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And there are still 16 minutes plus added time to play at the City Ground, where it’s Nottingham Forest 1-1 Liverpool. Vote baz.
Nottingham Forest v Liverpool: Premier League – live
That was one of the most intense Clockwatches I’ve ever been involved in, and one of the most enjoyable. These are the final scores in the 7.30pm games.
- Brentford 2-2 Manchester City
- Chelsea 2-2 Bournemouth
- West Ham 3-2 Fulham
Botm teams will feel they should have won a pulsating game at Stamford Bridge; both know they could have lost. Chelsea have now gone five games without a win in the league but they will feel a whole lot better after Reece James’ injury-time equaliser.
Graham Potter gets a win in his first Premier League game as manager. It was a comedy of errors in some ways – Fulham gifted West Ham two goals at one end, Alex Iwobi scored two by accident at the other – but Potter won’t care; nor should he.
Whatever a Brentford season ticket costs, it is worth every penny.
A beautiful moment for Reece James, whose last few years have been ruined by injury. Chelsea had a free-kick 22 yards out to the left of centre. Everyone expected Cole Palmer to do the necessary but James ran up and belted it into the far corner.
Reece James scores a last-gasp equaliser for Chelsea! Photograph: Chris Lee/Chelsea FC/Getty Images
That might be the game of the season, an exhilarating basketball match that could have been won by either team.
Arne Slot has worked his magic again: Kostas Tsimikas and Diogo Jota, just on as subs, have combined for a precious equaliser.
Nottingham Forest v Liverpool: Premier League – live
90+5 min: Brentford 2-2 Man City Ake heads off the line from Mbeumo! This is bonkers.
What a night of Premier League football! Drama, farce, controversy, brilliance, comebacks; we’ve had the lot a lot of things.
- Brentford 2-2 Manchester City
- Chelsea 1-2 Bournemouth
- West Ham 3-2 Fulham
- Nottingham Forest 1-0 Liverpool (8pm)
City aren’t back. They can attack, sure, but they are still so vulnerable in defence. Mind you, Brentford have given them a helluva workout and it’s hard to begrudge them this equaliser. It was scored by Christian Norgaard, who superb header had too much power for Ortega. He dived to his left, got a strong hand on the ball but could only push it into the net.
Christian Norgaard makes it 2-2! Photograph: John Walton/PA
89 min: Brentford 1-2 Man City It’s way too early to suggest Manchester City might play a part in the title race, especially as they have a grotesque fixture list in the next six weeks. But the quality and verve of their attacking performance is very encouraging for Pep Guardiola and friends, who will be back among the favourites for the Champions League provided they make it through to the knockouts.
58 min: Nottingham Forest 1-0 Liverpool The biggest game of the night has so far been the least eventful. That may well change in the last half hour; you can follow it with Barry Glendenning.
Nottingham Forest v Liverpool: Premier League – live
84 min: Chelsea 1-2 Bournemouth If it stays like this Chelsea will have taken only two points from the last five league games. It sounds like they were in control before the equaliser, and that David Brooks could well have been sent off at 1-1.
85 min: Brentford 1-2 Man City Flekken makes a fine save from Savinho, who could already have a match ball. What a marvellous game this has been.
Premier League latest
- Brentford 1-2 Manchester City
- Chelsea 1-2 Bournemouth
- West Ham 3-2 Fulham
- Nottingham Forest 1-0 Liverpool (8pm)
A City clean sheet was too good to be true. Yoane Wissa has pulled one back for Brentford, the least they deserve for their attacking enterprise. Nathan Ake misses Damsgaard’s cross – he should have done better really – and Wissa lifted the ball calmly into the net.
Game on? Yoane Wissa scores for Brentford. Photograph: John Walton/PA
80 min: West Ham 3-2 Fulham Iwobi rans at a backpedalling and plays the ball left to Jimenez, who sidefoots a shot back across goal. This time Fabianski knows it’s a shot and plunges to his left to make a really good save.
Alex Iwobi has scored his second unintentional goal of the evening! He was looking for Wilson with a floated pass into the box; Wilson made a terrific run but I’m pretty sure he missed with his attempted header. Fabianski was again distracted and the ball bounced into the net.
Alex Iwobi (not pictured) pulls a goal back for Fulham! Photograph: Zac Goodwin/PA
In attack, at least, Manchester City appear to be Manchester City again. Phil Foden, who scored a hat-trick on this ground last season, has got his second goal. Flekken blocked another fierce shot from Savinho and Foden beat De Bruyne to the rebound to ram it into the net.
Phil Foden scores again for City! Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
As things stand, Nottingham Forest are three points behind the leaders and Bournemouth are a point of a Champions League place. Just when we thought we were out, tired of all the cheating and avarice and nonsense, football pulls us back in.
74 min “Often, a side used to racking up victories develop nervous tics once they go on a bad run,” says Kari Tulinius. “Fretfulness, hesitancy, overelaboration. But City lookas relaxed as a team ten points ahead at the top. And now they’re ahead. Pep has managed them well. Who knew he was good at this sort of thing?”
He’s a credit to the bald community.
73 min: West Ham 3-1 Fulham I haven’t seen Lucas Paqueta’s goal yet but apparently it was another one that stemmed from Fulham farting around at the back; this time Bernd Leno was the culprit. It never happened to John Beck’s Cambridge, that’s all I say, now and forever.
71 min: Brentford 0-1 Man City Nathan Ake has just made an outstanding goalline clearance to deny Mbeumo (I think). Wissa walked round the outrushing Ortega and passed the ball across the area to Mbeumo. He looked certain to score but Ake stopped his shot on the line.
Lucas Paqueta, the Mick Harford des nos jours, has restored West Ham’s two-goal lead. We can’t dwell on that either because…
Lucas Paqueta restores the two-goal cushion for West Ham. Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA
Antoine Semenyo batters a ferocious rising drive that beats Sanchez at the near post. We can’t dwell on it because…
Antoine Semenyo puts Bournemouth ahead with a rocket! Photograph: Isabel Infantes/Reuters
A goal has been coming at one end or another. It was worth waiting for because this is a beauty. De Bruyne pulled out to the right and whacked a trademark curling cross towards the near post. Foden ran between two defenders and adjusted his body superbly to cushion a volley across Flekken and in off the far post.
That’s such a good finish. The ball came to him at an awkward height and he had both feet off the ground by the team it reached him. But he was in total control throughout.
Phil Foden scores a peach of a goal to put City in front. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
64 min: Chelsea 1-1 Bournemouth Another injury problem for Chelsea in defence: Levi Colwill is limping off with what looks like a muscle injury.
At the Gtech, Brentford have a goal disallowed for a clear offside, I think against Damsgaard.
64 min: Brentford 0-0 Man City Sensational defending from Josko Gvardiol! Brentford broke three-on-three from a City corner, with Gvardiola a fair way behind Wissa at one stage. Mbeumo timed his through pass near perfectly, only for Gvardiol to stretch and block Wissa’s shot. He hasn’t his best season defensively but that was marvellous.
61 min: Chelsea 1-1 Bournemouth End-to-end stuff at Stamford Bridge as well. Reece James has just come on for Chelsea.
Half-time: Nottingham Forest 1-0 Liverpool Forest lead through a superbly taken goal from Chris Wood.
Nottingham Forest v Liverpool: Premier League – live
59 min: Brentford 0-0 Man City It’s almost a chance a minute at the Gtech Community Stadium. Mbeumo sprays over at one end, Savinho hits the side netting at the other.
55 min: Chelsea 1-1 Bournemouth Brooks tries to stop a Chelsea counter by blocking Cucurella off the ball but catches him quite high with his arm. The referee is told to go to the monitor to check for a potential red card. After a long delay, Brooks is booked.
The commentators are suggesting that was payback for a foul by Cucurella on Brooks earlier in the game.
Fulham are back in the game. Iwobi’s inswinging cross from the left bounces past both Jimenez, who tries to flick it towards goal at the near post, and the keeper Fabianski. I’m pretty sure Jimenez didn’t touch it, but his attempt was vital because it distracted Fabianski.
Justin Kluivert, who scored a hat-trick of penalties at Wolves recently, lifts the penalty down the middle to bring Bournemouth level!
Justin Kluivert levels it at Stamford Bridge. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images
49 min: Penalty to Bournemouth! An affronted Caicedo has been penalised for a shove on Semenyo. It was a daft challenge and there’s no chance this will be overturned.
50 min: Brentford 0-0 Man City Savinho makes a thrilling run into the area from the left and rifles a low drive that beats Flekken and hits the far post! That would have been a lovely goal.
Savinho hits his effort come back against the post. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
The second halves are under way in the 7.30pm games.
24 min: Nottm Forest 1-0 Liverpool Forest still lead at the City Ground. The stats suggest a classic Forest performance so far but Barry Glendenning is your man if you want the optinion of somebody who has actually watched the game.
Nottingham Forest v Liverpool: Premier League – live
“There might be a lot going on,” says Tom Hopkins, “but maybe be thankful you weren’t MBMing whatever this was.”
Ninety-five fouls, 103 goal attempts, 32 corners. Yep, AI is going to wipe out humanity before the clocks go forward.
It’ll take a while for Graham Potter to impose his very precise style of play at West Ham. In the meantime he’ll happily take a 2-0 half-time lead in his first home game. Carlos Soler scored classily after an it-never-happened-to-John-Beck’s-Cambridge mistake from Andreas Pereira; Tomas Soucek double the lead a couple of minutes later.
It’s been a decent start to life at West Ham for Graham Potter. Photograph: Tony O Brien/Reuters
An arrogant finish from Cole Palmer – no that was a compliment – has given Chelsea a half-time lead against Bournemouth.
Lots of fun, plenty of openings but no goals.
It’s goalless at half-time in west London. Photograph: Alex Pantling/Getty Images
45+1 min: Brentford 0-0 Man City That bit about Kevin De Bruyne knowing how to caress a ball. He’s just tried to whip a first-time curler from the left edge of the box and – no exaggeration – almost put it out of the stadium. That could have come from a John Smiths advert.
44 min: Chelsea 1-0 Bournemouth So much for Jackson being rampant; he’s just missed a really good double chance from Cole Palmer’s booming cross. The first effort was a good downward header, superbly saved by Travers to his right, but then Jackson snatched at the rebound and hit the side netting.
43 min: Chelsea 1-0 Bournemouth Jackson, who looks rampant every time I turn to the Chelsea game, puts Palmer through on goal again. This time the angle is much tighter and a defender (possibly Kerkez) does well to force him wide.
Cole Palmer and Chris Wood have both scored tonight. That’s it.
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39 min: Brentford 0-0 Man City This game has been loads of fun. City still look vulnerable defensively but there’s a much greater speed and intensity to their attacking play.
You betcha. Another expert finish from Chris Wood has given Forest an early lead at the City Ground.
It’s another goal for Chris Wood as the lead the league leaders. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images
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37 min: Chelsea 1-0 Bournemouth Both teams hit the post in the space of 15 seconds. First it was the substitute Justin Kluivert* after a poor pass from Robert Sanchez; then Chelsea broke and Jackson battered a low shot from 20 yards that thumped the near post.
* He’s on for the injured James Hill, it says here.
35 min: Brentford 0-0 Man City While West Ham were scoring a Manchester City player flashed a shot just wide from the edge of the area. At least I think they did; there’s a lot going on right now.
Two goals in three minutes! Fulham have been the better team and they’re 2-0 down. This one stemmed – I’m not joking – from Paqueta battling for a long ball in the air. He didn’t win it but did enough to ensure the defender couldn’t get a clean header. Kudus got involved, then Soler curled a nice pass out to Wan-Bissaka on the right. He looked up and picked out Wan-Bissaka, who stunned a first-time shot into the ground and past Leno. That’s another accomplished finish.
Tomas Soucek doubles the West Ham lead. Everything’s going swimmingly for Graham Potter so far. Photograph: Zac Goodwin/PA
Premier League latest scores
- Brentford 0-0 Manchester City
- Chelsea 1-0 Bournemouth
- West Ham 1-0 Fulham
- Nottingham Forest 0-0 Liverpool (8pm)
The first Premier League goal of the Graham Potter years is scored by Carlos Soler! It was a cracking finish after a howler from Andreas Pereira. He received a short pass from the keeper Leno and tried to clip a first-time pass across his own area. He got it horribly wrong, Soler read what was happening and he whipped the bouncing ball back across Leno. Lovely technique.
Carlos Soler scores for West Ham! Photograph: Bradley Collyer/PA
30 min: Brentford 0-0 Man City “Surely, Peadar de Burca is not suggesting that Sonny was murdered before Michael executed Sollozzo and McKluskey,” says Joe Pearson. “The tollbooth incident took place while Michael had taken refuge in Sicily. I need to get a life. BTW, is Klopp Vito and Slot Michael?”
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