Here’s Louise Taylor at the Riverside to really close us out.
Ok, that just about closes out the afternoon’s action from me. No, I didn’t back Tiger Roll.
Here’s Ewan Murray from Hampden Park.
Burnley for Europe? It’s happening.
Dom Fifield was at Selhurst Park
Paul Doyle attended Huddersfield 1-0 Watford.
The reports are coming in. Here’s Stuart James from Swansea.
Barcelona beat Valencia 2-1, setting a new record.
NEW RECORD!!
— FC Barcelona (@FCBarcelona) April 14, 2018
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Games unbeaten in @LaLiga!!
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After the Lord Mayor’s Show for Liverpool? They play Bournemouth at 5.30pm UK time. Rob Smyth with the coverage.
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The Grand National is five minutes away from starting. Join Niall McVeigh.
The big comeback of the day came as AFC Wimbledon, fighting against relegation from League One, fought back from two goals down to Walsall to win in sixth minute of extra time.
In the Football League, the biggest losers are Bury, who got relegated from League One after losing 3-2 to Northampton. Cardiff climbed back into the top two of the Championship but must wait on Fulham’s later game against Brentford. A win over Derby kept Burton alive while both Barnsley and Sunderland fight on after draws. There was a lengthy delay as Middlesbrough eventually beat Bristol City to climb up to fifth.
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So, as it stands in the Premier League, 17th-placed Swansea are five points clear of the bottom three. With Crystal Palace a point above them. Huddersfield are now in 14th. West Brom play Manchester United on Sunday while Stoke play West Ham on Monday.
In La Liga, Barcelona are winning 2-0 against Valencia, after goals from Luis Suárez and Samuel Umtiti.
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Full-time: Swansea 1-1 Everton
Not quite what Swansea wanted and still work to do, but Southampton’s loss in the early match was already good news for them.
Full-time: Burnley 2-1 Leicester
Jamie Vardy went close towards the end but Burnley’s hold on seventh was hugely strengthened by a fifth successive win.
Full-time: Crystal Palace 3-2 Brighton
Glenn Murray missed an absolute sitter for Brighton at the death.
In the Championship, Cardiff now lead 2-0 at Norwich while Barnsley have equalised against Bolton. Faint hopes alive.
Full-time: Huddersfield 1-0 Watford.
That’s Huddersfield up to 35 points. Will that be enough for them?
Bury now 3-2 down to Northampton and they will be heading down to League Two.
Crystal Palace v Brighton - first half the best of the season, second half will be broadcast last on Match of the Day? Brighton have been pushing for an equaliser.
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Goal! Huddersfield 1-0 Watford (Ince 90+1)
Tom Ince gets the goal in added time for Huddersfield. That’s the one they wanted and the mascot has joined the party. That would push the Terriers to 35 points.
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Wayne Rooney has been subbed off again for Everton. This time, no rude words, stamping of his feet or throwing club garments to the ground.
Massive goal in the Championship where Cardiff have just scored at Norwich, a goal from Kenneth Zohore which takes them back into the automatic promotion spots.
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Even worse news for Barnsley. They have conceded a goal from Craig Noone to make it 2-1 to Bolton.
Bad news for Barnsley in conceding a penalty to Bolton. Adam Le Fondre stepped up to score it. That would keep them in the bottom three of the Championship.
But Grimsby have a penalty and they have scored it. Grimsby 2-2 Barnet, Mitch Rose, brother of Danny, got it.
At the bottom of the Football League, Barnet have a 2-1 lead at Grimsby and could be within two points of safety.
Sunderland doomwatch: Reading make it 2-2 and it’s Yann Kermogant with the header.
Middlesbrough go 2-1 up against Bristol City, through Daniel Ayala. A vital goal in the play-off race.
Tranmere have just scored against Aldershot in the National League , which means Macclesfield Town’s champagne is on ice. They will probably now have to wait for promotion to the Football League. They need a win from one of their final two matches. Tranmere have to win all five of their last five.
Seamus Coleman has hit the crossbar for Everton at Swansea. At last, some attacking for Big Sam’s entertainers.
Goal! Burnley 2-1 Leicester (Vardy 72)
Who else but Jamie Vardy? He’s in thrashing form, scoring his 20th of the season and his 10th in 12 matches.
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Goal! Swansea 1-1 Everton (Jordan Ayew 71)
It had been coming, and was totally deserved. The younger Ayew volleys in a mishit cross from Tom Carroll.
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Burton 3-1 Derby now. They will live to fight another day, and this could be a famous victory for Nigel Clough over his old club.
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What did I say about Huddersfield? Not much, actually. Here’s another view.
Not a great game at Huddersfield thus far. Even the mascot’s fed up. pic.twitter.com/f4ZAJab4eI
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) April 14, 2018
Sunderland doomwatch: Nope, not a bit of it, as Sunderland are now leading 2-1 with a rare header, indeed a rare goal, his first in 104 matches, from Lee Cattermole.
Huddersfield having to do plenty of defending at home to Watford when they need to be on the attack. Tom Ince just had a shot saved and so did Steve Mounie.
Nick Pope just made another great save for Burnley to deny Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy. It’s still 2-0 to Burnley.
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Glenn Murray has just gone close for Brighton and it could have been 3-3 with Crystal Palace.
In the Championship, Barnsley, third from bottom, are fighting for their lives and leading Bolton 1-0.
Tom Carroll and Andre Ayew have forced saves from Jordan Pickford as Swansea push for an equaliser against Everton. This is bearing the signs of a classic Allardyce smash and grab affair.
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Here’s a match report from the earlier Premier League game. That late Chelsea surge was a disaster for Southampton.
Not much happening between Huddersfield and Watford at the moment. Huddersfield need to push for a win here. Reminder that Town have Everton, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal to play.
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Leicester have chucked on Kelechi Iheanacho for Shinji Okazaki as Claude Puel tries to chase back the 2-0 deficit that Burnley ran up in the early moments.
Sunderland doomwatch: Not so doomy. Paddy McNair has just scored a wonder goal at Reading 1-1.
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We are back underway in the Premier League. Swansea have already gone close against Everton while Anthony Knockaert has been brought on for Brighton as a half-time sub.
Now just 75 minutes from the starter’s flag at Aintree. Join Niall McVeigh for the build-up.
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Good banter at Carshalton.
Just in case you missed it, the match between Carshalton Athletic and Whyteleafe has been delayed by 45 minutes because "the referee's flight from Albania is behind schedule." We hope he doesn't have to commute to midweek matches too! pic.twitter.com/Sinz7m1fep
— The Bostik League (@IsthmianLeague) April 14, 2018
As these things often go, Ipswich, without a manager after Mick McCarthy decided he’d had enough, are leading Nottingham Forest. Our Barry had a few things to say about that. Worth it for the picture alone.
Half-time business.
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Half-time scores in the Premier League
Burnley 2-0 Leicester
Crystal Palace 3-2 Brighton
Huddersfield 0-0 Watford
Swansea 0-1 Everton
Riyad Mahrez has just rattled the post for Leicester at Burnley. Still 2-0 to the home team.
Burton keep on fighting. They are 2-1 up after a goal from Luke Murphy. Sunderland will be bottom if matters stay the same. They are losing 1-0 at Reading.
Goal! Swansea 0-1 Everton (Naughton 43, OG)
All that dominance for Swansea comes to nothing. Kyle Naughton has scored a fateful own-goal after Everton at last put an attack together.
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Five goals in the first half is the most that have been scored in any first half this season. Still Crystal Palace 3-2 Brighton. Perhaps they are now going defensive.
Sachin is enjoying himself.
Crystal Palace-Brighton threatening to be the greatest game in English football history
— Sachin Nakrani (@SachinNakrani) April 14, 2018
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Bad news for Bury, facing the drop from League One if they lost to Northampton and now 2-1 down.
Goal! Crystal Palace 3-2 Brighton (Izquierdo 34)
Terrible defending once more at Selhurst Park but a nicely worked goal from Jose Izquierdo.
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That Swansea v Everton game: Big Sam’s entertainers yet to manage a shot on goal.
Burton’s survival hopes dwindling after Derby equaliser from David Nugent.
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Middlesbrough’s Patrick Bamford has been carried off with what looks like a serious injury.
Sunderland doomwatch: Aiden McGeady has been denied an equaliser against Reading by a save by former Black Cats goalie Vito Mannone.
More missed chances for Swansea. Jordan Ayew blows another one.
Burton have to win to keep alive in the Championship and now lead Derby 1-0 after a goal from Liam Boyce.
Goal! Crystal Palace 3-1 Brighton (Zaha 24)
Bullet header from Wilfried Zaha. Who else? What a game at Selhurst.
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Swansea still pushing for a goal. Jordan Ayew had a shot deflected. Federico Fernandez has a header saved on the line.
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Sunderland doomwatch: Goalie Lee Camp commits and foul and can’t keep out Liam Kelly’s penalty for Reading. And Sunderland had been the better team until then.
George Friend has just equalised for Middlesbrough against Bristol City. 1-1.
Safe to say that the derby with no name is more exciting than their last Premier League encounter. Not the best advert for defending, perhaps. Both Roy Hodgson and Chris Hughton will not be happy about that.
Goal! Crystal Palace 2-1 Brighton (Murray 18)
Yet another goalmouth scramble and there’s some dispute who got it. Lewis Dunk and Glenn Murray both involved and Murray will claim it, hopefully without some Harry Kane-style chicanery.
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Bristol City lead Middlesbrough in the Championship, a game between 7th and 9th, two clubs needing a late surge into the play-offs.
Goal! Crystal Palace 2-0 Brighton (Tomkins 14)
Palace putting down the hammer in the big derby. James Tomkins scores after another goalmouth scramble.
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Swansea have Everton pinned back at the Liberty Stadium. The Ayew brothers, though, yet to get amid the goals, which are a problem for the Swans.
Goal! Burnley 2-0 Leicester (Long 9)
Get the passports sorted, Burnley fans. Kevin Long has got the second.
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Also at the bottom of the Football League, Grimsby are leading Barnet 1-0. That’s bad news for Martin Allen’s hopes of escaping the drop.
Goal! Burnley 1-0 Leicester (Wood 6)
Sean Dyche’s team tighten their stranglehold on seventh. Chris Wood scores against his old club.
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Goal! Crystal Palace 1-0 Brighton (Zaha 5)
A scrambled finish from the Palace talisman.
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Some final scores from the earlier kick-offs. Chesterfield 0-1 Mansfield which is a desperate result for the home team, now on the brink of departing the Football League. And it finished Sheffield United 1-1 Millwall. That’s a result that does neither team many favours in the race for the play-offs.
The whistles have sounded across the country and we are away in the 3pm kick-offs.
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Christian Benteke is back in Crystal Palace’s squad, but on the bench. Perhaps that’s for the best.
A day of remembrance at Anfield.
Today's @LFC match programme. #LIVBOU falls on the eve of the 29th anniversary of Hillsborough. There will be a minute's applause ahead of kick-off. pic.twitter.com/qH9uqEJ112
— Jon Champion (@JonChampionJC) April 14, 2018
Hamza Choudhury gets his first Premier League start for Leicester, someone we predicted as the Foxes’ next big thing in 2014. Also featured: Marcus Rashford and Dom Solanke.
North of the border now, where it’s Scottish FA semi-final weekend. A resounding win for Motherwell over Aberdeen.
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Here’s the permutations and state of play from this weekend’s action in England..
Premier League
Manchester City have won their fifth English league title after Manchester United lost at home to West Brom. Liverpool (70) and Tottenham (67) look set to join United in the top four with Chelsea seven points behind in fifth. Arsenal are just two points above Burnley in sixth, but could still reach the Champions League if they win the Europa League. Burnley look bound for Europe, unless Southampton win the FA Cup.
West Brom (24pts) are still nine points from safety despite their shock win at Old Trafford while Stoke (27pts) and Southampton (28) are losing touch with Swansea (33), Crystal Palace (34), West Ham (34), Huddersfield (35) and Brighton (35) in the fight to avoid relegation.
Championship
Wolves (pictured) have been promoted to the Premier League after Brentford's late equaliser against Fulham (82pts), who are now third behind Cardiff (83) in the race for automatic promotion, with Aston Villa (79) in fourth. There is a fierce battle for the other two play-off places with just four points between Middlesbrough, Millwall, Derby, Preston, Sheffield United, Bristol City and Brentford.
Burton beat Derby to avoid relegation and climb above Sunderland, who are six points from safety with three games to play. Barnsley (38pts) are still battling and have a game in hand on Bolton (40) and Reading (43),with Birmingham (40) still in trouble.
League One
Wigan and Blackburn have the edge in a three-horse race for automatic promotion; both sides have a five-point cushion on Shrewsbury (82pts), and leaders Wigan have a game in hand. Rotherham appear set for the top six with Scunthorpe, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Charlton and Peterborough battling for the other two play-off spots.
Bury (pictured) have been relegated to League Two after defeat to Northampton, who boosted their own survival hopes. MK Dons and Rochdale join the Cobblers in the bottom four, but Oldham, Walsall, Wimbledon and Oxford are all in danger.
League Two
Accrington missed the chance to seal promotion against Exeter on Saturday, but Stanley and Luton (83pts) look certain to climb into League One. Wycombe (77pts) are in third, with Notts County (73) and Exeter (73) playing catch-up. Coventry (68) and Mansfield (67) occupy the other play-off places but Lincoln (67) have games in hand.
Chesterfield and Barnet are in the bottom two but have hopes of catching the four teams above them – Forest Green, Grimsby, Morecambe and Port Vale. Macclesfield are 10 points clear in the National League, with one other team set to come up via the play-offs.
Today is a rare Saturday when football is not the nation’s focus. Instead, it’s the Grand National, which goes at 5.15pm but there is a host of great racing and build-up before that. Join Tony Paley on the live blog.
What a response from Millwall. It’s 1-1 straight away. Steve Morison, the old faithful, gets it.
Big goal at Bramall Lane. Leon Clarke has just put Sheffield United 1-0 up on Millwall.
Mansfield are leading 1-0 at Chesterfield, and that could send the Spireites out of the Football League. Twenty minutes to play there.
It’s still 0-0 between Sheffield United and Millwall.
And Southampton 2-3 Chelsea is a final score. That’s a bitter blow for Saints, and great news for the rest of the teams in that relegation dogfight.
Down in the National League, leaders Macclesfield have drawn 1-1 with Leyton Orient, and should Tranmere Rovers lose today to Aldershot then the Silkmen are up.
For the 3pm matches, the headline selection news is probably Wayne Rooney getting the call from Sam Allardyce after last week’s Merseyside derby tantrum. Sam has asked for more goals from Rooney.
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Some good headgear from Big Mal Allison in this Crystal Palace video ahead of the derby with no name.
LET'S GO PALACE! MAKE SOME NOISE! #CRYBHA pic.twitter.com/ci7wDyh5QV
— Crystal Palace F.C. (@CPFC) April 14, 2018
In the Championship, Sheffield United and Millwall are drawing 0-0 in a vital game for for the play-off race. That’s now deep in the second half.
And in the meantime at St Mary’s, Chelsea are now 3-2 up at Southampton after another goal from Giroud. Mark Hughes looks a sickened man. Perhaps only Stoke can stop him becoming the first boss to take two clubs down in the Premier League season.
Crystal Palace v Brighton
Crystal Palace: Hennessey, Ward, Tomkins, Sakho, Van Aanholt,
McArthur, Cabaye, Milivojevic, Loftus-Cheek, Zaha, Townsend.
Subs: Speroni, Sorloth, Lee, Benteke, Wan Bissaka, Kelly, Riedewald.
Brighton: Ryan, Schelotto, Duffy, Dunk, Bong, Kayal, Stephens, Locadia, Izquierdo, Gross, Murray.
Subs: Saltor, Baldock, Knockaert, Ulloa, Goldson, March, Krul.
Referee: Andre Marriner (West Midlands)
Burnley v Leicester
Burnley: Pope, Lowton, Long, Tarkowski, Ward, Lennon, Cork,
Westwood, Gudmundsson, Barnes, Wood.
Subs: Heaton, Taylor, Marney, Vokes, Hendrick, Wells, Bardsley.
Leicester: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Chilwell,
Mahrez, Choudhury, Adrien Silva, Gray, Okazaki, Vardy.
Subs: Iheanacho, Albrighton, Hamer, Dragovic, Fuchs, Barnes, Diabate.
Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire)
Swansea v Everton
Swansea: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Mawson, Olsson, Ki, King, Carroll, Narsingh, Andre Ayew, Jordan Ayew.
Subs: van der Hoorn, Abraham, Dyer, Nordfeldt, Routledge, Bartley, Roberts.
Everton: Pickford, Coleman, Jagielka, Keane, Baines, Schneiderlin, Gueye, Walcott, Rooney, Bolasie, Tosun.
Subs: Martina, Niasse, Funes Mori, Davies, Vlasic, Robles, Baningime.
Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire)
The teams are rolling in.
Huddersfield: Lossl, Hadergjonaj, Schindler, Jorgensen, Kongolo, Hogg, Mooy, Quaner, Pritchard, van La Parra, Mounie.
Subs: Smith, Malone, Billing, Coleman, Lowe, Depoitre, Ince.
Watford: Karnezis, Mariappa, Prodl, Cathcart, Janmaat, Hughes,
Doucoure, Capoue, Femenia, Pereyra, Deeney.
Subs: Gomes, Britos, Richarlison, Sinclair, Gray, Kabasele, Okaka.
Referee: Craig Pawson (South Yorkshire)
It’s 2-2 at St Mary’s now. Goal from Hazard. That is a big goal for the relegation battle.
Down on the South Coast, Southampton are leading Chelsea 2-1, with Olivier Giroud just pulling one back for the deposed, listing champions. Rob Smyth is providing MBM on that game. A Southampton win would sincerely shake up the relegation battle.
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Four matches kick off at 3pm in the Premier League this afternoon and each has plenty riding on it. There is safety at stake as well as bragging rights in that curious rivalry between Crystal Palace and Brighton. And it is a real rivalry, though others have smirked at the idea of two teams with 37 miles between them. Let’s hope for better than the 0-0 they played out in November . Elsewhere, Swansea, whose run to safety has stalled somewhat of late, welcome Everton, for whom Sam Allardyce has lately been rewriting the book on issuing news conference statements that rile his own club’s fans. And there is a significant prize at hand as Burnley welcome Leicester; the race for seventh is most probably a race to the Europa League. Which leaves Huddersfield and Watford, with David Wagner’s team playing for their lives and desperately needing a win with a hellish set of fixtures to come.
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And in the Football League, there’s plenty to be decided with Burton Albion facing the drop from the Championship, Bury similarly precarious in League One and a host of promotion and play-off permutations to consider. In Europe, Barcelona’s game with Valencia, kicking off at 3.15 BST gives them a chance to put Tuesday’s Roma nightmares behind them.
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