s Harry Kane remains top scorer in the league with 18 goals.
