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Premier League Matchweek 2
Premier League Matchweek 2: Goals, Goals, Goals!!!
Publish Date: September 23, 2020
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One of the biggest complaints you hear from the soccer skeptical public is that there isn’t enough “action,” as in this clip from the opening of the
November 2, 1997 episode of The Simpsons, “The Cartridge Family,”
Now we fans often get defensive at this point. That’s silly, there’s tons of action in most top flight football matches. What they usually mean is that there isn’t enough scoring. While it is true that soccer is a traditionally low scoring affair, but so is hockey. Besides, every once in awhile a weekend like we just witnessed comes along to satisfy the goal hungry masses.
Premier League clubs combined for 44 goals over the ten matches contested last weekend. It was the highest tally since the top flight shrank to 20 teams in 1995, besting the 43 goals scored on the weekend ofFebruary 5-6, 2011. It was wild and wacky end to end football across the UK. Added to a fairly high scoring opening week, it certainly looks like the offense is ahead of the defense so far this year.
Southhampton 2 vs Tottenham Hotspur 5, at St Mary’s Stadium
There were three games this week where teams scored SEVEN between them, and if you slept in Sunday morning like a certain blogger who was lucky enough to catch the replay on Peacock Premium then you might have missed the best of the bunch. Spurs headed to St Mary’s hoping to wash the bad taste of their Matchweek 1 loss to Everton out of their mouths.
That wasn’t going so well in the first half, as last year’s Golden Boot runner up Danny Ings netted the first Saints goal of the season at the 32’nd minute. Spurs equalized just before the break as