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Match report: Chelsea 3-2 Leeds United
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Match report: Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa
Premier League: “Steven Gerrard’s new team gave his old club no quarter only to fall to the second defeat of his reign courtesy of Mo Salah’s second half penalty,” writes Andy Hunter from Anfield.
Match report: Manchester City 1-0 Wolves
Premier League: Obdurate Wolves played the entire second half with 10 men after Raul Jimenez foolishly got himself sent off, but were ultimately undone by Raheem Sterling’s 100th Premier League goal. Jamie Jackson was there ...
Match report: Arsenal 3-0 Southampton
Premier League: “This was a patchy performance, particularly early on, but Southampton’s backline was always liable to be breached and the hosts’ extra quality deservedly told,” writes Nick Ames from the Emirates.
Scottish Premiership results
- Dundee United 0-1 Livingston
- Ross County 3-2 Dundee
- St Johnstone 0-1 Aberdeen
- St Mirren 1-1 Hibernian
- View the Scottish Premiership table
Championship results
- Huddersfield Town 1-1 Coventry City
- Bournemouth 0-2 Blackburn Rovers
- Birmingham City 2-2 Cardiff City
- Derby County 1-0 Blackpool
- Hull City 2-2 Bristol City
- Luton Town 1-1 Fulham
- Peterborough United 2-1 Millwall
- Preston 2-1 Barnsley
- Stoke City 0-0 Middlesbrough
- Swansea City 1-4 Nottingham Forest
- West Brom 1-0 Reading
- View the Championship table
Premier League results
- Manchester City 1-0 Wolves
- Chelsea 3-2 Leeds United
- Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa
- Arsenal 3-0 Southampton
- Norwich City v Manchester United (5.30pm)
- View the Premier League table
Full time: Arsenal 3-0 Southampton
Premier League: Southampton roared out of the traps but couldn’t score and quickly threw in the towel once Arsenal scored their first of three goals.
Full time: Chelsea 3-2 Leeds United
Premier League: The players of both teams mark the final whistle with group handbags in one corner of the pitch, with those from Leeds accusing Antonio Rudiger of cheating to win the penalty that earned all three points for Chelsea.
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Full time: Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa
Premier League: Steven Gerrard’s much hyped return to Anfield has ended in defeat for his Aston Villa side. Mo Salah settled the match from the spot after being fouled by Tyrone Mings.
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Championship: It’s Swansea City 1-4 Nottingham Forest, with Cafu (not that one) scoring for the visitors in the fourth minute of added time.
Championship: Matty James equalises for Bristol City against Hull City in added time, while Mark McGuinness does the exact same thing for Cardiff City against Birmingham. It’s 2-2 in both games.
GOAL! Chelsea 3-2 Leeds United (Jorginho 90+4pen)
Premier League: Jorginho sends Meslier the wrong way again, scoring into the other side of the goal from last time.
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Penalty for Chelsea!
Premier League: Klich kicks Antonio Rudiger from behind and Chelsea win a spot-kick. There’s a VAR check for an offside in the build-up ... and the penalty is given!
Arsenal 3-0 Southampton: Arsenal remain completely in control against a Southampton side that has long since given up.
Liveerpool 1-0 Aston Villa: Alisson appears to bring down Danny Ings while in a terrible dither just inside his own penalty area but there’s no penalty for Aston Villa.
Championship Goals I completely missed earlier: (1) Blackburn’s second against Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium, where the visitors lead 2-0 and (2) Derby County’s against Blackpool. It’s 1-0 to Wayne Rooney’s side.
GOAL! Chelsea 2-2 Leeds United (Gelhardt 83)
Premier League: Off the bench for Raphina, young Scouser Joe Gelhardt gets in front of Thiago Silva to equalise for Leeds.
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Championship: George Honeyman puts Hull City 2-1 up against Bristol City, while Preston lead Barnsley by the same scoreline after Daniel Johnson’s strike on 78 minutes.
Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa: Danny Ings is on for Aston Villa to face the club where he scored four goals in four years. To be fair, much of that time was spent in the treatment room as he had no luck with injuries.
Championship: The goals are flying in! Jonson Clarke-Harris scores two in two minutes for Peterborough to give them a 2-1 lead against Millwall. At Deepdale, Cauley Woodroiw heads home for Barnsley to equalise in their game against Preston, where it’s a goal apiece. Kieffer Moore has scored for Cardiff City to halve their deficit against Birmingham City at St Andrews. And finally, at the Liberty Stadium, Swansea trail Nottingham Forest 3-1 after Brennan Johnson scored for the visitors.
GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa (Salah 66pen)
Premier League: Mo Salah scores from the penalty spot after being upended by Tyrone Mings as he cantered into the Villa penalty area from the right.
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Championship: Elijah Adebayo scores for Luton to make it 1-1 in their game against Fulham.
Championship: Joel Piroe halves Swansea’s deficit against Nottingham Forest at the Liberty Stadium.
GOAL! Arsenal 3-0 Southampton (Gabriel 62)
Premier League: Gabriel scores Arsenal’s third, nipping in ahead of Big Willy Caballero to skim the ball past Southampton’s emergency signing.
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Championship: Callum Robinson scores his first goal for West Brom since August to put them one up against Reading.
Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa: It remains scoreless at Anfield, where Aston Villa are hanging in there but only by the skin of their teeth. Liverpool have had 66% per cent possession and eight shots in total, with four on target. Villa have yet to trouble Alisson in the Liverpool goal.
Championship: Alan Browne scores for Preston to give them a 1-0 lead over Barnsley.
GOAL! Chelsea 2-1 Leeds United (Jorginho 58pen)
Premier League: Jorginho sticks it in the top corner following his usual stuttered run-up.
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Penalty for Chelsea!
Chelsea 1-1 Leeds: Raphina fouls Antonio Rudiger in the Leeds penalty area and referee Chris Kavanagh awards a penalty after checking his pitchside monitor.
Championship: It’s all square bwetween Hull City and Bristol City, with Antoine Semenyo scoring at the second time of asking on the follow-up afternodding against the cross-bar.
Championship: Nottingham Forest double their lead, with Lewis Grabban finishing a counter-attack from the edge of the six-yard box.
Chelsea 1-1 Leeds: Jack Harrison has just forced Edouard Mendy into action with a shot from just inside the Chelsea penalty area.
Championship: Philip Zinckernagel has put Nottingham Forest one up at Swansea City on an afternoon when Forest manager Steve Cooper returns to his former club.
Match report: Reading 1-0 Chelsea
Women’s Super League: Chelsea suffered a shock defeat at Reading as Deanne Rose’s early strike proved the only goal of the game at the Madejski Stadium.
Half-time scores ...
Premier League
- Manchester City 1-0 Wolves (result)
- Chelsea 1-1 Leeds United
- Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa
- Arsenal 2-0 Southampton
- Norwich City v Manchester United (5.30pm)
Championship
- Huddersfield Town 1-1 Coventry City (result)
- Bournemouth 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
- Birmingham City 2-0 Cardiff City
- Derby County 0-0 Blackpool
- Hull City 1-0 Bristol City
- Luton Town 0-1 Fulham
- Peterborough United 0-1 Millwall
- Preston 0-0 Barnsley
- Stoke City 0-0 Middlesbrough
- Swansea City 0-0 Nottingham Forest
- West Brom 0-0 Reading
Scottish Premiership
- Dundee United 0-0 Livingston
- Ross County 1-2 Dundee
- St Johnstone 0-0 Aberdeen
- St Mirren 0-0 Hibernian
Championship: Birmingham City double their lead against Cardiff City with Ivan Sunjic scoring in added time at the end of the first half.
Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa: The most hyped game of the day is the dullest so far but Liverpool are in the ascendency. Villa goalkeeper Emi Martinez saves well from Mo Salah after the Egyptian had cut inside from the right, beaten Tyrone Mings and unleashed a shot.
GOAL! Chelsea 1-1 Leeds United (Mount 42)
Premier League: Mason Mount converts a cross from Marcos Alonso with Leeds goalkeeper Ilan Meslier weirdly out of position and giving him plenty of goal to aim at.
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An email: “Anything happening of note in League One today, Barry?” asks Jason Graff. It’s funny you should ask, Jason, as Sunderland are beating Plymouth Argyle by two goals to no score.
Chelsea 0-1 Leeds: Timo Werner is incensed after being tackled from behind by Tyler Roberts out on the left touchline, deep inside the Leeds half. The Leeds player avoids a booking. It’s a seriously spicy encounter at Stamford Bridge.
Arsenal 2-0 Southampton: A Tweet from our man at the Emirates ...
Arsenal winning comfortably but against better opposition they'd quite possibly be losing; remains almost impossible to fathom this team. #AFC
— Nick Ames (@NickAmes82) December 11, 2021
Chelsea 0-1 Leeds United: Chelsea’s Reece James is perhaps a little lucky to only have a yellow card waved his way after clattering and upending his namesake Dan with a sliding tackle. He was out of control and would almost certainly have seen red had he connected higher up James’s leg. The Chelsea defender looks mightily relieved to only see yellow.
Championship latest
- Huddersfield Town 1-1 Coventry City (result)
- Bournemouth 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
- Birmingham City 1-0 Cardiff City
- Derby County 0-0 Blackpool
- Hull City 1-0 Bristol City
- Luton Town 0-1 Fulham
- Peterborough United 0-1 Millwall
- Preston 0-0 Barnsley
- Stoke City 0-0 Middlesbrough
- Swansea City 0-0 Nottingham Forest
- West Brom 0-0 Reading
Championship: Troy Deeney puts Birmingham City a goal up against Cardiff City to make it 1-0 at St Andrews.
GOAL! Arsenal 2-0 Southampton (Odegaard 27)
Premier League: Martin Odegaard doubles Arsenal’s lead at the Emirates, heading home a Kieran Tierney cross from close range.
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GOAL! Chelsea 0-1 Leeds United (Raphina 27pen)
Premier League: Raphina beats Edouard Mendy from the spot after an ill-advised Marcos Alonso lunge in the penalty box.
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Arsenal 1-0 Southampton: Very much against the run of play, that was a good team goal from Arsenal, who played the ball out from the back, swept from one of the field to the other and went ahead when Saka picked out Lacazette, who shot from about 12 yards.
GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Southampton (Lacazette 21)
Premier League: Arsenal go ahead through Alexandre Lacazette.
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Chelsea 0-0 Leeds United: Leeds win a free-kick wide on the right for a foul on Tyler Roberts by Jorginho. Raphina shapes to cross but shoots and almost catches Edouard Mendy out. Close but no cigar for the Brazilian.
Arsenal 0-0 Southampton: Southampton are very much in the ascendency at the Emirates, where Gabriel and Bukayo Saka have both been booked in the opening 17 minutes and Aaron Ramsdale has been forced into three saves. Southampton win a free-kick in a dangerous position but James Ward-Prowse shoots narrowly wide.
Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa: Villa win a free-kick between the left side of the penalty area and the touchline. The ball’s whipped towards the near post and poked wide.
Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa: A splendid one-touch passing move from Liverpool ends with the ball being rolled across the edge of the Villa penalty area, where Mo Salah dummies. It fizzes into the path of Trent Alexander-Arnold, whose shot is deflected over the target by Targett.
Liverpool 0-0 Aston Villa: Aston Villa are very much on the back foot. Sadio Mane goes down in their box after getting a tug on the shoulder from Matty Cash while trying to run on to a return pass from Mo Salah. No penalty is given but Cash could have had few complaints if the referee had pointed to the spot. It was a gentle tug, but a tug nonetheless.
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Championship: Ryan Longman fires Hull City ahead against Bristol City after just three minutes.
Chelsea 0-0 Leeds: Playing on the left, Kai Havertz cuts inside and shoots but Ilan Meslier saves comfortably.
Arsenal 0-0 Southampton: The striker many Arsenal fans once considered the Messiah has been a very naughty boy.
Match report: Manchester City 1-0 Wolves
Premier League: Raheem Sterling’s 100th Premier League goal came via the penalty spot and gave Manchester City a sixth consecutive win in the competition, writes Jamie Jackson from the Etihad Stadium.
Full time: Huddersfield Town 1-1 Coventry City
Championship: Matt Godden scored in the third minute of added time to cancel out Danny Ward’s opener and rescue a point for Coventry City.
Full time: Manchester City 1-0 Wolves
Premier League: Raheem Sterling scored the only goal of the game from the penalty spot as Manchester City stretched their lead at the top of the table with a win over a game Wolves side reduced to 10 men for the entire second half.
Arsenal's Aubameyang dropped for "disciplinary breach"
Arsenal v Southampton: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang was not at Arsenal training yesterday and is a conspicuous absentee from today’s match squad. Mikel Arteta has confirmed he has been left out of the squad for unspecified naughtiness.
“Unfortunately, due to a disciplinary breach, and I think we’ve been very consistent,” said Arteta in an interview with Sky Sports, upon asked to explain his captain’s absence. “There are certain non-negotiables for the team that we have set ourselves at the club, and he’s not involved today.
On the subjkect of the length of Aubameyang’s punishment, Arteta said: “It starts today. It’s not an easy situation, we don’t want to have our club captain in that situation.”
Women's Super League: Reading 1-0 Chelsea
Women’s football: There’s been quite the turn-up for the books at the Madejski Stadium, where reigning champions Chelsea have been beaten by Reading.
Canada international Deanne Rose scored the only goal of the game in the fourth minute, to consign Emma Hayes’s side to their second defeat of the season. CHelsea stay second while Reading move to fifth in the table.
Arsenal v Southampton line-ups
Arsenal: Ramsdale, Tomiyasu, White, Gabriel, Tierney, Saka, Partey, Xhaka, Martinelli, Odegaard, Lacazette.
Subs: Smith Rowe, Maitland-Niles, Holding, Cedric, Pepe, Tavares,
Sambi Lokonga, Nketiah, Okonkwo.
Southampton: Caballero, Livramento, Stephens, Bednarek, Walker-Peters, Redmond, Diallo, Ward-Prowse, Tella, Broja, Adam Armstrong.
Subs: Lyanco, Long, Perraud, Djenepo, Smallbone, Elyounoussi, Walcott, Lewis, Valery.
Referee: Jarred Gillett (Australia)
Chelsea v Leeds United line-ups
Chelsea: Mendy, Azpilicueta, Thiago Silva, Rudiger, James, Loftus-Cheek, Jorginho, Alonso, Werner, Havertz, Mount.
Subs: Arrizabalaga, Christensen, Lukaku, Pulisic, Saul, Barkley, Hudson-Odoi, Ziyech, Sarr.
Leeds: Meslier, Shackleton, Ayling, Llorente, Firpo, Forshaw, Raphinha, Dallas, Roberts, Harrison, James.
Subs: Klaesson, Gelhardt, Cresswell, Drameh, Summerville, McKinstry, Klich, McCarron, Jenkins.
Referee: Chris Kavanagh (Lancashire)
Liverpool v Aston Villa line-ups
Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, van Dijk, Matip, Robertson, Henderson, Fabinho, Thiago, Salah, Mane, Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Subs: Konate, Milner, Keita, Gomez, Minamino, Jota, Tsimikas, Kelleher, Williams.
Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Targett, McGinn, Nakamba, Douglas Luiz, Jacob Ramsey, Watkins, Young.
Subs: Sanson, Buendia, Steer, Tuanzebe, Trezeguet, Ings, El Ghazi,
Hause, Carney Chukwuemeka.
Referee: Stuart Attwell (Warwickshire)
GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Wolves (Sterling 66pen)
Premier League: Joao Moutinho had his arm raised as he blocked a Jack Grealish cross with his armpit. The ball hit his inside upper arm and chest. Following a pitchside VAR check, Jon Moss awarded the penalty which Raheem Sterling calmly slotted home.
Covid-19 postponements: Following the postponement of Tottenham’s scheduled match with Brighton tomorrow on the back of a Covid outbreak in the Spurs camp, Mikel Arteta has asked the Premier League to clarify the number of positive Covid-19 cases required for matches to be called off. The Arsenal manager says the current rules leave clubs in the dark.
In related news, Uefa have announced they cannot reschedule the Europa Conference League match between Tottenham and Rennes that was called off on Thursday. The game will be referred to a disciplinary panel to decide the result.
Historic precedent suggests that Rennes will be awarded a 3-0 win, a hypothetical outcome that would leave the French side top of the group ahead of Vitesse Arnhem, with Tottenham exiting the competition along with Mura.
Premier League fixtures
- Manchester City v Wolves (12.30pm)
- Chelsea v Leeds United
- Liverpool v Aston Villa
- Arsenal v Southampton
- Norwich City v Manchester United (5.30pm)
- View the Premier League table
Championship fixtures
- Huddersfield Town v Coventry City (12.30pm)
- Bournemouth v Blackburn Rovers
- Birmingham City v Cardiff City
- Derby County v Blackpool
- Hull City v Bristol City
- Luton Town v Fulham
- Peterborough United v Millwall
- Preston v Barnsley
- Stoke City v Middlesbrough
- Swansea City v Nottingham Forest
- West Brom v Reading
- View the Championship table
Scottish Premiership
- Dundee United v Livingston
- Ross County v Dundee
- St Johnstone v Aberdeen
- St Mirren v Hibernian
- View the Scottish Premiership table
Saturday Clockwatch
Following last night’s win for Brentford over Watford, the weekend’s Premier League programme resumed this afternoon with league leaders Manchester City hosting Wolves at the Etihad Stadium.
It’s scoreless at half-time in Manchester but the first half was notable for two major talking points: the dismissal of Raul Jimenez for a daft second yellow card that came 42 seconds after his first, plus a sickening clash of heads between Wolves players Ruben Neves and Max Kilman. Astonishingly, both players were allowed to continue playing, despite Neves in particular looking decidedly groggy.
We have a trio of three o’clock kick-offs ahead of this evening’s set-to between Norwich City and Manchester United at Carrow Road, with Chelsea entertaining injury-blighted Leeds United, Steven Gerrard making his low key return to Liverpool with Aston Villa and Arsenal taking on Southampton at the Emirates.
On an afternoon when all three major title contenders are in action, we’ll have news of all the goals as they go in, stay across all the major talking points and bring you post-match reaction once the final whistles have been blown.
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