Key events
Scottish Premiership Junior Hoilett has equalised straight away for Hibs. What can you do?
Scottish Premiership James Humphriesâ reverse curse is working: Apostolos Stamatelopoulos has put Motherwell 1-0 up at Hibs.
GOAL! Arsenal 1-1 Southampton (Havertz 58)
Yeah, Southampton scored too early. Kai Havertz has scored for the fourth game in a row to bring Arsenal level at the Emirates. Downesâ lazy pass was intercepted by Partey, who fed the ball quickly into Havertz on the edge of the D. He moved the ball onto his left foot and lasered a shot off the inside of the post and into the net. Ramsdale had no chance.
GOAL! Arsenal 0-1 Southampton (Archer 55)
Cameron Archer has put Southampton ahead at the Emirates! Fernandes released him on the left wing with an early crossfield pass. Archer cut inside, stood Saliba (I think) up and guided a low shot into the far corner. Excellent finish.
Theyâve scored too early, havenât they.
âI think youâre right about the extreme specificity of the defensive midfielder role,â says Phil Podolsky. âItâs hardly a coincidence that Spanish footballâs two great DMs this century were coached by Guardiola. During Sergio Busquetsâs long twilight at Barcelona he kept hearing that he should be shifted forward to the Xavi role because he no longer has the athleticism for defensive duties, yet he kept saying it canât be done, the body shape you need to adopt when you receive the ball is too different!â
Yeah, and I guess the role is even more specific in a Pep team.
GOAL! West Ham 3-1 Ipswich (Bowen 49)
West Ham are heading for their first home win under Julen Lopetegui. Michail Antonio forced the goalkeeper into a desperate clearance that was collected on the right wing by Bowen. He moved into the area and threaded a lovely left-foot shot into the far corner.
49 min: Arsenal 0-0 Southampton Mateus Fernandes has missed a really good chance to give Southampton an unlikely lead.
GOAL! Man City 2-1 Fulham (Kovacic 47)
RODRI WHO? Mateo Kovacic has scored a beautiful second goal to put City ahead. Fodenâs cross was controlled by Bernardo Silva, who teed up the onrushing Kovacic on the edge of the D. He skilfully ignored Bergeâs challenge and swept an emphatic shot past Bernd Leno.
âNeed Rodri?â sniffs Zach Neeley. âPepâs teams donât need anyone! The whole endeavour is to prevent needing any one player. The players donât even need to decide what to do, Pep scripts that for them. He is a rock, he is an island. I think I have him figured out now, Pep and Paul Simon even both like cable knits.â
GOAL! Leverkusen 2-2 Holstein Kiel (Arp 69 pen)
Long afternoon my foot! Jann-Fiete Arpâs penalty has equalised for the bottom club Kiel, who were 2-0 down after eight minutes at Leverkusen
Bundesliga Julian Ryerson has given Dortmund a sniff away to Union Berlin. They trail 2-1 with around 20 minutes to play.
âFor some reason,â says Stephen Cottrell, âyour admission that you hadnât seen the chance in the West Ham game reminded me of Alan Partridge not having seen Driving Miss Daisy, or indeed Bangkok Chick Boys.â
Half time
Diverting stuff as always in the Premier League. These are the half-time scores.
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Arsenal 0-0 Southampton
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Brentford 4-2 Wolves
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Leicester 1-0 Bournemouth
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Man City 1-1 Fulham
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West Ham 2-1 Ipswich
GOAL! Brentford 4-2 Wolves (Pinnock 45+2)
Wolves canât stop conceding goals. Ethan Pinnock, weirdly unmarked at a corner, has headed powerfully past Sam Johnstone to put Brentford 4-2 ahead.
GOAL! West Ham 2-1 Ipswich (Kudus 44)
Mohammed Kudus gives West Ham a deserved lead just before half-time. Michail Antonioâs header hit the underside of the crossbar and Kudus hung in the air for an age to head past Arijanet Muric.
The top of the Premier League table (as it stands)
43 min: Arsenal 0-0 Southampton Even though Arsenal have dominated throughout, Aaron Ramsdale hasnât had a save to make. Yet.
West Ham 1-1 Ipswich Two near misses for West Ham: Mohammed Kudus hits the post when he should have scored*, then Tomas Soucek has a shot cleared off the line.
* Allegedly, I havenât seen it
Man City 1-1 Fulham
âI made this point earlier, but for a top side to not have a ready-made replacement for a key player – or even one that can do 90 per cent of the role – and have to use a squarer peg in the round hole left, is bordering on negligent, doubly so if you have almost unlimited oil wealth behind you,â says Andy Flintoff.
Maybe the problem is that, because itâs such a specific role, the back up is unlikely to start more than 10 games a season when Rodri is fit, and anyone worth a damn wonât settle for that. There arenât many top-class No6s who can also play another role. Declan Rice I guess, and City did go for him didnât they? I still
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Premier League
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Arsenal 0-0 Southampton
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Brentford 3-2 Wolves
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Leicester 1-0 Bournemouth
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Man City 1-1 Fulham
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West Ham 1-1 Ipswich
Bundesliga
âIt can only be a matter of time,â begins Simon McMahon, âbefore James didnât he say he was working Humphries mentions the 1991 Scottish Cup final. I still break out in a rash just thinking about it. Although 1987 was worse.â
GOAL! Man City 1-1 Wolves (Kovacic 32)
Who needs that lumpen galoot Rodri? His replacement Mateo Kovacic has equalised for City, rapping a deflected (I think) shot past Bernd Leno after a corner was only half cleared.
30 min: Man City 0-1 Fulham Adama Traore has missed a superb chance to make it 2-0. It sounds like Fulham are really hurting City on the counter-attack. O Rodri, Rodri, wherefore art thou Rodri?
WSL match report
Tom Garry was at Broadfield Stadium to watch a dramatic and controversial match.
GOAL! Brentford 3-2 Wolves (Norgaard 28)
Brentford have scored straight from the kick off again, but this time itâs the fifth goal of the game. The captain Christian Norgaard, back in the team today, has put Brentford ahead for the third time.
Both goals came when the opposition tried to play out and lost the ball. Jorgen Strand Larsen finished smartly at the near post; Norgaard passed the ball into the net after being put through by Vitaly Janelt.
GOAL! Brentford 2-2 Wolves (Strand Larsen 26)
But hang on, thereâs a fifth goal.
GOAL! Man City 0-1 Fulham (Andreas 26)
Hello! Andreas Pereira has put Fulham ahead at the Etihad, stretching to volley past Ederson from close range after a superb backheel from Raul Jimenez.
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Holstein Keil, who were 2-0 down to Leverkusen after eight minutes, are back in the game thanks to Max Geschwillâs injury-time goal. He was set up by Lewis Holtby, once of Fulham, Spurs and Blackburn.
Premier League
Bundesliga
GOAL! Brentford 2-1 Wolves (Mbeumo 20 pen)
Bryan Mbeumo has got his weekly goal, this time from the penalty spot after a wrestling match at a Brentford corner. It was given on advice from VAR, which is unlikely to have amused Gary OâNeil.
Championship Jesuran Rak-Sakyi, on loan from Crystal Palace, has put promotion-sniffing Sheffield United ahead against Luton. Michael Obafemi has done likewise for Plymouth at home to Blackburn.
GOAL! Leicester 1-0 Bournemouth (Buonanotte 16)
Facundo Buonanotte has put Leicester in front at the King Power Stadium with a fine solo goal. He cut inside from the right, beat a defender through sleight of hip and rammed a rising drive past Kepa.
GOAL! Union Berlin 2-0 Dortmund (Vertessen 45) Union Berlin are (un)officially eight goals better than Celtic.