Leeds v Brighton, West Ham v Burnley and Football League– clockwatch live! – The Guardian

Right then, that’s all from me. Scott Murray will take you through Fulham v Chelsea here:

For the 2nd video game in a row Sean Dyche views his group lose however appears positive:

We have actually simply got to discover the margins of our favour, specifically in the assaulting 3rd. I still think in what we do, since we have actually shown it over an extended period. We kept the ball, we asked concerns, however we could not rather open the door. You have actually got to keep in mind after 8 video games we had 2 points. We remain in quite healthy shape thinking about. Keep playing like that and we’ll be alright.

This simply in from Ed Aarons at the London Arena:

For a gamer who was as soon as turned down by Wimbledon over a ₤ 7 registration charge, Michail Antonio has actually certainly shown his worth to West Ham. Missing considering that completion of November with a groin injury, it took him less than 10 minutes to discover the web versus Burnley as David Moyes’ side protected a fighting success.

Antonio was signed as a winger in 2015 and even played as a full-back under Manuel Pellegrini however it is as an only striker that he is standing out under Moyes. Motivated by their returning talisman in attack, West Ham ought to truly have actually put this video game beyond doubt in the very first half and were required to dig deep to hold back a perky late assault from Sean Dyche’s side. However a success that raises them into genuine contention for the leading 6 thanks to Antonio’s 40th Premier League objective– simply 7 behind Paolo Di Canio’s West Ham record– was practically a reasonable benefit.

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Louise Taylor has actually submitted her match report from Elland Roadway:

A sluggish, untidy thaw had actually started melting the thick snow banked up by the sides of the roadways outside the arena and, inside it, Leeds United’s as soon as strong midfield appeared to be liquifying in compassion.

Marcelo Bielsa’s side have actually had better days and a huge part of that was down to Brighton’s quality. Graham Potter’s group were so excellent that it was very difficult to credit that this was their very first Premier League win considering that November.

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Here follows a classified check on today’s full-time ratings.

Premier League

Fulham v Chelsea (5.30 pm)
Leeds 0-1 Brighton
Leicester v Southampton (8pm)
West Ham 1-0 Burnley
Wolverhampton 2-3 West Brom

Sky Bet Champion

Bournemouth 0-1 Luton
Barnsley v Swansea (7.45 pm)
Blackburn 1-1 Stoke
Bristol City 2-0 Preston North End
Cardiff 1-2 Norwich
Derby 0-1 Rotherham
Middlesbrough 0-1 Birmingham
Nottm Forest 3-1 Millwall
QPR v Wycombe (delayed since of a Covid break out at Wycombe)
Checking out v Brentford (delayed since of a Covid break out at Brentford)
Watford 2-0 Huddersfield

Sky Bet League One

Wimbledon 0-3 Sunderland
Accrington Stanley 0-1 Gillingham
Bristol Rovers 0-1 Charlton
Burton Albion 0-1 Ipswich
Fleetwood Town 0-1 Portsmouth
Hull 1-1 Blackpool
Northampton v Oxford Utd (match delayed since of a waterlogged pitch)
Peterborough 3-0 Milton Keynes Puts On
Plymouth 1-1 Crewe
Rochdale 3-3 Wigan
Shrewsbury v Lincoln City (delayed since of a Covid break out at Shrewsbury)
Swindon 1-2 Doncaster

Sky Bet League 2

Barrow 1-0 Scunthorpe
Bolton 1-1 Cheltenham
Bradford v Crawley Town (delayed since of something about the weather condition)
Colchester 1-1 Cambridge Utd
Forest Green 1-1 Port Vale
Grimsby 0-0 Southend
Harrogate Town v Exeter (delayed since of a frozen pitch)
Leyton Orient 2-0 Morecambe
Mansfield v Carlisle (delayed since of a Covid break out at Carlisle)
Newport County 0-0 Salford City
Stevenage 0-0 Tranmere
Walsall 1-1 Oldham

Scottish Premiership

Celtic 0-0 Livingston
Hamilton 0-0 Dundee Utd
Hibernian 2-0 Kilmarnock
Ross County 4-1 Aberdeen
St Johnstone 1-0 St Mirren

The last whistle noises at both Premier League video games at nearly the very same minute, and the outcomes suggest Brighton vault Burnley, who sit 17th (albeit with 2 video games in hand on the Seagulls), while West Ham move a minimum of momentarily into 8th!

Catastrophe for Wayne Rooney, as Rotherham break the deadlock versus Derby in the 86th minute, through Jamie Lindsay! It would be Rotherham’s 2nd away win of the season, and take them above the Rams in the table (though both would remain in the bottom 3).

West Ham ought to have clinched success on the break, however Yarmolenko conjectured and hit Mee with it, when he might have passed to his left and provided Antonio with a tap-in.

More expert nasty news, as Stoke’s James Chester is dispatched for one at Blackburn, a number of minutes after the house side equalised through John Buckley. It’s 1-1 there too!

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were an objective up versus Blackpool however are a guy down after the most expert of expert fouls from Reece Burke. Still, it protected their lead. However then, as I type …

Great and problem for Norwich: Cardiff scored in the 65th minute through Ralls (bad), however the house side are now down to 10 males after Load was dispatched (excellent). and now Luton have actually gone an objective up at Bournemouth (likewise excellent), Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall with a left-foot curler. Broaching left-foot curlers, Sammy Ameobi’s 2nd for Nottingham Forest versus Millwall was a peach.

There have actually been 17 chance ats West Ham and 10 at Leeds, lots of goalmouth action at both places, however simply the one objective in each video game. Undoubtedly more to come?

A 2nd objective for Watford in your home to Huddersfield, exceptional work from Kiko Femenia on the right and his low centre provides Joao Pedro with a far-post tap-in. At West Ham, Bowen sees a shot go simply the incorrect side of the near post.

Fiacre Kelleher, older bro of highly-rated Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin, has actually scored to provide Wrexham a 2-1 lead in your home to bottom-of-the-table Dover in the National League.

Over to West Ham, where a conservative cross from Bowen Antonio chests the ball down and hammers a volley … off totally the incorrect part of his foot, and he tips over while doing so to boot, and it opts for a throw-in.

Watford take the lead versus Huddersfield, in amusing design! Toffolo wins a header versus Sarr out on the Watford right and the ball rolls to O’Brien, who passes back to Vellejo, who passes back to Schofield. All the while Cleverley is scooting about, shutting down, and when Vellejo’s pass shows underhit he reaches it prior to Schofield and moves it in from 6 backyards!

Exceptional work from Veltman at Elland Roadway, who encounters his own objective to nick the ball off the toe of Bamford in the charge location. It goes to Harrison, who curls a novice effort throughout objective however simply large!

Even more unpleasant head contact news from the London Arena, where Craig Dawson has actually been sent out from the field to handle a bleeding nose.

Play is back under method! As in the very first half Burnley have a gamer on the flooring within 35 seconds of kick-off. This time it’s Barnes, who increases for a header, butts a protector’s butt and takes a while to recuperate.

Here are the half-time ratings. Not a great deal of objectives about:

Premier League

Fulham v Chelsea (5.30 pm)
Leeds 0-1 Brighton
Leicester v Southampton (8pm)
West Ham 1-0 Burnley
Wolverhampton v West Brom (12.30 pm)

Sky Bet Champion

Bournemouth 0-0 Luton
Barnsley v Swansea (7.45 pm)
Blackburn 0-1 Stoke
Bristol City 1-0 Preston North End
Cardiff 0-2 Norwich
Derby 0-0 Rotherham
Middlesbrough 0-1 Birmingham (full-time)
Nottm Forest 1-0 Millwall
QPR v Wycombe (delayed since of a Covid break out at Wycombe)
Checking out v Brentford (delayed since of a Covid break out at Brentford)
Watford -=- Huddersfield

Sky Bet League One

Wimbledon 0-3 Sunderland (full-time)
Accrington Stanley 0-1 Gillingham
Bristol Rovers 0-0 Charlton
Burton Albion 0-0 Ipswich
Fleetwood Town 0-1 Portsmouth
Hull 0-0 Blackpool
Northampton v Oxford Utd (match delayed since of a waterlogged pitch)
Peterborough 2-0 Milton Keynes Puts On
Plymouth 1-0 Crewe
Rochdale 1-2 Wigan
Shrewsbury v Lincoln City (delayed since of a Covid break out at Shrewsbury)
Swindon 0-2 Doncaster

Sky Bet League 2

Barrow 0-0 Scunthorpe
Bolton 0-0 Cheltenham
Bradford v Crawley Town (delayed since of something about the weather condition)
Colchester 1-1 Cambridge Utd
Forest Green 1-0 Port Vale
Grimsby 0-0 Southend
Harrogate Town v Exeter (delayed since of a frozen pitch)
Leyton Orient 0-0 Morecambe
Mansfield v Carlisle (delayed since of a Covid break out at Carlisle)
Newport County 0-0 Salford City
Stevenage 0-0 Tranmere
Walsall 1-0 Oldham

Scottish Premiership

Celtic 0-0 Livingston
Hamilton 0-0 Dundee Utd
Hibernian 0-0 Kilmarnock
Ross County 2-1 Aberdeen
St Johnstone 0-0 St Mirren

It’s half time at the London Arena, where West Ham take a 1-0 lead over Burnley into the break. Brighton are one minute from doing comparable in Leeds.

Stoke have actually just won among their last 9 in all competitors, which protested Blackburn last month. Today they play Blackburn once again, and they’re winning once again: Nick Powell has actually simply headed in from 6 backyards.

West Ham struck the post! It’s a corner from the right, which is played in by Bowen, snapped on, and after that hammered versus the far post by Ogbonna!

Burnley have an objective prohibited! It’s a low cross from Wood left wing, which snaps off the back of Cresswell’s tracking leg at the near post and loops in at the far, however Wood was offside in the accumulation.

More excellent news for Norwich: Bournemouth are a guy down in your home to Luton, after Jefferson Lerma was dispatched (obviously extremely roughly). It might have been much better still, however Watford’s Troy Deeney has actually not been dispatched when he may have been.

This simply in from Turkey, where the video game in between Istanbul Basaksehir and Sivasspor became a video game of area the footballer. Not perfect conditions for an all-white package:

Brighton struck the bar! It’s a deflected cross, however Casilla is powerless as it crashes versus the meat of the woodwork and away!

Norwich are 2 up! The not-quite-runaway-but-getting-there (walkquicklyaway?) Champion leaders double their lead versus Cardiff as Todd Cantwell snaffles the rebound after Jordan Hugill’s shot is conserved.

Maupay remains on his feet this time, and is entrusted to the simplest of surfaces when Mac Allister draws the keeper prior to setting him up with low square pass!

Bristol City are an objective up in your home to Preston, Famara Diedhiou nodding in a corner with what we typically call aplomb. At Elland Roadway Maupay decreases in the location, however it’s an awful dive and the referee does not reward it (or penalize it, for some factor).

A great Fornals cross from the left is misjudged by Tarkowski and discovers Antonio in all sorts of area at the far post, and he makes no error from a number of backyards!

Possibility for Leeds! It’s a low cross from the left and Rodrigo just requires to touch it in as he runs onto the ball 5 backyards out, however with a protector diving in to sidetrack him he misses it entirely!

Norwich are the first string in the English Football League to score this afternoon, Grant Hanley heading in from a number of feet after a corner is snapped on at the near post.

Less than a minute played and the Burnley physios are currently on the pitch, assisting Josh Brownhill to his feet after an accident with Declan Rice.

Here’s Paul Doyle’s report on Wolves 2-3 West Brom:

6 matches after being parachuted in to conserve West Brom, Sam Allardyce can at last state he has commanded a success– and an especially sweet one, at that. Matheus Pereira scored 2 charges either side of a headed objective by Semi Ajayi as West Brom distressed their regional competitors with a display screen of opportunism, spirit and relative protective rigour. Wolves, however, ought to primarily blame themselves. They have actually lost 6 of their last 9 league matches and look no closer to fixing issues at both ends of the pitch.

For 9 years Wolves had actually awaited a possibility to avenge their defeat in the last Black Nation derby, a 5-1 clobbering that encouraged the club to oust their then supervisor, Mick McCarthy. West Brom have already jettisoned one supervisor this season and the replacement reached Molineux trying to find a success to start his rescue objective.

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” Afternoon Simon,” composes our periodic voluntary Scottish football reporter Simon McMahon.” Scottish Leagues One and 2 were suspended previously in the week, however still some video games occurring in the leading 2 departments, in the meantime anyhow. Crisis club Celtic are at house to high-flying Livingston, while Micky Mellon’s Dundee United take a trip to Hamilton (and if anybody hasn’t seen Lawrence Shankland’s objective for United versus St Johnstone throughout midweek, they truly ought to). In the Scottish Champion, leaders Hearts are at Alloa, and having a hard time Dundee host Ayr (though there’s a doubt about that a person as, after current snow and rain, part of the pitch at Dens looks like a ploughed field *). * Place your own joke about 1970’s commercial design football.”

Unfortunately as Simon was pushing send out on his e-mail, Dundee were making the following statement:

Sunderland have actually won one and lost one league video game in a drawful last 2 months, however Charlie Wyke has actually simply finished his hat-trick to provide a 3-0 lead in the eleventh hour at Wimbledon, so there’ll be 3 more points in the bank this night.

Sean Dyche has actually called a the same group to deal with West Ham today. He has a chat on the telly:

We have actually got a great belief. The efficiency level versus Guy Utd was truly excellent, that’s why we’re sticking to the very same side. Other gamers [he mentions Dwight McNeil] are close to physical fitness, and our team strength is enhancing all the time.

On doing the double over West Ham last season:

When you win it’s constantly excellent memories. We were good both video games, and the last number of seasons we have actually succeeded here. There appears a more strong feel about West Ham at the minute. Possibly not as complimentary streaming however still a silver lining, we understand that. We’re never ever far defensively however our production in the front 3rd has actually got to enhance.

Dortmund’s match versus Mainz began 10 minutes or two back, their gamers having actually heated up in unique jerseys motivating Axel Witsel, nicknamed Chaloupe (” Chaloupe is my label. They offered it to me when I was betting Requirement Lièege since I am constantly … A Chaloupe is a little wood boat, which constantly moves extremely gradually on the water. That is how I am every day: cool, unwinded, not stressed out. That’s why they called me that years back and I’m still like that today.”), to recuperate rapidly from his split achilles tendon.

Erling Haaland had the ball in the web within 90 seconds of kick-off, however the objective was prohibited for handball.

A couple of professional photographers are attempting their best to produce intriguing pre-match images on a day when dull slate-grey skies make such a job rather hard. Here’s a puddle of the day:

West Brom lead Wolves 3-2 with 10 minutes to play, and Scott Murray is all over this one:

On The Other Hand at Elland Roadway, the names on the group sheets are these:

Leeds: Casilla, Dallas, Ayling, Cooper, Alioski, Struijk, Raphinha, Rodrigo, Klich, Harrison, Bamford. Subs: Poveda-Ocampo, Roberts, Llorente, Helder Costa, Hernandez,
Davis, Caprile, Shackleton, Jenkins.
Brighton: Sanchez, Webster, Dunk, Burn, Veltman, White, Gross, March, Mac Allister, Maupay, Trossard. Subs: Bissouma, Alzate, Tau, Propper, Zeqiri, Walton, Sanders, Khadra, Jenks.
Referee: Kevin Good Friend.

Lining up at the London Arena will be this lot:

West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Rice, Soucek, Bowen, Benrahma, Fornals, Antonio. Subs:(* )Alves, Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Noble, Diop, Fredericks, Johnson, Randolph, Odubeko. Burnley:
Pope, Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Pieters, Gudmundsson, Westwood, Brownhill, Brady, Wood, Barnes. Subs: Cork, McNeil, Stephens, Rodriguez, Norris, Bardsley, Vydra, Long, Benson. Referee:
Chris Kavanagh. West Ham United

upon us, and with it the weekly video game excess. Here, then, is your huge component check. A couple of stand apart: outside the there are huge video games at the top and bottom of the Champion, with this night’s Barnsley v Swansea match seeing 2 of the department’s kind groups play each other, while Wayne Rooney’s very first match as a full-time supervisor sees his Derby side, 22Premier League nd ^{in the league, host the group right away listed below them, Rotherham (who have 2 video games in hand). The leaders of Leagues One and 2 are both out of action since of posts ponement, and in their lack the huge video games in both departments are towards the bottom: in League One 23} rd^{– location Wigan go to Rochdale, 3 locations however just 2 points ahead of them, while in League 2 4 of the bottom 5 play each other, with Scunthorpe intending to pull themselves clear of the transfer scrap with success at Barrow and the bottom 2, Grimsby and Southend, conference at Blundell Park.} Today’s components (3pm kick-offs unless mentioned):

Premier League

Fulham v Chelsea (5.30 pm)

Leeds v Brighton
Leicester v Southampton (8pm)
West Ham v Burnley
Wolverhampton v West Brom (12.30 pm)
Sky Bet Champion

Bournemouth v Luton

Barnsley v Swansea (7.45 pm)
Blackburn v Stoke
Bristol City v Preston North End
Cardiff v Norwich
Derby v Rotherham
Middlesbrough v Birmingham (12.30 pm)
Nottm Forest v Millwall
QPR v Wycombe (delayed since of a Covid break out at Wycombe)
Checking out v Brentford (delayed since of a Covid break out at Brentford)
Watford v Huddersfield
Sky Bet League One

Wimbledon v Sunderland (1pm)

Accrington Stanley v Gillingham
Bristol Rovers v Charlton
Burton Albion v Ipswich
Fleetwood Town v Portsmouth
Hull v Blackpool
Northampton v Oxford Utd
Peterborough v Milton Keynes Wears
Plymouth v Crewe
Rochdale v Wigan
Shrewsbury v Lincoln City (delayed since of a Covid break out at Shrewsbury)
Swindon v Doncaster
Sky Bet League 2

Barrow v Scunthorpe

Bolton v Cheltenham
Bradford v Crawley Town
Colchester v Cambridge Utd
Forest Green v Port Vale
Grimsby v Southend
Harrogate Town v Exeter
Leyton Orient v Morecambe
Mansfield v Carlisle (delayed since of a Covid break out at Carlisle)
Newport County v Salford City
Stevenage v Tranmere
Walsall v Oldham
Scottish Premiership

Celtic v Livingston

Hamilton v Dundee Utd
Hibernian v Kilmarnock
Ross County v Aberdeen
St Johnstone v St Mirren