A round-up of Saturday's action in the English Premier League.
Manchester City's Rico Lewis bagged a second-half goal and then was shown a red card in the dying minutes as his team salvaged a point in a 2-2 Premier League draw with Crystal Palace at a wet and windy Selhurst Park on Saturday.
Erling Haaland also scored for Pep Guardiola's City, who remained fourth in the league table on 27 points after 15 games, while Palace are 16th.
Daniel Munoz got Palace on the scoresheet in the fourth minute when he latched onto a pass from Will Hughes and slotted it into the far corner past Stefan Ortega. City equalised in the 30th when Haaland leapt to head home Matheus Nunes's long cross.
Maxence Lacroix put Palace ahead against the run of play in the 56th minute when he leapt, completely unmarked, to head in
Hughes' corner in the 56th minute. But City drew even again in the 68th when Bernardo Silva threaded a beautiful through ball to Lewis, who emphatically fired home.
City were reduced to 10 men in the 84th minute after Lewis picked up his second yellow for a tackle on Trevoh Chalobah.
Manchester United suffer home defeat by Nottingham Forest
Manchester United's weakness from set pieces was exploited again as they fell to a 3-2 defeat by Nottingham Forest at Old Trafford, continuing a rocky start to the reign of new head coach Ruben Amorim.
Forest's first win at Old Trafford in 30 years moves them up to fifth in the standings on 25 points, while the scale facing the recently-appointed United coach was apparent as his side languish in 13th place on 19 points after a disjointed display that featured some glaring defensive errors.
Having conceded from two corners to Arsenal in a 2-0 defeat in midweek, United went behind from another corner within two minutes as Forest defender Nikola Milenkovic easily out-jumped Lisandro Martinez to head his first goal for the club.
United levelled in the 18th minute when Alejandro Garnacho’s initial shot was saved, but Danish striker Rasmus Hojlund pounced to slot home the rebound to ignite the home crowd.
The hosts started the second half equally badly and again they conceded within two minutes as Fernandes lost the ball. It was quickly fed to Morgan Gibbs-White, whose low bouncing drive somehow took Andre Onana by surprise and flew past him into the net.
The United keeper was at fault again seven minutes later when Forest scored from a scrappy attack, Chris Wood sending a looping header over him and into the net to leave Onana and Martinez looking at each other in frustration after another sloppy goal.
Fernandes redeemed himself just after the hour mark, scoring with a superb shot from the edge of the box but despite being United’s best player for much of the game, he was replaced in the 76th minute by Mason Mount.
United continued to look disjointed until Marcus Rashford’s stoppage time volley was deflected behind for a corner, and Martinez sent another volley from the resulting set-piece whistling over the bar.
That was as close as they came as Forest stood firm to claim all three points.
Brentford weather Newcastle storm
Brentford continued their unbeaten run at home in the Premier League with a 4-2 win against Newcastle United that had the visitors twice come back from a goal down before defender Nathan Collins scored to help his side claim all three points.
The home side twice took the lead in the first half through Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa, but both times they were pegged back within four minutes by Newcastle, with Alexander Isak getting the first equaliser and Harvey Barnes the second.
In a thrilling end-to-end encounter played in windy and wet conditions, Brentford took the lead for the third time in the 56th minute when Collins latched on to a long free kick and slotted the ball past Nick Pope for their third lead of the game.
Newcastle continued to throw bodies forward in attack but instead it was Brentford substitute Kevin Schade who scored to make it 4-2 and cement a win that moves his side up to sixth in the standings on 23 points, three ahead of the Magpies in 12th.
Duran lifts Villa to 1-0 home win over struggling Southampton
A first-half strike by Colombian forward Jhon Duran was enough to give Aston Villa all the three points as they beat Southampton 1-0 in the Premier League at home.
Duran opened the scoring in the 24th minute, chasing down a long ball, capitalising on some sloppy defending by Southampton defenders Nathan Wood and Taylor Harwood-Bellis, before charging into the box and powering a finish past goalkeeper Joe Lumley.
While the visitors dominated possession, they failed to register a single shot on target in the match, and Villa looked comfortable for the most part as they secured back-to-back victories.
Villa moved to fifth place in the standings with 25 points from 15 matches, while Southampton remain bottom with five points.
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