Manchester City striker Erling Haaland claimed another Premier League goal-scoring record but could not extend his side’s incredible winning sequence or keep them top as the champions were held to a 1-1 home draw by Liverpool on Saturday.
The 23-year-old Haaland fired City ahead after 27 minutes following a poor clearance from Liverpool keeper Alisson to reach the 50-goal mark in just 48 games — 17 games fewer than it took previous record holder Andy Cole.
But Trent Alexander-Arnold drilled in an 80th-minute equaliser with his right foot to deny City a 24th successive home win in all competitions.
The result left City on 29 points from 13 games with Liverpool one point behind and Arsenal later claimed a late 1-0 victory at Brentford thanks to Kai Havertz’s header. Arsenal leapfrogged Liverpool and City into first place with 30 points.
Chelsea’s mini-resurgence came to a shuddering halt as they were crushed 4-1 at Newcastle United while Brighton and Hove Albion returned to winning ways with a 3-2 victory at Nottingham Forest despite ending the game with 10 men.
Haaland did what he does best, firing home after Alisson’s poor clearance had found its way to Nathan Ake.
But there was a lack of killer-instinct about City in a low-key affair and they were made to pay as Alexander-Arnold rammed in Liverpool’s equaliser seconds after Alisson had made a great save to deny Haaland at the other end.
“Trent was super-influential today. Not only in the goal — around the goal, in all situations he was a really important player and a really good game from him,” Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said.
“We don’t check if we are as good as City. We want to be ready in these games to give them a proper game, and that’s what we did today.”
Arsenal were not at their best and keeper Aaron Ramsdale could have made the headlines for all the wrong reasons as he got away with a huge mistake having been recalled to the Premier League starting side for the first time since September.
His loss of possession in his own penalty area should have resulted in a goal by Bryan Mbeumo but his shot was cleared off the line by Declan Rice.
Arsenal had a goal by Leandro Trossard ruled out for offside and Brentford had their moments before Havertz stooped to head in Bukayo Saka’s cross in the 89th minute.
“We are so happy, we fully deserved to win. We competed extraordinarily well, we should have scored much earlier but this is a really tough place to come,” Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta said. “We showed a lot of resilience and belief.”
Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino vowed to have his team in for Sunday morning training after they went down to a heavy defeat at sixth-placed Newcastle.
Newcastle striker Alexander Isak netted 13 minutes into his return from injury to fire the hosts ahead but Raheem Sterling’s free kick levelled it up 10 minutes later.
Jamaal Lascelles restored Newcastle’s lead on the hour and almost immediately a terrible mistake by Thiago Silva allowed fellow Brazilian Joelinton to make it 3-1.
Any chance Chelsea had of staging a comeback vanished when Reece James collected his second yellow card for an innocuous challenge in the 73rd minute and Anthony Gordon completed the rout in the 83rd minute as Chelsea remained in 10th place.
“We will go to the hotel, then train early tomorrow, no time off. We cannot blame the players, it is the team together. We need to understand the level we need to compete, and learn about this situation,” Pochettino said.
Joao Pedro came off the bench to score twice as Brighton came from behind to win 3-2 at Forest, despite finishing with 10 men after Lewis Dunk was dismissed for protesting.
Luton Town earned their first home win since returning to the top flight as they beat Crystal Palace 2-1 to move four points clear of the bottom three — Jacob Brown netting the winner. But bottom club Burnley are still waiting for their first home point after conceding twice late on in a 2-1 home defeat by West Ham United, having led 1-0.
Bournemouth won 3-1 away at Sheffield United.
Aston Villa came from behind to beat Tottenham Hotspur on the day they remembered former player and manager Terry Venables.
The ex-England manager’s death was announced less than two hours before kick-off, and a minute’s applause was held to pay tribute to a man who won the FA Cup with Spurs as a player in 1967 and as manager in 1991.
Giovani lo Celso’s deflected opener looked to have got the early season pacesetters back on track after their unbeaten start came to an end with back-to-back defeats before the international break.
But Pau Torres levelled with a header deep into first-half added time before Ollie Watkins slotted in his 12th goal of the season to seal Villa’s turnaround.
Spurs pushed for an equaliser but could not avoid a third straight defeat – and they have taken the lead in each one of those games.
Tottenham were top of the Premier League table after their first 10 games but are now below Villa after victory in north London sent Unai Emery’s team above them into fourth place.
Willian scored an injury-time winner from the penalty spot as Wolves were on the wrong end of more video assistant referee controversy in their Premier League defeat at Fulham.
With the score at 2-2 referee Michael Salisbury awarded the match’s third penalty after a VAR review.
Salisbury had initially waved play on after Harry Wilson and Joao Gomes came together in the box, but overturned his call after the VAR advised him to look at the pitchside monitor.
Willian then dispatched his second spot-kick of the half.
Alex Iwobi had opened the scoring in the seventh minute for the hosts, side-footing Antonee Robinson’s cutback through the legs of Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa.
Matheus Cunha equalised for the visitors after 22 minutes, heading in Jean-Ricner Bellegarde’s cross after the Frenchman skilfully beat Robinson down the right.
Willian restored Fulham’s lead with the first penalty of the game just before the hour mark after Nelson Semedo had caught Tom Cairney on the edge of the box.
But Wolves soon had a spot-kick of their own inside the final 20 minutes when Tim Ream bundled over Hwang Hee-chan and the South Korea winger struck Wolves’ second equaliser from 12 yards.
Fulham rode their luck and benefitted from another late penalty call to sneak all three points.
Alejandro Garnacho smashed in a sensational goal-of-the-season contender as Manchester United beat Everton in the Toffees’ first game since their 10-point deduction.
Garnacho’s incredible third-minute effort silenced the fiery home faithful at Goodison Park, as fans vented their fury with anti-Premier League protests following their unprecedented sanction.
There looked to be no danger when Diogo Dalot dinked a cross into the box, but Garnacho had other ideas, taking a couple of steps back before leaping into the Merseyside sky and unleashing an unstoppable bicycle kick that sailed over Jordan Pickford and into the net.
The goal was the only chance United created in the first half and Everton will be left wondering how they did not go in at least level at the break.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin was the home side’s main culprit in their flurry of chances, drawing decent saves from Andre Onana and sending a gilt-edged headed opportunity over the bar.
United, without suspended manager Erik ten Hag on the touchline, gave a debut to impressive 18-year-old Kobbie Mainoo and the midfielder made a superb clearance off the line to deny Dwight McNeil.
Everton were made to rue their numerous misses as Ashley Young was adjudged to have tripped Anthony Martial in the box and Marcus Rashford stepped up to confidently score the penalty.
United captain Bruno Fernandes, who usually takes the spot-kicks, handed the ball to Rashford to give him a chance to score only his second Premier League goal of the season.
“I think he needed a goal,” said Fernandes. “I am really happy he scored – a boost of confidence for him.”
Ten Hag added: “You see how great a captain Bruno is. He assessed that his team-mate needed that goal. As a team you need that leadership that you back each other.”
Martial finished off a slick team move for United’s third as they moved up to sixth in the Premier League, while Everton are in significant trouble at the bottom end – in 19th position and five points from fourth-bottom Luton Town.
