Levi Colwill made his first start for Brighton & Hove Albion in their big Carabao Cup win over Forest Green Rovers last week. He was part of a youthful and much-changed Seagulls side which secured a comfortable victory, with Colwill and his fellow defenders keeping their opponents at arm’s length.

He featured again from the bench in the Premier League on Saturday to help Brighton hold on to their narrow 1-0 lead over Leeds United at the Amex Stadium. That victory set a new club record of nine consecutive top-flight matches without losing, as well as moving them up to third in the table at this early stage, while inflicting Leeds’ first defeat of the season.

Tino Anjorin scored the first brace of his senior career, but it wasn’t quite enough to give Huddersfield Town back-to-back home wins for the first time in 2022/23. The attacking midfielder had never scored more than once in a season before the Terriers hosted West Bromwich Albion in the Championship on Saturday, when he found the net twice in the opening half-an-hour.

He opened the scoring with a fine curling shot after 11 minutes and doubled Huddersfield’s lead after showing great pace to beat the defence to a loose ball and race clear before beating the goalkeeper at his near post. However, West Brom mounted a comeback and secured a 2-2 draw, with Anjorin withdrawn shortly after their second-half equaliser.

Jamie Cumming and Henry Lawrence were in fine form for MK Dons as they helped secure back-to-back clean sheets in a pair of impressive wins. First, the on-loan duo were two of only four players to keep their place in the starting XI for a Carabao Cup match away at Watford, who went into the game second in the Championship. However, a confident performance from the Dons made light of the gap between the sides as they triumphed 2-0, booking their place in the third round for the first time in three seasons.

Both players were in the line-up again as MK Dons secured only their second win of the season in League One, and their first away from home, with an emphatic 4-0 victory at Morecambe. Lawrence provided the assist for Conor Grant to score the Dons’ third at the end of a lightning-fast counter-attack, before Cumming denied Morecambe a late consolation with two excellent saves in quick succession.

Lucas Bergstrom didn’t have quite such an enjoyable weekend in League One, although at one point it had looked like he would play a major role in a memorable victory. Derby County are yet to drop points at home this season and Bergstrom made three crucial first-half saves for Peterborough United to keep the scores level on Saturday.

It looked like things would get even tougher when Peterborough were reduced to 10 men 10 minutes into the second half. It was the visitors who took a surprise lead not long after, though, but Bergstrom was powerless to prevent Derby equalising from a corner in the 88th minute, and the Rams then scored again from close range in the 92nd to make the final score 2-1 and maintain their 100 per cent home record.

Sam McClelland played the first 53 minutes for Barrow as they were eliminated from the Carabao Cup by Lincoln City in a penalty shoot-out following a 2-2 draw, but was in the starting line-up again as they continued their brilliant start to the League Two season. They scored early on away at Wimbledon, with McClelland and his Barrow team-mates needing to do plenty of defending to hold on to their 1-0 lead late on, securing their fifth win from six games so far.

Over in Italy, Romelu Lukaku and Inter Milan dropped their first Serie A points of the season, away to Lazio. Inter went behind but equalised in the second half, Lukaku being replaced by Edin Dzeko with the scores level, but Lazio took the lead with 15 minutes remaining before former Chelsea forward Pedro curled in late on to secure a 3-1 win for the home side.

Across the Atlantic in the USA, goalkeeper Gabriel Slonina couldn’t prevent Chicago Fire losing 2-0 at home to 10-man Montreal in the MLS, with the damage done by two goals in the space of five first-half minutes.