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Saturday
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8am (all times BST)Matchday live
Normally nan Premier League play starts here, but David Tindall will person nan guidance to Friday night’s Bournemouth v Manchester United crippled arsenic good arsenic nan buildup to nan day’s action. He will beryllium looking astatine nan fallout from Thomas Tuchel’s England squad selection, arsenic good arsenic looking guardant to nan day’s 4 Premier League games. It’s a full-on time successful nan Championship, too, pinch Middlesbrough’s caller stumbles opening up third-placed Ipswich’s changeable astatine automatic promotion – isolated from they are astatine location to a fourth-placed Millwall broadside motivated by injustice, aft losing against Blackburn successful a crippled that turned connected a reddish paper that was subsequently annulled. Send your thoughts connected thing to do pinch nan day’s games to [email protected]
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NoonWomen’s Super League clockwatch
Do we person a WSL title race? Manchester City could only tie astatine Aston Villa past weekend, and nan battalion person a chance to put a spot of unit connected them if nan leaders gaffe up again astatine location to Tottenham. Chelsea astatine slightest closed to wrong 7 points successful midweek and are astatine London City Lionesses, while Arsenal – 4 points worse disconnected than Chelsea but pinch 2 games successful manus – are astatine struggling West Ham. Emillia Hawkins will person each nan goals from those matches positive nan sojourn of Everton to Manchester United, who will regret only drafting astatine West Ham connected Wednesday erstwhile they could person trim City’s lead to six points.
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12.30pmBrighton v Liverpool live
As Ed Aarons wrote successful our things to look retired for this weekend: “The Amex has not been a happy hunting crushed for Liverpool successful caller years: they person won only erstwhile astatine nan crushed successful their past 5 visits and that was successful nan Carabao Cup past season.” Can Brighton – who for illustration nan Reds person 3 wins successful their past 5 convention matches – frustrate Arne Slot’s men again? When nan sides met connected nan southbound seashore past May, nan visitors had been partying arsenic champions truthful nan precocious conclusion hardly stung, but losing again would frighten their top-five hopes. Scott Murray follows nan action minute-by-minute, while Sam Cunningham reports from Sussex by nan sea.
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3pmClockwatch
“O tempora, O mores,” arsenic Cicero would say: location is only 1 Premier League crippled pinch nan accepted kick-off clip this weekend, arsenic European outsiders Fulham return connected a Burnley broadside who would emotion to person that status. But location are 7 Championship games, pinch teams hoping to respond to aliases return advantage of results successful nan lunchtime matches, while Southampton, astatine location to Oxford, and Wrexham, astatine Sheffield United, will support an oculus connected each different connected nan separator of nan playoff zone. In Scotland, nan 3 title contenders person staggered kick-off times, pinch Hearts getting nan chance to put unit connected Rangers (an evening match) and Celtic (in Sunday’s game). Billy Munday is astatine nan helm
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5.30pmEverton v Chelsea live
Not a fixture noted for its humanities needle but caller quasi-judicial announcements person spiced up nan first staging astatine Hill Dickinson Stadium. As Andy Hunter writes: “It is simply a good coincidence that Chelsea’s first Premier League crippled since being fined for breaching financial rules during Roman Abramovich’s ownership should beryllium astatine Everton, nan nine nan Premier League made an illustration of erstwhile reinforcing its authority complete disobedient members.” Andy himself will beryllium connected lucifer study duty, while Rob Smyth will beryllium listening retired for nan pointed chants arsenic nan crippled goes on. Only 5 points abstracted nan sides, and a location triumph would headdress a achy week for Liam Rosenior, despite his successful mole hunt.
Football
8pmLeeds v Brentford live
The day’s past Premier League crippled features 2 managers who person defied expectations. Keith Andrews was seen arsenic having a stiff task aft succeeding Thomas Frank astatine Brentford, pinch cardinal players having near and nary acquisition of nan apical job, but has fared alternatively amended than nan Dane did astatine Tottenham. Daniel Farke, meanwhile, seemed to beryllium connected his measurement retired of Leeds successful December but only 4 defeats successful their past 20 games has turned things astir successful nan convention and brought an FA Cup quarter-final. Leeds are only 3 points clear of nan driblet zone, mind, and Brentford request points to scope Europe. Dominic Booth will springiness unrecorded updates, while Will Unwin reports from Elland Road.
Sunday
Football
8amMatchday live
With each owed respect to Saturday’s combatants, Sunday has nan 3 games that are nan prime of nan weekend, and Emillia Hawkins will person each nan buildup. There’s nan north-east title lucifer arsenic Newcastle big Sunderland; there’s Tottenham v Nottingham Forest successful nan archetypal relegation six-pointer; and there’s Arsenal v Manchester City successful nan Carabao Cup final. Plus, she will person guidance to each Saturday’s matches. Email [email protected] pinch your views.
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NoonNewcastle v Sunderland live
It was a sobering week for Newcastle, aft a promising commencement astatine Barcelona arsenic they doubly equalised gave measurement to a humiliating 7-2 (seven-two) scoreline. Still, Jacob Ramsey’s walk for nan seventh was surely not nan astir embarrassing infinitesimal of Newcastle’s season: that honour lies pinch Nick Woltemade’s headed ain extremity that decided December’s derby. The chances of a rematch pinch Barça immoderate clip soon look remote, but luckily for Eddie Howe location is simply a changeable astatine parochial redemption erstwhile Sunderland sojourn nan Toon astatine noon. Luke McLaughlin steers nan unrecorded blog, while Louise Taylor is astatine St James’ Park.
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2.15pmTottenham v Nottingham Forest live
A conflict betwixt nan 2 sides instantly supra nan relegation area kicking disconnected astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic nan squad conscionable beneath them are playing – meaning anyone losing this lucifer could beryllium successful nan bottommost 3 astatine nan last whistle – is 1 to person nan fans sweating. Spurs and Forest get bolstered by European victories, albeit nan erstwhile still went retired of nan Champions League contempt a first triumph for Igor Tudor and nan second needed a shootout to put paid yet to Midtjylland. Any feelgood facet from those results, and from Spurs’ creditable tie astatine Anfield past Sunday, would beryllium wiped retired by defeat, sloppy of really West Ham were faring astatine Aston Villa. Rob Smyth will person unrecorded updates, earlier reports, guidance and study from Ben Fisher and Jonathan Wilson.
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4.30pmArsenal v Manchester City
Only 1 broadside are still chasing a cleanable sweep, aft Real Madrid erstwhile again sewage nan amended of Pep Guardiola successful nan Champions League, but has location ever been a higher stakes League Cup final? It’s nan quadruple hunters of Arsenal up against nan treble chasers of Manchester City, pinch apprentice Mikel Arteta successful 1 dugout against maestro Guardiola successful nan other, first successful nan Premier League against second. The only League Cup last we tin find betwixt nan 2 sides that vanished nan play first and 2nd was 1978, erstwhile nan eventual champions, Nottingham Forest, hit nan eventual runners-up, Liverpool, successful a replay. To get a building popularised by Phil Thompson’s guidance to that loss, Daniel Harris will beryllium first pinch news of who finishes nan crippled sick arsenic a parrot, while David Hytner, Jamie Jackson and Barney Ronay are astatine Wembley.
