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Match report: Brentford 2-0 Burnley
Premier League: Described as the proverbial six-pointer beforehand, it was Brentford who emerged to make capital on a nervy afternoon with Ivan Toney scoring two priceless, late goals, including one from the penalty spot. Words: Julian Taylor at the Brentford Community Stadium.
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James Tarkowski: “We had chances, they had a couple,” the Burnley defender tells PLP. “They got the goal at the end late on so disappointing but no time to panic. It wasn’t a bad performance but not our greatest.
“We can’t let any player break into the box like that especially someone of [Christian Eriksen’s] quality. We’ve given away too many cheap goals like that this season which needs to stop. We need to be better once again in both boxes. We have a lot more than that.
“A lot of the time if someone goes down in the box with the slightest of touches it gets given. There are plenty of teams who have to pick up points but we’ll just concentrate on ourselves. No time to panic. Plenty of games left. We need to start putting more points on the board.”
Ivan Toney: “Yeah it’s a massive step,” says Brentford’s striker in an interview with PLP following his side’s win against Burnley. “Everyone was putting our name in the hat for relegation but we don’t listen to that. Results haven’t been going our way but we haven’t lost desire. The team we have in the dressing room is more than capable of staying in the Premier League.”
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Match report: Brighton 0-2 Liverpool
Premier League: Luis Diaz and Mo Salah scored the goals as Liverpool overcame Brighton without breaking sweat at the Amex Stadium.
Championship full times ...
- Barnsley 1-1 Fulham
- Bournemouth 2-0 Derby County
- Birmingham City 0-0 Hull City
- Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Bristol City
- Blackpool 1-0 Swansea City
- Cardiff City 0-0 Preston
- Coventry City 4-1 Sheffield United
- Millwall 0-0 Middlesbrough
- Nottingham Forest 4-0 Reading
- Peterborough United 2-2 Stoke City
- View the Championship table
Full time: Brentford 2-0 Burnley
Premier League: A brace from Ivan Toney sends Brentford nine points clear of a relegation zone in which Burnley remain uncomfortably ensconced.
GOAL! Brentford 2-0 Burnley (Toney 90+2pen)
Premier League: Ivan Toney scores from the penalty spot, as he always does. Through on goal as Brentford attacked on the break, he was shoved in the back by Burnley centre-back Nathan Collins, who earned a red card for his troubles and handed Brentford all three points.
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Championship: Jonson Clarke-Harris scores from the spot in the first minute of added time to restore parity for Peterborough against Stoke City. It’s 2-2 at the London Road Stadium.
At Ewood Park, Blackburn have fallen behind to a late goal from Bristol City’s Andreas Weimann.
GOAL! Brentford 1-0 Burnley (Toney 85)
Premier League: Christian Eriksen sends a left-footed cross into the Burnley penalty area and Ivan Toney heads past Nick Pope.
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Championship: Blackburn are awarded a penalty against Bristol City, Bradley elects to take and misses. Meanwhile at the City Ground, Sam Surridge makes it Nottingham Forest 4-0 Reading. At the London Road Stadium, Lewis Baker has just put Stoke 2-1 up against Peterborough.
Bundesliga full times
- Freiberg 3-2 Wolfsburg
- Hoffenheim 1-1 Bayern Munich
- Union Berlin 1-1 Stuttgart
- Borussia Moenchengladbach v Hertha Berlin (5.30pm GMT)
- View the Bundesliga table
Brentford 0-0 Burnley: Burnley’s Jay Rodriguez hits the bar with a rising screamer from 30 yards out. His side are in the ascendency at the moment.
Championship: Ryan Yates scores Nottingham Forest’s third of the afternoon to put the game beyond Reading at the City Ground.
Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur line-ups ...
Man Utd: De Gea, Dalot, Varane, Maguire, Alex Telles, Matic, Fred, Rashford, Pogba, Sancho, Ronaldo.
Subs: Lindelof, Bailly, Jones, Mata, Lingard, Cavani, Henderson, Wan-Bissaka, Elanga.
Tottenham Hotspur: Lloris, Romero, Dier, Davies, Doherty, Bentancur, Hojbjerg, Reguilon, Kulusevski, Son, Kane.
Subs: Sanchez, Winks, Emerson, Rodon, Gollini, Bergwijn, Lucas Moura, White, Scarlett.
Referee: Jonathan Moss (County Durham)
Championship: Matt Godden riffs on Sheffield United’s mounting pain at the Coventry Building Society Stadium, making it 4-1 to the hosts by drilling home a cross to the far post for his 11th goal of the season.
Championship: It’s scoreless between Blackburn Rovers and Bristol City at Ewood Park, but in good news for the hosts, Bradley Dack has just come on for his first appearance after almost exactly a year out with injury.
Championship: On loan from Aston Villa, Keinan Davis scores his second goal of the game to make it Nottingham Forest 2-0 Reading.
Championship: Callum O’Hare scores his second in quick succession to make it Coventry City 3-1 Sheffield United.
League One: An eyecatching latest score from Hillsborough, where Guardian Football Weekly podcast presenter Max Rushden’s beloved Cambridge United are being walloped 6-0 by Sheffield Wednesday.
Championship: Coventry City have gone 2-1 up against Sheffield United, with Callum O’Hare scrambling the ball over the line from close range.
Brentford 0-0 Burnley: Sergio Canos crosses the ball, Burnley goalkeeper Nick Pope comes for it but doesn’t get it and Vitaly Janelt heads over an empty goal. Oh Vitaly!
Jurgen Klopp speaks: “I like to watch Brighton a lot, I don’t like playing against them because they are really good,” said Liverpool’s manager in an interview with the BBC. “We knew we could cause them problems as well; what I really like about Graham [Potter] and his team is you can really tell how they prepare for an opponent. We needed to get used to the way they started, but when we adapted, we controlled the game.
“We could have scored more; there were two or three chances where the last pass could have been slightly better. It was a good game against a good opponent.”
Championship half-times ...
- Barnsley 1-1 Fulham (FT)
- Bournemouth 1-0 Derby County
- Birmingham City 0-0 Hull City
- Blackburn Rovers 0-0 Bristol City
- Blackpool 1-0 Swansea City
- Cardiff City 0-0 Preston
- Coventry City 1-1 Sheffield United
- Millwall 0-0 Middlesbrough
- Nottingham Forest 1-0 Reading
- Peterborough United 0-0 Stoke City
Championship: Dominic Solanke scores in the fifth minute of first half added time to give Bournemouth a 1-0 lead against Derby County.
Premier League: It’s scoreless at the break at the Brentford Community Stadium, where the hosts and Burnley are struggling to justify their top billing in today’s super, soaraway Clockwatch. Boo!!!
Bundesliga latest ...
Early in the second halves of these games, the scores are as follows ...
- Freiburg 2-0 Wolfsburg
- Hoffenheim 1-1 Bayern Munich
- Union Berlin 1-0 Stuttgart
- Borussia Moenchengladbach v Hertha Berlin (5.30pm GMT)
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Premier League: It’s close but no cigar for Burnley, as Dwight McNeil squanders a glorious scoring opportunity for his side at Brentford. It remains scoreless at the Brentford Community Stadium.
Championship: Jonson Clarte-Harris curls a hot past Jack Bonham to restore parity in Peterborough’s game against Stoke City.
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Manchester United v Tottenham: The Daily Mail’s Mike Keegan reports that Manchester United’s players will travel to Old Trafford for their game against Tottenham Hotspur later this afternoon in cars rather than on board the team coach, as a result of covid-19 concerns.
Believe that, thanks to Covid concerns, Manchester United have abandoned plans to travel by team coach to today’s game and the players will instead arrive in cars.
— Mike Keegan (@MikeKeegan_DM) March 12, 2022
Match report: Barnlsey 1-1 Fulham
Championship: Harry Wilson’s fine late finish rescued a point for Fulham at Barnsley, after Carlton Morris’ first-half penalty had left the Championship leaders facing a surprise defeat.
Championship: Jacob Brown fires Stoke in front against Peterborough at the London Road Stadium, shooting across the bows of David Corneell and finding the back of the net.
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Championship: Coventry City equalise against Sheffield United with the help of a blunder from Jack Robinson. The Sheffield United defender misjudged the flight of a long ball from the back, missed his header and allowed Vikto Gyokeres in behind him to score.
Championship: There have been four yellow cards in a spicey opening 18 minutes at the Den, where Millwall’s Jake Cooper, Daniel BHallard and Scott Malone have all had their names taken. Middlesbrough’s Isaiah Jones has also been booked.
Championship: Billy Sharp crosses to the far post where Sander Berge heads home to put Sheffield United a goal up against Coventry City.
Brentford 0-0 Burnley: Nick Pope saves brilliantly from Christian Eriksen, who’d advanced to the edge of the Burnley penalty area and taken a shot.
Championship: Middlesbrough’s Marcus Tavernier rattles the cross-bar at the Den, where his side are taking on Millwall. Meanwhile at Bloomfield Road, Gary Madine has prodded Blackpool ahead against a Swansea side that has conceded nine goals in their past two-and-a-bit games.
Championship: Crikey! Nottingham Forest have taken just 17 seconds to go ahead against Reading at the City Ground, with Keinan Davis converting a Djed Spence cross moments after kick-off.
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Match report: Brighton 0-2 Liverpool
Premier League: Luis Diaz and Mo Salah scored the goals as Liverpool put “demob unhappy” Brighton to the sword to move within three points of Manchester City. Sam Dalling reports from the Amex Stadium ...
Meanwhile in Germany ...
We have four top flight matches in Germany today, including one between sixth placed Hoffenheim and league leaders Bayern Munich.
- Freiburg 0-0 Wolfsburg (L)
- Hoffenheim 0-0 Bayern Munich (L)
- Union Berlin 0-0 Stuffgart
- Borussia Moenchengladbach v Hertha Berlin (5.30pm GMT)
- View the Bundesliga table
Full time: Barnsley 1-1 Fulham
Championship: Harry Wilson scored a late equaliser (and missed an open goal from five yards) to rescue a point for table-topping Fulham at Oakwell.
Full time: Brighton 0-2 Liverpool
Premier League: Luis Diaz and Mo Salah got the goals as Liverpool kept up the pressure on Manchester City with a fairly comfortable win at the Amex Stadium.
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Brentford v Burnley line-ups
Brentford: Raya, Ajer, Jansson, Pinnock, Henry, Mbeumo, Janelt, Norgaard, Eriksen, Canos, Toney.
Subs: Jensen, Wissa, Ghoddos, Onyeka, Jorgensen, Baptiste, Sorensen, Roerslev, Lossl.
Burnley: Pope, Roberts, Collins, Tarkowski, Taylor, Lennon, Westwood, Brownhill, McNeil, Weghorst, Cornet.
Subs: Lowton, Cork, Barnes, Hennessey, Stephens, Rodriguez, Bardsley, Long, Thomas.
Referee: Paul Tierney (Lancashire)
Support for Ukraine: Despite playing at home today, Brighton’s players are wearing their yellow and blue away kit in support of Ukraine today, while League One side Sunderland will follow suit when they host Crewe Alexandra at the Stadium of Light later this afternoon.
Sunderland will be supporting the Disasters Emergency Committee Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal and the shirts will be signed by those who wore them and auctioned off with the proceeds going to the appeal through the British Red Cross.
GOAL! Brighton 0-2 Liverpool (Salah 60pen)
Premier League: Liverpool win a penalty for an Yves Bissouma hand-ball. Mo Salah scores straight down the middle from the spot as Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sanchez dives to his left. Scott Murray has the latest ...
Women's Super League
Reading 1-3 Manchester United: With the competition for European places hotting up and Manchester United very much in the mix, Marc Skinner brought his side to Adams Park in High Wycombe for the first of today’s two WSL fixtures.
Sixth in the table going into today’s game but having lost three and drawn one of their past four fixtures in all competitions, Kelly Chambers’ Reading side came up short against their visitors, going down 3-1 to a brace from Leah Galton and another goal from Alessia Russo.
Deanne Rose scored what turned out to be a consolation for Reading in the 15th minute. Russo’s goal came moments after Manchester United’s Ona Batlle saw a shot hit the cross-bar, bounce down way behind the line and out of the goal. It was incorrectly disallowed but the best team won on the day. United are in third place, three points clear of Tottenham having played one game more. Reading stay in sixth place.
A good read: Chelsea’s ownership is finally facing deserved scrutiny but there is a double standard when it comes to Newcastle’s owners, writes Barney Ronay.
Today’s Premier League fixtures
- Brighton 0-1 Liverpool (HT)
- Brentford v Burnley
- Manchester United v Tottenham (5.30pm PSG)
- View the Premier League table
And the Championship ...
- Barnsley 0-0 Fulham (L)
- Bournemouth v Derby County
- Birmingham City v Hull City
- Blackburn Rovers v Bristol City
- Blackpool v Swansea City
- Cardiff City v Preston
- Coventry City v Sheffield United
- Millwall v Middlesbrough
- Nottingham Forest v Reading
- Peterborough United v Stoke City
- View the Championship table
- View all today’s live scores
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Saturday clockwatch ...
The midweek Premier League fixtures mean we are left with a decidedly threadbare Saturday clockwatch, what with the lion’s share of this weekend’s top flight fixtures slated for tomorrow.
With this in mind, the pressure is on Brentford and Burnley to provide the entertainment in their role as sole 3pm kicker-offers following Brighton’s game against Liverpool, which started at the Amex Stadium at 12.30pm (GMT).
It’s half-time at the Amex, where Liverpool lead by the only goal of the game from Luis Diaz and Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sanchez is very lucky not to have been sent off for taking out the Liverpool winger as he scored.
We’ll bring you team news and build-up ahead of kick-off at the Brentford Community Stadium, where a win for the visitors would take them out of the relegation zone and up two places above both Everton and Leeds United. Should Brentford prevail, they’ll pull themselves further clear of the mire but will remain a point behind Newcastle.
We’ll follow the goals as they go in and raise any major talking points in the Premier League and beyond, so don’t touch that dial.
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