English Premier League Round Up

London bridge is falling down,falling down,falling down, London bridge is falling down, my dear lady, that's the song on Southampton's fan mouth as they defeated Chelsea over the weekend, Chelsea tasted their fourth defeat of the current season, one more than the whole of last season which led them to winning the league, they currently lie in the second half of the table currently fighting relegation battle, their match ended with Southampton handing them another defeat in their home ground, they lost by three goals to one, after the match Chelsea coach, Jose Mourinho was fuming saying that his team deserved a penalty which was turned down by the referee Robert Madley.

He however has been charged by the FA and he has about until 18:00 BST on 8 October to respond to the charge. Speaking after Saturday's game, Mourinho said the Blues were "always punished" by officials because "there is always a question mark" from the media. "If the Football Association wants to punish me they can. They don't punish other managers." Mourinho was charged hours after Chelsea said the Portuguese retained their "full support" after back-to-back defeats.

Other matches in the EPL saw Everton played a score draw with their city rival, Liverpool. Liverpool drew the first blood in the game through their forward Danny Ings as he escaped from Ross Barkley to head in James Milner's corner past a static Everton keeper Tim Howard, but Romelu Lukaku was once again instrumental as he pounced on Emre Can's poor clearance to level just before half-time.

Lukaku has now scored seven goals for Everton this season. After the match Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers spoke: "Our mentality in the game was outstanding, the draw was the least we deserved. Little did he know, that was the last post match interview he would grant as a Liverpool coach, as hours later after the match he received a phone call from Fenway Sports Group President Michael Gordon terminating his contract after three years with the club, Brendan Rodgers has spoken of being "incredibly disappointed" to be sacked by Liverpool but thanked the club's owners, players and fans via a statement from the League Managers' Association (LMA). Sources have it that Liverpool's owners, have made initial contact with former Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp about filling the role and that they hope to have the new boss in place by the end of the current international break.

Manchester United also had a bad weekend losing to Arsenal at the emirate stadium by three goals to nil, with the three goals coming in the first half of the game, goals were scored by Ozil and two by Alexis Sanchez to increase his tally to five goals in two matches. United were unable to reply back throughout the second half. After the match Arsenal Coach Arsene Wenger said " it was a good end to a difficult week, We won our last Premier League game 5-2 and we won here 3-0 so in the Premier League we have scored eight goals in two games against two difficult opponents. Overall it was a convincing performance. It was a strong response against Manchester United following our disappointment on Tuesday night. It shows the group is very united and very strong as well and from goalkeeper to No 9 everybody played very well, which is what you want".

He also spoke on on the sacking of Brendan Rodgers, "I’m always sad when that happens as I think he is a quality manager. Unfortunately the pressure is always bigger on the managers. I think what he has done at Liverpool; he was very unlucky to not win the Premier League. He was closest certainly to winning the Premier League in all the managers that have been working for the club but that is the way it goes now and I wish him good luck. I’m sure he will find a job again".

Manchester City, their city rivals won against resurgence Newcastle side, with Aguero scoring five of his team's goal. City won by six goals to one, after Newcastle went ahead first through Mitrovic on the eighteenth minutes before sparking an outrage from Aguero and Kevin de Bruyne. The Newcastle after the match said "I think we scared them for 45 minutes and I think they scared us for the next 45 minutes," he said, quoted by the Chronicle. After the first half ended in a one all draw for both sides. "I thought the first half was nigh-on perfect... If you'd have said to me at halftime that after an hour of the game we'd be 6-1 down, I'd have said you were absolutely crazy. "But that's what happened. We have to assess that and look at it. We have to find out why that is," he added.

Newcastle had not beaten City in the Premier League in 17 attempts before Saturday's game. Other results for matches played in the EPL are;

Swansea City 2 Tottenham Hotspur 2

Norwich City 1 Leicester City 2

Aston Villa 0 Stoke City 1

Sunderland 2 West Ham United 2

Bournemouth 1 Watford 1

Crystal Palace 2 West Bromwich Albion 0

Premier League Top Scorers

Jamie Vardy (Leicester City) 7

Sergio Agüero (Manchester City) 6

Odion Ighalo (Watford) 5

Romelu Lukaku (Everton) 5

Riyad Mahrez (Leicester City) 5

Graziano Pellè (Southampton) 5

Alexis Sánchez (Arsenal) 5

Callum Wilson (AFC Bournemouth) 5

André Ayew (Swansea City) 4

Bafétimbi Gomis (Swansea City) 4

Dimitri Payet (West Ham United) 4

League Table

Team P W Gd Pts

Manchester City 8 6 12 18

Arsenal 8 5 6 16

Manchester United 8 5 4 16

Crystal Palace 8 5 4 15

Leicester City 8 4 2 15

West Ham United 8 4 6 14

Everton 8 3 4 13

Tottenham Hotspur 8 3 4 13

Southampton 8 3 3 12

Liverpool 8 3 -2 12

Swansea City 8 2 0 10

Watford 8 2 -1 10

Norwich City 8 2 -2 9

Stoke City 8 2 -2 9

Bournemouth 8 2 -2 8

Chelsea 8 2 -5 8

West Bromwich Albion 8 2 -5 8

Aston Villa 8 1 -5 4

Sunderland 8 0 -10 3

Newcastle United 8 0 -11 3

So who is next on the list to get sack, Sunderland coach Dick Advoocat has stepped down from his role as the club is currently lying in the 19th spot after eight games without wins and three draws. A replacement meanwhile is on the lookout for, names that have popped up are David Moyes, Sam Allardyce and Nigel Pearson. Who do you think will be the best contender to fill in the position and make instant changes to the team's dwindling future in the premier league?