Premier League roundup: Biggest stories from Matchday 5

Coventry City picked up its first Premier League win since 2001

Coventry City won the English Championship at a canter last season, but it's found the Premier League to be a much harder prospect to crack: It lost its opening four games by a combined score of 0-10. Blame it on what you want — a skill gap between the two divisions, the untimely injury to American striker Haji Wright, poor management by coach Frank Lampard — but at the end of the day, results are results, and Coventry simply wasn't getting any.

Until now. Beleaguered Coventry beat Nottingham Forest 1-0 to take home its first Premier League victory in 25 years and climb up to the dizzying heights of 18th. It's not much, but it's a start — and with winnable fixtures against Spurs and Fulham coming in the near future, it's one Coventry might be able to build upon.

Manchester United rescued a point but remained in crisis

Brazilian attacker Matheus Cunha spared Manchester United's blushes this week with his 89th-minute equalizer against 19th-placed Fulham. The goal earned United a much-needed point on the road and took some of the pressure off coach Michael Carrick, whose performance this season has already led some of Britain's top pundits to start dropping phrases like "doom spiral." But let's be absolutely clear here: A late Cunha equalizer does not a season make. United will not be in the headlines as the Premier League's biggest crisis club this week, but it is absolutely not out of the woods yet.

Spurs hit unfathomable new lows

No, the crisis club award will undoubtedly go to Tottenham Hotspur. The London club — still less than two years out from winning the Europa League, remember — fell 3-2 to Aston Villa and dropped to dead last in the Premier League table. Coach Roberto De Zerbi spent over 400 million Euro on players this summer just to create a Spurs side that looks shakier and less confident than the one that came before it.

The match was interesting because Spurs appeared to be in the ascendancy for large stretches of it. Aston Villa, though, managed to take its chances and beat Spurs down to a 3-0 deficit before Spurs fought back to bring the score closer. 

"It's difficult to explain because, in my career, 14 years as a coach, I've never seen one team like us," said De Zerbi after the loss. "So fragile, so inconsistent. You're good, or you're bad. You can't be very good in the first 30, 40 minutes, and then concede like this in this way. It's tough to accept for me."

It's tough to accept for the fans, too. The stadium supporters began exiting the park en masse well before the final whistle in protest of the team's fragility.