Liverpool Win 3-1. United Draw 4-4 and Stay in the Bottom Three

Liverpool beat Crystal Palace 3-1 at Selhurst Park and Manchester United drew 4-4 with Aston Villa, a Sunday that put the league table into an international break looking nothing like the one Arsenal left on Saturday night. Alexis Mac Allister headed Liverpool in front in the 40th minute from Dominik Szoboszlai's cross. Florian Wirtz scored in the 54th, his first league goal of the season, and Alexander Isak finished Wirtz's pass in the 89th. Eddie Nketiah's penalty in the fifth minute of stoppage time, after a foul by Milos Kerkez, changed the score and not the result. Palace are bottom. Pierre Sage has lost four league games in a row, and seven of ten.

Andoni Iraola called it an important win after the week Liverpool have had: a league defeat at Arsenal and a 3-2 loss at Fenerbahce. It is a fourth straight away league win, and Isak's eighth goal in all competitions. Wirtz has two in all competitions. The international break arrives with Liverpool fourth and the questions about Iraola's first season quieter than they were on Friday, not gone. Saturday had already put Arsenal six points clear. Sunday did not touch Arsenal's 27 points. It did change who is chasing.

Eight goals at Old Trafford, and a point that changes little

United were 2-0 down inside four minutes. Alysson and Nicolas Jackson punished errors by goalkeeper Senne Lammens. Bruno Fernandes scored from the penalty spot and Youri Tielemans, signed from Villa, levelled before half-time. John McGinn converted a penalty after Diogo Dalot brought Alysson down, and Leon Goretzka made it 4-2 early in the second half. Joshua Zirkzee scored, and Patrick Dorgu headed the 96th-minute equaliser when Villa goalkeeper Zion Suzuki failed to claim a corner. The ground, which had been protesting the owners, ended cheering. Michael Carrick is still 18th. United have eight points and one win from 10 games. The draw keeps them in the relegation zone. Whether it keeps Carrick is a question for the fortnight, not for the final whistle.

Brighton beat Brentford 2-0 at the Amex, Diego Gomez and Pascal Gross scoring, a seventh win in 10 for Fabian Hurzeler. That is enough to go second, five points behind Arsenal. Sunderland beat Chelsea 1-0 at the Stadium of Light. Enzo Le Fee's first-half penalty was the goal, Sunderland's second league win of the season, and enough to climb off the bottom. Xabi Alonso's side have now lost four of 10 league games and drop to fifth. Ipswich lost 2-1 at home to Bournemouth. Evanilson, with his seventh goal in eight games, and a Leif Davis own goal made it 2-0 at the break. Jack Clarke pulled one back from the spot. Bournemouth are seventh.

What the break freezes

Arsenal did the hard part on Saturday. Martin Odegaard's goal beat Hull, and Liam Delap's double helped Forest beat Manchester City 3-1, a third straight league defeat for Enzo Maresca. City stay on 21 points. The six-point gap Saturday's report carried is now five, because Brighton won and the leaders did not play. That is the only revision the champions need to make. Everyone else spends two weeks explaining a result.

Sage has the hardest of those conversations. A manager hired to replace Oliver Glasner is bottom after 10 games, with a stoppage-time penalty as the consolation. Carrick has a point that felt like a win and a league position that says it was not. Alonso has a defeat at Sunderland, a side that had, until Sunday, one league victory. Iraola has three points on the road and a first league goal for Wirtz. The next Premier League weekend is after the internationals. The table they come back to is the one Sunday night left behind.