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Man City 0-1 Brighton: Ayari goal sinks City; Bournemouth win sixth in a row, Coventry climb out of the drop zone

Saturday's Premier League results in Pakistan time: City beaten at home, Manchester United lose at Chelsea, Sunderland left bottom. Spurs host Palace in the late game.

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Brighton midfielder Yasin Ayari in a yellow Sweden shirt during a rainy international match
Brighton midfielder Yasin Ayari in a yellow Sweden shirt during a rainy international matchPhoto: Mikael Hervestad / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Manchester City lost 0-1 at home to Brighton on Saturday 31 October, with Yasin Ayari scoring in the 11th minute, three days after City knocked Brighton out of the Carabao Cup on penalties. It made Halloween a bad day for both Manchester clubs: earlier, Chelsea beat 10-man Manchester United 2-0. Results are from The Guardian's live clockwatch and BBC Sport.

Saturday's Premier League results

MatchScoreGoals
Chelsea v Man United2-0Morgan Rogers, Cole Palmer (pen)
Man City v Brighton0-1Ayari 11
Bournemouth v Leeds2-0Evanilson 31 and one more
Coventry v Sunderland3-1Sakamoto 17, Awoniyi 37, Rudoni 52; Le Fee pen 67
Brentford v Nottingham Forest2-0Milenkovic own goal 30, Igor Thiago 76
Hull v Ipswich2-2Iroegbunam 58, McBurnie 68; Florentino Luis 22, Enciso 74

Tottenham v Crystal Palace was the late kick-off at 10:30pm PKT.

The talking points

  • Brighton's revenge: captain Lewis Dunk, who missed the decisive penalty in midweek, kept a clean sheet and praised manager Fabian Hurzeler as a future coach "at the very top", The Guardian reported.
  • Lisandro Martinez's 83 seconds: already booked, the United defender fouled Wesley Fofana at a corner, conceded a penalty and was sent off after a VAR review, with 27 minutes of normal time left. He will miss next Sunday's home game against Aston Villa. BBC Sport called it a meltdown; Michael Carrick said he had not seen it back. Our full Chelsea 2-0 Man United report has the details.
  • Bournemouth's run: a sixth successive win, set up when Leeds goalkeeper James Trafford gave the ball away for Justin Kluivert to create Evanilson's fifth goal in six matches.
  • Relegation fight: Frank Lampard's Coventry, with Tatsuhiro Sakamoto scoring his first Premier League goal, climbed out of the bottom three and left Sunderland bottom. Sunderland's Alderete was sent off in stoppage time.
  • Hull kept their unbeaten home record but are still waiting for a win after Julio Enciso's equaliser.

Watching from Pakistan

Saturday 3pm UK games now start at 8pm PKT, since UK clocks went back on 25 October and Pakistan is five hours ahead. Sunday's games follow the same gap. Our Man United 0-3 Bournemouth report covers how United reached this run.

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Brighton won 1-0 at the Etihad on 31 October 2026, with Yasin Ayari scoring in the 11th minute.
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