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Tom Bassam

Southampton 3-3 Tottenham, Wolves 2-4 Leeds: clockwatch – as it happened

James Ward-Prowse of Southampton scores his sides third goal from the penalty spot to put the home side level.
James Ward-Prowse of Southampton scores his sides third goal from the penalty spot to put the home side level. Photograph: James Marsh/Shutterstock

Right, that is it from me. Thanks for joining me this afternoon, plenty more action to follow along with via the Guardian’s sports desk this evening though.

Updated

John Brewin was at St Mary’s to see Saints salvage a point:

Here is Peter Lansley’s take on the drama at Molineux:

The match reports are dropping in. First up, here is how Ed Aarons saw Brentford’s draw with Leicester:

League Two table

Pos Team P GD Pts
1 Leyton Orient 36 24 73
2 Stevenage 36 19 67
3 Northampton 37 17 66
4 Carlisle 36 23 65
5 Stockport County 37 18 60
6 Bradford 36 13 60
7 Salford City 37 15 59
8 Mansfield 35 10 56
9 Sutton Utd 37 0 55
10 Barrow 37 -4 52
11 Swindon 36 7 51
12 Doncaster 36 -10 50
13 Walsall 36 6 48
14 Tranmere 37 -2 48
15 Grimsby 34 -4 45
16 Newport County 37 -5 43
17 AFC Wimbledon 37 -5 43
18 Crewe 36 -12 42
19 Harrogate Town 37 -12 38
20 Gillingham 36 -16 38
21 Colchester 37 -12 36
22 Crawley Town 35 -20 32
23 Hartlepool 37 -26 31
24 Rochdale 37 -24 26

League One table

Pos Team P GD Pts
1 Sheff Wed 35 39 78
2 Plymouth 37 24 77
3 Ipswich 37 41 75
4 Barnsley 35 27 69
5 Derby 37 22 64
6 Bolton 38 21 64
7 Peterborough 37 16 60
8 Wycombe 37 15 60
9 Portsmouth 37 9 57
10 Shrewsbury 37 6 55
11 Charlton 37 3 48
12 Fleetwood Town 37 1 46
13 Exeter 36 0 46
14 Lincoln City 36 -5 45
15 Bristol Rovers 37 -10 45
16 Port Vale 37 -15 44
17 Cheltenham 37 -15 43
18 Burton Albion 36 -23 41
19 Oxford Utd 37 -10 37
20 Milton Keynes Dons 37 -21 36
21 Accrington Stanley 36 -26 35
22 Morecambe 38 -25 34
23 Cambridge Utd 37 -31 30
24 Forest Green 37 -43 23

Championship table

Pos Team P GD Pts
1 Burnley 37 45 83
2 Sheff Utd 37 25 70
3 Middlesbrough 38 27 67
4 Luton 38 11 64
5 Blackburn 37 1 61
6 Millwall 38 8 60
7 Norwich 38 11 57
8 Coventry 38 10 57
9 West Brom 37 8 55
10 Watford 38 5 55
11 Sunderland 38 7 53
12 Preston North End 38 -9 53
13 Stoke 38 3 48
14 Bristol City 37 1 48
15 Hull 38 -10 47
16 Birmingham 38 -8 45
17 Reading 38 -18 45
18 Swansea 37 -8 43
19 Cardiff 38 -12 42
20 QPR 38 -21 42
21 Rotherham 38 -11 40
22 Huddersfield 38 -21 36
23 Blackpool 38 -18 35
24 Wigan 38 -26 34

A couple more MBMs to get stuck into…

FA Cup quarter-final: Manchester City v Bradford with Scott Murray:

Daniel Gallan has Chelsea v Everton:

Premier League table

Pos Team P GD Pts
1 Arsenal 27 37 66
2 Man City 27 42 61
3 Man Utd 26 6 50
4 Tottenham Hotspur 28 12 49
5 Newcastle 26 20 47
6 Liverpool 26 18 42
7 Brighton 25 15 42
8 Brentford 27 9 42
9 Fulham 27 1 39
10 Aston Villa 27 -4 38
11 Chelsea 26 1 37
12 Crystal Palace 27 -13 27
13 Wolverhampton 28 -19 27
14 Leeds 27 -9 26
15 Nottm Forest 27 -27 26
16 Leicester 27 -9 25
17 Everton 27 -18 25
18 West Ham 26 -10 24
19 AFC Bournemouth 27 -29 24
20 Southampton 28 -23 23

Fitba update

Our new Scottish correspondent Simon emails in the full-time update:

Dundee United threw everything at it during ten minutes of added time against St Mirren, and should really have won it, but it finished 1-1 at Tannadice. Celtic came from 1-0 down to win 3-1 against Hibernian. Elie Youan’s red card proved to be decisive as the Hoops rallied in the second half.

More Scottish Premiership full-times:

  • Livingston 2-1 Ross County

  • Kilmarnock 1-1 St Johnstone

  • Aberdeen 3-0 Hearts

League Two: Full-time scores

Wimbledon 0-1 Crawley

Carlisle 0-0 Stevenage

Harrogate 1-0 Barrow

Leyton Orient 2-2 Colchester

Northampton 1-0 Crewe

Rochdale 4-4 Swindon

Salford 3-0 Doncaster

Stockport 1-1 Mansfield

Tranmere 1-3 Newport

Walsall 2-0 Gillingham

League One: Full-time scores

Lincoln City 0-3 Peterborough

Accrington 0-1 MK Dons

Bristol Rovers 0-2 Portsmouth

Cambridge 1-2 Charlton

Cheltenham 3-1 Exeter

Derby 0-2 Fleetwood

Ipswich 2-0 Shrewsbury

Morecambe 1-0 Oxford

Plymouth 2-0 Forest Green

Port Vale 2-3 Burton

Wycombe 0-1 Barnsley

This is why the game at New York Stadium was curtailed:

Rotherham were trailing 0-1 against Cardiff at the time.

Championship: Full-time scores

Blackpool 1-4 Coventry

Middlesbrough 4-2 Preston

Millwall 0-1 Huddersfield

QPR 0-1 Birmingham

Reading 1-1 Hull

Rotherham P-P (Match abandoned)

Stoke 0-0 Norwich

Sunderland 1-1 Luton

Watford 1-1 Wigan

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Full-time: Southampton 3-3 Tottenham

Saints battled hard for that point and nearly lose it at the end as Perisic heads just wide with the last action of the game. For Spurs, this was a big opportunity missed.

Full-time: Wolves 2-4 Leeds

This one will be worth watching back later. Leeds are out of the drop zone and Wolves’ progress under Julen Lopetegui stalls.

Full-time: Brentford 1-1 Leicester

A point that suits neither side.

Full time: Aston Villa 3-0 Bournemouth

Easy win for Unai Emery’s side.

Goal! Wolves 2-4 Leeds (Rodrigo 90+7)

And now it is settled.

Leeds United's Rodrigo scores their fourth goal past Wolverhampton Wanderers' keeper Jose Sa.
Leeds United's Rodrigo scores their fourth goal past Wolverhampton Wanderers' keeper Jose Sa. Photograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images/Reuters

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Goal! Southampton 3-3 Tottenham (Ward-Prowse 90+3)

Forster goes the right way but he cannot get a hand on the penalty which goes high into the net.

Southampton's James Ward-Prowse celebrates scoring their third goal and getting them on level terms.
Southampton's James Ward-Prowse celebrates scoring their third goal and getting them on level terms. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images/Reuters

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Penalty! Southampton 2-3 Tottenham

Very soft, but Pape Sarr takes a wild swing to clear and Maitland-Niles steals in on the blindside and hits the deck. No hesitation from the referee, he points to the spot.

Goal! Aston Villa 3-0 Bournemouth (Emi Buendia 89)

If this wasn’t done before, it is now. VAR check for offside, but eventually it stands.

Emi Buendia of Aston Villa scores a goal to make it 3-0.
Emi Buendia gets Aston Villa third from close range. Photograph: Matt West/Shutterstock

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League Two

Some game at Spotland, Charlie Austin has scored four goals for Swindon, but Rochdale are not out of it. Tthe hosts trail 3-4.

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Red card! Wolves 2-3 Leeds

Leeds can now breathe a sigh of relief. Jonny goes over the ball and into Ayling’s ankle. That is a bad, bad foul. Not sure why VAR needed to look at that for so long, he’s off.

Goal! Aston Villa 2-0 Bournemouth (Jacob Ramsey 80)

Jaconb Ramsey has buried the Cherries. Hard to see a way back here, but then I said that about Wolves…

Aston Villa's Jacob Ramsey scores their second goal past Bournemouth's keeper Neto.
Aston Villa's Jacob Ramsey scores their second goal past Bournemouth's keeper Neto. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images/Reuters

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Goal! Southampton 2-3 Tottenham (Walcott 77)

Big save from Fraser Forster to deny Maitland-Niles but earns a corner for Saints. The first ball is cleared but Ward-Prowse hangs a second attempt up to the back post for Sekou Mara to nod back across goal where Walcott is on the spot to side-foot home.

Southampton's Theo Walcott (right) scores his side's second goal.
Southampton's Theo Walcott (right) scores his side's second goal. Photograph: David Cliff/AP

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Goal! Southampton 1-3 Tottenham (Perisic 74)

Saints fail to clear from a corner and when Kulesevski hoists a cross back in Cristian Romero does enough to get the ball back to Perisic just inside the box to fire a volley home.

Tottenham's Ivan Perisic (left) scores his side's third goal.
Ivan Perisic (left) fires in Spurs’ third goal. Photograph: David Cliff/AP

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Goal! Wolves 2-3 Leeds (Matheus Cunha 73)

My call when Leeds 3-0 up is looking on very shaky ground. Cunha has his first goal since joining Wolves on loan from Atletico Madrid.

Wolverhampton Wanderers' Matheus Cunha celebrates scoring their second goal.
Game on! Photograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images/Reuters

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League One

Both Ipswich and Portsmouth added second goals since the break against Shrewsbury and Bristol Rovers respectively.

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Goal! Southampton 1-2 Tottenham (Kane 65)

Kulusevski stands up his man and whips in a cross, Kane gets above Walker-Peters and powers his header in. That is the England captain’s 12th goal in his last 14 games against Saints.

Harry Kane heads Spurs into the lead at Southampton.
Harry Kane heads Spurs into the lead at Southampton. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

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Goal! Wolves 0-3 Leeds (Rasmus Kristensen 62)

This is all over. Kristensen outmuscles his man and fires past Jose Sar.

Leeds United defender Rasmus Kristensen (25) scores a goal to make the score 0-3.
Leeds United defender Rasmus Kristensen fires in their third goal. Photograph: Simon Davies/ProSports/Shutterstock

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Goal! Wolves 1-3 (Jonny 65)

All to play for! What a goal that is from Jonny, who takes advantage of Illan Meslier being well off his line to clear to loop a first-time volley in from more than 35 yards out.

Championship

Middlesbrough are now 2-0 up against Preston, Reading have equalised against Hull, Luton lead 1-0 at Sunderland and Wigan have levelled to make it 1-1 at Watford.

54 mins: VAR check for a penalty at St Mary’s. Peresic’s shot from the edge of the box its Maitland-Niles, the defenders hands were in that awkward body block position but he knew nothing about it. No penalty is the call, probably correct.

Goal! Brentford 1-1 Leicester (Harvey Barnes 52)

James Maddison’s clever pass gets Barnes in and the winger clips a smart finish past Raya in the Brentford goal.

Leicester City's Harvey Barnes scores his side's equaliser.
Leicester City's Harvey Barnes scores his side's equaliser. Photograph: Steven Paston/PA

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Goal! Wolves 0-2 Leeds (Luke Ayling 49)

This is becoming a big afternoon for Leeds. They stretch their lead with Ayling stooping to nod home at the far post as he inexplicably finds himself unmarked at a corner. Softer than soft that.

Leeds United defender Luke Ayling (2) scores a goal to make the score 0-2 during the Premier League match between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Leeds United.
Leeds United defender Luke Ayling doubles the visitors’ lead. Photograph: Simon Davies/ProSports/Shutterstock
Leeds United's Luke Ayling (centre) celebrates scoring their side's second goal of the game with team-mates.
Ayling (centre) celebrates scoring his goal with team-mates. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

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Goal! Southampton 1-1 (Adams 46)

The second half has barely restarted and we are level. Walcott is played in down the right hand side, the winger gallops into the box and slides a ball across the six yard box for Adams to divert home off the far post. Great ball from Walcott and brave forward play from Adams.

Che Adams of Southampton scores the home side’s equaliser past Spurs keeper Fraser Forster while under pressure from Cristian Romero.
Che Adams of Southampton scores past Spurs keeper Fraser Forster while under pressure from Cristian Romero. Photograph: Michael Steele/Getty Images
Southampton’s Che Adams is congratulated after scoring his side’s equaliser against Tottenham.
Adams is congratulated after scoring his side’s equaliser. Photograph: David Cliff/AP

Updated

Peeep! We are back underway for the second half across the 3pm kick-offs, apart from at St Mary’s where they are running slightly behind after playing seven minutes of added to deal with all of those injuries.

League One

Plymouth have doubled their lead over Forest Green, Bali Mumba has made it 2-0.

Simon writes in to do my job for me with an update from Scotland:

No mid table mediocrity in Scotland, where Dundee United are leading St. Mirren 1-0 in their battle to escape the drop. Three points today will see them move level on points with Ross County who are trailing 2-0 at Livingston. Hibs lead Celtic 1-0 at half-time in Glasgow, though they are down to ten men.

More updates from Simon as the afternoon progresses (I hope).

League Two: Half-time scores

  • Wimbledon 0-1 Crawley

  • Carlisle 0-0 Stevenage

  • Harrogate 0-0 Barrow

  • Leyton Orient 1-0 Colchester

  • Northampton 1-0 Crewe

  • Rochdale 2-2 Swindon

  • Salford 2-1 Doncaster

  • Stockport 1-0 Mansfield

  • Tranmere 0-2 Newport

  • Walsall 0-0 Gillingham

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League One: Half-time scores

  • Accrington 0-1 MK Dons

  • Bristol Rovers 0-1 Portsmouth

  • Cambridge 0-2 Charlton

  • Cheltenham 1-0 Exeter

  • Derby 0-1 Fleetwood

  • Ipswich 1-0 Shrewsbury

  • Morecambe 0-1 Oxford

  • Plymouth 1-0 Forest Green

  • Port Vale 1-0 Burton

  • Wycombe 0-0 Barnsley

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Championship: Half-time scores

  • Blackpool 1-1 Coventry

  • Middlesbrough 1-0 Preston

  • Millwall 0-0 Huddersfield

  • QPR 0-1 Birmingham

  • Reading 0-1 Hull

  • Rotherham 0-1 Cardiff

  • Stoke 0-0 Norwich

  • Sunderland 0-0 Luton

  • Watford 0-0 Wigan

Premier League: Half-time scores

  • Aston Villa 1-0 Bournemouth

  • Brentford 1-0 Leicester

  • Southampton 0-1 Tottenham

  • Wolves 1-0 Leeds

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Half-time: Wolves 0-1 Leeds

Harrison’s strike has the visitors ahead at the break.

Goal! Southampton 0-1 Tottenham (Porro 45+1)

Where did that come from? The board shows seven minutes of added time then Spurs, who have been – to be frank - dull as dishwater, grab the lead. Son receives the ball 35 yards from goal and turns under little pressure and slides it right to Porro who smashes it home off the underside of the crossbar. Romain Perraud was AWOL.

Pedro Porro (right) of Tottenham Hotspur opens the scoring against Southampton.
Pedro Porro (right) of Tottenham Hotspur opens the scoring against Southampton. Photograph: Isabelle Field/Southampton FC/Getty Images

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League Two

The tectonic plates are moving in the playoff spots. As it stands Salford up to seventh as they lead 2-1 against Doncaster. Mansfield are the team dropping a place to eight, they currently trail Stockport 0-1.

Key event

Aston Villa 1-0 Bournemouth

There was a penalty check for a handball against Jack Stephens, but replays showed it came off the Bournemouth defender’s thigh.

37 mins: Who has cursed St Mary’s? Both sides have had to make another change. Jan Bednarek has gone off to be replaced by Ainsley Maitland-Niles and Ben Davies went off, with Ivan Peresic coming on.

Goal! Brentford 1-0 Leicester (Jensen 32)

We had to wait for clearance from VAR on this one, but it is given. Jensen turns home via a deflection after Leicester failed to clear a corner routine.

Mathias Jensen of Brentford shoots and scores his side’s first goal, via a deflection, in the 32nd minute to make it 1-0.
Mathias Jensen of Brentford shoots … Photograph: John Patrick Fletcher/Action Plus/Shutterstock
Mathias Jensen of Brentford shoots and scores his side’s first goal, via a deflection, in the 32nd minute to make it 1-0.
And scores past Leicester City's keeper Daniel Iversen, courtesy of a deflection. Photograph: David Klein/Reuters
Brentford’s Mathias Jensen celebrates scoring their first goal.
Jensen celebrates. Photograph: David Klein/Reuters

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Middlesbrough 1-0 Preston (Chuba Akpom 22 min)

A 24th goal for the season for Akpom gives Boro the lead. The Boro forward’s hot form infront of goal could well fire Michael Carrick’s side into the reckoning for the automatic promotion spots – they will be just three points behind Sheffield United with a win.

Chuba Akpom scores Boro's first goal against Preston.
Chuba Akpom fires Boro ahead against Preston. Photograph: Varley Picture Agency/REX/Shutterstock

Updated

25 min: Couple of chances for Spurs. Firstly Harry Kane gtes free down their right and carries the ball into the box, but rather squaring to Son Heung-min the striker fires a shot into the defender. Then, as Saints fail to clear their lines, the ball falls to Pedro Porro but he can only volley high over the bar.

League Two

Big goal for Ashley Nadesan has Crawley ahead at Wimbledon. Crypto FC can jump ahead of Hartlepool if they win this one.

Crawley Town forward Ashley Nadesan (centre left) puts Crawley Town ahead against AFC Wimbledon.
Crawley Town forward Ashley Nadesan (centre left) puts Crawley Town ahead against AFC Wimbledon. Photograph: Stephen Flynn/ProSports/Shutterstock

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League One

Plymouth lead bottom side Forest Green thanks to James Bolton. The Pilgrims can close Sheffield Wednesday’s lead to a single point with a win. Ipswich are ahead at Shrewsbury, George Hirst with that one. In the relegation scrap between Accrington and MK Dons, Sullay Kaikai has put Mark Jackson’s side 1-0 up.

Championship

Just two goals so far. Birmingham lead at struggling QPR, while Cardiff have struck first at Rotherham.

At St Mary’s both sides have now been forced into making early changes. Armel Bella-Kotchap was forced off with what looked like a shoulder injury to be replaced by Mohammed Salisu.

Goal! Aston Villa 1-0 Bournemouth (Douglas Luiz)

Leon Bailey squares the ball to Douglas Luiz who taps in the opener. The picture at the bottom of the table is going to be in constant flux this afternoon. As it stands Leeds are up to 14th.

Aston Villa's Douglas Luiz (third right) scores their first goal.
Aston Villa's Douglas Luiz (third right) scores their first goal. Photograph: Carl Recine/Reuters
Douglas Luiz of Aston Villa celebrates after scoring his team's first goal.
Which he’s pretty happy about. Photograph: Marc Atkins/Getty Images

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Goal! Wolves 0-1 Leeds (Harrison 6mins)

Wilfried Gnonto gets to the byline on the right-hand side and cuts back into a dangerous area. Jack Harrison is alive to the chance whips the ball home from the penalty box and gets a clattering for his troubles. He will not care. Great finish, big goal.

Leeds United’s Jack Harrison (left) celebrates scoring with Wilfried Gnonto after giving the visitors an early lead.
Leeds United’s Jack Harrison (left) celebrates scoring with Wilfried Gnonto after giving the visitors an early lead. Photograph: Molly Darlington/Reuters

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4min: Big blow for Spurs as Richarlison goes off in tears with an injury. Dejan Kulusevski is coming on for the Brazilian, who picked something up in the warmup.

Tottenham Hotspur's Richarlison leaves the field of play after picking up an injury.
Tottenham Hotspur's Richarlison leaves the field of play after picking up an injury. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

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Peep peep! It’s Saturday. It’s 3pm. It’s time for football.

EFL updates.

There were no early games in the top two tiers, but in League One Peterborough have moved up to seventh with a 3-0 win at Lincoln. Joe Ward, Jack Taylor and Jonson Clarke-Harris all finding the net.

At Valley Parade, Hartlepool missed a chance to move further clear of the League Two relegation. Goals Callum Cooke and Daniel Kemp had the Pools ahead twice but Andy Cook was twice able to level for Bradford

Crystal Palace play tomorrow with Paddy McCarthy temporarily at the helm, but former manager Roy Hodgson has been approached by the club about making a surprise return to Selhurst Park until the end of the season, Ed Aarons reports. The former England manager, who is 75, is understood to be interested in taking over from Vieira.

Others linked with the job include Paulo Fonseca, who is currently managing the French side Lille and came close to being appointed Tottenham manager in 2021. Former Southampton manager Ralph Hasenhüttl, Burnley’s Vincent Kompany and Michael Carrick of Middlesbrough are all said to be on Palace’s shortlist.

Looking across the continent...

…not a lot is happening today unless you are really into the battle for third-place in the Bundesliga (Bochum host RB Leipzig, for the die-hards). It is all quite mid-table otherwise.

Wolves v Leeds team news

Brentford v Leicester team news

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Aston Villa v Bournemouth team news

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Southampton v Tottenham team news

Preamble

Alexander Isak’s late penalty last night means there is a bit of mustard on Spurs’ trip to Southampton. With no Champions League to focus on, the fabled ‘fourth place trophy’ is all Antonio Conte can achieve in his last few months at Tottenham the last few months of the season.

In my head Spurs have a really good record at St Mary’s, but the facts say otherwise. The 5-2 thrashing at the start of the 2020/21 season was the only time in their last five meetings on the south coast that Spurs left victorius, with Saints winning two and a pair of 1-1 draws completing the set.

Elsewhere, intrigue comes at the Gtech (is that a thing?), where Brentford can jump back into the European spots if they beat Leicester. Wolves and Leeds are split by five teams but just four points in what is shaping up as the widest relegation battle ever. While Aston Villa, arguably the only truly mid-table team in the Premier League currently, will be looking to place a stiff arm on a Bournemouth side for whom mid-March mediocrity is an aspiration. Longing for a three-bed semi in the suburbs with a driveaway and a nice car to put in it, if you will.

These are all the 3pm kick-offs in the Premier League:

  • Aston Villa v Bournemouth

  • Brentford v Leicester

  • Southampton v Tottenham

  • Wolves v Leeds

Guiding you gently through Everton’s visit to Chelsea in the 5.30pm kick-off will be Daniel Gallan, while Scott Murray is on hand for minute-by-minute updates from the first FA Cup quarter-final of the weekend, which sees Manchester City welcome back Vincent Kompany and his Burnley side. That one gets unerway at 5.45pm.

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