Key events
Fin. So after all that, here’s how the Premier League looks ahead of this evening’s game between Nottingham Forest and Everton – which you can follow here with Luke McLaughlin – and tonight’s big clash of Newcastle and Manchester United. Thanks for reading this Clockwatch.
Arsenal 2-1 Wolves. Ed Aarons was at a freezing Emirates Stadium to witness Martin Ødegaard putting on yet another show.
Burnley 5-0 Sheffield United. Jay Rodriguez netted after 15 seconds and Burnley never looked back against the increasingly blunt Blades, whose manager Paul Heckingbottom is now under serious pressure.
Brentford 3-1 Luton Town. Simon Mail was at the Gtech Stadium to see Brentford ram home their superiority over a limited Luton team.
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Meanwhile at the bottom, life suddenly looks a lot rosier for Burnley.
FULL TIME: Arsenal 2-1 Wolves
Wolves pressed for an equaliser during injury time, but the Gunners have managed to hold on. Harder for the leaders than it looked at 3.15pm.
FULL TIME: Ipswich 2-1 Coventry
FULL TIME: Leeds 3-2 Middlesbrough
FULL TIME: Southampton 2-0 Cardiff
The pack keep up the chase of Leicester City.
FULL TIME: Brentford 3-1 Luton
Brentford win their fourth game in six, snapping a two-game losing run. There goes Luton’s one-in-a-row winning sequence.
FULL TIME: Burnley 5-0 Sheffield United
A huge win for Burnley and Vincent Kompany. It could be a significant result for Paul Heckingbottom as well; that’s United’s third big humping of the season, and they’re only off the bottom as a result of Everton’s points deduction. They could be bottom for real in a couple of hours if Everton get anything at Forest.
FULL TIME: Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1-2 Raith Rovers. Aw Dunc. It was nice while it lasted.
GOAL! Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1-2 Raith Rovers (Gullan 90+4 pen). The Duncan Ferguson Highland honeymoon is over.
Let the record state that, 54 minutes ago, Charles Antaki sent me this: “It’s a good job that Zinchenko is, on the whole, a likeable character, capable of some absolute zingers – he’s made at least three outstandingly bad giveaways near his own penalty box this last half. Fortune continues to smile on him as none of them actually led to anything, but it feels like it’s only a matter of time, this match or next.”
GOAL! Arsenal 2-1 Wolves (Cunha 86)
Oleksandr Zinchenko ships possession, allowing Matheus Cunha to curl home and set Arsenal nerves jangling.
Tahith Chong blasts a header home at Brentford. But it won’t cut Luton’s deficit. He’s offside. It’s still 3-1 to the Bees.
GOAL! Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1-1 Raith Rovers (Vaughan 86). Duncan Ferguson’s unbeaten start to life as Caley Thistle manager is suddenly in a little peril.
GOAL! Burnley 5-0 Sheffield United (Josh Brownhill 80)
… so the all-new Kompany-era Burnley we were promised has finally arrived. Josh Brownhill the latest to notch. The Blades have now been put to the sword by five goals twice this season, and there’s that 8-0 home defeat to Newcastle to factor in as well.
GOAL! Brentford 3-1 Luton (Baptiste 81)
Shandon Baptiste puts paid to any notion of a Luton comeback.
GOAL! Brentford 2-1 Luton (Brown 76)
Ross Barkley sets Luton on the attack, and Jacob Brown halves the deficit. Luton still in it!
GOAL! Burnley 4-0 Sheffield United (Koleosho 75)
Luca Koleosho scores his first goal for Burnley, and Sheffield United are on the end of another thrashing. Paul Heckingbottom’s coat hangs from a shoogly peg.
GOAL! Burnley 3-0 Sheffield United (Amdouni 73)
An unmarked Mohamed Amdouni crashes home from close range and it really is game over at Turf Moor now.
A couple of big Premier League games still to come tonight. It’s the big Newcastle v Manchester United clash this evening, and the 5.30 clash is pretty sweet too. Luke McLaughlin has all the news of Forest-Everton.
RED CARD: Dijksteel (Middlesbrough). A second yellow for Anfernee Dijksteel and Leeds, who had already seemed the more likely to score the next goal, will look to press home their advantage now. They’re 3-2 up.
Oli McBurnie, then. Here’s Justin Madson: “McBurnie spent so much time talking at the ref after his first yellow for elbowing someone in the face, it’s frankly incredible that he threw an even worse elbow five minutes later AND STILL tried to talk to the ref as if he wasn’t wrong. What were they even talking about? McBurnie’s training next week: how to jump without throwing elbows.”
GOAL! Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1-0 Raith Rovers (McKay 61). Duncan Ferguson’s Highland honeymoon continues apace!
It’s perhaps no surprise that Luton have folded. Their captain and defensive lynchpin Tom Lockyer didn’t come out for the second half. He’d picked up a back injury early in the game.
GOAL! Brentford 2-0 Luton (Mee 56)
Ben Mee scores his first goal of the season, and all of a sudden it looks game over at the Brentford Community Stadium.
GOAL! Brentford 1-0 Luton (Maupay 49)
It’s that man again! Neal Maupay slams home from close range. Two in four now, though, not bad going after that 14-month drought.
A reminder that there’s some hot admin action going on here this afternoon. Join John Brewin for the big draw. And since you’re asking for a prediction: France, Hungary, Scotland, Italy. It’s inevitable.
Championship half-times.
That big Caley Thistle v Raith clash, then. “No goals yet at Inverness, and the home side without a single attempt during the first 45 minutes,” writes Simon McMahon. “Maybe Big Dunc will need to knock a few heads together during the interval.”
Premier League half-times
RED CARD: McBurnie (Sheffield United)
The Blades are already two goals down at Burnley; they’re now a man down as well. Oli McBurnie, having learned nothing from his close escape a few moments ago, gets elbow-happy in another aerial challenge and is awarded a second yellow.
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