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Premier League Table: 2016 EPL Week 1 Standings and Sunday Results
- Updated: August 14, 2016
Last year’s champions lost, Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho won and flawed Arsenal and Liverpool sides combined for seven goals in the weekend’s premier matchup.
Suffice to say, the opening weekend of the Premier League season didn’t disappoint.
Below, we’ll break down the table after Matchday 1 and Sunday’s results, and take a look back at a wild weekend of action.
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Standings
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Leicester City opened their title defense with a shocking 2-1 loss at Hull City, a result that few would have seen coming after the club’s brilliance a year ago.
After losing all of three games last year—but also losing N’Golo Kante to Chelsea—there will now be questions whether Leicester can come anywhere close to matching last year’s form, or if they simply caught lightning in a bottle.
“They were smarter than us,” manager Claudio Ranieri conceded, per the AFP (via Fox Sports). “We made little mistakes when we lost the ball. We got nervous. We want to draw, and Hull played very, very close. We made a big effort, but individual effort, not like a team. Our strength is when everybody is connected.”
Manchester United looked pretty smart in their opening win under Mourinho, highlighted by Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s first Premier League goal. Miguel Delaney of ESPN FC broke down the win and the club’s new striker:
Bit rusty until goal, as to be expected given this isn’t Mourinho’s best team, but as good a start to era as could have been hoped for.
— Miguel Delaney (@MiguelDelaney) August 14, 2016 …
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