Premier League Week 6 Results: Eagles Soar Over Liverpool; Arsenal Comes Back To Win At Newcastle; Welbeck Leads Brighton Over Chelsea; Villa Beats Cottagers; Sunderland Keeps Ange Winless; West Ham Draws First Match Under Nuno After Potter Sack; Manchester City Mauls Bungling Burnley; Pressure Increases on Amorim After Brentford Defeat

Crystal Palace remains unbeaten in 18 matches across all competitions as the Eagles downed Liverpool for the second time in two months with a thrilling 2-1 victory at Selhurst Park on Saturday. Liverpool was the defending Premier League champion when they lost to Crystal Palace in August’s Community Shield. The Reds were then the last club to have won all their games this season before falling again to the Eagles on Saturday.

The Eagles have soared to a new stratosphere under Manager Oliver Glasner whose charges electrified the Selhurst faithful, and Glasner himself, with a 97th minute winner from Eddie Nketiah. Liverpool Manager Arne Slot was furious post-match with Jeremie Frimpong for abandoning his defensive duties when Nketiah fired the winner on a flick-on from teammate Marc Guehi. Liverpool, however, had been living dangerously through their earlier victories and their defensive vulnerabilities extend beyond Frimpong. Clearly, Slot must regret the collapse of Guehi’s transfer to Liverpool. The Crystal Palace captain is once again distinguishing himself as one of the more solid premier league defenders and a key element in Crystal Palace’s continuing success.

Arsenal moved to within two points of Liverpool, a point better than third place Crystal Palace, with a dramatic 2-1 comeback win over Newcastle. The Magpies seemed headed for their second 1-0 victory at St. James park this season after a first half Nick Woltemade goal and a defensive effort which held Arsenal scoreless for 83 minutes. Newcastle supporters had seen their side defeat Arsenal in the Gunners’ three previous visits to Tyneside, so confidence was high. Arsenal, however, showed the kind of character which just might put them over the top this season after two successive second place finishes in the Premier League. An 84th minute header from substitute Mikel Merino brought the Gunners even and quieted the Toon Army. Arsenal then completed its comeback six minutes into stoppage time when Gabriel Magalhaes headed in a corner kick delivery from Martin Odegaard for the win.

The Ange Postecoglou era at Nottingham Forest is not off to a good start. The Australian manager remained winless at the top of the Trees after a 1-0 home loss to Sunderland. Supporters might well be getting uncomfortable with Postecoglou’s three losses and two draws in his five matches in charge, particularly after losing to a newly promoted side in front of the home fans. Sunderland though is proving more competitive than what has been the norm for promoted sides in recent seasons. Those clubs usually make a U-turn back to the Championship after a desultory taste of the top tier. While its still way early, the Cats are showing the competitive bite which just might allow them to stay up awhile. Sunderland has won twice and lost only one of its first five matches to aggregate the joint fourth highest point total in the Premier League.

Bournemouth and Tottenham Hotspur are level with Sunderland, a point behind third place Crystal Palace, after both those clubs needed last minute heroics  to salvage a point versus lesser opponents. The Cherries got a stoppage time equalizer from Eli Kroupi to disappoint Leeds supporters in a 2-2 draw at Elland Road, the earned point making this the most successful first six matches of a Premier League season for Bournemouth. Spurs, meanwhile, salvaged a point at home when Joao Palhinha spoiled Wolverhampton’s attempt at an upset with his 94th minute stoppage time equalizer. Wolves ended their run of five opening defeats but were oh so close to accomplishing more. Time will tell whether it was a good decision to renew the contract of Wolves Manager Vitor Pereira during the club’s stumbling start to the season.

West Ham showed no such confidence in their struggling manager and sacked Graham Potter two days before the club’s 1-1 draw with Everton on Monday. Nuno Espirito Santo had barely time to catch a breath after his Nottingham Forest departure before taking over on the touchline as Hammer manager against the Toffees.

With Potter becoming the second manager to be replaced this season, the sack watch now focuses on Manchester United Manager Ruben Amorim. Igor Thiago scored twice in the first 20 minutes of Brentford’s 3-1 victory over the Red Devils on Saturday. Last week’s Manchester United win over Chelsea proved to be fool’s gold as the Red Devils proved again incapable of stringing together two wins, something they have failed to accomplish since Amorim arrived. After Saturday’s loss to the Bees, Amorim has managed just 34 points from his 33 Premier League matches. Beyond the results, Amorim is stubbornly resisting calls to change a rigid playing style which is clearly not working. External criticism of the manager is reaching a crescendo while internally the club still seems hesitant to admit Amorim was a mistake.

Yet another manager’s seat could also be getting warmer. Chelsea has won but one of its last five matches across all competitions after a 3-1 loss to Brighton. The one victory in Chelsea’s poor run was a nervy 2-1 win over Lincoln City in the EFL Cup. The Club World Cup champions are winless in their last three Premier League matches. Worse yet for Chelsea Manager Enzo Maresca, discipline issues plague the young Chelsea squad which went down to 10 men for a second straight week in the Brighton loss. The ageless Danny Welbeck bagged a brace for Brighton to put the sword to the Blues on Saturday.

Aston Villa has struggled this season, but Manager Unai Emery would seem untouchable, and it was sporting director Monchi who seemingly took the fall for failure with his departure last week. Emery’s squad got its first league win of the season with a 3-1 win at Villa Park over visiting Fulham. Ollie Watkins netted his first Premier League goal of the season and ended a personal nine match scoring drought in a positive sign for the Villans. Things could be looking up for a Villa team which also edged Bologna 1-0 in the Europa League on Thursday.

Things are going the other way for Burnley. The Clarets have lost three of their past four Premier League matches after Saturday 5-1 slaughter at the hands of Manchester City. Earlier in the week, Manager Scott Parker’s men were ousted from the EFL Cup by Cardiff City. The Manchester City loss was almost comedic as Burnley’s Maxime Esteve was responsible for two own goals. Erling Haaland, meanwhile, put two goals into the correct net and helped drop Burnley to the relegation zone.

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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.

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— 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.

Premier League Week 5 Results: Chelsea Implodes Versus Manchester United; Liverpool Prevails in Merseyside Derby To Remain Perfect; Arsenal Salvages Point Versus Manchester City; Potter On The Brink At West Ham After Loss To Crystal Palace; Bournemouth and Newcastle Battle To Goalless Draw; Ange And Forest Nick A Point At Burnley

Chelsea supporters will want to quickly move on from a terrible week for the club. Last Wednesday, the Blues were shredded by Harry Kane and Bayern Munich. Saturday, it was an unimposing Manchester United side which proved too much to overcome for an imploding Chelsea side in a 2-1 Red Devil victory at Old Trafford. Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez was red carded five minutes in for a takedown of Manchester United’s Bryan Mbuemo. Less than ten minutes later Bruno Fernandez put the Red Devils ahead. Casemiro then doubled the home side’s lead before receiving a red card of his own in stoppage time of a first half filled with infamous firsts. The match was the first in Premier League history to feature two goals, two red cards and three substitutions by half time. Two of those substitutions were made by Chelsea when Sanchez headed for the exit. The third substitution came when Cole Palmer experienced a recurrence of the groin injury he has been battling for several weeks. His departure Saturday further trimmed the attack options for Chelsea which had already taken Pedro Neto and Estevao out of the game in favor of a more defensive scheme after Sanchez’s dismissal. When Andrey Santos subbed in for Palmer at the 21-minute mark, it marked the earliest use of three substitutions by any club in Premier League history. The match was essentially over at halftime as conditions worsened under a relentless rainfall and even a goal by Trevor Chalobah in the 80th minute failed to energize an otherwise lethargic Chelsea.

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League leading Liverpool also did its work in the first half before conceding a second half consolation score to Everton in a 2-1 Red victory in the Merseyside derby. Ryan Gravenberch and Hugo Etitike found the net for Liverpool’s first half advantage which was enough to survive a second half goal by Everton’s  Idrissa Gueye and mark a fourth consecutive one goal margin of victory for the Reds. Liverpool is perfect after five games and boasts a roster so strong that recent transfers Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak were not even in the starting lineup for the derby.

Arsenal is now five points behind Liverpool after salvaging a point from a 1-1 home draw with Manchester City. The Gunners equalized in stoppage time when Eberechi Eze threaded a ball to fellow substitute Gabriel Martinelli for the tying tally in the 93rd minute. Manchester City claimed the away point and almost won by uncharacteristically “parking the bus” in the second half to protect a one goal advantage provided by Erling Haalnd’s first half goal. Arsenal is level on 10 points with Tottenham Hotspur and Bournemouth, all three clubs trailing Liverpool by five points after all three clubs deadlocked with their opponents over the weekend.

Spurs overcame a two-goal deficit to grab an away point in a 2-2 final at Brighton. Tottenham Hotspur were already down two goals before Richarlison pulled one back just before halftime. The visitors then pressed for the equalizer throughout a dominant second half. While failing to convert their own chances, Spurs gained the point when Brighton defender Jan Paul van Hecke deflected a Mohammed Kudus cross into the Seagulls’ net.

Bournemouth, meanwhile, was unable to find the net at home in a goalless draw with Newcastle. Former Bournemouth Manager Eddie Howe was frustrated once again versus his former club as the former Cherries’ legend has failed to defeat Bournemouth in the Premier League since taking over Newcastle four years ago. Newcastle has now been involved in three scoreless Premier League matches this season.

Just a point below Arsenal, Spurs and Bournemouth in the table is a Crystal Palace side which is now unbeaten in 17 matches across all competitions. The Eagles swooped into London Stadium on Saturday and  emerged with a 2-1 win over the Hammers. Palace defender Tyrik Mitchell was the unlikely hero as his 68th minute strike sent West Ham down to defeat. The Crystal Palace left back had last scored a goal 686 days ago. West Ham is in turmoil with protesting supporters calling for the removal of current board members David Sullivan and Karen Brady before the match. Manager Graham Potter has had a disastrous run since replacing Julen Lopetegui who was the immediate replacement for David Moyes, a manager who led the Hammers to their first trophy in 43 years. Potter has won six times and collected 23 points in 23 Premier League matches since taking charge. Lopetegui achieved that point total in three fewer matches. The successive managerial failures have placed blame on the board though the more immediate likelihood is yet another managerial change. Potter was serenaded on Saturday by visiting Crystal Palace supporters chanting “You’re being sacked in the morning.”

A name rumored as Potter’s replacement is Nuno Espirito Santo, recently sacked at Nottingham Forest. Santo’s replacement at Forest, Ange Postecoglou, got his first point as manager of the Tricky trees with a 1-1 draw at Burnley. The Australin manger will now lead the Trees into their first European match in 30 years on Wednesday, an event made possible by the work of former manager Santo last season.

Wolverhampton made a curious managerial decision last week. Manager Vitor Pereira was inked to a new three-year extension despite his club sitting at the bottom of the Premier League table, winless and pointless for the season. The losing continued Saturday when Wolverhampton lost at home to newly promoted Leeds 3-1. All the newly promoted sides appear more competitive than those who have paid brief visits to the Premier League in recent seasons.

The new sides were unbeaten on the weekend with Sunderland drawing 1-1 with visiting Aston Villa. Villa is currently in the relegation zone with Wolverhampton and West Ham. At least the Villans scored their first goal of the season in the draw with the Black Cats.

Brentford is only one point above the drop line after five matches following a 3-1 defeat at Fulham. New Bees’ Manager Keith Andrews has been dealt a difficult hand with the transfer losses of stars such as Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa which have been crippling. Brentford’s total of four points from its five matches is the club’s lowest in five years. More concerning is that the Bees have surrendered eight points from winning positions in the Premier League already this season.