Late Havertz header gives Gunners victory; Liverpool host Man City on Sunday
LONDON – Arsenal's Kai Havertz headed an 86th-minute winner to take his side top of the Premier League with a 2-1 home victory over Brentford on Saturday, while Manchester United fanned the embers of their top-four hopes with a 2-0 win against visiting Everton.
Arsenal recorded an eighth league victory in a row and Havertz scored for the fourth consecutive game to make up for a calamitous error by stand-in goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale. Erik ten Hag's team remain sixth but with 47 points they crept closer to fourth-placed Aston Villa, who are on 55 with a game in hand at home to Tottenham Hotspur in fifth on Sunday.
The result moved Wolves up to eighth in the league on 41 points and kept intact their more than four-decade unbeaten streak at home to the Londoners. Fulham are 12th on 35. "An unbelievable win ... To find a way to beat a Fulham team that are in a really good moment," Wolves manager Gary O'Neil said. "Just delighted - 41 points, equalling last season’s tally already."Crystal Palace struck against Luton in the 11th minute when Jean-Philippe Mateta back-heeled the ball into the net.
Palace remain 14th on 29 points with Luton still 18th on 21, three behind Nottingham Forest in the safety zone.