Gameweeek 7 was a matchweek to forget for most punters as some of the league’s biggest teams suffered horror defeats against opponents you would usually consider to be subpar.

The gameweek kicked off to a strong start as Aston Villa dismantled Brighton to a 6-1 thumping at Villa Park. Ollie Watkins grabbed himself a hattrick as De Zerbi’s men were put to the sword despite their fine form this season which might see them contest for European football yet again.

Man United would succumb to a shock 1-0 defeat to Crystal Palace after comfortably beating them 3-0 midweek in the Carabao cup.

The biggest spectacle of the day, and the match that probably cut the betslips of most punters would come at the Molineux, as Man City went home without a point due to a shock away defeat to Wolverhampton Wanderers which denied them the chance of pulling forward early in the title race.

Wolves winger Pedro Neto was on top form for Wolves as he ran down the wing, beat Ake with ease, before sending in a low cross from the right that Dias slided in to make the block but inadvertently diverted the ball past Ederson to gift Wolves their first goal.

Moments later in the second half, Julian Alvarez replied with what would turn out to be nothing but a consolation goal for Man City as Hwang Hee-Chan gifted Wolves the lead yet again in the 66th minute, 8 minutes after Alvarez’s equalizer.

Watching that game, Rodri’s absence was quite evident and proved to be hurtful to City’s gameplay. Prior to this game, City had earlier got knocked out of the Carabao cup by Newcastle in the third round of the cup tournament.

Despite that loss to Newcastle having far more obvious factors at play, such as Ederson, Kyle Walker, Ruben Dias, John Stones, Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden and Erling Haaland all being absent, City’s three defeats without Rodri were still extremely telling.

During City’s loss to Wolves, many pundits and Guardiola himself, came out and lamented Kovacic’s use of the ball with correlation to how many times he gave the ball away. “The fact we didn’t have Rodri, I wanted to put more protection with the ball, players who are really good with the ball,” Guardiola said, explaining why he overloaded the middle of the pitch with three midfielders and two ‘wingers’ who tucked inside.

On a lighter note, Luton created a bit of history for themselves as they secured their first ever PL win against Everton at Goodison Park. Tom Lockyer opened the scoring for Luton on the 24th minute, with Carlton Morris adding another 7 minutes later. Dominic Calvert-Lewin would pull one back for Everton before halftime but that would be it for the game as the second half was goalless.

To round up the Saturday games was Tottenham Hotspurs and Liverpool, which would be riddled with controversy as Liverpool, whom were reduced to 9-man, lost the game in the dying moments to a Joel Matip own goal.

Besides the debatable red card given to Liverpool’s Curtis Jones, The boys in red were also denied a blatantly onside Luis Diaz goal which was chalked off due to poor VAR assistance.

The resulting effect of the dismal use of the Video Assistant Referee then gave rise to a global footballing discussion, Is VAR killing our sport? What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments section.