Brentford 2-2 Man City, Chelsea 2-2 Bournemouth: Premier League – as it happened | Premier League

The match reports are in (apart from West Ham v Fulham, which will turn into a clickable link any second now)

That’s all for our coverage of an exhilarating night of Premier League football. Goodnight!

This is what it does to the Premier League table

All square at the City Ground, but Forest needed heroic performances from Murillo and Mats Selz to repel Liverpool in the second half.

We’re not angry, Jürgen

84 min: Nottingham Forest 1-1 Liverpool It sounds like Forest have been hanging on for most of the second half – first to their 1-0 lead, now to a 1-1 draw.

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.

That was one of the most intense Clockwatches I’ve ever been involved inand one of the most enjoyable. These are the final scores in the 7.30pm games.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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