Saturdays Premier League round-up (3rd Nov)

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Premier League round-up: Wins for Leicester, Newcastle, West Ham, and Man United (November 03, 2018)

A review of Saturday's action in the top flight.

Premier League results

AFC Bournemouth 1-2 Manchester United
Cardiff 0-1 Leicester
Everton 3-1 Brighton
Newcastle 1-0 Watford
West Ham 4-2 Burnley
Arsenal 1-1 Liverpool
Wolves 2-3 Tottenham

Leicester dedicate the win to the chairman

Leicester honoured the memory of owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha with a 1-0 win at Cardiff.

Demarai Gray claimed the 55th-minute winner to provoke an outpouring of emotion, both on the pitch and in the stand housing the visiting Leicester supporters, rarely seen in football.

Srivaddhanaprabha and four others were killed when his helicopter crashed just yards from the King Power Stadium after last Saturday's game against West Ham.

The Leicester players had conducted their pre-match warm-up wearing white t-shirts bearing an image of Srivaddhanaprabha accompanied by the words 'The Boss' - the title the Thai businessman was known by at the club.

On the back were the words 'Khun Vichai You Will Be Forever in Our Hearts', and the same t-shirts were worn by Leicester fans populated behind one of the goals.

Cardiff laid a wreath before kick-off and a minute's silence was impeccably observed as the entire Leicester staff joined the players on the centre circle to pay tribute to Srivaddhanaprabha.

Leicester went ahead in the second half when Ben Chilwell progressed down the left and Gray finished his cutback with a neat half-volley. The celebrations were tangible.

Gray took off his shirt to reveal a 'For Khun Vichai' top underneath and Schmeichel ran the length of the field to join a team celebration that was dripping with emotion.

The forward was duly booked under protocol for taking off his shirt, but the Leicester players did not care as they celebrated in front of their supporters.
Newcastle get first win of season

Ayoze Perez headed Newcastle to their first Premier League win of the season at the 11th attempt as Watford were made to pay for missed opportunities.

Perez glanced fellow substitute Ki Sung-yueng's driven 65th-minute free-kick home to claim a priceless 1-0 victory at the end of another testing week for Rafael Benitez and his players.

Benitez had backed skipper Jamaal Lascelles' call for a united front in the run-up to the game, and he certainly got it as a team which lost Yoshinori Muto, Lascelles and Jonjo Shelvey to injury inside six minutes either side of half-time scrapped its way to the finishing line in front of a vociferous crowd of 49,157.

But the Hornets left Tyneside wondering just how they were doing so empty-handed after Gerard Deulofeu and substitute Stefan Okaka spurned gilt-edged opportunities and Roberto Pereyra rattled the crossbar.

Anderson at the double for the Hammers

Felipe Anderson, at last, began to justify his record price tag by firing West Ham to a 4-2 victory over Burnley.

The Brazilian playmaker was in grave danger of being branded a £42million flop following some anonymous displays since his summer switch from Lazio.

Even Hammers manager Manuel Pellegrini admitted this week that Anderson's performances needed to improve - and it seems he was listening as two well-taken goals secured a deserved win for the Hammers.

It was far from plain sailing for the hosts, though, after they were twice pegged back by goals from Johann Berg Gudmundsson and Chris Wood.

Marko Arnautovic had opened the scoring but, despite a dominant display, they were never assured of the points until Javier Hernandez struck the fourth in stoppage time.

Four league wins in five for Everton

Everton defender Seamus Coleman definitively answered his critics with the decisive second in a 3-1 win over Brighton which saw Richarlison score twice.

The Republic of Ireland defender, who missed 10 months with a horrific double break of his leg in March 2017, registered his first goal for 652 days.

Rarely outspoken, the Everton stand-in captain's hands-to-ears celebration in front of the Gwladys Street End told you all you needed to know about his opinion of those who had questioned him.

Coleman struck after Lewis Dunk's header had cancelled out Richarlison's fifth of the season midway through the first half, although the Brazil international had the final say when he capitalised on Dunk's 77th-minute error to end Brighton's mini-resurgence

Man United leave it late to pick off Cherries

Marcus Rashford hit a stoppage-time winner as Manchester United came from behind again to continue their revival, this time securing a 2-1 victory at in-form Bournemouth.

Eddie Howe's Bournemouth had won five of their past six fixtures and were on course to win again when Callum Wilson gave them a deserved lead, but as they similarly did against Newcastle and Chelsea, United regrouped, securing a valuable victory through finishes from Anthony Martial and Rashford.

The rebuild required since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement remains a steady, ongoing process, but if their rediscovery of the resilience that gave them so many points late on in games under Ferguson becomes a regular feature it will ensure they maintain their present momentum.