Premier League Week 9 Results

A win over Eintracht Frankfurt during the week proved a false positive for the Liverpool revival. The Reds returned to their losing ways with a fourth consecutive Premier League loss, this time losing 3-2 at Brentford. The trouble on Saturday began almost immediately when Dango Ouattara scored in the fifth minute. The Reds would twice fall behind by two goals in the match, a late 89th minute goal by Mohamed Salah proving too little, too late as Manager Arne Slot’s club tumbled to seventh in the table. While Slot struggles to find answers for his defending champions, Brentford Manager Keith Andrews deserves some early season kudos. Andrews is a first-time manager who took the reins from well-regarded current Spurs Manager Thomas Frank. Andrews was also handed a roster stripped in the off season of star forwards Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa and team captain Christian Norgaard. A relegation battle might have been on the cards, but Andrews has guided the Bees to four victories already and kept them solidly in the middle of the table. Credit goes to the entire organization for responding to key departures with some shrewd investments. Among those incoming assets were Ouattara, midfielder Jordan Henderson and goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher.

On we go together 🐝 pic.twitter.com/yGcUJjxV6p

— Brentford FC (@BrentfordFC) October 27, 2025

Astute moves to compensate for the loss of star players is essential to clubs such as Brentford and Crystal Palace who invariably develop players only to see them move on to hoped for better things at larger clubs. Eberechi Eze is one of those players who has climbed the career ladder. Eze became a star at Crystal Palace, earning a place on the English national team, before moving on to title contender Arsenal this summer. It was Eze who scored the Arsenal winner on Sunday to defeat Crystal Palace 1-0 at the Emirates. Eze’s 39th minute goal came from a set piece, the eleventh time Arsenal has scored from a dead ball situation this season. Unrivaled set piece mastery and a stifling defense has fueled Arsenal’s current ten match unbeaten run. The Gunners have not allowed a goal in their past five Premier League matches, all victories, and are one of just two clubs to have lost just once this season.

Bournemouth is the second such club with just that single taste of defeat and the Cherries are now second in the table after a 2-0 defeat of Nottingham Forest. The Tricky Trees, meanwhile, had little time to celebrate a midweek Europa League win over Porto before coming back to earth at Vitality Stadium. Bournemouth remained undefeated at home with two first half goals that put the Tricky trees on their heels and provided a sobering reminder of the challenge that Nottingham Forest Manager Sean Dyche faces to keep his club playing in the Premier League next season.

Another difficult hurdle awaits the Trees next week against in-form Manchester United. Bryan Mbuemo scored a brace, and Matheus Cunha scored his first goal for the club to key Manchester United’s 4-2 win at Old Trafford over Brighton. The Red Devils won their third consecutive match to move up to sixth in the Premier League table and further mute the once deafening criticism of Manager Ruben Amorim. Manchester United is now just two points behind second place Bournemouth in the crowded upper tier of the league table.

Amorim’s much criticized crew is level on points with rival Manchester City after the Citizens’ 1-0 defeat at Aston Villa. Manchester City had not lost since August before Matty Cash’s goal made City the fourth consecutive Premier League opponent to fall to streaking Aston Villa. Villa now takes its four-match winning run to Liverpool next week where the Reds will be trying to snap their own four-match losing skein. Aston Villa moved past Chelsea and Crystal Place into eighth place with Sunday’s win.

Chelsea lost to newly promoted Sunderland in a 2-1 final at Stamford Bridge. Chemsdine Talbi scored in the 93rd minute to claim the three points for the Black Cats who are shockingly a top four club after nine Premier League matches.

The other two promoted sides also won this past weekend. Leeds began the Week 9 slate with a 2-1 win over West Ham on Friday. The Whites are six points clear of the drop line after their second home victory of the season while West Ham remains mired in the relegation zone after its seventh loss in the last nine matches. Burnley kept Wolverhampton winless for the season as the Clarets won 3-2 away at Molineux Stadium where Lyle Foster scored Burnley’s 95th minute winner in front of a Molineaux crowd which notably turned on Wolves Manager Vito Pereira for the first time. Chants regarding his “being sacked in the morning” are something new for Pereira who became a fan favorite in better times last season.

Things are going just fine for Tottenham Hotspur Manager Thomas Frank in his debut season for the London club. Spurs were easy 3-0 winners at Everton Sunday as Micky van de Ven’s two first half headed goals helped to inflict the first loss for Everton at its new Hill Dickinson Stadium. Spurs are third in the Premier League table after being the last club to survive last season’ s Premier League campaign under former manager Ange Postecoglou. Another London side currently sits in the table’s barely safe 17th position.

Fulham lost 2-1 to Newcastle to fall within three points of the drop after the Cottagers’ fourth consecutive Premier League loss. There are thus relegation battle implications when Fulham welcomes Wolverhampton to Craven Cottage this coming Saturday.

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Table leader Arsenal hosts Crystal Palace on Sunday in a matchup featuring two of the three remaining league teams to have lost just once in the league this season. Arsenal sits atop the table intent on putting an end to its run of three consecutive bridesmaid finishes in the league. Arsenal spent heavily in the offseason to reinforce a squad that has finished second the last three seasons. So far, so good as the Gunners stand atop the Premier League table after eight matches. On Tuesday, the Gunners smashed Atletico Madrid 4-0 in the Champions League.

Crystal Palace, meanwhile, has been a force to reckon with under Manager Oliver Glasner. The Eagles were on a club record 19 match unbeaten run before losing at Everton earlier this month. Palace showed grit last week by closing a two-goal deficit against a quality Bournemouth side in a 3-3 final at Selhurst Park which featured three goals from rising star JP Mateta. A 1-0 Europa Conference League defeat to AEK  Larnaca, however, extended the Eagles’ current winless run to three matches and Mateta will face a difficult challenge Sunday against the Arsenal center back duo of Gabriel and William Saliba.

Manchester City is just three points behind Arsenal as the Citizens prepare for their Sunday matchup at Aston Villa. Erling Haaland is on a tear, having scored in 12 consecutive games across all competitions after his goal in Manchester City’s midweek Champions League win over Villareal. Manchester City’s defense has also contributed to a resurgence in the Premier League standings as only Arsenal has conceded fewer goals than the Citizens’ defense. There could be a problem on Sunday should Nico Gonzalez not recover quickly from a foot injury suffered in the Villareal win. Gonzalez has filled in admirably for the injured Rodri as Manchester City’s holding midfielder. Aston Villa has won three consecutive Premier League matches to begin a slow climb up the table after a tortuous five match winless run to start the season. Villa Park has been a safe haven for the home side as Aston Villa has lost only one of its past 22 matches at its historic venue.

Saturday afternoons at the Etihad... 🤩 pic.twitter.com/GnJwl741NQ

— Erling Haaland (@ErlingHaaland) October 18, 2025

Bournemouth is undefeated at home so far this season at Vitality Stadium. Three wins and a draw at home have helped the Cherries crack the top four of the Premier League. Much of the attention on its Saturday match, however, will be upon visiting Nottingham Forest and its new manager. Sean Dyche has replaced the recently departed Ange Postecoglou to right the ship for the Tricky Trees. Dyche’s experience with relegation battles at Burnley and Everton certainly factored in his appointment. More importantly, however, Dyche’s organized approach featuring defensive solidity and swift counterattacking seems a much better fit for the Nottingham Forest squad assembled for the similar style of Postecoglou’s predecessor Nuno Espirito Santo. The madcap “Ange Ball” era ended after eight matches where the Trees conceded 20 times. The anticipation is that Dyche will restore the defensive discipline accompanied by swift counterattacking which helped the Tricky Trees to European qualification last season.

The architect of that European qualification, Nuno Espirito Santo, is onto a new challenge with West Ham. The Hammers visit Leeds on Saturday in a match with potential relegation implications. West Ham is currently in the relegation zone while newly promoted Leeds hovers three points above the drop line after losing back-to-back matches.

Liverpool had shockingly lost four straight matches across all competitions before a breakout 5-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the Champions League on Tuesday. Manager Arne Slot changed things up by reinserting Hugo Etitike in his starting lineup alongside Alexander Isak and was rewarded when the Frenchman scored against his former club. Isak, however, was again unimpressive and was withdrawn at halftime after sustaining a groin injury. Jeremie Frimpong was also injured in the midweek clash, leaving Liverpool shorthanded as it tries to build on its newfound momentum at Brentford on Saturday.

Chelsea also dominated in the Champions League this week, demolishing Ajax by the same 5-1 scoreline. The Champions League romp followed on a 3-0 victory in league play last weekend which ended the tenure of Nottingham Forest Manager Ange Postecoglou. Fifth place Chelsea faces a league opponent on Saturday which is surprisingly level on points with the Blues.

Sunderland visits Stamford Bridge, having put together one of the more impressive starts by a newly promoted side in recent memory. All three promoted sides have, in fact, experienced better success than what has come to be expected from newcomer clubs. Sunderland, Leeds and Burnley are all presently clear of the relegation zone and their accumulated 29 points in total exceeds that accomplished by any promoted threesome in the last ten years. Burnley hopes to build on that success with a pivotal match at bottom of the table Wolverhampton on Saturday.

Fulham, meanwhile, has lost three consecutive matches to put the Cottagers just three points above the dreaded drop line. The Cottagers did little to strengthen their squad over the summer and could risk be at risk for both maintaining their top tier status and potentially losing well regarded manager Marco Silva. Silva takes his squad to Newcastle this weekend with the Magpies just a point better than Fulham and still trying to kickstart an attack decimated by the transfer loss of Alexander Isak.

Manchester United has suddenly won three of its last three Premier League matches to reduce the din of its unhappy supporters to a dull roar. Last week’s win at Anfield was certainly cause for celebration but this week’s match for the Red Devils against a quality Brighton side should give a hint as to whether there is real progress with Amorim’s squad or if his charges were beneficiaries of Liverpool’s slumping form.

Tottenham Hotspur has for the most part played quality football under new Manager Thomas Frank before a surprising defeat at home to Aston Villa last week. Spurs now takes to the road this weekend to face Everton which is unbeaten in four league matches at its new stadium.

Premier League Week 8 Results Manchester United Extends Liverpool Losses; Nottingham Forest Axes Ange Postecoglou; JP Mateta Hat Trick Saves Crystal Palace; Arsenal Continues Set Piece Dominance; Haaland Leads Manchester City Over Everton; Welbeck Scores Brace As Brighton Defeats Newcastle; Burnley Exits Relegation Zone

Manchester United visited the unfriendly confines of Anfield Sunday and left with a 2-1 victory which edged its historical rival closer to panic. Liverpool has now lost four consecutive matches across all competitions and has not scored more than one goal in any of those contests. Manchester United won for the first time at Anfield in nearly a decade when Harry Maguire headed in a Bruno Fernandes cross for the 84th minute winner. The Red Devils last won at Anfield in January 2016.

Liverpool, meanwhile, has not lost four consecutive matches since November 2014. Manager Arne Slot and his squad are reeling as they prepare to face Eintracht Frankfurt in Champions League on Wednesday. Manchester United Manager Ruben Amorim enjoyed an all too rare moment of triumph as he won a second consecutive Premier League match for the first time in his troubled Manchester United tenure.

Arsenal remains top of the table after a 1-0 win at Fulham with the Gunners three points clear of streaking Manchester City. The Gunners continued their set piece wizardry when Leandro Trossard scored the winner from an Arsenal corner kick in the 58th minute. Arsenal has now scored eight times this season from set pieces.

Manchester City, meanwhile, has won four of its last five Premier League matches to tuck in behind Arsenal in the league standings. A draw with Arsenal was the only non-winning effort during a five-match unbeaten run for the Citizens. The latest victory, 2-0 over Everton on Saturday, featured a brace by Premier League scoring champion Erling Haaland who found the net twice inside a five-minute span of the second half. Haaland now has 11 league goals, five more than his closest rival.

Bournemouth and Crystal Palace engaged in a 3-3 thriller at Selhurst Park which included a hat trick by Eagles star JP Mateta and a brace by the Cherries’ Eli Kroupi. Bournemouth sprinted to the lead on Kroupi’s two first half goals before Mateta knotted the match for the first time with two goals in the 64th and 69th minute, respectively. Ryan Christie would then regain the lead for the Cherries with an 89th minute goal. Mateta, however, was not done. The French striker, who scored his first senior goal for country over the international break, notched his third of the match on a converted penalty kick after Crystal Palace’s Marc Guehi was wrestled to the ground on a corner chance. Despite the late disappointment, Bournemouth’s point moved the Cherries to third in the Premier League table, surpassing Liverpool on goal differential.

Crystal Palace finished the weekend in eighth, dropping two places as Chelsea and Sunderland swept past the Eagles with weekend victories. The Blues were 3-0 winners over Nottingham Forest in Ange Postecoglou’s final match as manager of the Tricky Trees. Postecoglou, the former Tottenham Hotspur manager was sacked by Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis after the final whistle before the short-lived manager could even conduct a post-match press interview. Perhaps Marinakis had tired of Postecoglou’s self-serving interviews, the latest of which on Friday saw Postecoglou claim he is miscast as a “failed manager.” The shoe certainly fit at Forest where the former Spurs man lost six times and failed to win any of his eight matches in charge. Postecoglou’s Friday defense of his abominable 17th place league finish last season with Spurs highlighted how he essentially tanked the league season to focus on the diluted Europa League competition. Postecoglou has delivered even worse league results for Nottingham Forest where the Tricky Trees find themselves 18th in the Premier League table, the fired manager being responsible for four of the club’s five league losses to date. Former Burnley and Everton manager Sean Dyche is among the names rumored to lead Forest’s relegation fight.

Sunderland, meanwhile, put further distance between the Black Cats and the relegation zone with a 2-0 victory over bottom of the table Wolverhampton. Newly promoted Sunderland is all the way up to seventh in the table after winning its third home match in four tries this season. Wolves remain winless after eight Premier League matches and has scored a joint league worst  five goals all season.

West Ham Manager Nuno Espirito Santo has the dubious distinction of having managed two of the teams in the relegation zone in this very same season. Already sacked by Nottingham Forest in favor of the now also departed Ange Postecoglou, Santo may fast be realizing that he went from the frying pan into the fire after the Hammers were beaten 2-0 by Brentford in Santo’s home debut at London Stadium. His team was booed off at halftime and at the final whistle on Monday. Organized protests by supporters have called for the heads of Chair and Vice-Chair David Sullivan and Karen Brady, respectively. The squad is terrible, and the Hammers have the worst goal differential in the Premier League.

Burnley moved out of the relegation zone as Nottingham Forest moved in. The Clarets snapped a five-match winless run by defeating fellow promoted side Leeds 2-0 at Turf Moor. Current Champions League participant Newcastle is only two points above the Clarets after the Magpies lost 2-1 at Brighton. Leeds is the only club not currently in the relegation zone that has scored as few goals as Newcastle. The Alexander Isak transfer from the Magpies to Liverpool has so far done neither club any good. Thirty-four-year-old Danny Welbeck scored twice for the Seagulls, including the 84th minute winner.

Aston Villa continued to recover from early season troubles to make it three wins in a row after Sunday’s comeback victory over Tottenham Hotspur. Emiliano Buendia scored the winner to take all three points at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, moving the Villans to within two points of sixth place Spurs. Aston Villa had failed to win any of its first five league matches this season.