Premier League season kicks-off

The opening weekend of the Premier League season kicked-off during this past week with all 20 clubs playing their first league games of the season. The first match of the Premier League season took place on Friday night with Manchester United starting their league campaign at home against Fulham. In terms of how well both teams played Manchester United edged it between the two teams with new signing Joshua Zirkzee scoring the winner in the 87th minute to secure a 1–0 victory for Manchester United. Premier League new boys Ipswich Town hosted Liverpool in new Liverpool manager Arne Slot's debut for the reds. Liverpool secured a comfortable 2–0 victory with goals from Diogo Jota and Mohamed Salah in the second half. Salah's goal was his seventh on the season's opening game, setting a new Premier League record for most goals scored on the opening game of a premier league season. Other games which took place on the same day include Arsenal defeat of Wolves by 2 goals to nil, Brighton 3–0 victory away at Everton, Newcastle's single goal victory against newly promoted Southampton, Nottingham Forest's 1–1 draw with Bournemouth at the City Ground and Aston Villa defeating West Ham 2–1 away at the London Stadium. Sunday's games saw the most important game of the weekend which saw reigning champions Manchester City defeat Chelsea 2–0 away at Stamford Bridge with goals coming from Erling Haaland and Matteo Kovacic (against his old club). The other Sunday game saw Brentford defeat Crystal Palace 2–1 and the last game of the weekend saw newly promoted Leicester City secure a 1–1 draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Monday night following goals by Pedro Porro for Tottenham and Jamie Vardy equalizing for Leicester City in the second half. The opening set of fixtures after the opening game saw Brighton top of the Premier League table on goal difference ahead of Arsenal, and Liverpool in 2nd and 3rd place respectively. Everton are currently bottom of the Premier League table with Wolves and Ipswich Town in 19th and 18th place respectively.