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- Full time: West Brom 2-2 Newcastle
- GOAL! West Brom 2-2 Newcastle (83 min)
- Full time: Leicester 2-1 Tottenham
- GOAL! Leicester 2-1 Tottenham (78 min)
- GOAL! West Brom 2-1 Newcastle (Clark 58)
- GOAL! West Brom 2-0 Newcastle (Field 55 min)
- West Brom 1-0 Newcastle (Robson-Kanu 45')
- Half-time (at Spurs anyway) scores
- GOAL! Leicester 2-0 Spurs (45 min)
- GOAL! Leicester 1-0 Spurs (Vardy 12min)
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- Full time: West Brom 2-2 Newcastle
- GOAL! West Brom 2-2 Newcastle (83 min)
- Full time: Leicester 2-1 Tottenham
- GOAL! Leicester 2-1 Tottenham (78 min)
- GOAL! West Brom 2-1 Newcastle (Clark 58)
- GOAL! West Brom 2-0 Newcastle (Field 55 min)
- West Brom 1-0 Newcastle (Robson-Kanu 45')
- Half-time (at Spurs anyway) scores
- GOAL! Leicester 2-0 Spurs (45 min)
- GOAL! Leicester 1-0 Spurs (Vardy 12min)
- Brighton v Crystal Palace teams
- West Brom v Newcastle teams
- Watford v Manchester United teams
- Leicester v Spurs teams
Full time: West Brom 2-2 Newcastle
Newcastle can’t break down West Brom in the final minutes but they would have settled for a draw when they were 2-0 down. The night’s other later kick off has ended Watford 2-4 Man Utd.
90 min +2: A free-kick for WBA on the edge of the area after Robson-Kanu is fouled. The ball nestles into a Newcastle player’s stomach though and springs free.
Newcastle have a corner as 90 minutes approaches - they’re having the better of the game. We’ll have four minutes of injury time. West Brom would prefer 14 seconds.
It’s Newcastle who are pressing as time expires at the Hawthorns. Yedlin flies into the area but the American is ruled offside .... just.
At Watford, the home team - who looked down and out – have pulled another goal back and are now 3-2 down. Scott Murray has full coverage here. Oh, Man Utd just scored - it’s 4-2 now.
84 min: “2-0 and we effed it up” the Baggies fans sing. But they don’t say “effed”.
GOAL! West Brom 2-2 Newcastle (83 min)
Newcastle are level after a double deflection of Rondon and Evans gifts the visitors a goal.
Full time: Leicester 2-1 Tottenham
And that could well end Spurs title hopes. Leicester had the finishing that their opponents lacked on the night. Elsewhere, Brighton and Palace have ended their game 0-0. Man Utd are 3-1 up against Watford.
90 min + 4: Penalty shout for Spurs! But the ref waves play on and Gray breaks. He has Slimani running into the area by his side but his pass is awful and goes behind his team-mate.
90 min +2: Corner to Spurs. Dier gets his head to it but it has all the venom of an [tries to think of non-venomous snake and fails] earthworm.
90 min: Spurs have four minutes of added time to find a goal.
89 min: Lamela is booked after his hand catches an opponent’s face. It looked accidental.
86 min: Kane collects the ball and looks ready to charge at goal but he loses control. Sums up Spurs’ evening. Vardy is coming off for Slimani.
83 min: Another close-range miss for Spurs. Llorente flashes his volley wide, although he was under some pressure from a defender. Choudhury comes on for Okazaki.
81 min: Considering how huge Man City’s lead is at the top, even if Spurs draw this it may not be enough. Anyway, we shall see.
GOAL! Leicester 2-1 Tottenham (78 min)
Spurs strike back but is it too late? It’s a quick pass to Kane in the area and he thrashes it past Schmeichel from close range. Lamela was involved in the build-up too.
77 min: Mahrez is off in place of Gray and Spurs bring on Lamela for Eriksen, who just missed that great chance. Lamela makes his first appearance in a year, a welcome sight.
74 min: A classy/woeful miss from Eriksen for Spurs. The ball deflects into his path on the edge of the six-yard box and he thrashes it high AND wide.
GOAL! West Brom 2-1 Newcastle (Clark 58)
OK, maybe Newcastle aren’t in that much trouble. Clark pulls one back with an unmarked header from a corner.
GOAL! West Brom 2-0 Newcastle (Field 55 min)
Field volleys home from close range and Newcastle are in deep trouble.
68 min: Dembele is off for Llorente.
64 min: The Spurs team formerly known as The Ones Who Beat Up On Real Madrid win a corner. They don’t do much with it. I should add that Tottenham haven’t been awful tonight, they’ve just done a lot of dawdling.
60 min: Spurs are trying. But they don’t have the cutting edge Leicester had for their goals. Sanchez’s header flumps wide.
58 min: Son has come on for Spurs in place of Sissoko.
55 min: A chance for Leicester - a beautiful cross drifts on to Okazaki’s head but rather than flicking it past Lloris he goes for more of a loop and Spurs remain in the game ... just.
53 min: Spurs’ first meaningful action of the half comes from a corner. Kane and Maguire tussle for the ball and it’s the Leicester man who comes out on top.
50 min: Simpson is back on. Cramp Emergency over. Phew.
48 min: It’s 2015-16 era Leicester at the moment, all fast breaks and thrilling goals. And, you know, winning. One small problem: Simpson looks like he’s in a bit of trouble and is being treated for ... cramp? A bit early for all that.
West Brom 1-0 Newcastle (Robson-Kanu 45')
Robson Kanu heads in from a Kieran Gibbs’ cross just before half time and Newcastle are in danger of a fifth successive defeat.
46 min: And we’re on again at Leicester. “I’m so confused. Just a month ago Pochettino was the new managerial messiah and since then Spurs have dropped out of title contention in pathetic style,” says David Wall. “Then at the weekend his position was taken by Marco Silva yet his side have shipped three goals before half time. It’s enough to make you pine for the predictability of the English over-50 brigade.”
Half-time (at Spurs anyway) scores
Leicester 2-0 Tottenham
West Brom 0-0 Newcastle (34th min)
Watford 0-3 Man Uts (35th min)
Brighton 0-0 Crystal Palace
GOAL! Leicester 2-0 Spurs (45 min)
Well. I was just writing how Spurs probably deserve to be level in this game before Leicester break down the wing, Mahrez cuts inside and curls a 25-yard shot past Lloris. Another brilliant goal for the Foxes.
44 min: Spurs continue to dominate possession and territory but Leicester aren’t stretched too badly. Leicester counter and Sanchez has to stretch out a leg to dispossess Albrighton.
40 min: Chilwell clears for a corner. Sorry, a throw in. Luckily, Spurs didn’t listen to me, took the throw in and then won a corner anyway. The ball ambles out to Aurier, whose shot is straight at Schmeichel.
37 min: Bad news for Spurs (apart from the losing part): Man Utd have taken the lead against Watford through Ashley Young. You can get a full rundown of that game with Scott Murray here. Elsewhere, Rondon clips the bar from 30 yards out for West Brom against Newcastle.
34 min: Aurier is lucky to escape a booking for a scythe the Grim Reaper would have been proud of. If the Grim Reaper has pride, that is. I imagine it’s good not to have emotions in his job.
32 min: Leicester have had their backs to the wall since they scored but they get a chance to do some attacking of their own after they win a corner. Then they give the ball back to Spurs ... and almost concede on the counterattack. Kane lays the ball of to Alli on the edge of the area but the shot is scuffed badly and Schmeichel saves comfortably.
28 min: Danny Rose has created a few good chances this evening but he hesitates a little too long before crossing this time and Leicester get the ball away. He was in a good position too.
25 min: Over at Brighton, Palace have had a good early chance but Mat Ryan - the Aussie Lev Yashin – makes a good save.
24 min: Rose crosses to the far side of the box but Kane intercepts – I’m pretty sure it wasn’t meant for him – and twists and turns before shooting. Leicester deal with it but the England striker could perhaps have shot quicker and given the opposition less time to collect themselves.
22 min: Vertonghen is booked for Spurs.
19 min: Spurs hearts race again as Vardy sprints clear but this time Lloris is quick enough to clear.
17 min: Spurs nearly equalise! Sissoko is through on goal but Schmeichel gets enough on the shot for the ball to loop up in the air and Leicester are able to hook it off the line.
15 min: It’s been an even game but it would be hard to argue that Leicester didn’t deserve that goal - they’ve been aggressive from the outset tonight. So have Spurs - Vardy’s skill has been the difference.
GOAL! Leicester 1-0 Spurs (Vardy 12min)
What a beautiful goal from Vardy. The cross is played in over his shoulder with Lloris off his line slightly. With the quickest of glances, Vardy flicks the ball on the volley over Lloris and into the net.
12 min: Kane can’t quite control an Alli pass on the edge of the area. He has a few hacks at the ball when maybe caresses would have been the better option.
10 min: Chilwell hustles up the pitch before passing to Leicester’s bustler-in-chief, Vardy, to scurry up the byline. The forward wins a corner, and Morgan has a decent header which is hooked away from the goalmouth by Spurs. Morgan then makes an important contribution at the other end of the pitch, cutting out a Rose cross. Breathless stuff. But breathless in a good way, rather than the being trapped in a chest at the bottom of an ocean breathless way.
8 min: Alli goes on a half-marathon around midfield, impressively holding on to the ball but not really going anywhere in particular. Still, it will have bumped up Spurs’ possession statistics.
5 min: Both sides are in a peppy mood tonight. Ndidi’s low shot from the edge of the area is dealt with by Lloris but it’s a decent effort.
3 min: Schmeichel handles a backpass very badly. Although obviously, he doesn’t actually handle it he gets it caught up in his feet and Kane is nearly in to bundle the ball home. Leicester manage to clear though.
And we’re off at Brighton and Leicester. I’ll mainly be concentrating on Spurs tonight as I have the pictures for that one. But I promise I still love the other games equally. Lloris comes out quickly to clear an early Leicester attack.
Brighton v Crystal Palace teams
Brighton: Ryan, Saltor, Duffy, Dunk, Suttner, Knockaert, Gross, Stephens, Propper, Izquierdo, Murray. Subs: Kayal, Hemed, Goldson, March, Schelotto, Krul, Brown.
Crystal Palace: Hennessey, Ward, Tomkins, Sakho, Schlupp, Cabaye, Milivojevic, Zaha, Loftus-Cheek, Townsend, Benteke. Subs: Speroni, Van Aanholt, Dann, McArthur, Fosu-Mensah, Sako, Puncheon.
West Brom v Newcastle teams
West Brom: Foster, Nyom, Hegazi, Evans, Gibbs, Phillips, Livermore, Barry, Field, Robson-Kanu, Rondon. Subs: Yacob, Myhill, McClean, Burke, Rodriguez, Krychowiak, McAuley.
Newcastle: Darlow, Yedlin, Lejeune, Clark, Mbemba, Hayden, Merino, Murphy, Perez, Ritchie, Joselu. Subs: Elliot, Shelvey, Gayle, Diame, Aarons, Manquillo, Mitrovic.
Referee: Lee Probert (Wiltshire)
Watford v Manchester United teams
Here are your teams for Watford v Man Utd. Scott Murray is also covering this one in its own devoted blog if you prefer things more focused/are Elton John (not as big a stretch as you may imagine: Bryan Adams once read one of my Chelsea reports)
Watford: Gomes, Mariappa, Kabasele, Prodl, Femenia, Doucoure, Cleverley, Zeegelaar, Hughes, Gray, Richarlison.
Subs: Janmaat, Deeney, Wague, Carrillo, Capoue, Karnezis, Pereyra.
Manchester United: de Gea, Lindelof, Smalling, Rojo, Valencia, Pogba, Matic, Young, Lingard, Martial, Lukaku.
Subs: Mata, Ibrahimovic, Rashford, Romero, Ander Herrera, Darmian, McTominay.
Referee: Jonathan Moss (County Durham).
Leicester v Spurs teams
You know when you’ve drawn with West Brom and you really fancy getting a £30m player back after a year out to cheer everyone up? Well, you’ll know how Spurs feel then because Erik Lamela is back on bench. Hooray (even if you’re a Leicester fan because debilitating injuries are generally bad news).
Leicester: Schmeichel, Simpson, Morgan, Maguire, Chilwell, Mahrez, Ndidi, Iborra, Albrighton, Okazaki, Vardy. Subs: Gray, King, Hamer, Dragovic, Amartey, Slimani, Choudhury.
Tottenham Hotspur: Lloris, Sanchez, Dier, Vertonghen, Aurier, Sissoko, Dembele, Rose, Eriksen, Alli, Kane. Subs: Trippier, Son, Lamela, Vorm, Llorente, Foyth, Davies.
Referee: Anthony Taylor (Cheshire)
Tom will be here shortly, in the meantime here’s Dom Fifield on Brighton and Palace’s rivalry:
To many the rivalry is a peculiarity. There is no real geographical proximity to explain the loathing that exists between Crystal Palace and Brighton & Hove Albion. Even Roy Hodgson, born and bred in Croydon but whose time as a youth-team player at the south London club predates the animosity, needed a history lesson from Jason Puncheon before he truly understood. The same could be said of some of his players.
Ruben Loftus-Cheek, who hails from up the road in Lewisham, was blissfully unaware of the significance of the fixture until he attended a fans’ event at Boxpark last week and his team-mate Wilfried Zaha took the microphone to address the 1,500 crammed inside the hall. “Wilf was being interviewed and the guy asked him how much he hated Brighton on a scale of one to 10,” said the Chelsea loanee. “Wilf just went: ‘11’, so that tells me everything. I didn’t have a clue before but, when Wilf said that, I realised, OK, they don’t like each other.”
The din inside the Amex on Tuesday night should convince any doubters of the depth of feeling surrounding this fixture. Strangely, given this will be only the 11th meeting in 28 years and the first in the top flight since 1981, the animosity is born of familiarity and stems from the clubs rising in tandem from third tier to elite in the late 1970s under the stewardships of Alan Mullery and Terry Venables, team-mates but never friends during their playing days at Tottenham Hotspur. It festered through tussles near the top of the lower divisions, meetings played out to a backdrop of smoke bombs and trouble on the terraces, and a series of FA Cup first-round replays, two of which were aborted because of bad weather, in 1976.
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