Arsenal 4-2 Leicester, Chelsea 4-2 Brighton, Everton 2-1 Crystal Palace: football – as it happened

And that’s where we’ll wrap up for today, with Liverpool scoring on the stroke of half-time against Wolves.

It’s been a busy old afternoon, as always, in the world of football. Thanks for joining us and tuning in.

Bayern are level on 39 minutes against Leverkusen and it’s a scorcher from Aleksandar Pavlovic, a real long range thunderbolt, that has done the trick. 1-1

Elsewhere in Saturday early evening football:

• St Johnstone 0-0 Celtic

• Ebbsfleet 0-0 Oldham

Stockport travel to Barnsley a bit later in League One. Dominik Szoboszlai has just missed from point-blank range at Molineux and Liverpool are still goalless against Wolves.

Speaking of happy managers – Enzo Maresca is happy too. Mainly because he’s got Cole Palmer in his Chelsea squad. What a player he is (by the way).

Leverkusen are ahead at Bayern Munich and it’s a complete sucker punch against the run of play.

Robert Andrich scores with the visitors’ first shot on target, a fine low drive into the corner that has Manuel Neuer easily beaten. Well, well.

Mikel Arteta is very happy after Arsenal’s late show to down Leicester – even if there were a few jitters for the Gunners today when the visitors had brought it back to 2-2.

He told the BBC: “I’m very happy, first of all with the performance. I think we were unbelievable today. Te team showed unbelievable character to keep pushing, creating chance after chance. We suffered more than we should have but this is football. This is the Premier League, every team has got unbelievable resources to create issues and today they scored two goals out of very little but this is the quality that they have.”

There’s two big matches going on right now and both are goalless. Wolves are giving Liverpool an early scare in the Premier League’s Saturday teatime offering, while Bayern Munich have enjoyed the better of the early stages against Bundesliga reigning champs Bayer Leverkusen. Two good games to keep your eyes on.

Raúl Jiménez’s controversial penalty clinched Fulham the win at the City Ground and halted Nottingham Forest’s unbeaten Premier League start. The Mexican converted his 50th goal in the English top flight early in the second half after a lengthy video assistant referee check.

West Ham got a point today. And where the London Stadium is an unhappy home, they remain unbeaten on their early-season tour of the capital city. After victory at Crystal Palace and drawing at Fulham came this attritional affair on the capital’s western fringe against Brentford.

John Brewin enjoyed himself at the Gtech Community Stadium:

And in Scotland:

Here’s your Championship roundup, as Leeds put down a marker while West Brom and Sunderland both lost at the top:

Down at the bottom, at the end of a week that brought fresh hope of a takeover at Everton, Sean Dyche finally tasted his first Premier League victory of the season. A fresh start does not have to be confined to the boardroom.

Here’s what Andy Hunter made of a sweet afternoon for the Toffees, where Dwight McNeil bagged two:

Cole Palmer FC may take some stopping if they can keep this up. While these days it’s doing the rest of Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea side a disservice to suggest this is a one-man team, another irresistible performance from the England forward that saw him become the first player in Premier League history to score four times before half-time made it four wins on the trot for the Blues.

Ed Aarons witnessed a virtuoso performance at Stamford Bridge:

It looked like being a story of Arsenal throwing away two points today. That, and a sensational second-half goalscoring cameo by the Leicester right-back, James Justin, plus the defiance of the goalkeeper, Mads Hermansen. Having made it 2-1 with a deflected header, Justin produced a volley of irresistible sweetness to equalise. Arsenal’s total dominance of the first half looked set to count for nothing, especially as they could not find a way back through in regulation time.

Read read from David Hytner’s report at the Emirates Stadium:

Match reports

Next up: Wolves v Liverpool at 5.30pm. Can the Reds get the win that will take them top? Join Rob Smyth.

Readers’ round-up

Jeremy Boyce: “After today’s results there are 3 points between the top 7. All back for more on Tuesday evening, sleep well.”

Simon McMahon: “Dundee United, leading 1-0 at half time, found themselves 3-1 down after 78 minutes at Kilmarnock, then gained a point with a penalty equaliser in the 100th minute! Late drama indeed. Come on United!”

Full-time scores

Full-time: Arsenal 4-2 Leicester

Full-time: Chelsea 4-2 Brighton

GOAL! Arsenal 4-2 Leicester (Havertz 90+9)

Full-time: Nottingham Forest 0-1 Fulham

Full-time: Brentford 1-1 West Ham

GOAL! Arsenal 3-2 Leicester (Ndidi og 90+4)

Full-time: Everton 2-1 Crystal Palace

90 min: Brentford 1-1 West Ham Vociferous appeals from the hosts for a penalty but nothing doing.

89 min: Arsenal 2-2 Leicester Danish goalkeeper Mads Hermansen is performing heroics in the Foxes goal as Arsenal hurl everything at him. Havertz heads over in the Gunners’ latest attempt to snatch a winner.

Krishnamoorthy v makes this claim: “I can’t believe this is actually Chelsea. They have not been this emphatic since 2006 probably.”

If results stay the same, Chelsea are heading up to second place, for the time being.

85 min: Everton 2-1 Crystal Palace This is where Everton fans start having kittens but, so far, they’re holding firm as they bid to hold out for their first Premier League win of the campaign.

GOAL! Watford 2-1 Sunderland

A total of 16 goals in these five 3pm kick-offs. Surely more to come though.

80 min: Nottingham Forest 0-1 Fulham The hosts creating very little as they attempt to preserve their unbeaten record. Their xG is 0.58.

79 min: Brentford 1-1 West Ham Time ticking on and Paqueta strolls off looking unhappy after being hooked. Lopetegui not happy with the Brazilian’s effort today.

68 min: Chelsea 4-2 Brighton Marc Cucurella has the ball in the next against his former team following a swipe from a corner but it’s ruled out for offside.

Up in Scotland, James Humphries is keeping an eye out. “Mighty ‘Well up 2-1 against St Mirren, and I’ll bet at least 50p there’s more goals in this. Keep yer Cole Palmer, Lennon Miller’s where it’s at (but don’t tell anyone, we want him to stay).”

A missed penalty and two red cards in that Motherwell game by the way.

Andy (not that one) Flintoff notes: “Am I alone in thinking it’s a bit remiss of Man City to *not* have a direct replacement for Rodri already within their squad of full internationals?”

Kári Tulinius writes: “Every time I watch Leicester this season, they scrape goals even if they otherwise look out of their depth. It’s early to talk about survival chances, but being able to find the back of the net by hook or crook is invaluable when fighting for safety.”

It sure is.

Euro round-up

An early look at matters in Europe, with Inter winning by the odd goal in five at Udinese in a 2pm kick-off.

GOAL! Arsenal 2-2 Leicester (Justin 63)

Wolves v Liverpool team news