West Brom 1-1 Tottenham. Match report:
Stoke City 2-0 Sunderland. Match report:
Bournemouth 6-1 Hull City. Match report:
Manchester City 1-1 Everton. Match report:
Arsenal 3-2 Swansea. Match report:
All the scores in one place? Here you go. Now why not join Rob Smyth for a dose of Crystal Palace v West Ham. Thanks for reading, bye!
Championship
Steve McClaren’s second coming at Derby begins with a win against Leeds, Preston scored late to salvage a 2-2 draw at Brighton, Fulham put four past Barnsley and Newcastle hit Brentford for three. Norwich jump to the top of the table after a 3-1 win against Rotherham, who remain bottom.
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Full time: Stoke 2-0 Sunderland
Another disappointing day for David Moyes whose side continue to search for their first league win of the season, but welcome relief for Stoke who get theirs.
Full time: Bournemouth 6-1 Hull City
Mike Phelan will be glad he got his signature on that contract before this debacle. A brilliant day for Bournemouth, mind, whose fine form continues.
Full time: West Brom 1-1 Tottenham
Dele Alli’s late equaliser saves Spurs from defeat having dominated the game.
Full time: Manchester City 1-1 Everton
A stunning performance by Maarten Stekelenburg, with two saved penalties, helps Ronald Koeman’s side to a point.
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Full time: Arsenal 3-2 Swansea
A fun start to life in the Premier League for Bob Bradley but unfortunately no points to take back to south Wales.
Championship
Simon Makienok has scored deep into injury time at the Amex to give Preston a handy point against Brighton.
Scotland
“As things stand,” emails Simon McMahon, “Dundee go bottom of the Premiership after a defeat at Hearts, and only 4 points separate the top five teams in the Championship after leaders Queen of the South lost 5-0 at home to Morton, and Dundee United won 2-0 at St. Mirren.”
Five minutes of added time at The Hawthorns...
Championship
Norwich are heading to the top of the table, Steven Naismith putting the Canaries 3-1 up against struggling Rotherham with only a couple of minutes left on the clock.
Goal! West Brom 1-1 Tottenham (Alli, 89)
Spurs do break through! It’s a deft Dele Alli finish. Is there time for a winner?
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Goal! Bournemouth 6-1 Hull City (Gosling, 88)
Where’s that terrific emoji of a monkey covering its eyes when you need it.
Nacer Chadli is replaced at The Hawthorns and Craig Gardner comes on for West Brom. Tony Pulis is not going for the second goal, that’s for sure. It is looking a tough ask for Spurs to break through.
Moussa Dembele strikes from the penalty spot and Celtic are 2-0 up at home to Motherwell, and will stay four points clear at the top.
6 - Nacer Chadli has had a hand in six goals in his five PL games for West Brom (4 goals, 2 assists). Haunting.
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) October 15, 2016
Walcott goes close again but can’t find the finish and Swansea are still very much in this thriller at the Emirates. Up at the Etihad, Manchester City are trying desperately to break down Everton but Koeman’s boys aren’t budging.
Goal! Bournemouth 5-1 Hull City (Wilson, 83)
Oh, Hull.
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Goal! West Brom 1-0 Tottenham (Chadli, 82)
Spurs punished for not taking their chances at The Hawthorns, and looks who’s got it!
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Victor Anichebe is on for Sunderland as they try to turn around their 2-0 deficit at Stoke. Seems unlikely. Vigo Anichebe?
It’s full-time in the Bundesliga where Marco Fabian saved a point for Frankfurt against Bayern Munich:
Messi comes on. Messi Scores. Barcelona 4-0 Deportivo.
Thoughts on a crazy match at the Etihad:
Jim Nolan emails: “I couldn’t believe it when I didn’t see Kelechi ‘Ice-Cool’ Iheanacho stepping up to take our penalty. Horses for courses, and all that!”
“Man City is playing 3 at the back for the first time under Pep Guardiola this season,” emails Ashwin. “Seems like Pep was expecting Koeman to press like Spurs did, and he decided to have that extra man at the back line to wriggle out of tough situations. But, it doesn’t seem to be producing the desired result at the other end of the field so far.”
Simon McMahon emails: “Dundee United currently leading 1-0 at St. Mirren thanks to Scott Fraser’s first half strike. Morton are 4-0 up at previously unbeaten Queen of the South and Falkirk lead Dunfermline 2-0. Celtic, Aberdeen and Partick Thistle all ahead at home. In the Angus derby Arbroath are 1-0 up against league leaders Forfar, who are down to 10 men. They’ll be dancing into the North Sea if it remains like that.”
Red card! Arsenal 3-2 Swansea (Xhaka)
Granit Xhaka takes one for the team hoping to pick up a yellow as he cynically breaks up a quick Swansea break, but it’s deemed a straight red and he’s off! Can Swansea turn this game on its head?
Goal! Manchester City 1-1 Everton (Nolito, 72)
No matter, as moments later David Silva finds the substitute Nolito and City get the equaliser. What a finish in store.
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Wow. Wow. Wow. Sergio Aguero misses his fourth penalty of the season, Maarten Stekelenburg makes his second penalty save of this game, and somehow Everton remain in front at the Etihad!
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Penalty to Manchester City...
Goal! Arsenal 3-2 Swansea (Borja, 66)
What a game! Pre-game exclamation mark enthusiast Borja Baston pulls one back for Bob’s Swans (an excellent nickname, no?) and perhaps there is more to come from the Emirates.
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Goal! Bournemouth 4-1 Hull City (Stanislas, 65)
Junior Stanislas has his second of the day and this is turning into a miserable game for Mike Phelan and Hull.
Goal! Manchester City 0-1 Everton (Lukaku, 64)
Man City have been dominant all afternoon but Romelu Lukaku finishes a counterattack expertly and Everton could just pinch all three points from the Etihad. Some way to go, of course.
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League One
Calum Butcher has put Millwall two goals clear at Northampton, while Charlton are still 1-0 ahead against Coventry. Here is more on the pre-match pig protest at The Valley:
Bad news for Spurs: not only are they struggling to break down a stubborn West Brom defence, Toby Alderweireld has picked up what looks like a significant injury. He is replaced by Eric Dier.
Sunderland are under pressure at Stoke, 2-0 down and Jordan Pickford coming to the rescue after a Shaqiri shot.
Mesut Ozil:
My favourite thing about this photo of Ozil at Mecca is that even at the world's most crowded holy site, he's still managed to find space. pic.twitter.com/IVqMq5drq7
— Jonathan Liew (@jonathanliew) October 5, 2016
Goal! Arsenal 3-1 Swansea (Ozil, 57)
Theo Walcott probably should have a hat-trick but no matter, as Mesut Ozil shows great finesse to put Arsenal two goals clear once again.
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Steve McClaren celebrates! Derby are ahead against Leeds 1-0 through Johnny Russell.
Re my unstoppable desire to call Hector Bellerin Hugo, Rolf Wilhelm emails cheerily: “Clear cut case of the debilitating Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. There is no cure, there is only the sweet release of death after years of torment. How is West Brom doing?”
Adam Levine is equally helpful: “Can’t offer any theories as to why you unflinchingly substitute Hugo for Hector but my wife finds the words ‘tennis racket’ and ‘guitar’ completely interchangeable. Often a root cause of much hilarity at our son’s guitar/tennis lessons. Hope that helps.”
Stephen Mitchell suggests: “Perhaps you called him Hugo because he plays like a BOSS. You might even say that the name suites him.”
Championship
The pick of the matches is at Barnsley where Fulham have turned the game on its head, Scott Malone’s goal shortly after the break giving the visitors a 3-2 advantage. Newcastle are showing their class, now 3-0 clear against Brentford at St James’ Park after Dwight Gayle’s second of the game.
Joshua Kimmich has restored Bayern Munich’s lead at Frankfurt – it’s 2-1.
“Hey Lawrence,” emails JR. “Now wait a minute, you need to have your eyes shielded from Tottenham’s kit? Well I’ve got news for you, I’ve just seen the highlights from the first half of all the games and Sunderland’s kit is about 50% worse than Tottenham’s. And the shirt Hull are sporting is 100% worse than that, It is literally nauseating.”
I got lost in the maths there JR, but I take your point. Kit-gate:
Full time: Napoli 1-3 Roma
Mohamed Salah rounded off the win in Naples to send Roma above Napoli to second in Serie A. Leaders Juventus play Udinese later tonight.
It’s half-time in Barcelona. The obvious news? They are beating today’s unwitting opponents Deportivo 3-0. The surprising news? Rafinha bagged two of them. Luis Suarez scored the other one.
Mark Turner emails re Hugo-gate: “It may be sartorial, with your brain getting subliminal influence from the shoe designer Hugo Belle. Anyway, Hugo your way and I’ll go mine.” Terrific sign off. This is almost certainly the answer, me being an admirer of Hugo’s soft leathers.
A run down of all the half time scores? Here you go.
It’s half-time around the grounds. There have either been lots of goals or no goals in the Premier League fixtures, like the 0-0 between Spurs and West Brom at The Hawthorns:
@LawrenceOstlere ben foster playing like Scott sterling right now
— Sean Sutton (@seansutton1026) October 15, 2016
Someone has pointed out that I called Hector Bellerin ‘Hugo’ earlier. This is one of those things I regularly and inexplicably get wrong without hesitation. Is it his perfectly coiffed hair that makes him look like a Hugo? If someone could be kind enough to come up with a theory as to why, perhaps I can be cured.
Serie A
Over in Naples, Edin Dzeko has his second for Roma but Napoli have hit back through Kalidou Koulibaly. It’s 2-1 to the visitors with only a few minutes to play.
Goal! Stoke 2-0 Sunderland (Allen, 45+1)
Joe Allen is on a hat-trick, I kid you not. This time it’s a left-footed drive from the edge of the box which a perhaps unsighted Jordan Pickford can’t pick in time.
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Goal! Bournemouth 3-1 Hull City (Stanislas pen, 45)
Junior Stanislas calmly strokes the ball down the middle after Robert Snodgrass had clearly fouled Callum Wilson.
Penalty to Bournemouth...
Saved! Maarten Stekelenburg gets across to save Kevin De Bruyne’s weakish penalty and keep Everton level at the Etihad.
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Penalty to Manchester City...
Goal! Bournemouth 2-1 Hull City (Cook, 41)
Steve Cook powers a diving header past Marshall and the Cherries are back in front, which is no less than they deserve.
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Goal! Arsenal 2-1 Swansea (Sigurdsson, 38)
A mistake by Granit Xhaka allows Gylfi Sigurdsson to get a shot away but the midfielder still had plenty to do to beat Petr Cech and finished sublimely. Game on!
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The Bundesliga games are into the second half, where Frankfurt have equalised against Bayern to cause a fright for the league leaders.
Goal! Bournemouth 1-1 Hull City (Mason, 34)
This is about as against the run of play as it gets. Bournemouth have utterly dominated their visitors but a deflected strike by the summer signing Mason has levelled the scores.
Here’s something I didn’t expect from Bob Bradley – a fresh sartorial angle:
Bob Bradley's taking the Whiplash approach to managing Swansea. "In four, dammit! Look at me!" pic.twitter.com/NuAww5eHsy
— Gregg Bakowski (@GreggBakowski) October 15, 2016
Goal! Arsenal 2-0 Swansea (Walcott, 33)
Theo Walcott is really, really good at the moment. Hector Bellerin isn’t playing badly either, and he is the man to provide the assist with a header across goal for the winger to finish.
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Meanwhile at Charlton, their game with Coventry has got under way after the earlier swine-based protest:
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As predicted, West Brom and Tottenham are not putting on a show of attacking recklessness. Spurs have had 73% possession in this opening half an hour but have mustered only one shot on target.
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Jordi Amat is shouldering the blame for that one, I understand. Swansea really do miss Ashley Williams.
Goal! Arsenal 1-0 Swansea (Walcott, 26)
Theo Walcott sprints in at the near post to prod the ball home and Bob Bradley’s Swans are behind.
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Rolf Wilhelm emails to ask where Sergio Aguero is – well he is on the bench, having returned from international duty where he picked up a minor knock. City are in charge against Everton by all accounts but it remains goalless at the Etihad.
Scotland
Scott Sinclair has handed Celtic the lead against Motherwell, while Massimo Donati has given Hamilton a 1-0 lead against Partick.
No goals at the Emirates so far where Leroy Fer has just gone close for Swansea with a curling effort which doesn’t dip enough to trouble Petr Cech. “Boo Bradley?” emails Tony Barr. “Do you think this could be a red-top headline if Swansea crumble today, or are Too Kill A Mockingbird puns too much to hope for?”
At the Etihad Kevin De Bruyne is back in the Manchester City starting lineup ahead of schedule, and lines up a free-kick... but it strikes the wall.
League One
Bolton lead Oldham through local lad Zach Clough, who bends a beautiful free-kick into the top corner.
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Thabo Mokaleng emails: “Is there any reason - besides, you know, supporter apathy - that there significant pockets of emptiness at the Etihad?” Some quick research on Twitter suggests it may have just taken a while to fill...
Championship
Goals in the second tier: Marley Watkins hands Barnsley the lead against Fulham after four minutes, while Preston lead at Brighton through Jordan Hugill and Ciaran Clark has nudged Newcastle in front at home to Brentford.
Goal! Stoke City 1-0 Sunderland (Allen, 8)
The Welsh Xavi strikes again, this time a close-range header which takes his tally this season to three. Remarkable scenes, and bad news for the still winless Sunderland.
Goal! Bournemouth 1-0 Hull City (Daniels, 5)
A disaster for David Marshall in Hull’s goal who fails to react to a Junior Stanislas free-kick and allows Charlie Daniels a free go at the rebound off the post, which he buries brilliantly.
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Fan power
Charlton v Coventry has been delayed because immediately upon kick-off 3,000 pink plastic pigs were let out on to the pitch by both teams’ supporters. Neither are too happy with their clubs’ owners:
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Someone shield my eyes from Tottenham’s kit.
Kick-off!
Whistles peep around the grounds and finally, thankfully, the sweet release from the international break is complete. In the market for one more piece of pre-match reading? I highly recommend this little number:
I swear every time I do a clockwatch Bayern Munich are playing Eintracht Frankfurt. They are today and Arjen Robben has given the champions a first-half lead. It usually ends up four or five, just so you know. Premier League kick-offs are imminent.
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You think I’d forgotten all about Scotland? No way. It’s just that Simon McMahon always tells it better: “Afternoon Lawrence. Scotland’s game of the day is in Paisley as Dundee United look to continue their recent good form and stretch their unbeaten run to four games against St Mirren. The Buddies will be fired up themselves as they look to impress new manger Jack Ross in his first game in charge. Elsewhere in the Championship it’s Raith v Hibs, Falkirk v Dunfermline and Queen of the South v Morton. In the Premiership Celtic host Motherwell and struggling Dundee could go bottom of the table if they fail to win at Hearts. In League Two there’s an always tasty Angus derby between Arbroath and Forfar.”
A goal in Naples – Edin Dzeko strikes for Roma after a mistake by the Napoli centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly. It’s almost half time at the Stadio San Paolo and Roma have a crucial leg-up in the battle to be the second-best team in Italy.
Will Bob Bradley be a hit in south Wales? I think he will do well, though they are badly missing Ashley Williams and Andre Ayew, both sold in the summer. The Swans are about to get the new era under way at the Emirates. Here’s our recipe for success:
For more from Poch, here he is boasting about his sizeable midfield. Tottenham ran out of gas last season but they are surely in better shape this time around:
Son Heung-min, scorer of five goals this season, starts on the bench today for Tottenham at The Hawthorns. “We have seven games in 23 days and we always need to be right with our decisions,” says Mauricio Pochettino pre-game. “This team is the right XI to compete against West Brom. We must rotate if we are to arrive fresh and compete in very game. Maybe I’m boring but players aren’t machines.” Vincent Janssen is given another chance to start up front having scored a stunner for Holland this week – Eric Dier and Mousa Dembele are on the bench. Spurs face their former winger Nacer Chadli who has been in form himself with three league goals.
If you thought you were the only one bored by the international break, check out exclamation mark enthusiast Borja Baston:
.@premierleague is back and we are ready for today's game!!!! Come on @SwansOfficial!!!! 💪 ⚽️ #ARSSWA pic.twitter.com/Gs31lnJtbz
— Borja Bastón (@BorjaBaston) October 15, 2016
Full time: Chelsea 3-0 Leicester City
Full time at Stamford Bridge where goals by Diego Costa, Eden Hazard and Victor Moses have seen off Leicester, who are rivalling the Blues for the meekest title defence since football began (1992). There’s always the Champions League. You can get all the details from that one right here:
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Premier League lineups!
Arsenal v Swansea
Arsenal Cech; Bellerin, Mustafi, Koscielny, Monreal; Cazorla, Xhaka; Walcott, Özil, Iwobi; Sanchez
Swansea Fabianski; Naughton, Fernandez, Amat, Taylor; Cork, Britton, Fer; Barrow, Sigurdsson, Routledge
Bournemoth v Hull City
Bournemouth Boruc; Smith, Francis, Cook, Daniels; Surman, Arter; Wilshere, Stanislas, Ibe; Wilson
Hull City Marshall; Davies, Maguire, Robertson, Maloney; Snodgrass, Livermore, Mason, Elmohamady; Clucas; Keane
Manchester City v Everton
Manchester City Bravo; Otamendi, Stones, Clichy; Gundogan, Fernandinho, De Bruyne, Silva; Sane, Iheanacho, Sterling
Everton Stekelenburg; Coleman, Jagielka, Williams, Oviedo; Barry, Gana, Cleverley; Deulofeu, Bolasie, Lukaku
Stoke City v Sunderland
Stoke City Grant; Bardsley, Shawcross, Indi, Pieters; Cameron, Whelan; Shaqiri, Allen, Arnautovic; Bony
Sunderland Pickford; Manquillo, Djilobodji, O’Shea, van Aanholt; Rodwell, McNair; Watmore, Ndong, Khazri; Defoe
West Brom v Tottenham
West Brom Foster; Dawson, McAuley, Evans, Nyom; Phillips, Fletcher, Yacob, McClean; Chadli; Rondon
Tottenham Lloris; Walker, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Davies; Wanyama; Sissoko, Dele, Eriksen, Lamela; Janssen
Kick-offs: 3pm BST
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By the way, Chelsea are playing some lovely football as the slice and dice Leicester at Stamford Bridge. You can read all about their delicious third goal with Rob Smyth right here:
Preamble
Every now and then the bods at Fixtures HQ throw up a doozy, and for my money this weekend’s lineup is one of them: Leicester and Chelsea are currently in combat, Liverpool and Manchester United get down to it on Monday, and there’s still plenty to enjoy in a (Super) Saturday clockwatch.
Take Arsenal v Swansea, where the longest serving manager in the Premier League hosts the new man on the block. There have been plenty of American talents to grace the English top flight, particularly between the posts, but Bob Bradley today becomes the first to make his mark in the technical area – baptisms don’t come more fiery than a trip to the Emirates.
Pep Guardiola and Ronald Koeman have been trading compliments all week as the former Barcelona maestros begin what could become a long and entertaining rivalry at the top of game. Might Everton inflict a third successive non-win on the previously unstoppable Manchester City?
Stoke play Sunderland in a fixture which hardly drips with glamour yet feels hugely significant for two managers under some early-season pressure in Mark Hughes and David Moyes, and Mike Phelan takes charge of Hull for the first time as permanent manager in their visit to Bournemouth, where Jack Wilshere might just play his first full 90 minutes. Imagine.
Plus there is Tottenham’s trip to West Brom where a Tony Pulis side takes on the league’s best defence – OK, we’ll dip in and out of that one. It’s a busy day in the Football League too with Steve McClaren pressing reset on his Derby County career, plus games across Europe featuring Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Roma v Napoli. Yes please.
Premier league teams are coming right up.
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