Full Time
Newcastle 1-1 Aston Villa
Yellow Cards
Villa pair Brett Holman and Brad Guzan also have their names taken late in the match at St James'
Full time
Southampton 2-3 Manchester United
Penalty Appeal
Could there be another sting in the tial as St Mary's as the Saint's faithful appeal for a penalty....the referee doesn't give it.
Goal!
Robin Van Persie's rollcoaster of an evening must surely be done as he completes a hat-trick and puts his penalty miss behind him with his first Manchsester United hat-trick.
Southampton 2-3 Manchester United
Lambert (16)
Van Persie (23, 87, 90)
Schneiderlin (56)
Southampton Corner
The Saints get another corner but nothing comes form it
Southampton Corner
The Saints want to bag all 3 points and go up looking to claim them, corner gets turned behind
Goal!
Robin Van Persie's rollercoaster of a day has another peak as he cinches his second goal of the game reacting after Rio Ferdinand's header hits the post.
Southampton 2-2 Manchester United
Lambert (16)
Van Persie (23, 87)
Schneiderlin (56)
Corner
Javier Hernandez looks almost certain to score but a great challenger knocks the ball out for a Manchester United corner.
Yellow CardEric Lichaj has his name take and becomes the second Villa player into the referees book
Yellow CardJonas Gutierrez becomes the first Newcastle player in the referees book
Manchester United Corner
Manchester United are seeking hard for an equaliser and force a corner with 10 minutes left. It's an awful corner however.
Southampton Substition
Jason Puncheon and Ricky Lambert are replaced by Emmanuel Mayuka and Guly do Prado
Manchester United Substitution
Danny Wellbeck has been replaced by Javier Hernandez
Corner
The corner, resulting from the penalty save causes some distress but not an equaliser for Mancherster United.
Penalty, Booking and Miss!
Suicide play by Southampton. Kelvin Davis plays an awful pass, the follow up sees a Manchester United player taken down by Jos Hooiveld who recieves a booking. Robin Van Persie's penalty is awful and saved by Kelvin Davis who redeems himself.
Southampton Chance
The Saints break the Manchester United offside trap and look sure to bag a 3 before Rio Ferdinand recovers.
Manchester United Chance
Paul Scholes almost makes an immediate impact playing in Robin Van Persie which forces Kelvin Davis into action.
Manchester United Substitution
Paul Scholes and Nani come on to replace Tom Cleverly and Shinji Kagawa with 30 minutes left
Goal!Newcastle bag an equaliser through Hatem Ben Arfa.
Newcastle 1-1 Aston Villa
C.Clark (22)
Ben Arfa (60)
Southampton Chance
Jason Puncheon attempts to beat Anders Lindergaard at the Dane's near post, the keep turns it around then claims the the following corner. Southampton really looking up for this now.
Goal!
Southampton reclaim the lead with a headed goal from Morgan Schneiderlin. The upset is back on, however this really came against the run of play.
Southampton 2-1 Manchester United
Lambert (16)
Van Persie (23)
Schneiderlin (56)
Manchester United ChanceA poor pass out by Kelvin Davis gives Manchester United the ball, a pass into Robin Van Persie seems to be there to bang in but the Dutchman can't quite hit it well enough.
Manchester United Half Chance
Shinji Kagawa and Robin Van Persie link together excellently before Kagawa shoots wide.
We are now back out at both games as Newcastle look to turn around their game whilst both Southampton and Manchester United look to earn 3 points.
Half Time
Southampton 1-1 Manchester United
Half Time
Newcastle 0-1 Aston Villa
Manchester United Half Chance
A cross from the right goes over everyone in the middle and Patrice Evra gets a free header on the left, it was an easy save for the Southampton goalkeeper though.
Manchester United Free Kick
A foul on Danny Wellbeck sees Manchester United getting a free kick inside the D. Robin Van Persie's free kick floats wide.
Manchester United Half Chance
Manchester United are again forcing the game and Robin Van Persie gets a half chance but his shot sails over. It genuinely looks like we could have a goal fest here at St Mary's as bith defenses are looking poor.
Yellow Card
Karim El Ahmadi picks up the first yellow card in the game in the North East.
Goal!
Southampton's lead was short lived as Robin Van Persie nets an equaliser, bagging his second Manchester United goal in as many starts.
Southampton 1-1 Manchester United
Lambert (16)
Van Persie (23)
Manchester United Corner
The Red Devils appear to want revenge for the early goal and Shinii Kagawa's show from range is turned behind. The corner results in nothing.
Goal!
A surprise at St James' Park sees Aston Villa taking the lead against Newcastle thanks to a Ciaran Clark goal.
Newcastle 0-1 Aston Villa
Clark (22)
Goal!
Ricky Lambert has surprisingly opens the scoring as Southampton go 1-0 up. They were growing into the game and this is their reward.
Southampton 1-0 Manchester United
Lambert (16)
Southampton Corner
The Saints are getting into this after the early United onslaught and now the home side have their first first corner. A training ground corner catches United out but the shot goes wide.
Manchester United Half Chance
Michael Carrick plays an excellent pass to Robin Van Persie but the Dutchman cannot get his shot on target. An excellent start for the visitors so far.
Manchester United Free Kick
Very promising position for United after Rafael is fouled. The free kick is semi cleared as United keep the pressure on.
Manchester United Corner
Inside the first 90 seconds Manchester United get their first corner. It's semi cleared but United attack straight again.
Oddly 2 minutes after the kick off in the North East we are off at Southampton.
We have kick off at St James' Park
A surprise for Manchester United with Anders Lindergaard starting instead of David De Gea in goal. I will be covering the Southampton v Manchester United in detail as well as covering key events from Newcastle v Aston Villa.
We are now just minutes away from kick off at both St Mary's as the Saints host Manchester United and St James' Park as Newcastle look to heap more disappointment on Paul Lambert's Aston Villa.
Full Time
Liverpool 0-2 Arsenal
Liverpool's performance against Manchester City last week seems to have flattered to deceive as they looked a hugely different team here. The crisp passing and attacking threat of a week ago were absent instead the play was disjoined and the attack was toothless. Arsenal, who's own start to the season had been less than great showed that they can score and can attack as they bagged their first goals of the season whilst keeping a 3rd successive clean sheet. Despite the result Arsene Wenger will not be best pleased with Oliver Giroud who had numerous chances to open his account for the club, however the points are what matter.
Liverpool Corner
Now midway through stoppage time, Liverpool search for a concellation goal but little comes of the corner.
Liverpool Corner
Corner easily cleared by the visitors.
Arsenal Substitution
Thomas Vermaelen is take off and replaced by Laurent Koscielny
Save!
Jonjo Shelvey hits a blinder with Vito Mannone forced into action.
Liverpool Chance
Luis Suarez is again posing trouble for the Arsenal defense but his finish is wayward.
Liverpool Chance
Jonjo Shelvey takes a solid shot that comes off the Arsenal goalkeeper but the on coming Liverpool attackers can't bang in the resulting half chance.
Arsenal Corner
Arsenal play a long ball to open up the field for Oliver Giroud who fails to do any more than earn a corner. The corner is headed over by Giroud.
Liverpool Corner
Stewart Downing takes a shot that takes a deflection. The corner is headed away by André Santos
Arsenal Substitution
Lukas Podolski is off and replaced by André Santos
Arsenal Corner
It's only taken until the 78th minute but finally Arsenal have their first corner. Pepe Reina collects..then drops it under pressure before the referee awards Liverpool a free kick.
Ouch!
Steven Gerrard goes in hard on Thomas Vermaelen who takes a solid bump on the ground.
Arsenal Substitution
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is replaced by Aaron Ramsey
Goal!
Arsenal's stand out player so far this season, Santi Cazorla manages to double Arsenal's leadthanks to an awful mistake by Pepe Reina. It's looking like it's game over for Liverpool.
Liverpool 0-2 Arsenal
Podolski (31)
Cazorla (68)
Liverpool Substitution
Nuri Sahin is replaced by Jonjo Shelvey with 25 minutes of the match left.
Liverpool Corner
The home side get their 7th corner (Arsenal have had 0) and despite it causing some concern they don't make the most of it.
Free Kick Appeal
Luis Suarez goes down under a challenge and whilst it was probably a foul Suarez's theatrics did him no favours in the referees eyes.
Liverpool Corner
Luis Suarez takes arguably the best shot for Liverpool but Vito Mannone is equal to it turning it behind. The resulting corner is poor.
Liverpool Corner
Awful corner by Steven Gerrard, easily cleared
Liverpool Corner
Corner taken by Stewart Downing gets semi cleared before Arsenal turn it behind for another
Penalty Appeal
Another appeal for a penalty by the home side is turned down with Luis Suarez again the key man in the appeal.
Liverpool Substitution
The much maligned Stewart Downing replaces the ineffective Fabio Borini.
Arsenal Chance
A lovely flowing move from the visitors brings Pepe Reina in to action as he makes a save
Penalty Appeal
Luis Suarez goes down in the Arsenal penalty area and the Kop appeal loudly but the referee ignores it.
Yellow Card
Martin Skrtel gets the first booking of the second half just minutes after the restart.
And we're now off for the second half.
Half Time
Liverpool 0-1 Arsenal
For much of the half of the half Liverpool appeared to be the most likely to score however it was Arsenal who broke not only the deadlock but also their own Premier League duck as Lukas Podolski opened Arsenal's scoring or the season finishing a lovely counter after a Liverpool mistake.
Whilst Liverpool had more chances, by far, than the visitors it was the visitors who had the best chance to bag a second before half time with Oliver Giroud striking a great chance wide.
Brendon Rodgers will need to look at changing the attack of his team who look rather toothless going forward, Luis Suarez simply isn't going to win games up front on his own. Arsene Wenger however will be hoping that Arsenal can bag a second and secure their first win of the season.
Arsenal Chance
Arsenal break quickly and a reverse pass to Oliver Giroud appears to set Arsenal up to double their lead but the Frenchman's shot is just awful and wide. A miss that Arsenal may come to regret.
Penalty Appeal
Raheem Sterling is brought down in the penalty and a loud appeal for the Liverpool faithful follows, the referee however just plays on.
Liverpool Chance
The ball bounces around the Arsenal penalty area as they fail to deal with the ball and Raheem Sterling comes close to bagging a leveler.
Liverpool Corner
This time the corner is cleared
Liverpool Corner
Liverpool get their second corner of the match which is headed straight out for another.
Goal!
The deadlock is broken as Lukas Podolski scores his first Premier League goal for Arsenal. A mistake by Liverpool is capitalised on and Santi Cazorla plays in Podolski. Liverpool have again shot themselves in the foot. Arsenal's first goal of the Premier League this season!
Liverpool 0-1 Arsenal
Podolski (31)
Yellow Card and Free Kick
Mikael Arteta makes a sacrificial challenge receiving a booking to allow Arsenal to get back in defense. The resulting free kick, from a promising position is hit into the Arsenal wall.
Arsenal half Chance
A lobbed up cross is put into the Liverpool penalty area, but is easily dealt with by Pepe Reina.
Liverpool half Chance
Liverpool have a nice but it comes to nothing as Arsenal's defense finally deal with the threat.
Ouch!
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is winded after a collision with Luis Suarez
Free Kick
Arsenal get their first set piece in an interesting area and their big men are sent up. Steven Gerrard clears.
Liverpool Chance
Carl Jenkinson plays a very poor ball which almost let Liverpool in with a chance before the Gunners defense recover. Some good pressure from Liverpool.
Liverpool Corner
Liverpool get the first corner of the match and whilst it's a threatening ball no one can knock it towards goal.
Arsenal half chance
Santi Cazorla has a shot but it's easily saved by Pepe Reina
Liverpool Chance
A nice move by Liverpool lets in Fabio Borini who blasts over the bar. So far Liverpool have looked the better team but Arsenal appear to be looking to hit on the break.
Yellow Card and Free Kick
Per Mertesacker picks up the first booking of the game after just 6 minutes. Luis Suarez's free kick is hit well over the goal.
Shot!
Fabio Borini takes the first notable shot of the match hitting it from outside of the penalty area as it roles wide of the Arsenal goal.
...and we are off at Anfield!
We are about to have our first kick off of the day as Liverpool host Arsenal. Both teams are in dire need of a win with neither team having started well, though who will get the points and kick start their season.
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