Key events
Liverpool 1-0 Brighton: Diego Gomez has fouled Wirtz, and it’s reckless, with VAR having a check. It’s yellow but it will not be red. That’s the last action of the half.
Goal! Chelsea 2-0 Everton (Gusto, 45)
Having set up Cole Palmer for the first, Gusto scores, and Everton’s awful record at Stamford Bridge is likely to continue.
Goal of the season at Leicester?! Abdul Fatawu has scored from inside his own half and and the Foxes lead Ipswich 2-0. It’s a beauty, less Beckham than Maynor Figueroa.
Liverpool 1-0 Brighton: Minteh, whose decision-making can go awry, goes it alone as part of a three-man attack for Brighton. Shot is deflected. There are chances for the visitors here.
Chelsea 1-0 Everton: Thierno Barry, who scored his first goal last week, with his second shot on target of the entire season, slides across to miss a chance. A sadly familiar story for Everton fans.
Mary Waltz is in touch: “Management is backing Slot over Mo. Football is a brutal, what have you done for me lately business. That is why I laugh when I hear “we are a family” propaganda.”
So does Steven Mills: “Conspiracy theory – Gomez’s injury was staged to ‘force a rejig’ to get Salah on. I’m convinced…”
Championship: Morgan Whittaker puts Middlesbrough 2-0 up on QPR. Does Rob Edwards lie awake and wonder? His Wolves team play tonight, against Arsenal. Good luck with that.
Liverpool 1-0 Brighton: This is an open game, and the Anfield crowd are enjoying it, plenty of applause for Wirtz who slowly but surely seems to be coming good. Now, when will it start happening for Alexander Isak?
Chelsea 1-0 Everton: From an unnamed source at the Bridge: “The amount of space the Ev are giving Chelsea…”
Championship: It’s Wrexham 1-1 Watford, the equaliser from the away side coming from Mamadou Doumbia. Read Barney Ronay’s piece on the Wrexham story.
Championship: Middlesbrough lead QPR 1-0, David Strelec getting it. Coventry City, the leaders, are currently 0-0 with Bristol City.
Liverpool 1-0 Brighton: Ekitike and Wirtz have an understanding developing, and with Salah’s help, the striker goes close.
Championship: Birmingham 1-0 Charlton (Christoph Klarer 28) Not going well for Nathan Jones at the moment. Charlton have lost their last five.
Liverpool 1-0 Brighton: Salah on the burst almost immediately, and goes close to setting up Ekitike, via Mac Allister.
Salah comes on for Liverpool
Liverpool 1-0 Brighton: Joe Gomez is down, and receiving treatment. Looks like his day is done. And who replaces him? Mohamed Salah. Dominik Szoboszlai will go to right back. Could this be the last time?
Chelsea 1-0 Everton: Alcaraz does an Alcaraz thing and Garnacho does his compatriot a favour by missing the target.
Goal! Chelsea 1-0 Everton (Palmer, 21)
Gusto is the supplier of Palmer’s second goal of the season, cutting into the box, and sending Jordan Pickford the wrong way.
Liverpool 1-0 Brighton: Ekitike goes close after some skill from Wirtz, who is playing a free role.
Championship: Kyle Joseph has scored his second as Hull now lead 2-0 at Millwall.
Chelsea 0-0 Everton
Charly Alcaraz is on for Dewsbury-Hall, the sub is a player who always offers plenty, a real amusement arcade, and one to turn David Moyes’ hair yet whiter with his wilfulness.
Kári Tulinius gets in touch: “I don’t think Salah has meaningfully worsened over the last few months. He was always a sui generis player, and part of Klopp’s brilliance was setting up the team to get the best out of him. Slot clearly understood this last season, but when he started to change things around to prepare for the departure of that other sui generis talent, Alexander-Arnold, the changes stifled Salah. If someone manager has a plan for him, they might get a game-changing player on a favorable loan contract in January.”
Chelsea 0-0 Everton
Sad news as Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, once of Chelsea, has pulled a hamstring. He’s quietly been one of the signings of the season, really good for Everton. That’s a shame.
Liverpool 1-0 Brighton: Gomez, of Brighton, forces a fine save from Alisson, and the visitors are coming back into this one.
Jeremy Boyce gets in touch: “I’d just like to thank Richard Woods for supporting team who are one of the few (at this moment) who are even more rubbish than mine, Shrewsbury Town. We were rooted at the foot of the table but thankfully have managed to escape the drop zone for now, thanks to the likes of Rovers and Newport being even more useless. We’re away at Wolves in the next round of the Cup, chances there, but today we’re away at table-topping and hated local derby enemies Walsall. Mind you, they were top this time last year then blew it. All the same, a 4 – 1 thraping on the cards, see you soon Richard.”
Another Championship goal: Leicester 1-0 Ipswich, with a fine strike by Bobby De Cordova-Reid.
From the Championship, Millwall, pushing for promotion, are a goal down to Hull, Kyle Joseph getting it.
Chelsea 0-0 Everton
Reece James’s corner is nodded over by Trevoh Chalobah as Chelsea push on in the opening stages.
Liverpool 1-0 Brighton
Joe Gomez with the assist there, and it has to be said his return has been a good thing for Liverpool. He’s impressed since his return, and added solidity, and now an assist,
Goal! Liverpool 1-0 Brighton (Ekitike, 1)
A mistake from Minteh, and Gomez’s header drops to Ekitike, and Liverpool lead after 46 seconds. What a start!
Away go at Stamford Bridge and Anfield
Let’s see what this afternoon brings.
Championship: more details here, and this story will update with today’s action, too.
