Premier League form table after Arsenal win & Man City drop points

Martin Tyler is painfully fond of reminding Sky Sports viewers that the Premier League is the "league of late goals". Few weekends have offered more evidence to support that sycophantic claim.

Arsenal snatched all three points with a pair of stoppage-time goals against Aston Villa to start the weekend. Emi Martinez inadvertently turned the ball into his own net in the 92nd minute before watching on from Arsenal's half as Gabriel Martinelli rolled in the final goal in a rut-busting 4-2 victory for the Gunners.

The late dramatics ended a run of three consecutive Premier League matches without victory for Arsenal which halted their slide down a form table they had led so recently. The Gunners have taken 20 points from the last 30 available, the same tally as Manchester City and Brentford.

However, City squandered the chance to leapfrog Arsenal at the Premier League summit, as Chris Wood's 84th-minute equaliser earned Nottingham Forest a famous point at home to the reigning champions,

Thomas Frank's Bees extended their unbeaten sequence to 11 Premier League matches but had to wait until the 96th minute before Vitaly Janelt nabbed an equaliser against Crystal Palace.

Manor Solomon came off the bench to score the only goal of the game with two minutes to play as Fulham overtook Brighton in the form table and the overall standings.

In the evening kick off, Liverpool raced into a 2-0 lead before Nick Pope's red card, lifting the Reds into sixth.

Manchester United canter into their Sunday meeting with Leicester City with the best form in the division, collecting 23 points from their last ten top-flight matches, suffering just one defeat in the process.

Middle of the pack

A few too many draws have seen Newcastle's point return dwindle in recent weeks and they suffered their first home defeat of the season against Liverpool.

Forest's perceived inconsistency can be easily explained by the venue of their matches. Steve Cooper's side are unbeaten in their last eight home games at the City Ground but have won just one away game all season.

Wolves slipped down the form table with a surprise defeat at home to Bournemouth but the biggest shock of the weekend was saved for Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea and all their expensively assembled talent suffered a 1-0 reverse against rock-bottom, manager-less Southampton. Graham Potter's side has won just two of their last ten league matches, failing to score in nine of their past 14 games across all competitions.

Out of form

Half of the Premier League's supposedly out-of-form teams broke the sequence of failure to earn a victory on Saturday.

By completing the club's first league double over Chelsea since 1988, Southampton earned their second win in ten matches. The Saints kickstarted the post-Nathan Jones era with a victory that couldn't lift them off the bottom of the actual Premier League table but nudged them above Leeds in terms of recent form (which is the real quiz - well, that and Luton's xG according to Jones).

Leeds were also under the stewardship of an interim manager however, unlike Southampton's Ruben Selles, Michael Skubala suffered a 1-0 defeat against fellow strugglers Everton. The Yorkshire outfit are the only top-flight side without a single win in their last ten games - equalling the club's longest wait for a victory in Premier League history.

Everton, who got around to appointing Sean Dyche, have now won consecutive league games at Goodison Park for the first time since April - although those victories account for six of the seven points the Toffees have collected in their last ten games.

It was a weekend of firsts for Bournemouth. While earning the club's first win since the World Cup, Gary O'Neil steered his side to their maiden away clean sheet of the Premier League season. After splashing the cash on a gaggle of fleet-footed forwards during the January window, the Cherries have taken eight points from their last ten games and hauled themselves out of the relegation zone with a win at Molineux.