That’s all for today’s clockwatch. If you need another live fix, Brighton v Watford has just kicked off. Thanks for your company and emails, goodnight.
Leeds 2-2 Everton
Louise Taylor drew the long straw this weekend - she was at Elland Road to watch a barnstorming game.
Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle
Pete Lansley was at Villa Park to watch Danny Ings score a memorable goal on his home debut.
Pep speaks “Really good, more than pleased. It was so nice for the fans to be there. It was the first step for Jack, his first victory at our club and a goal. He was aggressive with the ball and that’s good.
“Gabriel Jesus is an incredible person, he absolutely deserved to be man of the match. He is always ready to help the team in any position. For us it’s a privilege to have him.
“The fourth goal was so good. The movement from Gabriel was exceptional, the pass from our playmaker Kyle Walker was so good, and in that situation Raheem is a machine.”
Man City 5-0 Norwich The stats show that City had four shots on target and won 5-0. Try explaining that to somebody who doesn’t know football when you’ve both had 14 pints.
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Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford
Here’s Ed Aarons’ report of the goalless draw at Selhurst Park.
Manchester City 5-0 Norwich City
Here’s Richard Jolly’s report on a mismatch at the Etihad, where occasional right winger Gabriel Jesus played a blinder.
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A quick recap of the full-time scores in the Premier League
- Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle
- Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford
- Leeds 2-2 Everton
- Manchester City 5-0 Norwich City
- Liverpool 2-0 Burnley
Full time: Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle
An important win for Villa after their false start at Watford. Danny Ings scored a spectacular overhead kick just before half-time, and Anwar El Ghazi sealed the win with a second-half penalty.
Full time: Leeds 2-2 Everton
That’s the end of a pulsating match at Elland Road. Everton led 1-0 and 2-1 through goals from Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Demarai Gray; Leeds equalised twice through Mateusz Klich and then Raphinha.
Championship full times
- Blackburn 1-2 West Brom
- Bournemouth 2-2 Blackpool
- Fulham 2-0 Hull
- Stoke 1-0 Nottingham Forest
Fulham are top of the table, ahead of West Brom and Stoke on goal difference.
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Full time: Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford
Brentford’s promising start to Premier League life continues with a decent point at Selhurst Park.
Full time: Manchester City 5-0 Norwich
There were fve changes from Pep Guardiola before the game and five goals for City during it, including one on his home debut from Jack Grealish.
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Championship A helluva score at Kenilworth Road: Luton 0-5 Birmingham.
“Act II: spoiler alert!” says Simon McMahon. “Hamilton lost. At least Mr and Mrs Dony were in the room where it happened.”
Full time: Celtic 6-0 St Mirren Six goals, and six consecutive wins in all competitions for Celtic.
Premier League latest
- Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle
- Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford
- Leeds 2-2 Everton
- Manchester City 5-0 Norwich City
- Liverpool 2-0 Burnley (FT)
League Two Make that Forest Green 6-3 Crawley.
Brighton v Watford is today’s last game. Barry Glendenning has the team news.
GOAL! Man City 5-0 Norwich (Mahrez 84)
Another City substitute, Riyad Mahrez, gets on the scoresheet. Going to the Etihad is a rough deal at the best of times. Today, with City on a run of three straight 1-0 defeats, Norwich had no chance.
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Scottish Premiership: Celtic 6-0 St Mirren (Turnbull 84) David Turnbull wins the race with his teammate Liel Abada and completes the first hat-trick of his career (I think). For a midfielder, he really knows how to finish.
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League Two A scoreline of note at the New Lawn Stadium: Forest Green 6-2 Crawley. Pick those out!
Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle A VAR intervention at Villa Park. Newcastle were given a penalty for a needless foul by Emi Martinez on Callum Wilson, but there was a marginal offside in the build up.
GOAL! Leeds 2-2 Everton (Raphinha 73)
Leeds equalise for the second time. Raphinha - who the Sky pundit Michael Dawson has been cooing about all afternoon - got it this time with a high-class finish.
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Man City 4-0 Norwich Cole Palmer, an exciting teenage midfielder, has come on to make his Premier League debut for Manchester City.
GOAL! Man City 4-0 Norwich (Sterling 71)
Gabriel Jesus, who has had an outstanding game on the right wing, gives a goal to the substitute Raheem Sterling.
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Full time: Freiburg 2-1 Borussia Dortmund Congratulations to Bayern Munich, who are champions of Germany for the 32nd time.
Championship: Stoke 1-0 Nottm Forest (Tymon 66) Stoke, who have quietly had a terrific start to the season, are leading Nottingham Forest through Josh Tymon. As things stand they are third in the table, behind Fulham and West Brom only on goal differnce.
This is the Premier League table as things stand. It’s probably best that Steve Bruce isn’t on Twitter.
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GOAL! Man City 3-0 Norwich (Laporte 64)
Aymeric Laporte tucks home a loose ball to make it 3-0 at the Etihad. The two teams could probably have settled on that score before the game, and saved their legs.
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GOAL! Aston Villa 2-0 Newcastle (El Ghazi 62 pen)
Anwar El Ghazi scores the penalty! Since you asked, he was off the field last week when Danny Ings took a penalty at Watford last weekend.
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Leeds 1-2 Everton Illan Meslier has just made a vital save from Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
Penalty to Aston Villa! Villa 1-0 Newcastle Tyrone Mings’ header hit the outstretched arm of Jamaal Lascelles, and the penalty was given after a VAR check.
Championship: Bournemouth 2-2 Blackpool (Yates 60 pen) Hello! Two goals in four minutes for Blackpool at the Vitality Stadium.
Championship: Bournemouth 2-1 Blackpool James Husband has pulled one back for Blackpool, while Odsonne Edouard has made it Celtic 5-0 Ten Man St Mirren.
Leeds 1-2 Everton “With two quick steps Gray made Dallas look foolish and then slotted a lovely finish past the goalie,” writes Mary Waltz. “And it looks as though i am going to get this post out without Leeds scoring.”
Meanwhile, at Elland Road...
Premier League latest
- Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle
- Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford
- Leeds 1-2 Everton
- Manchester City 2-0 Norwich City
- Liverpool 2-0 Burnley (FT)
Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford And now Christian Benteke has missed a good chance, heading over the bar from Idon’tbloodyknowwhoitwas’s cross.
Leeds 1-2 Everton Demarai Gray is still only 25. He has so much talent, even if we haven’t seen enough of it so far in his career.
GOAL! Leeds 1-2 Everton (Gray 50)
Demarai Gray opens his legs and shows his class, rifling Everton back into the lead at Elland Road.
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Championship: Blackburn 1-2 West Brom Chile’s finest, Ben Brereton Diaz, has taken advantage of an error from Sam Johnstone to give Blackburn a sniff at Ewood Park.
“Not to be pedantic,” says Justin Kavanagh, “but won’t Marcelo Bielsa’s internal monologue always be delivered to us in the English-speaking world through that lad standing beside him, who I’ve come to think of as the embodiment of Marcelo’s brain in English. Still, at least we have Mary Waltz’s internal monologue to ponder as Leeds go on to…oh crap!
Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford Ivan Toney has missed a great chance to give Brentford the lead, mistiming a header from close range.
Peep peep! The second halves are under way. Underway? One word? Two? Three?
“I seem to recall Matt Dony saying that he was taking the ever fortunate Mrs Dony to see Hamilton today,” hoots Simon McMahon. “It’s 0-0 at half time between them and Kilmarnock. Act II is always better, mind. And I hear the ice cream is excellent at New Douglas Park.”
Half-time reading
Peep peep! It’s half time up and down the country. These are the latest Premier League scores:
- Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle (Ings)
- Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford
- Leeds 1-1 Everton (Klich; Calvert-Lewin pen)
- Manchester City 2-0 Norwich City (Krul og, Grealish)
- Liverpool 2-0 Burnley (FT)
Bundesliga Jude Bellingham has just scored for Dortmund, though they still trail 2-1 at Freiburg with half an hour remaining.
Championship: Blackburn 0-2 West Brom Matt Phillips has doubled West Brom at Ewood Park, and ensured the manager Valerien Ismael will be a happy man at half-time. Okay, maybe not happy. Satisfied? Content? Zen?
GOAL! Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle (Ings 45+3)
A stunning overhead kick from Danny Ings has given Villa the lead on the stroke of half-time. He is such an accomplished finisher, that lad, and outrageous value at £25m.
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Leeds 1-1 Everton “Since you’re writing blind, so to speak,” begins my No1 fan Mary Waltz, “here is an Everton update. Rafa had the boys in blue ready for an emotional start from Leeds and they have been quite disciplined in defence and opportunistic in attack. Mina and Bamford have been going at each other like rats in a cage. Except all that has turned into crap, Leeds scored as I typed. Crap.”
Scottish Premiership: Celtic 4-0 St Mirren (Turnbull 44)
Two for Liel Abada and now two for David Turnbull. You wouldn’t bet against one, if not both, completing a hat-trick in the second half.
GOAL! Leeds 1-1 Everton (Klich 41)
Mateusz Klich gets a deserved equaliser for Leeds at a very noisy Elland Road. Sounds like it was a lovely team goal, too.
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Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford Bryan Mbuemo has pinged the crossbar at Selhurst Park. Meanwhile...
Bielsa 0-1 Benitez Leeds have had 78 per cent of the possession at Elland Road. I’d love to hear Marcelo Bielsa’s internal monologue right now.
Championship: Fulham 2-0 Hull The teenager Fabio Carvalho, who looks a player, has scored a fine goal to put Fulham two up against Hull.
Championship: Fulham 1-0 Hull The three promotion favourites are all in front - West Brom, Bournemouth and now Fulham. Aleksandar Mitrovic has done the needful at Craven Cottage.
Premier League latest
- Aston Villa 0-0 Newcastle
- Crystal Palace 0-0 Brentford
- Leeds 0-1 Everton
- Manchester City 2-0 Norwich City
- Liverpool 2-0 Burnley (FT)
GOAL! Leeds 0-1 Everton (Calvert-Lewin 30 pen)
Bang!
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Scottish Premiership: Celtic 3-0 St Mirren (Turnbull 28)
Leeds 0-0 Everton: Penalty given Liam Cooper has been booked.
Leeds 0-0 Everton: VAR check for an Everton penalty Liam Cooper put hands on Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the penalty area, apparently, and now the referee is strolling over to the monitor to find out whether he made a clear and obvious error.
Scottish Premiership: Celtic 2-0 St Mirren Liel Abada has scored his second goal, and as things stand crisis club Celtic are top of the league.
Scottish Premiership: Celtic 1-0 St Mirren Now St Mirren are down to 10 men, with Alan Power given a straight red for an antediluvian challenge on David Turnbull.
GOAL! Man City 2-0 Norwich (Grealish 22)
Big Jack scores on his home debut, though apparently he didn’t know too much about. Gabriel Jesus, who is having a stormer on the right wing, hammered a cross that hit the unsighted Grealish and flew into the net.
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Championship: Bournemouth 2-0 Blackpool Dominic Solanke has scored both goals for Bournemouth, continuing his - and their - strong start to the season.
Scottish Premiership: Celtic 1-0 St Mirren Crisis club Celtic, who have won their last five games in all competitions, lead St Mirren at Celtic Park thanks to a goal from the teenager Liel Abada.
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DISALLOWED GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Norwich
Ferran Torres thought he’d put City 2-0 up, but Graham Scott was encouraged to go to the VAR monitor to check a possible foul by Bernardo Silva on Milot Rashica in the build-up. He decided it was a foul, and the goal was disallowed, the end.
Man City 1-0 Norwich The Premier League have given the goal to Norwich keeper Tim Krul rather than Grant Hanley. As we’re unable to legally watch Saturday 3pm kick-offs, I have no idea what happened, so I’m afraid I can’t help you.
Man City 1-0 Norwich City’s goal is another one that would probably have been disallowed last season. It looked for all the world that Gabriel Jesus was 0.0001mm offside in the build up.
GOAL! Man City 1-0 Norwich (Hanley og 7)
In a surprising development... Gabriel Jesus - who is playing on the right, not up front has expected - hit a dangerous cross that was put into his own net by Grant Hanley.
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Championship A very early goal at Ewood Park - Alex Mowatt, who already looks an inspired signing, has given West Brom the lead against Blackburn. When I grow up, I really want to work for Valerien Ismael.
Peep peep! The 3pm games are under way. All of them.
Here’s more on Liverpool’s ultimately comfortable win over Burnley at Anfield
Championship: QPR 2-2 Barnsley
The early kick-off in the Championship was a bit of a thriller. Barnsley were 2-0 up at half-time, but QPR - who have been in great form year, never mind this season - grabbed a point through Charlie Austin’s injury-time equaliser. Good lad.
The early game has finished at Anfield. If you don’t want to know the score, you’re out of luck: Liverpool won 2-0.
Leeds v Everton team news
Two changes for Leeds from the team that was hammered at Old Trafford. Junior Firpo makes his full debut at left-back and Kalvin Phillips returns in midield. Robin Koch and Rodrigo are left out, with Koch not on the bench.
Rafa Benitez also makes two changes from the Everton side that beat Southampton. Mason Holgate and Andros Townsend are replaced by Yerry Mina and Alex Iwobi.
Leeds (4-1-4-1) Meslier; Ayling, Struijk, Cooper, Firpo; Phillips; Raphinha, Dallas, Klich, Harrison; Bamford.
Substitutes: Klaesson, Cresswell, Drameh, Forshaw, Summerville, Shackleton, Roberts, Costa, Rodrigo.
Everton (possible 4-2-3-1) Pickford; Coleman, Mina, Keane, Digne; Doucoure, Allan; Iwobi, Gray, Richarlison; Calvert-Lewin.
Substitutes: Begovic, Kenny, Holgate, Branthwaite, Delph, Townsend, Gbamin, Davies, Kean.
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Crystal Palace v Brentford team news
Patrick Vieira makes three changes to the Crystal Palace team that was well beaten by Chelsea last weekend. Conor Gallagher, Joachim Andersen and Christian Benteke come in for Jairo Riedewald, Jean-Philippe Mateta and Jordan Ayew.
Palace have only eight subs, two of them goalkeepers. More rewardingly for the neutral nerd, 10 of their 19-man squad have first names that begin with the letter J.
Brentford are unchanged; of course they are.
Crystal Palace (4-3-3) Guaita; Ward, Guehi, Andersen, Mitchell; Gallagher, Kouyate, McArthur; Zaha, Benteke, Schlupp.
Substitutes: Matthews, Butland, Tomkins, Kelly, Rak-Sakyi, Riedewald, Ayew, Mateta.
Brentford (3-5-2) Raya; Ajer, Jansson, Pinnock; Canos, Onyeka, Norgaard, Janelt, Henry; Mbuemo, Toney.
Substitutes: Fernandez, Goode, Sorensen, Roerslev, Wissa, Bidstrup, Forss, Ghoddos, Dervisoglu.
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Manchester City v Norwich City team news
Jack Grealish makes his home debut for Manchester City, one of six survivors from last weekend’s defeat at Spurs. In come Kyle Walker, Aymeric Laporte, Rodri, Gabriel Jesus and Bernardo Silva; out go Nathan Ake, Benjamin Mendy, Fernandinho, Raheem Sterling and Riyad Mahrez. In other news, Kevin De Bruyne is injured.
Norwich, who lost at home to Liverpool last weekend, are unchanged.
Manchester City (4-1-2-3) Ederson; Walker, Dias, Laporte, Cancelo; Rodri; Gundogan, Grealish; Silva, Jesus, Torres.
Substitutes: Steffen, Ake, Zinchenko, Mendy, Fernandinho, Doyle, Palmer, Sterling, Mahrez.
Norwich (4-1-4-1) Krul; Aarons, Hanley, Gibson, Giannoulis; Gilmour; Cantwell, Lees-Melou, Rupp, Rashica; Pukki.
Substitutes: Gunn, Mumba, Omabamidele, Dowell, Sorensen, McLean, Tzolis, Sargent, Idah.
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Aston Villa v Newcastle team news
Ashley Young starts at left-back for Aston Villa, with Matt Targett - still recovering from the twisted blood he sustained at Vicarage Road last weekend - only fit enough for the bench. Jacob Ramsey takes Young’s place on the left wing, and Douglas Luiz replaces Marvelous Nakamba.
Newcastle make three changes from the team that lost 4-2 at home to West Ham. Jamaal Lascelles, Fabian Schar and new signing Joe Willock replace Ciaran Clark, Emil Krafth and Jonjo Shelvey.
Aston Villa (4-2-3-1) Martinez; Cash, Konsa, Mings, Young; Douglas Luiz, McGinn; El Ghazi, Buendia, Ramsey; Ings.
Substitutes: Steer, Targett, Tuanzebe, Hause, Hourihane, Nakamba, Bidace, Chukwuemeka, Wesley.
Newcastle (3-5-1-1) Woodman; Fernandez, Lascelles, Schar; Murphy, Hayden, Willock, Almiron, Ritchie; Saint-Maximin; Wilson.
Substitutes: Gillespie, Clark, Lewis, Krafth, Hendrick, Fraser, S Longstaff, Joelinton, Gayle.
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There’s been another goal at Anfield, and it was a belter. Here’s your clickbait.
Liverpool v Burnley is the early Premier League game. The second half has just started, and you will believe the score.
Preamble
Don’t call it a comeback. They been here for years, rocking their peers, putting suckers in fear. But it’s still easy for us, in our ivory tower, to forget the life-affirming power of a full house at Elland Road. This afternoon, for the first time since 8th May 2004, Leeds will play a Premier League game in front of a capacity home crowd. There’s a strong argument that - pound for pound, lung for lung - Leeds supporters are the best in the country. What’s not in dispute is that there will be a helluva racket when they play Everton this afternoon.
That’s one of four Premier League games kicking off at 3pm. With it August, and clockwatch ennui not having yet kicked in, all the matches have a narrati story or three to excite us. There are home debuts for Patrick Vieira (Crystal Palace v Brentford), Jack Grealish (Manchester City v Norwich) and all the people Aston Villa bought with the Grealish money (Aston Villa v Newcastle).
Manchester City are also hoping to end a slightly odd if largely unindicative (is that a word? It is now!) run of three consecutive 1-0 defeats. In fact, six of the eight teams involved this afternoon were beaten last week. All know that, if they lose again today, they risk become the first team this season to take possession of the Premier League Crisis Baton. Pep out!
We’ll try to keep an eye out for any big stories in Scotland and also the EFL, but the most reliable way to keep abreast of all that jazz is through our live scores page. Our focus will be on the Premier League, specifically these four games:
- Aston Villa v Newcastle
- Crystal Palace v Brentford
- Leeds v Everton
- Manchester City v Norwich
The team news is due at 2pm sharp.
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