Newcastle visited Crystal Palace aiming to end a two-game losing streak and Hull City were aiming for a first win in seven games in all competitions when the Tigers host Brentford on Sunday.
The Magpies had followed up a 4-1 thrashing at Coventry City with a 1-0 defeat. at the home of Aston Villa eight days before.
Palace had lost 5-0 to arch-rivals Brighton & Hove Albion a week earlier, while Brentford threw away a lead to suffer their first top-flight defeat of the season with a 2-1 home defeat to Liverpool on 17 October.
You can also relive text updates as they happened from Sunday’s simultaneous games: Manchester United vs Bournemouth i Liverpool vs Brighton & Hove Albion.
Crystal Palace vs Newcastle: Goals from Osula and Barnes give Magpies victory
Newcastle rose to seventh with the help of two goals inside 12 minutes shortly after the restart at Selhurst Park, where William Osula struck from Jacob Murphy’s cross and Harvey Barnes fired home from Amar Dedic’s delivery.
Palace fans booed their team at full-time, having witnessed five defeats in eight league games under new manager Pierre Sage to move immediately above the relegation zone.
Crystal Palace: Walter Benitez, Chris Richards, Axel Disasi, Jaydee Canvot, Anan Khalaili, Adam Wharton, Daichi Kamada, Tyrick Mitchell, Dwight McNeil, Jean-Philippe Mateta, Yeremy Pino
Substitutes: Jefferson Lerma, Eddie Nketiah, Will Hughes, Dario Osorio, Cheick Doucoure, Evann Guessand, Oscar Mingueza, Remi Matthews, Ben Chilwell
Newcastle: Lukas Hornicek, Amar Dedic, Fabian Schar, Dan Burn, Lewis Hall, Jacob Murphy, Nico Gonzalez, Joe Willock, Joelinton, Harvey Barnes, William Osula
Substitutes: Nick Pope, Sven Botman, Aladji Bamba, John Wissa, Malick Thiaw, Sean Steur, Bazoumana Toure, Anthony Elanga, Jacob Ramsey
Hull vs Brentford: McBurnie, Ouattara equalize
Hull drew for the fourth time in their current six league winless run and 10th, Oli McBurnie giving Sergej Jakirovic’s side a first-half lead with a penalty after Aaron Hickey’s foul on Tim Iroegbunam.
Brentford have drawn all four Premier League games away from home this season and have had six of the eight attempts on target between the sides, equalizing after the break when Dango Ouattara struck from distance to ensure the Bees are sixth.
City of Hull: Konstantinos Tzolakis, Lewie Coyle, Semi Ajayi, John Egan, Lucas Herrington, Ryan Giles, Mohamed Belloumi, Tim Iroegbunam, Regan Slater, Elliot Stroud, Oliver McBurnie
Substitutes: Dillon Phillips, Hidemasa Morita, Sorba Thomas, Joe Gelhardt, Paddy McNair, Brooke Norton-Cuffy, Matt Crooks, Robinio Vaz, Mohamed-Ali Cho
Brentford: Caoimhin Kelleher, Michael Kayode, Sepp van den Berg, Kristoffer Ajer, Keane Lewis-Potter, Dango Ouattara, Mamadou Sangare, Mathias Jensen, Aaron Hickey, Kevin Schade, Igor Thiago
Substitutes: Hakon Valdimarsson, Callum Wilson, Jaidon Anthony, Nathan Collins, Mikkel Damsgaard, El Hadji Malick Diouf, Gustavo Nunes, Jannik Schuster, Benjamin Fredrick
Complete Premier League table
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position 1, 2, 3, 4: Promotion – Champions League (League phase)
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position 5: Promotion – Europa League (League phase)
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position 18, 19, 20: Relegation – Championship
Palace vs Newcastle Stats
- Palace failed to record back-to-back Premier League wins against Newcastle for the first time since a three-match run between August 1971 and September 1972, having won 2-1 in their previous league meeting in April.
- Newcastle have won one of their previous 11 away league games against Crystal Palace (6 D6 D4), winning 2-0 in 2020/21 under Steve Bruce.
- After their 3-1 win against Nottingham Forest, Crystal Palace had been looking for back-to-back Premier League wins at Selhurst Park for the first time since April 2025 (3 in a row), and this is their 26th home league game since (6 D11 D8)
- Palace have conceded at least twice in 12 of their last 14 Premier League games, apart from a 0-0 draw with Leeds and a 3-1 win against Nottingham Forest.
- Crystal Palace’s Chris Richards made his 100th Premier League appearance in this game. He is the 14th American (USA) player to reach this milestone and, at 26 years and 211 days on match day, the second youngest, behind Jonathan Spector in 2010 (23 and 359 days)
Hull City vs Brentford Stats
- This was the first top-flight meeting between Hull and Brentford, with the sides having previously met in the second, third and fourth tiers.
- It was their first league meeting since February 2020, a 5-1 win for the Bees in the Championship at the MKM Stadium.
- Each of Brentford’s three away league wins against Hull has come in a different division: the third in 1995/96, the fourth in 1998/99 and the second in 2019/20.
- Hull started the season with back-to-back Premier League victories, but have not won in all six games since (D3 D3)
- They had become the first team to win their first two games of a season and then fail to win their next five since Huddersfield and West Brom in 2017/18.
- Brentford have never won a Premier League game away to Yorkshire in six attempts (D5 D1). Their last away win for the county was in May 1947, a 2-1 win at Leeds.
- Hull are unbeaten at home in the Premier League this season (W1 D3). In the last 11 seasons, only two newly promoted sides have gone unbeaten in their first four home games: Wolves in 2018/19 (four) and Sunderland in 2025/26 (first 12), both finishing seventh.
