Key events
Final score: Brentford 1-2 Liverpool
Final score: Manchester City 3-2 Ipswich
Red card! Brentford go down to nine men!
Final score: Fulham 1-0 Hull City
Red card! Fulham go down to 10 men!
GOAL! Manchester City 3-2 Ipswich (Flemming, 90 mins)
Penalty to Ipswich!
Disallowed! Still Manchester City 3-1 Ipswich!
GOAL! Manchester City 4-1 Ipswich (Haaland, 85 mins)
GOAL! Brentford 1-2 Liverpool (Isak, 70 mins)
GOAL! Manchester City 3-1 Ipswich (Haaland, 69 mins)
GOAL! Brentford 1-1 Liverpool (Munoz, 62 mins)
Half-time scores
Brentford down to 10 men!
Half time: Fulham 1-0 Hull City
GOAL! Brentford 1-0 Liverpool (Lewis-Potter, 44 mins)
Penalty to Liverpool (but it’ll be overturned)!
GOAL! Manchester City 2-1 Ipswich (Haaland, 34 mins)
GOAL! Fulham 1-0 Hull City (Iwobi, 33 mins)
GOAL! Manchester City 1-1 Ipswich (Maeda, 21 mins)
GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Ipswich (Foden, 18 mins)
Premier League team news
Preamble
And with that, I’m done. But don’t go away! Instead head here, for Newcastle 0-0 Aston Villa:
Phil Foden has a very broad grin, and an inflatable banana, after a goal and a win:
It wasn’t pretty. They played a really good game, pressed us high, made it really difficult at times. It’s about how you overcome a situation, to come away with three points was the main thing today and we’re all really happy. It was an amazing feeling. I’ve missed a few big chances this season, and I knew it was a matter of time before it came. I’m obviously delighted to score and help the team, but it was just about getting the three points because it puts us in a very good situation in the league.
It hasn’t affected us one bit [the legal shenanigans]. We’ve just stuck together and done what we normally do, focus on the games. We have great characters and leaders in the changing room and nothing has changed.
And here’s Andoni Iraola:
A lot of things happened during the game. The first half more or less level, but after they scored, second half we need the comeback. I think we played very well until the 2-1, and then we started to protect something. I think we didn’t manage well the last minutes. Some of the players had quite clear chances to finish the game, we had two or three super clear chances, and we lacked some composure on the ball.
Liverpool’s Alexander Isak talks victory at Brentford, and his very smartly-taken goal:
Super, super happy with the win. It’s a tough ground, it’s a tough team to play, especially away from home. We knew it was going to be a fight, and it’s important to come out on top. My goal was more about concentration, because I didn’t have too many chances. I was waiting for my moment and that was the one. I just tried to get control of the ball and finish as quickly as possible, and luckily it went in. When they go a man down obviously they protect their goal a bit more, so there’s not much space to play in. You’ve got to be ready when the chance pops up.
And finally, Newcastle’s home game against Aston Villa is about to kick off. Rob Smyth is watching that one, here:
Finally, Jacob Steinberg on Liverpool’s victory over nine-man Brentford:
If this truly was the turning point for Liverpool’s spluttering forwards then they will owe a big debt of gratitude to Yehor Yarmolyuk. Brentford were 1-0 up when their midfielder saw red for a headbutt on Jérémy Jacquet just before half-time and, while Andoni Iraola will hope that surviving one of the toughest tests the Premier League has to offer is a sign his methods are starting to take hold, the Spaniard will know it was very different contest once his side had a numerical advantage to exploit.
Brentford, whose unbeaten start to the season is over, raged at the officiating. They finished with nine men after losing Vitaly Janelt late on. John Brooks walked off to boos at full-time, although in truth Keith Andrews’ side only had themselves to blame. They pressed the self-destruct button when they had Liverpool on the ropes.
Much more here:
And here’s Will Unwin on Manchester City’s 3-2 victory over Ipswich:
There have been few winners in Manchester City’s guilty verdict, except highly paid lawyers and the inflatable fruit industry. The fans have suffered, being forced to question everything they have been told, while being labelled “cheats”, but they were able to forget the cacophony of noise around the club as Enzo Maresca became the first manager in history to win his first seven games in charge of a team.
Ipswich were the latest victims but they put up a fight in City’s first home Premier League game since being found to have breached financial rules. Defiance has fortified the majority of the City fanbase, who were able to see local boy Phil Foden instigate the triumph with a kiss of the badge, before an emblem of their wealth, Erling Haaland, secured the points to move six clear of the nearest challengers with a clinical double, albeit with a few scares between.
Much more here:
Here’s Billy Munday’s report on that Fulham win:
After such a dominant performance against a team so blunt going forward, it almost felt inevitable that Álvaro Arbeloa was going to be denied his first Premier League win as Fulham head coach in similar fashion as the weeks and games before. After all their chances and possession, Craven Cottage should not have been a place of nerves when Mohamed Belloumi lined up a free-kick as three minutes of stoppage time were shown.
When the Hull winger blazed that free-kick over the bar – in truth, the closest Hull had come to scoring throughout the second half – the tension was released that little bit more. Despite Ryan Sessegnon’s late red card, the full-time whistle brought a first victory of the season, courtesy of Alex Iwobi’s first-half strike, and a release from the burden of being the Premier League’s basement club.
Much more here:
Alvaro Arbeloa has a post-match chat after Fulham’s first win of the season:
I’m so happy! Happy for my players, for the supporters, for everyone at the club. We deserved this before but today we did a very good game. I can’t believe the game ended only 1-0, but very happy. We were in this situation before, so we were talking this week about the last 10, 15 minutes in the Premier League, we need to control what we can control. We played with personality, with character, with ambition. We controlled the game with the ball. I’m so proud of some of my players because they showed that character.
In League Two the meeting of top-of-the-table Salford and bottom-of-the-table Crawley was not as lopsided as might have been expected but two goals from Macaulay Langstaff saw the favourites win 2-1. Barnet remain hot on their heels after turning a 1-0 half-time deficit into a 2-1 win at Tranmere, both goals from Kabongo Tshimanga. The Bees have two games in hand and still haven’t lost. Neither have Crewe, who were 3-0 up at home to Rochdale with half an hour to play and eventually clung on to win 3-2. Walsall are also unbeaten, with their 1-1 draw at Swindon their seventh stalemate in 10. Unbeaten teams are ten-a-penny in League Two but the only other one in the entire football league is Manchester City.
The league leaders also lost in League One, Plymouth going down 2-0 at home to Huddersfield. So they are overtaken by both Bradford, who won 2-0 at home to Stevenage, and Stockport County, who beat Bromley 1-0. At the bottom Wigan beat Reading 1-0, just their second win of the season, but they remain at the foot of the table. Sheffield Wednesday are the big winners, tonking AFC Wimbledon 5-0.
The Championship table looks like this, with Swansea’s lead at the top trimmed after they lost at home to West Ham, who are now second. Middlesbrough were held at home by Cardiff earlier. At the bottom, Preston, Derby, Burnley and Norwich all lost while Watford took three precious points from Charlton at the end of a turbulent week.
The Premier League thus looks like this, with Manchester City’s lead temporarily stretched to six points and Liverpool vaulting above Brentford and into fifth. Fulham are boosted to 15th, though none of the teams below have played yet this weekend and all of them could overtake.
Herewith your full fulltimely final score rundown:
Premier League
Brentford 1-2 Liverpool
Everton 0-2 Chelsea
Fulham 1-0 Hull
Man City 3-2 Ipswich
Newcastle v Aston Villa
Championship
Birmingham 3-0 QPR
Bristol City 0-1 Sheff Utd
Derby 0-1 Stoke
Middlesbrough 2-2 Cardiff
Millwall 2-2 Lincoln
Norwich 0-1 Portsmouth
Southampton 0-0 Bolton
Swansea 0-1 West Ham
Watford 2-0 Charlton (final score)
West Brom 3-2 Blackburn
Wrexham 4-1 Preston
League One
Barnsley 1-2 Cambridge
Bradford 2-0 Stevenage
Leicester 2-1 Doncaster
Leyton Orient 2-0 Blackpool
MK Dons 2-1 Luton
Peterborough 2-2 Burton
Plymouth 0-2 Huddersfield
Sheff Wed 5-0 AFC Wimbledon
Stockport 1-0 Bromley
Wigan 1-0 Reading
Wycombe 2-0 Notts County
League Two
Accrington 3-1 Gillingham
Colchester 0-0 Exeter
Crewe 3-2 Rochdale
Fleetwood 2-0 Rotherham
Grimsby 0-2 Northampton
Newport 1-1 York
Oldham 4-1 Cheltenham
Port Vale 1-0 Chesterfield
Salford 2-1 Crawley
Shrewsbury 1-0 Bristol Rovers
Swindon 1-1 Walsall
Tranmere 1-2 Barnet
Scottish Premiership
Aberdeen 3-1 St Mirren
Dundee v Rangers (8pm)
Hibernian 1-2 Falkirk
Kilmarnock 3-2 Motherwell
St Johnstone 1-1 Dundee Utd
Final score: Brentford 1-2 Liverpool
And it’s all over at Brentford, who have lost a game for the first time this season. Two red cards for the home side, two goals for the visitors, three points for Liverpool.
Final score: Manchester City 3-2 Ipswich
The final whistle blows in Manchester, where City bank three more points.
But Liverpool should have ended it! Barcola is played into space on the left, but having fluffed a one-on-one in the first half it seems he just doesn’t believe in himself enough to go for goal. Instead he delays, and passes inside to Koumas, who is crowded out before he can shoot.
Still Keith Andrews wants his team to attack! Koumas ends the latest Liverpool counter with a hard, low, but straight-at-the-keeper 20-yarder, and Brentford will keep attacking!
Another update from Simon McMahon: “Dundee United get a point at Perth, but will be disappointed not to take all three, after the Tangerines sweet midfield duo of (Dylan) Tait and Lyall (Cameron) dominated proceedings for much of the 90 minutes. Still, a point’s a point, and United remain in the top six.”
Red card! Brentford go down to nine men!
Ngumoha leads another Liverpool break, but he’s eventually brought down on the edge of the Brentford penalty area by Vitaly Janelt. Janelt has already been booked once for dissent, and that’s the end of his game!
Joe Gomez very slowly takes the ball down the right as the clock ticks to 90 minutes at Brentford. Six minutes’ stoppage time to play there.
Liverpool are no longer in control at Brentford, with the home side committing numbers forward in search of an equaliser. Then they get a chance to break, four on two, only for Barcola to linger on the ball and get robbed of it!
Final score: Fulham 1-0 Hull City
A first win of the season for Fulham! Three precious points lift the Cottagers, temporarily at least, out of the bottom three. Zero shots on target from Hull today.
They’re in the sixth of three minutes’ stoppage time at Craven Cottage, with Vaz now limping off. At Manchester City 12 – twelve! – minutes of stoppage time have been indicated. And at Brentford they’re only in the 86th minute, given all the first-half stoppage time played.
Red card! Fulham go down to 10 men!
Sessegnon has been shown a straight red card for a foul on Robinio Vaz, after catching the Hull player on the heel with a pretty feeble challenge that was made with no hope of or attempt at winning the ball.
GOAL! Manchester City 3-2 Ipswich (Flemming, 90 mins)
Ipswich are back in the game! Donnarumma dives to his right as Zian Flemming’s shot flies down the middle of his goal, and there’s just one in it as the game goes into stoppage time!
Penalty to Ipswich!
The VAR has got involved again, this time to tell the referee to look at Guehi’s challenge on Abdul Fatawu, and the penalty is given!
And while that was happening Barcola hit the bar for Liverpool, with a nice (but not nice enough) floating curler.
Disallowed! Still Manchester City 3-1 Ipswich!
Turns out Fernandez was offside, so VAR intervenes to chalk the goal off and 3-1 it remains.
GOAL! Manchester City 4-1 Ipswich (Haaland, 85 mins)
Great save! And a wonderful goalline clearance! And a hat-trick for Haaland! Enzo Fernandez has the first chance, Ndiaye has the second, but Haaland isn’t going to miss his!
Queen of the South’s comeback has stalled somewhat. Having fought back from 5-0 down to make it, um, 5-1, Brian Graham has scored twice since then, the latest from the spot, to make it 7-1.
From nowhere, a chance for Brentford! A low cross from the left to Igor Thiago, inside the six-yard box, but though he gets in front of Van Dijk he doesn’t get anything on it at all, and the ball is cleared!
GOAL! Brentford 1-2 Liverpool (Isak, 70 mins)
And now Liverpool lead! A cross from the right beyond the pack post, a lovely header down from Barcola to Isak – where most players would have gone for goal, from an unpromising angle – and the striker, in no space at all, manages to take a touch before shooting low across goal and in off a defender!
For the first 15 minutes of the second half, despite being a man up, Liverpool did little to suggest they were capable of penning Brentford back. But the goal has changed all that, and the pressure is now asphyxiating. But Liverpool aren’t actually creating much with it. 20 minutes plus stoppages to play there.
Thriller of the day: Kilmarnock were 1-0 up against Motherwell in the second minute, 2-1 down in the 56th, and they’ve just gone 3-2 up! Also in Scotland, Queen of the South have got on the scoresheet and now trail by just the four goals, 1-5 down at home to goal-crazy Ross County.
GOAL! Manchester City 3-1 Ipswich (Haaland, 69 mins)
An impeccable finish, inevitably, from Haaland surely makes the points safe for City!
GOAL! Brentford 1-1 Liverpool (Munoz, 62 mins)
Liverpool have their equaliser! Victor Munoz is played down the right, chops inside Lewis-Potter and strokes a left-footed shot inside the far post!
Team sheets have landed for the evening Premier League game, and here are the big names:
Newcastle: Hornicek, Miley, Thiaw, Botman, Hall, Gonzalez, Joelinton, Willock, Wissa, Barnes, Fernandez-Pardo. Subs: Pope, Schar, Bamba, Osula, Steur, Toure, Murphy, Burn, Dedic.
Aston Villa: Suzuki, Cash, Lindelof, Mings, Wan-Bissaka, Kamara, Joao Gomes, Alysson, Buendia, Manzambi, Jackson. Subs: Bizot, Harwood-Bellis, Barkley, McGinn, Torres, Mbaye, Bogarde, Goretzka, Madjo.
Referee: Jarred Gillett.
“In some regards, Frimpong reminds me of Reece James, and not in a good way,” writes Joe Pearson. “Seems like every time he gets on the pitch, the next shot we see of him is sitting down getting ready to be subbed off for injury. He appears to have a lot of potential, but we never get to see it. Sigh.” Today has been pretty ugly for him, very much putting the pong into Frimpong. Another layoff beckons.
Liverpool are being forced into another substitution – and the half-time substitute Frimpong is going off again! His six-minute cameo is over, and Rio Ngumoha is on!
Frimpong, with one of his first touches, pushes the ball down the right flank and takes on Sepp van den Berg for pace. It should be easy, against a lumbering 6ft 4in centre-half, but Van den Berg wins the race.
Manchester City have also been forced into a change because of a midfield injury: Kovacic has gone off, and Enzo Fernandez is on.
Liverpool are making a halftimely change, with Frimpong coming on. Brentford are going to make two. Thanks to all that first-half stoppage time they’re yet to get back going there (while Fulham, who only had a single added minute at the end of the first half, are already 10 minutes into their second half).
Second halves are ongoing and goals already flying in: the league-doubling department has seen Birmingham go 2-0 up at home to QPR (Liam Millar with the goal) and Salford 2-0 up at home to Crawley (Macaulay Langstaff).
A brief half-time report from voluntary Scotland correspondent Simon McMahon: “Goals for every team in the Scottish Premier at half time, Simon, apart of course from Dundee United who, despite enjoying the better of the first 45, trail 1-0 at St. Johnstone. Elsewhere it’s Aberdeen 1-1 St. Mirren, Hibs 1-2 Falkirk and Motherwell 1-1kilmarnock. And Ross County have five at the break.”
“Hello Simon,” writes Kári Tulinius. Hello to you!. “To my admittedly amateur eyes, Manchester City haven’t been playing very well, with Ipswich clearly the better team. However, City have plenty of players who can create chances out of nothing, and forwards who can score from very little. That’s what shopping with with a bottomless purse buys you.” Not playing very well, perhaps, but certainly doing enough to be deservedly ahead. But as to how they’re doing it, yes that helps.
Half-time scores
It is finally half-time everywhere, and here are the scores as they stand:
Premier League
Brentford 1-0 Liverpool
Everton 0-2 Chelsea (final score)
Fulham 1-0 Hull
Man City 2-1 Ipswich
Newcastle v Aston Villa (5.30pm)
Championship
Birmingham 1-0 QPR
Bristol City 0-1 Sheff Utd
Derby 0-0 Stoke
Middlesbrough 2-2 Cardiff (final score)
Millwall 2-2 Lincoln (final score)
Norwich 0-0 Portsmouth
Southampton 0-0 Bolton
Swansea 0-1 West Ham
Watford 2-0 Charlton (final score)
West Brom 1-2 Blackburn
Wrexham 2-1 Preston
League One
Barnsley 1-0 Cambridge
Bradford 0-0 Stevenage
Leicester 1-0 Doncaster
Leyton Orient 1-0 Blackpool
MK Dons 2-1 Luton (final score)
Peterborough 2-2 Burton (final score)
Plymouth 0-1 Huddersfield
Sheff Wed 3-0 AFC Wimbledon
Stockport 1-0 Bromley
Wigan 0-0 Reading
Wycombe 1-0 Notts County
League Two
Accrington 2-1 Gillingham
Colchester 0-0 Exeter
Crewe 2-0 Rochdale
Fleetwood 2-0 Rotherham (final score)
Grimsby 0-1 Northampton
Newport 0-1 York
Oldham 3-1 Cheltenham
Port Vale 1-0 Chesterfield
Salford 1-0 Crawley
Shrewsbury 1-0 Bristol Rovers (final score)
Swindon 1-0 Walsall
Tranmere 1-0 Barnet
Scottish Premiership
Aberdeen 1-1 St Mirren
Dundee v Rangers (8pm)
Hibernian 1-2 Falkirk
Kilmarnock 1-1 Motherwell
St Johnstone 1-0 Dundee Utd
Because of Szoboszlai’s injury they were anyway playing six minutes of stoppage time at Brentford, and with that VAR delay they’re now in the 55th minute of the first half, and still going.
Brentford down to 10 men!
Yehor Yarmoliuk is sent off! Darren England, the VAR, took an age to pick up on the foul, but got there in the end. There was not a lot to it, and Jacquet certainly made the most of it, but there was definitely aggressive movement there, and I suppose that’s enough.
Source: www.theguardian.com
