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England’s Plan B for what occurs if Marc Guéhi is pressured to drag out of the squad is the subject regarding Rick Harris, by way of e mail.

“If Marc Guéhi is out injured for England then Thomas Tuchel can switch to Plan B which is Harry Magu ….. oh, bother, he pulled his hamstring yesterday. Better wrap John Stones in cotton wool.”

“Nasty Leeds and Shrewsbury Town fan here,” crows Jeremy Boyce by way of e mail. “This is looking like a crucial fixture for Leeds. After a bright start they slide has started and defeat today would leave us in big trouble. Farke brought in some muscle and height for the Premier League challenge, but has that meant compromising their swashbuckling Championship-winning style? Very much so, and we need to find some direction fast.

“Happy to see Calvert-Lewin on the bench today, he’s not really a 90-minute trier in the style of Mick Jones or Mark Viduka. I’d be pleased to see Jack Harrison get some minutes.”

Jeremy can also be salivating over … “Shrewsbury Town next weekend, when we ‘entertain’ fellow numpties Newport in a bottom-plays-second-bottom desperation stakes face-off. Tension aplenty but shortage of skill. Sounds like fun. Or possibly not.”

Eveliina Summanen equalises for Spurs within the WSL: 2-2 with London City Lionesses. Still Liverpool 1-0 Brighton, West Ham 1-0 Leicester within the different lunchtime video games.

Oliver Glasner is explaining why Marc Guéhi just isn’t within the Crystal Palace squad in the present day.

“Marc, it was in the last minute here against Alkmaar – he got a knock on his foot, he has a bone bruise, he’s on crutches and he can’t even walk,” says the Palace supervisor.

“At the moment it looks like he can’t play for England as well.”

Well, let’s see if the defender has to drag out of the squad after some wonderful performances of late. Dare we advise that Ollie would favor his star centre-back was capable of relaxation throughout the worldwide break? Perish the thought! (Obviously Guéhi is injured in the present day, after all – no less than it doesn’t sound long run).

Nikita Parris has put the London City Lionesses forward towards Spurs. It’s 2-1 to the house aspect with an hour gone. West Ham are additionally in entrance – 1-0 towards Leicester, Shekiera Martinez scoring.

With Liverpool nonetheless 1-0 up towards Brighton, the WSL’s two pointless sides at the beginning of the day are each main.

Eddie Howe is on Sky discussing Newcastle’s struggles on the highway this season: “The biggest one for me is a lack of goals,” reckons the Magpies gaffer. “We’re hitting our maximum in terms of our attacking limit; no recognised striker in the squad today apart from Nick [Woltemade]; Anthony Gordon is missing.”

However Howe ends it on a constructive by saying they should assault/defend as a crew and he has religion in his gamers, and so on, and so on.

Team information

Aston Villa: Martínez, Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne, Onana, McGinn, Buendía, Kamara, Rogers, Watkins

Subs: Bizot, Lindelöf, Barkley, Tielemans, Malen, Sancho, Maatsen, Bogarde, Guessand

Bournemouth: Petrovic, Truffert, Senesi, Milosavljevic, Smith, Scott, Adams, Tavernier, Semenyo, Evanilson, Kluivert

Subs: Dennis, Cook, Brooks, Christie, Gannon-Doak, Diakité, Jiménez, Adli, Kroupi

Team information

Brentford: Kelleher, Hickey, Van den Berg, Collins, Kayode, Henderson, Yarmoliuk, Damsgaard, Schade, Thiago, Ouattara

Subs: Valdimarsson, Henry, Pinnock, Jensen, Nelson, Carvalho, Onyeka, Lewis-Potter, Janelt

Newcastle: Pope, Trippier, Thiaw, Botman, Burn, Tonali, Guimarães, Joelinton, Murphy, Woltemade, Barnes

Subs: Ramsdale, Hall, Schär, Lascelles, Krafth, Elanga, Willock, Ramsey, Miley

Team information: headline right here is no Marc Guéhi for the hosts at Selhurst Park.

Crystal Palace: Henderson, Richards, Lacroix, Canvot, Muñoz, Wharton, Lerma, Kamada, Mitchell, Sarr, Mateta

Subs: Benítez, Matthews, Pino, Uche, Clyne, Hughes, Esse, Sosa, Devenny

Brighton: Verbruggen, Wieffer, Van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu, Baleba, Ayari, Minteh, Rutter, Gómez, Welbeck

Subs: Steele, Tzimas, Kostoulas, Boscagli, De Cuyper, Veltman, Coppola, Knight, Oriola

Team information coming in for the 4 Premier League 2pm kick-offs:

Nottingham Forest: Sels, Williams, Murillo, Milenkovic, Savona, Sangaré, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Dominguez, Ndoye, Jesus

Subs: Abbott, Awoniyi, Hutchinson, Kalimuendo, John Victor, McAtee, Jair Cunha, Morato, Yates

Leeds: Perri, Bogle, Gudmundsson, Rodon, Bijol, Longstaff, Ampadu, Stach, Nmecha, Aaronson, Okafor

Subs: Darlow, Calvert-Lewin, Harrison, Gruev, James, Justin, Piroe, Struijk, Tanaka

Women’s Super League half-times: London City Lionesses 1-1 Tottenham, Liverpool 1-0 Brighton, West Ham 0-0 Leicester. (So Liverpool and West Ham on for his or her first WSL factors of the season because it stands.)

Remarkably well-matched Premier League video games in the present day: rivals Crystal Palace v Brighton is ninth v tenth. Brentford v Newcastle pits thirteenth towards 14th. Manchester City v Liverpool is third taking over sixth (however solely some extent between them). Nottingham Forest v Leeds is nineteenth v sixteenth in a doable relegation scrap. Aston Villa v Bournemouth has the most important hole – twelfth v seventh – however there’s solely three factors between the edges.

Well completed, fixture laptop! More of this please.

Spurs have equalised towards London City Lionesses within the WSL’s earliest sport: Cathinka Tandberg staying cool from the penalty spot to make it 1-1. Some extent in the present day takes Tottenham above Arsenal within the WSL desk, however a protracted method to go!

Liverpool – but to earn a WSL level underneath Gareth Taylor – are forward towards Brighton. Beata Olsson slides in to place the house aspect forward from shut vary. That got here not lengthy after Brighton’s Carla Camacho had struck the woodwork. Liverpool have dropped 9 factors from successful positions this season; can this time be totally different?

Couple of European half-times: Atalanta 0-1 Sassuolo, Utrecht 1-0 Ajax. The struggles go on for Ajax … defeat in the present day would depart them eight factors behind Eredivisie rivals Feyenoord and PSV on the high, regardless of having performed a sport extra.

“Currently, Rob Edwards’ Middlesbrough are second in the Championship with 31 games to go in a notoriously unpredictable league,” observes Gary Naylor by way of e mail. “Going to Wolves gives him a free hit at staying up this season and a ‘no blame’ relegation followed by the chance to play in the Championship again next season, this time with parachute payments to load the dice. Why would he not go?”

Definitely see your level, Gary. But Wolves are keen on a firing – the counterargument is that if Wolves do go down, he may not even get that probability to take them again up. Of course, Edwards would possibly fancy his probabilities of avoiding the drop!

Will Unwin will probably be on the City Ground for Nottingham Forest v Leeds at 2pm and he’s shared his ideas on NFFC chaos and a significant conflict for the guests, too.

Nottingham Forest are with no Premier League victory since a gap weekend thrashing of Brentford. Since then they’ve modified head coaches twice and Sean Dyche has but to search out the formulation to maneuver his new aspect out of the relegation zone. Six factors from 10 video games just isn’t ok for a aspect who completed seventh final season and invested closely over the summer time on a powerful array of signings. Now they discover themselves in a relegation battle and want one thing to ignite their struggle for survival.

Beating a rival within the battle to remain up can be very useful heading into the worldwide break. Leeds have stuttered just lately, successful as soon as of their previous 5 video games, that victory coming towards West Ham at their very worst. If Daniel Farke’s aspect can rediscover the form of efficiency that has seen them defeat Everton and Wolves, too, it may make it an interesting afternoon on the City Ground.

A primary objective within the lunchtime WSL video games: Freya Godfrey has put London City Lionesses 1-0 forward towards Spurs after solely eight minutes. It’s nonetheless goalless in Liverpool v Brighton and West Ham v Leicester.

Manchester City internet hosting Liverpool in the present day is Pep Guardiola’s 1,000th sport as a supervisor. A suitably grand match for an incredible achievement! His win ratio is seemingly a fairly staggering 71.57%.

Naturally meaning not many managers have a 100% win ratio towards Guardiola. But Arne Slot does. Admittedly, that’s simply 2-0 from their two video games final season; their first ever match-ups. Can Slot make it to 3-0 towards a seemingly resurgent City?

As we’re 5 minutes away from the primary WSL kick-off – London City Lionesses v Tottenham – right here’s the season standings thus far. Manchester City can go high of the desk if they will win at Everton within the 2.30pm kick-off.

Sunderland’s Dan Ballard has been reflecting in the present day on Saturday’s 2-2 draw with Arsenal, saying it felt like “more than a point” after Brian Brobbey’s stoppage-time objective prolonged their undefeated league run on the Stadium of Light to 6. Ballard advised the Black Cats’ in-house media, by way of PA:

More than some extent actually, holding that unbeaten run at dwelling. We don’t need groups developing right here and having a straightforward sport, we’ve completed that thus far and towards the league leaders. We’ve simply received to maintain that robust kind going.

The quantity of late objectives we’re scoring, it’s nice for the followers and there’s that togetherness that we preserve going till the top. When you’ve scored just a few late ones you at all times consider. Thankfully Brian’s popped up with a incredible objective so I’m delighted for him.”

Thanks John. As we await the noon WSL kick-offs, the earliest of in the present day’s video games in Europe’s top-five males’s leagues is underneath manner already: Atalanta v Sassuolo. It’s 0-0 within the mid-table Serie A scrap.

With that, I shall move to the protected fingers of Alex Reid.

There will probably be no Rodri this afternoon for Manchester City, as Pep Guardiola has defined.

I’m 100 per cent satisfied he will probably be again and can play. Maybe it would take a little bit bit time to succeed in the extent that he had – he has to play video games, video games, video games – however he’s going to do it. It’s simply we’ve got to make certain the second is there.

I solely need to have Rodri joyful, at all times, to begin to smile, get pleasure from it once more. It has been robust however he’s probably the most aggressive soccer gamers I’ve ever met in my profession. The push he has made is unbelievable. The hardest interval is gone. That’s the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh month of a protracted, lengthy damage. Now it’s on the finish. He has to attempt to say, ‘OK I’ll be again across the nook, and I’ll come again and revel in it with the crew.

Nico Gonzales will deputise towards Liverpool.

There’s calls for for VAR within the WSL. Don’t do it?

There’s WSL motion kicking off within the subsequent hour:

Real Madrid are at Rayo Vallecano in a neighborhood derby, whereas Barca journey to Celta Vigo.

Villarreal misplaced to Cyprus’s Pafos this week, however their win at Espanyol on Saturday noticed them leapfrog Barcelona.

If you need a title race, have a look at Serie A. Atalanta v Sassuolo kicks off at 11.30 UK time however then Napoli go to Bologna, Roma host Udinese after which, within the night sport, it’s Inter v Lazio.

Barney Ronay reminded us on Saturday that we most likely want to speak about Sudan.

Here’s the Premier League because it stands. City or Liverpool can go second by successful. Bournemouth can go second if that sport on the Etihad is a draw. Crystal Palace can go high 5 in the event that they beat Brighton in that famed rivalry that no person else understands.

Politics nook, via the BBC.

The tradition secretary has apologised for breaking guidelines by failing to declare she had acquired donations from the person she picked to be England’s new soccer regulator.

On Thursday, the commissioner for public appointments published a report, external which discovered that David Kogan had made two separate donations of £1,450 to Lisa Nandy, when she was working to be Labour chief in 2020.

Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Nandy stated: “We didn’t meet the highest standards – that is on me.”

The Conservatives have stated Nandy’s actions had been “a serious breach of public trust” and referred to as for an additional investigation into Sir Keir Starmer, who additionally acquired donations from Mr Kogan.

Keep the feedback coming in. There’s fairly just a few vacancies on the market – Norwich, Celtic, Southampton, Boro with Wolves’ new boss anticipated to be confirmed.

Rob Edwards will reclaim his crown because the Premier League’s finest trying man of a sure age.

Everyone love’s a quiz, proper? Today’s teaser on the app is a toughie, and I set the query…

David Hytner spoke to Thomas Tuchel’s right-hand man.

“Everything starts with a dream … But I’m a believer that obsession can move mountains, as well. You have the dream but then you bring it down: ‘How do we do it, day-by-day, step-by-step?’ We dream about winning the World Cup. But dreams won’t get it done. We have to build a methodical process that allows us to have the best chance.”

Saturday’s European motion; Bayern stopped of their tracks, and a goalless Turin derby.

Championship information:

Eight dwelling losses did for Liam Manning at Norwich. City have been off the ball, to say the least.

Will Unwin received to take a seat down with Liverpool’s hottest striker.

What different steering has Slot provided Ekitiké? “Obviously keep my shirt on,” he says with a smile. “I would say he’s on my back, but not for a bad thing. He just wants to help me, so I don’t take that badly. He wants me to give more and more. Maybe sometimes you feel like it’s a little bit too much and you want to complain. It’s a good thing because I think if a coach doesn’t like you, he will not speak to you or not try to get the best of you.”

Important story from Suzanne Wrack.

Jonathan Wilson has previewed Sunday’s huge sport; it’s not a title decider, extra an eliminator.

Never earlier than, not even within the 4 years when he had Lionel Messi in his aspect at Barcelona, has Guardiola targeted his play a lot on one participant. After overhauling his squad since January, every part is geared to creating probabilities for Erling Haaland, who has scored a preposterous 27 objectives in 17 video games for membership and nation this season.

City’s main scorer within the league this season after Haaland is Maxime Estève, who scored two personal objectives in City’s 5-1 win over Burnley in September. Once Guardiola would demand his aspect performed 15 or 20 passes to cope with a possible counter earlier than launching an assault; now every part is about making an attempt to play Haaland in rapidly behind the opposing line of defense.

It’s trying grim for Fulham in the meanwhile. Everton are having an Everton season, sat in eleventh.

Another win for West Ham, however extra rise up among the many followers.

Wolves might have a brand new supervisor quickly, and Rob Edwards has a job on his fingers.

The day started with late drama at Tottenham.

Let’s start the evaluate of Saturday’s motion with Arsenal’s late slip at Sunderland.

Premier League fixtures in the present day:

• Crystal Palace v Brighton

• Aston Villa v Bournemouth

• Brentford v Newcastle

• Nottingham Forest v Leeds

• Manchester City v Liverpool

Good morning, soccer. A busy day awaits, and one of many blue – and purple – riband fixtures of the season as Manchester City welcome Liverpool for Pep Guardiola’s a thousandth sport in administration. All that, and a evaluate of Saturday’s motion. There’s speak the title race may be again on.

Join me.