Everton v Manchester City, Brentford v Brighton, Barcelona v Celta Vigo

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GOAL! West Ham 1-1 Southampton (Ugochukwu 90+3)

I say! Lesley Ugochukwu has equalised for Southampton with a brilliant volley. That could give Southampton their 11th point of the season, which would equal Derby’s record low total in 2007-08.

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Brentford 3-2 Brighton
Joao Pedro sent off
Crystal Palace 0-0 Bournemouth
Chris Richards sent off
Everton 0-2 Manchester City
West Ham 1-0 Southampton

La Liga

GOAL! Everton 0-2 Man City (Kovacic 90+2)

Game over. Mateo Kovacic, who has had a big impact from the bench, rams City’s second goal past Jordan Pickford from the edge of the area. He is such a good footballer.

Everton 0-1 Manchester City If it stays like City will leapfrog Nottingham Forest and move into fourth. Forest have a vital game at Spurs on Monday night.

GOAL! Barcelona 3-3 Celta Vigo (Raphinha 68)

It’s all square at the Olympic Stadium! A gorgeous cross from the substitute Lamine Yamal is headed in from six yards by Raphinha, and you’d fancy Barcelona to win that now.

GOAL! Barcelona 2-3 Celta Vigo (Olmo 65)

And Dani Olmo has given Barcelona a lifeline, running onto Raphinha’s nice through ball to score with his left foot.

GOAL! Brentford 3-2 Brighton (Mitoma 81)

Kaoru Mitoma gives Brighton hope with a typically classy finish.

GOAL! Everton 0-1 Man City (O’Reilly 84)

A big goal at Goodison Park. Nico O’Reilly, who is emerging as the unlikely hero of City’s season, has put them ahead with a smart close-range finish from Matheus Nunes’s excellent cross.

Nico O’Reilly tucks the ball past Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford to give Manchester City the lead. Photograph: Robbie Jay Barratt/AMA/Getty Images

O’Reilly celebrates with Omar Marmoush. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters

GOAL! Barcelona 1-3 Borja Iglesias (Iglesias 62)

Scenes upon scenes at the Olympic Stadium, where Borja Iglesias has scored a hat-trick for Celta Vigo! Barcelona’s defending was astonishingly bad: one long punt from the back put Borja – who started inside his own half – away from the defence and through on goal. He approached Szczesny and dinked the ball daintily into the corner. Lovely finish, hideous defending.

Brentford 3-1 Brighton A nice moment at the Gtech Stadium: Brentford’s Rico Henry, who has played barely ten minutes of Premier League football since September 2023, has come on as substitute.

Palace 0-0 Bournemouth Apart from the red card, the highlight of this game is probably Justin Kluivert pulling Ismaila Sarr’s shorts down at the start of the second half. No idea what he was doing.

O … K. Photograph: Warren Little/Getty Images

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Brentford 3-1 Brighton
Brighton’s Joao Pedro sent off
Crystal Palace 0-0 Bournemouth
Palace’s Chris Richards sent off
Everton 0-0 Manchester City
West Ham 1-0 Southampton

La Liga

GOAL! Barcelona 1-2 Celta Vigo (Iglesias 52)

Borja Iglesias gets his second! He ran through on goal after some farcical defending and, though the angle was tight, Iglesias rammed a low shot into the far corner.

71 min: Everton 0-0 Man City Still no goals at Goodison. City have a kind run-in so a draw at Goodison wouldn’t be a bad result, even if it would mean they could finish the weekend as low as seventh in the table.

West Ham 1-0 Southampton Niclas Fullkrug has had a goal disallowed for a foul on Aaron Ramsdale.

Full time: Heidenheim 0-4 Bayern Munich

A nice, quiet afternoon for Bayern Munich, who are closing in on their first Bundesliga title since 2023. Harry Kane gave them an early lead, with the other goals coming from Konrad Laimer, Kingsley Coman and Joshua Kimmich.

Red card! Brighton down to 10 men

Brentford 3-1 Brighton Joaoa Pedro has been sent off for throwing an elbow at Nathan Collins; a straight red card and Brighton are officially in all sorts.

Brighton and Hove Albion’s Joao Pedro (left) clashes with Brentford’s Nathan Collins before being shown a red card. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA

GOAL! Brentford 3-1 Brighton (Wissa 58)

Yoane Wissa puts Brentford 3-1 up. His shot took a big deflection off Lewis Dunk, but by the sound of it Brentford have been much the better team in the second half.

Brighton’s Lewis Dunk (right) can only deflect Yoane Wissa’s shot into the net rather than block it. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Action Images/Reuters

Brentford’s Yoane Wissa celebrates scoring their third goal against Brighton. Photograph: Peter Cziborra/Action Images/Reuters

Aston Villa v Newcastle is the enticing evening game in the Premier League. Water your mouth (and get all the team news) with Scott Murray.

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Everton 0-0 Manchester City

“I wish a swift recovery for James Tarkowski,” says Gary Naylor of an injury sustained a few minutes ago, “but if he’s out for the season, it might be wise to have a look at Jake O’Brien and Jarrod Branthwaite as a centre-back pairing. That means we need a right-back for the last game at Goodison. Step forward Seamus Coleman…”

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Heidenheim 0-4 Bayern Munich (Bundesliga, 2.30pm)
Barcelona 1-1 Celta Vigo (La Liga, 3.15pm)

GOAL! Brentford 2-1 Brighton (Mbeumo 48)

Bryan Mbeumo restores Brentford’s lead with his second goal, this time with the help of a deflection.

Bryan Mbeumo scores his, and Brentford’s, second goal of the game against Brighton. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA

Mbeumo celebrates with Yoane Wissa in front of ecstatic Bees fans. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

GOAL! West Ham 1-0 Southampton (Bowen 47)

Jarrod Bowen finishes off a fine counter-attack to give West Ham the lead. He took that beautifully.

West Ham United’s Jarrod Bowen slots the ball home to open the scoring against Southampton. Photograph: John Sibley/Action Images/Reuters

Bowen celebrates. Photograph: Nigel French/PA

Half time: Barcelona 1-1 Celta Vigo Celta are making life awkward for the leaders, who have struggled to create chance since Borja Iglesias’s equaliser in the 15th minute,

Some more soulful half-time reading

Half-time reading

What could possibly go wr- ach what’s the point.

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Heidenheim 0-4 Bayern Munich (Bundesliga, 2.30pm)
Barcelona 1-1 Celta Vigo (La Liga, 3.15pm)

GOAL! Heidenheim 0-4 Bayern (Kimmich 56)

Joshua Kimmich comes to the party, passing the ball into the net from the edge of the area to put Bayern four goals up.

GOAL! Brentford 1-1 Brighton (Welbeck 45+3)

A superb finish from Danny Welbeck has brought Brighton level in the data derby at the Gtech Stadium. He had to lean backwards to meet Mats Wieffer’s cross from the right and did brilliantly to force a header into the bottom corner.

Danny Welbeck plants a header past Brentford goalkeeper Mark Flekken to put Brighton back on level terms. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

Welbeck celebrates. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters

Red card! Crystal Palace down to 10 men

Crystal Palace 0-0 Bournemouth Palace defender Chris Richards has been given a second yellow card at Selhurst Park. On Soccer Saturday, Mike Dean and Clinton Morrison both think it was a little bit harsh, especially as Bournemouth’s Alex Scott apparently got away with something similar earlier in the game.

Crystal Palace’s Chris Richards remonstrates to referee Samuel Barrott with Crystal Palace’s Marc Guehi after being sent off. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

“Is this the most boring clockwatch you’ve ever done?” asks Joe Pearson. “Not a reflection on you, of course, but these Premier League matches have been dire. Maybe this email will throw a reverse jinx on the lot and there will be goals galore. Here’s hoping.”

Who are you to decide it’s not a reflection on me? Eh?

Everton 0-0 Man City Jake O’Brien has made a brilliant goalline clearance to deny Kevin De Bruyne at Goodison Park.

West Ham 0-0 Southampton According to Michael Dawson on Sky Sports, Southampton have had the better chances in this one.

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Heidenheim 0-3 Bayern Munich (Bundesliga, 2.30pm)
Barcelona 1-1 Celta Vigo (La Liga, 3.15pm)

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GOAL! Barcelona 1-1 Celta Vigo (Iglesias 15)

The plot thickens. A mistake from Wojcech Szczesny, who came a long way off his line to try to intercept a low cross, gives Borja Iglesias an open goal. Iglesias was miles offside but inactive earlier in the move.

31 min: Everton 0-0 Man City James Tarkowski has hit the post for Everton with a header from a corner.

West Ham 0-0 Southampton “The referee Ray Lewis coming from Great Bookham always tickled me,” says Ian Sargeant. “And a lot more than the west ham v Southampton game I’m at. We’ve fielded a really positive 11 but can’t get behind/ through a decent block from Southampton. They’ve have the better chances and the natives are getting either restless or a pint.”

GOAL! Barcelona 1-0 Celta Vigo (Torres 12)

Ferran Torres gives Barcelona an early lead with a cracking solo goal.

Barcelona’s Ferran Torres fires home the opening goal for the home side. Photograph: Joan Monfort/AP

Still goalless in three of the four Premier League games. This is an important day for Manchester City, who are embroiled in a Champions League Royal Rumble with several other teams.

“That Aberdeen goal was good news for Dundee United, Rob,” says Simon McMahon. “European football pretty much guaranteed now, unless

~~“St. Johnstone beat Celtic in the other semi tomorrow.~~ It’s like 1984 all over again.”

It’s fitting that, on the day Barcelona were revealed as plucky underdogs, their historical superiors should move one stop closer to European football.

“Since my beloved Forest aren’t playing until Monday, and I’ve thus been afforded the rare luxury of following Saturday afternoon commentary without the standard sporadic bouts of clammy palms, restless leg syndrome and chest pains, I can focus my attention on other aspects of your live update,” writes Hasan. “Such as why the need to state the county of origin for the referees officiating at the games? It doesn’t offend me to know that Simon Hooper hails from Wiltshire, but what significance does it bear on him refereeing between Everton and City? Is it to dispel any grumblings about potential local loyalties? Or perhaps infuse us with admiration for how far some of them travel to dispense their duties? Anyway, just curious.”

In this specific case it’s because I lazily cut and pasted the whole thing from the wires, then put each team in formation and forgot about the referee. More generally I have no idea why it’s so common, only that it has been for ages – I feel like I spent most of my twenties reading or hearing that Graham Poll was from Tring.

Match report: Hearts 1-2 Aberdeen (AET)

Half-time: Heidenheim 0-3 Bayern Munich

Bayern are heading nine points clear at the top. Harry Kane, Konrad Laimer and Kingsley Coman got the goals in a one-sided first half.

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Heidenheim 0-3 Bayern Munich (Bundesliga, 2.30pm)
Barcelona v Celta Vigo (La Liga, 3.15pm)
Arsenal 1-2 Lyon (Champions League, FT)
West Ham 0-0 Man Utd (WSL, FT)
Hearts 1-2 Aberdeen (Scottish Cup semi-final, AET)

GOAL! Brentford 1-0 Brighton (Mbeumo 9)

Bryan Mbeumo scores the first goal of the data derby. Lewis-Potter marched forward from left-back and curled a fine through pass. Mbeumo got between Van Hecke and Estupinan, charged to the edge of the area and finished emphatically with his right foot.

Brentford’s Bryan Mbeumo rifles the ball home to open the scoring. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA

GOAL! Heidenheim 0-3 Bayern (Coman 37)

Nothing to see here. Bayern are cruising. Kane curls a superb long pass to Pavlovic, whose left-foot volley is saved. Coman collects the rebound, runs round the defence and scores from a tight angle.

Kingsley Coman lashes the ball home to extend Bayern Munich’s lead at Heidenheim. Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA

Which he’s pretty chuffed about. Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA

Full time: Hearts 1-2 Aberdeen (AET)

Aberdeen will play Celtic or St Johnstone in the Scottish Cup final after a dramatic win over Hearts, who ended the match with nine men. Hearts gave so much to the game, particularly their quadragenarian keeper Craig Gordon, but they couldn’t quite hold on for penalties. The Palestine international Oday Dabbagh scored the winner in the 118th minute.

A beaming Oday Dabbagh takes a selfie with his player of the match award. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters