Burnley 0 Arsenal 2 [Gyökeres 14; Rice 35]
Viktor Gyökeres and Declan Rice struck first-half goals as Arsenal won 2-0 at Burnley to extend their lead at the Premier League’s summit and make it nine straight wins in all competitions.
Gyökeres struck the opener from a corner as Mikel Arteta’s side also improved on their league-leading set-piece goals tally before Rice’s superb header put them 2-0 up at half-time.
The Gunners would have led by more at the break but for two saves from goalkeeper Martin Dubravka, who twice denied Bukayo Saka.
Burnley had won back-to-back league games to move five points clear of the bottom three prior to Arsenal’s visit, but were unable to lay a glove on the Londoners and will move quickly on after a sixth defeat of the season.
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Liverpool 2 [Salah 45+1; Gravenberch 58] Aston Villa 0
Mohamed Salah’s 250th goal for Liverpool helped them stop the rot with a 2-0 victory over Aston Villa at Anfield.
The Reds came into the match with their title defence in tatters after four successive defeats amid a wider run of six losses in seven games in all competitions.
But Salah’s landmark effort just before half-time, courtesy of a howler from Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez, and Ryan Gravenberchh’s deflected effort after the break earned Liverpool’s first league win since September 20.
This performance was much more like the side that swept to Premier League glory last season, keeping a first clean sheet in 11 matches, and the pressure eased on boss Arne Slot, who was facing the first questions of his Anfield reign.
Salah was gifted his goal, having been presented with an empty net after a rogue Martinez pass, but became just the third Reds player to score 250 for the club, following in the footsteps of Ian Rush and Roger Hunt.
Tottenham Hotspur 0 Chelsea 1 [Pedro 34]
Joao Pedro struck in the 34th minute to help Chelsea inflict more pain on toothless Tottenham with a dominant 1-0 victory to move up to fourth in the table.
Spurs’ horrendous record in this London derby extended after a meek display under new boss Thomas Frank with only one shot on target all match.
Pedro punished slack home defending to break the deadlock 11 minutes before half-time, but he could have walked off with a hat-trick after fine saves throughout by Guglielmo Vicario to deny the Brazilian attacker.
Chelsea’s victory makes it five in a row against Tottenham and 10 wins from the last 12 meetings in all competitions, with Enzo Maresca’s young team able to bounce back from a disappointing home loss to Sunderland last weekend.
Loud boos greeted full-time as Spurs suffered another home defeat – their third under Frank in seven matches – as fans make their feelings known after another performance which lacked attacking intent in N17.
Nottingham Forest 2 [Gibbs-White 48; Savona 50] Manchester United 2 Casemiro 34; Diallo 81]
Amad Diallo’s delightful volley stopped Ruben Amorim’s first anniversary as Manchester United manager from ending in defeat and extended Nottingham Forest’s wait for a second league win of the season.
Saturday’s trip to the City Ground landed a year to the day since the Portuguese was named as Erik ten Hag’s successor and came during the best spell of his topsy-turvy tenure.
United arrived on a run of three straight wins and Diallo’s late volley maintained their unbeaten record, securing a 2-2 draw as Sean Dyche’s Forest were denied a comeback win.
It was probably a fair result at the end of a helter-skelter encounter that the Red Devils went ahead in, with the City Ground faithful raging at the decision to award the corner from which Casemiro headed home.
Nicolo Savona was adjudged to have taken the ball out of play and looked like he would have the last laugh, coolly scoring in the 50th minute just two minutes after Morgan Gibbs-White had equalised.
United pushed for a leveller that Diallo eventually found in style, with the Ivory Coast international then denied a stoppage-time winner by Murillo’s goal-line intervention.
Crystal Palace 2 [Mateta 30; Collins 51og] Brentford 0
Jean-Philippe Mateta’s eighth goal of the season set Crystal Palace on course for a 2-0 victory over Brentford at Selhurst Park.
Mateta’s opener on the half-hour was added to by an own goal from Bees captain Nathan Collins early in the second half as the Eagles backed up their win at Liverpool in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday with their first victory in four league games.
What had previously been a good week for Brentford ended on a flat note as they barely threatened in reply.
Brighton 3 [Wellbeck 11; Gomez 64, 70] Leeds United 0
Diego Gomez scored his first Premier League goals of the season as Brighton romped to a 3-0 win over a desperately poor Leeds at the Amex Stadium.
The home side were at their dynamic, free-flowing best and showed no mercy once Daniel Farke’s team began to fall apart midway through the second half, though even before that Leeds had offered next to nothing.
It was a miserable away performance throughout which laid bare the problems this team has scoring goals on the road with just three all season.
Danny Welbeck opened the scoring early, the visitors held the score at 1-0 for almost an hour then capitulated in the space of seven minutes, Gomez twice showing perfect timing in the box to put Leeds to the sword.
Fulham 3 [Sessegnon 9; Wilson 62; Mosquera 75og] Wolves 0
Winless Wolves slumped to a 3-0 defeat at Fulham to cast huge doubt over the future of boss Vítor Pereira.
Strikes from Ryan Sessegnon and Harry Wilson, as well as Yerson Mosquera’s own goal, kept Wanderers – who had Emmanuel Agbadou sent off in the first half – rooted to the foot of the Premier League.
Their sorry return of just two points from their opening 10 matches is one point worse than at the same stage last season, when Pereira was parachuted in to save them from the drop.
Now the Wolves hierarchy could be considering pressing the ejector button, with the Portuguese coach finding his position under increasing scrutiny after a calamitous defeat against a side who had lost their last four matches.
