Premiership Plus Predictions Game - Week 4 Update

 

Happy Labor Day, PPPers - I hope you've enjoyed a relaxing long weekend. I'm back with the usual weekly update on our game standings. It was a right old goalfest in the Premier League this weekend, with three hat-tricks on Saturday alone. Of course, because these were the first hat-tricks of the season, several of you were on the text to me to ask how we were going to sort it all out points-wise. So, here's my ruling on it: based on the premise of the first hat-trick, I've given Son Heung-Min the honors, as his third goal went in at the 66th minute of the 3pm GMT match with Burnley, while Erling Haaland scored his in stoppage time against Fulham. Irish hotshot Evan Ferguson then popped up with another hat-trick in the late kickoff between Brighton and Newcastle. So, just about all of us got 1 point for picking Haaland - sadly, no one plumped for Son. 

What else is going on. City are still romping it at the top, with Haaland now on 6 goals from 4 matches. Spurs, Liverpool and Arsenal are now in the European slots, so lots of points all-round for those. Even West Ham Rising didn't pick his Hammers to make Europe this season, so a big, fat raspberry for that one. At the bottom, Everton have joined in on the fun, joining Luton and Burnley, so several points for those teams. 

At the top of the Championship, plucky old Preston North End are top of the pops - of course, no one picked them. Still plenty of points all round for picks for Leicester, Ipswich and Birmingham. Real are still top of La Liga, Inter have taken top spot in Italy and the crazy Bundesliga season has now tossed up Bayer Leverkusen in the top spot there. 

It all means that Teddy is top of the charts for another week, albeit with Someone Said in hot pursuit. Here are the current standings: 

1. Teddy Goalesevelt - 42 points

2. Someone Said - 41 pts

3. Blue Devil - 39 pts

4. Gooner71 - 36 pts

-  United We Stand - 36 pts

-  West Ham Rising - 36 pts

7. Bee's Knees - 35 pts

-  Man Utd Rules - 35 pts

9. MOT the Hoople - 34 pts

10. oticoN - 33 pts

11. Red Dragon - 33 pts

12. Red Devil 1FCK - 23 pts