Score: Chelsea 2 - 2 Hull

Chelsea should have lost this game. Chelsea also could have won it 3-0. Football is ridiculous.

The Blues came flying out of the gate, with Morgan Rogers putting them ahead early and making it look like Hull's fairy-tale start to the season was about to come crashing back to earth. Instead, Hull did what Hull have apparently decided they are going to do this season: they fought. Mohamed Belloumi scored twice before halftime, and suddenly Chelsea were the team hanging on. The defending was, once again, somewhere between questionable and completely unserious.

Chelsea eventually found an equalizer through João Pedro, but Hull had chances to win it and looked far more comfortable than a newly promoted side probably should at Stamford Bridge. And yet Chelsea can legitimately look back at this game and wonder how they didn't win it.

There were major moments early in the match where Chelsea could have been awarded a penalty, and there was another late handball appeal that got plenty of attention. The late one is debatable, but the bigger point is that Chelsea created enough early pressure that, with a couple of different calls and better finishing, this could have been 3-0 before Hull ever got going.

Instead, they nearly lost it.

That tells you pretty much everything you need to know about Chelsea right now. They are wildly entertaining, they are dangerous going forward, and they defend like they have collectively decided that clean sheets are beneath them. Four games, no clean sheets. Xabi Alonso has a very good team going forward. He also has a rather large problem at the other end.

Score: Bournemouth 2 - 2 Brentford

Bournemouth still can't win a football match. They can, however, score goals, and they can certainly concede them.

Kevin Schade scored twice for Brentford, while Bournemouth continued to play the sort of aggressive, front-foot football Marco Rose clearly wants. The problem is that they've now drawn all four of their games. Four games, four draws, four points, and still no wins.

At least this time they didn't blow a two-goal lead. Progress? Maybe. But if Bournemouth are going to play this way all season, they are going to be involved in approximately 900 incredibly entertaining 2-2 draws.

And honestly, I don't hate it.

Score: Villa 1 - 2 Forest

Aston Villa are in trouble.

One point from four games. One. They still can't score consistently, and now they've lost at home to Nottingham Forest, who hadn't exactly looked like world-beaters coming into this one.

Forest weren't dominant, but they were organized, competitive and dangerous enough to punish Villa when the chances came. Igor Jesus scored the late winner to give Forest their first win at Villa Park in 32 years, and suddenly Oliver Glasner's side look like they might be a much bigger problem for the league than people expected.

Villa, meanwhile, just look lost. Unai Emery has a lot of work to do, because whatever they were supposed to be at the start of the season, they're not there yet.

Score: Palace 2 - 3 Ipswich

Ipswich are alive. Very much alive.

This was a proper mess of a football game. Palace took the lead, Ipswich equalized, Palace went ahead again, Ipswich equalized again, and then Zian Flemming decided that three points sounded more fun than one and scored the winner in stoppage time.

Palace also had Axel Disasi sent off in the first half, which didn't exactly make their lives easier. The bigger issue is the defending. Palace have now conceded seven goals in their first two home league games, and that's not sustainable.

Ipswich, meanwhile, have now picked up six points from four games. Preseason predictions had them down near the bottom. They don't seem particularly interested in following the script.

Score: Liverpool 0 - 0 Fulham

Liverpool are going to have to figure out what they are doing in midfield.

This was not good. Fulham were the more dangerous team for long stretches and repeatedly found ways through Liverpool's midfield. The Reds' attack never really clicked, and while the Champions League schedule and rotation certainly didn't help, there wasn't enough here from Liverpool. Andoni Iraola himself acknowledged that his side lacked freshness.

At Anfield, against Fulham, you should probably create more than this.

Not a disaster, but the midfield is becoming a thing. And when Alexis Mac Allister isn't available, Liverpool look considerably less stable.

Score: Spurs 0 - 0 Everton

Tottenham have played four Premier League games. They have scored zero goals.

This is becoming impressive, and not in a good way.

Roberto De Zerbi has attacking players, ideas, possession and enough talent that scoring zero goals in four games starts to feel almost impossible. And yet here we are. Everton weren't exactly lighting the world on fire either, but they were organized and comfortable enough to make Spurs look completely toothless.

In fact, this is the first time in Tottenham's history that they've failed to score in each of their opening four league games. That's not a statistic you want your club breaking.

At some point, Tottenham need to stop talking about the process and put the bloody ball in the net.

Score: Black Cats 0 - 2 Gunners

Arsenal won. Of course they did. Four games, four wins, twelve points, top of the league. But let's talk about that penalty, because Mikel Arteta really needs to let this one go.

Was it a great penalty call? No. Was Dan Ballard doing his best impression of a professional wrestler? Yes. Ezri Konsa had his arms around him and had two handfulls shirt. Ballard then helped himself to a little bit of theatrical gymnastics, but there was enough actual holding there that I don't think Arsenal can pretend the referee simply invented the foul.

VAR agreed. David Raya then saved the penalty anyway, before Bruno Guimarães scored an absolute beauty and Bukayo Saka finished the job with a stoppage-time penalty.

What bothers me about Arteta isn't that he complained. Managers complain about referees. That's football. It's the way he does it. He's clearly trying to get the next call, and I understand the logic. If you convince officials that your team is constantly being wronged, maybe eventually you get the benefit of the doubt. Fine.

But there is a difference between working the officials and acting like the sport has suffered some great moral injustice because a referee called a penalty against your centre-back while your centre-back had both arms around the attacker. At some point, just take the three points and go home.

Arsenal were not robbed. They won 2-0.

And the more interesting takeaway is probably that they had to work for it. Sunderland gave them plenty to think about, Raya had to make big saves, and the game was much more competitive than the final score suggests. Arsenal are four for four, and when they're not playing particularly well, they are still finding ways to win. That's usually a pretty useful trait.

Score: Coventry 0 - 5 Brighton

Take a bow, Lewis Dunk because that was outrageous. Brighton are fun. Very, very fun.

Five goals, five different scorers, and because Brighton apparently wanted to make sure everyone remembers they have defenders too, Lewis Dunk decided to score from about 35 yards. Why not?

This is becoming one of those teams where you look at the team sheet and wonder who's actually going to score, and then everyone scores. Brighton have now put five past Coventry and look like one of the most entertaining teams in the league.

Coventry, meanwhile, are in serious trouble. Four games, zero points, ten goals conceded, and now a five-goal hiding. Welcome to the Premier League.

Score: United 0 - 1 City

United were robbed. There really isn't much getting around that.

City spent most of the match with ten men, and United failed to take advantage. Then Erling Haaland scored the winner after VAR overturned the original offside decision, with the controversy centering on whether Enzo Fernández, who was in an offside position, interfered with the play. The decision has since come under serious scrutiny. Scrutiny? Okay, just plain wrong. Apparently the VAR forgot to consider if Enzo was active in the play and therefor offside… Really? Just forgot? Pro Ref get your house in order.

So yes, United have every right to be furious about the goal.

But United should still be concerned, because they were absolutely dreadful after City went down to ten men. You have a man advantage at home in a Manchester derby and should be taking control of the game. Instead, City looked more comfortable. That's the part United can't blame on VAR.

They actually looked better when the game was 11 v 11. Once City went down to ten, United somehow got worse. That's a massive problem.

Michael Carrick can complain about the goal all he wants, and he'd have every right to do so. But somewhere inside the United dressing room, someone needs to be asking why a team with an extra man spent the second half looking like they were the team trying to hang on.

The refereeing decision might explain the result. It doesn't explain the performance.

Score: Leeds 4 - 1 Magpies

Leeds are ridiculous.

They absolutely destroyed Newcastle. Four goals, three in the first half, and Newcastle looked like they had forgotten they were supposed to be playing football.

Lewis Miley turned the ball into his own net, Jayden Bogle made it two, Dominic Calvert-Lewin got the third and Noah Okafor added the fourth. Newcastle eventually got a consolation, but it didn't matter.

Leeds were faster, stronger and more aggressive. They were better at basically everything, and Dominic Calvert-Lewin looked like a man who has decided he would quite like to remind everyone that he's still very good at football.

Leeds are unbeaten after four games, with eight points and a place near the top of the table. Suddenly that whole "Leeds are going to be annoying" thing from last week is looking less like a joke and more like a warning.

Newcastle, meanwhile, have some questions to answer. They've changed a lot over the summer, lost some enormous players and are trying to build something new under Matthias Jaissle. That's going to take time, but getting bullied like this isn't ideal.