Saturdays Premier League round-up (30th Sep)

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Premier League review:
Arsenal continue winning run, victories for Manchester City, Everton, Wolves and of course West Ham (September 29, 2018)

A round-up of Saturday's action in the top flight...

Premier League results

West Ham 3-1 Manchester United
Arsenal 2-0 Watford
Everton 3-0 Fulham
Huddersfield 0-2 Tottenham
Man City 2-0 Brighton
Newcastle 0-2 Leicester
Wolves 2-0 Southampton
Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool - full report

Arsenal 2-0 Watford

Arsenal made it seven wins in a row in all competitions with late goals helping them to a 2-0 victory over Watford.

Second-best for parts of the contest, Unai Emery's side survived a number of scares and an injury to goalkeeper Petr Cech before securing the points late on.

An 81st-minute Craig Cathcart own goal saw the hosts hit the front before Mesut Ozil tucked home just two minutes later to secure the points as the north Londoners continue to gather pace under Emery's leadership.

Watford, meanwhile, are now winless in three league matches after an encouraging start to the season.

Huddersfield 2-0 Tottenham

Watford's defeat at Arsenal made space for Tottenham to move into the top four with a routine win at struggling Huddersfield, whose winless Premier League start extended to seven matches.

Harry Kane headed home against the run of play midway through the first period and converted a 34th-minute penalty as Mauricio Pochettino's side took control before cruising to their fourth league win on the road this season.

It was more of the same medicine after the meeting of these teams at the John Smith's Stadium last season when Kane struck twice in a 4-0 win for Tottenham.

Huddersfield have now failed to score in their last six home league games - four of them this season - to equal a club record set during the 1971/72 season when they were last relegated from the top flight.

Spurs will now switch their focus to their Champions League group stage clash in Barcelona next week.

Man City 2-0 Brighton

Manchester City began an important week with a comfortable 2-0 victory over Brighton at the Etihad Stadium.

Goals in the 29th and 65th minutes from Raheem Sterling and Sergio Aguero earned City the three points in a game where they had 80 per cent possession and 28 shots to Brighton's four.

City head to Hoffenheim on Tuesday needing a victory to ignite their Champions League challenge following the shock loss to Lyon before next Sunday's much-anticipated clash with Liverpool at Anfield.

Everton 3-0 Fulham

Marco Silva's Everton ended a four-match winless run with a 3-0 victory over Fulham at Goodison Park.

Gylfi Sigurdsson atoned for an earlier penalty miss with a second-half double.

The Iceland playmaker had blasted a 52nd-minute spot-kick against the bar but four minutes later he drilled home the opener from the edge of the box then grabbed his second late on after substitute Cenk Tosun had sealed the points for the hosts.

If Toffees boss Silva cut a relieved figure at the final whistle he will still be aware his side still failed to entirely convince and could have faced more frustration had Ryan Sessegnon not hit the first-half chance against the bar.

Sessegnon raced onto a low cross-field ball from Jean Michael Serri and cut into the box, where he lashed a shot against the underside of the woodwork from a tight angle.

It had marked an encouraging end to the first period for the struggling visitors, who had produced a dogged defensive performance to soak up Everton's sporadic attacks and grew into the game as the half wore on.

Newcastle 0-2 Leicester

Newcastle's winless start to the season continued as Claude Puel's Leicester won 2-0 at St James' Park.

Jamie Vardy and Harry Maguire teamed up to condemn Rafa Benitez's side to a fifth Premier League defeat of the season as owner Mike Ashley saw for himself the trouble his club is in.

Vardy's first-half penalty and Maguire's header after the break secured their third win in succession on Tyneside, with Ashley among a crowd of 51,523 for the first time since May 2017.

The sportswear magnate witnessed in graphic detail the problems his transfer policy has created with the Magpies' decision not to invest in a proven goalscorer coming back to haunt them as chances went begging.

Kenedy, arguably their most creative player, had to line up at left-back with Paul Dummett injured and no other specialist in the squad.

Ashley, who had arrived at the stadium hours after a report claimed former Manchester United and Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon is attempting to raise finances to launch a takeover bid, headed home with television cameras having captured him smiling as sections of the home fans sang "Get out of our club" and "Stand up if you hate Ashley".

Wolves 2-0 Southampton

Substitute Ivan Cavaleiro and Jonathan Castro scored for Wolves to secure a third win of the season for Nuno Espirito Santo's side.

Substitute Cavaleiro had been on the pitch just 94 seconds before he scored his first Premier League goal.

Otto then wrapped up the win with three minutes left to lift Wolves up to eighth in the table.

Southampton, who sit 15th, will be aggrieved they missed out on a point, though, having more than held their own in a game which looked destined to end goalless.

Alex McCarthy saved well from Otto and Raul Jimenez while Rui Patricio denied Southampton's Mohamed Elyounoussi and Stuart Armstrong.

It was hardly a classic performance from Wolves but the late strikes continued their fine return to the top flight with Nuno Espirito Santo's side having lost just once.