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Matchday 3 · 3 matches
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Every fixture in the round, with where both clubs stand, what they have done so far and how they have gone at home and away. Man City go into the round on top with 9 points.

Hull City2
7 pts
WW
17Aston Villa
1 pt
LL

Hull City beat Coventry City 1–0 away. Aston Villa lost to Arsenal 0–1. Hull City sit 15 places above Aston Villa.

Everton10
4 pts
WD
12Man United
3 pts
LW

Everton drew 1–1 away at Bournemouth. Man United beat Ipswich Town 5–2.

Arsenal3
6 pts
WW
4Chelsea
6 pts
WW

Arsenal beat Aston Villa 1–0 away. Chelsea beat Brighton Hove 4–3.

Reading the round

English rounds spread from Friday to Monday, so a club can go into a Sunday fixture already knowing what everyone around it has done. That matters at both ends of the table and it is why the late Sunday slot tends to produce the cautious football.

Form here counts only finished matches, so a club with a game in hand looks worse than it is. Home and away records matter more than they look in a league this early: two home wins from two says less about a club than the same two results in November will.

Betting on this round

We do not publish odds. Prices move through the week and a number printed on a page is out of date by the time anyone reads it, so what follows is the shape of the round rather than a set of figures.

The fixtures worth a second look are the ones where the table and the form disagree: a club sitting high after a soft opening, or one near the bottom that has played the two hardest away games available. Both get priced on position, and position this early is mostly a function of who they have already faced.

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