This weekend saw three blockbuster match-ups, Manchester United hosted Chelsea in what was an explosive encounter filled with controversy, big moments, and jeopardy. Liverpool and Everton locked horns as the Merseyside derby resumed with the usual intensity and bitter rivalry that characterises this fixture. And finally, Manchester City and Arsenal faced off again.

While these games were rife with talking points, there was a lot of action elsewhere. Brentford and Fulham played out a thrilling four goal encounter, Aston Villa finally scored a goal, and Tottenham came back from two goals down to share the points in a 2-2 draw at The Amex.

Here are all the winners and losers from gameweek 5 of Premier League action.

Before his goal and assist in quick succession against Brentford, Alex Iwobi had tried to play a couple of quick through balls to the feet his teammates on the counter. Those attempts didn't come off as he intended but the one he played for Harry Wilson's goal was a thing of beauty, Willson didn't even have to take a touch to curl the ball around Kelleher and give Fulham the lead. Iwobi seems to have gone to another level in his role as Fulham's free-role player. Marco Silva trusts him with the license to roam and take up whatever position he deems best regardless of where he starts. While he is a very hard worker and incredibly efficient in facilitating play, it seems like he is beginning to add a new layer of creativity to his game. Marco Silva's Fulham continues to generate internal solutions to their problems quite admirably.

When Chelsea went down to ten men after only five minutes, Enzo Maresca panicked. He took off Estevao for Jorgensen which was not surprising, but then he also immediately took off Pedro Neto for Tosin Adarabioyo opting for three centerbacks on the pitch. A few minutes later he took out Cole Palmer for Andrey Santos. Those changes left Chelsea with no forward outlet except Joao Pedro. That left Chelseas with almost eighty minutes of the game to play with almost no ability to get the ball up the pitch effectively.

Against a Liverpool or Arsenal, this might have been okay, but against a badly struggling Manchester United team, he could surely have afforded to be a little less conservative in his approach and allowed his team play a little before making so many wholesale changes. Casemiro's red card changed the texture of the game and restored parity, but Chelsea found it hard to capitalise, Maresca had played his hand far too quickly.

Everyone wondered how Andoni Iraola's team would cope after losing 3/4 of their backline during the transfer window. The answer is that they've not coped, they seem to have gone up another level. It's only five games in so it's too early to call but they sit fourth on the table right now with ten points after five games. It's about as impressive a reaction to losing so many key players as you can imagine. Whether they can keep up this form and qualify for Europe this season is up in the air, but it's been a very impressive start regardless of what happens from here on out.

Two defeats and one draw, that's Ange Postecoglou's record at Nottingham Forest so far. One of those defeats came against Swansea in midweek, and the draw came last weekend against newly promoted Burnley. To say that those results are subpar given the level of the club's ambitions right now would be a serious understatement. Forest fans must be wondering what they've gotten themselves into, and the answer is that none of us really know. What we do know is that when you hand a squad built to play low-possesion, deep-bock, counter-attacking football to a manager known for the exact opposite of each of those principles, well, things might take some time before they start looking up — if they ever do look up.

I can absolutely guarantee you that Gabriel Martinelli does not care what people are saying about the result against Manchester City. He will be over the moon that he grabbed another goal contribution when Arsenal looked like they couldn't penetrate a defensively resolute team for the second time this week. That's three goals and assists in his last two games for the Brazillian winger who most people had written off at the start of the season. As a day one Martinelli fan who has never switched up even when things have been difficult, I'm delighted for him, and I hope that he can continue to deliver and maybe even force his way back into the conversation for a starting berth in the team.

Vitor Perreira is in the hot seat at the moment. That's five defeats in their first five games for Wolves, which leaves them rock bottom of the table, the only team yet to pick up a point so far. Last weekend's game against newly promoted Leeds United offered the perfect opportunity to put some points on the table against a team they might be fighting for survival against. But they fell 1-3 to Leeds at the Molineux in front of home fans who are surely beginning to realise that they might very well be relegated this season. If anything is going to change, it has to change really quickly or else it will be Vitor's head on the chopping block as the clubs management begins to look for solutions elsewhere.