Key events
83 min: Aston Villa 2-0 Man City Villa are battering City and would be further ahead but for Stefan Ortega, who has just made an important save from the substitute Ollie Watkins. It really is shocking to watch, if not necessarily surprising.
While he was in New Zealand, our cricket correspondent Ali Martin spoke to some of the key figures in Chris Wood’s development. It’s a cracking piece, well worth a read.
It came down to our last game and I told the boys: ‘We need to make a statement, win and we’re in the top 10 and go through.’ We were losing 3-0 with 15 mins to go, then Chris scored a hat-trick and we won on penalties. Afterwards he calmly walks over and says to me: ‘There’s our top-10 finish, coach.’ I was just astounded.
Ipswich v Newcastle team news
Ipswich (4-2-3-1) Muric; H Clarke, O’Shea, Burgess, Davis; Morsy,
Cajuste; Burns, Hutchinson, Szmodics; Chaplin.
Subs: Walton, Phillips, Taylor, Al Hamadi, Johnson, Townsend, Greaves, Broadhead, J Clarke.
Newcastle (4-3-3) Dubravka, Livramento, Schar, Burn, Hall; Tonali, Guimaraes, Willock; J Murphy, Isak, Gordon.
Subs: Vlachodimos, Trippier, Barnes, Targett, Osula, Almiron, Kelly, Longstaff, Miley.
West Ham v Brighton team news
West Ham (possible 4-2-3-1) Fabianski; Wan-Bissaka, Mavropanos, Kilman, Emerson; Soucek, Alvarez; Bowen, Lucas Paqueta, Kudus; Fullkrug.
Subs: Areola, Coufal, Summerville, Luis Guilherme, Ings, Rodriguez, Todibo, Irving, Scarles.
Brighton (possible 4-2-3-1) Verbruggen, Veltman, van Hecke, Dunk, Estupinan; Baleba, Wieffer; Gruda, Rutter, Mitoma; Joao Pedro.
Subs: Steele, Lamptey, Igor, Enciso, Adingra, Minteh, Ayari, Ferguson, O’Riley.
Brentford v Nottm Forest team news
Brentford (possible 4-3-3) Flekken; Ajer, Collins, Mee, Lewis-Potter; Janelt, Norgaard, Damsgaard; Mbeumo, Wissa, Schade.
Subs: Valdimarsson, Carvalho, Yarmolyuk, Meghoma, Konak, Roerslev, Maghoma, Kim, Yogane.
Nottm Forest (possible 3-3-3-1) Sels; Milenkovic, Murillo, Morato; Aina, Anderson, Williams; Elanga, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi; Wood.
Subs: Carlos Miguel, Awoniyi, Toffolo, Dominguez, Ward-Prowse, Alex, Jota Silva, Yates, Boly.
GOAL! Aston Villa 2-0 Man City (Rogers 65)
Morgan Rogers, once of Manchester City, has scored a fine – and richly deserved – second Aston Villa goal. Blimey, Manchester City are facing their eighth defeat in 11 games. I can’t recall a precedent for a truly great team collapsing like this.
It’s now Portsmouth 4-1 Coventry, Callum Lang 4-1 Coventrrtery in the Championship. What a story!
60 min: Aston Villa 1-0 Man City
Jhon Duran has had a second goal ruled out for offside at Villa Park, where Villa are playing superbly. In fact, as I type, the outstanding Morgan Rogers has just rattled the outside of the post.
Look out!
Championship latest
There are three early games in the Championship. Callum Lang has just completed a hat-trick to put Portsmouth 3-1 up at home to Frank Lampard’s Coventry™.
Josh Windass has just scored the opening goal of the game for ten-man Sheffield Wednesday at home to Stoke (Di’Shon Bernard was given a second yellow card shortly before half-time). And Hull are drawing 1-1 at home to Swansea.
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Hull 1-1 Swansea
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Portsmouth 3-1 Coventrry
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Sheff Wed 1-0 Stoke
Read John Brewin on Brentford
Thomas Frank combines football-man nous and being ultra competitive – he rarely admits his team deserved to lose – with an adaptability to modern, US-style front-office stats. He, Matthew Benham and Phil Giles, the director of football, have decided attack is the best form of defence, the low quality of opposing Premier League defenders something to be exploited.
Brentford’s influence and innovation are recognised. The Arsenal set-piece guru Nicolas Jover, now celebrated by a mural outside the Emirates Stadium, and the Manchester United coach Andreas Georgson worked as specialists within Frank’s coaching team. Giles has been linked with replacing Edu as Arsenal’s sporting director.
Preamble
Hello one and all, what’s the rumpus? Our last Saturday Clockwatch includes 3pm games in the Premier League plus assorted fun and games elsewhere. These are our featured games:
Premier League
Championship
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Cardiff v Sheff Utd
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Leeds v Oxford Utd
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Sunderland v Norwich
Scottish Premiership
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Aberdeen v Hibernian
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Rangers v Dundee
It’s half time in the early game at Villa Park, where Manchester City trail to Jhon Duran’s goal. You can follow the second half with Barry Glendenning.
