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Here is Louise Taylor’s report from The Stadium of Light.
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One for the ages …
A fun day across Europe already …
League One results
Lincoln 3-1 Stockport
Rotherham 2-2 Bolton
Doncaster 2-1 Blackpool
Exeter 0-4 Cardiff
Leyton Orient 2-1 Peterborough
Mansfield 2-2 Barnsley
Northampton 0-2 Burton Albion
Port Vale 0-0 Huddersfield
Reading 2-2 Plymouth
Stevenage 1-0 Wimbledon
Wigan 2-0 Bradford
Wycombe 1-2 Luton
Championship results
Coventry 1-2 Southampton
Middlesbrough 1-1 Bristol City
Oxford 1-1 Charlton
Birmingham 1-1 Sheffield United
Leicester 1-3 QPR
Millwall 1-2 Blackburn
Norwich 2-0 Preston
Sheffield Wednesday 0-2 Ipswich
Stoke 3-1 Watford
West Brom 3-0 Hull
League Two results
Harrogate 0-1 Salford
Notts County 2-3 Chesterfield
Barnet 1-2 Newport
Barrow 0-0 Accrington
Bromley 1-0 Bristol Rovers
Cambridge 5-0 Gillingham
Crewe 0-3 Walsall
Fleetwood 0-0 Tranmere
Oldham 1-0 Grimsby
Shrewsbury 0-2 Cheltenham
Swindon 1-2 MK Dons
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Full-time: Sunderland 0-1 Brighton
Minteh’s scuff is the difference between the two sides.
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Full-time: Burnley 0-0 Bournemouth
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League Two: Barrow v Accrington and Fleetwood v Tranmere end goalless. There were seven shots on target between the two matches. Not a great advert for the division.
Burnley 0-0 Bournemouth: Unal misses a great chance to win it late on.
League One: Robinson fires in a fourth for Cardiff at Exeter. The Bluebirds will be 11 points clear of Bolton in third with nine remaining.
Championship: Blackburn are ahead! Jorgensen is at it again and Millwall will be ruing the sending off.
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Championship: Blackburn make the most of the one-man advantage at Millwall as Jorgensen equalises. It could prove to be a big goal at the top and bottom of the table.
Simon McMahon gets in touch from Scotland: “Penalty to Celtic, and a red card too. 2-1. Motherwell to play the last 20 minutes with 10 men. If Celtic hold on, the gap to leaders Hearts will be just two points, ahead of their trip to Kilmarnock tonight ...”
Championship: Johnson swings in a cross from the left and Axon jabs home for Ipswich at Sheffield Wednesday.
Burnley 0-0 Bournemouth: Hannibal lunges in on Truffert and is booked but the officials are reviewing the footage to see if the former Manchester United man is sent off …
Scottish Premiership: Celtic are ahead against Motherwell. Čvančara scores the penalty after Longelo is sent off.
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Sunderland 0-0 Brighton: Wieffer has a shot blocked, he then finds Gomez but he loses his composure and thrashes over.
League One: Robertson makes it 3-0 for Cardiff at Exeter. The former Manchester City midfielder sublimely curls the ball into the corner.
Burnley 0-0 Bournemouth: Parker has sent on Edwards to add a bit of spark. Will it work?
Championship: Sturge is sent off for Millwall, and it is a harsh one/a mistake form the referee.
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Championship: Edwards heads home for QPR at Leicester. If things stay like this, the Foxes will be 23rd at full-time and a point from safety.
GOAL! Sunderland 0-1 Brighton (Minteh, 58)
It is a misskick from Minteh that squirms in, much to the goalkeeper’s surprise. There is a lengthy VAR check for offside but no problems are found.
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Championship: Cundle produces an overhead kick from an Azeez cross to put Millwall 1-0 up on Blackburn, with the Londoners eyeing second spot.
League Two: Cambridge are giving Gillingham are good old-fashioned pummelling. Sullay Kaikai has made it 4-0 as they look to open the gap on fourth-placed Notts County.
Championship: All change at Leicester where QPR have turned things around with a little help from a Nelson own goal.
NO GOAL! Sunderland 0-0 Brighton: A shambles at the back concludes with Rigg firing home for what he thinks is his first Premier League goal, only for an offside in the buildup to ruin his fun.
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Half-time reading.
League Two half-time scores
Harrogate 0-1 Salford R
Notts County 2-3 Chesterfield R
Barnet 1-0 Newport
Barrow v-0-0 Accrington
Bromley 1-0 Bristol Rovers
Cambridge 2-0 Gillingham
Crewe 0-1 Walsall
Fleetwood 0-0 Tranmere
Oldham 0-0 Grimsby
Shrewsbury 0-0 Cheltenham
Swindon 0-1 MK Dons
League One half-time scores
Lincoln 3-1 Stockport R
Rotherham 2-2 Bolton R
Doncaster 1-0 Blackpool
Exeter 0-2 Cardiff
Leyton Orient 1-0 Peterborough
Mansfield 0-1 Barnsley
Northampton 0-1 Burton Albion
Port Vale 0-0 Huddersfield
Reading 2-1 Plymouth
Stevenage 1-0 Wimbledon
Wigan 1-0 Bradford
Wycombe 0-2 Luton
Championship half-time scores
Coventry 1-2 Southampton R
Middlesbrough 1-1 Bristol City R
Oxford 1-1 Charlton R
Birmingham 1-1 Sheffield United
Leicester 1-1 QPR
Millwall 0-0 Blackburn
Norwich 1-0 Preston
Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Ipswich
Stoke 1-0 Watford
West Brom 1-0 Hull
Premier League half-time scores:
Burnley 0-0 Bournemouth
Sunderland 0-0 Brighton
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Championship: 10-man Sheffield United are level at Birmingham through Bamford.
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Championship: Vale levels things up at Leicester for QPR.
Burnley 0-0 Bournemouth: Anthony hits the bar but he should do better. The story of the Clarets’ season.
Sunderland 0-0 Brighton: The Black Cats are having a good spell, and almost open the scoring through Geertruida.
Championship: Norwich are showing Preston who is boss, with Kenny McLean adding a second to put the Canaries in control.
Championship: Charlie Hughes is sent off after pulling back Wallace. A very harsh decision.
League One: Rubin Colwill has scored twice in three minutes for Cardiff at Exeter. The Welsh side a moving closer to a Championship return.
Championship: A bit more fun at St Andrews as Sheffield United are given a penalty after Birmingham’s Jack Robinson picks up the ball, thinking it has gone out of play. He puts it on the edge of the six-yard box for a goal-kick, only for the referee to award a penalty. Peck steps up and Beadle saves.
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Championship: Second from bottom West Brom are ahead against promotion-chasing Hull, while Stoke lead Watford.
Burnley 0-0 Bournemouth: Foster has a chance after good work form Flemming, but the result is only a corner.
Championship: Birmingham are not messing about. Ducksch smashes the resulting free-kick into the top corner.
Championship: Sheffield United are down to 10 men at Femi Seriki was dismissed at Birmingham.
League One: A potential shock on the cards with Caylan Vickers putting 18th-placed Wigan a goal up on fourth-placed Bradford.
All quiet in the Premier League, neither game was likely to be a classic and the opening 20 minutes have done nothing to dispel that.
League One: A third goal at Reading as Paudie O’Connor gives the hosts the lead again against Plymouth.
Championship: James gets the opener for relegation-threatened Leicester against QPR, thrashing one in from around 30 yards.
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Sunderland 0-0 Brighton: Ellborg makes a stunning save from Hinshelwood to keep things level.
League One: With fewer than six minutes on the clock, it is 1-1 at Reading after Alex Mitchell’s equaliser for Plymouth.
League Two: Walsall, who sacked Mat Sadler in the week, are a goal ahead at Crewe through 38-year-old Albert Adomah.
Burnley 0-0 Bournemouth: Evanilson goes through on goal, rounds the goalkeeper and shoots but his effort is cleared off the line.
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Burnley 0-0 Bournemouth: Anthony has an early effort for Burnley but he cannot hit the target.
Some significant results already today.
Kick-offs
Whistles are peeping across the country.
We can look towards the 3pm kick-offs now.
Hartman is back in the Burnley team. He last played in the league in December, before spending plenty of time unable to even make the matchday squad. He had a promising start to the season before looking defensively questionable. It will be interesting to see what version we get of the Dutch left-back.
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Early EFL results
Championship
Coventry 1-2 Southampton
Middlesbrough 1-1 Bristol City
Oxford 1-1 Charlton
League One
Lincoln 3-1 Stockport
Rotherham 2-2 Bolton
League Two
Harrogate 0-1 Salford
Notts County 2-3 Chesterfield
PINBALL IN THE SOUTHAMPTON BOX! Coventry have a couple of chances blocked and then Asante-Thomas smashes one which the goalkeeper holds onto.
COVENTRY PULL ONE BACK! Torp scores from the spot.
Five minutes remaining …
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Another cat is among the pigeons after Matsuki doubles Southampton’s lead at Coventry.
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Peter Greenwood writes: ”For a minute, I thought Sunderland had Emma Peel in their line-up:
“Sunderland: Ellborg; Geertruida, Ballard, Alderete, Hume; Xhaka, Sadiki; Diarra, Rigg, Talbi; Brobbey”
The race for the Champions League is ON!
I went to see your friend and mine Pep Guardiola yesterday.
“Have we timewarped back to the 60s/70s?” asks Jeremy Boyce. “Coventry City v Southampton reads like a fixture from that era, and I can’t help thinking of Terry Paine’s sideburns, surely the finest to ever grace the top flight ? That and the Willie Carr/Ernie Hunt freekick routine.
“Ernie Hunt’s muttons weren’t too shabby either. Anyway, looks like FLCC are on their way back to the promised land, possibly replacing free-falling Spurs. A lot may depend on the outcome as Dr Tottenham make a house visit to struggling Liverpool tomorrow. They both need 3 points. Nailed on draw. Tudor lives again. Of course Coventry famously beat Spurs in a Cup Final, thanks to Tommy Hutchinson’s flying header. Those were the days, eh ?”
Middlesbrough have scored a vital goal against Bristol City through the very talented Leo Castledine.
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Wolves might have their four Gomeses but Sunderland are fighting back with a trio of Joneses.
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Starting lineups: Sunderland v Brighton
Sunderland: Ellborg; Geertruida, Ballard, Alderete, Hume; Xhaka, Sadiki; Diarra, Rigg, Talbi; Brobbey
Subs: Moore, Cirkin, O’Nien, Mayenda, Isidor, Jen. Jones, Jay. Jones, H. Jones, Whitaker
Brighton: Verbruggen; Hinshelwood, Dunk, Van Hecke, Kadioglu; Wieffer, Milner, Gomez; Gross, Welbeck, Minteh
Subs: Steele, March, Rutter, Boscagli, Ayari, De Cuyper, O’Riley, Veltman, Howell
Starting lineups: Burnley v Bournemouth
Burnley: Dubravka; Walker, Esteve, Humphreys, Hartman; Ward-Prowse, Laurent; Anthony, Hannibal, Foster; Flemming
Subs: Weiss, Worrall, Ugochukwu, Edwards, Florentino, Tchaouna, Pires, Broja, Barnes
Bournemouth: Petrovic; Smith, Senesi, Hill, Truffert; Scott, Christie; Rayan, Kroupi, Tavernier; Evanilson
Subs: Mandas, Diakite, Unal, Brooks, Jimenez, Toth, Gannon-Doak, Adli, Milosavljevic
The beyond delightful Tom Garry has been to speak to the head honchos at Aston Villa Women.
And plenty of interest in L1 and L2.
League One
Lincoln 1-0 Stockport L
Rotherham 2-0 Bolton L
Doncaster v Blackpool
Exeter v Cardiff
Leyton Orient v Peterborough
Mansfield v Barnsley
Northampton v Burton Albion
Port Vale v Huddersfield
Reading v Plymouth
Stevenage v Wimbledon
Wigan v Bradford
Wycombe v Luton
League Two
Harrogate 0-0 Salford L
Notts County 2-2 Chesterfield L
Barnet v Newport
Barrow v Accrington
Bromley v Bristol Rovers
Crewe v Walsall
Fleetwood v Tranmere
Oldham v Grimsby
Shrewsbury v Cheltenham
Swindon v MK Dons
Southampton have just taken the lead at leaders Coventry thanks to Flynn Downes.
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Today’s Championship games, with a few early kick-offs.
Coventry 0-1 Southampton L
Middlesbrough 0-0 Bristol City L
Oxford 0-0 Charlton L
Birmingham v Sheffield United
Leicester v QPR
Millwall v Blackburn
Norwich v Preston
Sheffield Wednesday v Ipswich
Stoke v Watford
West Brom v Hull
Get in the mood for the weekend’s with 10 things. I wrote far too many of them.
Wrexham gave their promotion hopes a boost last night with a win over Welsh rivals Swansea but the match was a sideshow. Dominic Booth focused on the gantry shenanigans of Ryan Reynolds and Rob Mac.
Preamble
Buckle up, everyone! It is a bumper Saturday in the Premier League with the top two playing, not to mention Chelsea v Newcastle. Unfortunately, that comes from 5.30pm onwards. For now we have Burnley v Bournemouth and Sunderland v Brighton. We can all accept that the Clarets are heading down and the Seagulls will be signing off a steady but unspectacular season.
Bournemouth and Sunderland, however, have Europe on their minds. Andoni Iraola could see his side move up the eighth with a win at Turf Moor, and with Everton playing leaders Arsenal, could finish the weekend there. Burnley have shown glimpses of being a Premier League team, so it is not always easy in Lancashire but Bournemouth will be confident.
The Black Cats have stumbled recently but anyone in red and white will be ecstatic with the position they find themselves in. The hard work has already been done and potentially the freedom that comes with that could allow for a late surge up the table.
Premier League 3pm kick-offs.
Burnley v Bournemouth
Sunderland v Brighton
