Premiership: The Best of Week 2

While this week definitely had games of great importance (such as the champions, Manchester City, laying the stain on last year's runner up, Liverpool), it unfortunately had a bit of a drought in terms of spectacular goals.  Plenty of text-book finishes, which are always important, but don't grab you like a ball curling perfectly into the upper 90.  Never-the-less, we did see a few sparkling runs topped off by a brilliant finish, not to mention some super-human work by the keepers, so here they are.

The Goals:
Coming in at number 5 is Marouane Chamakh's right footed shot from just outside the box that finds it's way to the bottom left corner.  While the game was almost completely dominated by the men from West Ham, this goal came from a particularly clean bit of play down the left side of the pitch by Crystal Palace.  After receiving the short cross, Chamakh takes only one touch to settle the ball before burying it.

At number 4 we have the Irishman, Séamus Coleman, beating his defender and placing the ball in the top corner.  All stemming from a set piece around the half field line, Gareth Barry finds himself unmarked at the top of the 18 leading to the inch perfect chip that finds the head of Coleman.

The number 3 goal beats out Coleman's header purely because of the run of play that leads up to it.  While the finish was great, it was Lamela's run that made the goal possible.  His change of direction and allowing the ball roll past before taking a touch, while a subtle move, was what allowed him to get the step on the defender and send the cross perfectly across the box and find the head of Nacer Chadli.

At number 2, we have Manchester City's Stevan Jovetić with his cool, calm  and collected finish against Liverpool to give City their first goal of the game.  Jovetic shows great tenacity following up on a botched clearance, then running through the attempted clean up clearance by Liverpool's Moreno, to finally place the ball right through Mignolet's legs into the back of the net.

And finally, our Goal of the Week comes again from the WHU vs. Crystal Palace game.  In the 33' with the teams still level, Mauro Zárate strikes a volley from a high bouncing ball, through traffic and into the side netting.  Showing amazing composure not to completely sky and/or shank the ball coming down quickly, Zárate has very clearly earned the Goal of the Week.

Save: 
For this week, the award for best save doesn't go to a single save, or even a single keeper.  This week we wanted to recognize the clinic that was but on by the keepers in the Chelsea vs. Leicester City game.  The two keepers in question, last week's Save of the Week recipient, Thibaut Courtois, and Kasper Schmeichel, stood on their heads for the majority of the game, and it was unfortunate to see a break down towards the end of the game for Schmeichel's defense.  However, Courtois proving that Mourinho's faith in him was not misplaced, and Schmeichel displaying one of the big reasons that newly promoted LC are here to stay, are both worthy of commendation and for this reason, we award them Co-Keepers of the Week.