Premier League Match Week 14 Results

A thriller at Brighton delivered as promised. Aston Villa fought back from a 2-0 deficit on the road to defeat the Seagulls in a 4-3 thriller. Ollie Watkins scored a brace to key the Villa comeback in an encouraging sign that the striker may be awakening from his season long slumber. Jan Paul van Hecke scored twice in the losing cause for shellshocked Brighton, which lost for the first time at home this season.

No one, however, was more shell-shocked this week than Chelsea, which was rocked 3-1 at Leeds. Leeds had won but one of its previous eight matches as calls intensified for the sack of Manager Daniel Farke. Wednesday’s performance threw a lifeline to the embattled manager as his side ended a four-match losing run to exit the relegation zone at least temporarily.

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— Leeds United (@LUFC) December 4, 2025

The return of Cole Palmer from a lengthy injury absence did not have the desired effect for a Chelsea squad which clearly missed the defensive presence of suspended Moises Caicedo.

Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta demonstrated the depth of his league leading squad by introducing Ben White, Noni Madueke and Martin Odegaard to the side that had drawn with Chelsea in its previous match. The Gunners easily took care of business by registering a league best eighth clean sheet in putting down Brentford 2-0 at the Emirates on Wednesday. Arsenal has conceded just seven goals in 14 matches this season.

Good defense was less evident in a nine-goal shootout between Manchester City and Fulham. The Citizens went up 3-0 before Fulham scored in first half stoppage time. Balls then kept flying into the net for both sides before Manchester City emerged with a 5-4 win at Craven Cottage. Phil Foden scored a brace for Manchester City which also saw Erling Haaland score his 15th goal of the season while substitute Samuel Chukwueze scored a late brace for Fulham to threaten the visiting Citizens.

Crystal Palace was also a road winner as wing back Daniel Munoz scored the winner in a 1-0 win at Burnley. The relegation bound Clarets lost their fifth consecutive league match.

A Sunderland 81st minute own goal resulted in a 1-1 draw at Anfield and saved Liverpool from complete embarrassment in another poor performance by Manager Arne Slot’s defending champions. Mohamed Salah was a second half substitute for Liverpool after being excluded from Manager Arne Slot’s starting lineup for a second consecutive match.

Newcastle supporters were gutted when Tottenham Hotspur defender Cristian Romero delivered an overhead kick to score a 95th minute equalizer in a 2-2 final at St. James’s Park. The Magpies had taken a 2-1 lead on an 86th minute penalty kick by Anthony Gordon which had the Magpies temporarily on course for a third consecutive league win. Soft defense on Tottenham Hotspur’s late stoppage time corner, however, allowed for Romero’s heroics.

Bournemouth continues to slide down the table after an encouraging start to its season. The Cherries lost for the fourth time in a five-match winless run with a 1-0 defeat to Everton on Tuesday. Bournemouth managed just two shots on target in a match decided by a Jack Grealish goal for the Toffees in the 78th minute. Everton posted a third clean sheet in the Toffees’ last four matches, the outlier being last week’s  inexplicable 4-1 home loss to Newcastle. The tenth place Toffees are only three points removed from the top four in the logjammed top half of the Premier League table.

Certainty of standing can be found at the bottom of the table, however, where Wolverhampton has unchallenged title to the Premier League basement. Wolves failed to win for the 14th time this season in a 1-0 home loss to Nottingham Forest. A seventh straight defeat now has Wolves 12 points south of safety. Nottingham Forest, meanwhile, has won three of the last four matches under Manager Sean Dyche as the Tricky Trees continue to put potential relegation in their rear window.

West Ham, meanwhile, was cast into the relegation zone with a 1-1 draw with Manchester United following on Leeds’s surprising win over Chelsea. It could have been even worse for the Hammers who salvaged a point on Soungoutou Magassa’s 83rd minute equalizer.

The Premier League teams now have little chance to catch their breath before Match Week 15 unfolds this weekend. Saturday’s early match presents a marquee matchup when streaking Aston Villa plays host to league leading Arsenal in a top four clash. Later that morning the scrappy Black Cats of Sunderland will try to steal a result at the Etihad versus Manchester City. Sunderland has been punching above its weight as a newly promoted team, losing just one of its last seven league matches, a run that includes a win versus Chelsea and draws with Arsenal and Liverpool. 

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Manchester City proved the biggest winner of a tense 1-1 draw between Arsenal and Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. Manchester City’s 3-2 win over Leeds the day before helped City to leapfrog over Chelsea and finish the weekend five points behind Arsenal. Despite conceding a second half equalizer, Chelsea should be content with a hard-earned point. Defensive midfielder Moises Caicedo was red carded in the 38th minute to reduce the Blues to ten men. Despite a formational shift by Chelsea Manager Enzo Maresca to essentially “park the bus,” Chelsea then shocked the Gunners with an early second half goal to take the lead. Defender Trevoh Chalobah headed in an opening goal from a corner against an Arsenal defense which was playing without the injured center back pairing of Gabriel Magalhaes and William Saliba. Neither side would come out a winner, however, after Mikel Merino equalized for Arsenal in the 59th minute.

Manchester City, meanwhile, made hard work of its victory over Leeds by squandering a two-goal lead before Phil Foden saved the day with a stoppage time winner, Foden’s second goal of the match. While Leeds came away with nothing from its comeback attempt, another promoted side completed the job.

Sunderland went down 2-0 to Bournemouth before coming all the way back in a 3-2 victory which gave the Black Cats their fourth win at the Stadium of Light this season. Substitute Brian Brobbey netted the winner for just his second goal of the season to move newly promoted Sunderland to sixth position in the table. It was the first time in 11 matches that Bournemouth lost after scoring first. Saturday’s loss by the Cherries extended their winless run to four league matches, a streak which has seen them drop from the top half of the table.

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— Sunderland AFC (@SunderlandAFC) November 30, 2025

Aston Villa, meanwhile, has been trending up and defeated Wolves 1-0 for a seventh league victory in Villa’s last eight Premier League matches. A strike from the edge of the box by Boubacar Kamara in the 67th minute secured victory in the West Midlands Derby, keeping Wolverhampton winless on the season.

Fifth place Brighton remained two points behind Aston Villa and ahead of Sunderland on goal differential after the Seagulls’ 2-0 defeat of Nottingham Forest. The visiting Seagulls came to play, witnessed by the launch of a Premier League record nine shots in the opening 20 minutes of play. There was, of course, a revenge card to be played as Brighton lost this same fixture last season by a 7-0 margin to a Forest side then managed by Nuno Espirito Santo.

Weekend’s results prompted the whinging of at least two Premier League managers. Thomas Frank did little to endear himself to the Spurs’ faithful in his first season in charge by criticizing his club’s supporters for their booing of goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario following a first half gaffe which cost his team a goal in a 2-1 loss to Fulham. A give-away by Vicario gave the Cottagers their second goal of the match after only six minutes of play had transpired, marking the earliest that Spurs went down by two goals at home in the club’s Premier League history. While Vicario was singled out, the entire squad was booed off the pitch at halftime and final time. Frank would be well served to focus more on the performance of his club than the behavior of the fans. It seems ludicrous that the manager would pick a fight with home supporters that have watched Frank’s team win only one of the seven matches at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this season. Saturday’s loss marked the 10th Premier League home defeat of this calendar year, tying the club record with a month to go.

Crystal Palace Manager Oliver Glasner targeted his criticism in a different direction, calling out the Palace Board and Chairman Steve Parish for a lack of investment this past off-season. Glasner’s remarks came after his Eagles had their wings clipped 2-1 by Manchester United at Selhurst Park. Glasner’s point is well taken but there may be no one at fault here. A manager like Glasner could well bring the Eagles to greater heights with a more robust roster. But can Crystal Palace afford to provide him with that? For all the criticism he receives, Steve Parish is the one who rescued the club from administration and has kept them in the Premier League for the past 13 seasons. Crystal Palace revenues are in the middle of the table, consistent with their performance on the pitch. Parish is understandably conservative when it comes to rolling the dice and gambling on expensive transfers. Unfortunately, a long term for Glasner and Parish may not work and that is not necessarily either party’s fault.

Brentford suffered the departure of a highly regarded manager after last season. As noted, Thomas Frank has not necessarily found the pastures to be greener at Tottenham. The Bees, meanwhile, are doing just fine under new manager Keith Andrews. Brentford defeated Burnley 3-1 on Saturday to move ahead of Spurs in the Premier League table.

Nuno Espirito Santo, meanwhile, is working his second managerial job of this season. The manager was axed by Nottingham Forest after Santo went public with his issues with the club owner. He quickly landed at West Ham where he now sits a point behind his former club in the table. His Hammers were 2-0 losers at home on Saturday to a Liverpool squad which had lost nine of 12 matches entering the game at London Stadium. Alexander Isak, the high priced and underperforming Liverpool forward, opened the scoring with his first Premier League goal. Liverpool’s insurance goal by Cody Gakpo came in stoppage time against ten-man West Ham after the Hammers Lucas Paqueta received two yellow cards for dissent and exited the pitch in the 84th minute. Liverpool Manager Arne Slot benched Mohamed Salah for the match which could create some interesting drama.

Newcastle looks like a new team following the international break. One week after defeating Manchester City, the Magpies steamrolled Everton at Hill Dickinson Stadium as defender Malick Thiaw was the unlikely scorer of a brace to help celebrate Newcastle Manager Eddie Howe’s 48th birthday.

The Premier League schedule now finds a higher gear with a congested December schedule. Match “Week” 14 plays out over Tuesday and Wednesday before another full weekend of games. A match to keep an eye on is Aston Villa’s visit to Brighton on Wednesday as a win by the homestanding Seagulls would boost Brighton past Aston Villa into the Premier League’s top four.

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Liverpool’s 4-1 Champions League loss to PSV on Wednesday marked the ninth loss in 12 matches for beleaguered Liverpool Manager Arne Slot. After winning the Premier League title in his first season in charge, the Dutch manager is shockingly now in job jeopardy. It is thus a double-edged sword that a flawed West Ham side awaits Slot in London this weekend. Liverpool on paper should easily handle the humble Hammers. However, a loss to the overmatched London side would evoke even more angst among Liverpool supporters and, just possibly, team ownership.

In any event, far better football will be played elsewhere in London when Arsenal visits Stamford Bridge to joust with a Chelsea squad that has somewhat quietly climbed the table to now threaten the Gunners. Chelsea have been without star Cole Palmer for much of the season, have struggled for goal production from the forward position, yet have found a way to surpass all but Arsenal in the current table standings. Criticism of Manager Enzo Maresca’s conservative ways has subsided with his club posting clean sheets in four of its last five matches across all competitions. Tuesday’s 3-0 win over Barcelona saw Chelsea’s Brazilian starlet Estavao outshine young Barca star Lamine Yamal and featured a first Champions League goal by striker Liam Delap. If Delap can finally break the ice in the Premier League, Chelsea would become measurably more dangerous. Sunday’s titanic clash with Arsenal, pairing the top two clubs in the table, will not be easy for any continued Chelsea success. Arsenal has not been beaten in its last 15 matches across all competitions. Even more ominous is the fact that Chelsea has emerged as the victor in just one of the last 12 matchups between the two clubs across all competitions. The game is pivotal. A Chelsea win brings the Blues within three points of the table leaders. A loss makes the margin a daunting nine points.

Third place Manchester City will make up ground on at least one of the two teams if the Citizens take down Leeds as expected. Four losses in its last five matches have plunged Leeds into the relegation zone as it now faces Haaland and company at the Etihad.

Winless Wolves is likely facing slaughter at top four Aston Villa as Wolverhampton Manager Rob Edwards tries to first win a match and then figure out how to lift his woeful club out of the league basement.

Crystal Palace Manager Oliver Glasner, meanwhile, has his Eagles soaring. The south London side is fifth in the table and yet a familiar problem hounds the club. Its best players are looking for greener pastures. One such player is Daniel Munoz, a talented fullback who earlier this month included Manchester United among the big clubs he was targeting as a future career destination. Munoz will have the chance to impress when the Red Devils visit Selhurst Park to play Crystal Palace on Sunday. The next seven places in the table below Crystal Palace are separated by no more than a point, a logjam which includes Manchester United.

Bournemouth and Sunderland are also among that group of seven. The Cherries visit the Stadium of Light Saturday where the Black Cats have yet to lose in front of the home crowd in six home matches to date for the newly promoted club. As many clubs work to break free of the pack and pursue European places in the table, others are beginning to sweat regarding their survival odds.

No one thinks 14th place Newcastle, away to Everton on Saturday, harbors any relegation concerns but just below the Magpies in the table sits Fulham, an attack-challenged club which has dared fate by not investing in its roster. The Cottagers, who visit Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this weekend, are just three points above the drop. Nottingham Forest is a point closer to doom than the Cottagers, but the arrow is up for the Tricky Trees after a draw followed by two consecutive victories have pushed the club to a presently safe position. The Trees will try to make it three straight wins when Brighton visits the City Ground on Sunday.

Burnley has dropped three straight and finds itself just above Wolverhampton in the land of the lost. The Clarets will try again at Brentford, but the odds are not great with the Bees having won four times and lost only once in six matches so far at Gtech Community Stadium.