Manchester Metropolis did simply sufficient to beat lowly Southampton 1-0 because of an early Erling Haaland objective on Saturday as they provisionally climbed atop the Premier League to tee up Sunday’s conflict between fellow title contenders Liverpool and Arsenal.
Excessive-flying Aston Villa needed to accept a 1-1 draw with visiting Bournemouth after conceding on the demise as late targets have been a characteristic of the afternoon’s leisure.
Brentford clawed again a two-goal deficit to beat 10-man Ipswich City 4-3 and Wolverhampton Wanderers escaped Brighton & Hove Albion with a 2-2 draw because of a stoppage-time equaliser.
Manchester Metropolis’s Erling Haaland scored an early objective to present the champions a two-point cushion over Liverpool, who’re second and go to fourth-placed Arsenal on Sunday.
“I’ll watch (Sunday’s sport),” stated Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola. “I favor to be on prime than not be on prime, nevertheless it’s not the purpose. Simply look what occurred at present, Villa dropped factors and Brighton dropped factors as a result of it’s so troublesome.”
Whereas Haaland scored a stunner in Wednesday’s 5-0 Champions League thrashing of Sparta Prague, he had gone three Premier League video games with out a objective earlier than ending that mini-drought within the fifth minute on Saturday.
Wrestling with defender Jan Bednarek, the 24-year-old Norwegian, a grasp of scoring from tight angles, stabbed the ball into the roof of the online with a toe whereas falling.
Unai Emery’s Villa climbed to 3rd spot, 5 factors off the tempo, and stretched their unbeaten run to 11 video games in all competitions, though a late Evanilson header for Bournemouth cancelled out Ross Barkley’s opener for the dominant hosts.
Villa peppered Bournemouth’s objective from the beginning, squandering a number of probabilities earlier than second-half substitute Barkley hooked the ball residence from shut vary within the 76th minute from a Leon Bailey knock-down.
Bournemouth went looking for a leveller in stoppage time and struck within the 96th minute when Brazilian ahead Evanilson misplaced his marker and glanced Marcus Tavernier’s very good free-kick previous goalkeeper Emi Martinez.
“We deserved to win, we dominated,” Emery stated. “They scored within the final second and we now have to just accept it. However we have been improbable once more, actually I’m very completely happy.”
LATE EQUALISER
Wolves’ Matheus Cunha netted an excellent stoppage-time equaliser at Brighton as they got here from two targets all the way down to seize a degree that lifts them off the underside of the desk.
The Seagulls dominated the primary half nevertheless it took till the forty fifth minute for the house aspect to interrupt the impasse with a slick end from Danny Welbeck.
The sport seemed over when Brighton substitute Evan Ferguson turned and shot into the bottom-left nook within the 86th.
However Wanderers’ Rayan Ait-Nouri lashed residence a free ball after a nook two minutes later to arrange a grandstand end, with Cunha rattling the ball into the online within the third minute of stoppage time for a impossible draw.
The purpose – solely the second of the season for Wolves – takes them up a spot to nineteenth, one forward of Southampton.
Wolves boss Gary O’Neil stated: “I’m delighted for the gamers and the followers often because … the gamers have given a lot, and I do know it can not all the time look that means as a result of outcomes can cloud issues, however they’ve given an terrible lot, and for those who maintain doing that, it may possibly’t proceed to go towards you.”
Bryan Mbeumo’s double helped Brentford to their 4-3 comeback win over Ipswich City that saved up their red-hot residence type.
Promoted Ipswich seemed headed for his or her first win of the season after going 2-0 up by way of Sam Szmodics and George Hirst.
However Yoane Wissa’s strike and a Harry Clarke personal objective introduced the scores degree by halftime and the Bees then led by way of Mbeumo’s second-half penalty conceded by defender Clarke.
Ipswich have been decreased to 10 males when Clarke was despatched off within the 69th however they managed to equalise because of substitute Liam Delap’s 86th minute objective, just for Mbeumo to win the sport for the house aspect in added time with a long-range effort.
Everton have been internet hosting Fulham in Saturday’s late sport, whereas there are 4 video games scheduled for Sunday.