Match reports Our busy team of writers, sub-editors, revise sub-editors, picture editors and other editors have rushed through the match reports for all the 3pm Premier League games. Here they are. Brighton 0-0 Ipswich Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester Fulham 1-1 West Ham Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest Manchester City 2-1 Brentford That’s all for today. Bye! The final scores in our featured games Premier League Southampton 0-3 Man Utd Brighton 0-0 Ipswich Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester Fulham 1-1 West Ham Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest Man City 2-1 Brentford Championship Leeds 0-1 Burnley Plymouth 3-2 Sunderland Scottish Premier League Celtic 2-0 Hearts Bundesliga Hoffenheim 1-4 Leverkusen Next up: Aston Villa v Everton at 5.30pm. Our Baz has the team news for that game. “Oh my days!” says Forest fan Martin Widdicks. “Never thought I’d see it…” I still haven’t. Pulitzer please! Full time: Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester A frustrating result for both sides. Palace would have expected to win before the game, as would Leicester when they took a 2-0 lead just after half-time. Full time: Man City 2-1 Brentford No hat-trick for Erling Haaland, who has a bit of a face on, but three points are an adequate consolation. Yoane Wissa put Brentford ahead inside 25 seconds, and they had further chances before City woke up. When they did, Haaland did the necessary. NO GOAL! Celtic 2-0 Hearts Adam Idah’s goal has been VARed. Full time: Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest For the first time in 20,300 days, or 55 years if you’re an unpretentious human being, Nottingham Forest have won at Anfield! Callum Hudson’s Odoi’s beautiful goal decided the game, and Liverpool’s perfect start to the season has gone up in flames. Full time: Plymouth 3-2 Sunderland Wayne Rooney’s first win as Plymouth manager is one to remember. Full times: Brighton 0-0 Ipswich, Fulham 1-1 West Ham GOAL! Celtic 3-0 Hearts (Idah 90+2) GOAL! Crystal Palace 2-2 Leicester (Mateta 90+2) Jean Philippe Mateta’s penalty, his second goal of the match, has almost certainly earned a point for Palace. GOAL! Fulham 1-1 West Ham (Ings 90+5) West Ham have grabbed a late equaliser at Craven Cottage! The substitute Danny Ings scored it in the fifth minute of added time. Meanwhile… GOAL! Celtic 2-0 Hearts (McCowan 89) Luke McCowan’s shot squeezes into the net to secure victory for Celtic. GOAL! Plymouth 3-2 Sunderland (Edwards 90+3) Plymouth have surely nicked it! The captain Joe Edwards scores at the second attempt to leave Wayne Rooney on the brink of his first win as Plymouth manager. 88 min: Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest Murillo makes a terrific stop to deny Szobozslai, then Van Dijk heads onto the roof of the net. Forest are so close to a mighty victory. 85 min: Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest Alisson saves from Anthony Elanga, who hahs been a constant menace on the break since coming on as substitute. 81 min: Man City 2-1 Brentford Erling Haaland, hunting a third straight hat-trick, has hit the post and been denied by Mark Flekken in the space of 60 seconds. GOAL! Plymouth 2-2 Sunderland (Mundle 86) Another twist at Home Park, where Romaine Mundle has grabbed a late equaliser for Sunderland. There might be time for more. 83 min: Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest “Hudson-Odoi = Michael Caine,” says Mark Turner, who is determined to give away the entire plot of Zulu. 76 min: Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest Here’s the man himself. “Oh Rob, can’t I just enjoy my Saturday mornings!” writes Martin. “Now I’m going to be useless all day again.” 75 min: Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest I’d like to refer you all to Martin Widdicks’ email at 3.07pm. The latest scores in our featured games Premier League Southampton 0-3 Man Utd (FT) Brighton 0-0 Ipswich Crystal Palace 1-2 Leicester Fulham 1-0 West Ham Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest Man City 2-1 Brentford Championship Leeds 0-1 Burnley (FT) Plymouth 2-1 Sunderland Scottish Premier League Celtic 1-0 Hearts Bundesliga Hoffenheim 1-4 Leverkusen (FT) GOAL! Liverpool 0-1 Nottm Forest (Hudson-Odoi 72) Nottingham Forest have taken the lead at Anfield! The two substitutes, Elanga and Hudson-Odoi, combined again on the counter-attack before Hudson-Odoi curled a lovely shot into the far corner from 20 yards. Forest haven’t won at Anfield since 1969, so this is officially Big News. 71 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest “Going back to J.R. In Illinois’ message about Alexis Mac Allister and Ryan Yates having a ding dong, I glanced over it quickly and just saw the name Ryan, and assumed it was Gravenberch,” writes Matt Dony. “That would have been entertaining, in a Perry Farrell vs Dave Navarro kind of way. (A good friend messaged me earlier to say, ‘Imagine the shame of being beaten up by Perry Farrell.’)” I bet it wasn’t as good as Derek Hales and Micky Flanagan. GOAL! Plymouth 2-1 Sunderland (Hardie 73 pen) Well well well: Ryan Hardie’s penalty has put winless Plymouth in front against the leaders Sunderland. The atmosphere at Home Park sounds sensational. 68 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest The substitute Anthony Elanga has just missed a terrific chance for Forest, wafting over the bar after a superb break. Bundesliga Leverkusen have won 4-1 at Hoffenheim, but RB Leipzig – who spectacularly ended Leverkusen’s unbeaten run a fortnight ago – were held to a goalless draw by Union Berlin. 61 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Arne Slot has made three changes, bringing on Gakpo, Diaz and Bradley for Jota, Mac Allister and Diaz. It looks like Trent™ will play further forward as a result. 59 min: Man City 2-1 Brentford Pep Guardiola has brought Rodri on for his game of the season, which should help City close the game out. League Two Bromley led Notts County 2-0 after six minutes. Then it all went wrong, big time: Alassana Jatta has just put County 3-2 ahead. 55 min: Brighton 0-0 Ipswich Liam Delap has hit the post after a buccaneering run. Ipswich have been under the pump but were really close to taking the lead there. The latest scores in our featured games Premier League Southampton 0-3 Man Utd (FT) Brighton 0-0 Ipswich Crystal Palace 1-2 Leicester Fulham 1-0 West Ham Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Man City 2-1 Brentford Championship Leeds 0-1 Burnley (FT) Plymouth 1-1 Sunderland Scottish Premier League Celtic 1-0 Hearts Bundesliga Hoffenheim 1-4 Leverkusen (2.30pm) GOAL! Celtic 1-0 Hearts (Engels 52) Hearts might have had a penalty in the first half; now Celtic have taken the lead from the spot. GOAL! Hoffenheim 1-4 Leverkusen (Boniface 75) Victor Boniface’s second goal has sealed victory for Leverkusen. GOAL! Plymouth 1-1 Sunderland (Ballard og 54) There’s an almighty racket at Home Park, where Plymouth have equalised against the league leaders. Morgan Whittaker’s heatseeker thumped the bar before bouncing off Dan Ballard and into the net. GOALS! Crystal Palace 1-2 Leicester (Mateta 47; Mavididi 46) Stephy Mavididi doubled Leicester’s lead right at the start of the second half, but Jean-Philippe Mateta has now scored for Palace. They were booed off at half-time, which is an unlikely turn of events after their marvellous end to last season. “In Ian Rush’s autobiography (the first one, imaginatively entitled RUSH) I think he says that the press conference called to announce his return was full of journos expecting Liverpool to unveil the signing of Gary Pallister,” says Stuart Evers. “Which probably would have been a better long term investment.” GOAL! Hoffenheim 1-3 Leverkusen (Wirtz 71 pen) Florian Wirtz has restored Leverkusen’s two-goal lead, so he has. Earlier in this clockwatch of fours, Simon McMahon invited us to name the last two players, before Peterhead’s Rory McAllister, to score 250 league goals in Scotland. I got Ally McCoist, and nobody got the other fella. “Indeed one of them is called Alistair - McCoist of course, aka Super Ally,” writes Simon. “The other is now in his 80’s, a native of Dundee who played for, and had management roles with, both sides of the street. The Scottish Brian Kidd if you will.” Brian Kidd? Isn’t he the English Gordon Wallace? “Looking for distraction from the probability that Erling Holland will score yet another hat-trick,” begins Charles Antaki, “I noticed that you missed the opportunity to observe that Thomas Frank threw some Schade at City.” Have you swapped bodies with Peter Oh? Here’s Paul Collins on today’s main talking point: why Liverpool weren’t quite the same team in 1988-89. “IMO it wasn’t Rushie as a player that was wrong, it was what his coming back to Anfield represented. Shankly went and was replaced. Keegan went and was replaced. Hughes went and was replaced. Paisley went and was replaced. Souness went and was replaced. Rush went and was replaced. Liverpool were ALWAYS moving forward. Rush coming back was Liverpool moving back, not forward. Liverpool of 1987-88 had moved beyond Rush, to a level greater than any before. Why bring him back?” In those days it was extremely unusual to have two goalscorers of that quality, wasn’t it? There was no rotation, no European football. Against that, how do you turn down the chance to sign a man who was averaging 35 goals a season in a team that didn’t have Barnes and Beardsley. It would be interesting to back through the newspaper archives and see whether there was any criticism at the time. “I know some Forest fans aren’t convinced by Ryan Yates but I think he’s great,” writes Martin Widdicks. “A dirty, needly kind of player who winds up the opposition but always with a giant smile on his face. It’s also nice that a somewhat limited* player like him gets to enjoy Premier League football. * Limited in that he would still beat 20 of us old buggers on his own just using his left foot.” Half-time scores So far, so good for: Erling Haaland, Jamie Vardy, the Nottingham Forest defence, Raul Jimenez, Emile Smith Rowe and the Ipswich defence. Premier League Brighton 0-0 Ipswich Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester Fulham 1-0 West Ham Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Man City 2-1 Brentford Championship Plymouth 0-1 Sunderland Scottish Premier League Celtic 0-0 Hearts You can follow the hundreds of other games with our live scoreboard. 45+2 min: Man City 2-1 Brentford Yoane Wissa has gone off injured to be replaced by Kevin Schade. 45+1 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest “I asked my brother, a Forest supporter, how they’re doing,” says Mark Turner. “He replied, ‘Ever seen the film Zulu?’” 42 min: Man City 2-1 Brentford Kovacic has been booked for a bad tackle on Wissa. “Re: your thoughts on Liverpool 88, from what I’ve heard, Hillsborough took the joy out of them,” says Conor Blennerhassett. “Going to all those funerals broke Dalgleish. And they would have won the double that season but for Michael Thomas’s last-minute heroics.” I appreciate all that, and they could easily have won the Double in 1989 and 1990 so they weren’t exactly staggering off their perch. But even before Hillsborough they weren’t quite the same team. Maybe even great teams can only hit the heights for one season; you could maybe say the same about Man City in 2017-18, Liverpool in 1978-79 and so on. 40 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Matz Sels almost scores a comedy own goal to give Liverpool the lead. It sounds like he dropped a high ball through his own legs and then inadvertently saved it in his follow through. I can’t quite picture it, but I’m sure it’ll be all over that social cesspit soon. The latest scores in our featured games Premier League Southampton 0-3 Man Utd (FT) Brighton 0-0 Ipswich Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester Fulham 1-0 West Ham Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Man City 2-1 Brentford Championship Leeds 0-1 Burnley (FT) Plymouth 0-1 Sunderland Scottish Premier League Celtic 0-0 Hearts Bundesliga Hoffenheim 1-2 Leverkusen (2.30pm) 36 min: Brighton 0-0 Ipswich The Ipswich keeper Arijanet Muric has made a terrific double save from Georginio Rutter and Kaoru Mitoma. 33 min: Celtic 0-0 Hearts A bit of controversy at Celtic Park. Hearts were awarded a penalty for a handball by Liam Scales, but the decision has been overturned after an on-field review. GOAL! Man City 2-1 Brentford (Haaland 32) Erling Haaland is one goal away from a third consecutive hat-trick. He ran onto a long pass from Ederson, bumped Pinnock out of the way and dinked the ball coolly over Flekken. Frightening. The last man to score three top-flight hat-tricks in a row was Liverpool’s Jack Balmer in November 1946. Serie A Patrick Cutrone, once of Wolves, has just scored a fine goal to put Como 2-0 up against Bologna. The last time they won a Serie A match, their current coach Cesc Fabregas had just turned 16 (and was still better than 99.94 per cent of midfield players in England). “At Anfield, Alexis Mac Allister and Ryan Yates are in the early stages of an epic snide-a-thon,” writes J.R. in Illinois. “It’s somewhat entertaining.” Whatever happened to Gary McAllister? The strong, silent type. The latest scores in our featured games Premier League Southampton 0-3 Man Utd (FT) Brighton 0-0 Ipswich Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester Fulham 1-0 West Ham Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Man City 1-1 Brentford Championship Leeds 0-1 Burnley (FT) Plymouth 0-1 Sunderland Scottish Premier League Celtic 0-0 Hearts Bundesliga Hoffenheim 1-2 Leverkusen (2.30pm) GOAL! Fulham 1-0 West Ham (Jimenez 24) Raul Jimenez, brought into the side today, has put Fulham ahead at Craven Cottage. Emile Smith Rowe did really well to keep a long ball in play, then slid a low cross that gave Jimenez a simple finish from six yards. GOAL! Plymouth 0-1 Sunderland (Roberts 24 pen) A debatable Patrick Roberts penalty has put the Championship leaders ahead against Wayne Rooney’s Plymouth. GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-1 Leicester (Vardy 21) Jamie Vardy, aged 57, outpaces Marc Guehi and goes round the dithering Dean Henderson to score. What a gem of a footballer. GOAL! Man City 1-1 Brentford (Haaland 20) Yep. City woke up after about 15 minutes and now Erling Haaland has equalised with a deflected shot on the turn. That’s his eighth of the season. Liverpool 5-0 Nottingham Forest (April 1988) “It is remarkable how well this holds up,” says Niall Mullen. “What a team/time that was.” I’ve always wondered: why did they only hit those (admittedly stratospheric) heights for only one season? It can’t be Rushie’s fault surely. They were, individually and collectively, just astonishingly good in 1987-88. 17 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest The in-form Luis Diaz has hit the post for Liverpool, who are passing Forest to sleep. 13 min: Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest “All Liverpool,” says Paul Merson on Sky, though haven’t yet dirtied Matz Sels’ gloves. The latest scores in our featured games Premier League Southampton 0-3 Man Utd (FT) Brighton 0-0 Ipswich Crystal Palace 0-0 Leicester Fulham 0-0 West Ham Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Man City 0-1 Brentford Championship Leeds 0-1 Burnley (FT) Plymouth 0-0 Sunderland Scottish Premier League Celtic 0-0 Hearts Bundesliga Hoffenheim 1-2 Leverkusen (2.30pm) 10 min: Man City 0-1 Brentford It sounds like Brentford are causing City all sorts of problems on the counter-attack, and Nathan Collins has just forced a save from Ederson following a corner. The people who can actually watch this game reckon Brentford could have already scored three. Thomas Frank is such a good manager and it’ll be fascinating to see how he fares when he gets a bigger job. It might be that he and Brentford are a perfect fit for each other. Goal! Hoffenheim 1-2 Leverkusen (Berisha 37) Leverkusen were beaten after leading 2-0 in their previous league game, so this goal from Mergim Berisha could make things interesting. “Newsflash just in from Arsenal FC Limited,” writes Charles Antaki. “Emergency motion to Uefa that all games today should have a running time of no more than five minutes.” 5 min: Man City 0-1 Brentford Bryan Mbeumo almost had a chance to make it 2-0. He was about to shoot when Rico Lewis picked his pocket in the penalty area. Blimey. Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest “Easy football watching today,” boasts Marin Widdicks. “As Forest haven’t won at Anfield since 1969 (I’m pretty sure) I have no expectations at all today. So rather than pacing around with nervous energy I can just relax today, a free hit if you like… “Now watch us go 2-0 up in the first 20 mins and have me hide behind the sofa as Liverpool win 4-2.” Bundesliga: Hoffenheim 0-2 Leverkusen (32 mins) The champions have started with ferocious intent against Hoffenheim. Martin Terrier put them ahead in the 17th minute and Victor Boniface has just made it two. GOAL! Man City 0-1 Brentford (Wissa 1) Oh eeya! Yoane Wissa has headed Brentford ahead after 22 seconds following a mistake from John Stones. He was in his six-yard box, tried to boot the ball clear but sliced it straight onto the head of Wissa. “Is it just me,” begins John Kim promisingly, “or do the Man City player photos make them look shiny and sickly, as if they were emerging from the club at 9am after a hard night of partying? Plus, the angle is all wrong. They all have giant foreheads!” Complacency’s kicking in after four titles in a row. “Afternoon Rob,” writes Simon McMahon. “High flying Dundee United start the day in third place, having secured two wins and two draws from their opening four league fixtures after their return to the Scottish Premier this year. They don’t play until tomorrow, against Rangers at Tannadice, so, depending on today’s results, could end up anywhere from third to sixth. “Whatever happens today, a win tomorrow would see United regain third place. A word too for Peterhead’s Rory McAllister, who last week became only the third player to reach 250 league goals in Scotland since 1945. Am sure there are some clockwatch anoraks out there who can name the other two…” That’s a great question. Is one of them called Alistair? Match report: Southampton 0-3 Man Utd Ben Fisher was at St Mary’s to see Manchester United inflict another defeat on Southampton. Football League results These are the final scores in the early games. That’s a cracking win for Burnley, who move up to second for a couple of hours at least. They had Bashir Humphreys sent off in the 98th minute but it didn’t affect the result. Championship Leeds 0-1 Burnley Millwall 0-1 Luton Oxford 1-0 Stoke League One Mansfield 2-1 Cambridge Northampton 1-2 Wycombe League Two AFC Wimbledon 3-0 MK Dons Swindon 4-0 Newport Game’s gone “Aberdeen-Well not one of your featured games, eh?” says James Humphries, and yes Well does mean Motherwell. “I am disappointed, and not just because it’s difficult to find any dodgy streams of non-OF spl games. I mean, so I’ve been told.” Well you wouldn’t be getting any insights from here. I’m at the mercy of the boys and girls on Soccer Saturday. (And Reddit, but keep that to yourself.) Full time: Southampton 0-3 Man Utd Penalty saves change games. Southampton started excellently but were flattened by a nine-minute spell in which Andre Onana saved Cameron Archer’s penalty and Matthijs de Ligt and Marcus Rashford scored for United. Alejandro Garnacho, hungry to the last, added a third just before the final whistle. Crystal Palace v Leicester team news Palace’s new signings Max Lacroix and Eddie Nketiah, as does Cheick Doucoure. Nathaniel Clyne, Will Hughes and Daichi Kamada do not. One change for Leicester, with Stephy Mavididi preferred to Abdul Fatawu. 81 min: Southampton 0-2 Manchester United Still 2-0 at St Mary’s but the home side are down to 10 men: Jack Stephens has been given a straight red card for serious foul play. Barry Glendenning will give you chapter and verse. Brighton v Ipswich team news What’s with this eyes nonsense? It’s the Brighton team for a routine league game, not an unconfirmed report that Donald Trump has come out as a Democrat who prefers Burger King. As for the teams, Brighton are without James Milner and Joao Pedro, so Yasin Ayari and Georginio Rutter start. Ipswich bring in Dara O’Shea and Wes Burns for Luke Woolfenden and Chiedozie Ogbene. Fulham v West Ham team news Two changes for Fulham. The new signing Joachim Andersen and Raul Jimenez come in for Issa Diop and Rodrigo Muniz. Julen Lopetegui prefers Tomas Soucek to Lucas Paqueta, the only change from West Ham’s 3-1 defeat to Erling Haaland. Liverpool v Nottm Forest team news Arne Slot sticks with the XI that embarrassed Manchester United a fortnight ago. Forest bring in James Ward-Prowse, Ryan Yates, Nicolas Dominguez and Alex Moreno for Ibrahima Sangare, Anthony Elanga, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Neco Williams. Man City v Brentford team news Ilkay Gundogan makes his second full debut for City after returning to the club from Barcelona. Erling Haaland also starts; there were suggestions he might miss the game for personal reasons. Kyle Walker, John Stones and Savinho all return; Bernardo Silva and Josko Gvardiol are rested. Sepp van den Berg and Keane Lewis-Potter come into the Brentford team in place of Kevin Schade and the injured Mathias Jensen. On this day in 1997 … association football teams managed by Roy Hodgson and George Graham trade seven goals before half-time. Pep Guardiola on Manchester City’s FFP case I’m happy it starts on Monday and I know there will be more rumours about the sentences that come up and we’re going to see. I know what people are looking for, I know what they are expecting – I know it because I have read it for many years – but I’ve said everyone is innocent until guilt is proven. Arne Slot on Liverpool’s busy schedule For the players it might be a lot. If it is too much then it is a question for them to ask because I don’t feel what they feel but I do see it is a lot and it is up to us to prove we can handle that: the ones who play almost every game and the ones to come in and show they can continue to get results like we have so far. Read all about it Half time: Leeds 0-1 Burnley Burnley had only 25 per cent possession in the first half at Elland Road, but they lead through Luca Koleosho’s 18th-minute goal. Will Ferrell is among the crowd for that game. The other half-time scores in the Championship are Oxford 0-0 Stoke and Millwall 0-1 Luton (Mengi 10). No word yet on Vince Vaughn being at The Den. Half time: Southampton 0-2 Manchester United After a diffcult start to the season, Erik ten Hag is having a more comfortable afternoon at St Mary’s. It might have been different had Andre Onana not saved Cameron Archer’s penalty when the game was goalless. But he did, and Matthijs de Ligt and Marcus Rashford scored soon after to put United in control. You can follow the second half with Barry Glendenning. Preamble It’s not often that both Manchester City and Liverpool grace us with their presence at 3pm on a Saturday, but that’s the case today. The top two have what look like home bankers against Brentford and Nottingham Forest respectively, although we’ve maded that mistaken assumption in the past. It’s less than two years since Brentford won famously at the Etihad just before the World Cup. Third-placed Brighton are also in action at home to Ipswich, with Fulham v West Ham and Crystal Palace v Leicester completing a decent set of 3pm games. We’ll also have updates from the big games elsewhere, including Leeds v Burnley and Plymouth v Sunderland in the Championship. These are our featured games, all 3pm kick-offs unless stated. Premier League Southampton 0-2 Man Utd (12.30pm) Brighton v Ipswich Crystal Palace v Leicester Fulham v West Ham Liverpool v Nottm Forest Man City v Brentford Championship Leeds 0-1 Burnley (12.30pm) Plymouth v Sunderland Scottish Premier League Celtic v Hearts Bundesliga Hoffenheim v Leverkusen (2.30pm)