Roundup of the first midweek round of the 2025-26 Premier League season as Arsenal continued to head the table.
Mikel Merino’s header and Bukayo Saka’s finish saw Arsenal remain top of the table with a 2-0 home win over Brentford at Emirates Stadium.
Erling Haaland scored his 100th Premier League goal for Manchester City in a 5-4 victory at Fulham, in which Phil Foden’s brace, Tijjani Reijnders’ effort and Sander Berge helped them over the line amidst goals from Emile Smith Rowe, Alex Iwobi and Samuel Chukwueze’s brace for the hosts.
Ollie Watkins’ brace plus second-half goals from Amadou Onana and Donyell Malen saw Aston Villa climb to third with a 4-3 comeback win at Brighton, in which Jan Paul van Hecke scored twice for the Seagulls whilst Pau Torres’ own-goal had put them 2-0 up.
Chelsea rounded out the top four amidst a shock 3-1 defeat at Leeds as Pedro Neto netted a consolatory goal, after Jaka Bijol and Ao Tanaka put the Whites in front before Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s tap-in sealed their victory.
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Down in the relegation zone, Wolves remained without a league win after Igor Jesus’ header handed Nottingham Forest a 1-0 victory at Molineux.
Second-bottom Burnley suffered a narrow home defeat to Crystal Palace after Daniel Munoz nodded in a 44th-minute winner from Marc Guehi’s cross.
West Ham slipped to third-bottom with a 1-1 draw at Manchester United in which Diogo Dalot’s opener for the Red Devils was cancelled out by Soungoutou Magassa’s rebound equaliser.
Elsewhere, Cristian Romero twice cancelled out goals from Bruno Guimaraes and Anthony Gordon as Tottenham came from behind to draw 2-2 at Newcastle.
Nordi Mukiele’s own-goal salvaged a 1-1 draw for Liverpool at home to Sunderland, having fell behind to Chemsdine Talbi’s strike.
Jack Grealish netted a deflected 78th-minute winner as Everton scraped victory away at Bournemouth.
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