Misery for the Manchesters: City shocked by Wolves, United beaten by Crystal Palace

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Manchester City's perfect start to the Premier League season came undone in a shock 2-1 loss to Wolves, as Manchester United slumped to a 1-0 home defeat to Crystal Palace on Saturday.

Arsenal closed to within a point of the lead by cruising to a 4-0 win at Bournemouth, while Aston Villa thrashed Brighton 6-1 to move into the top four.City had won the opening six games of their title defence as they aim to become the first side to ever claim four consecutive English top-flight titles.

Wolves, though, were a constant threat on the counter-attack and got their reward when Hwang Hee-Chan swept home at the second attempt 25 minutes from time. But with Palace restored to full strength, the Red Devils suffered from a familiar lack of cutting edge up front as they laboured to get back into the game.Arsenal moved up to second as Mikel Arteta's men eased to victory at Bournemouth.

Miguel Almiron fired into the top corner to open the scoring and Alexander Isak's penalty secured the points 14 minutes from time.Two goals from the England striker and a Pervis Estupinan own goal put Villa 3-0 up inside 26 minutes.But the day belonged to Watkins and he became the first Villa player in 47 years to score two hat-tricks in one season.

 

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