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Championship – Plymouth 0-2 Derby
Harrison Armstrong extends Derby’s advantage at Home Park.
Championship – Swansea 0-2 Burnley
Jaidon Anthony extends Burnley’s lead.
Pervis Estupiñán levels things up at the Etihad! The full-back steps up to take a free kick just outside the City box and curls his effort around the wall. The ball then rattles the left post before bouncing into the net.
Wolves take the lead at St. Mary’s thanks to Jorgen Strand Larsen!
League One – Northampton 1-0 Birmingham
An own-goal from Tomoki Iwata sees Northampton take a shock 1-0 lead against the League One leaders.
Championship – Blackburn 1-1 Cardiff
Yuki Ohashi levels things up for the hosts at Ewood Park.
Championship – Plymouth 0-1 Derby
Marcus Harness fires Derby ahead at Home Park.
Erling Haaland sends Verbruggen the wrong way from the spot!
Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images
Marmoush is brought down in the box and Manchester City have a penalty!
Brighton have an opener disallowed! Mitoma sticks the ball in the net but it will not stand.
Kaoru Mitoma of Brighton & Hove Albion. Photograph: Matt McNulty/Getty Images
Championship – Blackburn 0-1 Cardiff
Yousef Salech strikes first for the visitors at Ewood Park.
Championship – Swansea 0-1 Burnley
Burnley get off to a flying start at the Swansea.com Stadium thanks to Josh Brownhill.
Photograph: Nick Potts/PA
League Two – Newport 1-0 Harrogate
Cameron Evans nets the first goal of the afternoon for the hosts.
Here we go! We’re under way in the Premier League and across the EFL!
We’re about to get under way across the leagues…
Feel free to get in touch this afternoon with any thoughts, feelings, score predictions and all that jazz.
What are your thoughts on Thomas Tuchel’s first England squad? Who should and shouldn’t have been involved? Let me know!
Elsewhere in Europe…
Bundesliga:
- Werder Bremen v Borussia Monchengladbach
- Union Berlin v Bayern Munich
- Mainz v Freiburg
- Augsburg v Wolfsburg
- RB Leipzig v Borussia Dortmund (5:30pm GMT)
La Liga:
- Real Valladolid v Celta Vigo (still live)
- Mallorca v Espanyol
- Villarreal v Real Madrid (5:30pm GMT)
- Girona v Valencia (8pm GMT)
The Premier League received some good news this week as it is now almost certain that five clubs will qualify for the Champions League at the end of the season.
League Two fixtures
- Swindon 3-3 Cheltenham
- Crewe Alexandra 1-1 Doncaster
- Accrington Stanley v Gillingham
- Grimsby v Salford
- Bradford v Tranmere
- Morecambe v Barrow
- Carlisle v Wimbledon
- Colchester v Fleetwood
- Newport v Harrogate
- Notts County v Chesterfield
- Port Vale v MK Dons
League One fixtures
- Bolton 0-1 Stockport
- Cambridge United 0-1 Peterborough
- Blackpool v Leyton Orient
- Reading v Stevenage
- Rotherham v Exeter City
- Mansfield Town v Barnsley
- Charlton v Wigan
- Wycombe v Wrexham
- Huddersfield v Crawley
- Northampton v Birmingham
- Lincoln v Bristol Rovers
- Shrewsbury v Burton
Chelsea crowned Women’s League Cup champions
It’s full-time at Pride Park and Chelsea have just clinched a 2-1 victory over Manchester City to win the Women’s League Cup! Click here for all the reaction:
Chelsea v Manchester City: Women’s League Cup final – live
Championship fixtures
- QPR 2-2 Leeds (still live)
- Millwall 0-0 Stoke (still live)
- Luton v Middlesbrough
- Blackburn v Cardiff
- Coventry v Sunderland
- Swansea v Burnley
- Plymouth v Derby
- West Brom v Hull
- Preston v Portsmouth
- Oxford United v Watford
Eight Championship fixtures kick off at 3pm. Photograph: MI News/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
Ipswich v Nottingham Forest team news
Ipswich: Palmer; O’Shea (C), Woolfenden, Greaves, Davis, Phillips, Cajuste, Philogene, Hutchinson, Enciso, Delap.
Nottingham Forest: Sels; Murillo, Williams, Anderson, Gibbs-White (C), Wood, Hudson-Odoi, Domínguez, Elanga, Milenkovic, Aina.
Southampton v Wolves team news
Southampton: Ramsdale (C); Sugawara, Walker-Peters, Harwood-Bellis, Bella-Kotchap, Manning, Ugochukwu, Aribo, Fernandes, Kamaldeen, Dibling.
Wolves: Sa; Semedo (C), Doherty, Agbadou, Toti, Ait-Nouri, Andre, J. Gomes, Munetsi, Bellegarde, Strand Larsen.
Everton v West Ham team news
Everton: Pickford; O’Brien, Tarkowski (C), Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Gana, Garner, Doucouré, Harrison, Alcaraz, Beto.
West Ham: Areola; Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Kilman, Todibo, Emerson, Souček, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta, Bowen (C), Kudus.
Manchester City v Brighton team news
Manchester City: Ortega; Lewis, Khusanov, Dias (C), Gvardiol, Nico, Gundogan, Savinho, Marmoush, Doku, Haaland
Brighton: Verbruggen; Webster (C), Joao Pedro, Georginio, Minteh, Baleba, Mitoma, Gomez, Van Hecke, Estupinan, Hinshelwood.
Premier League fixtures
- Everton v West Ham
- Southampton v Wolves
- Ipswich v Nottingham Forest
- Manchester City v Brighton
- Bournemouth v Brentford (5:30pm)
Also happening today, Chelsea are currently leading Manchester City in the Women’s League Cup final at Pride Park. You can follow the action as it happens with Barry Glendenning’s minute-by-minute report here:
Chelsea v Manchester City: Women’s League Cup final – live
Hello and welcome to another Saturday Clockwatch! We’ve got plenty of fixtures across the Premier League and EFL to look forward to this afternoon, with some updates from Europe also thrown in.
In the Premier League we have a relegation scrap between Wolves and Southampton, while Ipswich take on high-flying Nottingham Forest. Elsewhere, Everton host West Ham and Brighton travel to face Manchester City.
The pick of the Championship fixtures this afternoon sees Frank Lampard’s Coventry take on Sunderland. In League One, promotion hopefuls Wycombe and Wrexham – who are level on points – go head-to-head at Adams Park. And in League Two, 18 teams are in action at 3pm GMT.
I’ll be bringing you updates all afternoon – join me!
