By Hassan Wekesa - Editor
UK, 17 October 2026 - Manchester City continued their winning streak in the English Premier League with a 3-2 win over Ipswich Town on Saturday. The result gives City seven wins from seven matches.
Phil Foden opened the scoring for City in the 19th minute. Daizen Maeda equalised for Ipswich two minutes later, before Erling Haaland put the hosts back in front in the 34th minute. Haaland got his second in the 69th minute to make it 3-1. Zian Flemming converted a late penalty in the 90th minute to round off the scoring.
City remain top of the table with 21 points, six clear of second-placed Arsenal, who have 15 points. Brighton & Hove Albion are third with 13 points.
Chelsea close the top four with 13 points after their 2-0 win over Everton earlier in the day.
Liverpool have moved up to fifth with 12 points after beating nine-man Brentford 2-1. Liverpool were trailing at half-time before they bounced back in the second half.
Hosts Brentford took the lead late in the first half, in the 44th minute, when Keane Lewis-Potter converted a header from an Igor Thiago delivery.
Liverpool kept pushing and capitalised on a Brentford red card when Yehor Yarmolyuk was sent off in the 45+8 minute for fouling Liverpool defender Jérémy Jacquet in the buildup before the visitors could take a corner kick. The VAR review concluded that Yarmolyuk had made an intentional head-butt tackle on Jacquet.
They would later utilise the vulnerability of the opponents to turn the match around in the second half.
Earlier in the first half, the centre referee consulted VAR to deny Liverpool a penalty. The review revealed that, even though Alexis Mac Allister went down inside the penalty area after a sliding challenge from Brentford attacker Dango Ouattara, the latter reached the ball first.
Their comeback started with an equaliser from Víctor Muñoz in the 62nd minute, before Alexander Isak completed the turnaround in the 70th minute to secure all three points for the Reds.
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Manchester City with a perfect seven-match start lead with 21 points followed by Arsenal with 15 points. Brighton & Hove Albion close the top-three with 13 points.
Chelsea are fourth with 13 points closely followed by Liverpool with 12 points.
Brentford are sixth on 10 points, followed by Everton with the same number of points.
Leeds United are eighth with nine points. Hull City, who lost 1-0 to Fulham, are ninth, while Ipswich close the top 10 with nine points. In the top 10, Arsenal, Brighton and Leeds have each played one match fewer than the other teams.
Newcastle United trailing 1-0 to Aston Villa are 11th while Aston Villa are at the 12th position by the time of publishing the article.
Other teams, from the 13th to 20th position, are Crystal Palace, Manchester United, Coventry, Fulham, Nottingham Forest, Sunderland, AFC Bournemouth, and Tottenham Hotspur in that particular order. Both Bournemouth and Spurs are yet to register any win in the Premier League 2026-2027 season.