The English Premier League wrapped up its fifth weekend of motion on Sunday, Sept. 20.
Manchester Metropolis is the league’s shock chief with an ideal 15 factors from 5 video games; Tottenham Hotspur stays firmly in final place with simply two factors from its opening rounds of fixtures.
Listed here are the important thing storylines from a busy weekend of EPL motion:
Arsenal and Hull lastly stumbled
The start of Arsenal’s season was so robust — 4 wins from 4 with a +7 aim distinction — that it led many pundits to whisper phrases like invincible. You bear in mind the Invincibles, in fact: they have been the Arsenal facet of 2003-04 that received the Premier League with out dropping a single recreation. No different group has pulled off the feat since.
Properly, it appears to be like prefer it’ll be at the least yet one more season till one does. Arsenal fell 3-0 to Brighton on Matchday 5 to kill its invincible marketing campaign in spectacular trend. The group was near full power — solely defender William Saliba was lacking from the beginning 11, and he is been lacking all season due to his again harm — however it merely could not get going towards Brighton. The Seagulls have been up 2-0 by halftime and by no means took their toes off of Arsenal’s neck.
Arsenal wasn’t the one undefeated group to crack this weekend: Newly-promoted Hull Metropolis fell 2-1 to Newcastle to finish its four-game Premier League unbeaten run.
Man Metropolis, Brentford and Leeds remained undefeated
It appears to be like prefer it’ll be at the least yet one more season earlier than a group pulls off an invincible Premier League marketing campaign, however there are nonetheless three unbeaten groups within the race in 2026-27. Manchester City, good below new coach Enzo Maresca and excessive off a 5-3 win over Sunderland on Matchday 5 appears to be like the likeliest to drag off the feat — however Brentford and Leeds have but to lose this season both. (Brentford beat Chelsea 3-0 and Leeds drew 0-0 with Crystal Palace to take care of their streaks.) Each have two wins and three attracts from their opening 5 matches; neither are receiving anyplace close to the protection they deserve for it. Ignore them at your peril.
