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Match report: Norwich City 0-0 Woves
Premier League: Wolves had their goalkeeper Jose Sa to thank for their escape from Carrow Road with a point against rejuvenated Norwich City.
Match report: Crystal Palace 1-2 Aston Villa
Premier League: Matt Targett and John McGinn got the goals for Aston Villa to give Steven Gerrard his second consecutive win since taking over as manager of the club.
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Match report: Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle United
Premier League: Newcastle’s forlorn search for a first win of the season continues after goals from Buklayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli consigned them to their eighth consecutive defeat at the hands of Arsenal. Nick Ames was on hand to see the latest.
Match report: Liverpool 4-0 Southampton
Premier League: “The question was not whether Liverpool would score once again but how long Southampton would make a contest of their latest daunting assignment at Anfield. The answer was two minutes. Andy Hunter reports ...
Championship results
- Preston 1-1 Fulham
- Bournemouth 2-2 Coventry City
- Birmingham City 1-0 Blackpool
- Huddersfield Town 1-2 Middlesbrough
- Hull City 2-1 Millwall
- Luton Town 1-2 Cardiff City
- Peterborough United 0-0 Barnsley
- Stoke City 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
- Swansea City 2-3 Reading
- View the Championship table
Scottish Premiership results
- Dundee 3-0 Motherwell
- Hearts 2-0 St Mirren
- Ross County 1-1 Dundee United
- St Johnstone 1-2 Hibernian
- View the Scottish Premiership table
Premier League results
- Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle
- Liverpool 4-0 Southampton
- Norwich City 0-0 Wolves
- Crystal Palace 1-2 Aston Villa
- Brighton v Leeds United (5.30pm)
- View the Premier League table
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Full time: Cambridge United 1-2 Sunderland
League One: Max Rushden, your boys have taken one hell of a beating. One hell of a beating!!!
Full time: Crystal Palace 1-2 Aston VIlla
Premier League: Marc Guehi scored a late-, late consolation for Crystal Palace but it wasn’t enough to help their cause. Villa move level in the table with their hosts following their second win in succession under the new management of Steven Gerrard.
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Full-time: Norwich City 0-0 Wolves
Premier League: Norwich City guarantee themselves bottom billing on Match of the Day yet again after a scoreless draw against Wolves. It’s a decent enough result for the Canaries, who have a huge avian derby against the Magpies of Newcastle on Tuesday night.
Championiship: Incredible scenes at the Vitality Stadium, where Coventry City have scored a late equaliser against 10-man Bournemouth. It’s 2-2, with Coventry having scored both their goals since Jefferson Lerma got sent off for the hosts.
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Full time: Liverpool 4-0 Southampton
Premier League: It’s all over at Anfield, where Southampton were somewhat fortunate to lose by only four goals against imperious Liverpool.
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Norwich 0-0 Wolves: Norwich City are huffing and puffing but can’t quite blow the Wolves door down. Teemu Pukki stretches every sinew but can’t steer the ball goalwards from a cross.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-2 Aston Villa (McGinn 86)
Premier League: John McGinn rifles a shot past Vicente Guaita in the Palace goal to double Villa’s lead. Crystal Palace’s unbeaten home record for this season is about to end.
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Championship: Coventry City have pulled a goal back against 10-Bournemouth through Matt Godden. It’s 2-1 to Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium.
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Championship: Birmingham City go one up against Blackpool courtesy of Lukas Jutkiewicz, who looked a mite offside.
Championship: Sean Morrison restores Cardiff City’s lead against Luton at Kenilworth Road, where the Welsh side lead 2-1.
Scottish Premiership: Hearts double their lead against St Mirren, with Stephen Kingsley making it 2-0 in the 75th minute.
Scottish Premiership latest
- Dundee 3-0 Motherwell
- Hearts 2-0 St Mirren
- Ross County 0-1 Dundee United
- St Johnstone 1-0 Hibernian
Red card rescinded! Aston Villa back up to 11 men!
Premier League: After a pitchside review, referee Michael Salisbury, who is making his Premier League debut today, rescinds the red card he’d shown Douglas Luiz and gives him a yellow instead.
Red card! Aston Villa down to 10 men
Premier League: Just on as a sub after his return from injury, Douglas Luiz gets a straight red card for a late challenge on Cheikhou Kouyate.
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Norwich City 0-0 Wolves: Norwich striker Teemu Pukki finds himself in a one-on-one with Jose Sa but takes a heavy touch and is foiled by the Wolves goalkeeper.
Championship: Philip Billing sidefoots into an empty net to double Bournemouth’s lead against Coventry City. In slightly worse news for Bournemouth, Jefferson Lerma has just been sent off for serious foul play after lunging into an opponent. At Kenilworth Road, Luton have restored parity against Jordan Clark.
Scottish Premiership: Gary Mackay-Steven puts Hearts one up against St Mirren.
Crystal Palace 0-1 Aston Villa: Ashley Young sends a free-kick over the Crystal Palace wall but the ball drops on to the roof of the net.
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Championship: Swansea equalise against Reading, with Ryan Manning making it 2-2 at the Liberty Stadium. Within a minute, Danny Drinkwater – yes, that Danny Drinkwater – fires Reading back in front.
Meanwhile at the MKM Stadium, Ryan Longman has put Hull ahead by the odd goal of three against Millwall, while Reda Khadra has opened the scoring for Blackburn Rovers in their game against Stoke City on what must be a bitterly cold day at the Bet365 Stadium, which is perishing at the best of times.
GOAL! Liverpool 4-0 Southampton (Van Dijk 52)
Premnier League: Virgil van Dijk volleys home his first goal for 14 months from near the penalty spot, swinging his boot to convert an inswinger from a corner. Southampton are getting an absolute hiding at Anfield.
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Scottish Premiership: Second from bottom Dundee go 3-0 up against Motherwell, while Ross County, the only side below them in the table, trail Dundee United by a Luis Appere goal on 49 minutes.
Liverpool 3-0 Southampton: Liverpool begin the second half much like they played throughout the first, swarming forward with Mo Salah and Diogo Jota causing terror among the Southampton defence. Southampton have brought on a brace of Nathans – Tella and Redmond – and switched from a 3-4-3 to a 4-4-2, for all the good it is likely to do them.
Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Wycombe Wanderers: We brought you news of a medical emergency in the stands at Hillsborough which prompted the removal of the teams from the field so a fan could be treated.
Sky Sports are reporting that the fan in question seems to be OK, which is obviously great news. Play has resumed and Olamide Shodipo has restored parity for Wednesday in the ninth minute of added time at the end of the first half.
Premier League half-times
- Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle (result)
- Liverpool 3-0 Southampton
- Norwich City 0-0 Wolves
- Crystal Palace 0-1 Aston Villa
- Brighton v Leeds United (5.30pm)
Championship half-times
- Preston 1-1 Fulham (result)
- Bournemouth 1-0 Coventry City
- Birmingham City 0-0 Blackpool
- Huddersfield Town 0-2 Middlesbrough
- Hull City 1-1 Millwall
- Luton Town 0-1 Cardiff City
- Peterborough United 0-0 Barnsley
- Stoke City 0-0 Blackburn Rovers
- Swansea City 1-2 Reading
Scottish Premiership half-times
- Dundee 2-0 Motherwell
- Hearts 0-0 St Mirren
- Ross County 0-0 Dundee United
- St Johnstone 1-0 Hibernian
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Championship: Bournemouth take the lead against Coventry City at the Vitality Stadium, with Jaidon Anthony scoring on the stroke of half-time. Meanwhile at Hull City, Millwall have equalised through Tom Bradshaw.
Norwich City 0-0 Wolves: Jose Sa is called into action to save from Teemu Pukki after good work from Norwich full-back Max Aarons.
Liverpool 3-0 Southampton: Liverpool almost score a fourth, with Mo Salah stretching every sinew but just failing to get the touch that would have diverted Diogo Jota’s cross into the net.
League One: Cambridge United had equalised against Sunderland with a Sam Smith goal I hadn’t got around to mentioning yet. All is well in the world again, however, as Nathan Broadhead has just fired Sunderland back into the lead in the 36th minute.
GOAL! Liverpool 3-0 Southampton (Thiago 37)
Premier League: Southampton’s annual shipping of nine goals is looking more and more likely. Thiago picks up a headed clearance outside the penalty area, advances and unleashes a shot. The ball takes a wicked deflection off Lyanco on its way in.
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Crystal Palace 0-1 Aston Villa: Tyrone Mings misses a decent chance to double Aston Villa’s lead with a far post volley.
Championship: There’s a medical emergency in one of the stands at Hillsborough, where Sheffield Wednesday are hosting Wycombe Wanderers. The players have left the pitch as a stricken spectator is tended to by the medical staff from both teams. We wish whoever it is well.
GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Southampton (Jota 32)
Premier League: Unmarked at the far post, Diogo Jota sidefoots home a Mo Salah cross from a couple of yards out after good work down the right by the Egyptian and Jordan Henderson.
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Championship: Andy Carroll - yes, that Andy Carroll – scores his first away league goal since 2017 to put Reading ahead by the odd goal of three against Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium.
Championship: Jacob Greaves whips a cross into the Millwall penalty area for George Honeyman to put Hull City a goal to the good at the MKM Stadium.
Championship: Cardiff City lead Luton Town at Kenilworth Road courtesy of a Rubin Colwill goal I didn’t notice 20 minutes ago.
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Championship: Duncan Watmore scores his second of the game to make it Huddersfield Town 0-2 Middlesbrough at John Smith’s Stadium. From just inside the penalty area, he lobbed Town goalkeeper Lee Nicholls with what can only be described as aplomb.
770 - Matt Targett's opener for Aston Villa was his first Premier League goal in 770 days, ending a run of 74 games without scoring since netting against Brighton in October 2019. Quenched. #CRYAVL
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) November 27, 2021
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In the only game that matters today, Cambridge United goalkeeper Dimitar Mitov has been credited with the (own-)goal that leaves Sunderland one up at the Abbey. Alex Pritchard may beg to differ - it looked like he scored directly from a corner.
Championship: completely unmarked, Duncan Watmore takes a pass in the Huddersfield Town penalty area and sidefoots home to put Middlesbrough a goal up.
GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-1 Aston Villa (Targett 15)
Premier League: Matt Targett scores a rare goal, converting at the far post after a free-kick had sailked through the Palace penalty area. Villa are in front.
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Liverpool 1-0 Southampton: Mohammad Salisu is lucky to avoid a booking after leaping into Jordan Henderson, leaving the Liverpool skipper lying on the deck clutching the back of his head. Not long afterwards, Sadio Mane has an effort ruled out for offside after heading home a free-kick curled in from the left. That is an outstanding call by the eagle-eyed linesman.
Championship: Swansea City and Reading have traded early goals at the Liberty Stadium, where Jamie Paterson put the Swans in front after three minutes, only for Tom Dele-Bashiru to equalise for the visitors a minute later.
Crystal Palace 0-0 Aston Villa: Aston Villa win a free-kick in a perfect position directly in front of the Palace goal. Ashley Young and Leon Bailey stand over it for an eternity, before the Jamaican international hammers the ball straight into the defensive wall.
Liverpool 1-0 Southampton: Alisson saves splendidly at the feet of James Ward-Prowse, dashing off his line after being sold short by a terrible backpass from ... I think, Thiago. It’s a frantic start at Anfield.
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GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Southampton (Jota 2)
Premier League: Diogo Jota slides the ball home from an Andrew Reobertson pull-back to the edge of the six-yard box. There’s a VAR inspection for a possible Robertson offside in the build-up but the goal stands.
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Our three o'clock kick-offs are under way ...
Peep! And at Anfield, Southampton, playing in yellow shirts and blue shorts, win a corner straight from the gun after good work from Adam Armstrong. Nothing comes of it and Liverpool break on the counter.
Match report: England 1-0 Austria
Women’s World Cup qualifier: Ellen White scored the only goal of the game at the Stadium of Light on her 100th appearance for England. Louise Taylor was there ...
Match report: Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle United
Premier League: Newcastle briefly threatened to defy the norms established both by their work this season and a decade’s worth of endeavours at the Emirates, but ultimately normal service was resumed, writes Nick Ames from The Emirates Stadium.
Championship: It’s finished all square at Deepdale, where league leaders Fulham went ahead through Tim Ream, only to be pegged back by Ched Evans’s equaliser in the 72nd minute.
Full time: Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle
Premier League: Newcastle United remain anchored to the bottom of the Premier League after 13 games without a win, having gone down to second half strikes from Bukayo Saka and Gabriel Martinelli. Arsenal stay fifth, level on points with West Ham, six behind leaders Chelsea.
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Full time: England 1-0 Austria
Women’s World Cup qualifier: Ellen White scored the only goal of the game on the occasion of her 100th cap to help England pull five points clear at the top of their group. England were far from clinical but a win is a win is a win is a win etc and so on.
Norwich City v Wolves: Josh Sargent returns to the Norwich starting line-up, in place of Todd Cantwell, who he replaced at half-time during their win over Southampton last weekend.
Wolves are without Daniel Podence, who is absent from a depleted matchday squad that only has six outfield players on the bench. Francisco Trincao replaces Podence in the Wolves line-up.
Liverpool v Southampton: Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp reverts to what looks like his strongest line-up for the visit of Southampton with six changes from the Champions League win over Porto.
Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk, Andy Robertson, Fabinho, Jordan Henderson and Diogo Jota all return. Centre-back Ibrahima Konate keeps his place at the expense of Joel Matip.
Southampton make three changes from last weekend’s defeat at Norwich, with Lyanco, Armando Broja and Romain Perraud all coming in.
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Championship: Ched Evans has equalised for Preston against Fulham at Deepdale, where it’s all square at one goal each.
Crystal Palace v Aston Villa: For Palace, Michael Olise is handed his second top flight start in place of one-man goal drought Jordan Ayew, who drops to the bench following last weekend’s 3-3 draw at Burnley. James Tomkins is recalled in Joachim Andersen’s absence.
New Villa boss Steven Gerrard brings Ashley Young and Leon Bailey into his starting XI, with Danny Ings and Emi Buendia named among the substitutes. Hmmm.
Crystal Palace v Aston Villa line-ups
Crystal Palace: Guaita, Ward, Tomkins, Guehi, Mitchell, Gallagher, Milivojevic, Kouyate, Olise, Benteke, Zaha.
Subs: Butland, Ayew, Eze, Hughes, Schlupp, Clyne, Edouard, Kelly, Riedewald.
Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Targett, McGinn, Nakamba, Bailey, Jacob Ramsey, Young, Watkins.
Subs: Douglas Luiz, Sanson, Buendia, Steer, Tuanzebe, Ings, El Ghazi, Hause, Carney Chukwuemeka.
Referee: Michael Salisbury (Lancashire)
Liverpool v Southampton line-ups
Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Fabinho, Thiago, Salah, Jota, Mane.
Subs: Milner, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Minamino, Tsimikas, Origi, Matip, Kelleher, Williams, Morton.
Southampton: McCarthy, Bednarek, Lyanco, Salisu, Livramento, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Perraud, Broja, Adams, Adam Armstrong.
Subs: Walker-Peters, Long, Redmond, Smallbone, Tella, Diallo, Walcott, Valery, Forster.
Referee: Andre Marriner (West Midlands)
Norwich City v Wolves line-ups
Norwich: Krul, Aarons, Hanley, Gibson, Williams, Gilmour, Normann, McLean, Rashica, Pukki, Sargent.
Subs: Rupp, Dowell, Cantwell, Tzolis, Lees-Melou, Gunn, Giannoulis, Idah, Omobamidele.
Wolves: Jose Sa, Kilman, Coady, Saiss, Nelson Semedo, Neves, Joao Moutinho, Ait Nouri, Trincao, Jimenez, Hwang.
Subs: Hoever, Marcal, Moulden, Silva, Ruddy, Dendoncker, Traore, Cundle.
Referee: Simon Hooper (Wiltshire)
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GOAL! Arsenal 2-0 Newcastle (Martinelli 66)
Premier League: On for injured goalscorer Bukayo Saka, Gabriel Martinelli has doubled Arsenal’s lead with a splendid volley that may have been his first touch of the game. Newcastle’s long wait for their first league win of the season looks set to continue ...
Championship: Table-topping Fulham are a goal up against Preston at Deepdale, where Tim Ream scored for the visitors after 15 minutes. There’s just under half an hour left in that one.
GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Newcastle (Sako 56)
Premier League: Arsenal have taken the lead against Newcastle at The Emirates, with Bukayo Saka darting in behind the Newcastle defence to latch on to a through ball from Nuno Tavares to fire his side ahead at the end of a 16-pass move. Scott Murray has the latest ...
Rainbow Laces campaign
Premier League clubs are coming together this weekend and next to support the inclusion of all LGBT+ people in football and beyond. The length and breadth of the country, players will be showing their support for the campaign by wearing rainbow laces, with skippers wearing rainbow captain’s armbands, fourth officials hoisting rainbow decorated electronic boards and referees picking match-balls from rainbow plinths. Love is love, y’all.
Women's World Cup qualifier: England v Austria
The Lionesses: Despite the best attempts of Storm Arwen, England’s women are in action this afternoon, with Ellen White winning her 100th cap as she and her team-mates take on Austria in Sunderland. The striker has marked the special occasion with a goal to give England a half-time lead at the Stadium of Light.
England are top of Group D, two points ahead of today’s opponents, with Northern Ireland a further point back in third. England face bottom side Latvia in their final qualifier in Doncaster on Tuesday. Luke McLaughlin has the latest ...
Today’s Scottish Premiership fixtures
- Dundee v Motherwell
- Hearts v St Mirren
- Ross County v Dundee United
- St Johnstone v Hibernian
- View the Scottish Premiership table
Today’s special guest game
There are 11 games being played in the third tier of English football today but in truth, only one of them actually matters. Guardian Football Weekly podcast bragging rights are up for grabs as Max Rushden’s Cambridge United taken on the mighty Sunderland for the first time since the Mackems thrashed Rushden’s beloved Us 7-0 at The Abbey in the League Cup on October 2, 2002.
Not only that, it’s the first league meeting between the sides since they played out a thrilling 3-3 draw in England’s second tier at Roker Park in 1993. Today, Sunderland sit sixth in League One, five points behind pace-setters Rotherham, while Cambridge United are 15th, nine points behind today’s visitors.
Today’s Premier League fixtures
- Arsenal v Newcastle
- Liverpool v Southampton
- Norwich City v Wolves
- Crystal Palace v Aston Villa
- Brighton v Leeds United (5.30pm)
- View the Premier League table
Today’s Championship fixtures
- Preston v Fulham (12.30pm)
- Bournemouth v Coventry City
- Birmingham City v Blackpool
- Huddersfield Town v Middlesbrough
- Hull City v Millwall
- Luton Town v Cardiff City
- Peterborough United v Barnsley
- Stoke City v Blackburn Rovers
- Swansea City v Reading
- View the Champi0onship table
Remembering Gary Speed
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Gary Speed, the much-loved former Wales legend, who counted the supporters of Leeds United, Everton, Newcastle, Bolton and Sheffield United, for whom he made a combined 841 appearances, among those who held him in the very highest regard as a player and leader. But it wasn’t just them - Speed was widely admired by fans the length and breadth of the country, most of whom would have been delighted to see this combative, consumate professional pull on their club’s shirt.
Speed died at the age of 42 on this day in 2011, taking his own life upon his return home from appearing on the BBC lunchtime show Football Focus. News of his death rocked the world of football to its very foundations and a decade on, Dan Walker recorded this moving account of the morning he spent with Speed in the Football Focus studio and his total devastation upon learning what happened afterwards.
“Gary felt for whatever reason that there was no other way out and that’s incredibly sad and distressing,” said Dan. “Particularly for his family because his two boys absolutely adored him and he loved them.” Dan goes on to say that “if Gary had spoken to somebody that night I think he’d still be here.
“I think that’s the hard thing. I do think that if two blokes had gone to a game a decade ago, they’d just talk about the football. I’d like to think now, a decade on, things are different and they might have a conversation about how they’re feeling. What happened to Gary has and still makes people think about their friends around them and I’d like to think that’s a good thing.”
- In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org or jo@samaritans.ie. In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255. In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found at www.befrienders.org.
I can’t believe it’s been 10 years since Gary Speed’s death.
— Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) November 27, 2021
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Saturday Clockwatch ...
Arsenal and Newcastle got the Premier League ball rolling at the Emirates in today’s noon kick-off, a match which many travelling supporters won’t have got to following the cancellation of trains from Newcastle to London last night due to Storm Arwen, when winds of almost 100mph were recorded in Northumberland.
It’s scoreless at the break and whether they’re at the ground or watching on TV, Toon fans will have been encouraged by a first half performance in which Jonjo Shelvey brought a world class save out of Arsenal goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale with a long-range effort. Arsenal fans will be less enthused, having seen Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang sidefoot off the post from a couple of yards out with the Newcastle goal gaping after Martin Dubravka had saved superbly from Emile Smith-Rowe. It was an astonishing miss.
We have just three top flight three o’clock games to focus on before Brighton take on Leeds at 5.30pm, with Liverpool hosting Southampton, Crystal Palace entertaining Aston Villa and Norwich welcoming Wolves to Carrow Road. We’ll keep tabs on all of those, as well as bringing you news of any major talking points in the EFL and beyond. Don’t touch that dial!
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