Зуны солилцооны цонх хаагдсаны дараах Премьер лигийн гуравдугаар тойргийн тоглолтуудад шинээр ирсэн өндөр үнэтэй тоглогчид анхны гараагаа хийж, багууд тактикийн шинэ туршилтуудаа үргэлжлүүллээ.
Ливерпүүлийн шинэ довтлогч Брэдли Баркола Ипсвич Таун багийн эсрэг сэлгээнээс талбайд гарч хурдтай тоглолтоо харуулсан бол Манчестер Ситигийн бүрэлдэхүүнд багтсан Илиман Ндиайе болон Энцо Фернандес нар эхний тоглолтоо хийлээ. Ньюкасл Юнайтедын шинэ довтлогч Матиас Фернандес-Пардо 4-2-3-1 хувилбарт тоглолтын турш идэвхтэй байсан бол Тоттенхэмын Савио болон Михаил Мудрик нар Ноттингем Форестийн эсрэг сэлгээнээс тоглолтод оролцов.
Тоттенхэм Ноттингем Форесттай 0-0-ийн харьцаатай тэнцэж, улирлын эхний гурван тоглолтод гоол оруулаагүй таагүй амжилтыг үзүүллээ. Роберто Де Зербигийн удирдлага дор багийн хамгаалалт сайжирч байгаа хэдий ч довтолгооны шугамд оновчтой цохилт дутагдаж байгаа нь гол асуудал болоод байна.
Премьер лигийн бусад тоглолтуудад Ливерпүүл 2-0-ээр Ипсвич Тауныг хожиж, Манчестер Сити 1-0-ээр Ковентри Ситиг буулган авлаа. Ньюкасл Юнайтед болон Борнмут 2-2, Брентфорд болон Сандерленд 1-1, Брайтон болон Лидс Юнайтед 1-1-ийн харьцаатай тус тус тэнцсэн бол Кристал Палас Фулхэмийг 3-2-оор хожсон байна.
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It was the first round of Premier League games since the transfer window closed earlier in the week.
With many sides opting to make big investments in their playing staff (some at the last minute… looking at you, Manchester City), there was intrigue about how many of them would fit into their new teams and if they would have the desired effect.
And for those sides who didn’t splash the cash? Would they be left behind?
There was also a lot of focus on Tottenham and whether Roberto De Zerbi could stop the rot for his team after two defeats in their first two league matches of the season. With his team being completely remodelled after the club spent almost £400million ($541m) over the summer, they took on a Nottingham Forest side also looking to rebuild under Oliver Glasner.
Our writers discuss all this, and what comes next, in our new Premier League Forum — and you can join the discussion in the comments. Let us know your views and what else you noticed from the weekend’s action so far.
Gameweek 3 results…
Friday
Ipswich Town 0 Liverpool 2
Saturday
Newcastle United 2 Bournemouth 2
Brentford 1 Sunderland 1
Brighton & Hove Albion 1 Leeds United 1
Fulham 2 Crystal Palace 3
Manchester City 1 Coventry City 0
Nottingham Forest 0 Tottenham 0
How did the debutants get on?
Our writers analyse some of the big-money signings on their first Premier League outings.
Bradley Barcola (£123m), Liverpool
The £123 million forward’s debut for Liverpool came as a 63rd-minute substitute, with his new head coach Andoni Iraola explaining that he wants to ease him into the team due to a lack of competitive game time since the World Cup.
Barcola playing at Ipswich (Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
With Liverpool already 2-0 up and in control against Ipswich, Barcola was dangerous on the counter-attack and looked sharp. The team has desperately lacked pace in attack since the departure of Luis Diaz in 2025, and even though Barcola’s influence on the outcome of this match was minimal, it was clear he will add plenty of a key ingredient that has sorely been missing.
Simon Hughes
Iliman Ndiaye (£60m), Enzo Fernandez (£125m), Manchester City
These were solid, promising debuts, with the pair of them showing plenty of promise but not quite the bite you would expect from somebody fully settled into their new surroundings.
Granted, this is not the primary role of a winger, but Ndiaye impressed in the first half by sprinting for a loose ball he was never a favourite to win, and coming away with it. That shows the kind of buy-in that City need when they turn the ball over, and in these early days of Maresca it does happen.
Ndiaye was most lively early in the first half, with the ball coming his way often, and he was happy to dribble both inside and out to keep his marker guessing. He was always confident on the ball, even dribbling out of a couple of tricky situations deep in his own half, and the fact that he went down with cramp at the end goes to show that it was a demanding afternoon.
Fernandez, meanwhile, went off with 14 minutes to go after a solid showing. With Elliot Anderson asked to be the fulcrum of the team, the Argentine midfielder took up the slightly wide-on-the-right midfield position that City have been working on this season. He played his part in the goal with a just about perfectly judged ball in behind for Antoine Semenyo, who crossed for Erling Haaland’s goal.
Fernandez signed from Chelsea on deadline day (Carl Recine/Getty Images)
Fernandez linked up well with Semenyo and put his boot in for loose balls, which is what you would expect as a minimum on this sort of occasion. Having both arrived just a few days ago, these were good starts, but of course more is expected.
Sam Lee
Matias Fernandez-Pardo (£51m), Newcastle
Matias Fernandez-Pardo came on to replace Joe Willock after 64 minutes and slotted into the No 10 position, just off Yoane Wissa, in Jaissle’s 4-2-3-1 formation. In practice, however, it almost appeared as if Newcastle essentially went two up top, with the versatile Belgian forward positioning himself in an extremely advanced position, while sometimes pulling off to the left.
There were flashes of what the 21-year-old will bring. A couple of decent right-footed crosses from the left, a free kick won by holding the ball up well with his very first touch, and a few nice turns in the area.
But Newcastle generally lacked precision and urgency in attack. They did not set Fernandez-Pardo free into space enough, nor did they trouble Bournemouth anywhere near often enough to really warrant an equaliser.
Fernandez-Pardo is short of match sharpness because he did not feature much for Lille towards the end as he pushed for an exit. Once he is fully up to speed, Newcastle believe they have lured an extremely exciting attacking talent to Tyneside, one who will find himself somewhere in the starting XI sooner or later, you suspect.
Chris Waugh
Savio (£85m), Mykhailo Mudryk (loan), Tottenham
The Brazilian’s first league outing was promising and followed his electric cameo in the Carabao Cup. The right-wing position has been a major issue for Tottenham since Mohammed Kudus went down with a hamstring injury in January. De Zerbi resorted to using natural striker Randal Kolo Muani and midfielder Conor Gallagher in that position, and the fit looked awkward at best.
Without truly threatening Matz Sels’ goal or creating any outstanding opportunities, it was apparent that Savio is a natural and accomplished winger with pace and trickery, capable of hurting the opposition.
It was an encouraging debut from the 22-year-old before he was replaced near the hour mark by Kudus, but there’s surely a lot more to come.
Mykhailo Mudryk, meanwhile, was introduced from the bench in the 74th minute, his first competitive appearance since he scored in Chelsea’s 2-0 win over Heidenheim in the Conference League in 2024. While he served a ban from a positive drugs test, Mudryk was not allowed to participate in any professional football activities, so he kept in condition and attempted to maintain sharpness through one-to-one sessions with personal coaches around the London area.
Mudryk came on for 15 minutes (Adrian Dennis / AFP via Getty Images)
There was little to remark upon from his 20-minute outing at the City Ground, though the standout moment was a free kick earned on the edge of the box after breezing past his marker, suggesting he has not lost his trademark electric speed.
In his post-match press conference, De Zerbi said, “(Mudryk) is not ready yet. He’s working to reach the best physical condition. He needs time, he needs work,” but maintained his belief in him as a “big potential player”.
Elias Burke
… But does it always help to splash the cash?
It was a transfer window defined by record levels of Premier League spending, but some of those who kept a tighter grip on the purse strings look in pretty good shape.
There is an argument that, in the short term at least, a large influx of marquee players can disrupt a team’s cohesion while new signings bed in.
Sunderland were, according to Transfermarkt, the division’s lowest spenders at £66million, but that lower turnover helped preserve the tactical identity implemented by head coach Regis Le Bris last season. They were the stronger side in their 1-1 draw with Brentford.
Even some of the signings who have made fast starts to life in the Premier League are still finding their feet. Mamadou Sangare has been heralded as an early contender for signing of the season, but struggled against Sunderland, with Brentford improving after Keith Andrews substituted him at half-time.
Sunderland, of course, spent heavily last season after coming up from the Championship, and there is a broad consensus that promoted teams need to do so to quickly bring their squads up to scratch.
For more established sides, though, stability has its place.
Conor O’Neil
Is this a turning point for Spurs?
While Tottenham were improved against Forest, and the result is a step in the right direction after starting their league season with two defeats, De Zerbi will hope there is still much more to come from his team.
Spurs were solid at the City Ground, with De Zerbi remarking in his post-match press conference that the team “did not suffer nothing”, limiting Oliver Glasner’s side to an expected goals (xG) tally of 0.65 and just two shots on target.
However, while Tottenham should have gone ahead in the first half through Omar Marmoush and ended the 90 minutes having amassed a respectable 1.57 xG, they did not register a single shot on target. Remarkably, it marks the first time Tottenham haven’t scored in the first three league games since 1974.
De Zerbi will take encouragement from Savio’s bright debut, with the £85million recruit from Manchester City looking bright and threatening, without executing on the final action. He should also take a boost from Sandro Tonali’s performance, who looked much more like the player who could dominate Premier League engine rooms across his spell at Newcastle United. Micky van de Ven, Conor Gallagher and Rodrigo Bentancur were standouts, too.
Still, Tottenham are goalless in the Premier League thus far, and let an opportunity slip to register their first win at the City Ground.
Elias Burke
… or has it already happened?
You could argue that, despite the result, last week’s 2-0 defeat to Newcastle was instead the turning point.
Newcastle’s victory was in some sense a smash and grab, scoring from both of their two shots on target, but it was encouraging that they kept their opponents’ chances to a minimum after that awful opening-day performance against Brentford, when they conceded 3.87 expected goals, more than in any Premier League game last season.
Against Forest, that defensive solidity continued and they were rewarded with a well-earned point. Again they conceded only two shots on target, worth 0.65 expected goals, but this time Antonin Kinsky saved both.
Looking at De Zerbi’s tenure as a whole, there is evidence that the Brentford performance was a blip, with their subsequent improvement simply a return to their usual defensive levels under the Italian. Their 10-game rolling expected goals for and against over the past four seasons shows how dramatically they tightened up after De Zerbi took over in March.
The bigger concern lies at the other end, where Spurs continue to struggle to carve out chances, something De Zerbi will need to address quickly.
Conor O’Neil
What now?
It’s a true test of Everton’s resolve after the dramatic end to their transfer window left them with only one senior striker when a move for Monaco’s Folarin Balogun fell through at the last minute. Their opponents, Manchester United, will be looking to build on their 5-2 victory over Ipswich Town last week.
Meanwhile, it will be two Spaniards, who grew up at the same Basque club, who will contest a London derby for Arsenal and Chelsea, in what is likely to be a clash of styles.
Mikel Arteta’s champions are built around a solid defence and strangling the opposition through possession, while Xabi Alonso’s Chelsea have had very little of the ball during his first few games, but have still built an exciting style.
Premier League fixtures
Everton vs Manchester United (2pm UK, 9am ET)
Arsenal vs Chelsea (4.30pm UK, 11.30am ET)
