Right that’s eveyrthing from me on clockwatch. Thanks for following along and plenty more to come across Guardian sport this Sunday afternoon.
Poor Ed Aarons was at Selhurst Park to see the A23 stalemate…
Crystal Palace supporters have spent the last six months taking great pleasure in reminding Brighton that they have still yet to win a major trophy. So the first meeting of the clubs since Oliver Glasner’s side did the double over their adversaries from down the A23 for the first time since 1933 – before going on to win the FA Cup – was never going to be one for the faint-hearted.
But while the streets of south London had the usual heavy police presence for a rivalry that dates back to the days when these clubs were managed by Terry Venables and Alan Mullery in the late 1970s, there wasn’t the same quality to match the passion on display.
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The Sean Dyche era is fully up and running at Nottingham Forest after securing his first Premier League win as head coach. Leeds were barely worthy opponents, which is concerning considering the two teams could be set for a long battle for survival.
Lukas Nmecha put Leeds ahead but they quickly withdrew their challenge as Ibrahim Sangaré, Morgan Gibbs-White and Elliot Anderson earned Forest a first Premier League victory in 10 matches to move them one point off 17th.
Will Unwin’s report from the City Ground:
Something is seriously wrong with Newcastle on the road. It is all well and good raising their game for the biggest Champions League occasions at St James’ Park, but if they continue to play like they did against Brentford – just as they did in defeat at West Ham a week earlier, and countless times over a concerning number of months – those European nights may well become a distant memory.
That they ended this game with a numerical disadvantage after Dan Burn’s sending off was of little relevance to a defeat that they fully deserved. Harvey Barnes’ goal aside they were utterly impotent, offering only that solitary shot on target all match.
Read Ben Bloom’s full report from the Gtech Community Stadium:
Busy afternoon for Ben Fisher. He was at Villa Park to see the home side beat Bournemouth…
After Emiliano Martínez’s mistake allowed Mohamed Salah to open the scoring at Anfield last weekend, there was a statistic doing the rounds that only three players had made more errors leading to Premier League goals since the Argentinian signed for Aston Villa five years ago. The life of a goalkeeper and all that.
But Martínez tends to thrive when in the line of fire and here he pulled off two brilliant saves, including one to deny Antoine Semenyo from the penalty spot, before substitutes Ross Barkley and Donyell Malen sealed a 4-0 that lifts Villa above Bournemouth in the table. For Andoni Iraola’s side, their first notable off-day of an otherwise fine start.
Full report:
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Edwards agrees deal to take over at Wolves
Rob Edwards has agreed a three-and-a-half-year contract to become the Wolves head coach and could be formally appointed as early as Monday. Middlesbrough rejected Wolves’s initial approach for Edwards but following talks on Friday they grew resigned to losing him.
Wolves will pay around £3m in compensation to Boro to remove Edwards from the three-year contract he signed on arrival at the Riverside Stadium in June.
Wolves are longstanding admirers of Edwards, a former player and coach at the Molineux club. He also had a brief spell in caretaker charge in 2016, shortly after Fosun, Wolves’s Chinese owner, bought the club.
Edwards is expected at Wolves on Monday, when the deal could be announced by the Premier League club. Edwards will succeed Vítor Pereira, who was sacked after claiming just two points from the opening 10 matches of the season.
Full story from Ben Fisher:
There were 12 goals and two comeback wins in those 2pm kick-offs, best not to mention the 0-0 at Selhurst.
And we’ve not even had the main event yet, Rob Smyth has that one:
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Full-time Brentford 3-1 Newcastle
Big turnaround for the Bees, with a bit of help from Burn. Newcastle lose three in a row on the road.
Full-time: Aston Villa 4-0 Bournemouth
Seven goals conceded in two weeks for the Cherries. Villa ticking along very nicely.
Full-time: Nottingham Forest 3-1 Leeds
A first three points for Sean Dyche.
Goal! Brentford 3-1 Newcastle (Igor Thiago 90+5)
That’s a very simple way to score. One ball through the middle, nudged on and Igor Thiago slots past Ramsdale.
Full-time: Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
Two clean sheets in a row for Brighton but little else to shout about in this one.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 3-1 Leeds (Anderson 90+1)
Hutchinson gets to the ball first in a battle with Harrison and the Leeds man brings him down in the box, penalty! After a swift VAR check, Anderson hammers home the spot kick.
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Brentford 2-1 Newcastle
Wow, 11 minutes added at the Gtech. Can Newcastle find an equaliser.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
We’re into seven minutes of added time at Selhurst.
Goal! Aston Villa 4-0 Bournemouth (Malen 82)
It’s been a tough couple of weeks for Bournemouth and now Malen rubs their nose in it by finishing off a clever set-piece routine with Jadon Sancho and Youri Tielemans both involved.
Brentford 2-1 Newcastle
Newcastle are giving this a go despite being down to 10. Brentford happy to sit deep and play on the counter.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
You sense both teams would be happy with a point in this. It’s very tight and low on quality.
Goal! Aston Villa 3-0 Bournemouth (Barkley 77)
Barkley is teed up by Digne from a corner and it’s an easy header to end this contest.
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Goal! Brentford 2-1 Newcastle (Igor Thiago 78)
The Brazillian converts and Newcastle’s struggles on the road look set to continue. No chance Ramsdale.
Red card and penalty! Brentford 1-1 Newcastle
Burn has been walking a tightrope and althought this is right on the edge of the box it is foul and a second yellow for the England international. Pope is struggling and Ramsdale will replace him. DRAMA!
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Goal! Nottingham Forest 2-1 Leeds (Gibbs-White 68)
Substitute Omari Hutchinson is the catalyst. The wideman picks out Morgan Gibbs-White with a great cross and the Forest skipper glances home a header.
Missed penalty! Aston Villa 2-0 Bournemouth
Rodgers is rightly penalised for a handball and up steps Semenyo to give Bournemouth a route back into the game but Martinez gets down to his right and claws away the low strike.
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Brentford 1-1 Newcastle: VAR review for Brentford penalty
How has that not been given? Burn appears to bring down Ouattara in the box, but the Brentford man is booked for a dive. It looked like contact on the replay, VAR does not agree.
Goal! Brentford 1-1 Newcastle (Schade 56)
Brentford get the equaliser as Schade reacts quickest to fire home.
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Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton: VAR review for a Brighton penalty
Rutter thinks he’s won a penalty for Brighton but a VAR check reveals that he initiated contact and the decision is overturned, with the Seagull booked.
Aston Villa 2-0 Bournemouth
Big save from Martinez to stop Bournemouth getting back into this. A quick break from the away side ends with Scott getting a shot away but the ball loops up and the Villa keeper ends up scrambling back to tip it over the bar. Great save.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
Huge chance for Palace! Sarr and Kamada both have opportunities after Wharton nicks the ball in midfield and fluff their lines.
Brentford 0-1 Newcastle
Dan Burn goes into the book for a tug that gives Brentford a free-kick in a dangerous position. It comes to nothing.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
The second half starts with a decent chance for Brighton as Gomez gets on the end of a Minteh cross but Henderson is able to gather at the second attempt.
Peeeeeep!
We are back underway at Selhurst and elsewhere.
We’re building up to the big one, and now Tom Bassam is in the chair.
Half-time: Aston Villa 2-0 Bournemouth
Andoni Iraola’s shuffled his pack but lost out to a fine first-half from Villa, two great goals, Buendia and Onana getting them. Bournemouth lost Adam Smith to the injury he sustained in that clash with Tyler Adams.
Half-time: Nottingham Forest 1-1 Leeds
A swift, early exchange of goals, and Forest are looking far more solid than during their Ange interregnum. Not too exciting, though.
Half-time: Brentford 0-1 Newcastle
A lovely goal from Harvey Barnes separates the teams, and Newcastle are on course for a first away win of the season.
Half-time: Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
Palace have gone closest but Brighton have usually defended well in a so-far forgettable encounter at Selhurst.
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Leeds
Since their goal, Leeds have not had a shot on the Forest goal. They’ve been Dyched since then.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
This rivalry/derby, every time I see it, is usually a dog of a game. This one seems no exception. A lot of effort, not much craft on show when both teams are usually full of it.
Brentford 0-1 Newcastle
Keith Andrews looks tense on his bench. His team have had the ball in the positions they can work with though perhaps his speedy forwards haven’t seen enough of the ball.
Goal! Aston Villa 2-0 Bournemouth (Onana, 40)
What did I say? That was a cracker, from long range, smashed in after some real skill from Morgan Rogers, and it smashes low and hard beyond Petrovic.
Aston Villa 1-0 Bournemouth
Watkins goes close, again, a snap shot very well saved by Petrovic. Villa look the likelier for the next goal. Bournemouth look well off it.
Aston Villa 1-0 Bournemouth
Ollie Watkins, a player in not much form, has a decent effort, and it goes just wide. There’s a VAR delay for a challenge in the Bournemouth box but no foul is awarded.
Nottingham Forest 1-1 Leeds
Sean Dyche issues instructions as his team defend a free-kick.
Brentford 0-1 Newcastle
Nick Pope, in Newcastle’s goal, is not at all convincing under a Kayode throw. That Harvey Barnes goal, by the way, was a very cool finish.
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Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
The only game without a goal sees Jan Paul van Hecke clear a Wharton corner. He’s been imperious.
Goal! Aston Villa 1-0 Bournemouth (Buendia, 28)
That’s a beautiful free-kick from Emi Buendia, from a central position he hits it, dipping and swerving like a guided missile.
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Goal! Brentford 0-1 Newcastle (Barnes, 28)
Newcastle had not had a touch in the Brentford area, and then Harvey Barnes is set up by Big Nick Woltemade.
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Aston Villa 0-0 Bournemouth
Marcus Tavernier takes on a free-kick, and smashes over. Maybe leave the dead balls to Rangers skipper James Tavernier, his big brother.
Brentford 0-0 Newcastle
Looks like Joelinton’s injury is worse than we thought. He smashed into Ouatarra and he will leave the field, with Jacob Ramsey coming on.
Chris Paraskevas gets in touch: “Please try to look past my permanent state of sleep deprivation and my biased as a Toon fan but... should JM23 (Jacob Murphy’s marketing handle, if he were marketable) feel hard done by in getting overlooked for England?
“I know Thomas Tuchel reads the MBM as part of his own sleep deprivation / leave no tactical stone unturned approach, so surely JM23’s rise from one of the players who routinely gets eviscetated by me into a classy Premier League operator.
“PS. Last Sunday’s debacle against West Ham set me up badly for work / my neighbours’ newly minted barking puppy dog on Monday. Looking to avoid a repeat...”
David Dein gets in touch: “How is the referee for the Palace - Brighton match from West Sussex? At the very least that will lead people to question his judgement. It’s as if PGMOL want to be the story.”
They are now called the PGMO.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
Fabian Hurzeler has been booked for the third time this season, and that means he’s suspended from the bench for Brighton’s next game, at home to Brentford.
Brentford 0-0 Newcastle
Newcastle have just negotiated their first Michael Kayode long throw.
Goal! Nottingham Forest 1-1 Leeds (Sangare, 15)
Leeds lost concentration, Perri palms the ball out and is beaten by a sharp finish. Leeds’ lead last two minutes and 15 seconds.
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Goal! Nottingham Forest 0-1 Leeds (Nmecha, 13)
A first start for the striker, and a fine finish from Brendan Aaronson’s pass. Neco Williams rather got in the way of Matz Sels vision of the shot.
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Nottingham Forest 0-0 Leeds
A tight encounter in this early season relegation battle. Forest have a corner, Dominguez taking, but that results in another after no little panic among Leeds defenders. Lucas Perri makes an unbelievable save, the ball bouncing up into his hands from a ricochet. That is one of the saves of the season.
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Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
Sarr has had two chances, the second sees him drag the ball across goal, and he might be better served to lay up Mateta.
Aston Villa 0-0 Bournemouth
The stretcher is out at Villa Park. Two stretchers, in fact. There’s been a collision between Adam Smith and Tyler Adams, two Bournemouth players. Adams is up, and so is Smith. That was a delay of five minutes.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Brighton
The first sight of goal, as Sarr releases Mateta, who smashes the ball wide and high.
Brentford 0-0 Newcastle
Joelinton has hurt himself in a 50-50 challenge but soon gets up. He’s made of Brazilian steel.
The big kick-off
Slight delay at Forest but all underway now. It’s noisy at Selhurst in that “derby” game.
Not long now until the kick-offs in four Premier League matches, each preceded by remembrance events.
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Newcastle were horrible last week against West Ham, as Eddie Howe just admitted in his pre-match interview. “We have to deliver something different. That day (against West Ham) was painful for us. Hopefully, we have learnt a lot. Now we have to start picking up points.”
On Anthony Gordon: “He wasn’t close in the end. The scan revealed a very slight problem in his hip and it’s a good opportunity for Harvey (Barnes) to come in.”
Still no Chris Wood for Forest, as Matz Sels, Murillo, Anderson and Dan Ndoye return.
Lukas Nmecha replaces the goal-sjy Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who struggled at Brighton last week.
Adam Wharton returns for Crystal Palace but there will no Marc Guéhi for Crystal Palace. Brighton select the same team that beat Leeds last week.
Oliver Glasner says that Guéhi “has a bone bruise, he’s on crutches and he can’t even walk. At the moment it looks like he can’t play for England [next week] as well.”
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Anthony Gordon has an injury and misses out for Newcastle, Jacob Murphy, who has been playing well, come in.
One change for Brentford, Aaron Hickey comes in.
Andoni Iraola has the luxury of rotation, Evanilson, Adam Smith, Justin Kluivert and Veljko Milosavljevic all coming in as Bafode Diakite, Alejandro Jimenez, David Brooks and Junior Kroupi are the subs for Bournemouth.
Matty Cash, John McGinn, Emiliano Buendia, Ollie Watkins, Lucas Digne and Boubacar Kamara come in for Villa from their Europa League game on Thursday.
Brentford: Kelleher, Kayode, Collins, van den Berg, Hickey, Yarmolyuk, Henderson, Ouattara, Damsgaard, Schade, Thiago. Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Nelson, Carvalho, Onyeka, Lewis-Potter, Janelt.
Newcastle: Pope, Trippier, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Guimaraes, Tonali, Joelinton, Jacob Murphy, Woltemade, Barnes. Subs: Hall, Schar, Lascelles, Krafth, Elanga, Willock, Ramsey, Miley, Ramsdale.
Referee: Stuart Attwell (Warwickshire)
Crystal Palace v Brighton
Crystal Palace: Henderson, Richards, Lacroix, Canvot, Munoz, Wharton, Kamada, Mitchell, Sarr, Lerma, Mateta. Subs: Matthews, Benitez, Pino, Uche, Clyne, Hughes, Esse, Sosa, Devenny.
Brighton: Verbruggen, Wieffer, van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu, Baleba, Ayari, Minteh, Rutter, Gomez, Welbeck. Subs: Steele, Tzimas, Kostoulas, Boscagli, De Cuyper, Veltman, Coppola, Knight, Oriola.
Referee: Tim Robinson (West Sussex)
Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne, Kamara, Onana, McGinn, Rogers, Buendia, Watkins. Subs: Bizot, Lindelof, Barkley, Tielemans, Malen, Sancho, Maatsen, Bogarde, Guessand.
AFC Bournemouth: Petrovic, Smith, Milosavljevic, Senesi, Truffert, Adams, Scott, Tavernier, Kluivert, Semenyo, Evanilson. Subs: Dennis, Cook, Brooks, Christie, Doak, Diakite, Jimenez, Adli, Junior Kroupi
Referee: John Brooks (Leicestershire)
Nottm Forest: Sels, Savona, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams, Sangare, Anderson, Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Dominguez, Igor Jesus. Subs: John Victor, Morato, Awoniyi, Kalimuendo, Hutchinson, Yates, Jair Cunha, McAtee, Abbott.
Leeds: Lucas Perri, Bogle, Rodon, Bijol, Gudmundsson, Ampadu, Aaronson, Longstaff, Stach, Okafor, Nmecha. Subs: Darlow, Struijk, James, Calvert-Lewin, Piroe, Harrison, Tanaka, Justin, Gruev.
Referee: Jarred Gillett (Australia)
Preamble
Right, four games this Sunday 2pm, with plenty up for grabs. That game at the City Ground looks like a six-pointer. Bournemouth can go second, while Palace can get into the top five.
Crystal Palace v Brighton
Aston Villa v Bournemouth
Brentford v Newcastle
Nottingham Forest v Leeds
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arsenal | 11 | 15 | 26 |
| 2 | Chelsea | 11 | 10 | 20 |
| 3 | Man City | 10 | 12 | 19 |
| 4 | Sunderland | 11 | 4 | 19 |
| 5 | Tottenham Hotspur | 11 | 9 | 18 |
| 6 | Liverpool | 10 | 4 | 18 |
| 7 | AFC Bournemouth | 10 | 3 | 18 |
| 8 | Man Utd | 11 | 1 | 18 |
| 9 | Crystal Palace | 10 | 5 | 16 |
| 10 | Brighton | 10 | 2 | 15 |
| 11 | Everton | 11 | -1 | 15 |
| 12 | Aston Villa | 10 | -1 | 15 |
| 13 | Brentford | 10 | -2 | 13 |
| 14 | Newcastle | 10 | -1 | 12 |
| 15 | Fulham | 11 | -4 | 11 |
| 16 | Leeds | 10 | -8 | 11 |
| 17 | Burnley | 11 | -8 | 10 |
| 18 | West Ham | 11 | -10 | 10 |
| 19 | Nottm Forest | 10 | -12 | 6 |
| 20 | Wolverhampton | 11 | -18 | 2 |
