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Burnley eked out a famous 2-2 draw at Manchester United as Bournemouth scored a controversial equaliser against West Ham and Chelsea beat Brighton 2-0
Tue 26 Dec 2017 12.08 EST
First published on Tue 26 Dec 2017 09.00 EST- Peeeeep! Here are your full-time results!
- GOAL! Bournemouth 3-3 West Ham (Wilson 90+3)
- GOAL! Manchester United 2-2 Burnley (Lingard 90+1)
- GOAL! Bournemouth 2-3 West Ham (Arnautovic 89)
- GOAL! Bournemouth 2-2 West Ham (Arnautovic 82)
- GOAL! Watford 2-1 Leicester City (Schmeichel og 64)
- GOAL! Huddersfield 1-1 Stoke City (Sobhi 61)
- GOAL! Bournemouth 2-1 West Ham (Ake 60)
- GOAL! Chelsea 2-0 Brighton (Alonso 60)
- GOAL! Manchester United 1-2 Burnley (Lingard 50)
- GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Brighton (Morata 46)
- Half-time scores
- GOAL! Watford 1-1 Leicester City (Wague 45)
- GOAL! Watford 0-1 Leicester City (Mahrez 37)
- GOAL! Manchester United 0-2 Burnley (Defour 35)
- GOAL! Bournemouth 1-1 West Ham (Gosling 29)
- GOAL! Huddersfield Town 1-0 Stoke City (Ince 10)
- GOAL! Bournemouth 0-1 West Ham (Collins 7)
- GOAL! Manchester United 0-1 Burnley (Barnes 2)
- Some teams for ya
- Preamble
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- Peeeeep! Here are your full-time results!
- GOAL! Bournemouth 3-3 West Ham (Wilson 90+3)
- GOAL! Manchester United 2-2 Burnley (Lingard 90+1)
- GOAL! Bournemouth 2-3 West Ham (Arnautovic 89)
- GOAL! Bournemouth 2-2 West Ham (Arnautovic 82)
- GOAL! Watford 2-1 Leicester City (Schmeichel og 64)
- GOAL! Huddersfield 1-1 Stoke City (Sobhi 61)
- GOAL! Bournemouth 2-1 West Ham (Ake 60)
- GOAL! Chelsea 2-0 Brighton (Alonso 60)
- GOAL! Manchester United 1-2 Burnley (Lingard 50)
- GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Brighton (Morata 46)
- Half-time scores
- GOAL! Watford 1-1 Leicester City (Wague 45)
- GOAL! Watford 0-1 Leicester City (Mahrez 37)
- GOAL! Manchester United 0-2 Burnley (Defour 35)
- GOAL! Bournemouth 1-1 West Ham (Gosling 29)
- GOAL! Huddersfield Town 1-0 Stoke City (Ince 10)
- GOAL! Bournemouth 0-1 West Ham (Collins 7)
- GOAL! Manchester United 0-1 Burnley (Barnes 2)
- Some teams for ya
- Preamble
What a breathless end to the Premier League action. Here is the latest table, and you can check out all the tables from all the leagues right here.
Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
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1 | Man City | 19 | 48 | 55 |
2 | Man Utd | 20 | 27 | 43 |
3 | Chelsea | 20 | 20 | 42 |
4 | Tottenham Hotspur | 20 | 19 | 37 |
5 | Liverpool | 19 | 18 | 35 |
6 | Arsenal | 19 | 11 | 34 |
7 | Burnley | 20 | 1 | 33 |
8 | Leicester | 20 | 0 | 27 |
9 | Everton | 20 | -6 | 27 |
10 | Watford | 20 | -6 | 25 |
11 | Huddersfield | 20 | -14 | 23 |
12 | Brighton | 20 | -10 | 21 |
13 | Stoke | 20 | -18 | 20 |
14 | Southampton | 20 | -10 | 19 |
15 | Newcastle | 19 | -10 | 18 |
16 | Crystal Palace | 19 | -13 | 18 |
17 | West Ham | 20 | -16 | 18 |
18 | AFC Bournemouth | 20 | -13 | 17 |
19 | West Brom | 20 | -13 | 15 |
20 | Swansea | 19 | -15 | 13 |
Peeeeep! Here are your full-time results!
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GOAL! Bournemouth 3-3 West Ham (Wilson 90+3)
What drama on the south coast! Ake heads the ball into the net, but Wilson is judged to be in an offside and the goal is ruled out. But Bobby Madley talks to his linesman and gives the goal! Replays show that Wilson is obviously offside and not only interferes with play, but actually turns the ball into the net himself! West Ham’s players swarm around the referee, but the decision has been made!
GOAL! Manchester United 2-2 Burnley (Lingard 90+1)
Lingard has done it! His second of the afternoon! It’s a scrappy goal: a hopeful cross, half-baked clearances, the ball eventually dropping to Lingard on the penalty spot, and the Englishman despatches it with his laces, low into the bottom right hand corner. Can Manchester United go and get the winner?
GOAL! Bournemouth 2-3 West Ham (Arnautovic 89)
West Ham are surely going to win this! Masuaku runs down the left, delivers a wonderful cross, met by Hernandez, saved by Begovic, but he can’t hold it and Arnautovic slides in to tackle it into the net!
87 min: Just a reminder that Phil Bardsley and co are keeping Manchester United at bay. The quality of the Manchester United crossing has been shocking.
85 min: Leicester really pushing for an equaliser at Watford, they don’t deserve to be behind.
GOAL! Bournemouth 2-2 West Ham (Arnautovic 82)
Calamity for Begovic! I mentioned it was bucketed it down on the south coast, and after a simple back-pass, the Bournemouth keeper slips, meaning Arnautovic pounces on it and rolls the ball into the open net. Bournemouth should be out of sight, but they’ve lost their lead!
Late to this, but this is too good. It’s a peach of a goal from Paterson, who curls in a 25-yard goal into the top corner to give Bristol City the lead.
80 min: Burnley still holding on at Old Trafford: the first goalscorer Barnes has come off for Jonathan Walters.
79 min: Fulham have taken a 3-1 lead over Cardiff City. Derby County will replace the Welsh side in second in the Championship if they can find a winner at Hull City. Currently 0-0 there.
77 min: Bournemouth have had plenty of opportunities to kill off West Ham, but Adrian is keeping the Londoners in it – makes a good save from Ryan Fraser there.
74 min: It’s all Manchester United at Old Trafford. Pogba has just fired a free-kick over the bar. Nick Pope, the Burnley keeper, has just been booked for time-wasting. Squeaky-bum time.
72 min: Meanwhile at the Hawthorns … absolutely nothing happening. Big Sam seems to be playing for the draw there, which seems absurd with the talent he has at Everton.
70 min: Penalty shouts for both Huddersfield and Stoke! Neither given. First Mooy went down under a clumsy challenge from Allen, then Diouf hit the deck, but Anthony Taylor waves play on.
67 min: Not exactly Premier League action, but worth a mention: the fabulously named Nortei Nortey has scored for Dover against Maidstone United. It’s 2-1 to Maidstone in the Kent derby.
GOAL! Watford 2-1 Leicester City (Schmeichel og 64)
It’s all happening! Watford have turned it around, thanks to some pretty shocking keeping from Schmeichel. Cleverley swings a free kick deep into Leicester’s box. Doucoure just about retrieves the ball from the byline on the volley and hopefully helps it back into the area. Schmeichel gets his feet all wrong and can only palm the ball goalwards, the ball just trickling over the line!
GOAL! Huddersfield 1-1 Stoke City (Sobhi 61)
He scored last week to become Stoke’s youngest Premier League scorer and he’s got another here: Sobhi sliding in at the back post. All square!
GOAL! Bournemouth 2-1 West Ham (Ake 60)
Ake is in the right place at the right time, as a Lewis Cook cross trickles across the box, with the Dutchman poking in from close range.
GOAL! Chelsea 2-0 Brighton (Alonso 60)
Marcos Alonso steals in at the near post to glance a Fabregas corner into the Brighton net. 2-0!
56 min: It’s absolutely bucketing it down at Bournemouth. Terrible conditions on the south coast.
53 min: Chelsea are all over Brighton, can see another goal coming soon.
GOAL! Manchester United 1-2 Burnley (Lingard 50)
United back in it, and fair play to Lingard. He dusted himself down after that horror miss, and redeemed himself with the cutest of flicks into the bottom corner. Old Trafford erupts.
47 min: “Lingard just missed the biggest sitter I’ve ever seen in football”, cries Paul Merson.
It’s not as bad as Kanu v Middlesbrough in 04-05, but … Lingard somehow fails to put the ball into the back of the net from two yards out. But rather than a miss, this is an exceptional save – Pope somehow turning the ball onto the bar with his nose!
Jose Mourinho has gone for it at half-time: Rojo and Ibrahimovic off, Mhkitaryan and Lingard on, with Matic slotting back in at centre back.
GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Brighton (Morata 46)
Fifty-one seconds into the second half, Chelsea lead. Fabulous cross from Azpilicueta, simple header for Morata on the six-yard box. Ryan gets a hand to it, but the power on the header is too much. Nearly a carbon-copy goal of the goal Morata scored against Manchester United in November, although it was a slightly better cross, and a slightly easier header.
Peeeeeep! We’re underway again!
“Regarding West Brom v Everton, what a shoddy, shambolic encounter between two wretched teams,” emails J.R. in Illinois. “With so little quality on display it’s tough to single out the worst performance but my head has been turned by Jake Livermore who has been mind-numbingly terrible. If he starts the second half I may begin weeping.”
British managers there, earning their corn.
Exeter’s match with Forest Green Rovers has been abandoned at half-time, due to torrential rain. It was 0-0 there, at least it’s not too far for Forest Green’s fans to get home.
It didn’t go in off the post, but Defour’s free kick very reminiscent of this effort from Payet.
Half-time scores
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GOAL! Watford 1-1 Leicester City (Wague 45)
Out of nothing, Watford equalise! Richarlison manages to get a toe on a corner, Schmeichel can only palm it in front of Wague and the Malian defender has an easy task, sticking the ball into the net at the back post! On his Premier League debut!
40 min: Brighton looking comfortable at Stamford Bridge. Chris Hughton will be very happy with his side’s display there. Meanwhile, absolutely nothing to say about West Brom v Everton. It’s 0-0 there.
GOAL! Watford 0-1 Leicester City (Mahrez 37)
Mahrez has been in sensational form since dying his hair blonde, and he pops up with another goal here. But all the credit needs to go to Albrighton (is there a better crosser of a ball in the Premier League) – his head bandaged from an earlier challenge – who did brilliantly to work some space down the left and curl a pearler to the back stick, where Mahrez headed it back across goal into the far corner. More bad news for Marco Silva.
GOAL! Manchester United 0-2 Burnley (Defour 35)
Burnley are two up at Old Trafford! It’s another free-kick from 30 yards, but Steven Defour curls right into the top left hand corner! De Gea nowhere near it, that reminds me of a free kick that Payet scored at Old Trafford for West Ham in 2016. What a goal!
31 min: Surely a red card for Bournemouth’s Francis? No! The defender somehow avoids a dismissal, despite raising his foot high and planting into the chin of Kouyate. Oooof! It looks worse on the replays. It might not be intentional, but the challenge is so shocking that is deserves two red cards. Instead, just a yellow for Francis, which means he can’t be given any retrospective punishment either.
GOAL! Bournemouth 1-1 West Ham (Gosling 29)
Gosling pokes home from ten yards after West Ham fail to clear a free kick. That’s been coming to be honest.
27 min: Huddersfield clear the ball off the line three times! They are throwing their bodies on the line, but the best stop comes from Lossl, who claws out an overhead kick from Choupo-Moting. That is an outstanding save! He somehow tips the ball onto the post, the ball rolling along the goal line, and then the Danish keeper recovers to keep the ball from going over the line! Anthony Taylor checks his watch for the goal-line technology and waves play on!
Josh King is doing his best to keep West Ham in front at Bournemouth. He’s just missed the target twice after connecting with two brilliant crosses. Bournemouth looking the better side, but they trail.
Bakayoko misses from three yards out for Chelsea! It’s a tough one, as three-yard misses go. Moses drills a cross to the back post, Rudiger nods it back, and Bakayoko can only steer it wide. The ball came at him quickly, but he did well to skew that one wide. Brighton holding on. Hazard is looking lively.
In the Championship, Sheffield Wednesday –who parted company with Carlos Carvalhal on Sunday – lead at Nottingham Forest, whilst Fulham have scored against Cardiff – Tim Ream heading them into a 1-0 lead.
Burnley hit the bar! Manchester United are all over the place here, as Burnley string a dozen passes together down the right, swing in a cross, and Arfield loops a volley on top of the bar. De Gea was scrambling, but it goes behind for a goal kick.
GOAL! Huddersfield Town 1-0 Stoke City (Ince 10)
Ince has broken his duck for Huddersfield. No player has had previously had more shots this season in the Premier League without scoring but he’s taken his chance here: a deflected pass falling to him inside the area, and he squeezes it under Butland. The England keeper got a hand to it, but couldn’t keep it out.
GOAL! Bournemouth 0-1 West Ham (Collins 7)
Moyes gets off to a flyer on the south coast! Goal for Ginge! He gets there first from a Creswell corner and nods the Hammers ahead.
Oooof, Manchester United so nearly hit back. Ibrahimovic crosses the ball in, it falls to Mata, but he can’t get the shot away cleanly. Should have done better.
GOAL! Manchester United 0-1 Burnley (Barnes 2)
The shot is blocked, the pinballs around the box, and Ashley Barnes swings a boot and sticks it into the net! Burnley lead!
Peeep! We’re underway with the 3pm GMT kick-offs. I’m delighted to report that Marcos Rojo has already been booked. Burnley with a dangerous free-kick just on the box.
“He’s set a president there”, remarks Paul Merson in the Sky Sports News studio, of referee Martin Atkinson.
“Happy Boxing Day! Hope you had a good Christmas,” writes Oliver. “Yet again, I see Moyes is starting his newly patented 3-7-0 formation while three perfectly good strikers, one of whom was supposed to solve our striker problems and was bought for big money in the summer, sit on the bench. How much longer do we have to deal with this nonsense? More over, with the window open next week, how much longer will the three deal with this nonsense?”
I’m not going to be too hard on Moyes, just because they lost to Newcastle. Since Moyes has started playing without Carroll, they’ve beaten Chelsea and Stoke, and drawn with Arsenal. Not bad.
Elsewhere in the Championship, Millwall have just pulled level with league leaders Wolves in the early kick-off. It’s 2-2 at The Den, with the game just going into injury-time. Four minutes added on.
In League Two it’s finished Gillingham 1-1 Oxford United and in League Two, it’s Grimsby 1-1 Mansfield.
In other programme news … Boro obviously got their’s printed before Christmas.
Our first email, from Thomas Bilous.
“Watching Boxing Day football go down here in snowy Denver, and NBC Sports seems to have forced their pundits to wear a onesie for the occasion. Merry Christmas!”
The state of this. Robbie Earl, you deserve better.
For the record, your correspondent will not be tweeting a picture of his workplace, in which he is doing his best to get yesterday’s dinner out of a Tupperware and into his mouth.
Meanwhile, at Old Trafford …
Interesting team selection from Mourinho: Ibrahimovic starts alongside Lukaku, so it looks like they are going to play 4-4-2, with Rashford out wide. Luke Shaw also starts, with Ashley Young shifting to right back. Fair to say the experiment at Leicester with Lindelof at right back didn’t work.
Yannick Bolasie makes his first appearance of 2017, over a year since he suffered a horrific knee injury that required two separate operations. At his best, I would say he is could be Everton’s most important player going forwards, and has that pace and quality that Everton sorely lack in wide areas. As long as the injury hasn’t blighted his confidence, he’ll be a huge player for Big Sam this season.
Some teams for ya
Bournemouth v West Ham
Bournemouth: Begovic, Adam Smith, Francis, Steve Cook, Ake, Ibe, Lewis Cook, Gosling, Fraser, King, Callum Wilson.
Subs: Boruc, Pugh, Afobe, Hyndman, Mahoney, Mousset, Simpson.
West Ham: Adrian, Collins, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Zabaleta, Obiang, Kouyate, Masuaku, Ayew, Lanzini, Arnautovic.
Subs: Carroll, Sakho, Hernandez, Hart, Quina, Rice, Reid.
Referee: Stuart Attwell (Nuneaton)
Chelsea v Brighton
Chelsea: Courtois, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Rudiger, Moses, Kante, Fabregas, Bakayoko, Alonso, Hazard, Morata.
Subs: Caballero, Drinkwater, Pedro, Zappacosta, Willian, Batshuayi, Ampadu.
Brighton: Ryan, Schelotto, Duffy, Dunk, Suttner, Stephens, Propper, Kayal, March, Izquierdo, Hemed.
Subs: Saltor, Baldock, Knockaert, Gross, Murray, Goldson, Krul.
Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)
Huddersfield v Stoke
Huddersfield: Lossl, Smith, Jorgensen, Schindler, Lowe, Mooy, Hogg, Quaner, Ince, van La Parra, Mounie.
Subs: Coleman, Cranie, Lolley, Williams, Depoitre, Hadergjonaj, Malone.
Stoke: Butland, Edwards, Shawcross, Zouma, Wimmer, Fletcher, Cameron, Shaqiri, Allen, Choupo-Moting, Crouch.
Subs: Berahino, Afellay, Adam, Diouf, Sobhi, Grant, Soutar.
Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)
Manchester United v Burnley
Manchester United: De Gea, Young, Jones, Rojo, Shaw, Mata, Pogba, Matic,
Rashford, Lukaku, Ibrahimovic.
Subs: Lindelof, Lingard, Blind, Romero, Ander Herrera, Mkhitaryan, Tuanzebe.
Burnley: Pope, Bardsley, Long, Mee, Taylor, Cork, Gudmundsson, Hendrick, Barnes, Arfield, Defour.
Subs: Lowton, Marney, Vokes, Westwood, Walters, Wells, Lindegaard.
Referee: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire)
Watford v Leicester
Watford: Gomes, Janmaat, Wague, Kabasele, Zeegelaar, Cleverley, Watson, Doucoure, Carrillo, Richarlison, Pereyra.
Subs: Prodl, Sinclair, Gray, Holebas, Capoue, Okaka, Bachmann.
Leicester: Schmeichel, Dragovic, Maguire, Morgan, Chilwell, Mahrez, King, Albrighton, Ndidi, Okazaki, Vardy.
Subs: Gray, Hamer, Slimani, James, Ulloa, Fuchs, Benalouane.
Referee: Chris Kavanagh (Lancashire)
West Brom v Everton
West Brom: Foster, Dawson, Hegazi, Evans, Gibbs, Phillips, Livermore, Barry, Brunt, Rodriguez, Rondon.
Subs: Nyom, Robson-Kanu, Yacob, Myhill, McClean, Krychowiak, McAuley.
Everton: Pickford, Keane, Williams, Holgate, Kenny, Sigurdsson, Schneiderlin, Davies, Martina, Bolasie, Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Jagielka, Sandro, Lennon, Niasse, Lookman, Robles, Baningime.
Referee: Roger East (Wiltshire)
Preamble
Are you bored of Christmas? Ready to poke your head above the parapet? Need something to take your mind off the image of your uncle and auntie getting busy in the kitchen after a long day on the vino tinto? Just me? Welcome back to the Guardian, and your Boxing Day clockwatch, in which we have seven Premier League fixtures for your perusal.
How will Manchester United react after somehow blowing a 2-1 lead against 10-man Leicester on Saturday? All the chat about Marco Silva being the messiah seems to have calmed down – can the Foxes inflict a fifth straight defeat on Watford? There’s a massive game near the bottom as 17th placed Bournemouth host 18th placed West Ham. Who is a bigger touchline personality: West Brom’s Pards of Everton’s Big Sam? All the big stories, as they happen.
There is also a full Football League fixture list, which I will do my best to bring you the highlights from – it will be interesting to see how Middlesbrough fare at home today with Tony Pulis watching in the stands. In League One, first meets second as Wigan host Shrewsbury.
Any thoughts/predictions/family abhorrence that you want to share: michael.butler@theguardian.com or @michaelbutler18.
Kick-offs: 3pm GMT.