Like Guardiola, Chelsea coach Antonio Conte also is in his first season in English football and has begun with consecutive 2-1 wins, the latest coming at Watford.
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Liverpool crashed to an embarrassing 2-0 defeat at Burnley on Saturday, while Manchester City crushed Stoke City 4-1 to extend Pep Guardiola’s ideal start in the Premier League.
The 29-year-old revealed in the summer that he turned down Barcelona to move to City and join up with new boss Pep Guardiola. “Everybody needs to be more clinical”. If you win, you deserve it. “We have to say it wasn’t enough today”.
“We saw again an awesome team spirit, how they communicate between each other, how they celebrated the goals and how they celebrated afterwards with the fans”.
Watford looked on course for its first Premier League victory over Chelsea since 1999 when Etienne Capoue smashed a left-footed shot into the top corner in the 55th. Then, five minutes into stoppage time, Iheanacho dummied a long ball through and Sterling ran through, before passing sideways to Nolito who stroked the ball into an empty net.
“I liked everything I saw”.
“I feel that they like that we’re here”, he added.
Manchester City was arguably flattered by the 4-1 scoreline at Stoke.
The Argentine forward doubled his tally nine minutes later, nipping ahead of Glenn Whelan to meet a sumptuous Kevin de Bruyne free kick and send a fine header across Shay Given and into the far corner of the goal.
“I am really impressed with the players as human beings and with their performance”, said Guardiola.
Arsenal offered more attacking objective in a tight opening 45 minutes although it did little to trouble Leicester’s defensive unit.
The talking points from the fixture centred around the awarding of two penalties by referee Mike Dean for either side which may have been allowed to slide in previous campaigns.
Tottenham 1 Crystal Palace 0: A tough match for Spurs who struggle in creating solid opportunities through the first two weeks of the season, but Harry Kane got the ball through to Victor Wanyama, providing Spurs with their first win of the season.
Hull City became the first promoted side since Bolton Wanderers in 2001 to win its opening two matches when it triumphed 2-0 at Swansea City.
Bayern opens the new Bundesliga season next Friday when the defending champion hosts Werder Bremen.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored twice to make it 3 goals in his first two matches for the Red Devils, proving he scored on any team, in any league.
A staid first half came to life in the final minutes when Danny Drinkwater was felled by Laurent Koscielny but referee Mark Clattenburg waved away frantic appeals from Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez, prompting a cacophony of boos from the home fans.
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Belgian global striker Christian Benteke became Crystal Palace’s record signing Saturday as the Premier League club paid £27million ($35m) with add-ons to end his unhappy spell at rivals Liverpool.
