Saturday's Premier League results and roundup: Man City march on, Crystal Palace secure first win, Spurs frustrate

By Saikat Mandal | 05 Sep 2026 17:37, Last updated: 05 Sep 2026 17:39

Manchester City maintained their cleanable commencement to the 2026-27 Premier League campaign, making it 3 wins from 3 arsenic their aboriginal momentum continued to stitchery pace.

Elsewhere successful the 3pm kick-offs, Crystal Palace yet got disconnected the people with their archetypal triumph of the season, portion Leeds United, Tottenham Hotspur and Sunderland each battled their mode to invaluable points connected the road.

Manchester City 1-0 Coventry: Enzo Fernandez impressive

Any lingering doubts implicit however Manchester City would fare successful the post-Pep Guardiola epoch person been enactment to bed, with the champions making it 3 Premier League wins connected the trot.

Erling Haaland scored the lone extremity of the lucifer wrong fractional an hour, but connected different day, the Norwegian could easy person walked distant with a hat-trick arsenic City continued to look unsafe successful the last third.

Record-breaking summertime signing Enzo Fernandez made his debut and played a cardinal relation successful the winner, portion the Argentine besides teed up Rayan Cherki, who saw his effort cannon backmost disconnected the ft of a post.

Brentford 1-1 Sunderland: Fascinating tactical battle

Brentford person an enviable location record, but some sides tin beryllium satisfied with a stock of the spoils aft a fascinating tactical conflict astatine the Gtech Community Stadium.

Sunderland were awesome successful the archetypal fractional and adjacent had a extremity ruled out, but the visitors showed tremendous quality to combat their mode backmost into the contention aft falling down to Vitaly Janelt's strike.

Enzo Le Fee showed nerves of alloy to person from the punishment spot, but Wilson Isidor besides deserves plentifulness of recognition for an fantabulous cameo aft coming disconnected the bench.

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-1 Leeds United: Whites near disappointed 

Huge congrats to Jayden Bogle who became the precise archetypal Leeds defender to people a extremity astatine Brighton crossed our full history. #LUFC pic.twitter.com/lzVhRxpLCb

Leeds United volition beryllium disappointed to person missed retired connected their archetypal triumph distant astatine Brighton successful much than 17 years, contempt extending their unbeaten commencement to the season.

The Whites person present gone unbeaten successful their opening games, but Daniel Farke whitethorn person immoderate concerns implicit the driblet successful strength aft Ao Tanaka's disallowed goal. 

Leeds person present mislaid conscionable six of their past 34 matches, with lone 4 teams crossed Europe's apical 5 leagues suffering less defeats since December, underlining the awesome consistency Farke's broadside person shown.

Nottingham Forest 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Spurs frustrate yet again 

Tottenham person struggled to get the shot into thing resembling a unsafe country truthful acold vs Nottingham Forest pic.twitter.com/55re7PG51T

Tottenham are inactive waiting for their archetypal Premier League triumph of the play aft managing a 0-0 gully against Forest astatine City Ground. 

It has been different frustrating show from the visitors, with Roberto de Zerbi's expensively assembled broadside showing nary signs of cohesion and squad chemistry. 

Spurs failed to person a changeable connected people until the 81st minute, and avoided decision aft Neco Williams' second-half extremity was ruled out. 

Fulham 2-3 Crystal Palace:  Massive triumph for the Eagles 

Massive triumph for Crystal Palace arsenic Pierre Sage picks up his archetypal points since taking over. Quite a fewer boos from the Fulham fans astatine the full-time whistle. They're inactive pointless and not happy

Both sides were hopeless for points, but it was Crystal Palace who yet got their hands connected a much-needed victory, with near wing-back Tyrick Mitchell grabbing a brace to animate the Eagles.

Palace looked dormant and buried erstwhile they fell 2-0 behind, but Pierre Sage's broadside produced a stirring comeback to snatch each 3 points, with Ben Chilwell marking his instrumentality to the nine with a goal.

Fulham, meanwhile, person present mislaid 3 consecutive league games since the accomplishment of erstwhile Real Madrid brag Alvaro Arbeloa, with supporters already increasing disillusioned by the Spaniard's benignant and structure.