Mohamed Salah’s late equaliser earned Liverpool a 2-2 draw with rivals Arsenal on Sunday but the single point was not enough for the Reds to reclaim top spot in the Premier League, leaving champions Manchester City at the summit.
Manchester United suffered a 2-1 loss to West Ham United that will surely put manager Erik ten Hag firmly back in the hot seat, while Crystal Palace beat Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 for their first Premier League win of the season on Sunday.
Also in London, goals by Nicolas Jackson and Cole Palmer earned Chelsea a 2-1 home win over Newcastle to propel them to fifth place.
After their win against Southampton on Saturday, City have 23 points from nine games to lead Liverpool by a point, while Arsenal are third with 18.
At the Emirates Stadium, Bukayo Saka gave Arsenal the lead in the ninth minute when he ran on to Ben White’s ball over the top for a 50th Premier League goal on his return from injury.
“We’re a bit disappointed, we just feel like we didn’t show our best selves for a full 90 minutes,” Saka said. “First half, we showed our qualities, we dominated, we gave them nothing. Second half, we sat back a bit and weren’t at our best.”
Virgil van Dijk equalised nine minutes later, nodding home a Luis Diaz flick-on from a corner, but Mikel Merino scored his first Arsenal goal just before half-time, meeting Declan Rice’s free-kick with a bullet header upheld after a VAR review for offside.
Liverpool improved after the break and Salah levelled in the 81st minute with a calm tap-in from Darwin Nunez’s cross.
“Listen, it’s a very tough place to come, but to come back twice is a good thing, we take the point and we move on, that’s the feeling,” Van Dijk said.
MORE WOE FOR MAN UTD
At West Ham’s London Stadium, Jarrod Bowen converted a controversial last-gasp penalty to defeat Manchester United in a fluctuating clash between two struggling sides.
Crysencio Summerville scored his first goal in a West Ham shirt as the hosts climbed past their visitors to 13th in the table on 11 points after nine games.
Manchester Untied are 14th on the same points.
United thoroughly dominated through the first half, leaving Ten Hag, whose job has been the subject of constant speculation, to lament their squandered chances.
“We have to look in the mirror, we don’t score in a good game from our side,” he said.
Bowen netted in the 92nd minute, stepping up to the penalty spot after a lengthy VAR review showed Matthijs de Ligt had clipped the leg of Danny Ings.
RELIEF FOR PALACE
Crystal Palace climbed out of the relegation zone with a much-needed victory thanks to a Jean-Philippe Mateta goal, easing the pressure on manager Oliver Glasner.
Palace moved up to 17th with six points, two points clear of the drop zone, while Spurs remain eighth with 13 points.
Palace started the game with much more intensity and their high press yielded the opening goal when Spurs shot themselves in the foot trying to pass the ball out from the back.
Daniel Munoz pinched the ball from Spurs centre back Micky van de Ven and the wing back put a cross into the box which was expertly flicked by Eberechi Eze to an unmarked Mateta who fired home.
“Very important, first win this season and we worked hard to have another win,” Mateta told Sky Sports.
“Every day in training, I always want to show the manager that I’m fit and can score for the team… I say every time, if he (Eze) plays good then we would win. Today he gave me the pass.”
CHELSEA’S PROGRESS
Goals by Nicolas Jackson and Cole Palmer earned Chelsea their narrow win over Newcastle in the latest sign of progress for the Blues under coach Enzo Maresca.
Jackson rounded off a sweeping counter-attack to give Chelsea the lead in the 18th minute, converting a perfect cross by Pedro Neto.
The home fans at Stamford Bridge roared their approval as the Londoners dominated Newcastle with their fast-passing game, before Newcastle equalised against the run of play when Alexander Isak converted a cross by Lewis Hall in the 32nd minute.
Barely a minute into the second half, Palmer restored Chelsea’s lead when he picked up a pass from Romeo Lavia close to the halfway line, raced to the edge of the box and fired a low shot past Nick Pope.
“We just try to play our own game, block the noise out from the outside,” the striker said. “We don’t mind proving people wrong. We are all young and we have a top coach, but there are improvements still.”
Manchester City did just enough to beat lowly Southampton 1-0 thanks to an early Erling Haaland goal on Saturday as they provisionally climbed atop the Premier League to tee up Sunday’s clash between fellow title contenders Liverpool and Arsenal.
High-flying Aston Villa had to settle for a 1-1 draw with visiting Bournemouth after conceding at the death as late goals were a feature of the afternoon’s entertainment.
Brentford clawed back a two-goal deficit to beat Ipswich Town 4-3, Wolverhampton Wanderers left Brighton & Hove Albion with a 2-2 draw after a stoppage-time equaliser and Beto’s injury-time header earned Everton a 1-1 draw with Fulham.
Haaland’s fifth-minute goal gave City a two-point cushion over Liverpool, who are second and visit fourth-placed Arsenal on Sunday.
“I will watch (Sunday’s game),” said City manager Pep Guardiola. “I prefer to be on top than not be on top, but it’s not the point. Just look what happened today, Villa dropped points and Brighton dropped points because it’s so difficult.”
While Haaland scored a stunner in Wednesday’s 5-0 Champions League thrashing of Sparta Prague, he had gone three Premier League games without a goal before ending that mini-drought in the fifth minute on Saturday.
Wrestling with defender Jan Bednarek, the 24-year-old Norwegian, a master of scoring from tight angles, stabbed the ball into the roof of the net with a toe while falling.
Unai Emery’s Villa climbed to third spot, five points off the pace, and stretched their unbeaten run to 11 games in all competitions, although a late Evanilson header for Bournemouth cancelled out Ross Barkley’s opener for the dominant hosts.
Villa peppered Bournemouth’s goal from the start, squandering several chances before second-half substitute Barkley hooked the ball home from close range in the 76th minute from a Leon Bailey knock-down.
Bournemouth went searching for a leveller in stoppage time and struck in the 96th minute when Brazilian forward Evanilson lost his marker and glanced Marcus Tavernier’s superb free-kick past goalkeeper Emi Martinez.
“We deserved to win, we dominated,” Emery said. “They scored in the last moment and we have to accept it. But we were fantastic again, really I’m very happy.”
LATE EQUALISER
Wolves’ Matheus Cunha netted a superb stoppage-time equaliser at Brighton as they came from two goals down to grab a point that lifts them off the bottom of the table.
The Seagulls dominated the first half but it took until the 45th minute for the home side to break the deadlock with a slick finish from Danny Welbeck.
The game looked over when Brighton substitute Evan Ferguson turned and shot into the bottom-left corner in the 86th.
But Wanderers’ Rayan Ait-Nouri lashed home a loose ball after a corner two minutes later to set up a grandstand finish, with Cunha rattling the ball into the net in the third minute of stoppage time for a most unlikely draw.
The point – only the second of the season for Wolves – takes them up a place to 19th, one ahead of Southampton.
Wolves boss Gary O’Neil said: “I’m delighted for the players and the fans really because … the players have given so much, and I know it cannot always look that way because results can cloud things, but they’ve given an awful lot, and if you keep doing that, it can’t continue to go against you.”
Fulham looked to be easing to victory at Everton courtesy of a goal by former Goodison Park favourite Alex Iwobi before Beto scored in the fourth minute of added time to stretch the Toffees’ unbeaten run to five games.
“For me this goal means too much,” Beto said. “To be able to help the team, for me it’s emotional.”
Bryan Mbeumo’s double helped Brentford to their 4-3 comeback win over Ipswich Town that kept up their red-hot home form.
Promoted Ipswich looked headed for their first win of the season after going 2-0 up through Sam Szmodics and George Hirst.
But Yoane Wissa’s strike and a Harry Clarke own goal brought the scores level by halftime and the Bees then led through Mbeumo’s second-half penalty conceded by defender Clarke.
Ipswich were reduced to 10 men when Clarke was sent off in the 69th but they managed to equalise thanks to substitute Liam Delap’s 86th minute goal, only for Mbeumo to win the game for the home side in added time with a long-range effor