
Liverpool made it five Premier League wins from as many games with this afternoon's 2-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur in Wembley.
Chelsea, though, have also recorded a ideal start after Eden Hazard scored a hat-trick in the 4-1 win over Cardiff City, allowing them to edge past Liverpool on goal difference at the top of the Premier League.
Liverpool are now second in the Premier League table behind Chelsea on goal difference and their next match will be against PSG in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday, September 18.
Georginio Wijnaldum - 7 - Scored his first Premier League goal away from home and formed a focal component of Liverpool's high-octane central midfield.
Lamela pulled one back in added time for Spurs, who were supposed to open their new stadium with the game before it was pushed back by construction delays.
'We were not really in a competition with Man City in the Premier League last season. They could and should have suffered a heavier defeat.
The Reds beat Tottenham 2-1 on Saturday with goals from Wijnaldum and Roberto Firmino sealing the win. Spurs were unable to cope with the pace of the visitors' counter-attacks.
It has been suggested the England global needs a rest after helping his nation reach the World Cup semi-finals, having also won the Golden Boot in Russian Federation.
Joe Gomez - 7 - A mature performance against one of the best strikers in world football.
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"Maybe I repeat again but after Manchester United, all the signals from the team were that we were going to crash".
On this evidence, Spurs face another season of disappointment in the title race, but Liverpool are unquestionably the real deal.
The defeat came on the back of another 2-1 reverse at the hands of Watford prior to the worldwide break, with Spurs now falling six points behind Chelsea and Liverpool at the top of the table.
Soon enough, Wijnaldum headed Liverpool in front from a corner, capitalising on a poor punch from goalkeeper Michel Vorm.
"But all I can tell you as a player is I am happy when a player like Virgil signs and walks into the dressing room because then you think, "yeah, we can really achieve something with this team".
'It's fantastic that we've won all five games.
"Come on. If, against Liverpool at Wembley, you do not have the desire and the focus to play, it is not about playing well, it is about attitude and to say, "Hey, come on, we are aggressive and we try to win". Liverpool are not scheduled on the back of an global break? "That is how it is, the body needs the time only to calm down from an intense season - they didn't have it".
Toby Alderweireld and Jan Vertonghen were selected as the defensive partnership in the middle but the pair of Belgium internationals both have question marks around their future, with Alderweireld widely linked with a move to Manchester United in the summer and Vertonghen, now 31, heading into the latter years of his career.
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