Leaders dictate the action as Liverpool and Leicester both win, while Mourinho finds Manchester a difficult place to play and Wilder explodes at VAR at Bramall Lane

To say some teams are struggling would be to reduce an opera to the jingle at the end of a dog food advert. Arsenal imploded at home to Brighton to stay behind Sheffield United, Wolves and Crystal Palace in 10th place. Burnley demonstrated the kind of defending that deserved the music from Monty Python’s Flying Circus accompanying it. And the less said about Norwich’s clowns-struggling-to-exit-a-rickshaw motif the better.

Others are finding winning Premier League games like shelling a single pea with the whole day to do it. Liverpool demonstrated that it was simply a matter of how many they would score past Everton; Leicester had the control of a chess grand master teaching a toddler not to eat crayons at home to Watford. In the Midlands, Wolves clipped West Ham’s wings like Rocky catching a chicken if the chicken had already been cooked in breadcrumbs and served with fries.

Liverpool 5-2 Everton