Premier League table and results, matchweek 2: Hull City up to third, Tottenham and Aston Villa still without a goal
Ten games, one seven-goal thriller, a promoted side sitting third on two clean sheets and two big clubs stuck on nothing. Every result, the full table, the scoring charts, and how the twenty-one calls we published before kick-off actually went.
Two rounds into the Premier League season and the table is already doing strange things. A promoted club sits third with two clean sheets. Two clubs who finished in the top half last season have no points and no goals. And the weekend produced both the highest-scoring game of the round and the tightest, on consecutive days.
Every matchweek 2 result
Friday. Crystal Palace 1-4 Manchester City opened the round. City are top with six from six, Palace are eighteenth with none.
Saturday. Liverpool 2-2 Nottingham Forest left Liverpool on two draws from two and thirteenth, an odd place to find them. Coventry 0-1 Hull was the meeting of two promoted sides and it went the way of Hull City, who now have two wins, three goals scored and none conceded.
Elsewhere: Bournemouth 1-1 Everton, and Tottenham 0-2 Newcastle, which left Spurs bottom of the table having not scored in the league.
Sunday. The game of the round: Chelsea 4-3 Brighton, seven goals and the only fixture of the weekend to go past four. Manchester United also went big in Manchester United 5-2 Ipswich. Quieter afternoons at Leeds 1-1 Brentford and Sunderland 1-0 Fulham.
Monday. Aston Villa 0-1 Arsenal closed it. Arsenal are second with two wins and nothing conceded; Villa are nineteenth, also without a goal.
The table after two rounds
# | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Manchester City | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
2 | Arsenal | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
3 | Hull City | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
4 | Chelsea | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 6 |
5 | Brentford | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
6 | Newcastle United | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 |
7 | Everton | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
8 | Leeds United | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
9 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 |
10 | Manchester United | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 |
11 | Sunderland | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
12 | Ipswich Town | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 |
13 | Liverpool | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
14 | Bournemouth | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
15 | Nottingham Forest | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
16 | Fulham | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
17 | Coventry City | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
18 | Crystal Palace | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
19 | Aston Villa | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
20 | Tottenham Hotspur | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
The story of these standings is Hull City. A promoted side, three goals scored, none conceded, level on points with City, Arsenal and Chelsea. At the other end, Tottenham, Aston Villa and Coventry have all played two league games without scoring.
The scoring charts
Bruno Fernandes leads with three. Rayan Cherki and Anthony Elanga have two each, and a long queue sits on one.
How our analysis held up
Before kick-off we published our read on all ten fixtures. The round with nothing taken out: twenty-one calls published, one void, and eighteen of the twenty that settled were correct. That is 90 per cent. Eight of ten on the matches, ten of ten on the players who actually took the pitch.
The two we got wrong went in opposite directions on consecutive days, which is the honest way to describe it. At Stamford Bridge we expected fewer than four and a half goals and got seven, the only game of the round above four. At Villa Park we expected more than one and a half and got exactly one.
The Chelsea one is worth a second line. Chelsea 4-3 Brighton was the highest-scoring Premier League game of the weekend, and no reading of two teams who had between them conceded five goals in the opening round pointed at seven. We called it wrong and there is no clever explanation.
The player calls
Ten from ten among the players who started and finished. Bukayo Saka cleared his shots line at Villa Park, and Matheus Cunha did the same in the five-goal win over Ipswich. Two came out of the seven-goal afternoon at Stamford Bridge: João Pedro on shots and Morgan Rogers on fouls committed. Igor Jesus at Anfield, Yoane Wissa at Tottenham, Loum Tchaouna at Coventry, Antoine Semenyo and Julio Enciso all came in too.
One is missing from that list on purpose. Daniel Munoz did not play at Selhurst Park, so the call was voided rather than counted. A call on a player who never appears comes out of the sample entirely, which is why the denominator above is twenty and not twenty-one.
There is also a footnote that ties the weekend to the transfer window. Iliman Ndiaye was our shots call at Bournemouth and he delivered on Saturday. By Monday he was the biggest sale of deadline day, off to Manchester City for sixty-five million.
What to watch from here
Two rounds decide nothing, but three things are already worth tracking. Hull City have not conceded and are keeping company they were not expected to keep. Tottenham and Aston Villa have a scoring problem rather than a defensive one, which is usually the harder of the two to fix quickly. And Liverpool have drawn twice, which turns a routine fixture into a real test very quickly.
The full record of every settled call, one by one and filterable by period, is in the results history: across all competitions we are at 84.6 per cent on 8,141 completed calls, and 94.5 per cent on the 99 published for this competition, a smaller sample that will move around more.
Our read on the coming fixtures stays updated until kick-off on the Premier League page, and the individual player calls are in the Player Predictions section.
