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Live BlogUpdated: 20:31, 2 Oct 2025talkSPORT brings you all the latest news and updates from the Premier League and beyond.Liverpool are set to be without goalkeeper Alisson Becker for six weeks after he limped off during the 1-0 defeat to Galatasaray.Meanwhile, Crystal Palace won their first-ever major European game 2-0 against Dynamo Kyiv, extending their unbeaten run to 19.Next, Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest are in action.From bad to worse This has just been a crazy opening half an hour. Ange Postecoglou's time as manager keeps getting worse...He would have hoped for his first win tonight, however, things have just been made a lot tougher.



Dynamo Kyiv 0-2 Crystal Palace: Eddie Nketiah IT'S TWO FOR CRYSTAL PALACE! They're 1-0 up at the break thanks to Daniel Munoz's header.

And the standards that he's used to at Manchester City."If anything, I would say this is confirmation that they've got the right player and he's got the right environment for him."Someone's Warnocking at the doorAmong Ruben Amorim’s many lows at Manchester United, one moment left Neil Warnock in stitches.The Portuguese manager is statistically the worst in the great club’s history, and with just nine Premier League wins in 33 games, United are looking at alternatives, including Gareth Southgate.Yet it wasn’t a disastrous league performance that left the experienced Warnock stunned, instead a moment in the cup.United were knocked out of the Carabao Cup in the second round at the end of August by League Two Grimsby Town for one of the most humiliating results in club history.Grimsby had to do the job on penalties after giving up a 2-0 lead, but while down and in big trouble, Amorim whipped out a tactics board on the United bench and started moving magnets around the page.“I’m available if they’re struggling,” Warnock joked. "But he's 20, and we can still improve a lot."Jor DroppingSimon Jordan has told Rangers manager Russell Martin he needs to be stronger and then he might not have children swearing at him.“He has to be a bit stronger in his press conferences; he has to acknowledge the fact that he has to win football matches,” the White & Jordan host said.“That’s what has to come out of his mouth, not him observing that a 12-year-old is sticking two fingers up at him.“He has allowed this offensive behaviour to happen, and to be seeded in a section of the Rangers fans.”Spurred onTottenham have announced that teenage talent Luca Williams-Barnett has signed his first professional contract with the club.The attacking midfielder, who turned 17 on Wednesday, was named on the bench for the first team on four occasions last term.Williams-Barnett made his senior Spurs debut as a second-half substitute in the 3-0 Carabao Cup win over Doncaster Rovers.World champions of what?Seven-time NBA All-Star Joel Embiid doesn't rate England's chances at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.The Philadelphia 76ers Center, a self-confessed Real Madrid and Arsenal fan, admitted the Three Lions have the best team on paper.However, Cameroonian and American joked that England are going choke again."Obviously I am a big football fan, so I'm excited," Embiid said on next summer's World Cup in the USA."I wanna go to as many games as possible so we'll see the schedule.