- Commissioner’s statement on Ventura, Marte
- Ronnie O’Sullivan: Masters champion ‘felt so vulnerable’ in final
- Arron Fletcher Wins 2017 WSOP International Circuit Marrakech Main Event ($140,224)
- Smith challenges Warner to go big in India
- Moncada No. 1 on MLB Pipeline’s Top 10 2B Prospects list
- Braves land 2 on MLB Pipeline’s Top 10 2B Prospects list
- Kingery makes MLB Pipeline’s Top 10 2B Prospects list
- New Zealand wrap up 2-0 after Bangladesh implosion
- Mathews, Pradeep, Gunathilaka to return to Sri Lanka
- Elliott hopes for rain for Poli
EPL Results: Saturday’s Week 4 Scores, Updated 2016 Premier League Table
- Updated: September 10, 2016
The Premier League returned from the international break with a series of exciting matchups Saturday, highlighted by the Manchester Derby.
Below, we’ll break down the day’s scores, updated table and the biggest results on the day.
Results
Table
Recap
Saturday’s play was highlighted by a huge matchup early in this season and a classic rival. Manchester City escaped Old Trafford with all three points, beating Manchester United 2-1 in the Manchester Derby.
The game certainly didn’t disappoint, as Paul Hayward of the Telegraph wrote:
The Premier League needed this. Manchester football needed this. Two stagnating empires were stirred back to life by new players, fresh energy and above all, two new managers who commanded their stage and offered us reason to hope this will be a stellar season.
Long gone, in this 172nd Manchester derby, was the drift of the Louis van Gaal-Manuel Pellegrini years, when United were a crab-like crew of questionable buys, and City would pick and choose when to apply themselves. The Premier League title drifted away, to Chelsea and Leicester. A chasm opened between the wealth of the English club game and the quality of the play.
Not on this day. Indeed, the effects of manager Pep Guardiola on City and Jose Mourinho on United were clear. Guardiola’s tactics and approach had City completely in control in the first half, and goals from Kevin De Bruyne—who was the best player on the pitch all afternoon—and Kelechi Iheanacho had City in control.
But ironically, it was a gaffe from goalkeeper Claudio Bravo—brought to City at the expense of Joe Hart, loaned to Torino—that gave United life late in the first half. His inability to secure the ball far from his net gave striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic an empty goal to volley home. Ibrahimovic has never been one to miss those opportunities.
In the second half, Mourinho countered Guardiola’s tactics to great effect, subbing off the ineffectual Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Jesse Lingard for Ander Herrera and Marcus Rashford. The former brought some organization to the midfield, as Paul Pogba and Marouane Fellaini never seem settled in the first half. The latter …
