Manchester United lost to the team with the Premier League’s smallest payroll

Manchester United finally got found out on Saturday, if you’re of the mind that they’re not nearly as good as their point total. Bournemouth took them out in the best game of the day in the Premier League, which featured fewer goals than we’re used to seeing. Manchester City are now on top of the table thanks to a deflected goal, but possibly only for a day or two -- Arsenal play on Sunday, while Leicester play on Monday.

Saturday’s scores

Bournemouth have pulled off the two biggest results in their history over the last two weeks, beating Chelsea and Manchester United consecutively. This goal by Junior Stanislas was the biggest highlight, but far from the only one -- the Cherries were tactically superior to United on the day and deserved their win.

United had to play this game with a squad that looked like one from a post-season friendly. Injuries thrust various youth team players into the squad, but there were also senior international stars like Juan Mata, Marouane Fellaini, Anthony Martial and Michael Carrick in the team. Red Devils supporters won’t care to hear any excuses, especially after their collapse against Wolfsburg midweek.

Everton have looked great at times this season, with Gerard Deulofeu and Romelu Lukaku looking like legitimate superstars. But they haven’t been able to turn their good starts into wins very often, and they’re tied for the league lead with eight draws. Come the end of the season, if they’re just a small handful of points out of European places, they’ll remember this run.

It’s easy to forget that Watford are a good team. They’re not on TV very often and they’ve lost to all of the big teams. But they’re winning the games they’re supposed to win, and they’ve grabbed a lot of solid points on the road too. Their victory away to Sunderland on Saturday pushed them up to seventh place, just four points out of the top four. And the way their strike pairing of Odion Ighalo and Troy Deeney is playing, there’s no reason they can’t keep this up and comfortably finish in the top half.

Here is the manager of the best team in the Premier League, who are easily the favorites to win the title, about a 2-1 win over a team that just fired their beloved coach who had an 11-year relationship with the club, because they were so bad.

“Without the last two minutes of the match, I think 1-0 would be the perfect game for us ... I think that we showed the spirit of this team when we were drawing 1-1. We knew we weren’t playing that well but we also knew we had to find another goal and fortunately, we did.”

Y’all. This season.

The Saints were poor against Palace and have fallen to 12th. Their next three games are against Tottenham, then Arsenal, then away to West Ham. Ronald Koeman is screwed.