Key occasions
Match report: Nottingham Forest 1-0 Liverpool
Premier League: “For Nottingham Forest, this was a kind of spectacular events well worth the lengthy wait,” writes Ben Fisher from the Metropolis Floor. “After 23 years exterior the highest flight, how they loved giving Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool a bloody nostril.”
WSL match report: Tottenham Hotspur 0-3 Manchester Metropolis
WSL: Bunny Shaw’s brace and one other objective from Lauren Hemp helped Manchester Metropolis make it back-to-back wins within the Ladies’s Tremendous League with a 3-0 victory at Tottenham.
Scottish Premiership: Celtic held off a late Hearts onslaught to win by the odd objective of seven in a bonkers recreation at Tynecastle. They stretch their lead on the high of the desk to 5 factors.
WSL: Following scorching on the heels of Manchester Metropolis’s 3-0 win over Tottenham at Brisbane Highway, Everton have crushed Aston Villa. Their skipper Lucy Graham scored the one objective of the sport on the Bescot Stadium.
Championship: Blackpool have received their massive Lancashire derby in opposition to Preston by a scoreline of 4-2, with Jerry Yates scoring two objectives to assist his aspect as much as seventeenth within the desk.
Full time: Nottingham Forest 1-0 Liverpool
Premier League: A fairly astonishing Dean Henderson save in added time secured all three factors for Forest, who win courtesy of Taiwo Awoniyi’s second half strike. Forest leapfrog Leicester and go second from backside, whereas Liverpool keep seventh, 11 factors behind league leaders Arsenal having performed one recreation extra.
Hearts 3-4 Celtic: Celtic have retaken the lead at Tynecastle, the place Greg Taylor has simply scored the seventh objective of an astonishing recreation with a far submit end.
Everton v Crystal Palace line-ups
Everton: Pickford, Coleman, Tarkowski, Coady, Mykolenko, Onana, Gueye, Gordon, Iwobi, Grey, Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Begovic, Holgate, Keane, McNeil, Doucoure, Maupay, Davies, Rondon, Garner
Crystal Palace: Guaita, Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell, Milivojevic, Eze, Olise, Ayew, Edouard, Zaha.
Subs: Johnstone, Tomkins, Mateta, Schlupp, Hughes, Ebiowei, Balmer, Riedewald, Phillips.
Manchester Metropolis v Brighton line-ups
Manchester Metropolis: Ederson, Cancelo, Akanji, Dias, Laporte, De Bruyne, Rodri, Grealish, Silva, Mahrez, Haaland.
Subs: Moreno, Stones, Ake, Gundogan, Alvarez, Gomez, Foden, Palmer, Lewis.
Brighton: Sanchez, Veltman, Dunk, Webster, Gross, Mac Allister, Caicedo, Trossard, March, Lallana, Welbeck.
Subs: Steele, Lamptey, Colwill, Sarmiento, Enciso, Undav, Gilmour, Van Hecke, Estupinan.
In the meantime in Scotland II: It’s now 3-3 between Hearts and Celtic in an absolute ding-dong at Tynecastle. Daizen Maeda put Celtic 3-2 up earlier than Lawrence Shankland scored a retaken penalty for Hearts to get his hat-trick.
In the meantime in Scotland: It’s 2-2 between Hearts and Celtic with just a little over half-hour to go. On as a primary half sub, Lawrence Shankland scored a quick-fire double both aspect of half-time, cancelling out James Forrest’s opener earlier than sending his aspect forward. Giorgios Giakoumakis restored parity for Celtic on the 55-minute mark.
GOAL! Nottingham Forest 1-0 Liverpool (Awoniyi 56)
Forest have taken the lead! Chosen right this moment forward of Brennan Johnson, Taiwo Awoniyi has fired his aspect forward in opposition to Liverpool. Rob Smyth has the newest from the Metropolis Floor …
Ladies’s Tremendous League
There are two video games within the girls’s high flight right this moment and the primary of them has simply ended with a Manchester Metropolis win over Tottenham Hotspur at Brisbane Highway. A brace from Bunny Shaw and one from Lauren Hemp secured a 3-0 win for Metropolis, whereas Tottenham Hotspur misplaced Ellie Brazil to what seemed like fairly a severe damage within the first half. We want her all one of the best. In right this moment’s different recreation, it’s scoreless between Aston Villa and Everton at half-time.
Scottish Premiership
With a two level lead over Rangers on the high of the desk, Celtic travelled to Tynecastle for this afternoon’s early kick-off in opposition to Hearts. The reigning champions went forward courtesy of James Forrest’s opener on quarter-hour however substitute Lawrence Shankland equalised for Hearts in added time on the finish of the primary half.
Rangers host sixth-placed Livingston at 3pm in certainly one of 5 Scottish Premiership matches being performed right this moment. Caught in a three-way mire together with Dundee United on the backside of the desk with 9 factors every, Kilmarnock and Ross County go toe to toe in a relegation six-pointer.
Scottish Premiership fixtures
Championship
QPR are the considerably shocking leaders of the Championship and acquired fairly the increase in midweek when their supervisor Michael Beale rejected overtures from Wolves to remain at Loftus Highway. They host Wigan Athletic this afternoon, whereas Blackburn Rovers, joint high however behind QPR on objective distinction, welcome Birmingham Metropolis to Ewood Park.
Already 5 factors adrift of security on the backside of the desk, Huddersfield go to Middlesbrough, whereas Blackpool are internet hosting Preston in an enormous Lancashire derby that kicked off earlier. It’s 1-1 at Bloomfield Highway at half-time after Preston’s Ben Whiteman cancelled out Jerry Yates’s opener for Blackpool.
At present’s Championship fixtures
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Blackpool 1-1 Preston (newest)
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Blackburn Rovers v Birmingham Metropolis
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Middlesbrough v Huddersfield City
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Millwall v West Brom
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QPR v Wigan
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Studying v Bristol Metropolis
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Rotherham United v Hull Metropolis
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Sheffield United v Norwich Metropolis
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Stoke Metropolis v Coventry Metropolis
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Sunderland v Burnley
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View the Championship desk
Premier League
It’s scoreless at half-time on the Metropolis Floor, the place a win for Liverpool over Nottingtham Forerst will ship Jürgen Klopp’s aspect fifth, whereas victory for the hosts would take them above Leicester Metropolis however depart them second from backside of the desk.
Three factors behind Palace, Everton may overtake their guests with a complete thrashing by 4 objectives or extra, whereas Roberto De Zerbi remains to be seeking to mastermind his first win as Brighton supervisor in 5 makes an attempt and can do exceptionally properly to take action at Manchester Metropolis.
Referees and the abuse they face
“It is just a matter of time earlier than we see a British referee killed if no motion is taken to try to stamp [player and spectator abuse] out,” says Dr Jamie Cleland, an instructional who conducts analysis into socio-cultural points in sport. “It has occurred in different international locations so why will it not occur right here? We shouldn’t be naive about this.” Paul MacInnes stories …
Saturday clockwatch …
A busy midweek schedule for the highest flight means there are simply 4 Premier League matches being performed right this moment, and it was Nottingham Forest and Liverpool who received the motion underneath means within the lunchtime kick-off on the Metropolis Floor. In search of their first win in 9 video games, Forest …
Internet hosting Brighton on the Etihad Stadium, a win for Manchester Metropolis in opposition to a group that has performed fairly properly however failed to attain of their previous three video games would ship them to inside a degree of league leaders Arsenal for the night. The Gunners journey to Southampton for certainly one of 5 high flight video games being performed tomorrowe afternoon.
In right this moment’s different three o’clock kick-off, Everton host Crystal Palace, who journey to Goodison Park on the again of their spectacular midweek win in opposition to Wolves. Thrilling going ahead however just a little porous on the again, Palace have but to win on the highway within the league this season.
Exterior of the Premier League now we have loads of EFL and Scottish Premiership motion to maintain tabs on, so keep tuned for group information, updates on all of the objectives as they go in and all the remainder of the day’s main speaking factors.