Southampton 4-1 Aston Villa: The Saints beat Villa for the first time at St.Mary's and claim their first points of the season. Villa did actually hold the lead at half-time as Darren Bent poked the ball home from a Stephen Ireland shot nine minutes before half-time. Southampton were level 13-minutes into the second half when Rickie Lambert superb fired the ball past Brad Guzan. It was 2-1 when Nathaniel Clyne scored his first Southampton goal after being put through by Gaston Ramirez on 63-minutes. Poor defending allowed Southampton to make it 3-1 when Jason Puncheon entered the box far to easily before having his inaccurate shot deflected home by Ciaran Clark on 72-minutes. The icing was on put on the cake in injury time when the hosts were awarded a penalty when Emmanuel Mayuka was brought down by Guzan. Lambert stepped up and blasted it home to score his second of the game.
Swansea 0-3 Everton: Everton remain unbeaten against Swansea who lose their second game on the trot. Victor Anichebe broke the deadlock after Marouane Fellaini brought the ball down before elbowing the ball to the striker to poke home on 21-minutes. David Mirallas made it 2-0 two minutes before half-time; Fellaini played Steven Pienaar down the wing and the South African fired a ball across the box for Mirallas to strike. The shot was deflected onto the crossbar by Michel Vorm before Mirallas slid it home on the second attempt. It got worse for Swansea when substitute Nathan Dyer was sent off for receiving two yellow cards in the space of 12-minutes. The points were then wrapped up eight minutes from the end when Fellaini headed a Leighton Baines free-kick home, it did take a deflection off Ashley Williams to take it past Vorm.
Chelsea 1-0 Stoke: Chelsea remain unbeaten but it took a winner five minutes from time to secure the three points at home to Stoke. Jonathan Walters did hit the bar for Stoke in first half before Branislav Ivanovic tried to win a penalty by diving under a Geoff Cameron challenge. Oscar was then booked for also diving in the second half whilst trying to win a penalty. The winner came courtesy of Ashley Cole who scored his first goal in two years to win it with five minutes to go.
Wigan 1-2 Fulham: The Cottagers make it 12-games without defeat against Wigan. Hugo Rodallega kept Wigan up last season and he came back to the DW to put Fulham ahead by heading a Dimitar Berbatov cross home just after the half hour mark, out of respect the Colombian didn't celebrate. Damien Duff made it 2-0 with his third goal of the season when Bryan Ruiz played it into him on 68-minutes, against the run of play it has to be said. Wigan got a consolation in injury time when Rodallega's replacement, Arouna Kone, scored his second of the season by squeezing in a poorly defended corner.
West Brom 1-0 Reading: Reading remain without a win so far this season with another defeat away to West Brom. Both teams had chances throughout the match with West Brom just getting the better of it, Jonas Olsson did hit the woodwork at the end of the first half from a corner. Romelu Lukaku made sure Roberto Di Matteo wouldn't forget about him by scoring the winning goal, which went through two pairs of legs, on 71-minutes.
West Ham 1-1 Sunderland: Steven Fletcher remains the only player to score for Sunderland so far this season. The striker scored the opener, his fourth of the season, via Seb Larsson's cross after just nine minutes. It was West Ham's first goal they had conceded at home this season. West Ham's equaliser came in the shape of Kevin Nolan who scored with an instinctive turning shot in injury time. Martin O'Neill now makes it 12-games without a win in the Premier League
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