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Barry Glendenning

Manchester City 2-0 Nottingham Forest, Luton 1-1 Wolves: clockwatch – as it happened

Manchester City's Rodri (right) reacts after being shown a red card by referee Anthony Taylor.
Manchester City's Rodri (right) reacts after being shown a red card by referee Anthony Taylor. Photograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images/Reuters

Match report: Luton Town 1-1 Wolves

Premier League: Luton battled back from a goal down against 10-man Wolves to earn their first point of the season through Carlton Morris’s penalty. Will Magee reports from Kenilworth Road ….

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Match report: Crystal Palace 0-0 Fulham

Premier League: “On an afternoon that saw Fulham again show their lack of cutting edge in attack since the departure of Aleksandar Mitrovic, Palace were indebted to goalkeeper Sam Johnstone,” writes Ed Aarons from Selhurst Park.

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Match report: Man City 2-0 Nottingham Forest

Premier League: Manchester City won at their leisure thanks to goals from Phil Foden and Erling Haaland, despite losing Rodri to red card shortly after half-time. Will Unwin reports from the Etihad Stadium …

Scottish Premiership results

Championship results

  • Ipswich Town 4-3 Blackburn Rovers

  • Leeds United 3-0 Watford

  • Leicester City 1-0 Bristol City

  • Middlesbrough 2-1 Southampton

  • Plymouth Argyle 6-2 Norwich City

  • Rotherham United 1-1 Preston

  • Swansea City 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday

  • West Brom 0-0 Millwall

  • View the Championship table

Premier League results

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Full time: Manchester City 2-0 Nottingham Forest

Premier League: Goals from Phil Foden and Erling Haaland ensured Manchester City maintained their perfect start to the season despite losing Rodri to a red card.

Full time: Luton Town 1-1 Wolves

Premier League: Luton Town came from behind against 10-man Wolves to get their first point of the campaign on the board courtesy of a Carlton Morris penalty.

Full time: Crystal Palace 0-0 Fulham

Premier League: Neither side could muster a goal in a mid-table clash at Selhurst Park that won’t live long in anyone’s memory.

Luton 1-1 Wolves: Luton’s Cauley Woodrow has a goalbound shot blocked by Max Kilman in the knockings of their game against Wolves at Kenilworth Road.

Championship: Michael Carrick’s Middesbrough secure their first win of the season. They’ve won 2-1 against Southampton, who have now lost four in a row under Russell Martin.

Championship: Jaidon Anthony scores on the back of good work by the excellent Georgino Rutter to make it Leeds United 3-0 Watford at Elland Road.

Luton 1-1 Wolves: Chiedozie Ogbene thought he’d scored a late winner for Luton after turning the ball past Jose Sa but his celebrations are cut short by a raised offside flag.

Luton Town's Chiedozie Ogbene reacts after his goal is disallowed.
Luton Town's Chiedozie Ogbene reacts after his goal is disallowed. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/Reuters

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Bundesliga: Bayern Munich have beaten Bochum 7-0 at the Allianz Arena, with Harry Kane scoring his first hat-trick for the German champions. He also chipped in with two assists.

Harry Kane clutches the match ball as he chats with the referee following Bayern Munich's trounching of Bochum.
Harry Kane clutches the match ball as he chats with the referee following Bayern Munich's trounching of Bochum. Photograph: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images

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Crystal Palace 0-0 Fulham: Palace goalkeeper Sam Johnstone gets down quickly to save a Willian shot after good work down the right from Harrison Reed and Timothy Castagne.

Championship: Adam Idah scores his second goal of the game for Norwich City, who now trail Plymouth 5-2. In a bona fide thriller at Portman Road, Ipswich lead Blackburn 4-3 courtesy of Massimo Luongo’s strike in the 79th minute.

Who knew Troy Deeney played for Forest Green? It’s a move that passed me by but he’s just scored a hat-trick for the League Two side but his efforts might be in vain. His side trail Notts County by the odd goal in seven.

Championship: Republic of Ireland striker Adam Idah scores whaqt is almost certainly going to be a consolation goal for Norwich City, who now trail Plymouth 5-1 at Home Park.

Championship: Sam Byram doubles Leeds United’s advantage against Watford, while Charlie Patino has made it Swansea City 3-0 Sheffield Wednesday at the Liberty Stadium.

Championship: Jerry Yates doubles Swansea’s lead against Sheffield Wednesday, making it 2-0 at the Liberty Stadium. At Elland Road, Joel Piroe has put Leeds one up against Watford, while Sammie Szmodics hasequalised for Blackburn against Ipswich at Portman Road, where it’s 3-3.

GOAL! Luton 1-1 Wolves (Morris 65pen)

Premier League: Carlton Morris scores from 12 yards to restore parity for Luton, who were somewhat fortunate to get a penalty after Joao Gomes was penalised for handball in the kind of ridiculous circumstances we’ve come to expect – the ball deflected off Gomes’s foot and then skimmed his outstretched arm, which was over his head. It should have been overturned by VAR but it wasn’t.

Carlton Morris of Luton Town celebrates after scoring his side’s equliser from the penalty spot.
Kenilworth Road erupst as Carlton Morris slots home from the spot for the Hatters’ equaliser. Photograph: Alex Broadway/Getty Images

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Championship: Plymouth Argyle are now 5-0 up against Norwich City, who are having a shocking day at the office. Morgan Whittaker has scored his third goal of the afternoon for the hosts at Home Park.

At the Riverside Stadium, Jonny Howson has put Middelsbrough ahead against Southampton from the penalty spot, while Jamie Vardy has scored a penalty to give Leicester a 1-0 lead against Bristol City.

Manchester City 2-0 Nottingham Forest: Rodri’s dismissal means he’ll be suspended for Manchester City’s match against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium. In his absence against Forest, Pep has switched to a back five, bringing on Nathan Ake and Kalvin Phillips for Jeremy Doku and Julian Alvaraz.

Crystal Palace 0-0 Fulham: Palace have a penalty shout turned down after Eberchi Eze goes down under a challenge from Harrison Reed. Referee Paul Tierney isn’t having it and there’s no intervention from VAR.

Championship: Blackburn pull one back against Ipswich Town, courtesy of an own goal from Harry Clarke. It’s 3-2 to the hosts at Portman Road.

GOAL! Luton Town 0-1 Wolves (Neto 50)

Premier League: Pedro Neto fires 10-man Wolves ahead against Luton Town, firing past Thomas Kaminski after getting the better of Tom Lockyer in a race for the ball.

Wolverhampton Wanderers' Pedro Neto scores their first goal at Luton Town.
Wolverhampton Wanderers' Pedro Neto shoots … Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
Wolverhampton Wanderers' Pedro Neto scores their first goal at Luton Town.
Scores … Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/Reuters
Wolverhampton Wanderers' Pedro Neto celebrates after scoring their first goal at Luton Town.
And celebrates. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters

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Red card! Man City are down to 10 men

Manchester City 2-0 Nottingham Forest: Rodri has been given his marching orders by referee Anthony Taylor for pushing Morgan Gibbs-White to the ground a few moments after the Nottingham Forest midfielder had tackled him. Gibbs-White went to ground quite theatrically after being shoved in the throat.

Manchester City's Rodri reacts after being shown a red card by referee Anthony Taylor for shoving Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White to the ground.
Manchester City's Rodri reacts after being shown a red card by referee Anthony Taylor for shoving Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White to the ground. Photograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images/Reuters

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An email: “I went back and counted, and Foden’s goal came at the end of a 47-pass move,” writes Allan Castle. “The first quarter of that match possibly the most one-sided I can recall. And Forest are a decent, well-coached side! The league looks done and dusted; the only real question mark is whether City can match the Invincibles.”

Bundesliga: Bayern Munich are 5-0 up with about 25 minutes of their match against Bochum to go. Harry Kane has scored two in that game, bringing his tally for the season to eight goals in as many starts for his new club.

Scottish Premiership half-times

  • Livingston 0-3 Celtic (FT)

  • Dundee 1-1 Kilmarnock

  • Hibernian 1-0 St Johnstone

  • St Mirren 1-0 Hearts

Championship half-times

  • Ipswich Town 3-1 Blackburn Rovers

  • Leeds United 0-0 Watford

  • Leicester City 0-0 Bristol City

  • Middlesbrough 1-1 Southampton

  • Plymouth Argyle 4-0 Norwich City

  • Rotherham United 1-1 Preston

  • Swansea City 1-0 Sheffield Wednesday

  • West Brom 0-0 Millwall

Premier League half-times

  • Crystal Palace 0-0 Fulham

  • Luton Town 0-0 Wolves

  • Manchester City 2-0 Nottingham Forest

  • Brentford v Everton (5.30pm BST)

  • Burnley v Manchester United (8pm BST)

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Championship: Preston equalise from a corner in their game against Rotherham, with Liam Lindsay nodding home to make it 1-1. Rotherham’s players were adamant that their goalkeeper Viktor Johansson had been fouled but the goal stands.

Meanwhile at Home Park, Morgan Whittaker has fired home from the edge of the penalty area to put Plymouth 3-0 up against Norwich City. And what’s that? Plymouth promptly go 4-0 up with Finn Azaz scoring in the fifth minute of first-half added time.

Plymouth fans celebrate after Finn Azaz put The Pillgrims 4-0 up.
Plymouth fans celebrate after Finn Azaz put The Pillgrims 4-0 up. Photograph: James Marsh/Shutterstock

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Championship: The man with the most Australian-sounding name you could ever hope to hear, Riley McGree equalises for Middlesbrough in their game against Southampon.

Crystal Palace 0-0 Fulham: Jeffrey Schlupp takes on and beats a couple of defenders before playing Eberchi Eze in behind the Fulham defence. He fires narrowly wide of the far post.

RED CARD! Wolves down to 10 men

Premier League: Having impressed on his debut for Wolves last weekend against Liverpool, Jeanricner Bellegarde has got himself sent off in their match against Luton. He kicked out at Tom Lockyer, catching the Luton defender in his crown jewels, after the pair went down in a tangle near the halfway line. It’s a daft foul and he has to go.

Championship: Norwich trail Plymouth Argyle 2-0 at Home Park, where Dan Scarr has just doubled the Pilgrims’ lead. Meanwhile at the New York Stadium, Rotherham lead table-toppers Preston 1-0, with Jordan Hugill scoring against his former club.

League Two: An interesting scoreline from the fourth division, where Stockport County are hammering Wrexham at Edgeley Park. They lead 3-0 courtesy of a first-half hat-trick from Isaac Olaofe.

Championship: Jamal Lowe has fired Swansea ahead against Sheffield Wednesday from the penalty spot at the Liberty Stadium. Well, one of the penalty spots.

Championship: Ipswich Town stretch their lead against Blackburn Rovers, with George Hirst scoring their third of the afternoon. It’s 3-1 to the Tractor Boys at Portman Road and as things stand they’ll go top of the table.

Ipswich Town's George Hirst celebrates scoring his side's third goal of the game against Blackburn Rovers.
A happy George Hirst after extending Ipswich Town’s lead. Photograph: George Tewkesbury/PA

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Luton 0-0 Wolves: Wolves are seriously under the cosh at Kenilworth Road, where Alfie Doughty has had a shot on target inadvertently blocked by one of his own teammates and Carlton Morris has smashed an effort against the cross-bar.

Championship: Ipswich Town are back in front in their game against Blackburn Rovers. They lead 2-1 at Portman Road courtesy of Nathan Broadhead’s low shot into the corner.

Championship: Adam Armstrong fires Southampton ahead at Middlesbrough, while Morgan Whittaker has given Plymouth Argyle the lead against Norwich City.

GOAL! Man City 2-0 Nottingham Forest (Haaland 14)

Mattheus Nunez receives a pass from Foden and stands the ball up for Erling Haaland at the far post. The City striker sends the ball back across the face of goal and past Matt Turner, who could be in for a very long afternoon.

A soaring Erling Haaland heads home to double Manchester City’s lead.
A soaring Erling Haaland heads home to double Manchester City’s lead. Photograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images/Reuters
Manchester City’s Erling Haaland celebrates scoring their second goal with teammates against Nottingham Forest.
Joy for Haaland, his teammates and the Manchester City fans. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

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Crystal Palace 0-0 Fulham: The visitors are dominating the early stages of their game against Crystal Palace and Willian has just cut inside and forced Sam Johnstone to turn a shot behind for a corner.

Championship: Blackburn equalise against Ipswich Town at Portman Road courtesy of Arnor Sigurdsson’s strike on his debut for the Lancashire club.

GOAL! Man City 1-0 Nottingham Forest (Foden 7)

Premier League: Phil Foden scores with his left foot from the edge of the six-yard box to give the League leaders an early advantage against Nottingham Forest. Rodri picked out Kyle Walker with a long diagonal and the City full-back found Foden with a pull-back.

Manchester City’s Phil Foden scores their first goal against Nottingham Forest.
Phil Foden fires home to open the scoring. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
Manchester City’s Phil Foden wheels away in celebration after firing home to open the scoring against Nottingham Forest
Foden wheels away in celebration. Photograph: Michael Regan/Getty Images

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Championship: Looking to make it four wins in a row, Ipswich Town take an early lead against Blackburn Rovers at Portman Road through Harry Clarke.

Joy at Portman Road after Harry Clarke (right) opened the scoring.
Joy at Portman Road after Harry Clarke (right) opened the scoring. Photograph: Andrew Kearns/CameraSport/Getty Images

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Manchester City 0-0 Nottingham Forest: City win an early free-kick for a foul on Erling Haaland just outside the Forest penalty area. Julian Alvaraz tries his luck but it’s an easy save for Matt Turner.

Manchester City's Julian Alvarez (left) has this free-kick saved during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Nottingham Forest at the Etihad Stadium.
Julian Alvarez (left) puts his free-kick around the wall but not past Forest keeper Matt Turner. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

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Match report: Livingston 0-3 Celtic

Scottish Premiership: Reo Hatate’s penalty and second-half goals from Matt O’Riley and Daizen Maeda helped Celtic to a 3-0 win at Livingston despite losing Joe Hart to a first-half red card.

Peeeeeeeeep! Our three o’clock kick-offs are under way.

An email: “As well as Dundee United’s trip to the Highlands to face Inverness in the Scottish Championship, it’s the Scottish Cup first round today and there are plenty of names to conjure with as the little guys dream of Hampden,” writes Simon McMahon.

“Check out these ties, only one of which is not an actual first round fixture happening today. Banks O’Dee v Dalbeattie Star, Caledonian Braves v Fraserburgh, Camelon Juniors v Civil Service Strollers, Clachnacuddin v Inverurie Loco Works, Dundonald Bluebell v Kilwinning Rangers, Gala Fairydean Rovers v Strathspey Thistle, Golspie Sutherland v Forres Mechanics and Tampa Bay Rowdies v New York Cosmos.”

Full time: Livingston 0-3 Celtic

Scottish Premiership: Despite being down to 10 men for over an hour, Celtic have run out comfortable winners against Livingston. Reo Hatete put the Scottish champions ahead from the spot before they lost Joe Hart to a red card. Matt O’Riley made it 2-0 shortly after half-time, before Daizen Maeda rounded things off with a beauty deep in added time.

Celtic’s Matt O’Riley (right) receives the congratulations of his teammates after scoring his side’s second goal against Livingston.
Celtic’s Matt O’Riley (right) receives the congratulations of his teammates after scoring his side’s second goal against Livingston. Photograph: Jeff Holmes/PA

Luton Town v Wolves: Rob Edwards makes two changes to the team that started against Fulham last weekend. Alfie Doughty and Chiedozie Ogbene come into the side in place of Mads Andersen and Tahith Chong.

Wolves manager Gary O’Neil keeps faith with the side that played so well against Liverpool in the first half of their game at Molineux last weekend, before folding faster than Superman on laundry day in the second half.

Crystal Palace v Fulham: Roy Hodgson will be back in his technical area this afternoon after missing last weekend’s defeat at the hands of Aston Villa through illness. He recalls Marc Guehi, who was absent from that game through injury. Chris Richards makes way and is among the subs.

USA international Antonee Robinson returns to the Fulham side after missing last weekend’s win over Luton through injury. He’s in for Kenny Tete, who isn’t in today’s matchday squad. Bobby De Cordova-Reid also comes into Marco Silva’s side, with Harry Wilson making do with a spot on the bench.

Return of the Jedi: Antonee Robinson (center) is back in Fulham’s starting line-up after missing their defeat at the hands of Aston Villa through injury.
Return of the Jedi: Antonee Robinson (center) is back in Fulham’s starting line-up after missing their defeat at the hands of Aston Villa through injury. Photograph: Dave Thompson/AP

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Manchester City v Nottingham Forest: In the absence of the injured Bernardo Silva, Matheus Nunes makes his first start for Manchester City in the only change from the team that beat West Ham last weekend.

Nicolas Dominguez makes his debut for Nottingham Forest and is one of five players to come into Steve Coopers side following their draw with Burnley on Monday night. Willy Boly, Serge Aurier, Moussa Niakhate and Nuno Tavares also come into the Forest line-up.

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Luton Town v Wolverhampton Wanderers

Luton Town: Kaminski, Kabore, Burke, Lockyer, Bell, Sambi Lokonga, Nakamba, Doughty, Brown, Morris, Ogbene.

Subs: Andersen, Berry, Woodrow, Adebayo, Chong, Mengi, Mpanzu, Krul, Giles.

Wolves: Jose Sa, Nelson Semedo, Dawson, Kilman, Ait Nouri, Joao Gomes, Lemina, Hwang, Bellegarde, Pedro Neto, Matheus Cunha.

Subs: Doherty, Traore, Silva, Hugo Bueno, Kalajdzic, Doyle, Sarabia, Gomes, Bentley.

Referee: Josh Smith (Lincolnshire)

Luton Town host Wolves at Kenilworth Road, hoping to halt a run of four consecutive Premier League defeats since winning promotion from the Championship.
Luton Town host Wolves at Kenilworth Road, hoping to halt a run of four consecutive Premier League defeats since winning promotion from the Championship. Photograph: Alex Broadway/Getty Images

Manchester City v Nottingham Forest line-ups

Manchester City: Ederson, Walker, Akanji, Dias, Gvardiol, Matheus Luiz, Rodri, Foden, Alvarez, Doku, Haaland.

Subs: Phillips, Ake, Grealish, Ortega, Gomez, Carson, Bobb, Lewis.

Nottingham Forest: Turner, Boly, Niakhate, Mangala, Aurier, Sangare, Aina, Tavares, Dominguez, Gibbs-White, Awoniyi.

Subs: Worrall, Kouyate, Wood, Hudson-Odoi, Elanga, Yates, Vlachodimos, Origi, Montiel.

Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)

Some Manchester City fans get their bearings at the Etihad Campus.
Some Manchester City fans get their bearings at the Etihad Campus. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Crystal Palace v Fulham line-ups

Crystal Palace: Johnstone, Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell, Doucoure, Hughes, Ayew, Eze, Schlupp, Edouard.

Subs: Holding, Mateta, Clyne, Ebiowei, Richards, Henderson, Matthews, Riedewald, Rak-Sakyi.

Fulham: Leno, Robinson, Diop, Ream, Castagne, Reed, Joao Palhinha, Andreas Pereira, Reid, Jimenez, Willian.

Subs: Rodak, Bassey, Wilson, Cairney, Ballo-Toure, Rodrigo Muniz, Iwobi, Vinicius, Francois.

Referee: Paul Tierney (Lancashire)

Selhurst Park, where Crystal Palace host their fellow mid-table side Fulham this afternoon.
Selhurst Park, where Crystal Palace host their fellow mid-table side Fulham this afternoon. Photograph: Tom Dulat/Getty Images

Manchester City: Pep Guardiola has said he will not be kept awake at night by Erling Haaland’s missed chances in Manchester City’s past two matches and insisted the striker should not be criticised for his profligacy. Will Unwin reports …

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has rushed to the defence of his misfiring striker Erling Haaland, who has scored just … em, eight goals in nine appearances so far this season.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has rushed to the defence of his misfiring striker Erling Haaland, who has scored just … em, eight goals in nine appearances so far this season. Photograph: Marc Atkins/Getty Images

Scottish Premiership: Celtic lead Livingston 2-0 early in the second half of their match in West Lothian but are down to 10 men after losing goalkeeper Joe Hart to a first half red card for a rash challenge on Mohammed Sangare as the duo contested a long ball played towards the Celtic penalty area.

Scott Bain came off the bench to replace Hart in the Celtic goal, with James Forrest the outfield player to maked way for the substitute goalkeeper. Celtic were a goal up when Hart got his marching orders but doubled their lead through Matt O’Riley shortly after half-time.

Joe Hart is shown the first red card of his long career after taking out Livingston’s Mohammed Sangare with a reckless challenge.
Joe Hart is shown the first red card of his long career after taking out Livingston’s Mohammed Sangare with a reckless challenge. Photograph: Jeff Holmes/PA

Scottish Premiership

Reo Hatate celebrates after scoring from the spot to put Celtic 1-0 up against Livingston in today’s lunchtime fixture at the Tony Macaroni Arena.
Reo Hatate celebrates after scoring from the spot to put Celtic 1-0 up against Livingston in today’s lunchtime fixture at the Tony Macaroni Arena. Photograph: Jeff Holmes/PA

Today's Premier League fixtures

  • Crystal Palace v Fulham

  • Luton Town v Wolves

  • Manchester City v Nottingham Forest

  • Brentford v Everton (5.30pm BST)

  • Burnley v Manchester United (8pm BST)

  • View the Premier League table

Today's Championship fixtures

  • Ipswich Town v Blackburn Rovers

  • Leeds United v Watford

  • Leicester City v Bristol City

  • Middlesbrough v Southampton

  • Plymouth Argyle v Norwich City

  • Rotherham United v Preston

  • Swansea City v Sheffield Wednesday

  • West Brom v Millwall

  • View the Championship table

Ryan Lowe takes his unbeaten table-topping Preston North End side to Rotherham United this afternoon.
Ryan Lowe takes his unbeaten table-topping Preston North End side to Rotherham United this afternoon. Photograph: Dave Howarth/CameraSport/Getty Images

Preamble

There’s just a trio of three o’clock kick-offs in the top flight to focus on this afternoon, before Brentford host Everton at the Community Stadium and Manchester United travel to Turf Moor in their bid to arrest a run of three consecutive defeats against a side who remain winless after four games of the season but took their first point of the season on Monday night.

Crystal Palace welcome Fulham to Selhurst Park in a mid-table match pitting ninth against tenth, with both sides on seven points after five games. Bottom of the table and the only team in the division yet to register a point, Luton host Wolverhampton Wanderers at Kenilworth Road and could overtake their visitors if they can win by three clear goals.

Meanwhile at the Etihad Stadium, champions Manchester City take on Nottingham Forest, who won on the road for the first time in the league since January when they beat Chelsea just before the international break. It’s difficult to make a case for Forest ending Manchester City’s perfect start to the season but they will travel in hope on the back of that win at Stamford Bridge.

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