Brennan Johnson silences his haters, Julen Lopetegui on fraud watch and Luis Diaz is special – talkSPORT’s Jamie O’Hara and Jason Cundy’s winners and losers

Magnificent dreams, an undesirable record, unhurried drama and appropriate a second goalless Premier League draw this season.

Saturday’s high-flight action once more did now not disappointment with 22 dreams scored across eight matches.

Within the early kick-off, Chelsea breezed past West Ham at the London Stadium – a success 3-0 with Nicolas Jackson grabbing a first-half of double.

The defeat for the Hammers saw them accumulate undesirable history by shedding their first three home league video games of a season for the first time ever.

In other areas, Brennan Johnson helped Tottenham accumulate a 3-1 comeback victory over Brentford in a London derby that saw Dominic Solanke birth his Spurs memoir.

Within the meantime Darwin Nunez scored his first Liverpool function of the campaign in yarn fashion in the 3-0 victory in opposition to Bournemouth which has seen the Reds transfer to the tip of the table.

It modified into once one other unhurried gain for Aston Villa as they came from at the back of to beat Wolves 3-1, with Fulham also beating Newcastle by the identical scoreline.

Unfortunately for Everton, they once more let poke a lead to attract 1-1 at Leicester to build up their level this season, while Ipswich scored an afflict time equaliser away at Southampton.

And in the final come upon of the day, Crystal Palace and Manchester United performed out an enthralling 0-0 attract a game that one plan or the opposite remained goalless at Selhurst Park.

Here talkSPORT duo Jamie O’Hara and Jason Cundy display their winners and losers from Saturday’s action on the Recreation-Day Phone-In…

News Winners

Brennan Johnson

Having been criticised by Spurs followers following the defeat to Arsenal last week, Johnson has scored in back-to-back video games.

A winner in the Carabao Cup third spherical away at Coventry modified into once adopted up by a trim strike in opposition to Brentford – and he proceeded to tug out the ‘shush’ celebration to silence his critics.

Talking of his upturn in kind, ex-Chelsea defender Cundy acknowledged: “He’s had a tough last week, he took a little bit of stick after the north London derby.

“He obtained the a success function midweek, this present day he gets one other function, he is had a now now not easy and bumpy hotfoot at Spurs.”

Former Tottenham midfielder O’Hara added: “Pretty play to Brennan Johnson, he took some stick and or now now not it is affected him, he deleted his Instagram.

“But you know what? Concentrate on your football and that’s the best way to answer your critics, score goals and do the business, so fair to him.”

Luis Diaz

The Liverpool winger has now scored 5 dreams in as many Premier League matches following his quickfire double in opposition to the Cherries.

Only Manchester City marksman Erling Haaland boasts more dreams in the tip-flight than Diaz this term.

Diaz has starred this season, with the Colombian also firing in a double in the 3-0 victory at Used Trafford sooner than the international destroy.

Waxing lyrical over the 27-12 months-old-fashioned, Cundy remarked: “He’s a special player this boy, he’s got a goal in him, he’s so sharp.”

Nicolas Jackson

The Chelsea centre-ahead continues to repay boss Enzo Maresca’s religion having scored four dreams from his 5 league begins this term.

In addition to scoring twice at the London Stadium, Jackson also laid on the assist for Cole Palmer’s strike at the foundation of the second half of.

Praising the 23-12 months-old-fashioned, Cundy acknowledged: “His goalscoring record at Chelsea is unbelievable.”

He added: “He’s one of those players that still needs to be polished, he’s not the finished article, but another two goals for him.”

News Losers

Julen Lopetegui

West Ham followers rejoiced when Lopetegui modified David Moyes in the dugout, but things haven’t went to notion as of yet, with the East Londoners picking up appropriate four components from a conceivable 15.

Their defeat to Chelsea modified into once their third consecutive loss in front of their very acquire followers, who booed the Hammers following the total-time whistle.

Cundy acknowledged of Lopetegui: “Number one on the list, the West Ham manager, [they were] shocking today, absolutely abysmal and if he doesn’t sort it out quickly, there will be calls for his head.

“West Ham followers wished David Moyes out, they wished free-flowing attacking football, but I direct you what they did need as successfully, they wished results, and factual now, they ain’t getting them.”

Cundy added: “They’re getting none of that, they’re getting no free-flowing attacking football, they’re getting no tidy sheets or very few of them, no results.

“Today in the first half, for the first 25-30 minutes, they were a disgrace, not laying a glove on Chelsea.”

Sooner than declaring: “They were on the end of a humbling defeat at home to Chelsea, he [Lopetegui] needs to sort that out quickly, because things aren’t going well for West Ham right now.”

Eddie Howe

Howe’s Newcastle fell to their first defeat of the season at Craven Cottage, the put they had been outplayed by Fulham to behold them fall to sixth in the table.

Alive to to level out Newcastle’s results this term acquire flattered them a small, O’Hara acknowledged: “They haven’t been playing well, but they’ve picked up results, and that today was a humbling defeat.”

Cundy then acknowledged: “They’ve not been great, you could almost predict a defeat was on it’s way for Newcastle, because the games they’ve played, even though they beat your mob [Tottenham], you lot should have got the next goal at 1-1.

“They had been 1-0 down in opposition to Wolves, managed to come again back, they had been a small fortuitous with the function [Fabian Schar equaliser], it took a deflection and that made it 1-1 and they went on and obtained the three components.

“But it does feel like it was coming for Newcastle, they’ve picked up the points, they’re sixth, it’s been a really good start, but that’s not a great result – 3-1 away at Fulham.”

Gary O’Neil

The third manager in Cundy and O’Hara ultimate Premier League losers list, Wolves boss O’Neil will doubtless be feeling the heat at Molineux.

Wolves fell to a unhurried defeat at Villa Park no matter leading at half of-time to trot away the Midlands outfit bottom of the table without a gain and four losses from 5 fixtures.

Cundy acknowledged of Wolves’ awful birth: “I still think that Gary O’Neil is going to be a brilliant manager, he’s going to find a way to get Wolves out of this, but right now, they need something.

“They desire a small bit of the rub of the green, they need something to build up out of it, because or now now not it is now now not admire they’re now now not competing in video games, because they’ve done.

“They’re a side at the moment that are just desperate for a little bit of good fortune, so even though I’m putting Gary in there, I’m backing him to turn it around.

“Nevertheless they need something and they need something mercurial.”