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Leeds open their season with a 1-0 defeat of Nottingham Forest


Oliver Glasner's reign at Nottingham Forest began with a late defeat at the hands of visiting Leeds United in their Premier League opener.

The Austrian became Forest's fifth manager in less than a year after replacing Vitor Pereira, who was sacked last month despite steering the club away from relegation danger.

Glasner and Forest, however, suffered a late blow as Anton Stach struck the Leeds winner straight from a free-kick with two minutes left on the clock.

It was an evenly contested game at the City Ground, where most of the opportunities for both sides came via set-pieces.

As the half-hour mark approached, Harry Wilson almost made his Leeds debut one to remember as he arrived in the box to side-foot Jayden Bogle's low delivery into the net, only for the goal to be ruled out for offside.

However, it was the home side who finished the first half strongly with centre-back Jair Cunha heading against the post after a scramble inside the Leeds box.

 

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It’s just the fourth time in Premier League history that two promoted sides have won on the opening weekend

 

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Birmingham and Bristol City draw 2-2.

A stoppage-time penalty from Birmingham's Demarai Gray denied Bristol City their first Championship win of the season.

In a disjointed first half, neither team looked like scoring until the Robins' Scott Twine responded quickest to his own blocked header in the Birmingham penalty area, firing the ball into the bottom corner.

Blues responded soon after with Carlos Vicente's goalbound shot deflecting off the post and in off the back of Robins' goalkeeper Sam Tickle for an unlikely own goal.

Dom Ballard's sensational backheel flick looked to have won it for the visitors, before Rob Atkinson was penalised for handling in the box, with Gray converting the resulting penalty.

 

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@TIGERS

Midlesbrough go down 1-2 to Blackburn Rovers.


Blackburn Rovers secured a deserved first Championship win of the season, scoring two goals in a dramatic six-minute second-half spell as they hit back to overcome a wasteful Middlesbrough at Ewood Park.

Boro dominated the early exchanges with Jeremy Sarmiento putting the visitors ahead with a smart left-foot finish.

The home side responded, going close through Ryoya Morishita and then Kristi Montgomery before levelling after the break through Andri Gudjohnsen's close-range effort - his third goal in three games this season.

Building on that momentum, Rovers went ahead for the first time through captain Todd Cantwell and managed to cling on as the visitors found themselves unable to break down a resolute home defense.

 

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@Dr_Ice


Queens Park Rangers draw 0-0 with Bolton Wanderers


Queens Park Rangers were left to rue a glut of missed chances as they were held by a resolute Bolton Wanderers side at Loftus Road.

Both sides had won their Championship openers last weekend and it was the hosts who started strongest.

Chances came and went for Harvey Vale and Richard Kone in a first half in which the hosts had six efforts on target, but Julien Stephan's side found Bolton goalkeeper Jack Bonham in inspired form.

Bonham denied Ilias Chair and Vale again after the break as the visitors left west London with a deserved point.

 

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@Leck

Southampton defeat Stoke City by a comfortable 3-1 scoreline.

Southampton left it late against Stoke City to collect their first three points of the Championship season, scoring twice in the final moments having been level for the majority of the second half.

Saints took an early lead as Cyle Larin was played through on goal and finished for the opener, but Stoke's Ethan Galbraith levelled when he converted Sam Gallagher's cross from the right past Daniel Pertez.

Former Potters loanee Divin Mubama then fired Saints ahead with one minute plus stoppage time remaining, before Ryan Manning converted a penalty late on after Sam Edozie had been fouled by Svante Ingelsson, who was shown a second yellow card and sent off.

Tonda Eckert's Southampton remain bottom of the table on minus one point, having started the campaign on minus four - which was one of their punishments for last season's 'Spygate' scandal.

 

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@Bellend
@happy_tiger
@Criz


Sorry to say, West Ham United go down 1-2 to Charlton Athletic in front of a massive home crowd of 62,264.


West Ham's Valentin Castellanos missed a 93rd-minute penalty as the Hammers' turbulent start to the Championship season continued with defeat at home by London rivals Charlton Athletic.

Addicks captain Lloyd Jones, who headed the equaliser in Charlton's comeback victory at home to Derby County in their season-opener last Saturday, opened the scoring with an early overhead kick after the hosts allowed Sonny Carey's long throw-in to bounce inside their penalty area.

Seven days after securing Charlton's win over the Rams, Tyreece Campbell was in clinical form again to dispossess the dithering Konstantinos Mavropanos, enter the box and curl in shortly after the break to double the lead in front of a sell-out crowd of 62,500, including more than 3,000 gleeful away fans.

West Ham dominated possession from then on and replied through debutant Joel Piroe's close-range finish, but Castellanos spurned the chance to level deep into added time after Conor Coventry had been adjudged to have handled.

 

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Promising season start to reigning premiers ....

Arsenal start season with swagger of champions

Arsenal started last season as nearly men but their title win has given them a swagger - as Coventry discovered on the Premier League's opening night.

www.bbc.com

 

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Who doesn't love an underdog??

Came through the back door.
Left with three points.
Hull City Tigers

 

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A clean sheet on your Ligue 1 debut for Troyes

Congratulations to our Patrick Beach who played out a 0-0 draw against Paris FC.

 

[Bellend]

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@happy_tiger
@Criz


Sorry to say, West Ham United go down 1-2 to Charlton Athletic in front of a massive home crowd of 62,264.


West Ham's Valentin Castellanos missed a 93rd-minute penalty as the Hammers' turbulent start to the Championship season continued with defeat at home by London rivals Charlton Athletic.

Addicks captain Lloyd Jones, who headed the equaliser in Charlton's comeback victory at home to Derby County in their season-opener last Saturday, opened the scoring with an early overhead kick after the hosts allowed Sonny Carey's long throw-in to bounce inside their penalty area.

Seven days after securing Charlton's win over the Rams, Tyreece Campbell was in clinical form again to dispossess the dithering Konstantinos Mavropanos, enter the box and curl in shortly after the break to double the lead in front of a sell-out crowd of 62,500, including more than 3,000 gleeful away fans.

West Ham dominated possession from then on and replied through debutant Joel Piroe's close-range finish, but Castellanos spurned the chance to level deep into added time after Conor Coventry had been adjudged to have handled.



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we played ugly and got beaten because of it.

 

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Some EPL done and some still coming ..............

 

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@Bellend
@happy_tiger
@Criz


Sorry to say, West Ham United go down 1-2 to Charlton Athletic in front of a massive home crowd of 62,264.


West Ham's Valentin Castellanos missed a 93rd-minute penalty as the Hammers' turbulent start to the Championship season continued with defeat at home by London rivals Charlton Athletic.

Addicks captain Lloyd Jones, who headed the equaliser in Charlton's comeback victory at home to Derby County in their season-opener last Saturday, opened the scoring with an early overhead kick after the hosts allowed Sonny Carey's long throw-in to bounce inside their penalty area.

Seven days after securing Charlton's win over the Rams, Tyreece Campbell was in clinical form again to dispossess the dithering Konstantinos Mavropanos, enter the box and curl in shortly after the break to double the lead in front of a sell-out crowd of 62,500, including more than 3,000 gleeful away fans.

West Ham dominated possession from then on and replied through debutant Joel Piroe's close-range finish, but Castellanos spurned the chance to level deep into added time after Conor Coventry had been adjudged to have handled.



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No way we are crawling our way back into the EPL based on that performance ....they are worse than last year

 

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Lucas Herrington has become just the 58th Australian to play in the world’s top league, coming off the bench for Hull City in a shock 2-0 win over Manchester United.

 

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@Leck


A ruthless performance from @BHAFC in that first half!
It's only the third time a team have led by four goals at half-time on the opening weekend in Premier League history.
And Villa played with only 10 men in the 2nd half after Gomes was red carded - and remarkably, no further Brighton goals were scored.

Brighton kicked off their new Premier League campaign in emphatic fashion by thrashing Europa League winners Aston Villa 4-0 at Amex Stadium.

It only took the Seagulls eight minutes to take the lead as Maxim de Cuyper forced an own goal out of Victor Lindelof before the Belgian added his name to the scoresheet 10 minutes later with an easy finish to make it 2-0.

Villa crumbled as Jack Hinshelwood then struck two goals in as many minutes to put Brighton 4-0 up, before the visitors were reduced to 10 men following a red card for Joao Gomes, who lasted only 40 minutes on a nightmare debut.

Unai Emery's side capitulated completely after a promising start.

 

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@Tiger Woods


Manchester City scored two late goals to earn Enzo Maresca a win in his first Premier League game in charge - and deny Marco Rose the perfect start as Bournemouth boss.

The Cherries took the first-half lead through Marcus Tavernier, who was left in loads of space to slam in after Evanilson's incisive low ball across the area.

Erling Haaland, usually at his most prolific in August, missed a host of chances for City as they looked set for a frustrating afternoon.

But Marc Guehi, playing in defensive midfield for only the third time in his career, nodded in Rayan Cherki's corner with six minutes to go.

And it got even worse for Bournemouth when Josko Gvardiol guided a shot into the bottom corner in injury time.

The goal was initially disallowed for offside, but given after a video assistant referee review.

It was Bournemouth's first defeat in any competition since January, ending their club-record 18-game unbeaten run.

 

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Newcastle and Liverpool finish 2 all in a match that went down to the wire.

Dominik Szoboszlai scored a dramatic stoppage-time penalty as Liverpool denied Newcastle an opening game victory at St James' Park.

Goals from Anthony Elanga and Joe Willock seemed to have given Matthias Jaissle a winning start to life as Newcastle manager, with Cody Gakpo having briefly levelled for the visitors in the second half.

However, with seconds left Victor Munoz was brought down inside the box by Lewis Hall and Szoboszlai stepped up to hammer the penalty into the roof of the net.

It was perhaps fitting that the game ended in drama. Fans of both sides had come together before it started to pay tribute to Kevin Keegan, who died last month at the age of 75.

A large tifo showing images of Keegan along with the words "King Kev" was visible in one stand, while in the centre circle there was a moving mosaic of shirts left outside the stadium following the news of his death.

After a minute's applause before kick-off it was Newcastle who made the dream start. Elanga scored his first goal for the club when he was sent away by William Osula and the forward sent a neat finish into the far corner.

Liverpool equalised after the break when Gakpo showed great accuracy to place a strike from distance beyond Newcastle goalkeeper Lukas Hornicek.

However, the Reds were level for just two minutes as substitute Willock restored Newcastle's lead, finding the bottom corner with a clinical strike.

That looked like being the winner until Hall fouled Munoz and Szoboszlai stayed calm to fire home from the spot with almost the last kick of the game.

 

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The Championship ladder after Game week 2: