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19:55 GMT - That'll do it for us tonight! See you tomorrow, as the Premier League returns with six clashes - including an eye-catching match between Manchester City and Chelsea.
19:40 GMT - Arsenal fans, take a good look at the updated Premier League standings below. Is it finally the year?
19:26 GMT - FULL-TIME: Bournemouth 2-3 Arsenal. A valiant effort by the hosts, but the Gunners just had too much class on the day as they extend their lead atop the Premier League table to six points. Read our match report here.
19:05 GMT - GOAL! What do we have here? Bournemouth have one back as Junior Kroup finds the back of the net! 3-2.
19:02 GMT - On what is his 296th Premier League appearance, Arsenal's Declan Rice has scored his first-ever brace in the competition.
19:00 GMT - GOAL! Declan Rice again! Arsenal now lead Bournemouth 3-1.
18:43 GMT - GOAL! Declan Rice to the rescue as Arsenal complete their comeback against the Cherries! 2-1.
18:33 GMT - We are back underway on the south coast. Can Arsenal turn things around, or are Bournemouth in for a surprise result? 1-1, it remains.
18:23 GMT - Arsenal have conceded 1.13 expected goals in this match so far, their most in the first half of a Premier League match since May v Newcastle (1.46).
18:18 GMT - HALF-TIME! It's 1-1 at the break between Bournemouth and Arsenal after a competitive first half.
17:51 GMT - Gabriel is only the second defender to reach 20 goals for Arsenal in the Premier League (20th today), after Laurent Koscielny (22).
17:46 GMT - GOAL! Arsenal grab an equaliser and Gabriel atones for his mistake by firing home clinically. Super finish and it's 1-1.1
17:40 GMT - GOAL! Bournemouth take the lead! Gabriel's wayward pass is pounced on by Evanilson and he rolls the ball into the Arsenal net. A massive error and the leaders trail!
17:30 GMT - KICK-OFF! Bournemouth get the ball rolling at the Vitality Stadium - follow the match here
17:18 GMT - Arsenal have only lost one of the last 23 away Premier League matches when Martin Odegaard has started.
17:10 GMT - Turning our heads to the Vitality Stadium now for the final game of the day as Bournemouth welcome the league leaders Arsenal to town.
Manchester City-linked Antoine Semenyo starts for the hosts and Declan Rice is back in for the visitors, but Bukayo Saka is on the bench.
16:59 GMT - Grab a match report of this afternoon's Premier League action:
Rutter on target as Brighton overcome Burnley to jump to eighth in the table
Mane and Hwang star as Wolves beat West Ham for first win of the season
16:58 GMT - FULL-TIME! Wolves dismantle sorry West Ham 3-0 to finally pick up their first win of the season, coming at the 20th attempt!
16:52 GMT - FULL-TIME! Brighton claim a straightforward 2-0 victory against struggling Burnley for their first win in seven games.
16:40 GMT - As we tick towards full-time, here is the team news as league leaders Arsenal hit the road to play Bourmemouth:
16:05 GMT - GOAL! Straight from the restart, Brighton go 2-0 up against Burnley courtesy of a low drive from Yasin Ayari.
15:52 GMT - HALF-TIME! Time for a pause.
15:41 GMT - GOAL! Three for Wolves! West Ham are getting taken apart at Molineux as Mateus Mane gets in on the act to make it 3-0 before half-time!
15:31 GMT - GOAL! Hwang Hee-Chan makes no mistake from the spot and scores to put Wolves 2-0 up!
15:30 GMT - GOAL! Brighton have the lead over Burnley as Georginio Rutter picks up the scraps and fires in low and hard.
15:28 GMT - PENALTY! Wolves have a chance to double their lead as West Ham's Soungoutou Magassa commits a foul.
15:05 GMT - GOAL! What a start for bottom side Wolves as Jhon Arias crashes in and gives them the lead against West Ham!
15:00 GMT - Underway this afternoon!
14:49 GMT - Time to focus on just two afternoon kick-offs, with a big one towards the bottom between Wolves and West Ham, while Brighton host Burnley elsewhere.
14:38 GMT - Aston Villa's John McGinn to Sky Sports: "We knew we had to be at our best. A great win for us. I've been trying to add more goals to my game, the manager was hard on me this morning, but thankfully I got two goals.
"We can watch the games with our feet up now. What we are building here is special."
14:25 GMT - FULL-TIME! John McGinn's two goals to help Aston Villa see off Nottingham Forest and move up to second in the Premier League table - read the match report
14:06 GMT - Only in 1993/94 (13) and 2007/08 (16) have Aston Villa scored more goals from outside the box in a single Premier League campaign (12 this season).
14:01 GMT - GOAL! McGinn scores again to restore Villa's two-goal lead, but it's a horror show from goalkeeper John Victor!
He races out into no-man's land and the midfielder rounds him before shooting into a wide-open net.
13:55 GMT - A brief look ahead at the couple of 15:00 kick-offs on schedule, with the team news rolling in:
13:50 GMT - GOAL! Forest get one back! Morgan Gibbs-White breaks away and dinks his effort nonchalantly into the corner to make it 2-1. Game on?
13:48 GMT - John McGinn has scored his second goal in the Premier League this season, netting for the first time since September 28th, 2025 against Fulham.
13:37 GMT - GOAL! It's 2-0 to Villa as John McGinn converts a clinical first-time finish. Long road back for Forest now...
13:33 GMT - Back underway at Villa Park.
13:27 GMT - Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins have combined for 10 Premier League goals since the start of last season, two more than any other duo.
13:18 GMT - HALF-TIME! And that's the break. Villa hold a slender lead over Forest and have controlled most of this one.
13:16 GMT - GOAL! In-form Ollie Watkins puts Villa ahead on the stroke of half-time! He turns and gets the ball out of his feet on the edge of the box and smashes in a beauty.
13:00 GMT - This is currently Aston Villa's highest average possession figure under Unai Emery in the Premier League (81.4%).
12:30 GMT - KICK-OFF! Game on at Villa Park - follow the match here
12:20 GMT - Sean Dyche has never won a Premier League game against Unai Emery in seven games (D1 L6), only facing Pep Guardiola (17) and Jose Mourinho (11) more often without registering a win.
11:53 GMT - Aston Villa are looking to avoid becoming the first side since Manchester City between April and September 2015 - who won 11 in a row - to lose consecutive Premier League matches directly after winning eight games in a row. Man City lost to West Ham and Tottenham after that 11-game winning run.
11:35 GMT - Diving straight into things today, here's the latest team news as Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest square off in the first fixture:
11:25 GMT - Here's the current state of play in the Premier League ahead of this weekend's action:
11:00 GMT - Good morning! Despite the festive period causing havoc with the schedule, it is indeed Saturday and that brings four Premier League games to begin a new gameweek.
The action begins with Aston Villa hosting Nottingham Forest at 12:30 GMT, with the hosts fresh off losing an eight-game winning run in the division.
League leaders Arsenal travel to Bournemouth later in the day at 17:30 GMT, knowing a win could extend their advantage at the top.
