Premier League Week 6 Preview

Crystal Palace finds itself in an unlikely marquee game this week when the Eagles welcome Liverpool to Selhurst Park. Liverpool, of course, is the defending league champion and the only Premier League team to have won all its league matches this season. Crystal Palace, however, has taken major strides under Manager Oliver Glasner. Unlike the yeoman work performed by former manager Roy Hodgson to keep the Eagles safe from relegation, Glasner has led an array of young and often changing stars up the table and into possession of silverware. Crystal Palace was victorious over Liverpool when the two sides met in the Community Shield in August, just a few months after the Eagles had downed Manchester City in the FA Cup final. The soaring Eagles have not been beaten in their last 17 matches across all competitions and currently sit just a point outside the top four in the Premier League table. Crystal Palace is tasting European competition as well and, after Saturday’s high profile league meeting with the Reds, will play Dynamo Kyiv in the Europa Conference League on Wednesday. Heady heights indeed for the scrappy south London side which can pull within three points of Liverpool and the top of the table with a win at Selhurst.

Next up at Selhurst: Liverpool 🔜 pic.twitter.com/9cWHZKEY0R

— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) September 26, 2025

Liverpool, for all its recent perfection in results, has not looked invincible, winning four of their five matches by a one goal margin. The defense has looked vulnerable at times, and an impressive array of attackers has not yet delivered the expected torrent of goals. That could change when all the new attacking pieces are settled. Alexander Isak is still finding his footing but the league’s second leading goal scorer from last season with Newcastle may need to step up Saturday. Fellow forward Hugo Ekitike, another pricy transfer addition, is suspended for the Selhurst match.

Isak’s former club, Newcastle, has struggled for goals without him. The Magpies’ three goals exceed the output of only presently relegation bound Aston Villa. Newcastle now must face Arsenal on Sunday which does not bode well for the goal starved Magpies. The Gunners are tied with Crystal Palace in conceding the fewest Premier League goals this season.

Aston Villa, meanwhile, scored its first Premier League goal of the season in last week’s draw versus Sunderland and will look for its first win of the season at home against Fulham Sunday. Monchi, the club’s president of football operations, resigned this week and must bear some of the blame for recruiting failures which have contributed to Villa’s struggles. Endangered West Ham Manager Graham Potter could point to the Hammers’ inadequate transfer activity as reason for his problems. That probably won’t be well received, however, and the former Brighton and Chelsea manager needs to engineer a turnaround in the currently relegation bound Hammers’ miserable season beginning with this week’s match at Everton.

Chelsea’s season started brightly with two convincing league wins but things have hit a rough patch. The Blues are winless in their last two league matches, were decisively beaten in the Champions League by Bayern Munich and needed to mount a comeback to get by Lincoln City in the EFL Cup on Tuesday. The lingering groin injury of star Cole Palmer is a major factor in the downturn and Palmer will be a spectator on Saturday when Chelsea hosts Brighton.

Manchester United raised eyebrows by defeating Chelsea in a surprise upset last week and the Red Devils will try to build on that when they visit Brentford. The Bees are hovering just a point above the relegation line. Burnley is level on points with the Bees as the Clarets face a difficult trip to Manchester City.

The worst team in the league, woeful Wolves, will try to claw its way from the cellar by getting a result at Tottenham Hotspur. That will be difficult versus the Spurs side which is impressively third in the table under new manager Thomas Frank. Former Tottenham Hotspur Manager Ange Postecoglou has his first home match as Nottingham Forest manager when the Tricky Trees host Sunderland at the City Ground on Saturday. Leeds, meanwhile, returns to Elland Road on the heels of a 3-1 trouncing of Wolverhampton. The Whites face a step up in class, however, when they host Bournemouth on Saturday.