There are big wins for Forest, Villa and Leicester, but Liverpool remain shorn of confidence and Wolves and Leeds are both in a right mess.
Manchester City
At the Etihad Stadium on Saturday afternoon, Manchester City put in an expectedly accomplished performance in beating Brighton 3-1. Erling Haaland scored twice, Kevin De Bruyne completed the win with a stunning goal and while there was a 20-minute period in the second half during which they only led by a narrow margin and things might have gotten tense, they ended up with a routine victory.
But City sit at the top of this list because so many of the other teams near the summit of the table dropped points. Arsenal could only draw at Southampton. Chelsea and Manchester United drew with each other. Spurs reminded us all of why betting on them to do anything beyond disappointing is a fool’s errand. City stay second in the Premier League table with their Brighton win, but Arsenal’s precarious lead has now been trimmed to just two points.
Arsenal have done really well to maintain their position at the top until the last week in October, but their wins against Leeds and PSV and their draw at Southampton have been a little laboured and there remains an air of inevitability about the well-oiled machine replacing them in the fullness of time. This weekend’s results took us a step closer to that moment.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
In his post-match interview with Gary Lineker following Everton’s 3-0 trouncing of Crystal Palace, Frank Lampard summed up the Dominic Calvert-Lewin dilemma fairly neatly.
“I think the only thing really that Dominic has to show, which is the priority for me as well, is how good and fresh he is for Everton,” he said.
Calvert-Lewin has had horrendous luck with injuries, which robbed him of the first half of last season and had done the same for the whole of this campaign so far, but against Palace his all-round performance told the story of why Everton and Lampard put so much stock in him in the first place.
Everton went into this game on the back of three straight defeats, and afternoons like these at Goodison Park have been known to turn sour in the past. But on this occasion there were no such concerns. Everton sparkled against an out-of-sorts Palace team and Calvert-Lewin, making only his second start of the season, chipped in with the opening goal after just 11 minutes.
It’s probably a little too late for him to be able to force his way into the England squad for the…
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