Match report: Rangers 3-0 Red Star
Europa League: Rangers have taken a big step towards their first European quarter-final for 16 years courtesy of goals from James Tavernier, Alfredo Morelos and Leon Balogun. Paul Doyle reports ...
Match report: Wolves 4-0 Watford
Premier League: A sumptuous chip from Ruben Neves was the highlight as Wolves put hapless Watford to the sword at Molineux. Pete Lansley was there to see it ...
Match report: Southampton 1-2 Newcastle
Premier League: Bruno Guimarães and Chris Wood got the goals as Newcastle United continued their surge up the table towards safety. Ben Fisher reports from St Mary’s ...
Match report: Norwich City 1-3 Chelsea
Premier League: On a day when their club’s world was turned upside-down because of sanctions imposed on Roman Abramovich, Chelsea’s players still weren’t distracted enough to do anything other than beat hapless Norwich City. Barney Ronay reports from Carrow Road ...
Match report: Leeds 0-3 Aston Villa
Premier League: For the first time in almost 20 years, Leeds have fallen to six consecutive league defeats: the latest of which was a chastening watch for Jesse Marsch on his first night inside Elland Road, writes Aaron Bower, who was also present.
Full time: Rangers 3-0 Red Star
Europa League: James Tavernier, Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Jack got the goals against luckless Serbian visitors who missed a penalty and had no fewer than three goals disallowed.
Full time: Leicester City 2-0 Rennes
Europa Conference League: Leicester score a second just before the final whistle, with Kelechi Iheanachi hitting the target after being teed up by Marc Albrighton, who opened the scoring for the Foxes.
Meanwhile in Europe: Rangers are 3-0 up against Red Star at Ibrox in their Europa League Round of 16 first leg – a game in which the visitors have missed a penalty and had three goals disallowed. In the Europa Conference League, Leicester are a goal to the good against Rennes with the game in added time.
Women’s Super League result: Pernille Harder scored twice for Chelsea as it finished Aston Villa 1-4 Chelsea at the Chigwell construction Stadium.
Match report: Sevilla 0-1 West Ham
Europa League: This was a game of fine margins and in the end it belonged to the side with greater European expertise, writes Jacob Steinberg at the Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan.
Thomas Tuchel speaks ...
Talking to Sky Sports after his side’s win over Norwich, the Chelsea manager was asked about the situation at Chelsea now that Roman Abramovich has been sanctioned by the British government.
“It is big news,” he says. “It is huge and has a huge impact of course so it is the subject of the talks. Maybe on a day like this you would talk about the Champions League games last night but nobody talks about this. So it nice to enter a schedule before a match as it helps to focus as we’re used to it.
“We cannot influence it so we allowed ourselves to enjoy it. We have the privilege to play and sometimes it’s good to sweat it out. We tried to work hard to get the focus out. I would love to talk about sport but of course I understand you have a lot of questions. We are also an entertainment so that’s why it is like this.”
Full time: Leeds United 0-3 Aston VIlla
Premier League: It’s all over at Elland Road, where Jesse Marsch has overseen his second defeat in two games as Leeds manager. It’s his side’s fourth consecutive home defeat and the natives are sounding restless.
Premier League results
- Norwich City 1-3 Chelsea
- Wolves 4-0 Watford
- Southampton 1-2 Newcastle
- Leeds 0-3 Aston Villa (L)
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GOAL! Norwich City 1-3 Chelsea (Havertz 90)
Premier League: Norwich City’s slim hopes of rescuing a point against Chelsea evaporate as Kai Havertz puts the game beyond the top flight’s worst side, capitalising on an assist from N’Golo Kante.
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GOAL! Leeds 0-3 Aston Villa (Chambers 73)
Premier League: Boos ring out around Elland Road as Callum Chambers catches hold of a breaking ball that’s only half-cleared from a free-kick and rifles it a rising effort into the top corner from the edge of the penalty area.
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GOAL! Wolves 4-0 Watford (Neves 85)
Premier League: Ruben Neves makes it Wolves 4-0 Watford with five minutes to go. More of which anon ...
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Leeds 0-2 Aston Villa: Patrick Bamford has impressed for Leeds since coming on but Philippe Coutinho has just squandered a glorious opportunity to put Villa three goals ahead.
Women’s Super League: Chelsea have restored their three-goal lead against Aston Villa, with Sam Kerr scoring their fourth after 63 minutes.
GOAL! Leeds United 0-2 Aston Villa (Cash 66)
Premier League: Unmarked at the far post,, Matty Cash picks up a cross from the left, cuts inside past a defender and rifles a low shot inside the near post.
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Leeds 0-2 Aston Villa: Patrick Bamford comes on for Leeds just before the hour, replacing Jack Harrison and making his first appearance since early December.
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GOAL! Norwich City 1-2 Chelsea (Pukki 69pen)
Premier League: A long VAR consultation results in a penalty for Norwich after a Trevoh Chalobah handball and Teemu Pukki scores from the spot.
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Women’s Super League: West Ham midfielder Dagný Brynjarsdóttir pulls a goal back for her side, who now trail Chelsea 3-1 early in the second half.
Leeds 0-1 Aston Villa: Mere seconds after the break, Raphina drills a cross into the Aston Villa penalty area but despite his natural speed Dan James hasn’t quite made enough ground to connect at the far post. Raphina remonstrates with him furiously.
GOAL! Southampton 1-2 Newcastle (Guimaraes 52)
Premier League: Newcastle come from behind to go ahead against Southampton with Bruno Guimaraes scoring his first goal for the club. It came courtesy of an audacious backheel volley after Dan Burn had headed the ball across the face of goal from a corner.
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Leeds United 0-1 Aston Villa: The match officials are booed off at half-time at Elland Road, where Villa lead 1-0 but the crowd feel Ollie Watkins should have been shown a red card.
Europa Conference League: Marc Albrighton puts Leicester a goal up against Rennes at the King Power Stadium.
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Europa League: Spare a thought for Red Star’s Aleksandar Katai. The 31-year-old has had two “goals” against Rangers chalked off by VAR and has now had a penalty saved by Allan McGregor. It remains Rangers 1-0 Red Star.
Leeds 0-1 Aston Villa: Leeds goalkeeper Illan Meslier pulls off an outstanding one-handed save, diving to his left to keep out a curled effort from John McGinn.
West Ham 0-3 Chelsea
Women’s Super League: Anything Chelsea’s men can do their women’s team can do better. They lead West Ham 3-0 courtesy of a brace from Pernille Harder scored either side of Niamh Charles’ strike.
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Europa League: Alfredo Morelos scores Rangers’ second of the night to double their lead against Red Star. It’s 2-0 at Ibrox.
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Europa League latest
- Sevilla 1-0 West Ham (FT)
- Atalanta 1-0 Bayer Leverkusen
- Barcelona 0-0 Galatasaray
- Rangers 1-0 Red Star
- SC Braga 1-0 Monaco
Rangers lead courtesy of a James Tavernier penalty but Red Star have had two goals disallowed on the back of VAR consultations.
West Ham 0-1 Chelsea
Women’s Super League: Pernille Harder gives Chelsea the lead against West Ham.
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GOAL! Leeds United 0-1 Aston Villa (Coutinho 22)
Premier League: Aston Villa are denied a decent penalty shout for a tug on Ollie Watkins but it doesn’t matter. Moments later, the ball falls to Philippe Coutinho, whose low shot is deflected past Illan Meslier by Pascal Struijk.
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GOAL! Southampton 1-1 Newcastle (Wood 32)
Premier League: Chris Wood scores his first goal from Newcastle, heading home a cross from Jonjo Shelvey.
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GOAL! Southampton 1-0 Newcastle (Armstrong 25)
Premier League: Stuart Armstrong heads Southampton in front from a couple of yards out, his header taking a deflection off Dan Burn on its way past Martin Dubravka.
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West Ham 0-0 Chelsea
Women’s Super League: It’s goalless after 120 minutes at the Chigwell Construction Stadium, where Chelsea’s women’s team are also sporting the Three logo on the front of their shirts, despite the mobile company’s announcement that they are suspending their commercial relationship with Chelsea.
A cynic might posit the theory that Three left it deliberately late on a day both Chelsea’s men and women had evening matches away from home to make their announcement because they knew how much publicity they’d get on the back of it when both sides lined up with their logo on their shirts.
GOAL! Wolves 3-0 Watford (Podence 20)
Premier League: A shocker for Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster, who passes the ball straight to Daniel Podence. Unable to believe his luck, he spanks it back from whence it came, into the gaping Watford goal.
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GOAL! Wolves 2-0 Watford (Cucho 18og)
Premier League: Following his wonder-strike against Arsenal on Sunday, Cucho Hernandez returns to earth with a resoiunding bang as he turns the ball into his own net to double Wolves’ lead against another side that looks doomed to the drop.
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GOAL! Wolves 1-0 Watford (Jimenez 13)
Premier League: Raul Jimenez collects a pass from Hwang Hee-Chan and slots past Ben Foster.
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GOAL! Norwich City 0-2 Chelsea (Mount 14)
Premier League: Mason Mount scores Chelsea’s second goal of the new era, hammering another nail into Norwich’s coffin.
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Full time: Sevilla 1-0 West Ham
Europa League: West Ham have acquitted themselves reasonably well in Spain, going down 1-0 to in the first leg of their Europa League Round of 16 game.
GOAL! Norwich City 0-1 Chelsea (Chalobah 3)
Premier League: Chelsea’s world might have been turned on its axis today but some things remain reassuringly normal. Norwich City are behind to a Trevoh Chalobah header from a Mason Mount corner.
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Norwich City 0-0 Chelsea: The players of Chelsea are weating the Three logo on their shirts tonight, the mobile phone comany’s request to suspend their sponsorship deal obviously having been made before the kitman packed for the long trip to Norfolk.
Women’s Super League: West Ham v Chelsea line-ups
West Ham: Arnold, Cissoko, Flaherty, Parker, Longhurst, Brynjarsdottir, Wyne, Hasegawa, Svitkova, Yallop, Walker.
Subs: Stringer, Evans, Snerle, Filis, Leat, Leon, Joel, Moore, Houssein.
Chelsea: Musovic, Carter, Bright, Nouwen, Andersson, Charles, Ingle, Ji, England, Mosegaard-Harder, Kerr.
Subs: Reiten, Mjelde, James, Spence, Abdullina, Berger.
Kick-off: 7.45pm (GMT)
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GOAL! Sevilla 1-0 West Ham (Munir 60)
Europa League: On the pitch because Birthday Boy Ivan Rakatic was injured in the warm-up, Munir El Haddadi has just fired Sevilla in front with a superb half-volley. Scott Murray has the latest ...
Leeds Un ited v Aston Villa line-ups
Leeds United: Meslier, Dallas, Ayling, Struijk, Firpo, Forshaw, Koch, Raphinha, Rodrigo, Harrison, James.
Subs: Bamford, Klaesson, Llorente, Gelhardt, Cresswell, Summerville, Greenwood, Klich, Shackleton.
Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Chambers, Mings, Digne, McGinn, Douglas Luiz, Ramsey, Coutinho, Ings, Watkins.
Subs: Konsa, Sanson, Buendia, Traore, Young, Olsen, Bailey, Chukwuemeka, Iroegbunam.
Referee: Simon Hooper (Wiltshire)
Norwich City v Chelsea line-ups
Norwich: Krul, Aarons, Zimmermann, Hanley, Kabak, Williams, Sargent, McLean, Normann, Lees-Melou, Pukki.
Subs: Gibson, Rupp, Dowell, Placheta, Rashica, Sorensen, Gunn, Giannoulis, Rowe.
Chelsea: Mendy, Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Christensen, Azpilicueta, Kovacic, Jorginho, Saul, Mount, Werner, Havertz.
Subs: Arrizabalaga, Rudiger, Kante, Lukaku, Loftus-Cheek, Ziyech, Kenedy, Sarr, Vale.
Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire)
Wolves v Watford line-ups
Wolves: Jose Sa, Boly, Coady, Saiss, Jonny, Neves, Joao Moutinho, Ait Nouri, Daniel Podence, Hwang, Jimenez.
Subs: Marcal, Pedro Neto, Trincao, Silva, Chiquinho, Ruddy, Kilman, Dendoncker, Cundle.
Watford: Foster, Femenia, Cathcart, Samir, Kamara, Sissoko, Louza, Cleverley, Hernandez, Dennis, King.
Subs: Etebo, Masina, Sema, Bachmann, Kabasele, Kalu, Sierralta, Kucka, Kayembe.
Referee: Darren England (South Yorkshire)
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Southampton v Newcastle line-ups
Southampton: Forster, Livramento, Bednarek, Salisu, Walker-Peters, Stuart Armstrong, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Elyounoussi, Adams, Broja.
Subs: Stephens, Long, Adam Armstrong, Caballero, Perraud, Djenepo, Smallbone, Diallo, Valery.
Newcastle: Dubravka, Krafth, Schar, Burn, Targett, Shelvey, Willock, Bruno Guimaraes, Murphy, Wood, Fraser.
Subs: Dummett, Lascelles, Ritchie, Manquillo, Almiron, Darlow, Gayle, Longstaff, De Bolle.
Referee: Kevin Friend (Leicestershire)
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Some evening listening ...
Guardian Football Weekly ... Extra: Today’s episode of our Football Weekly podcast began with everyone laughing at Paris Saint-Germain’s latest Champions League bottle-job, before we were rudely interrupted by news of the sanctions being imposed on Roman Abramovich.
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Tonight’s Europa League fixtures
- RB Leipzig v Spartak Moscow (cancelled)
- Sevilla 0-0 West Ham (L)
- Atalanta v Bayer Leverkusen (8pm GMT)
- Barcelona v Galatasaray (8pm)
- Rangers v Red Star (8pm)
- SC Braga v Monaco (8pm)
Europa Conference League Fixtures
- PAOK 0-0 Gent (L)
- Partizan Belgrade 1-1 Feyenoord (L)
- Slavia Prague 2-0 Lask (L)
- Vitesse Arnhem 0-0 Roma (L)
- Bodo/Glimt v AZ Alkmaar (8pm)
- Leicester City v Rennes (8pm)
- Marseille v Basle (8pm)
- PSV Eindhoven v FC Copenhagen (8pm)
Tonight’s Premier League fixtures
- Norwich City v Chelsea (7.30pm GMT)
- Southampton v Newcastle (7.30pm)
- Wolves v Watford (7.30pm)
- Leeds United v Aston Villa (7.45pm)
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Europa League: Sevilla v West Ham
Round of 16 first leg: West Ham are in Spain taking on serial Europa League winners Sevilla in the first leg of their Round of 16 tie. Scott Murray has the latest ...
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Thursday night clockwatch
Hoo boy! It’s been quite the day. What seems like a very, very long time ago, it was announced that the government would finally be imposing sanctions on Roman Abramovich, prompting a scramble to find out what this would mean for Chelsea, the European and World Club Cup champions. The short story: while Abramovich can’t sell it, the club can still technically be sold. In the meantime, it has been given a special licence to continue operating under very strict conditions. Conditions Chelsea are appealing against in a state of affairs they they are either chancing their arms or don’t quite understand how sanctions work.
They cannot sell tickets but season card holders are allowed to attend matches. They cannot sign players or extend current contracts. Catering services are still available at matches but the amount of money Chelsea are allowed to spend hosting individual home games (£500,000) or travelling to away games (£20,000) has been capped.
What’s more, later this afternoon sponsors Three suspended their deal with the club and according to my colleague Sean Ingle, Nike, who agreed a 15-year-deal worth £900m to provide Chelsea’s kit in 2016, say they are not commenting on today’s news. Fellow sponsors Hyundi are “assessing the situation”.
As the first of these revelations were coming to light, the club’s social media team greeted the news by tweeting a mocked up picture of Thomas Tuchel as Alan Partridge ahead of tonight’s match against Norwich City at Carrow Road. Read the room, lads.
The long and the short of it is that this encounter is likely to be the focus of most attention on a busy Thursday evening featuring three other Premier League games, plus the first legs of the Europa League and Europa Conference League Round of 16.
We’ll keep across the pick of the games bringing you news of all the goals as they go in and any other major talking points at the end of a seismic day that is likely to live long in the memory of anyone with even a passing interest in English football.
