Arsenal v Manchester United, Liverpool v Aston Villa and more: Premier League – live updates

Mo Salah hasn’t been in the news for a while, but that’s about to change: he has put Liverpool 3-0 up at Anfield.

It was a simple finish, poked in on the half-volley after a right-wing corner was headed across goal by Darwin Nunez.

60 min: Crystal Palace 1-0 Wolves Edouard’s goal was the first attempt at goal by either team in the second half, and I can picture Roy Hodgson’s face tightening in disgust that a fellow human being might consider such a statistic worthy of note when a goal has just been scored.

Palace take the lead with a well-worked goal. Tyrick Mitchell crosses to the near post, where Odsonne Edouard gets across his man and stabs a close-range volley past Jose Sa.

Arsenal v Man Utd And here’s Barney Ronay on a chaotic – if ultimately successful - transfer window at Old Trafford.

Arsenal v Man Utd Here’s Jonathan Wilson on the midfield issues facing Mikel Arteta and Erik ten Hag.

In his first title-winning season in England, Guardiola would often play Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva as “free 8s” in a midfield three with Fernandinho, something permitted by the excellence of his side in possession, but it’s notable that he too has become less radical. Ilkay Gündogan, a far more defensive player than Silva, became the balancing figure, and then there was the tweak of pushing a full-back (or, at times, centre-back) into midfield as auxiliary cover for Rodri.

50 min: Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa Alisson has just made a fine save from Matty Cash, who almost scored at both ends.

If it stays like this, Liverpool will join Spurs and West Ham on 10 points, two behind the Erling Haaland team.

We’ll also have goalflashes – there must be a more elegant word for that – from the second half of the 2pm games. These are the half-time scores.

• Crystal Palace 0-0 Wolves

• Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa
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One of these decades, a preview of Arsenal v Manchester United won’t include footage of Roy Keane, Patrick Vieira and friends snarling at each other*. But for now, this is a fixture stuck in its glorious past. The only way Arsenal and United can change that is by becoming the best two teams in England again, and there’s one almighty obstacle in their way.

The two clubs started the season with tentative optimism that they might make Pep Guardiola eat second place. But their performances so far have been a reminder that evolution rarely comes without unintended consequences. Mikel Arteta’s attempt to take Arsenal to another level has meant, at least in the short term, a loss of the rhythm that made them so exhilarating last season. United have a vulnerable midfield (Sofyan Amrabat isn’t available today), a growing injury list and a truly wretched record in big away games under Erik ten Hag. That record makes Arsenal strong favourites today.

There is one bit of good news for United; the £72m striker Rasmus Hojlund, who signed from Atalanta in the summer, will make his debut. It takes time to integrate players, develop systems and change cultures, but modern life and Manchester City don’t give you time. The winner, if there is one today, will go into the international break with a spring in their step, their season up and running. The loser will be advised to turn off the radio, and the TV, and the internet, for the next few days. And they might want to tell the paperboy to bugger off as well.

Kick off 4.30pm.

* The actual football was magnificent as well, which is sometimes forgotten amid the nostalgic celebration of mutual loathing