Key occasions
Championship: Matt Godden makes up for his first-half penalty miss to bag a late equaliser for Coventry. It’s 3-3 of their sport towards Watford on the CBS Area.
Championship: Sunderland’s younger freestyle jazz experimentalists gave the group on the Stadium of Mild a lot to cheer about as they spanked 5 previous Southampton in one in every of at present’s early kick-offs.
Championship: The objectives are flying in within the Championship, the place a number of thrillers are unfolding. It’s Ipswich 3-2 Cardiff Metropolis at Portman Highway, the place Freddie Ladapo has scored his second of the afternoon. At Residence Park, Plymouth lead Blackburn by three unanswered objectives, whereas Watford lead Coventry Metropolis by the odd objective of 5 on the Constructing Society Area.
GOAL: Brentford 1-2 Bournemouth (Brooks 77)
James Tavernier capitalises on a dreadful backpass from Rico Henry to Brentford goalkeeper Mark Flekken. He squares the ball for David Brooks, who dummies the keeper and fires the ball previous him.
GOAL! Manchester Metropolis 4-1 Fulham (Haaland 70pen)
Premier League: Erling Haaland scores his second objective of the sport from the spot, lashing the ball into the highest nook after Issa Diop was appropriately penalised for fouling Julian Alvarez.
Championship: One other unhealthy day for Middlesbrough will get worse, as Jack Colback scores with a half-volley to offer QPR a 2-0 win on the Riverside. In the meantime on the New York Stadium, Norwich have pulled a objective again towards Rotherham, who lead 2-1.
Championship: Stoke discover themselves 2-0 down at house to Preston, for whom Will Keane has scored two second half objectives in 5 minutes. Preston may go prime of the desk in the event that they shut out the win. At Portman Highway, Freddie Ladapo has simply equalised for Ipswich, making it 2-2 of their sport towards Cardiff Metropolis,
GOAL! Burnley 1-5 Tottenham Hotspur (Son 66)
Premier League: Son notches up his hat-trick with an beautiful end previous James Trafford after being performed in behind by Pedro Porro.
Championship: Watford’s Wesley Hoedt rolls the ball previous Daniel Backman, his personal goalkeeper, to revive parity on behalf of Coventry. It’s 2-2 on the Constructing Society Area.
GOAL! Burnley 1-4 Tottenham Hotspur (Son 65)
Premier League: Son scores his second of the sport, curling a shot previous James Trafford to place the sport past Burnley. THey’re staring down the barrel of their third consecutive Premier League defeat and have conceded 10 prime flight objectives already.
GOAL! Manchester Metropolis 3-1 Fulham (Haaland 58)
Premier League: Erling Haaland sweeps a left-footed shot house after pouncing on a Julian Alvarez move across the nook that travelled between Issa Diop and Tim Ream.
An e mail: “You’ll be able to see from the photograph instantly beneath your weird assertion that Akanji shouldn’t be within the keeper’s eyeline in any respect,” writes JA Hopkin. “The keeper’s sight is blocked by his personal defender!”
Effectively, JA, what you can’t see from the photograph in query is that Nathan Ake is about 14 yards from objective when he heads the ball and that by the point it crossed the road, Manuel Akanji, who was standing in an offside place, had jumped to permit it instantly between his legs. As troublesome because it is likely to be so that you can imagine, Bernd Leno was not in the identical place when the ball crossed the road as he was when the photograph you consult with was taken. He was instantly behind Akanji.
GOAL! Burnley 1-3 Tottenham Hotspur (Maddison 54)
Premier League: James Maddison curls a magnificence previous James Trafford after Burnley come unstuck attempting to play the ball out from the again.
GOAL! Chelsea 0-1 Nottingham Forest (Elanga 48)
Premier League: Conor Gallagher loses possession cheaply, permitting Taiwo Awoniyi to play Anthony Elanga in behind the Chelsea defence with a neat tempo. He makes no mistake, sidefooting previous Robert Sanchez.
Manchester Metropolis 2-1 Fulham: Having seen a number of replays of Metropolis’s second objective, it actually beggars perception that (a) the referee Michael Oliver didn’t clock that Manuel Akanji was offside and interfering with play and (b) his VAR officers arrived on the similar conclusion after prolonged deliberations.
Manuel Akanji was standing in an offside place, instantly in entrance of Bernd Leno when Nathan Ake despatched a downward header straight on the pair of them. Akanjki jumped within the air, parting his legs so the ball may journey by them and creep into the nook. It appears an astonishingly unhealthy choice, except Akanji was someway onside. [Narrator’s voice: “He wasn’t”].
Championship half-times
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Birmingham Metropolis 1-1 Millwall (FT)
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Sunderland 5-0 Southampton (FT)
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Swansea Metropolis 1-2 Bristol Metropolis (FT)
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Coventry Metropolis 1-1 Watford
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Ipswich City 0-1 Cardiff Metropolis
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Leeds United 0-0 Sheffield Wednesday
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Leicester Metropolis 0-1 Hull Metropolis
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Middlesbrough 0-1 Queens Park Rangers
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Plymouth Argyle 1-0 Blackburn Rovers
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Rotherham United 2-0 Norwich Metropolis
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Stoke Metropolis 0-0 Preston
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West Bromwich Albion 0-0 Huddersfield City
Premier League half-times
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Sheffield United 2-2 Everton (FT)
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Brentford 1-1 Bournemouth
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Burnley 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur
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Chelsea 0-0 Nottingham Forest
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Manchester Metropolis 2-1 Fulham
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Brighton v Newcastle United (5.30pm)
GOAL! Manchester Metropolis 2-1 Fulham (Ake 45+5)
Premier League: From a Phil Foden nook, Nathan Ake heads the ball within the Fulham internet on the Etihad. There’s a prolonged VAR verify, as a result of Manuel Akanji was standing in the course of the six-yard field, clearly interfering with play (he jumped over the ball) and in Bernd Leno’s eyeline. Considerably bizarrely, the objective is given. It appears like one other VAR shocker and Fulham boss Marco Silva is livid. It’s not troublesome to see why.
GOAL! Burnley 1-2 Tottenham Hotspur (Romero 45)
Premier League: Cristian Romero scores with a positive strike that goes in off the woodwork. His objective survives a VAR verify for a potential James Maddison offside within the build-up.
Championship: Backside of the desk with only one draw from 4 video games, Middlesbrough’s worst league begin in 20 years exhibits no signal of enhancing. Andre Dozzell has put QPR forward on the Riverside Stadium with a sensational strike from distance that went in off the put up.
Championship: Jordan Hugill scores with a glancing header to double Rotherham’s lead towards his former membership Norwich Metropolis. It’s 1-1 within the match between Coventry and Watford, with Milan van Ewijk cancelling out Mileta Rajovic’s opener for the Hornets.
Championship: Aaron Ramsey has given Cardiff Metropolis a one-goal lead over Ipswich City at Portman Highway, whereas Finn Azaz has put Plymouth Argyle 1-0 up towards Blackurn at Residence Park. Huddersfield lead West Brom 1-0 on the Hawthorns, the place Delano Burgzorg has bought the objective.
GOAL! Manchester Metropolis 1-1 Fulham (Ream 33)
Premier League: At a Fulham nook, Ederson parries a shot a shot from Bobby Reid into the trail of Tim Ream, who scores on the follow-up.
GOAL! Brentford 1-1 Bournemouth (Solanke 30)
Premier League: Dominic Solanke takes down an extended ball from Senesi, takes on Ben Mee and fires a low shot previous Flekken.
GOAL! Manchester Metropolis 1-0 Fulham (Alvarez 31)
Championship: Julian Alvarez faucets in a Haaland ball squared throughout the sting of the six-yard field to offer Metropolis the lead. His objective survives a VAR verify for offside.
Chelsea 0-0 Nottingham Forest: The guests squander a great alternative to take the lead towards Chelsea, with Taiwo Awoniyi blazing over from a great place following a goalmouth scramble prompted by a Morgan Gibbs-White supply into the Chelsea penalty space.
Championship: Second within the desk behind Leicester Metropolis, Norwich are on the lookout for their fourth consecutive win. They path Rotherham by the one objective of the sport on the New York Stadium, the place Dexter Lembikisa has put the house facet forward with a magnificence from the sting of the field.
Championship: Coventry’s Matty Godden misses a penalty towards Watford on the Constructing Society Area, the place it stays scoreless. On the King Energy Stadium, Hull Metropolis lead Leicester courtesy of a Liam Delap objective. On mortgage from Manchester Metropolis, it’s the 20-year-old’s second objective of the season.
GOAL! Burnley 1-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Son 16)
Premier League: Son equalises for Spurs with a positive end, dinking the ball over James Trafford after taking part in a one-two with Manor Solomon. Barely at fault for the primary objective, Pedro Porro began the transfer with an extended ball from deep.
GOAL! Brentford 1-0 Bournemouth (Jensen 7)
Premier League: Neto concedes a free-kick and is subsequently unable to maintain Matheus Jensen’s whipped effort from crossing the road, regardless of showing to maintain it out. Referee Andy Madley thought the goalkeeper had prevented the ball from crossing the road, however his magic wrist buzzer didn’t look like working. His assistants quickly set him straight and the objective was awarded.
{Photograph}: Andrew Boyers/Motion Photos/Reuters
GOAL! Burnley 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur (Foster 4)
Premier League: Lyle Foster provides Burnley an early lead, scoring his second objective in successive video games to place them one up towards Spurs. He will get in entrance of a defender to steer house a cross from Luca Koleosho.
Our three o’clock kick-offs are beneath method: And Chelsea are straight out of the blocks. Nicolas Jackson squanders an early probability earlier than Ola Aina does beautifully to dam what regarded a sure tap-in for Raheem Sterling, who’d bought on the tip of a Ben Chilwell cross.
Match report: Sheffield United 2-2 Everton
Premier League: A massively entertaining sport completed all sq. at Bramall Lane, largely right down to the last-ditch heroics of Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. Sam Dalling studies from Sheffield …
These Premier League choices …
New signing Cole Palmer begins on the bench for Chelsea.
Orel Malanga comes into the Nottingham Forest line-up for Brennan Johnson, who left the membership for Tottenham Hotspur yesterday.
Again from harm, Ben Mee replaces Nathan Collins within the coronary heart of Brentford’s defence.
Lewis Cook dinner and Marcos Senesi come into Bournemouth’s line-up.
Jack Grealish shouldn’t be in Manchester Metropolis’s squad and is believed to have a minor thigh harm.
Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola remains to be recuperating from again surgical procedure and won’t be on the Etihad Stadium at present.
Jordan Beyer and Johann Berg Gudmundsson come into Burnley’s line-up instead of Hannes Delcroix and Manuel Benson.
Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou drops Richarlison and offers Manor Solomon his first begin for the membership.
Neither Eric Dier nor Tanguy N’Dombele are included in Tottenham’s squad, having did not get strikes away from the membership within the switch window.
Southampton had been absolute rubbish at present. However Sunderland had been spectacular. And the age of their workforce! Gamers aged 16, 17, 19, two aged 20, 4 aged 21.
— Nick Harris (@sportingintel) September 2, 2023
Early Championship outcomes
Full time: Sheffield United 2-2 Everton
Premier League: It’s completed all sq. at Bramall Lane, the place an exciting battle ended with Jordan Pickford saving some extent for Everton with a sensational triple save proper on the demise.
Championship: It’s completed Sunderland 5-0 Southampton on the Stadium of Mild, the place Saints followers face an extended, lengthy trek house after seeing their workforce get battered from begin to end. Chris Rigg wrapped up the scoring for Sunderland within the sixth minute of added time, bagging his first ever league objective on the age of 16.
Brentford v Bournemouth line-ups
Brentford: Flekken, Hickey, Mee, Pinnock, Henry, Jensen, Norgaard, Janelt, Mbeumo, Wissa, Schade.
Subs: Ghoddos, Onyeka, Ajer, Strakosha, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Roerslev, Yarmolyuk, Olakigbe.
Bournemouth: Neto, Aarons, Zabarnyi, Senesi, Kerkez, Christie, Cook dinner, Semenyo, Billing, Kluivert, Solanke.
Subs: Mepham, Brooks, Rothwell, Smith, Tavernier, Andrei Radu, Moore, Traore, Kilkenny.
Referee: Robert Madley (West Yorkshire)
Chelsea v Nottingham Forest line-ups
Chelsea: Sanchez, Disasi, Thiago Silva, Colwill, Gusto, Gallagher, Caicedo, Chilwell, Sterling, Fernandez, Jackson.
Subs: Palmer, Deivid Washington, Petrovic, Cucurella, Mudryk, Madueke, Ugochukwu, Maatsen, Bergstrom.
Nottingham Forest: Turner, Boly, Worrall, McKenna, Aurier, Mangala, Danilo, Aina, Yates, Gibbs-White, Awoniyi.
Subs: Tavares, Aguilera, Kouyate, Wooden, Felipe, Niakhate, Elanga, Montiel, Horvath.
Referee: Tim Robinson (West Sussex)
Burnley v Tottenham Hotspur line-ups
Burnley: Trafford, Roberts, Al Dakhil, O’Shea, Beyer, Gudmundsson, Cullen, Berge, Koleosho, Amdouni, Foster.
Subs: Cork, Brownhill, Rodriguez, Benson, Redmond, Bruun Larsen, Delcroix, Odobert, Muric.
Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario, Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Udogie, Sarr, Bissouma, Kulusevski, Maddison, Solomon, Son.
Subs: Skipp, Hojbjerg, Sanchez, Richarlison, Emerson, Perisic, Forster, Davies, Phillips.
Referee: Darren England (South Yorkshire)
Manchester Metropolis v Fulham line-ups
Manchester Metropolis: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Akanji, Ake, Rodri, Kovacic, Foden, Alvarez, Doku, Haaland.
Subs: Phillips, Ortega, Bernardo Silva, Gomez, Gvardiol, Matheus Luiz, Carson, Bobb, Lewis.
Fulham: Leno, Tete, Diop, Ream, Robinson, Cairney, Reed, Andreas Pereira, Wilson, Jimenez, Reid.
Subs: Rodak, Bassey, Traore, Rodrigo Muniz, Willian, Castagne, Vinicius, Francois, Harris.
Referee: Michael Oliver (Northumberland)
Championship: Sam Bell fires house on the Liberty Stadium, the place Bristol Metropolis have come from behind towards Swansea Metropolis to steer by the odd objective of three.
GOAL! Sheffield United 2-2 Everton (Danjuma 55)
Premier League: Arnaut Danjuma stretches to get on the tip of a Nathan Patterson cross from the suitable and make all of it sq. in a superb sport at Bramall Lane.
Championship: Sunderland are operating amok towards Southampton on the Stadium of Mild, the place Bradley Dack has put Tony Mowbray’s facet 4-0 up along with his first objective for the membership early within the second half.
Elsewhere within the Championship, Mark Sykles has restored parity for Bristol Metropolis of their sport towards Swansea Metropolis on the Liberty Stadium, the place it’s all sq. at one objective apiece. In at present’s different early kick-off, Birtmingham Metropolis have simply equalised towards Millwall at St Andrew’s, the place it’s additionally 1-1.
Sheffield United v Everton: The Blades got here from behind to steer Everton 2-1 at half-time in a sport that didn’t promise an excellent deal on paper however has been very thrilling on the grass at Bramall Lane. The second half has simply began and you may comply with the motion with Rob Smyth …
At the moment’s Championship fixtures
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Birmingham Metropolis 0-1 Millwall (L)
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Sunderland 3-0 Southampton (L)
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Swansea Metropolis 1-0 Bristol Metropolis (L)
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Coventry Metropolis v Watford
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Ipswich City v Cardiff Metropolis
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Leeds United v Sheffield Wednesday
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Leicester Metropolis v Hull Metropolis
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Middlesbrough v Queens Park Rangers
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Plymouth Argyle v Blackburn Rovers
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Rotherham United v Norwich Metropolis
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Stoke Metropolis v Preston
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West Bromwich Albion v Huddersfield City
At the moment’s Premier League fixtures
Saturday clockwatch
Following final night time’s win for West Ham over Luton Town at Kenilworth Highway, it’s a giant day within the prime flight forward of the primary worldwide break of the season. Sheffield United and Everton bought the day’s motion beneath method at Bramall Lane, the place thr hosts have come from behind to steer at half-time.
Abdoulaye Doucoure poked Everton forward along with his facet’s first Premier League objective of the season, a objective that was cancelled out by a positive strike from Jordan Archer on his Premier League debut for the Blades. Archer helped enhance his workforce’s lead, forcing an personal objective off Jordan Pickford with a good higher effort that struck thge put up deep in first-half added time.
Later this afternoon, free-spending Chelsea, league leaders Manchester Metropolis and born once more Tottenham are among the many huge identify sides kicking off at 3pm. Having spent over £1bn beneath their new possession regime, Chelsea host a Nottingham Forest facet who’re and not using a league win on the highway since their victory at Southampton in early January.
Metropolis, the reigning Champions, host Fulham and Spurs will attempt to put their midweek Carabao Cup defeat behind time by consigning Burnley to a 3rd consecutive defeat. In at present’s different 3pm fixture, Brentford will look to proceed their wonderful begin to the season towards Bournemouth.
We’ll convey you workforce information, updates on all the foremost speaking factors and flag up all of the objectives as they go in, earlier than bringing you on-the-whistle studies from our correspondents on the grounds.
