Arsenal lead the Premier League after 10 matchweeks with 27 points, five ahead of second place Brighton & Hove Albion. Manchester City are third with 21, and Liverpool moved into fourth after a 3 to 1 win at Crystal Palace on Sunday. At the other end, Manchester United started the day in 19th place, in the relegation zone, one season after finishing third.
Sunday also brought one of the biggest upsets of the season. Sunderland beat Chelsea 1 to 0, dropping Xabi Alonso’s team out of the Champions League places to fifth before the November international break.
What does the Premier League table look like now?
Here are the standings after today’s early matches, according to NBC Sports and ESPN. Manchester United and Aston Villa had played nine games, while everyone else had played 10.
- Arsenal, 27 points (9 wins, 0 draws, 1 loss, +10 goal difference)
- Brighton & Hove Albion, 22 points (7, 1, 2, +19)
- Manchester City, 21 points (7, 0, 3, +8)
- Liverpool, 18 points (5, 3, 2, +4)
- Chelsea, 16 points (5, 1, 4, +3)
- Everton, 16 points (4, 4, 2, +2)
- Bournemouth, 15 points (4, 3, 3, +2)
- Brentford, 14 points (3, 5, 2, +5)
- Leeds United, 14 points (3, 5, 2, +2)
- Tottenham Hotspur, 12 points (3, 3, 4, minus 1)
- Newcastle United, 12 points (3, 3, 4, minus 3)
- Aston Villa, 12 points (3, 3, 3, minus 3)
- Hull City, 11 points (2, 5, 3, even)
- Ipswich Town, 11 points (3, 2, 5, minus 5)
- Fulham, 10 points (2, 4, 4, minus 2)
- Nottingham Forest, 9 points (2, 3, 5, minus 4)
- Coventry City, 9 points (3, 0, 7, minus 9)
- Sunderland, 8 points (2, 2, 6, minus 9)
- Manchester United, 7 points (1, 4, 4, minus 5)
- Crystal Palace, 7 points (2, 1, 7, minus 14)
How did Brighton climb to second in the Premier League?
Fabian Hürzeler’s team beat Brentford 2 to 0 at the Amex Stadium, where Brighton are still unbeaten this season. Diego Gómez scored with his weaker foot from the edge of the box in the 15th minute, Brentford’s Igor Thiago was sent off, and Pascal Gross converted a penalty. Few people have noticed that Brighton, not Arsenal, have the league’s best goal difference at plus 19. Arsenal have scored only 15 goals, but they’ve conceded just five.
What happened to Chelsea and Liverpool in the Premier League?
Enzo Le Fée’s penalty in the 36th minute gave Sunderland just their second league win and moved them out of the bottom two. It was Chelsea’s fourth league loss of the season.
Liverpool ended a run of three straight matches without a win in regulation. Alexis Mac Allister, Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak scored, and Eddie Nketiah scored a late consolation goal for Palace. Andoni Iraola’s team moved into fourth, while Palace manager Pierre Sage heads into the break at the bottom of the table.
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Bournemouth won 2 to 1 at Ipswich, their eighth straight win across all competitions under Marco Rose, who won only two of his first eight games in charge. Evanilson scored for the fifth straight league match. Bournemouth are now three points behind fourth place.
Can Manchester United escape the Premier League drop zone?
Michael Carrick’s team needed a win against Aston Villa to get out of the bottom three before the break, and things started badly. Villa scored in the first minute, and Nicolas Jackson added a second within the first four minutes, the worst start to a game in United’s history according to NBC Sports. Bruno Fernandes scored a penalty in the 15th minute to make it 2 to 1.
The game was still going when this story was published. If United lose, they will spend the international break in the relegation zone.
