EPL Review: Ancelloti Out, Torres Rout, Arsenal Win Ugly, and Spurs

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It was a weekend to remember in the Premiership. Thirty-seven goals were scored over the 10 fixtures, the Chelsea machine was finally beaten, Fernando Torres beat Hull, and Arsenal finally won without playing well.

There was a multitude of great stories on Saturday, starting with Chelsea’s shock defeat to Wigan at the DW stadium.

In the Latics' last two games against teams from the “Big-Four,” they had conceded nine goals, and the same was expected against Carlo Ancellotti’s high flying Chelsea. But a strangely muted performance by the Premier League’s trend setters left them well off the pace as Roberto Martinez’s men capitalized on their off day.

Titus Bramble opened the scoring for Wigan before Didier Drogba drew Chelsea level against the run of play. All that hard work went to waste as Petr Cech gave away a penalty and got dismissed into the bargain, Hugo Rodellaga scored the resulting penalty, and Paul Scharner rubbed salt in the wounds with a third in injury time.

How Chelsea respond from this will be very interesting to see. Last season everything was going well until the Pensioners were beaten by Liverpool and the wheels quickly came off the wagon as in-fighting engulfed the club.

There is already a mass of factions and huge friction in the corridors of power at Chelsea; so far it has not affected the team...

The embattled Phil Brown led Hull to the last place he wanted to bring them. Fortress Anfield.

They made a game of it for 28 minutes though.

Fernando Torres scored a memorable hat-trick before leaving the pitch in the 66th minute for Ryan Babel who added another two. The second of which was one of the biggest flukes you’re ever likely to see.

Speaking of which, Steven Gerrard’s goal was a bit of a fluke, too.

Brown rounded on his team after the match, saying their performance wasn’t worthy of the jersey and that their defending was disgraceful.

For a manager who has only won a handful of matches since he made his team sit in the middle of a pitch last year to come out with stuff like this really shows that he isn’t learning.

I’d give him a maximum of two games to get full points, otherwise he’s gone.

Hull has conceded 16 goals in their last four games and is in absolute freefall. Relegation seems almost a certainty at this stage of the season.

They do have a good run of fixtures depending on your point of view. Every one of their next five is a relegation six-pointer. They play Wigan, Fulham, Portsmouth, Burnley, and Stoke.

Everton were the latest team to inflict defeat upon hapless Paul Hart and Portsmouth. Somewhat fortuitously one might add. Louis Saha scored the only goal of the game, but Pompey was denied a point by at least four goal line clearances.

When your luck is gone, it’s really gone.

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