Premier League
Five Premier League Matches, Not One Home Win
Five Premier League matches have been played this weekend. The home side has won none of them.
Two draws and three away wins, including Newcastle winning by two at Tottenham and Hull City winning at Coventry. If you run a predictor with friends and your group fills the sheet with a quiet thumb on the home team — which is what most people do, most weeks — this weekend has cost you more than it should have.
Here is the round so far, where the numbers come from, and what is still to be played.
Saturday’s results in full
| Day | Kick-off (BST) | ET | Match | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 28 | 20:00 | 3:00 PM | Crystal Palace – Manchester City | 1-4 |
| Sat 29 | 12:30 | 7:30 AM | Liverpool – Nottingham Forest | 2-2 |
| Sat 29 | 15:00 | 10:00 AM | Bournemouth – Everton | 1-1 |
| Sat 29 | 15:00 | 10:00 AM | Coventry City – Hull City | 0-1 |
| Sat 29 | 17:30 | 12:30 PM | Tottenham Hotspur – Newcastle United | 0-2 |
Every score above is confirmed in two independent places: ESPN’s scoreboard and Sky Sports’ results page.
On goalscorers we are deliberately thin. Friday’s 1-4 at Selhurst Park is solid in three sources — Haaland at 17 and 84 minutes, Cherki at 54 and 59, and a Donnarumma own goal at 57. For Liverpool 2-2 Nottingham Forest we are publishing the scoreline and nothing else, because the sources we checked disagree on who scored. When two good sources contradict each other, we print the part they both support.
Zero home wins is the number worth keeping
Read the right-hand column again.
Crystal Palace lost at home. Liverpool drew at home. Bournemouth drew at home. Coventry lost at home. Tottenham lost at home. Across five matches, the sides playing in front of their own crowd took two points out of a possible fifteen, and both of those came from draws.
This is not a rule. One weekend is one weekend, and home advantage is real over a full season. But it is a useful reminder of what a sheet actually rewards. Most predictor entries are decided by two habits: pick the bigger name, and pick the home side. On this particular Saturday, both habits were wrong more often than they were right.
The draws are the sharper lesson. Liverpool at Anfield and Bournemouth at home to Everton are exactly the fixtures a group resolves quickly, because marking a draw feels like declining to have an opinion. In most scoring systems the draw is the least-picked box on the sheet, which is precisely why a round like this hands the lead to whoever marked one.
If your group runs a survivor format, the same weekend reads differently again — in a survivor pool a draw keeps you alive, and only a loss costs you a life. Anyone who took the home team this weekend survived two of these five and went out on the other three.
What is left to play
Sunday, August 30:
| Kick-off (BST) | ET | Match |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | 9:00 AM | Chelsea – Brighton |
| 14:00 | 9:00 AM | Leeds United – Brentford |
| 14:00 | 9:00 AM | Sunderland – Fulham |
| 16:30 | 11:30 AM | Manchester United – Ipswich Town |
Monday, August 31: Aston Villa – Arsenal closes the round.
The Sunday kick-off times above are corroborated by our own fixture data as well as the published schedule, which is why we are comfortable printing them to the minute. The Monday match we are giving by date only.
Elsewhere the same weekend has run the other way. In Spain, four of LaLiga’s first five matches went to the home side, including Levante 5-2 Real Betis. Two leagues, one Saturday, opposite answers to the same question — which is roughly the whole argument for not filling a sheet on autopilot.
How to use a weekend like this
Three practical notes, and no predictions dressed up as certainties.
- Separate the habit from the read. If you would have marked all five home sides without looking, that is a habit. Habits are fine in November when there is a form table; they are expensive in August when there isn’t one.
- Value the draw properly. If your group gives a draw the same weight as a win, the hardest box on the sheet is worth the same as the easiest. You set that number yourself — most groups never revisit it after week one.
- Decide the round format before the round, not after. Exact score, result only, confidence points: they turn the same five results into three different tables. Our guide to running a prediction pool with friends walks through the trade-offs, and the 2026-27 kickoff calendar has every major league’s start date if you are still deciding what to include.
The season’s opening round set this up, too: it closed a day late at Craven Cottage after a Sunday that turned on stoppage-time goals.
Frequently asked questions
What were the Premier League results on Saturday, August 29, 2026?
Liverpool 2-2 Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth 1-1 Everton, Coventry City 0-1 Hull City, and Tottenham Hotspur 0-2 Newcastle United.
Did any home team win in the Premier League this weekend?
No. Across the five matches played on Friday and Saturday, there were two draws and three away wins. Crystal Palace, Coventry City and Tottenham all lost at home; Liverpool and Bournemouth drew.
What was the score in Liverpool vs Nottingham Forest?
2-2. We are not publishing the goalscorers because the sources we checked do not agree on them.
Who scored in Crystal Palace 1-4 Manchester City?
Erling Haaland at 17 and 84 minutes, Rayan Cherki at 54 and 59, and a Donnarumma own goal at 57. That match was played on Friday, August 28.
Which Premier League matches are still to play this weekend?
Four on Sunday, August 30 — Chelsea vs Brighton, Leeds vs Brentford and Sunderland vs Fulham at 14:00 BST, then Manchester United vs Ipswich Town at 16:30 BST — and Aston Villa vs Arsenal on Monday, August 31.
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