Premier League Gameweek 6 Round-Up: Things You Might've Missed

The international break is over, which means we can all get back to the stuff that actually matters. 

Here's what's worth knowing.

Can't Beat Ten Men

Here's a sentence that shouldn't be true: Manchester United are worse when the other team has fewer players.

Bryan Mbeumo gave them the lead against Spurs in the 73rd minute, turning on a Matheus Cunha pass and finishing into the bottom corner. 5 minutes later, Rodrigo Bentancur reacted to a shove from Luke Shaw, the pair went head to head, and Bentancur walked for violent conduct. Spurs: bottom of the table, a goal down, a man down. Game's done, has to be?

8 minutes of stoppage time went up. In the second of them, Dominic Solanke glanced in Sandro Tonali's cross. By full time, Old Trafford was booing.

That's 3 games in a row now that United have failed to beat ten-man opposition, after a 1-0 home defeat to Manchester City last month and a 2-1 loss at Newcastle back in March. It was also the fourth goal they've conceded in the 80th minute or later this season, the most in the league. Michael Carrick's side have 6 points from 6 games, their lowest return at this stage of a league season since 1986-87. Spurs, for what it's worth, had the better chances all afternoon and still only have 3 points to show for 6 games.

Two Years Older Than the Gaffer

Pascal Groß is 35. His manager, Fabian Hürzeler, is two years younger than him. And Gross is currently playing like a man who hasn't been told about either of those facts.

Brighton's 2-0 win at Sunderland on Saturday (pulled off with ten men from the 57th minute, by the way) made it 3 successive Premier League appearances with an assist for Groß, after 2 assists in the 5-0 against Coventry and 1 in the 3-0 against Arsenal before the break. At 35 years and 117 days, that makes him the oldest player to manage that run since Ryan Giggs did it at 38 years and 68 days back in February 2012.

It isn't just the assists either. Opta has him down for 18 chances created, more than anyone else in the division, and nobody has covered more ground than his 72.5km either. He's played every single minute of Brighton's season.

Hürzeler's take on it was refreshingly simple: "The older he gets, the better he is." 

Don't Leave Early at Portman Road

If you support Ipswich and you've been beating the traffic this season, we have some bad news about what you've been missing.

Fulham led from the 55th minute after Ryan Sessegnon picked up a cleared corner and drove one into the bottom corner from 25 yards. That looked like being Alvaro Arbeloa's first league win as Fulham boss. Then Abdoul Ouattara hit one from 30 yards in the 88th minute, his first goal in English football, and in the first minute of stoppage time captain Dara O'Shea headed in Jack Clarke's free kick.

That's 3 league wins for Ipswich this season, and all three have been sealed by a goal in the 90th minute or later. It started on opening day, when Clarke came off the bench and curled in a 90th-minute winner against Sunderland. Gary O'Neil's side have turned the final whistle into a suggestion.

Half the Bridge Was Still Finding Their Seats

Chelsea had gone 3 league games without a win before the break. Bournemouth arrived still looking for a first league win under Marco Rose. Stamford Bridge was expecting a cagey one.

It got 66 seconds of cagey. Jordan Henderson finished first time off the post from a Cole Palmer pass, and at 2 minutes 29 seconds Morgan Rogers flicked one in off António Silva's head after Henderson had helped it on. Two up before most of the crowd had properly sat down, and the fastest 2-goal start in Chelsea's history.

For context, it's only the third time any team has gone 2 goals up that early in a Premier League game. The other two were Leicester against Derby in April 1998 and Luton against Brighton in January 2024, and both of those finished 4-0.

Chelsea went one better. João Pedro made it 3-0 within about 30 seconds of the restart, Evanilson pulled one back for Bournemouth on 51 minutes, then João Pedro and Henderson again (more on him in a second) took it to 5-1. 

HenderGOAT, Apparently

A summer free transfer from Brentford, aged 36, to a dressing room full of kids. Plenty of people had opinions about that one, including myself.

2 goals and 1 assist, and the second goal was a free kick curled over the wall and past Djordje Petrović at his near post on 70 minutes. Palmer won it and let Henderson have it, which tells you something about where he stands in that dressing room already.

The numbers are daft. At 36 years and 115 days, he's now Chelsea's oldest player on record to register 3 goal involvements in a Premier League game, taking the mark off Gianluca Vialli, who was 33 when he set it. He's also Chelsea's oldest English Premier League scorer, passing John Terry. And scoring and assisting inside the first 2 minutes 29 seconds? Only Emile Heskey, for Leicester against Derby in 1998, has done both earlier in a Premier League match.

The best bit: the only other time Henderson has had 3 goal involvements in a Premier League game was for Liverpool against Newcastle in April 2013. That's 13 years between them. Xabi Alonso said afterwards that Chelsea signed him for everything, not just goals. Fairs.

Getting Their Retaliation In First

Brentford weren't supposed to be here. Lose your manager and your best attackers in one summer, like they did in 2025, and the script usually says you're in for a long few years. Keith Andrews apparently didn't read it.

Yehor Yarmoliuk put them ahead at Villa Park in the 10th minute, and that means Brentford have now scored first in all 6 of their league games this season. Nobody has started a Premier League season like that since Liverpool in 2018/19.

Holding on is a different matter. Nicolas Jackson equalised for Villa 88 seconds later, and when John McGinn's shot deflected in off Kristoffer Ajer on 77 minutes, it looked like the run might be ending. Ajer, to his credit, went straight up the other end and scored barely 2 minutes later. That's one way to make up for it.

2-2, still unbeaten after 6, and Liverpool come to the Gtech on Saturday. Whoever scores first in that one, we have a fair idea who it'll be.

That's Matchweek 6. Spotted something we didn't? Tell us, there's always one we missed.