I feel this was a good weekend at the office for the bookies after seeing several favorites falling at the hands of the underdogs.
The games today were very unpredictable,
In the Leicester and Manchester city game, you will typically expect Manchester city to score many goals. I was quite disappointed that the coach of Leicester was slow to make changes to the original 5-4-1 formation they were playing which was difficult for Manchester city to play through but were still able to get a goal courtesy the beautiful ball from KDB who has proven to be the most important player for them, and not Haaland who just joined them. Leicester would have had a good chance to equalize had they tried to start attacking football against Manchester City earlier. Barnes needs to be told to learn to pass the ball, Patson Daka needs to play in more games and Madison is looking like he can do better in a bigger club.
In the Bournemouth and Tottenham game, Bournemouth switched off too early and believed that the game was over and the three point theirs too quickly. When you play against teams like Tottenham, you constantly need to put them under pressure. Conte will be relieved that his team still won the game even though they started very poorly.
In the Brighton and Chelsea game, I commend Brighton for proving a point that they are still a team to fear with the sharp attacks that put Chelsea under pressure especially in the start of the game, and also specially recognize the efforts of Mitoma and Trossard. They are two great players that I don't think will remain in Brighton for long as bigger teams will come for them if they can keep up the kind of performance they displayed against Chelsea who entered this game as favorites.