Monday 16 October 2017 15:12, UK
Did your Premier League team live up to expectations this weekend?
We've asked Sky Sports Now pundit Ray Wilkins to give each side a grade, based purely on their weekend performance.
So, how did your team fare? Did they get a stunning A*, an awful F, or something in between? Read on to find out...
Just awesome, absolutely awesome. I have seen some good football played in the Premier League, but that was probably one of the best exhibitions I have seen in a long while. Barcelona fans will have seen this for a number of years, but I think we actually saw the first coming of Barcelona II. They were just fantastic, the one and two touch and effort when out of possession to get the ball back, that was a [Pep] Guardiola side on Saturday as some of their football was just splendid.
I felt for Stoke, that could have been anybody. I think when a team hits that type of form, you are just unlucky that you are there to be perfectly honest. So I will give them a 'C' as they got thumped, but they would have thumped 99.9 per cent of the sides in the Premier League.
Despite Liverpool creating the best chances, they are playing at Anfield with that crowd behind them, so I will also give them a 'B'.
I honestly thought Man Utd would take the game to Liverpool with the quality they have in their team. So the fact that for 10 minutes they did, and then after that Jose seemed to be a little bit afraid of going for the victory, means I am going to give them a 'B'.
It would have been a game that Brighton felt, at this moment in time, that they had a real chance of putting one over on Everton, so I would have thought they would have got the three points.
They have had a bit of a struggle at the moment, but they went there and got a result and Ronald Koeman said that with a little bit more luck, they could have got a win, but they need to up their game.
Manolo Gabbiadini looks sharp at the moment, he has a lovely left foot, makes some good runs, but Southampton really have to put teams more on the back foot.
Newcastle took advantage of Southampton's current problems, Rafa Benitez knows how to set a team up away from home, to hit teams on the counterattack, which they did.
The one thing about Watford is they have this spirit to keep going and playing. Being thumped by Man City a few weeks ago, they would have had a bit of trepidation going into this game against Arsenal, but they came out of it with flying colours.
When Arsenal went in front, I thought this could be two or three and they had those opportunities to put it to two or three, but unfortunately did not take them and you know in the Premier League that if you do not take your opportunities then someone will come back and bite you on the backside. And that is exactly what Watford did.
They just did enough, but Wembley is not being too friendly to Tottenham at the moment and I think it is going to be the same the whole season through. It is a very difficult time for Tottenham at the moment, with Real Madrid and Liverpool to come there over the next few weeks, and a trip to Man Utd, so it was imperative that they won, got that monkey off their backs and picked up the three points. So I am going to go for 'B' for them as they did not create many openings in the game.
It is a difficult time for them, they are struggling near the foot of the table, they can't score a goal and it is almost as though everything is going against them at the moment. They had a couple of chances near the end and Hugo Lloris made an unbelievable save in the first half.
Swansea would have liked to have got on the front foot and I think from the kick-off, if you saw Tammy Abraham's reaction to the kick-off, he took the whole team forward. And that is what I meant by getting on the front foot - start imposing yourself on the opposition and that is what Abraham did, and he scored his two goals.
It is a difficult time for Huddersfield as they are coming into a time now where the honeymoon is over, they are in the big time, and can they live up to that big-time status? They cannot seem to score a goal at the moment, so that is a bit of a problem. But it was always going to be difficult for them,
I am going to give them an 'A'. The one thing that Roy [Hodgson] does is he has this ability to organise, whether it be defensively, and people say he is a defensive coach, it does not matter - If you are keeping a clean sheet, or keeping Chelsea down to one goal and you are scoring two, then that is a magnificent result for them. Not many people would have given them a chance of picking up even a point against Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea. A remarkable job on Saturday, they worked their socks off, very well organised and Wilfried Zaha scored a fine goal, even if their first was a little fortunate.
Chelsea were poor, very poor indeed and it just goes to show that with Diego Costa not being there, he is a massive loss to them. I know Alvaro Morata has done very well indeed for them since he came to the club, but there is no back-up. Unfortunately, Michy Batshuayi has not hit the ground running, he has been given an opportunity and was a little bit upset at being taken off as well, but I did not think he merited staying on the pitch to be honest. If he looks back on it and analyses the game, he will think: 'I was pretty poor on Saturday'. But Chelsea without a centre-forward are going to struggle.
Burnley are Burnley, they keep going and Chris Wood was a very astute buy by Sean Dyche, I think he bought very well there, and full credit to him.
The result could have been slightly different had Andy Carroll stayed on the pitch - the two challenges, especially the second one coming 30 seconds after the first, was a little bit crazy. Andy can be effective, but when he does that and leaves you with 10 men… it is tough enough to play with 11 men in the Premier League, let alone with 10, so they did well West Ham.
