Gameweek 3 Roundup: Six Draws, Two Perfect Records and a Hard Week for the Predictors

Gameweek 3 of the 2026-27 Premier League season belonged to the draw. Six of the round's ten fixtures finished level, with just two home wins and two away wins elsewhere, and the glut of stalemates caught out almost all of FanTribe's predictors — only one of the eight predicted outcomes in our data proved correct.

The results

• Ipswich Town 0-2 Liverpool
• Newcastle United 2-2 AFC Bournemouth
• Manchester City 1-0 Coventry City
• Nottingham Forest 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur
• Fulham 2-3 Crystal Palace
• Brighton & Hove Albion 1-1 Leeds United
• Brentford 1-1 Sunderland AFC
• Hull City AFC 0-0 Aston Villa
• Everton 2-2 Manchester United
• Arsenal 2-1 Chelsea

The headline acts

The round's marquee fixture went Arsenal's way, a 2-1 victory over Chelsea preserving their flawless start. According to the Premier League table, Arsenal have won four from four, scoring eight and conceding once, and lead the division on goal difference. Manchester City matched that standard with a 1-0 win over Coventry City and sit second on the same 12 points, their defence breached only twice so far.

Liverpool's 2-0 success at Ipswich Town was one of just two away wins in the round. The other belonged to Crystal Palace, who edged Fulham 3-2 in the gameweek's highest-scoring contest.

Six stalemates

Nothing separated the sides elsewhere. Newcastle United and AFC Bournemouth shared four goals, as did Everton and Manchester United in their 2-2 draws. Brighton & Hove Albion and Leeds United played out a 1-1, as did Brentford and Sunderland AFC, while Nottingham Forest against Tottenham Hotspur and Hull City AFC against Aston Villa both ended goalless.

The state of the table

According to the Premier League table, Arsenal and Manchester City are out on their own at the top, each with 12 points and four straight wins, separated only by goal difference. Leeds United are third on eight points and unbeaten, with Hull City AFC fourth on the same tally, also without defeat. Brighton & Hove Albion sit fifth on seven and, with 13 goals, are the division's top scorers according to the table; Chelsea are sixth on seven.

At the other end, Coventry City prop up the table with four defeats from four, no goals scored and ten conceded. Aston Villa and Fulham have a single point each in 19th and 18th, while Tottenham Hotspur are 17th and, per the table, are yet to score in four matches.

How the community fared

FanTribe's prediction data covers eight of the round's ten fixtures, and it made for grim reading: only one predicted outcome proved correct. That sole success was Ipswich Town v Liverpool, where the away win was backed at 100% — and Liverpool delivered it with a 2-0 victory. The other seven calls all missed:

• Newcastle United, backed at 100% at home to AFC Bournemouth — it finished 2-2.
• Nottingham Forest, backed at 100% at home to Tottenham Hotspur — it finished 0-0.
• Brighton & Hove Albion, backed at 100% at home to Leeds United — it finished 1-1.
• Brentford, backed at 100% at home to Sunderland AFC — it finished 1-1.
• Manchester United, backed at 100% away at Everton — it finished 2-2.
• Fulham v Crystal Palace, where a draw was the pick — Palace won 3-2.
• Arsenal v Chelsea, where a draw was the pick — Arsenal won 2-1.

Five of those seven misses came courtesy of draws, the round's defining theme, while the two predicted draws at Fulham and the Emirates both turned into one-goal wins. — wait, "at the Emirates" is a venue not in the brief; corrected below.

Five of those seven misses came courtesy of draws — the round's defining theme — while the two predicted draws turned into one-goal wins for Crystal Palace and Arsenal.

So the picture after Gameweek 3: two sides out front on 12 points and split only by goal difference, draws scattering points through the middle of the table, and Coventry City still waiting for a first goal — and a first point — at the bottom.