Bournemouth Vs Sunderland amid 19-goal Premier League afternoon that served up chaos
bournemouth vs sunderland featured among seven matches covered on a day when three 3 p. m. kick-offs produced 19 goals — the Anfield, Turf Moor and St James' Park games delivering the headlines with Liverpool's 5-2 win over West Ham, Brentford's 4-3 victory at Burnley and Everton's 3-2 at Newcastle in a wild mid-afternoon; the three 3 p. m. games were played at 3 p. m. (10 a. m. ET).
Three games, 19 goals and two spectacular comebacks
The 3 p. m. window produced two seven-goal thrillers and plenty of controversy. At Turf Moor, Brentford sneaked a 4-3 win as Mikkel Damsgaard struck in injury time to settle a match that saw first-half goals from Damsgaard, Igor Thiago and Kevin Schade put the visitors three up. Burnley pulled an own goal from Michael Kayode back before Jaidon Anthony and Zian Flemming scored, and Flemming later saw a fourth ruled out for the most marginal of offsides. Three minutes into stoppage time Damsgaard tucked the winner into the bottom corner; Burnley briefly thought they had secured a point when Ashley Barnes struck close to the 100-minute mark, only for VAR to rule the effort out for handball.
Liverpool thrash West Ham as set-pieces tell
Liverpool ran out 5-2 victors at Anfield, extending a winning run and delivering a third successive victory. Hugo Ekitike opened the scoring — his 16th goal of a debut campaign — and Virgil van Dijk and Alexis Mac Allister also scored from first-half corners, making Liverpool only the second team after Manchester United in 2016 to net three first-half corner goals in a match. Cody Gakpo scored his first league goal in eight matches, and Axel Disasi turned in Jeremie Frimpong's cross after Tomás Soucek and Taty Castellanos had made the contest uneasy for the hosts. The result moved Liverpool level with fourth-placed Manchester United, cutting the goal-difference gap to one, and capped a run in which they have taken 11 points from a possible 18.
Thierno Barry seals dramatic Everton win at St James' Park
Everton stunned Newcastle with a 3-2 victory at St James' Park. Jarrad Branthwaite headed Everton into an early lead before Jacob Ramsey equalised for the hosts; Nick Pope's blunder then presented Beto with a second goal. In the closing stages Jacob Murphy looked to have grabbed a late leveller for Newcastle, but seconds later substitute Thierno Barry came off the bench to fire Everton to victory, and Jordan Pickford produced a stunning late save to preserve the three points. The win moved Everton up to eighth in the table and boosted their chances of European qualification, while Newcastle suffered a third successive home defeat and now face the prospect of needing to win a trophy to secure European football next season.
Man City grind out win at Elland Road
Manchester City beat Leeds at Elland Road thanks to Semenyo's first-half goal, a result that moved City within two points of Premier League leaders Arsenal. Former Leeds goalkeeper Paul Robinson, on Radio 5 Live at Elland Road, noted that set-piece delivery mattered and that Leeds were turning up the tempo. Robinson also described Pep Guardiola as looking uncomfortable with how his side were closing out the game; Guardiola was on the pitch trying to get a message to his defenders, and the manager had six more minutes of stoppage time to witness at full-time. City made a substitution with Nathan Aké replacing Rayan Cherki, while Leeds brought on Joël Piroe and Jaka Bijol for James Justin and Joe Rodon; Bijol nearly made an immediate impact with a header from a corner that went just wide. Marc Guehi produced an important block to deny a low Dan James delivery, and Gianluigi Donnarumma became the first player booked in the match at 87 minutes for protesting amid pushing and shoving during a Leeds corner.
Bournemouth Vs Sunderland sits among the live stream of fixtures
The live coverage list included AFC Bournemouth v Sunderland as one of seven matches across the schedule; bournemouth vs sunderland was specifically named among the fixtures being followed on the day. The wider weekend produced a sense of chaos across the Premier League fixtures and fed into broader narratives about the title race and European places.
Beyond the three high-scoring 3 p. m. games, commentary on the afternoon ranged from questions over Arne Slot's future after West Ham's defensive lapses — West Ham finished with a greater xG in the Liverpool game and twice reduced the deficit before poor defending proved decisive — to assessments that Burnley are likely to be relegated but remain competitive, with one report ending mid-sentence noting that Scott Parker's side "and they were unfortunate not to pro". Observers also highlighted Liverpool's unconvincing performance despite a big scoreline and Brentford's managerial backdrop — Bees boss Keith Andrew looked set to celebrate a new long-term deal amid a fraught atmosphere.
Clubs now head into March fixtures: Manchester City are two points behind Arsenal at the top, Liverpool chase Champions League qualification, Everton sit in a European-chasing position in eighth, and several teams face a congested and brutal run of fixtures in three different competitions in March.
