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GOAL! Aston Villa 6-1 Brighton (Luiz 90+7)
Premier League: Douglas Luiz scores his second goal of the game, pouncing on a breaking ball after Luke Steele had denied Ollie Watkins and steering it into the net. Aston Villa have hit Brighton for six on a humbling day for the visitors.
GOAL! Aston Villa 5-1 Brighton (Ramsey 85)
Premier League: “He’s one of our own!” chant the Aston Villa crowd after seeing their youth academy graduate Jacob Ramsey curl home a splendid effort from distance to cap a fine afternoon for rampant Aston Villa. Rob Smyth has the latest …
Everton v Luton Town line-ups
Everton: Pickford, Young, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Garner, Onana, Gueye, McNeil, Doucoure, Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Patterson, Keane, Danjuma, Harrison, Virginia, Beto, Godfrey, Chermiti, Dobbin.
Luton: Kaminski, Burke, Lockyer, Bell, Kabore, Mpanzu, Nakamba, Doughty, Brown, Ogbene, Morris.
Subs: Andersen, Berry, Woodrow, Adebayo, Chong, Mengi, Krul, Giles, Johnson.
Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)
West Ham v Sheffield United line-ups
West Ham: Areola, Coufal, Zouma, Aguerd, Emerson Palmieri, Soucek, Alvarez, Bowen, Ward-Prowse, Lucas Paqueta, Antonio.
Subs: Fabianski, Fornals, Kudus, Mavropanos, Cornet, Ings, Ogbonna, Benrahma, Kehrer.
Sheffield United: Foderingham, Ahmedhodzic, Egan, Robinson, Bogle, Hamer, Vinicius Souza, McAtee, Thomas, Archer, McBurnie.
Subs: Adam Davies, Trusty, Basham, Brewster, Traore, Norwood, Tom Davies, Ben Slimane, Larouci.
Referee: Graham Scott (Oxfordshire)
Bournemouth v Arsenal line-ups
Bournemouth: Neto, Aarons, Zabarnyi, Senesi, Kerkez, Billing, Cook, Tavernier, Christie, Kluivert, Solanke.
Subs: Brooks, Rothwell, Ouattara, Smith, Sinisterra, Andrei Radu, Moore, Traore, Semenyo.
Arsenal: Raya, White, Saliba, Gabriel, Zinchenko, Odegaard, Rice, Havertz, Saka, Nketiah, Gabriel Jesus.
Subs: Ramsdale, Smith-Rowe, Kiwior, Tomiyasu, Trossard, Jorginho, Vieira, Nelson, Elneny.
Referee: Michael Salisbury (Lancashire)
Wolves v Manchester City line-ups
Wolves: Jose Sa, Dawson, Kilman, Gomes, Nelson Semedo, Lemina, Joao Gomes, Ait Nouri, Pedro Neto, Matheus Cunha, Hwang.
Subs: Doherty, Santiago Bueno, Traore, Silva, Kalajdzic, Jonny, Sarabia, Bentley, Hodge.
Manchester City: Ederson, Walker, Akanji, Dias, Ake, Matheus Luiz, Kovacic, Foden, Alvarez, Doku, Haaland.
Subs: Phillips, Grealish, Ortega, Gomez, Gvardiol, Carson, Bobb, Lewis.
Referee: Craig Pawson (South Yorkshire)
Newcastle United v Burnley line-ups
Newcastle: Pope, Trippier, Schar, Lascelles, Burn, Longstaff, Bruno Guimaraes, Anderson, Almiron, Isak, Gordon.
Subs: Dubravka, Dummett, Joelinton, Tonali, Ritchie, Targett, Hall, Livramento, Murphy.
Burnley: Trafford, Roberts, Al Dakhil, Beyer, Taylor, Cullen, Ramsey, Koleosho, Brownhill, Berge, Amdouni.
Subs: O’Shea, Cork, Rodriguez, Zaroury, Vitinho, Ndayishimiye, Bruun Larsen, Odobert, Muric.
Referee: Thomas Bramall (Sheffield)
Manchester United v Crystal Palace line-ups
Manchester United: Onana, Dalot, Lindelof, Varane, Amrabat, Mount, Casemiro, Pellistri, Bruno Fernandes, Rashford, Hojlund.
Subs: Bayindir, Maguire, Martial, Eriksen, Garnacho, van de Beek, Evans, McTominay, Mejbri.
Crystal Palace: Johnstone, Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell, Doucoure, Hughes, Ayew, Schlupp, Eze, Mateta.
Subs: Holding, Clyne, Ebiowei, Richards, Matthews, Riedewald, Rak-Sakyi, Ola-Adebomi, Ozoh.
Referee: Chris Kavanagh (Lancashire)
GOAL! Aston Villa 4-1 Brighton (Watkins 65)
Premier League: Against the run of second-half play, Ollie Watkins wraps up his hat-trick to leave Brighton with another mountain to climb if they are rescue anything from this game. Rob Smyth has the latest …
GOAL! Aston Villa 3-1 Brighton (Fati 50)
Premier League: On loan from Barcelona, Ansu Fati has pulled a goal back for Brighton early in the second half at Villa Park. His first strike for the Seagulls survives multiple VAR checks for a variety of possible infractions and Brighton are back in the game.
Women’s Super League: On Sunday, up to 95 of the players that travelled to Australia and New Zealand to compete in the Women’s World Cup will kick off the new season of the Women’s Super League hoping they have brought you with them. Suzy Wrack reports …
Today’s Championship fixtures
Beleaguered Sheffield Wednesday remain winless and rock-bottom of the Championship table after losing 3-0 against a youthful Sunderland side at Hillsborough last night. Tony Mobray’s Mackems moved up to fourth in the table courtesy of their impressive display and are five points behind pace-setters Leicester City and Ipswich Town, having played one game more. Southampton host Leeds United in today’s lunchtime kick-off and lead their visitors 3-0 at the break.
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Southampton 3-0 Leeds United (L)
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Bristol City v Stoke City
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Cardiff City v Rotherham United
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Huddersfield Town v Ipswich Town
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Hull City v Plymouth Argyle
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Millwall v Swansea City
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Norwich City v Birmingham City
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Preston v West Brom
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QPR v Coventry City
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Watford v Middlesbrough
Today’s Premier League fixtures
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Aston Villa 3-0 Brighton (L)
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Manchester United v Crystal Palace
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Newcastle United v Burnley
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Wolves v Manchester City
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Bournemouth v Arsenal
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West Ham v Sheffield United
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Everton v Luton Town
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Tottenham Hotspur v Liverpool (5.30pm BST)
Saturday clockwatch …
There’s a bumper afternoon of Premier League action ahoy, with no fewer than six three o’clock kick-offs scheduled ahead of this evening’s potential humdinger between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool at White Hart Lane.
Aston Villa and Brighton got the weekend’s top flight activities under way in today’s lunchtime game at Villa Park, where the ruthless home side lead 3-0 at half-time courtesy of a brace scored by Ollie Watkins inside 20 minutes, followed by a Pervis Estupinan own goal.
As ever, we’ll be here to bring you team news, flag up all the goals as they go in and stay across any major talking points throughout the afternoon, before posting match reports from our journalists around the grounds.
