{"id":238551,"date":"2025-11-01T22:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238551\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T22:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T22:25:08","slug":"as-it-happened-liverpool-return-to-form-vs-villa-man-utd-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238551\/","title":{"rendered":"As it happened: Liverpool return to form vs. Villa, Man Utd draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN<\/p>\n<p>Nov 1, 2025, 10:03 PM<a data-behavior=\"copy_link\" data-social-tool=\"copy\" href=\"#\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-chain-solid-before reactions-copy-link copy-link\" aria-label=\"Copy Link\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/check.png&#038;h=80&#038;w=80.png\" alt=\"Copy Link\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><a data-social-tool=\"email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=As%20it%20happened%3A%20Liverpool%20return%20to%20form%20vs.%20Villa,%20Man%20Utd%20draw&amp;body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.espn.co.uk%2Ffootball%2Fstory%2F_%2Fid%2F46785954\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link icon-font-before icon-email-solid-before email social-clicks-email\" aria-label=\"Email\">Email<\/a><a data-social-tool=\"print\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/print?id=46785954\" data-social-type=\"content\" class=\"share-popup-link print icon-font-before icon-print-solid-before page-action\" aria-label=\"Print\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Print<\/a>Open Extended Reactions<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a new month, and there&#8217;s another new weekend of action across Europe!<\/p>\n<p>Saturday kicked off in the <a data-league-guid=\"6949f3af-300c-35f1-beab-b95669eedd38\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/league\/_\/name\/ENG.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Premier League<\/a> with two big clashes as league leaders <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"feb44e87-58fa-9597-2691-b3c32768ebe4\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=359\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal<\/a> won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/report\/_\/gameId\/740687\/arsenal-burnley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2-0<\/a> at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"0e306f49-0f1d-27a2-4259-0643dce9c676\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=379\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Burnley<\/a> to go seven points clear at the top of the table, while <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ebc2fd0-35d3-733b-5666-b75035a3bce9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=360\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester United<\/a> were denied a fourth straight win with a topsy-turvy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/report\/_\/gameId\/740692\/manchester-united-nottingham-forest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2-2<\/a> draw at <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"ad9ef79b-ca27-077e-8a6f-335e0d220b27\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=393\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nottingham Forest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the London derby found <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f987a4b2-f3f9-e7f6-eb7d-eda43893be5a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=367\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> falling to visitors <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c43a00b9-2826-72b3-77a0-62730abc936e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=363\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chelsea<\/a> by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/match\/_\/gameId\/740690\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1-0<\/a> loss. Elsewhere, reigning champions <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"25b5e432-d3d2-939f-f73b-6e531a6fbd91\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=132\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayern Munich<\/a> pummeled <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"483ec574-cb09-6d8f-e308-302d5d695d70\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=131\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bayer Leverkusen<\/a> in the <a data-league-guid=\"30244926-00c4-3f69-8946-f8421c97ff71\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/league\/_\/name\/GER.1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bundesliga<\/a> by a comfortable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/match\/_\/gameId\/746792\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3-0<\/a> score.<\/p>\n<p>In Saturday&#8217;s late match, <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"a47fbcec-c948-cf4c-9e41-3dfa37588c9c\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=364\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a> ended their losing streak and returned to some sort of semblance of form, edging past <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"610557ff-e870-ea0e-a3b2-8244df325d22\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/team?id=362\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/football\/match\/_\/gameId\/740694\/aston-villa-liverpool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2-0<\/a> at Anfield.<\/p>\n<p>Re-live all of Saturday&#8217;s soccer action across Europe in the blog below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESPN Nov 1, 2025, 10:03 PMEmailPrintOpen Extended Reactions It&#8217;s a new month, and there&#8217;s another new weekend of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-238551","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}