Manchester United and Manchester City Head the EPL Table After 4 Rounds

Association football—English EPL

Andre Ayew of West Ham United and Aaron Mooy of Huddersfield Town battle for the ball during the Premier League match between West Ham United and Huddersfield Town at London Stadium on Sept 11, 2017 in London, England. Clive Rose/Getty Images

The fourth round of the English Premier League season got underway with Saturday’s early kick off between Manchester City and Liverpool at Etihad Stadium, with both sides looking to add to both their 2 wins and a draw from the start of the season at the other’s expense. After taking a 24^th minute lead through Sergio Aguerro, Manchester City were looking to confirm their ascendancy when Liverpool’s Sadio Mane was red carded for a high challenge on City goalkeeper Ederson, which necessitated an eight minute stoppage for treatment before being sent to hospital for tests. City added a second through Gabriel Jesus before the break, and he made it a brace early in the second half, and then substitute Leroy Sane added his own brace late on for a 5-nil victory. Fortunately, Ederson returned to watch the later stages of the game, with only minor damage apparent.

In later games, Arsenal hosted Bournemouth, with both looking to get their respective season’s back on track, the former after 2 consecutive defeats, the latter after opening with 3 defeats, and Arsenal ended comfortable 3-nil victors with two goals from Danny Wellbeck and one from Alexandre Lacazette, Brighton were 3-1 winners against West Bromwich Albion at the Amex Stadium, with Brighton’s first Premier League goals being supplied by a brace from Pascal Gross, and the other by Tomer Hemed, with James Morrison providing Albion’s reply, Everton continued their run of top 6 opponents with the visit of Spurs to Goodison Park, and were beaten by a double from Harry Kane, and another from Christian Eriksen, Leicester faced Chelsea in the battle of the champions from the last 2 season’s campaigns, Chelsea taking a 2-nil lead through Alvaro Morata and Ngolo Kante, and ending 2-1 winners after Jamie Vardy’s second have penalty for Leicester after a foul from Thibault Courtois was punished, whilst Southampton hosted Watford, and ended being beaten 2-nil by the visitors courtesy of goals from Abdoulaye Doucoure and Daryl Janmaat, consigning Southampton to a further defeat, the worrying sign being that they have failed to score in three of their four fixtures to date.