Premier League: Liverpool Bottled the Title Race, Nottingham Forest Wins at Anfield, and Haaland Scores Again!

The 2024/25 Premier League season is well underway with Manchester City yet again leading the table with three wins from three and the best goal difference thanks to hat-tricks from Erling Haaland.

Arne Slot's Liverpool are also up there with Pep Guardiola's side as they have won all three matches, their latest coming against arch-rivals Manchester United at Old Trafford.

The one thing that fans may notice is that there are no scheduled fixtures on September 7, 8 or 9.

The Sporting News explains why there will be no games this weekend after an exciting start to the new Premier League campaign.

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The Premier League is taking a break for the weekend of September 7-8 due to a scheduled window for international fixtures.

For most players in England, the international break means exchanging Premier League for UEFA Nations League action or 2026 World Cup qualifying, while others represent their countries around the globe in friendly matches. Those not selected for their national squads will remain at their clubs to train.

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MORE: Team-by-team Premier League schedule for 2024/25

It's only away for one weekend, so the Premier League will return with a full fixture list on September 14-15.

Here's how the next set of fixtures looks:

Manchester United resume their Premier League campaign at Southampton this lunchtime.

Liverpool head into their 3 o'clock match with Nottingham Forest with three wins from three, and they're yet to concede a goal.

Champions Manchester City welcome Brentford to the Etihad.

Unbeaten Brighton play Ipswich.

West London plays East at Craven Cottage, with Fulham up against West Ham.

Crystal Palace face Leicester

At 5.30, Aston Villa take on Everton.

And there’s an 8pm start at the Vitality where Bournemouth play Chelsea.

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Alex Mott·14 septembre 2024

After the international break, the Premier League has returned.

It’s going to be a brilliant Saturday with eight mouth-watering games across the day, and you can follow all of it right here.

Manchester City 2-1 Brentford

Scorers: Haaland 19′ 32′; Wissa 1′

Erling Haaland’s first half double was enough to see Manchester City beat Brentford 2-1 at the Etihad.

Amazingly, after just 30 seconds, Brentford took the lead as Yoane Wissa headed in after a mistake from John Stones.

But the lead lasted just 18 minutes as Erling Haaland – who else? – scored again to equalise.

The Norway international then grabbed his second of the game on the half hour mark as he finished superbly past Mark Flekken.

Into the second half and it was City who were enjoying most of the ball but struggled to find Haaland for that record-breaking hat-trick.

The goal machine had a great chance to get his third with 20 minutes to go but Haaland was stopped after a fine save by the Brentford goalkeeper.

Haaland really was pushing for that third goal but Flekken was enjoying the game of his life and stopped the former Dortmund man on two further occasions.

Liverpool 0-1 Nottingham Forest

Scorers: Hudson-Odoi 72′

Arne Slot lost his first game as Liverpool boss as Nottingham Forest won 1-0 thanks to Callum Hudson-Odoi’s stunner.

Arne Slot’s side came into this encounter hoping to maintain their 100 per cent start under the Dutch tactician and they did so with Trent Alexander-Arnold starting at right-back after his brilliant international break.

It was Luis Diaz who could have given the hosts a lead after 15 minutes but his effort slammed back off the post.

Forest goalkeeper Matz Sels was fortunate not to concede a comically own goal just before the break as he dropped a looping header on to the goal line but managed to just keep it out.

Slot was looking for answers in the second half with the Reds sluggish on the hour mark. Cody Gakpo and Darwin Nunez were introduced to try and give them some life, but still the match remained goalless.

But it was Forest who should have broken the deadlock as Anthony Elanga’s effort ballooned over the bar when he really should have hit the target.

That miss didn’t matter though, as just a few moments later Callum Hudson-Odoi curled in a world class effort to give Forest the breakthrough.

It was Forest’s first win at Anfield in 55 years.

Brighton 0-0 Ipswich

Scorers:

Brighton enjoyed all the spoils but they couldn’t find the back of the net as the south coast side drew 0-0 with Ipswich.

Fabian Hürzeler was named as the Manager of the Month on Friday and was hoping his side could back that up with yet another win against the newly-promoted outfit.

It was all Brighton in the first half as Danny Welbeck went close late on but the Seagulls just couldn’t find that killer instinct inside the penalty area.

After the break it was Georginio Rütter who had a great chance to take the lead but the new signing couldn’t find the target when it looked easier for him to score.

Fulham 1-1 West Ham

Scorers: Raul Jimenez 24′; Ings 90+4′

Danny Ings scored only his fourth goal for West Ham as the Julen Lopetegui’s side earned a surprise draw at Fulham.

Michail Antonio was the hero for Jamaica in midweek and was named from the start for West Ham here with the east London side travelling across the capital to Craven Cottage.

Fulham thought they might have had a penalty on 20 minutes but it didn’t matter as just a few moments later Raul Jimenez gave the hosts a deserved lead.

West Ham made a host of changes at the break as Crysencio Summerville and Lucas Paqueta joined the action but to no avail.

Jarrod Bowen was pushed into the middle as the Hammers pushed for an equaliser but the England international couldn’t finish late on.

Amazingly though, with virtually the last kick of the game Danny Ings netted a poacher’s finish for a share of the points.

Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester

Scorers: Mateta 48′ (PEN) 90+1′; Vardy 21′, Mavididi 46′

Jean-Philippe Mateta’s second half double was enough to see Crystal Palace claim a 2-2 draw against a spirited Leicester side.

Eddie Nketiah was given was given his Crystal Palace debut with the former Arsenal man starting in attack alongside Jean-Philippe Mateta and Eberechi Eze.

But it was the old head of Jamie Vardy who opened the scoring as the veteran striker used his pace and finished with aplomb.

Into the second half and the Foxes netted immediately as Stephy Mavididi broke Palace hearts with a superb strike into the roof of the net.

The home side pulled one back within a few seconds however as Mateta was just onside and stroked the ball home.

And then with just a few seconds of the game left, Mateta netted from the spot to earn a share of the points.

Southampton 0-3 Manchester United

Scorers: De Ligt 36′, Rashford 42′, Garnacho 90+5′

A debut goal from Matthijs de Ligt and Marcus Rashford’s first since March helped Manchester United to a 2-0 win against Southampton.

The first chance of the game came on five minutes as Tyler Dibling attacked down the right and fired in a brilliant effort that was saved well by Andre Onana.

Against the run of play United had their own chance to open the scoring on 15 minutes as Joshua Zirkzee’s outstretched leg couldn’t quite reach a Christian Eriksen cross.

Saints were all over United here though, with the recently-promoted side dominating in almost all aspects of the game with 25 minutes gone.

They should have gone ahead on the half hour mark as Dibling was fouled inside the area for a penalty. Cameron Archer though, missed from the spot.

Amazingly, United then doubled their lead just before the break as Marcus Rashford curled in a lovely effort from the edge of the area.

Into the second half and Rashford went close to adding his second as the England international saw his strike just deflected over the bar.

With 15 minutes to go a difficult game got even harder for Saints as Jack Stephens was given a straight red card for a horror challenge on Alejandro Garnacho.

The Argentine dusted himself off though and grabbed a third with the last kick of the game to add some gloss to the scoreline.

Sunday sees Wolves take on Newcastle and then the small matter of the north London derby.

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