Manchester City v Brighton, Newcastle v Crystal Palace and more: clockwatch – live
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Key events
A pun from Peter Oh.
Man City are tempting Fati.
5/10 for me, Clive.
Championship: Leeds are NOT toast! They’re level at 2-2 with Norwich. Someone wake up the correspondents at Watford v Sheffield Wednesday and West Brom v Plymouth. No sign of goals in either game.
League Two: Stockport are back in front, leading Grimsby 3-2.
Red card: Burnley are toast. Connor Roberts trudges off after picking up his second booking of the day.
GOAL! Nottingham Forest 2-0 Luton (Wood ’76)
Chris Wood the scorer, Anthony Elanga the provider. Rinse and repeat. The points look safe for Forest.
GOAL! Manchester City 2-1 Brighton (Fati ’73)
Fair play to Brighton, they’ve deserved that. They’ve been bright, they’ve been bold and they’ve been brilliant in this second half. It comes from a trademark Mitoma dribble and it finishes with a cute Fati finish that beats Ortega at the near post.
Game on?
An update from Germany, gratefully accepted, from reader Kári Tulinius:
This year’s surprise package in the Bundesliga, VfB Stuttgart, put last year’s surprise package, Union Berlin, to the sword, and find themselves only a point off surprise leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who beat Wolfsburg. It’s early days, but fans of German football might see a real title race this year.
FT scores:
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Darmstadt 1-3 RB Leipzig
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Freiburg 2-1 Bochum
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Hoffenheim 1-3 E Frankfurt
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Union Berlin 0-3 Stuttgart
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Wolfsburg 1-2 Leverkusen
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Mainz v Bayern Munich – teatime kick-ff
Chelsea v Arsenal team news has just dropped and our very own Scott Murray will have all the buildup and updates from this big game at the Bridge.
GOAL! Newcastle 4-0 Crystal Palace (Wilson ’67)
Callum Wilson gets in on the act! Can strikers get in on the act? Hmm. Well, he’s made it 4-0, anyway, after a flowing counter-attack cuts apart this beleagured Palace backline.
Championship: A lifeline for Leeds at Carrow Road, with Shane Duffy scoring his second of the afternoon. This one went into his own net.
Brighton are bringing Billy Gilmour and Ansu Fati on against City. Not a bad pair of subs.
Championship: Leicester are relentless and already look absolute certs for promotion straight back to the Premier League. After falling a goal down to Swansea, they’re now 2-1 in front. Blackburn are also 1-0 up on Cardiff thanks to Joe Rankin-Costello.
GOAL! Brentford 2-0 Burnley (Mbeumo ’62)
A first victory in nine matches looks well on its way for Thomas Frank’s side, unless Burnley produce something special.
And who else but Bryan Mbeumo? He continues to shine in the absence of Ivan Toney.
It’s been announced that Manchester United will wear black armbands against Sheffield United tonight, in tribute to Sir Bobby Charlton. A minute’s silence will also be observed before the game.
Sir Bobby Charlton CBE, 1937-2023.
Words will never be enough.
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) October 21, 2023
Scottish Premiership: Rangers are on course for a victory in Phillipe Clement’s first game, leading 2-0 at home to Hibs, while Kilmarnock are 2-1 up on Livingston, with the other top tier games falling victim to the wet Sottish weather.
Remember Stockport being 2-0 up on Grimsby and on easy street at Edgeley Park? Yeah, scratch that. It’s 2-2.
As you may suspect, Brighton are still playing high-risk, high-pressing football, despite being in a situation that would cow plenty of their Premier League counterparts, 2-0 down to a fired-up Manchester City at the Etihad.
Red card at Bournemouth: Lewis Cook is shown is marching orders, after a nasty challenge on Hwang is followed by a headbutt, and things have just gone from bad to worse for the Cherries.
Iraola just cannot catch a break, can he?
GOAL! Bournemouth 1-1 Wolves (Cunha ’48)
It’s all square for Gary O’Neil.
GOAL! Nottingham Forest 1-0 Luton (Wood ‘48)
You always felt Nottingham Forest had the superior firepower to end the stalemate at the City Ground, and Chris Wood has done exactly that!
Stoke have restored their lead at home to Sunderland, in what’s a big fixture for former Black Cats’ head coach Alex Neil. It’s 2-1 to his side in the Potteries.
Brighton have hooked James Milner at half-time, with Joel Veltman introduced. They’ll hope he fares better against Doku than the veteran Englishman.
Sir Bobby Charlton’s impact on English football, not just Manchester United, was massive. Almost immeasurable. A huge loss.
In terms of today’s games, second halves have started to kick off. We’ll keep giving you all the updates, of course.
Manchester United and England legend Sir Bobby Charlton dies
Some really sad breaking news to bring you.
Premier League half-time scores
It’s been the Jeremy Doku show at the Etihad, where Manchester City resemble Manchester City again and lead Brighton 2-0. Newcastle have raced into a 3-0 advantage against Crystal Palace with the goals shared around, while Bournemouth and Brentford both hold precarious 1-0 leads over Wolves and Burnley respectively – and both may believe they deserve more.
Oh, and Nottingham Forest 0-0 Luton. Back in five.
Championship half-time scores
Around the grounds after 45 minutes or so in the second tier:
GOAL! Newcastle 3-0 Crystal Palace (Longstaff ’45)
Bang, bang, the Eagles are felled. Sean Longstaff accepts a gift from Marc Guehi and this one looks signed, sealed and delivered.
GOAL! Newcastle 2-0 Crystal Palace (Gordon ’44)
That felt like a matter of time! Anthony Gordon at the far post doubles the Toon advantage, with Murphy nabbing the assist in what’s been a very productive half for him.
Live pictures of James Trafford in the Burnley goal against Brentford today:
Manchester City lead Brighton 2-0 but there’s a bit of tetchiness going on. Pep Guardiola is fuming at Josko Gvardiol for something or other, while Rodri has reacquainted himself with the referee’s pocket book after needlessly kicking the ball away. Cheer up lads, you’re beating a good side comfortably.
I’ve not mentioned Nottingham Forest v Luton yet – for good reason. There’s very little happening, although reports suggesting the visitors are more than holding their own. It’s 0-0 still.
Burnley scramble clear to somehow stop Brentford getting themselves a second. James Trafford superbly denied Maupay (oh dear) and then it’s cleared off the line. Vincent Kompany’s charges are on the ropes.
James Milner is having a fairly torrid time back at the Etihad. In fairness, most would struggle playing out of position against the rocket-heeled Jeremy Doku. (My apologies for wrongly saying he scored earlier – it was Alvarez, with Doku assisting, corrected).
Newcastle are getting closer to a deserved second – Anthony Gordon has hit the crossbar at St James’ Park.
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