THE Premier League returns today for another round of bumper action.
Leicester vs Manchester City and Tottenham vs Wolves are the standout ties from the five afternoon kick offs.
Sunday’s evening match sees West Ham host league leaders Liverpool in a blockbuster clash at the London Stadium.
- Kick off times: 2.30pm/3pm/5.15pm GMT
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HT: Everton 0-1 Nott’m Forest
The draw specialists are losing at Goodison Park.
They have failed to register a single shot on target in the first-half.
Forest have not created a great deal and will need to take it up a gear or two to put this game to bed.
Leicester 0-2 Man City
74. The Foxes get their just desserts for their wastefulness.
De Bruyne spreads it out wide to Savinho, who whips in an inch-perfect cross to the Norwegian.
Haaland heads into the far corner to double the visitors’ lead.
Goal – Erling Haaland (Man City)
HT: Crystal Palace 1-1 Southampton
Will Southampton be in the Premier League next season?
Yes, in the form of Tyler Dibling who is guaranteed to picked up by somebody as The Saints are relegated.
Palace should be out of sight in this game but are proving to be wasteful in front of goal.
HT: Tottenham 2-1 Wolves
As ever it is the same old story for Spurs.
They look great going forward but defensively they look like they could not stop a marauding toddler making it through the middle of the park.
However, they lead at the break, which would be enough to take some pressure off Ange Postecoglou.
View from SunSport’s Dan King at the King Power
It really is all Leicester.
They’ve had three decent openings in this second half, without forcing Stefan Ortega into a save yet.
Guardiola had seen enough and so he sent on…James McAtee, whose Premier League experience so far this season amounted to two minutes.
It’s Phil Foden who is off and the form of the Footballer of the Year is a symbol of City’s struggles.
And Vardy has just put a golden chance over the bar.
View from SunSport’s Ken Lawrence at Goodison Park
Sean Dyche’s right – he frequently says that every time things start to look brighter at Everton another cloud shows up.
His side valiantly navigated their way through three successive draws against Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City.
The Toffees had lost only one of their last seven games and Dyche and should have been on something of a high – instead their first half performance against upwardly – mobile Forest has been a real downer for him and the home fans.
View from SunSport’s Tom Barclay in North London
WHAT a huge goal that could prove to be for Ange Postecoglou.
Just as the Aussie was preparing to go in for half-time downbeat after Son Heung-min’s penalty miss, Brennan Johnson put his side in front with a fine finish.
Dejan Kulusevski teed it up and it feels at times today the Swede has been carrying Spurs, who may be winning but are not playing particularly well.
View from SunSport’s Jordan Davies at Selhurst Park
Decent half between two struggling teams, but Ivan Juric needs to find something else from his Saints.
They have had their moments but Palace look so dangerous, yet so wasteful.
In his programme notes, Palace boss Oliver Glasner wrote: “There is a great quote from Kobe Bryant: ‘Try to be better today than you were yesterday, and better tomorrow than you were today’. This won’t stop in 2025.”
How about simply being better in the second half?
View from SunSport’s Andy Dillon at Craven Cottage
BOURNEMOUTH are lucky to still be in this game. They are a goal down but could easily be a man down too.
Ryan Christie has escaped with a booking for what to everyone except ref Rob Jones and VAR Peter Bankes a cast-iron studs up challenge on Antonee Robinson.
The midfielder took out Andreas Pereira and lost control of the ball in doing so, he then went full throttle to reclaim and came together with Robinson’s left shin. How that is not a red I wait to be informed by the PGMOL.
Tottenham 2-1 Wolves
45+3. Some great play from Kulusevski once again.
This time he finds Johnson in the middle of the box, who slots into the bottom right-hand corner of the goal.
Are you not entertained?
Goal – Brennan Johnson (Tottenham)
View from SunSport’s Ken Lawrence at Goodison Park
Nuno Espirito Santo had to deal with what looked like a major blow after defensive rock Murillo was forced to pull out in the warm up.
Winger Ramon Sosa replaced him with midfielder Nico Williams dropping to left back in a re – build back four.
But the rear guard that suffered was Everton’s – no thanks to sloppy work from the midfield ahead of them and there was little surprise when Chris Wood delivered a fine opener.
Leicester 0-1 Man City
58. We may be missing a trick with some Premier League players.
Bernardo Silva could be the answer to ending third-world hunger, he can make a meal out of anything.
A slight contact from Soumare sends the Portuguese midfielder flying in the air and rolling another twenty yards down the pitch.
Fulham 1-0 Bournemouth
40. Classic from Fulham.
Under the cosh for most of the game, they force a corner and take the lead in West London.
Pereira’s delivery picks out Jimenez who heads home to get the Craven Cottage crowd going.
Goal – Raul Jimenez (Fulham)
View from SunSport’s Jordan Davies at Selhurst Park
Aaron Ramsdale is still complaining about that Palace equaliser. Mateta certainly has a big shove on the former Arsenal keeper before Chalobah’s header bobbles over the line from the corner.
Ramsdale has been having a good moan to himself with the ball up the other end, but he was called into action just now with a strong palm to deny Sarr and then getting behind an acrobatic overhead kick from Lerma.
Everton 0-1 Nott’m Forest
37. If you wanted to ensure you didn’t get hit in the face by the ball at Goodison Park, the opposition goal seems the safest place to be.
The Toffees really do not create enough chances.
Forest have only had one shot on target in the game so far, but it seems enough to win this game currently.
Colleen Rooney is in the stands for the game today and you start to wonder if she could be a better job than Broja up top.
Viiew from SunSport’s Andy Dillon at Craven Cottage
SOMETHING YOU don’t see everyday.
Bournemouth take shape for an attacking corner and play stops so that Fulham keeper Bernd Leno can have a drink of red bull from a tin beside his post.
Leno points to his throat as if to suggest he has a sore throat. Odd.
Crystal Palace 1-1 Southampton
34. It is going to be a close run thing this season to see who lets more in, The Saints or Southampton ferry terminal.
As a Will Hughes cross comes into the box, Chalobah heads home from close range.
Selhurst Park erupts into a cauldron of noise.
Goal – Trevor Chalobah (Crystal Palace)
View from SunSport’s Jordan Davies at Selhurst Park
The first Southampton goal of the Ivan Juric era is here and it was scored by the teenage sensation Tyler Dibling.
Whisper it quietly, but for all the direct, back-to-front long balls Juric likes his side to execute, this opener was Russell Martin-esque.
Lots of great passing on the deck, switching the play from right to left and ending with a brilliant, low cross flicked on by Adam Armstrong and tapped in by Dibling from a few yards out.
This was meant to be the battle of the big men: Crystal Palace’s Jean-Philippe Mateta at 6ft4 vs Saints giant Paul Onuachu at 6ft7.
But so far, it was a skinny teenager who has seemingly-doomed Southampton dreaming of just a second win in the Prem this term.
View from SunSport’s Andy Dillon at Craven Cottage
WHAT started at breakneck speed is now rather flat-footed.
A chance each and not much else. Maybe the excitement of recent results – and Bournemouth’s absentee list – is catching up with them.
Fulham are not taking advantage of eight players missing from the visiting line up.
View from SunSport’s Tom Barclay in North London
WELL it would not be a Spurs game without plenty of incident and goals – and there has been more than enough for most games inside the first 23 minutes here.
Wolves went 1-0 up through Hwang Hee-Chan’s excellent strike to have the away fans singing boss Vitor Pereira’s name from the stands.
But then Rodrigo Bentancur levelled things up with a bullet header from Pedro Porro’s corner – the same routine that worked against Ipswich last month.
Ange Postecoglou must have had his heart in his mouth though when back-up goalkeeper Fraser Forster went down clutching his left leg, though he is carrying on for now.
Oh and Matheus Cunha has looked like a Champions League-level player with some of his touches.
Fulham 0-0 Bournemouth
28. It is the visitors who are dominating in West London.
The Cherries have had all the possession and most of the attempts at goal in the opening half an hour.
The Cottagers seem to using the same tactic they did against Chelsea, absorb all they can throw at us and try and hit them on the counter-attack.
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