Gameweek 2 Round-Up: Arsenal and Manchester City Stay Perfect as Chelsea Win Seven-Goal Thriller

Gameweek 2 delivered 32 goals across ten Premier League fixtures, with three of them finishing level. According to the Premier League table, the early pacesetters remain perfect and the chasing pack is already being stretched.

The results in full

• Crystal Palace 1-4 Manchester City
• Aston Villa 0-1 Arsenal
• Chelsea 4-3 Brighton & Hove Albion
• Manchester United 5-2 Ipswich Town
• Liverpool 2-2 Nottingham Forest
• Tottenham Hotspur 0-2 Newcastle United
• Leeds United 1-1 Brentford
• AFC Bournemouth 1-1 Everton
• Sunderland AFC 1-0 Fulham
• Coventry City 0-1 Hull City AFC

The pacesetters stay perfect

Arsenal made it four wins from four with a 1-0 victory at Aston Villa, and Manchester City matched them in emphatic fashion, beating Crystal Palace 4-1 at Selhurst Park. According to the Premier League table, the pair are level on 12 points, with Arsenal top on goal difference — plus seven to City's plus six — and just one and two goals conceded respectively.

Leeds United and Hull City AFC fill third and fourth. Leeds are still unbeaten after a 1-1 draw with Brentford, taking eight points from four matches, while Hull made it two straight wins at Coventry City's expense. Per the table, only Arsenal have conceded fewer goals than Hull's two.

The game of the round

Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion traded seven goals at Stamford Bridge, with Chelsea running out 4-3 winners to make it back-to-back wins. Brighton left empty-handed but stay fifth, and according to the table no side in the division has scored more than their 13 goals. The two clubs are level on seven points, separated only by goal difference — plus eight to Brighton, plus one to Chelsea in sixth.

There were seven more at Old Trafford, where Manchester United beat Ipswich Town 5-2. Curiously, the table still has the visitors three places and two points better off than their hosts — Ipswich are tenth on six points, with United 13th on four.

Points shared and squandered

Liverpool were held 2-2 at home by Nottingham Forest and sit eighth, with three draws from four matches. Everton kept their unbeaten start intact with a 1-1 draw at AFC Bournemouth, who remain winless in 15th with three draws and a defeat.

Tottenham Hotspur's wait for a first goal of the season goes on. Newcastle United ran out 2-0 winners and, according to the table, Spurs have now failed to score in four matches, leaving them 17th on two points after back-to-back defeats. Newcastle sit 12th on five points, with Forest 11th on the same tally.

Sunderland AFC beat Fulham 1-0 to sit 14th on four points, while Fulham's third straight loss leaves them 18th with a single point.

Trouble at the bottom

Coventry City are still searching for a first point and a first goal of the campaign after four straight defeats, their goal difference reading minus ten. Aston Villa are 19th on one point, with just one goal scored from four matches, after going down at home to Arsenal. Between them, Villa and Coventry have managed a single goal.

A round for the bold

Rounds like this are the making — and breaking — of a prediction slip: 4-3 at Stamford Bridge, 5-2 at Old Trafford and a Villa Park contest settled by the only goal of the game. That is the weekly challenge FanTribe's predictors take on, and with the table already taking shape, Gameweek 3 offers the next chance to land the big calls.