League Two results
Accrington Stanley 2-2 Hartlepool, Barnet 1-0 Plymouth Argyle, Blackpool 0-1 Mansfield Town, Cambridge United 4-0 Notts County, Carlisle United 1-3 Grimsby Town, Colchester United 2-0 Cheltenham Town, Crawley Town 2-0 Yeovil Town, Doncaster Rovers 1-0 Stevenage, Exeter City 4-0 Leyton Orient, Morecambe 0-0 Crewe Alexandra, Wycombe Wanderers 2-1 Newport County, Portsmouth 1-0 Luton Town. Click here to view the League Two table.
League One results
AFC Wimbledon 2-2 Millwall, Bury 1-3 Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic 4-1 Bristol Rovers, Chesterfield 0-0 MK Dons, Coventry City 2-2 Bolton Wanderers, Gillingham 0-1 Oxford United, Northampton Town 1-2 Bradford, Oldham Athletic 0-0 Port Vale, Scunthorpe United 1-1 Peterborough United, Shrewsbury Town 0-1 Fleetwood Town, Swindon Town 0-0 Southend United, Walsall 0-2 Rochdale. Click on this link to see the League One table.
Championship results
Birmingham City 1-3 Brentford, Blackburn Rovers 1-0 Newcastle, Bristol City 2-3 Reading, Burton Albion 0-1 Preston, Cardiff City 1-0 Aston Villa, Fulham 1-2 Brighton , Leeds United 3-0 Rotherham, Norwich City 3-0 Derby County, Nottingham Forest 0-1 Barnsley, QPR 2-1 Ipswich Town, Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Wolves, Wigan 0-1 Huddersfield. Click on this link to view the Championship table.
Scenes at Ashton Gate and Ewood Park ...
Championship: It’s been a helter-skelter afternoon in the Championship, where Reading have come from 2-0 down against Bristol City to win 3-2 courtesy of two late goals from Yann Kermogant. At Ewood Park, Newcastle were shock losers against Blackburn, enabling Brighton - 2-1 come-from-behind winners at Fulham - to leapfrog them into first place in the table.
Full time: Manchester City 2-1 Burnley
Premier League: Fernandinho’s dismissal didn’t prevent Manchester City taking the points courtesy of goals from Gael Clichy and Sergio Aguero, but they had to work hard for them.
Full time: Everton 3-0 Southampton
Premier League: Three second-half goals in 16 minutes gave Everton all three points at Goodison Park and made it three consecutive defeats for Southampton.
Full time: Sunderland 2-2 Liverpool
Premier League: Liverpool escaped from the Stadium of Light with a point they scarcely deserved as imperious, injury-ravaged Sunderland scored twice from the spot courtesy of Jermain Defoe.
Full-time: West Brom 3-1 Hull City
Premier League: Three second-half goals enabled West Brom to come from behind and beat Hull City at the Hawthorns.
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At the Stadium of Light
Premier League: Sunderland’s Papy Djiloboji sustained a nasty knock on the head that needed lengthy treatment during added time, so they’re still playing at the Stadium of Light.
Won't somebody think of Gianfranco Zola?
Championship: Birmingham fans were unimpressed with his appointment to begin with and he’s yet to record a win. His side trail Brentford 3-1 at home.
Meanwhile in Bristol ...
Championship: Reading have come from two goals down to make it 2-2 at Ashton Gate in their match against Bristol City.
GOAL! Everton 3-0 Southampton (Lukaku)
Premier League: Romelu Lukaku scores a beauty into the top corner to make it game, set and match Everton at Southampton.
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Barnsley lead Nottingham Forest
Championship: Conor Hourihane scores with a fine dipping volley from distance to give Barnsley a one-goal lead at the City Ground.
QPR restore their lead ...
Championship: Pawel Wszolek scores in the 83rd minute to put QPR back in the lead against Ipswich Town. It was a beautiful finish from Wszolek, who got in behind the defence to take down a long ball from the back with a beautiful touch, take it around the goalkeeper and slot home.
GOAL! Everton 2-0 Southampton
Premier League: Leighton Baines doesn’t miss too penalties either.
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GOAL! Sunderland 2-2 Liverpool (Defoe)
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SUNDERLAND GET A PENALTY!
Sunderland win their second penalty of the day for a handball as they took a free-kick.
More championship news ...
Championship: Nelson Butterfield has scored his second and third of the afternoon in rat-a-tat style to put Norwich City 2-0 up against Derby, who had Jacob Butterfield sent off after 66 minutes. At Elland Road, Leeds United are now 3-0 up against Rotherham and looking good for their ninth win in 12 Premier League games. Chris Wood has bagged a brace in the 66th and 79th minutes. Huddersfield have just gone 1-0 up at Wigan, but we’re off to the Stadium of Light ...
GOAL! Everton 1-0 Southampton (Valencia)
Premier League: The deadlock has been broken at Goodison Park, where Enner Valencia has given Everton the lead against Southampton, who are winless in three.
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Some goals in the second tier
Championship: Brighton have scored two in two minutes to come from behind and lead Fulham at Craven Cottage. Tommer Hemed equalised from the spot, before Lewis Dunk put Brighton ahead. Their fans will be further delighted by news from Ewood Park, where title rivals Newcastle have just gone behind to Blackburn. Charlie Mulgrew has put the home side ahead with a free-kick into the corner from 22 yards.
GOAL! West Brom 3-1 Hull City
Premier League: West Brom singer-songwriter James Morrison riffs on Hull City’s second half-time pain.
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GOAL! Sunderland 1-2 Liverpool
Premier League: Liverpool win a corner and Sadio Mane stabs home to put Liverpool 2-1 up. Sunderland’s players claim he was offside, but the ref points to the centre-circle.
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GOAL! Manchester City 2-1 Burnley
Premier League: After a poor attempt at a clearance by Claudio Bravo, there’s a goalmouth scramble at the Etihad and the ball is poked home by Ben Mee at the first attempt, or perhaps Andre Gray at the third. It’s 10-man City 2-1 Burnley.
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Brentford miss a penalty
Championship: Brentford get a penalty for a Ryan SHotton foul that was clearly outside the penalty area. Scott Hogan does the decent thing and misses, bringing a fine save out of Tomasz Kuszczak. It remains 1-1 at St Andrew’s.
GOAL! West Brom 2-1 Hull City
Premier League: West Brom come from behind to go 2-1 up in a match that seems to have been turned on its head since half-time. Gareth McAuley puts the Baggies ahead with a header that takes a while to go in. It appears to have been blocked on the line, but the referee’s on-wrist magic witch portal declares that a goal has been scored.
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GOAL! Manchester City 2-0 Burnley
Premier League: Half-time substitute Sergio Aguero doubles 10-man City’s lead with a goal that may yet go down as a Matthew Lowton own-goal.
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Gianfranco Zola still looking for a win
Championship: Brentford have equalised against Birmingham City courtesy of Scott Hogan, reducing Gianfranco Zola’s chances of registering his first victory as Blues boss.
Sunderland denied a penalty
Premier League: Emre Can handles an Adnan Januzaj flick in the penalty area and the general consensus at the Stadium of Light - surprisingly enough - seems to be that Sunderland have been denied a clear penalty.
GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Burnley
Premier League: Gael Clichy cuts inside, shifts the ball on to his right foot and fires past Tom Heaton to give 10-man Manchester City the lead against Burnley after 58 minutes.
Manchester City’s Gael Clichy celebrates scoring their first goal with Raheem Sterling Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Reuters
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Charlton go ahead ...
League One: Josh Magennis scores his second headed goal of the afternoon and it’s almost identical to his first. He pops up to head past Will Puddy from six or seven yards to make it Charlton 2-1 Bristol Rovers at the Valley.
Fulham take the lead
Championship: The goals are flying in around the Championship, where Lucas Piazon has just curled a beauty into the bottom right-hand corner to give the home side the lead against high-flying Brighton.
Ipswich equalise at Loftus Road
Championship: Ipswich winger Tom Lawrence smashes one in off the upright to make it QPR 1-1 Ipswich Town.
Leeds go ahead ...
Championship: Kyle Bartley puts Leeds 1-0 up against the Championship’s bottom side Rotherham.
Bristol City double their lead
Championship: Tammy Abraham makes it 17 for the season with a penalty to make it Bristol City 2-0 Reading at Ashton Gate.
GOAL! West Brom 1-1 Hull City
Premier League: Chris Brunt smashes home a header to score his second of the season and restore parity at the Hawthorns.
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Those second halves are kicking off ...
Liverpool have made a change: James Milner was given quite the run-around by Fabio Borini during the first half, picking up a yellow card in the process and has been replaced by Alberto Moreno. I don’t know if Milner is injured or Herr Klopp is just concerned he might get sent off. Meanwhile at the Eithad, Pep Guardiola has replaced Kelechi Iheanacho and Jesus Navas with Sergio Aguero and David Silva.
League Two half-times
Accrington Stanley 0-0 Hartlepool, Barnet 1-0 Plymouth Argyle, Blackpool 0-1 Mansfield Town, Cambridge United 1-0 Notts County, Carlisle United 1-0 Grimsby Town, Colchester United 1-0 Cheltenham Town, Crawley Town 2-0 Yeovil Town, Doncaster Rovers 0-0 Stevenage, Exeter City 1-0 Leyton Orient, Morecambe 0-0 Crewe Alexandra, Wycombe Wanderers 0-0 Newport County, Portsmouth 1-0 Luton Town.
League One half-times
AFC Wimbledon 2-2 Millwall (result). Bury 1-1 Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic 1-1 Bristol Rovers, Chesterfield 0-0 MK Dons, Coventry City 1-0 Bolton Wanderers, Gillingham 0-0 Oxford United, Northampton Town 1-0 Bradford, Oldham Athletic 0-0 Port Vale, Scunthorpe United 1-0 Peterborough United, Shrewsbury Town 0-1 Fleetwood Town, Swindon Town 0-0 Southend United, Walsall 0-1 Rochdale.
Championship half-times
Birmingham City 1-0 Brentford, Blackburn Rovers 0-0 Newcastle, Bristol City 1-0 Reading, Burton Albion 0-1 Preston, Cardiff City 1-0 Aston Villa, Fulham 0-0 Brighton , Leeds United 0-0 Rotherham, Norwich City 1-0 Derby County, Nottingham Forest 0-0 Barnsley, QPR 1-0 Ipswich Town, Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Wolves, Wigan 0-0 Huddersfield.
The half-time whistles are blowing ...
As teams troop off for their half-time brews and bollockings, you can see the Premier League latest scores above. We’ll have them for everywhere else, shortly.
More goals in the third tier
League One: Josh Magennis has just headed Charlton level with Bristol Rovers from close range at the Valley, where it’s 1-1. At Sixfields, talk that Northampton have taken a 1-0 lead against Bradford City thanks to Alexander Revell might well be Cobblers.
And in the third ...
League One: It’s all square between Bury and Sheffield United, with Blades striker Billy Sharp having cancelled out Jacob Mellis’s opener for Bury. Rochadale are away to Walsall but leading 1-0 thanks to Ian Henderson. Coventry have just gone a goal up against Bolton at the Ricoh Arena, while it remains Charlton 0-1 Bristol Rovers, Shrewsbury Town 0-1 Fleetwood and scoreless everywhere else.
More goals in the second tier
Championship: Birmingham City have taken a one-goal lead over Brentford, with Lukas Jutkiewicz doing the honours. Bristol City’s on-loan-from-Chelsea loanee Tammy Abraham has scored again, opening his side’s account against Reading at Ashton Gate. Ian Holloway’s QPR are a goal to the good against Ipswich Town, while Cardiff and Norwich still enjoy one-goal advantages over Aston Villa and Derby County respectively.
Red card at the Etihad ...
Premier League: On the advice of the fourth official, Fernandinho is sent off by referee Lee Mason for a foul on Joey Gudmundsson, who has to go off for treatment. That’s Fernandinho’s third red card in six matches: here, against Chelsea in the Premier League and Borussia Moenchengladbach in the Champions League.
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Sunderland miss a glorious chance to take the lead ...
Premier League: Having equalised through a Jermain Defoe penalty following Ragnar Klavan’s foul on Didier Ndong, Sunderland blow a wonderful chance to go ahead. A great through ball by Adnan Januzaj releases Defoe, who tries to round Mignolet. The goalkeeper gets a touch and the ball breaks for Fabio Borini ... who shoots wide.
GOAL! Sunderland 1-1 Liverpool
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Cardiff take the lead against Villa
Championship: Sixteen! That’s how many minutes it took Joe Ralls to give Cardiff City the lead against Steve Bruce’s Aston Villa.
Fulham miss a penalty ...
Championship: Stefan Johansson has had a spot-kick saved by Brighton goalkeeper David Stockdale, who dived low to his right to keep out the Norwegian midfielder’s shot from 12 yards.
GOAL! West Brom 0-1 Hull City
Premier League: Hull City have been bossing West Brom on their own patch and have now made their dominance count. Robert Snodgrass sidefoots home an Ahmed Elmohamady cross after good play from Jake Livermore.
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GOAL! Sunderland 0-1 Liverpool
Premier League: Daniel Sturridge opens the floodgates at the Stadium of Light, taking advantage of characteristically poor defending from the hosts.
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Norwich lead against Derby County
Championship: Nelson Oliveira has taken some of the pressure off beleaguered Norwich City with a deflected shot aginst the Rams.
Some early goals in the third tier ...
League One: Bristol Rovers have taken the lead against Charlton Athletic at the Valley, courtesy of Jermaine Easter. Meanwhile at Gigg Lane, Jacob Mellis has given Bury has given Bury a one-goal lead against Sheffield United. ELsewhere, SHrewsbury are entertaining Fleetwood Town, who are beating their hosts thanks to Devante Cole’s ninth minute strike.
Another injury at Goodison Park
Premier League: Dominic Calvert-Lewin, a 19-year-old Everton midfielder, has been forced off with injury and been replaced by Kevin Mirallas.
Bad news for Southampton
Premier League: Saints full-back Cedric has been forced off with a nasty gash in his head after cracking it off an advertising hoarding or metal chair adjacent to same at Goodison Park. He’s replaced by Jack Stephens.
David Wheeler, take a bow ...
League Two: The Exeter City striker has scored the first goal of the 3pm kick-offs, putting his side one up against Leyton Orient with his fourth goal in four games.
Manchester City blow some early chances ...
Premier League: Kelechi Iheanacho, Yaya Toure and Raheem Sterling all spurn decent shooting opportunities in quick succession as Manchester City put Burnley under the cosh in the early stages of their game at the Etihad.
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League One result: AFC Wimbledon and Wimbledon drew 2-2 in the early kick-off in the third tier. Millwall go seventh, behind Southend on goal difference. Wimbledon move to 11th.
And they're off ...
Players the length and breadth of the UK have completed their pre-match formalities and referees are giving shrill blasts on their whistles. Who’ll score first? My metaphorical money’s on Sadio Mane.
Daniel Sturridge comes in for Liverpool ...
Jurgen Klopp makes just one change for Liverpool, bringing in Daniel Sturridge instead of Jordan Henderson (Lallana moves back into midfield), prompting some bemusement from Liverpool fans on Twitter, who think he should have rotated in the face of such feeble opposition. By contrast, Pep Guardiola seems to have made four changes to the team that lost against Liverpool less than 48 hours ago.
Tough times at Sunderland ...
In Josh Maja, George Honeyman, Michael Ledger and Elliot Embleton, Sunderland have four players on the bench against Liverpool with three senior appearances between them and a combined age of 77. Wahbi Khazri, Javier Manquillo and third choice goalkeeper Mika are the comparative veterans, with 24 appearances between them and an identical combined age of 77.
Sunderland also have Jan Kirchoff, Lee Cattermole, Jordan Pickford, Duncan Watmore and Paddy McNair out long term, while Wahbi Khazri, Lamine Kone and Papy Djilobodji are all off to the Africa Cup of Nations. Throw in the fact they are fairly useless and have no money to bring anyone in during the January transfer window and you’d have to say that both their short and long-term future looks extremely bleak. When they get gubbed today, I wouldn’t be one bit surprised to see David Moyes walk away. He’s been sold a mangy pup.
Sunderland v Liverpool line-ups
Sunderland: Mannone, Love, O’Shea, Djilobodji, Van Aanholt, Larsson, Ndong, Rodwell, Januzaj, Defoe, Borini.
Subs: Khazri, Mika, Manquillo, Maja, Honeyman, Embleton, Ledger.
Liverpool: Mignolet, Clyne, Lovren, Klavan, Milner, Can, Wijnaldum, Lallana, Mane, Firmino, Sturridge.
Subs: Karius, Moreno, Lucas, Origi, Stewart, Ejaria, Alexander-Arnold.
Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)
Everton v Southampton line-ups
Everton: Robles, Coleman, Funes Mori, Ashley Williams, Baines, Gana, Davies, Lennon, Barkley, Calvert-Lewin, Lukaku.
Subs: Jagielka, Mirallas, Cleverley, Barry, Valencia, Holgate, Hewelt.
Southampton: Forster, Cedric, Yoshida, Fonte, McQueen, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Clasie, Redmond, Rodriguez, Tadic.
Subs: Long, Davis, Reed, Boufal, Bertrand, Stephens, Lewis.
Referee: Kevin Friend (Leicestershire)
Manchester City v Burnley line-ups
Man City: Bravo, Sagna, Otamendi, Kolarov, Clichy, Toure, Fernandinho, Jesus Navas, De Bruyne, Sterling, Iheanacho.
Subs: Zabaleta, Nolito, Aguero, Caballero, Silva, Stones, Garcia.
Burnley: Heaton, Lowton, Keane, Mee, Ward, Boyd, Hendrick, Gudmundsson, Arfield, Barnes, Gray.
Subs: Vokes, Bamford, Defour, Robinson, Tarkowski, Darikwa, O’Neill.
Referee: Lee Mason (Lancashire)
West Brom v Hull City line-ups
West Brom: Foster, Dawson, McAuley, Evans, Brunt, Fletcher, Yacob, Phillips, Morrison, Chadli, Rondon.
Subs: Nyom, Olsson, Robson-Kanu, Gardner, Myhill, McClean, Galloway.
Hull: Marshall, Maguire, Davies, Dawson, Elmohamady, Livermore, Huddlestone, Clucas, Snodgrass, Mbokani, Diomande.
Subs: Robertson, Meyler, Maloney, Jakupovic, Weir, Henriksen, Mason.
Referee: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear)
Some piping hot news from the wires ...
Aston Villa have accepted a bid from Middlesbrough for striker Rudy Gestede. Head coach Aitor Karanka is hoping to complete a move for the £6m-rated 28-year-old imminently after Boro formalised their interest in the player. Karanka’s promoted side have made a creditable start to their bid to remain in the Premier League, but goals have been at a premium and the Spaniard is keen to boost the firepower at his disposal for the second half of the campaign. Boro are currently entertaining Leicester City at the Riverside, where it is scoreless after 74 minutes. You can follow the action with Gregg Bakowski.
Further down the pyramid ...
There’s going on in League One and League Two also and we’ll be bringing you the most important updates from those particular divisions as well.
League One
AFC Wimbledon v Millwall, Bury v Sheffield United, Charlton Athletic v Bristol Rovers, Chesterfield v MK Dons, Coventry City v Bolton Wanderers, Gillingham v Oxford United, Northampton Town v Bradford, Oldham Athletic v Port Vale, Scunthorpe United v Peterborough United, Shrewsbury Town v Fleetwood Town, Swindon Town v Southend United, Walsall v Rochdale.
League Two
Accrington Stanley v Hartlepool., Barnet v Plymouth Argyle, Blackpool v Mansfield Town, Cambridge United v Notts County, Carlisle United v Grimsby Town, Colchester United v Cheltenham Town, Crawley Town v Yeovil Town, Doncaster Rovers v Stevenage, Exeter City v Leyton Orient, Morecambe v Crewe Alexandra, Portsmouth v Luton Town, Wycombe Wanderers v Newport County.
It's a big day in the Championship
All 24 teams kick-off at 3pm (GMT) in England’s second tier, where league leaders Newcastle travel to Ewood Park to play third-from-bottom Blackburn and their closest rivals Brighton leave London-by-the-Sea to go to actual London and play Fulham. A whopping 11 points clear of safety at the foot of the table, Rotherham visit Leeds, while second-from-bottom Wigan entertain Huddersfield.
Happy New Year, everyone ...
We’ve a reasonably busy day of Premier League action which has already kicked off at the Riverside Stadium, where Middlesbrough are entertaining Leicester City. It’s scoreless there after 35 minutes and Gregg Bakowski is monitoring proceedings. West Ham host Manchester United later, but sandwiched between the two games we’ve got four 3pm (GMT) kick-offs: Everton v Southampton, Manchester City v Burnley, Sunderland v Liverpool and West Brom v Hull City. We’ll have team news and build-up, then bring you updated on all the goals, scorpion kicks, the increasingly haggard look on David Moyes’s face and everything else throughout the afternoon.
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