Between us we eventually settled on three at the back and a fluid (or more accurately completely disorganised) midfield seven. “Re your photo of Goodison’s Main Stand, about 20 years ago I took my father on a stadium tour, ” writes Gary Naylor. “Our guide walked in to say hello, a strongly built guy of average height, and my father’s face transformed - Dave Hickson. Both long gone now, but a moment to remember. ” Lovely memory of a magnificent old stadium.
Another red card for James Tomkins – making his first Premier League start since Boxing Day last year in absence of the suspended Marc Guehi – and further goals from Fulham’s captain Tim Ream and Mitrovic, with his tenth of the campaign, swept Marco Silva’s side to a deserved victory that leaves them level on points with Liverpool. Much more here:The games just keep on coming, and Rob Smyth is on Aston Villa v Liverpool here:Final scores (part 2)Total number of goalless draws in today’s English football league schedule: one. Merry Christmas! Premier LeagueCrystal Palace 0-3 FulhamEverton 1-2 Wolverhampton WanderersLeicester City 0-3 Newcastle UnitedSouthampton 1-2 Brighton & Hove AlbionChampionshipBristol City 0-2 West Bromwich AlbionHull City 1-1 BlackpoolMiddlesbrough 4-1 Wigan AthleticPreston North End 1-2 Huddersfield TownRotherham United 2-2 Stoke CitySheffield United 3-1 Coventry CityLeague OneAccrington Stanley 1-1 BarnsleyBurton Albion 3-0 Lincoln CityCambridge United 2-1 Shrewsbury TownCharlton Athletic 1-1 Peterborough UnitedCheltenham Town 0-1 Plymouth ArgyleExeter City 0-0 PortsmouthFleetwood Town 1-2 Sheffield WednesdayIpswich Town 3-0 Oxford UnitedMilton Keynes Dons 1-0 Forest Green RoversPort Vale 1-0 MorecambeWycombe Wanderers 2-1 Bristol RoversLeague TwoCarlisle United 1-0 Bradford CityCrawley Town 1-2 Sutton UnitedGillingham 0-1 Colchester UnitedHarrogate Town 3-2 Grimsby TownMansfield Town 1-1 Northampton TownRochdale 1-2 Hartlepool UnitedSalford City 1-1 BarrowStockport County 2-0 Crewe AlexandraSwindon Town 1-2 WalsallTranmere Rovers 3-0 Doncaster RoversWimbledon 1-1 Newport CountyNewcastle are up to second in the league, and Wolves are just a point behind Everton: Pos Team P GD Pts 1 Arsenal 14 22 37 2 Newcastle 16 21 33 3 Man City 26 32 4 Tottenham Hotspur 10 30 5 Man Utd 0 6 Brighton 15 24 7 Liverpool 11 8 Fulham 9 Chelsea Brentford -2 20 Crystal Palace -6 19 12 Aston Villa 18 13 Leicester -3 17 AFC Bournemouth -14 Leeds -4 West Ham -5 Everton -7 Wolverhampton -15 Nottm Forest -19 Southampton -16 It’s all very well chasing a late winner, but if you gift your opponents a 4 v 2 stoppage-time break you’re not doing it properly.
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Teams winning away from home in the Premier League: three (out of four). Teams winning away from home in the Championship, League One and League Two combined: five (out of 28). Premier LeagueCrystal Palace 0-1 FulhamEverton 1-1 Wolverhampton WanderersLeicester City 0-3 Newcastle UnitedSouthampton 0-2 Brighton & Hove AlbionChampionshipBristol City 0-1 West Bromwich AlbionHull City 0-1 BlackpoolMiddlesbrough 1-0 Wigan AthleticPreston North End 1-0 Huddersfield TownRotherham United 1-0 Stoke CitySheffield United 1-0 Coventry CityLeague OneAccrington Stanley 0-1 BarnsleyBurton Albion 3-0 Lincoln CityCambridge United 0-0 Shrewsbury TownCharlton Athletic 0-0 Peterborough UnitedCheltenham Town 0-0 Plymouth ArgyleExeter City 0-0 PortsmouthFleetwood Town 1-1 Sheffield WednesdayIpswich Town 2-0 Oxford UnitedMilton Keynes Dons 0-0 Forest Green RoversPort Vale 1-0 MorecambeWycombe Wanderers 1-1 Bristol RoversLeague TwoCarlisle United 1-0 Bradford CityCrawley Town 0-0 Sutton UnitedGillingham 0-1 Colchester UnitedHarrogate Town 1-1 Grimsby TownMansfield Town 0-0 Northampton TownRochdale 0-1 Hartlepool UnitedSalford City 1-0 BarrowStockport County 0-0 Crewe AlexandraSwindon Town 0-0 WalsallTranmere Rovers 1-0 Doncaster RoversWimbledon 0-0 Newport CountyThe Premier League is very much leading the way on the goal front today.
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Bye! And finally, here’s a report on Brighton’s victory over Southampton: Adam Lallana struck against his former club as Brighton inflicted more misery on struggling Southampton with a resounding 3-1 Premier League victory at St Mary’s. The Saints academy graduate Lallana benefited from a major blunder from the home goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu to put Albion ahead before Romain Perraud’s calamitous own goal doubled their half-time advantage.
WATCH THE BREWERS AT FOREST GREEN LIVE ON IFOLLOWTHE Brewers travel to Forest Green Rovers tonight looking to build on the Boxing Day win over Lincoln City. If you can't get to the game, there's no need to miss the action. The match, which kicks off at 7. 45pm, is being screened live on iFollow Brewers. The coverage includes action replays, onscreen graphics and audio commentary from the BBC Radio Derby team of Dave Fletcher and Aaron Webster.
Photograph: Marc Atkins/Getty ImagesAt Selhurst Park, Jordan Ayew’s first-time effort from 15 yards or so absolutely thunders into the crossbar. A chance for Leicester, after Dewsbury-Hall plays in Daka. Pope flies out and Daka hits the ball into him, it ricochets back into Daka, and then rolls gently goalwards allowing a defender to clear. GOAL! Everton 1-1 Wolves (Podence, 22 mins)That is a lovely equaliser. It starts with a Wolves corner, taken short. The ball in lands at the feet of Moutinho, just outside the area, and he lifts a beautiful right-foot pass over the defence and Podence runs through and tucks in! Wolverhampton Wanderers' Daniel Podence scores.
In truth it was too close to the keeper, who should have pushed it to safety but opted instead to flap it in haplessly. Adam Lallana of Brighton & Hove Albion heads in. Photograph: Robin Jones/Getty ImagesIf Hugo Bueno is going to mark Yerry Mina at every set piece, this could get very messy for Wolves. GOAL! Leicester 0-1 Newcastle (Wood, 3 mins)And that’s how to take a penalty. The goalkeeper dives to his left and the ball goes hard and high the other way.
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Final scoresThe Premier League games are all over, but many others are ongoing. So for now, there’s this:Premier LeagueCrystal Palace 0-3 FulhamEverton 1-2 Wolverhampton WanderersLeicester City 0-3 Newcastle UnitedSouthampton 1-2 Brighton & Hove AlbionWell that’s going to sting. Southampton (2. 04) 1-3 (0.
The French defender pounced in the final minute as Wolves secured a fortunate but dramatic victory that lifted them off the bottom of the Premier League. Everton’s overly cautious approach was generating dismay among their fans when James Tarkowski launched one final, long ball towards the Wolves penalty area. It returned with punishing interest, and after Aït-Nouri scrambled home a cross from fellow substitute Adama Traoré Everton were left to reflect on another ineffective, wasteful display. It is now six defeats in eight league games for Lampard’s faltering side. Improvement in the final third cannot come quickly enough for Everton. Much more here:Peter Lansley witnessed Newcastle’s emphatic win at a limp Leicester: Not even the World Cup has proved a deterrent in Newcastle United’s pursuit of Champions League football as Eddie Howe’s team climbed into second place in the Premier League with a victory secured in just over half an hour.
Aleksandar Mitrovic of Fulham scores their side’s third goal. Photograph: Henry Browne/Getty ImagesThere was a long delay after that second Fulham goal while the VAR pondered whether the ball had hit Mitrovic’s hand on its way to Ream. It looked like it did, but the goal stands anyway. GOAL! Southampton 1-3 Brighton (Ward-Prowse, 73 mins)James Ward-Prowse brings Southampton back into the game, heading in the rebound after his own penalty is well saved by Sanchez. GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-2 Fulham (Ream, 71 mins)Of course there’ll be lots of Palace fans who can’t get no sleep after this. Fulham swing in a corner, Mitrovic knocks down and Ream slams it into the roof of the net! A minute’s applause at Crystal Palace for the Palace fan Maxi Jazz, the Faithless frontman who died this week.
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There have been eight first-half goals in its four 3pm kick-offs, and no other team in the Football League has more than one except struggling Burton Albion in League One, who look to be on their way to a first league win since 22 October being as they are 3-0 up against Lincoln City. GOAL! Southampton 0-2 Brighton (Perraud own goal, 35 mins)Pervis Estupinan’s low cross from the left gets past the keeper at the near post and Romain Perraud has to do something to stop March just tapping it in.
Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/ReutersGOAL! Everton 1-0 Wolves (Mina, 7 mins)A bit of a technical hiccup here saw a couple of entries disappear somewhere between my computer and the rest of the world. Anyway, Yerry Mina scored a while ago, heading in from a corner after his marker fell over. GOAL! Southampton 0-1 Brighton (Lallana, 14 mins)A lovely move from Brighton ends with a cross from the right-hand corner of the area, and a nicely-judged glancing header from Adam Lallana.
They’ve got another five minutes to find one. Another excellent save, this time from Pope to stop Vardy pulling a goal back for Leicester against Newcastle. A brilliant point-blank save from Sa, coming out to claim a cross, realising he’s not going to get there and doing the next best thing, stops Everton going ahead. On Prime, Martin Keown describes that Willian touch as “a lovely little cross”, which I think is a very generous analysis of what looked like a miskick, but hey, it’s Christmas. Personally I’m entirely in favour of post-tackle celebrations. This isn’t exactly a tackle, though, more of a sliding deflection into touch. Still, if you enjoy it, why not let the world know? GOAL! Crystal Palace 0-3 Fulham (Mitrovic, 80 mins)A third for Fulham! A cross from the right loops beyond the far post to Willian, who scuffs his volley into the ground and it bounces up nicely for Mitrovic to head in from four yards.
Morecambe vs Accrington Stanley live stream: How to watch They do have a game in hand on Burton Albion and Forest Green Rovers just
above them, but they have scored only 17 goals and let in 34
” The Boxing Day game that stands out in my memory was travelling to watch my team (Watford) at Fulham in 2000. We lost 5-0 and afterwards I remember talking to Jeremy Alexander, who was reporting on the game for the Guardian, had to file the teams in formation and wasn’t sure given the chaos what Watford’s shape had been.
Newcastle United's New Zealand striker Chris Wood scores. Photograph: Lindsey Parnaby/AFP/Getty ImagesPenalty to Newcastle! Less than two minutes on the clock and Amartey has brought down Joelinton. You could watch football forever and never see a clearer penalty. Peeeeeep! They’re off! There will be a minute’s applause before all the Premier League games for George Cohen, who died this week. The players are coming out, and the clock is about to strike football o’clock! Here’s Jeremy Alexander’s match report on that game. Absolutely brutal final sentence. “I remember Oldham 11 Southport 0 on Boxing Day 1962, ” writes Mike Fitzgerald. “The local Southport Visitor newspaper headlined their match report, “SOUTHPORT CAN’T ’OLDAM.
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The Mitrovic dramatics weren’t really necessary, but it was a deliberate movement and Tomkins can’t really quibble. GOAL! Southampton 0-3 Brighton (March, 56 mins)A fabulous left-foot rocket from March, 25 yards from goal, sends the ball flying into the top corner! Solly March of Brighton & Hove Albion celebrates with team mates after scoring their side’s third goal.
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Photograph: Warren Little/Getty ImagesSheffield United, second in the Championship with six wins in their last seven, concede a penalty against Coventry. Wes Foderingham saves, and they remain 1-0 up. Leicester have brought Jamie Vardy on for Daka at half-time. Southampton have made two changes, bringing Stuart Armstrong and Joe Aribo on, and taking off Diallo and Djenepo. Second halves are under way. Strap yourselves back in for another 45 minutes of fun. Half time scoresHere are all the Football League scores as they stand.
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