That’s it for another busy clocko. These are the final Premier League scores, and we’ll have match reports on the site in the next 15 minutes or so.
- Arsenal 2-1 Swansea
- Crystal Palace 2-2 West Ham
- Liverpool 3-0 Huddersfield
- Manchester United 1-0 Spurs
- Watford 0-1 Stoke
- West Brom 2-3 Manchester City
You can follow Bournemouth v Chelsea with Scott Murray, while Will Unwin is covering the Under-17 World Cup final. England, who were 2-0 down, lead 3-2 with 19 minutes remaining.
Thanks for your company, bye!
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Full time: Crystal Palace 2-2 West Ham
That Palace goal came after an abysmal piece of play from Michail Antonio. He could have kept the ball in the corner but decided to cross and it ended up in the keeper Speroni’s hands. Palace broke and Zaha got the equaliser Palace deserve for a brilliant second-half performance.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 2-2 West Ham (Zaha 90+7)
Palace have equalised in the seventh minute of injury time!
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Full time: Watford 0-1 Stoke
That’s an excellent, well deserved victory for Stoke.
Watford 0-1 Stoke The Watford keeper Heurelho Gomes goes up for a corner, Stoke break and Charlie Adam misses an open goal!
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Full time: West Brom 2-3 Manchester City
That’s 13 wins in a row for City, whose victory was more comfortable than the scoreline suggests.
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Full time: Liverpool 3-0 Huddersfield
It took a while, but in the end Liverpool were emphatic winners against Huddersfield. They move into the top six as a result.
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Full time: Arsenal 2-1 Swansea
That’s a tough but important win for Arsenal, who move to within a point of Spurs.
GOAL! West Brom 2-3 Manchester City (Phillips 90+2)
Matt Phillips gets a consolation for West Brom after Nicolas Otamendi mistakes himself for Franz Beckenbauer. He tried to chest the ball back to the keeper and Phillips nipped in to score.
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It’s all a bit quiet in the Premier League, with a few minutes remaining. These are the latest scores.
- Arsenal 2-1 Swansea
- Crystal Palace 1-2 West Ham
- Liverpool 3-0 Huddersfield
- Watford 0-1 Stoke
- West Brom 1-3 Manchester City
England are 2-1 down to Spain in the Under-17 World Cup final. Get the latest with Will Unwin.
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A surprise in the Championship, where Wolves are 2-1 down at QPR. In-form Norwich are also losing by the same score at home to Derby.
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Crystal Palace 1-2 West Ham Another terrific save from Joe Hart, this time from Yohan Cabaye’s free-kick.
Crystal Palace 1-2 West Ham Joe Hart, who is having a good day, has made an important save from Wilfried Zaha.
Reasons to love Chris Kamara, part 4231482392 “Watford are playing with four players up front now, desperate to try and get a goal, but they are being snifled… stuffled… blocked out.”
GOAL! Liverpool 3-0 Huddersfield (Wijnaldum 75)
Mo Salah tees up home goalscoring specialist Georginio Wijnaldum, who wallops an excellent shot past Lossl.
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A decade is a long time in football. Manchester City have scored 35 goals in 10 Premier League games. They scored 29 in the entire 2006-07 season.
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The latest Premier League scores
- Arsenal 2-1 Swansea
- Crystal Palace 1-2 West Ham
- Liverpool 2-0 Huddersfield
- Watford 0-1 Stoke
- West Brom 1-3 Manchester City
“I was more than happy to have Carroll at Liverpool,” says Matt Dony. “ He’d been really very good for Newcastle. But, no, there was never any chance he’d replace Torres. I didn’t know much about Suarez at the time, but his transfer had been confirmed earlier. Carroll’s went through at 10:30 or so, and Torres’ was delayed. For a tantalising 45 minutes or so, it appeared that all three were Liverpool players. That would have been truly magnificent. My eyes are tearing up just thinking about it.”
“Arsenal drew 2-2 at home to Man City in April , sorry,” apologises Griff Simon.
Fair point, my mistake.
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GOAL! West Brom 1-3 Manchester City (Sterling 64)
The substitute Raheem Sterling wraps up victory for Manchester City, converting Kyle Walker’s cross at the end of another terrifyingly good team move.
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As things stand, the Big Six are the top six for the first time this season: Manchester City, Manchester United, Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool. Well that was the 2017-18 season, thanks for your company, bye!
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Liverpool 2-0 Huddersfield Lossl makes another spectacular save from Salah, this time tipping his shot onto the post.
GOAL! Celtic 1-1 Kilmarnock (Jones 60)
Jordan Jones has equalised for Kilmarnock, who may yet end Celtic’s long domestic unbeaten run.
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GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Huddersfield (Firmino 58)
Liverpool are heading for their first home win since August. Roberto Firmino has put them 2-0 ahead with a close-range header.
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GOAL! Arsenal 2-1 Swansea (Ramsey 58)
Arsenal have won every home game since that infamous 5-1 defeat to Bayern Munich in March, and the run seems set to continute. Aaron Ramsey has given them the lead from Kolasinac’s cross.
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Crystal Palace 1-2 West Ham Yohan Cabaye hits the post for Palace, who have been inspired by Roy Hodgson’s half-time teamtalk.
Arsenal 1-1 Swansea Laurent Koscielny misses a great headed chance for Arsenal.
“As a Baggies fan, I’m delighted to have been proved wrong on my nil forecast,” says Alan Davis. “JR may well be right about the Carob-Cocoa cup match, but in the League last season City won 4-0 and only looked rattled when Jonathan Leko came on as sub to run at them. Nowadays Phillips and MacLean can’t get into the starting eleven, Oliver Burke can’t get into the squad, and Leko can’t even get into The Hawthorns.”
GOAL! Crystal Palace 1-2 West Ham (Milivojevic 50 pen)
Roy Hodgson’s burst of half-time Churchill has worked: Palace are back in the game thanks to a penalty from Luka Milivojevic.
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Arsenal 1-1 Swansea Tammy Abraham has a goal disallowed for offside. I don’t have a live feed, because we don’t do illegality at the Guardian, but it sounds like it was very tight.
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GOAL! Arsenal 1-1 Swansea (Kolasinac 51)
The big man has equalised for Arsenal, ramming past Fabianski from 15 yards.
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GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Huddersfield (Sturridge 50)
Daniel Sturridge gives the world a necessary reminder of his talent, dinking the ball sweetly over Lossl to give Liverpool the lead.
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Peep peep! The second halves have begun around England, and Scotland. It’s a training session at Anfield: Liverpool Attack 0-0 Huddersfield Defence.
“Hi Rob,” says Konstantin Sauer. “Second half in Bundesliga has just kicked off. Only a handful of goals so far with Schalke, Hertha and Hoffenheim each 1:0 up against their respective opponents Wolfsburg, Hamburg and Monchengladbach. Köln lead by one in the Rhine Derby against Leverkusen, seeking to end their horrendous run in Bundesliga so far. Hannover surprisingly are in a 2:1 lead against Borussia Dortmund, showing a great display of efficiency. However, I’d expect some more goals to follow in this match. As it stands, Dortmund could lose their place at the top of the league to either Bayern Munich or Leipzig that will meet later this evening - only few days after their encounter in the German Cup.”
I’m only a casual Bundesliga fan. Is there any chance at all that Bayern won’t win the league?
“Bear with me here...” says Matt Dony. “The highest psychological cost I’ve paid wasn’t a Liverpool loss as such. January 31st, 2011. A Monday. It had been my first day in a stop-gap call centre job that I detested. I was struggling to get an issue resolved with HMRC and had spent two hours on the phone to them after work. There was an issue with my car, so I walked about two miles to my in-laws’, so I could get a lift home. My wife was away with work, so I was alone in a large apartment in an old manse in the middle of nowhere. I loved Fernando Torres more than any other player. I had been hurt by the way his performances had tailed off, and the fact that he clearly wanted to move. But I still hoped against hope that he’d stay. I followed the last hours of the transfer window on a few different rolling blogs, ate Super Noodles, drank Carling, and just waited for confirmation. The deal wasn’t ratified until long after 11pm. It was a long night, and possibly the lowest football has ever made me feel. I would still take him back.”
I’d love to have seen the utter dejection on your coupon when it was announced they were replacing him with Andy Carroll.
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More on Max Crocombe, the Salford goalkeeper sent off for urinating.
“I haven’t seen the incident,” says Allan Castle, “but it’s clear he had to go. I’m here all week.”
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“Back when we still lived in Greenland, our household paid the equivalent of 120 of pounds a month for internet (yes...) and 50 pounds for an online EPL subscription (no access to regular tv channels), and all 2000 pounds of it a year just to watch the favourite team take a beating without delivering much of anything,” says Mads Pihl. “Wonderful times, really. Now, at least, we can watch the same thing happen for a fraction of the costs.”
Great days. Which particular team was this? You’re a Sunderland fan, aren’t you?
Shameless half-time plug
Half-time reading
It’s half-time in the five Premier League games, and it’s a good day to be an away supporter.
- Arsenal 0-1 Swansea
- Crystal Palace 0-2 West Ham
- Liverpool 0-0 Huddersfield
- Watford 0-1 Stoke City
- West Brom 1-2 Manchester City
Arsenal 0-1 Swansea The other Ayew, Jordan, has missed a great chance to give Swansea a 2-0 lead at the Emirates.
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GOAL! Celtic 1-0 Kilmarnock (Griffiths 43)
Celtic are on course to equal their own British record of 62 matches without defeat in domestic competition.
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GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-2 West Ham (Ayew 43)
What a week this has been for West Ham. They won at Spurs in the Carabou Cup, and now Andre Ayew has smashed them into a 2-0 lead at Selhurst Park!
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PENALTY MISS: Liverpool 0-0 Huddersfield
Jonas Lossl saves Mohamed Salah’s penalty, and Jordan Henderson hits the post from the rebound!
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ITUEYMI, England are in a World Cup final today.
Liverpool 0-0 Huddersfield Liverpool have had 75 per cent possession, without threatening to score.
I need to know more about that red card for Max Crocombe, the Salford City goalkeeper, against Bradford Park Avenue.
Crystal Palace 0-1 West Ham Joe Hart has made a spectacular reaction save from James Tomkins to keep West Ham ahead.
87' - We can confirm that Crocombe has been sent off for urinating during the game. We are not joking. #greenarmy (1-2)
— Bradford Park Avenue (@BPAFCOfficial) October 28, 2017
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“I paid the 30 quid WIFI fee to keep up on Everton getting murdered 4-1 at Man U,” sniffs Mark Grice. “What’s the most people have paid to watch or kept up with the news of their side getting a hiding?”
Are we talking just money or does incurable psychological damage count?
GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-1 West Ham (Chicharito 31)
Javier Hernandez gives West Ham the lead, finishing nicely from Aaron Cresswell’s cross. Royston Hodgson has a problem.
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You can get the latest EFL scores by clicking here. Sunderland are losing.
Phil Thompson, on Sky Sports, informs us that Crystal Palace v West Ham is fifty shades of stinker. It’s 0-0 after half an hour.
Here’s Allan Castle, and he’s got his gah on. “’Arsenal, utterly dominant, are behind’. Says the commentator, to the surprise of no Arsenal fan anywhere. Gah.”
Manchester City must be a decent bet to break Chelsea’s record of 103 goals in a Premier League season. They need to score another 70 from the last 28 and a half matches. The all-time record for a top-flight team is 128 by Aston Villa in 1930-31.
As things stand, Arsenal and Liverpool are, respectively, 12 and 14 points behind Manchester City. It’s over for them for another season.
GOAL! Arsenal 0-1 Swansea (Clucas 22)
Swansea, who have been under constant pressure, sting Arsenal on the break. Tammy Abraham’s stunning pass is finished nicely by Sam Clucas, through the legs of Petr Cech.
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GOAL! Watford 0-1 Stoke (Fletcher 16)
Has Marco Silva taken Watford as far as he can? No, clearly, but his team are behind to a storming volley from Darren Fletcher.
Reading 0-1 Middlesbrough A penalty from Grant Leadbitter has given Boro the lead from the spot.
GOAL! West Brom 1-2 Manchester City (Fernandinho 15)
Insert that-didn’t-take-long banter here. Fernandinho’s shot deflects off Gareth Barry and into the net to restore Manchester City’s lead.
GOAL! West Brom 1-1 Manchester City (Rodriguez 13)
Oh me, oh my!
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“Just letting you know I am on Thai Airways flight from Bangkok to London, currently over the Caspian Sea,” says Steve Brazier. “Paid USD35 for WiFi to watch the blog, so make it good, and let Arsenal win.”
USD35! Do you realise the impact your email has had on my soul? That I’m now almost too guilty to function? USD35 for this!
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GOAL! West Brom 0-1 Manchester City (Sane 10)
Insert that-didn’t-take-long banter here. A high-speed move from City, like tiki-taka on steroids, culminates in a cracking finish from the in-form Leroy Sane.
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Keep telling yourself it’s still 0-0 department: City are all over West Brom at the Hawthorns.
“What on earth do people expect Pulis or WBA to do given a) the depth of City attacking talent and b) the mediocrity of that the WBA squad and manager?” says Robin White. “It’ll be 5-3-1-1 or something like that, with probably a lot of man marking throughout the match, and the option to bring on a pacy sub for the last 20 minutes maybe. Having said all that, I would laugh my head off if City win 1-0 from a set piece.”
I’d laugh even harder if West Brom won 7-2 with football to die for.
BREAKING NEWS: MANCHESTER CITY HAVEN’T SCORED YET
“Hey Rob,” says J.R. in Illinois. “I’m far from the biggest Pulis fan around but perhaps Mr. Davis should take a gander at the West Brom v Man City milk cup game last month. The final score was 1-2 but the Baggies had a boatload of chances and could have scored a hatful.”
Poor Dejan Lovren hasn’t started the game at Anfield - he was presumably injured in the warm-up, and Ragnar Klavan has come into the defence alongside Joel Matip.
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As the 3pm games kick off, here’s Paul Wilson’s match report from the Theatre of Undeniable Defensive Excellence.
“That WBA side,” sniffs Adam Timmins. “No pace in there whatsoever. McClean and Phillips on the bench so Livermore and Barry can lumber around the midfield.”
You don’t need pace at set pieces.
“It looks like Tony Pulis is setting up an 8-0-0-0-0-0-2 formation against Man City,” says Alan Davis. “My prediction is that they’ll rack up another nil goals.”
“Hello from Shanghai!” says Alex Butler. “Is there any chance of a shoutout for my local team, Shrewsbury Town FC? There are small miracles going on at the Meadow this season, we’re the only undefeated team in the Football League, sitting pretty at the top and are also in the process of reintroducing safe standing capacity in English stadiums. Very proud of all involved! For a small-town club that’s pretty fair going right? Might need to dig deep away to Peterborough United today though, wish us luck!”
I can do that. I can shout. I can give you a shoutout. Congratulations to all involved! The safe-standing campaign is especially interesting.
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Our man Jacob Steinberg reckons West Ham will line up in a 3-4-1-2 formation, not 4-3-3 as advertised: Hart; Kouyate, Fonte, Ogbonna; Zabaleta, Fernandes, Noble, Cresswell; Lanzini; Ayew, Hernandez.
Manchester United have beaten Spurs 1-0 in the early game at Old Trafford, bringing to an end their desperate run of one consecutive league defeat.
Spot of the day, from Glyn Thomas
“Just seen the Arsenal - Swans teams,” says Glyn. “There are more English players in the Welsh team than in the English team (zero), and more Welsh players in the English team than in the Welsh team (zero).”
West Brom v Manchester City team news
West Brom (5-3-2) Foster; Nyom, McAuley, Hegazi, Evans, Gibbs; Livermore, Krychowiak, Barry; Rodriguez, Rondon.
Substitutes: Myhill, Chadli, Brunt, Phillips, McClean, Yacob, Robson-Kanu.
Manchester City (4-1-2-3) Ederson; Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Delph; Fernandinho; De Bruyne, D Silva; B Silva, Jesus, Sane.
Substitutes: Bravo, Mangala, Danilo, Sterling, Gundogan, Toure, Aguero.
The substitute Anthony Martial has given Manchester United the lead in the 81st minute at Old Trafford. Scott Murray has the latest.
Watford v Stoke team news
Watford (4-2-3-1) Gomes; Femenia, Kabasele, Britos, Holebas; Capoue, Doucoure; Carrillo, Cleverley, Richarlison; Deeney.
Substitutes: Karnezis, Mariappa, Janmaat, Zeegelaar, Hughes, Watson, Gray.
Stoke (3-4-2-1) Butland; Zouma, Shawcross, Wimmer; Diouf, Fletcher, Allen, Pieters; Shaqiri, Sobhi; Choupo-Moting.
Substitutes: Grant, Edwards, Adam, Afellay, Jese, Ngoy, Berahino.
Liverpool v Huddersfield team news
Liverpool (4-3-3) Mignolet; Gomez, Matip, Lovren, Moreno; Milner, Henderson, Wijnaldum; Salah, Sturridge, Firmino.
Substitutes: Karius, Klavan, Robertson, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Can, Grujic, Solanke.
Huddersfield (4-2-3-1) Lossl; Smith, Zanka, Schindler, Lowe; Williams, Hogg; van La Parra, Mooy, Ince; Depoitre.
Substitutes: Green, Malone, Cranie, Hadergjonaj, Mounie, Kachunga, Quaner.
Crystal Palace v West Ham team news
Crystal Palace (4-2-3-1) Speroni; Ward, Dann, Tomkins, van Aanholt; Milivojevic, Cabaye; Townsend, Loftus-Cheek, Schlupp; Zaha.
Substitutes: Hennessey, Riedewald, Kelly, Delaney, Fosu-Mensah, Sako, Puncheon.
West Ham (4-3-3) Hart; Zabaleta, Fonte, Ogbonna, Cresswell; Fernandes, Kouyate, Noble; Ayew, Chicharito, Lanzini.
Substitutes: Adrian, Rice, Masuaku, Antonio, Obiang, Carroll, Arnautovic.
Arsenal v Swansea team news
Arsenal (3-4-2-1) Cech; Koscielny, Mertesacker, Monreal; Bellerin, Ramsey, Xhaka, Kolasinac; Ozil, Sanchez; Lacazette.
Substitutes: Macey, Holding, Wilshere, Iwobi, Coquelin, Giroud, Walcott.
Swansea (3-5-2) Fabianski; van der Hoorn, Fernandez, Mawson; Naughton, Ki, Fer, Carroll, Clucas; Ayew, Abraham.
Substitutes: Nordfeldt, Rodon, Dyer, Mesa, Narsingh, Routledge, McBurnie.
In a surprising development, it’s 0-0 at Old Trafford in the contest between the two best defences in the league. You can follow the last half hour with Scott Murray.
Preamble
Tony Pulis: your country of employment needs you. If an opposing team does not stall Manchester City soon, the English Premier League will become a one-horse race for the fourth time in six seasons. Today, that scary opportunity falls to Pulis’s West Bromwich Albion. Godspeed, lads.
City have played some awesome football in the last month or two, spectacularly demonstrating the culture of the assist that Pep Guardiola has introduced, and there is a chance they will win the title by 15 points. The main hope for the rest of the league is that we were saying the same thing when City won their first 10 games in all competitions last season. It’ll be interesting to see how they respond to being undermined, but only if somebody manages to undermine them.
City’s match is one of five in the Premier League that will kick off at 3pm, a list that includes the bromance derby at Anfield between Liverpool (managed by Jurgen Klopp) and Huddersfield (managed by his great friend David Wagner). When the fixture list came out in the summer, you’d have got long odds on that match being ninth against eleventh.
These are the 3pm kick-offs.
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Arsenal v Swansea
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Crystal Palace v West Ham United
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Liverpool v Huddersfield Town
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Watford v Stoke City
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West Bromwich Albion v Manchester City
There’s also a full EFL programme. I’d type out all the fixtures but it would be a waste of my time and yours, and we should try to make the most of every minute of earth because we’re all going to die one day, and to my knowledge nobody ever lay on their death bed saying, “As I reflect on my life, the thing that gives me most pride is that one Saturday I diligently typed out every fixture of a full EFL programme. I didn’t even abbreviate Wolverhampton Wanderers.”
Especially as you can see all the fixtures by clicking here instead.
We’ll also be keeping a special eye on the FA Trophy match between Sittingbourne and Merstham, because I grew up there. Win, lose or draw, they’ll be brawling outside Lang’s Bar & Cocktail Lounge tonight!
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