Key events
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.
GOAL! Manchester City 1-1 Brighton (Estupiñán, 21)
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.
GOAL! Southampton 0-1 Wolves (Strand Larsen, 19)
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.
GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Brighton (Haaland, 11)
Erling Haaland sends Verbruggen the wrong way from the spot!
PENALTY! Manchester City
Marmoush is brought down in the box and Manchester City have a penalty!
GOAL DISALLOWED! Manchester City 0-0 Brighton
Brighton have an opener disallowed! Mitoma sticks the ball in the net but it will not stand.
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.
League Two – Newport 1-0 Harrogate
Cameron Evans nets the first goal of the afternoon for the hosts.
Kick-off
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:
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Werder Bremen v Borussia Monchengladbach
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Union Berlin v Bayern Munich
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Mainz v Freiburg
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Augsburg v Wolfsburg
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RB Leipzig v Borussia Dortmund (5:30pm GMT)
La Liga:
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Real Valladolid v Celta Vigo (still live)
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Mallorca v Espanyol
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Villarreal v Real Madrid (5:30pm GMT)
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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
League One fixtures
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:
Championship fixtures
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Luton v Middlesbrough
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Blackburn v Cardiff
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Coventry v Sunderland
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Swansea v Burnley
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Plymouth v Derby
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West Brom v Hull
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Preston v Portsmouth
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Oxford United v Watford
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
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:
Preamble
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!
