The English Premier League wrapped up its fifth weekend of motion on Sunday, Sept. 20.
Manchester Metropolis is the league’s shock chief with an ideal 15 factors from 5 video games; Tottenham Hotspur stays firmly in final place with simply two factors from its opening rounds of fixtures.
Listed below are the important thing storylines from a busy weekend of EPL motion:
Arsenal and Hull lastly stumbled
The start of Arsenal’s season was so robust — 4 wins from 4 with a +7 aim distinction — that it led many pundits to whisper phrases like invincible. You keep in mind the Invincibles, after all: they had been the Arsenal facet of 2003-04 that gained the Premier League with out dropping a single recreation. No different staff has pulled off the feat since.
Nicely, it seems prefer it’ll be at the least another season till one does. Arsenal fell 3-0 to Brighton on Matchday 5 to kill its invincible marketing campaign in spectacular vogue. The staff was near full energy — solely defender William Saliba was lacking from the beginning 11, and he is been lacking all season due to his again damage — however it merely could not get going in opposition to Brighton. The Seagulls had been up 2-0 by halftime and by no means took their toes off of Arsenal’s neck.
Arsenal wasn’t the one undefeated staff to crack this weekend: Newly-promoted Hull Metropolis fell 2-1 to Newcastle to finish its four-game Premier League unbeaten run.
Man Metropolis, Brentford and Leeds remained undefeated
It seems prefer it’ll be at the least another season earlier than a staff pulls off an invincible Premier League marketing campaign, however there are nonetheless three unbeaten groups within the race in 2026-27. Manchester City, good underneath new coach Enzo Maresca and excessive off a 5-3 win over Sunderland on Matchday 5 seems the likeliest to drag off the feat — however Brentford and Leeds have but to lose this season both. (Brentford beat Chelsea 3-0 and Leeds drew 0-0 with Crystal Palace to take care of their streaks.) Each have two wins and three attracts from their opening 5 matches; neither are receiving wherever close to the protection they deserve for it. Ignore them at your peril.
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