Martin Demichelis says Manchester City are favourites

The most loathed teams in the Premier League have been revealed.

Earlier there was a session from the City women’s team before a staged half-time break and a controlled evacuation at the end of the event, to test safety procedures.

In the rest of the fixtures on Saturday, Aston Villa defeated Bournemouth (1-0), Crystal Palace defeated Norwich (3-1) and Leicester defeated Sunderland (4-2).

Kasabian are famous followers of the club and “Fire” is played before matches to gear the players up as well as after a home goal. The striker was in scintillating form when deployed upfront and loves playing Tottenham, against whom he has played 10 goals.

Only two clubs received more dislike votes than the Reds, with Liverpool one of the most hated clubs in the Premier League. In the first half, especially, Manuel Pellegrini’s men reiterated that they include some of the best in the League in Yaya, Silva, Kompany and Joe Hart.

It had seemed he had lost that desire after enduring personal problems and becoming unsettled when his agent agitated for a move. Teams that have an attacker that can score 20 or more goals have a massive advantage over the competition. The name’s Mbemba… Chancel Mbemba.

Oxford makes the grade at West Ham!

United have invested heavily this summer but they still look a little light in attacking options following Robin van Persie’s exit, with Wayne Rooney tipped to lead the line for the first few weeks at least. West Ham thoroughly deserved their win but Arsenal did not bother to show up.

There’s been a cauldron of optimism around the Emirates Stadium since Petr Cech’s arrival.

Young Oxford could be a star of the future and the Hammers youth product finished the game with the best pass percentage in the match at 95%.

Manchester City now sits on top of the League Table.

The Citizens were hardly preponderant in pre-season, securing wins against only the 153rd-FIFA-ranked Vietnamese national team and two Australian League sides, but looked sharp and energetic against West Brom on Monday night, recording three goals and a clean sheet at the Hawthorns.

Indeed Tony Pulis, the Albion manager, indicated as much in his post-match media duties. It was nearly as if Cech didn’t have his helmet screwed on properly!

But Brendan Rodgers came back with three points this time around thanks to a moment of individual brilliance from Phillipe Coutinho.

If this doesn’t promise enough attacking improvement, the signing of De Bruyne from Wolfsburg will add another tier to their armoury.

For the second successive close-season, Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has seen his most important forward lured away from Anfield by the promise of Champions League action and a huge pay rise – but this time the results have to be different or else he will surely face the sack. Their game against a relatively low ranked Swansea reminded me less of their previous season.