That’s all for today’s Clockwatch. It was tumultuous stuff, with four come-from-behind victories in six Premier League games. Brighton turned a drama into a crisis at Old Trafford, and Sheffield United and Crystal Palace were shattered by late twists. Thanks for your company and emails – goodnight.
Updated
Match report: Aston Villa 3-1 Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Brentford is about to kick off, I think. What day is this?
Match report: Spurs 2-1 Sheff Utd
A very deft late rewrite from Jonathan Wilson here. This increase in added time are a nightmare for people doing match reports on a deadline.
The Brighton XI that won at Old Trafford cost – and you’ll like this – about £20m. The whole team. The United XI cost around £350m.
Updated
Match report: Man Utd 1-3 Brighton
And Jamie Jackson was at Old Trafford to watch Brighton teach Manchester United a lesson in how to be a football club.
Match report: West Ham 1-3 Man City
Barney Ronay was at the London Stadium to watch the champions wear West Ham down.
The updated Premier League table
I’d love to see Jadon Sancho’s draft folder right now.
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Man City | 5 | 11 | 15 |
| 2 | Liverpool | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 3 | Brighton | 5 | 8 | 12 |
| 4 | Tottenham Hotspur | 5 | 6 | 10 |
| 5 | Arsenal | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 6 | West Ham | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Aston Villa | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 8 | Crystal Palace | 5 | -1 | 7 |
| 9 | Fulham | 5 | -5 | 7 |
| 10 | Brentford | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| 11 | Nottm Forest | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 12 | Man Utd | 5 | -4 | 6 |
| 13 | Chelsea | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 14 | Sheff Utd | 5 | -2 | 4 |
| 15 | Newcastle | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 16 | Wolverhampton | 5 | -6 | 3 |
| 17 | AFC Bournemouth | 4 | -4 | 2 |
| 18 | Everton | 4 | -6 | 1 |
| 19 | Burnley | 3 | -8 | 0 |
| 20 | Luton | 4 | -8 | 0 |
Full time: Aston Villa 3-1 Crystal Palace
Nine home wins in a row for Villa, their best run since the glorious winter of 1989-90. They were a goal down after 86 minutes, but the afternoon was still young: Jhon Duran equalised with a screamer, then Douglas Luiz and Leon Bailey scored in the third half.
Updated
Full time: Spurs 2-1 Sheff Utd
All over at Tottenham, where Richarlison is being embraced by his teammates. His 98th-minute equaliser was followed by a 101st-minute winner from Dejan Kulusevski. There is going to be an unprecedented amount of late drama this season.
Aston Villa 3-1 Crystal Palace They’re still playing at Villa Park. “It’s nearly Sunday isn’t it?” says Paul Merson on Sky Sports.
RED CARD! Spurs 2-1 Sheff Utd
It was all too much for Oli McBurnie, who received a second yellow card for dissent in the 104th minute.
Match report: Fulham 1-0 Luton
Fulham have seven points from five games, a decent return given that includes games against Arsenal, Manchester City and VAR.
GOAL! Aston Villa 3-1 Crystal Palace (Bailey 90+11)
Aston Villa, who were 1-0 down after 86 minutes, are now 3-1 up!
Updated
GOAL! Aston Villa 2-1 C Palace (Douglas Luiz)
Douglas Luiz scored from the spot to give Villa an equally dramatic comeback victory.
Updated
GOAL! Spurs 2-1 Sheff Utd (Kulusevski 90+11)
In the 101st minute, Dejan Kulusevski has shattered Sheffield United!
Updated
Full time: Man Utd 1-3 Brighton
Erik ten Hag has lost two Premier League games at Old Trafford, both to Brighton. They picked United apart ruthlessly, but never mind that because it’s all happening elsewhere.
Updated
GOAL! Spurs 1-1 Sheff Utd (Richarlison 90+8)
Heartbreak for another promoted side: Sheffield United have been denied by a 98th-minute equaliser from Richarlison! After all his struggles, that’s a lovely moment, and you’d imagine he’s haemorrhaging tears of joy right now.
Updated
PENALTY TO VILLA!
Yep, it’s been given.
Full time: Fulham 1-0 Luton
Carlos Vinicius’s goal has inflicted another defeat on promoted Luton.
Villa 1-1 Palace: The referee has gone to the monitor, but it sounds like the decision may be upheld. Paul Merson thinks it’s a penalty, Mike Dean isn’t sure.
Full time: West Ham 1-3 Man City
An excellent win for City, who had to come from 1-0 down at half-time to beat a dogged West Ham. Jeremy Doku, Bernardo Silva and Erling Haaland scored the goals.
Penalty to Villa! Chris Richards has been penalised for a tackle on Ollie Watkins. On Soccer Saturday, Mike Dean thinks it might be overturned.
Updated
Man Utd 1-3 Brighton Ansu Fati misses a terrific chance to turn a great win into a once-in-a-lifetime victory. Andre Onana denied him.
Man Utd 1-3 Brighton “Let’s face it,” says Jeff Sax. “Since Ferguson, nothing has worked…”
He’s not exempt from blame either.
Updated
We’re into injury time. Manchester United are facing their third defeat in five, the first time that has happened in the Premier League era, and Sheffield United are a few minutes away from a smash-and-grab victory at Spurs. The assumption that United will go down looks more questionable with each passing game. Sheffield United I mean.
Aston Villa 1-1 Crystal Palace
Fulham 1-0 Luton
Man Utd 1-3 Brighton
Spurs 0-1 Sheff Utd
West Ham 1-3 Man City
GOAL! Aston Villa 1-1 Crystal Palace (Duran 87)
Villa have finally been rewarded for their second-half pressure. The substitute Jhon Duran, who looks a really good signing, has smashed an equaliser past Sam Johnstone.
Updated
Disallowed goal! Spurs 0-1 Sheff Utd
The substitute Brennan Johnson is denied a first Spurs goal by a tight but correct offside decision.
GOAL! West Ham 1-3 Man City (Yep 86)
He’s missed some great chances today, but Erling Haaland has finally got his goal after a fine pass from Bernardo Silva. Five wins out of five for City, and it’ll soon be four titles out of four.
Updated
Premier League latest
Wolves 1-3 Liverpool (FT)
Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace
Fulham 1-0 Luton
Man Utd 1-3 Brighton
Spurs 0-1 Sheff Utd
West Ham 1-2 Man City
Newcastle v Brentford is the late Premier League game. Barry Glendenning has the team news for that one.
Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace Ollie Watkins’ shot hits the post, rebounds onto the diving Sam Johnstone and goes wide. This would be a classic Palace away win: 32 per cent possession, one shot on target.
Bundesliga: Mainz 1-3 Stuttgart
“Everyone loves a late-blooming striker,” writes Kári Tulinius, “and it looks like Stuttgart have one in 27-year-old Guinean international Serhou Guirassy. Last season he scored 11 goals in 22 matches. So far this season he has 8 in 4, including a hat-trick today against Mainz.”
GOAL! West Ham 1-2 Man City (Bernardo 76)
It was fun while it lasted. City have come from behind to lead through Bernardo Silva, who ran onto a lovely scooped pass from Julian Alvarez and touched the ball past Alphonse Areola. Erling Haaland did well – he could have stolen the goal but realised he was offside and left it.
Updated
GOAL! Spurs 0-1 Sheff Utd (Hamer 73)
My word! Gustavo Hamer, who looks such a good player, has swept Sheffield United into a shock lead in north London.
Updated
GOAL! Man Utd 1-3 Brighton (Hannibal 73)
The young substitute Hannibal has got one back with a fierce drive from 25 yards. Sounds like Jason Steele might have done better.
Updated
GOAL! Man Utd 0-3 Brighton (Joao Pedro 71)
Brighton – beautiful, life-affirming Brighton – are doing it again. They made six changes and they are still running riot at Old Trafford. The substitute Joao Pedro has made it three with a nonchalant first-time finish from the edge of the area, and United are officially in the malodorous stuff.
Updated
Premier League latest
Wolves 1-3 Liverpool (FT)
Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace
Fulham 1-0 Luton
Man Utd 0-2 Brighton
Spurs 0-0 Sheff Utd
West Ham 1-1 Man City
GOAL! Preston 2-1 Plymouth (Hardie 61) This happened ages ago, sorry.
Spurs 0-0 Sheff Utd The frustration continues for Spurs. I’ve no idea what has actually happened, because we can’t legally watch the game, but the fact it’s still 0-0 probably wasn’t part of the plan.
GOALS! Celtic 3-0 Dundee (Kyogo 63, O’Riley 67)
Man Utd 0-2 Brighton “Looking at that Man United squad, I am genuinely astounded by how weak it is,” writes Valdarez. “Reguilon? Lindelof`? A 20-year-old kid up front? Jonny Evans and Antony Martial on the bench? What has Ten Hag spent over 350 million Euros on?”
Antony and perhaps Onana aside I think he’s bought pretty well, though he paid over the odds for a few players. In his defence, they have a lot of players unavailable at the moment: Varane, Shaw, Mount, Antony, Sancho, Amrabat. But it is in danger of unravelling, again.
Man Utd 0-2 Brighton Anthony Martial and Hannibal Mejbri are on for Rasmus Hojlund and the injured Casemiro. The United fans were not entirely in agreement with Erik ten Hag’s decision.
Ansu Fati has come on for Brighton in place of Adam Lallana.
GOAL! Fulham 1-0 Luton (Vinicius 65)
The substitute Carlos Vinicius has broken Luton down at Craven Cottage, scoring from close range after Willian’s dipping cross was pushed away by Thomas Kaminski.
Updated
Man Utd 0-2 Brighton Enough of the negativity: how good are Brighton? They started today without a number of key players – Estupinan, Ferguson, Joao Pedro, March, Enciso, Gilmour - and they’re 2-0 up against a team who never lose at home.
Premier League latest
Wolves 1-3 Liverpool (FT)
Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace
Fulham 0-0 Luton
Man Utd 0-2 Brighton
Spurs 0-0 Sheff Utd
West Ham 1-1 Man City
Man Utd 0-2 Brighton “The Dutch obsession with discipline is not working...” says Jeff Sax. “Only Maguire can stop the next goal... And by the way, the state of MU on and off the field has nothing to do with the owners.”
Trust me, Jeff, it has everything to do with them.
West Ham 1-1 Man City Ederson has just made a superb save to keep out Kurt Zouma’s header. This sounds like a cracking game.
Updated
Man Utd 0-2 Brighton It was a terrific finish from Pascal Gross, who dummied Lisandro Martinez in the area and rifled a low shot past Onana.
I’d have to double check this but I think last time Man Utd lost three of their first five league games was in the chillingly bleak winter of 1989-90.
Updated
GOAL! Man Utd 0-2 Brighton (Gross 53)
Manchester United are in all sorts. Pascal Gross, who scored both goals when Brighton won at Old Trafford last season, has put them 2-0 ahead!
Updated
Premier League latest
Wolves 1-3 Liverpool (FT)
Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace
Fulham 0-0 Luton
Man Utd 0-1 Brighton
Spurs 0-0 Sheff Utd
West Ham 1-1 Man City
West Ham 1-1 Man City Julian Alvarez hits the post with a free-kick, then Alphonse Areola does well to save Erling Haaland’s acrobatic volley. A City goal is coming, probably goals plural.
GOAL! Celtic 1-0 Dundee (Turnbull 51 pen)
In a surprising development, Celtic are ahead. And so are St Mirren at Motherwell thanks to Scott Tanser.
Updated
Spurs 0-0 Sheff Utd Van de Ven has been booked for leaving one on the Sheffield United keeper Wes Foderingham. On Sky Sports, Tim Sherwood thinks it should been a red card; Mike Dean disagrees.
GOAL! Aston Villa 0-1 Crystal Palace (Edouard 47)
Odsonne Edouard continues his fine form, giving Palace the lead on the break after poor defending from Pau Torres and a comedy slip by Emi Martinez.
Updated
GOAL! West Ham 1-1 Man City (Doku 46)
Jeremy Doku equalises after 42 seconds of the second half. It was a really good goal: he ran at the backpedalling Coufal, into the area, and shaped a precise shot into the far corner. It’s his first goal for City.
Updated
Man Utd 0-1 Brighton “Danny Welbeck: 64 goals in 315 games,” says Adam Roberts. “Today is his first of the season, and first for several (9 or 11) games. United have plenty of non-scoring forwards.”
Serie A “Milan derby coming up in a little over an hour,” says Joe Pearson. “Who you got? Of course I’m pulling for Milan, because of Captain America, of course!”
I’ve got the World Series of Darts Finals on ITV4.
Updated
Full time: Juventus 3-1 Lazio Juve’s good start continues with victory over Lazio. Dusan Vlahovic scored twice, Federico Chiesa got the other one.
“Is it fair to say that Van Gaal is the man mostly at fault for United’s downfall after shredding the squad by selling the likes of Welbeck, Evans, Chicharito, and Zaha, then playing Donald Love and Cameron Borthwick-Jackson in their place... oh and Marcus Rashford...” says Michael Garton.
I think this particular failure has a thousand fathers.
“I think one reason United let Welbeck go was he was injury-prone,” says Rick Harris, “although they replaced him with Tony Martial who apparently was allowed to choose the colour scheme when they redecorated the United Treatment Room as he is in it most of the time.”
I may be misremembering this but I think injuries only really became a problem for Welbeck at Arsenal. Van Gaal just didn’t rate him. Apart from maybe the 2011-12 season, Welbeck was never more than a good squad player at United.
Updated
Half time
Peep peep! Erik ten Hag has a lot of lines on his forehead as he walks down the touchline at Old Trafford. Man Utd have played pretty well but trail to Danny Welbeck’s goal. These are the other half-time scores in the Premier League.
Wolves 1-3 Liverpool (FT)
Aston Villa 0-0 Crystal Palace
Fulham 0-0 Luton
Man Utd 0-1 Brighton
Welbeck
Spurs 0-0 Sheff Utd
West Ham 1-0 Man City
Ward-Prowse
Fulham 0-0 Luton
So far, so good for Luton, who have had a few decent chances on the break. Fulham have been all hat and no cattle.
“Welbeck has never been prolific but is versatile and a good team player,” writes Kevin Wilson. “More remarkable is that he has 42 England caps. When did that happen?”
Mostly under Roy Hodgson, I think. He was versatile, tactially savvy and occasionally penetrative, the kind of attacking player Hodgson loves. Actually, 16 goals in 42 caps is a decent record.
Updated
NO GOAL! Man Utd 0-1 Brighton
Man Utd need Danny Welbeck, because Hojlund’s goal has been disallowed. Marcus Rashford ran the ball out of play, just, before pulling it back for Hojlund to score.
Updated
GOAL! Man Utd 1-1 Brighton (Hojlund 40)
Who needs Danny Welbeck.
SPL
Still goalless in the two big games in Scotland: Celtic v Dundee and Motherwell v St Mirren.
Man Utd 0-1 Brighton “Can’t help but note that United flogged Welbeck 10 years ago because he wasn’t good enough,” says Zafar Sobhan, “but he’s still better than anyone we’ve got to replace him.”
I wouldn’t go that far, but he would still be a very handy squad players. Louis van Gaal sold a lot of decent players on the cheap, didn’t he.
Premier League latest
Wolves 1-3 Liverpool (FT)
Aston Villa 0-0 Crystal Palace
Fulham 0-0 Luton
Man Utd 0-1 Brighton
Spurs 0-0 Sheff Utd
West Ham 1-0 Man City
GOAL! West Ham 1-0 Man City (Ward-Prowse 36)
James Ward-Prowse continues his outstanding start to life in London, stooping to head Vladimir Coufal’s terrific cross past Ederson to give West Ham a surprise lead. Well, well.
Updated
Disallowed goal! Aston Villa 0-0 Crystal Palace (Diaby) Moussa Diaby has had a fantastic goal disallowed for a marginal offside. His first touch, to kill Pau Torres’s long ball, was disgustingly good, and then he slipped nonchalantly past Sam Johnstone. Alas, it counted for nowt.
GOAL! Juventus 3-1 Lazio (Vlahovic 67)
Lazio were back in the game for less than three minutes. Dusan Vlahovic has scored a superb goal, chesting down a long, crossfield pass and sweeping the ball into the far corner.
Updated
Man Utd 0-1 Brighton “Pervis Ellison was injured a lot,” says Tom Sullivan, “so his other nickname was out-of-service Pervis.”
GOAL! Preston 2-0 Plymouth (Millar 25)
Preston are heading for a fifth straight league win; the left wing-back Liam Millar has doubled their lead at Deepdale.
Man Utd 0-1 Brighton The goal was against the run of play, but it was typically neat. Welbeck pushed the ball out to Adingra on the right and then got on his bike. Adingra’s cross was cleverly dummied by Lallana, and Welbeck finished first time with his left foot.
GOAL! Juventus 2-1 Lazio (Alberto 65) Could be an interesting finish in Turin, where Liverpool alumnus Luis Alberto has scored a sweet long-range curler for Lazio.
Updated
Match report: St Johnstone 0-2 Rangers
GOAL! Man Utd 0-1 Brighton (Welbeck 20)
There may be trouble ahead. Danny Welbeck, who left Old Trafford in 2014, has put Brighton in front.
Updated
Serie A It’s still Juventus 2-0 Lazio, with just over 30 minutes remaining in Turin. Dusan Vlahovic and Federico Chiesa scored in the first half.
West Ham 0-0 Man City Erling Haaland has missed a great chance, sidefooting Josko Gvardiol’s low cross wide from six yards. City are all over West Ham.
“Just so you know, Areola only made a double save, not a triple save,” writes J.R. in Illinois, who is in Illinois and thus able to legally watch the game. “He did tip away a cross in between said saves. And the saves weren’t brilliant. They were fine but really nothing you wouldn’t have expected most keepers to deal with. But City are all over the ‘Ammers like a duck on a junebug.”
Updated
West Ham 0-0 Man City “That’s too much possession for West Ham,” says Niall Mullen. “They’re going to get killed on the counter.”
Aston Villa 0-0 Crystal Palace Nothing much to report. Palace are defending deep and doing it with exasperating competence if you’re a Villa fan.
West Ham 0-0 Man City Possession so far: West Ham 20-80 Man City.
Man Utd 0-0 Brighton It sounds like Man Utd have started well at Old Trafford, with Rasmus Hojlund just failing to get a touch on a wicked cross from Marcus Rashford. Apparently.
West Ham 0-0 Man City Alphonse Areola has just made a brilliant triple save, apparently, with Tomas Soucek clearing off the line in the same attack.
Updated
GOAL! Preston 1-0 Plymouth (Holmes 1) Preston, who will go back to the top of the Championship with a win, are already ahead at Deepdale. Duane Holmes headed in after precisely 38 seconds.
16 - Mats Hummels has scored in the 16th Bundesliga season in a row equaling the BL record held by five other players (most recently Olaf Thon from 1984/85 to 1999/2000). Long-runner. #SCFBVB pic.twitter.com/6AcN4xGDCl
— OptaFranz (@OptaFranz) September 16, 2023
Man Utd 0-0 Brighton “With Everton’s annual victory over Arsenal at Goodison not until tomorrow, I don’t have much to say except that hearing Pervis Estupiñan will always remind me of the NBA’s Pervis Ellison, who was nicknamed ‘Never Nervous Pervis’,” writes Matt Burtz. “Feel free to co-opt that moniker today if the need arises.”
That might be tricky: he’s not in the squad. I mean, I know I’m good…
Peep peep! The 3pm games are up and running, and these are the latest Premier League scores.
Wolves 1-3 Liverpool (FT)
Aston Villa 0-0 Crystal Palace
Fulham 0-0 Luton
Man Utd 0-0 Brighton
Spurs 0-0 Sheff Utd
West Ham 0-0 Man City
Here’s more on Roy Hodgson’s absence from Crystal Palace’s game at Villa Park
“Massive home game for the Uniteds today after a poor start to the season,” writes Rick Harris. “The manager exceeded expectations with the top-four finish but that counts for little if they lose again today. Erik has had a hard week but it is of course Eddie Howe who will be fearing the worst if Brentford leave with the three points.”
Match report: Wolves 1-3 Liverpool
Ben Fisher was at Molineux to watch Liverpool give another demonstration of their monstrous mentality.
Here’s the Premier League table ahead of the 3pm games
| Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool | 5 | 8 | 13 |
| 2 | Man City | 4 | 9 | 12 |
| 3 | Tottenham Hotspur | 4 | 7 | 10 |
| 4 | West Ham | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| 5 | Arsenal | 4 | 4 | 10 |
| 6 | Brighton | 4 | 6 | 9 |
| 7 | Crystal Palace | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 8 | Brentford | 4 | 3 | 6 |
| 9 | Nottm Forest | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 10 | Aston Villa | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 11 | Man Utd | 4 | -2 | 6 |
| 12 | Chelsea | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 13 | Fulham | 4 | -6 | 4 |
| 14 | Newcastle | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 15 | Wolverhampton | 5 | -6 | 3 |
| 16 | AFC Bournemouth | 4 | -4 | 2 |
| 17 | Sheff Utd | 4 | -3 | 1 |
| 18 | Everton | 4 | -6 | 1 |
| 19 | Luton | 3 | -7 | 0 |
| 20 | Burnley | 3 | -8 | 0 |
Serie A: Juventus 2-0 Lazio (35 mins)
Lazio have had most of the ball in Turin; Juventus have scored both of the goals through Dusan Vlahovic and Federico Chiesa.
Full time: St Johnstone 0-2 Rangers
Rangers haven’t always enjoyed themselves in Perth – ask Graeme Souness – but that sounds like a pretty comfortable afternoon. Danilo and Rabbi Matondo got the goals, though Danilo was concussed in the act of scoring and had to go off.
Updated
Full time: Wolves 1-3 Liverpool
Another come-from-behind victory for Liverpool, who move to 13 points from five games. Despite some dodgy first-half performances, the reboot is going extremely well.
Updated
Also OTD 1981… Monaco 2-5 Dundee United
GOAL! Wolves 1-3 Liverpool (Bueno og 90+1)
All over at Molineux. For the third time this season, Liverpool have come from behind to win. That’s slightly ominous for everyone else.
Meanwhile, in Scotland “Afternoon Rob,” says Simon McMahon. “Game of the day in Scotland is undoubtedly Celtic v Dundee, as the Dens men look to build on their impressive, solid start by shocking the champions in Glasgow Dundee United v Morton at Tannadice.”
Updated
West Ham v Man City team news
City have only eight players on the bench, including two goalkeepers and the new signing Matheus Nunes. Mateo Kovacic and Jack Grealish have joined their injury list.
West Ham (4-1-4-1) Areola; Coufal, Zouma, Aguerd, Emerson; Alvarez; Bowen, Soucek, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta; Antonio.
Substitutes: Fabianski, Cresswell, Mavropanos, Ogbonna, Kehrer, Fornals, Kudus, Ings, Benrahma.
Man City (possible 4-2-1-3) Ederson; Walker, Akanji, Ruben Dias, Gvardiol; Rodri, Bernardo; Alvarez; Foden, Haaland, Doku.
Substitutes: Ortega, Carson, Ake, Lewis, Phillips, Gomez, Matheus Nunes, Bobb.
Updated
Tottenham v Sheff Utd team news
Tottenham (4-1-2-3) Vicario; Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Udogie; Bissouma; Sarr, Maddison; Kulusevski, Son, Solomon.
Substitutes: Forster, Emerson Royal, Dier, Davies, Skipp, Hojbjerg, Perisic, Richarlison, Johnson.
Sheffield United (5-3-2) Foderingham; Bogle, Ahmedhodzic, Basham, Robinson, Thomas; Vinicius Souza, McAtee, Hamer; McBurnie, Archer.
Substitutes: Davies, Trusty, Larouci, Seriki, Norwood, Davies, Ben Slimane, Traore.
GOALS! St Johnstone 0-2 Rangers (Matondo 79); Wolves 1-2 Liverpool (Robertson 85)
Man Utd v Brighton team news
Some fascinating team news, mainly involving Brighton. Roberto De Zerbi has made six changes from the team that hammered Newcastle before the international break, with Pervis Estupinan and Solly March (minor muscle injury) not in the squad. The players coming into the team include Mahmoud Dahoud, Adam Lallana and Simon Adingra.
Rasmus Hojlund makes his full debut for Man Utd, and it looks like Bruno Fernandes will play on the right wing in the absence of, well, everyone. Sergio Reguilon also starts.
Man Utd (possible 4-2-1-3) Onana; Dalot, Lindelof, Martinez, Reguilon; Casemiro, McTominay; Eriksen; Fernandes, Hojlund, Rashford.
Substitutes: Bayindir, Maguire, Wan-Bissaka, Evans, Pellistri, Gore, Mejbri, Martial, Garnacho.
Brighton (possible 4-2-1-3) Steele; Lamptey, van Hecke, Dunk, Veltman; Gross, Dahoud; Lallana; Adingra, Welbeck, Mitoma.
Substitutes: Verbruggen, Igor Julio, Webster, Baleba, Milner, Gilmour, Joao Pedro, Ferguson, Ansu Fati.
Updated
Fulham v Luton team news
Joao Palhinha, whose move to Bayern Munich collapsed at the last minute, returns to the Fulham midfield. Jacob Brown, Albert Sambi Lokonga and Tom Lockyer all come into the Luton team.
Fulham (4-3-3) Leno; Tete, Diop, Ream, Castagne; Pereira, Palhinha, Reed; Wilson, Jimenez, Willian.
Substitutes: Rodak, Bassey, Ballo-Toure, Cairney, Francois, De Cordova-Reid, Carvalho, Iwobi, Carlos Vinicius.
Luton (5-3-2) Kaminski; Kabore, Burke, Andersen, Lockyer, Bell; Chong, Nakamba, Sambi Lokonga; Morris, Brown.
Substitutes: Krul, Mengi, Berry, Mpanzu, Giles, Doughty, Ogbene, Woodrow, Adebayo.
Updated
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace team news
The exciting Nicola Zaniolo makes his full debut for Villa.
Aston Villa (4-2-2-2) Martinez; Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne; Kamara, Douglas Luiz; Zaniolo, McGinn; Diaby, Watkins.
Substitutes: Olsen, Marschall, Moreno, Chambers, Lenglet, Bailey, Dendoncker, Duran.
Crystal Palace (4-2-3-1) Johnstone; Ward, Andersen, Richards, Mitchell; Doucoure, Hughes; Ayew, Eze, Schlupp; Edouard.
Substitutes: Henderson, Matthews, Holding, Clyne, Ebiowei, Ahamada, Riedewald, Rak-Sakyi, Mateta.
73 min: Wolves 1-1 Liverpool Still level at Molineux, though Liverpool are well on top now. Barry Glendenning is watching that one.
Hodgson to miss Palace game
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace Roy Hodgson won’t be at Villa Park this afternoon after being taken unwell this morning. He’s in contact with his backroom staff, which hopefully means it isn’t too serious.
Unfortunately Roy Hodgson was taken unwell earlier today and is not at Villa Park.
— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) September 16, 2023
Roy is in contact with Paddy McCarthy, who will take the team today assisted by Ray Lewington.
Roy sent his best wishes to the team ahead of the match.
We send our very best wishes to Roy… pic.twitter.com/QIh887zkTU
On this day in 1981… Celtic 1-0 Juventus
Pre-match reading
SPL Rangers are 1-0 up at St Johnstone in the early game in Scotland. Danilo got the goal for them. The leaders, Celtic and Motherwell, are at home to Dundee and St Mirren respectively.
Updated
The team news should arrive just after 2pm. In the meantime, here’s a bit of clicky bait.
Wolves v Liverpool
Cody Gakpo has just equalised for Liverpool in the early Premier League game at Molineux. You can follow that one with Barry Glendenning.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to another fun, key Saturday clockwatch. The nation’s favourite soap opera has a new timeslot this week: Man Utd v Brighton kicks off at 3pm, with Brighton aiming to become the first away team to win a Premier League game at Old Trafford since, yep, Brighton. If they do, a beleaguered Erik ten Hag will collect his first trophy of the season: the Premier League Crisis Baton. If United win, on the other hand, Jadon Sancho will become this morning’s news.
United v Brighton is one of five Premier League fixtures kicking off at 3pm. It’s a decent selection. Five of the top seven are in action, including a real-life top-of-the-table clash between West Ham and Manchester City.
Aston Villa v Crystal Palace
Fulham v Luton
Man Utd v Brighton
Tottenham v Sheff Utd
West Ham v Man City
We’ll be keeping what remains of our eyes on the EFL, where Preston can go back to the top of the Championship by beating Plymouth. The big two are in action in Scotland as well. Let’s get this festival of goalflashery started, shall we.
Updated
