Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Premier League Week 11 Results

Liverpool was exposed once again in a 3-0 loss at Manchester City. Wins over Aston Villa and Real Madrid inside of a week had raised hopes that Liverpool was successfully back from a stretch which saw the club lose six of seven matches. Not so much. A frail defense and a disjointed attack were no match for a dominant Manchester City side. Erling Haaland scored as per usual, the Norwegian notching his 14th goal of the season. The Citizens, however, were able to exploit Liverpool in other ways as well. Midfielder Nico Gonzalez scored in first half stoppage time off a Liverpool deflection. Jeremy Doku scored the final Manchester City goal after terrorizing Liverpool defender Conor Bradley all match long.

The victory moved Manchester City within four points of Arsenal after the Gunners dropped points in a 2-2 draw at Sunderland. Brian Brobbey scored in the 94th minute to steal a point for the surprising Black Cats who remained unbeaten after six league matches at the Stadium of Light. Sunderland shows remarkable fight for a newly promoted side as the Black Cats have now scored more goals in added time than any other Premier League team. Arsenal, meanwhile, saw their ten-match winning run across all competitions come to an end.

Sunderland is the only club to have defeated Chelsea in the Blues’ last five league matches after Chelsea notched its fourth win over its last five league outings in an easy 3-0 win over Wolverhampton. Former Manchester United player Alejandro Garnacho assisted two of the Chelsea goals in his best outing to date for the Blues as they eased into third place in the table. Wolverhampton was its usual terrible self, failing once again to secure a victory in its 11th try this season. Interim assistants managed Wolves on Saturday in the  vacuum created by the firing of Vitor Pereira and as a deal for expected new manager Rob Edwards is finalized. Edwards will inherit a dire situation. No club in Premier League history has avoided relegation after capturing only two points from its first 11 league matches as Wolves has done this season.

Spurs is officially sputtering after dropping points for the third time in four matches. Manchester United’s Matthijs de Ligt headed in the equalizer at the 96-minute mark after Spurs thought it had the win after Richarlison scored earlier in stoppage time. It is not a good look for Spurs Manager Thomas Frank to have won only one out of his six Premier League matches at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this season, only Wolverhampton having suffered more home futility.

Aston Villa, on the other hand, has been quite comfortable on its home turf. The Villans won a fourth consecutive Premier League match at Villa Park with a 4-0 victory over suddenly flailing Bournemouth. The Cherries have lost their last two matches by an aggregate 7-1 margin to fall into a quagmire of five clubs, all level on 18 points, in the fifth through ninth places in the table. Among those five clubs is Aston Villa, which has won four of its last five matches, including the pitching of clean sheets in its last three league wins. Oddly, the only loss for Aston Villa over that stretch proved to be the only league win for Liverpool over the Reds’ last five matches.

Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium, meanwhile, has suddenly become one of the league’s more formidable home fortresses after Igor Thiago scored his seventh and eighth goals of the season to key a 3-1 win for the Bees over visiting Newcastle. Manchester City is the only club to have won at Brentford this season as Manager Keith Andrews has eased the transition from the popular Thomas Frank for the Bees. Newcastle has yet to win on the road this season, a circumstance it shares only with Fulham, Nottingham Forest and Wolves. The Cottagers were 2-0 losers to Everton on Saturday and are now just a point above the relegation drop line.

Things down toward the bottom of the table, excluding the continuing misadventures of woeful Wolves, have gotten more interesting after relegation zone occupants West Ham and Nottingham Forest both won on the weekend. Former Nottingham Forest Manager Nuno Espirito Santo guided West Ham to a second straight league win when the Hammers were 3-2 winners over another relegation threatened side in Burnley. The Hammers drew level on points with the Clarets who are safe for now only by virtue of a better goal differential than West Ham.

Sean Dyche, once a Burnley manager and now Santo’s successor at Nottingham Forest, got his first Premier League win at his new job when the Tricky Trees defeated Leeds 3-1. Nineteenth place Forest is now within three points of 14th place Newcastle in a suddenly compressed bottom end of the table. Drudgery prevailed in the “M23 derby” mid-table clash between Crystal Palace and Brighton. Fatigue was clearly a factor for Crystal Palace, which won its Europa Conference League match over AZ Alkmaar on Thursday and was playing without injured center back Marc Guehi. The shared points leave Brighton a single point behind 10th place Crystal Palace in the table.

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