Top Four Premier League Opening Goal Scorers, Chelsea And Manchester City Fighting For Top Spot

Scoring first always helps…

Scoring first always helps, and these are the teams that are the best at doing it so far this season in the Premier League. In a campaign of surprises these teams have at least made the best starts to their games.

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Unsurprisingly they’re all near the top of the league…

=2) Swansea City, 7 opening goals

The Swans have enjoyed a strong start to the season, and this has been helped by starting the scoring in most of their games.

=2) Southampton, 7 opening goals

The Saints have had an even better start than Swansea, but have only opened the scoring in the same amount of games.

=2) Manchester City, 7 opening goals

Manuel Pellegrini’s side have been having a bad campaign by their standards, but have still started games well. It’s what has happened afterwards that has gone wrong.

1) Chelsea, 8 opening goals

Unsurprisingly the Stamford Bridge outfit are top of the league. You don’t go unbeaten in all competitions without taking the lead first a lot.