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Brighton grabbed three important points at Leeds to go above Burnley, who lost at West Ham, while Wayne Rooney’s full-time debut turned bad

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Sat 16 Jan 2021 12.25 ESTFirst published on Sat 16 Jan 2021 08.45 EST
Leeds United’s Jack Harrison reacts as a chance goes begging.
Leeds United’s Jack Harrison reacts as a chance goes begging. Photograph: Simon Davies/ProSports/Shutterstock
Leeds United’s Jack Harrison reacts as a chance goes begging. Photograph: Simon Davies/ProSports/Shutterstock

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For the second game in a row Sean Dyche watches his team lose but seems optimistic:

We’ve just got to find the margins of our favour, especially in the attacking third. I still believe in what we do, because we’ve proved it over a long period. We kept the ball, we asked questions, but we couldn’t quite open the door. You’ve got to remember after eight games we had two points. We’re in pretty healthy shape considering. Keep playing like that and we’ll be alright.

You can find any table you like (within reason) here, but here’s the Premier League:

Pos Team P GD Pts
1 Man Utd 17 10 36
2 Liverpool 17 16 33
3 Man City 16 12 32
4 Leicester 17 10 32
5 Everton 17 7 32
6 Tottenham Hotspur 17 14 30
7 Southampton 17 7 29
8 West Ham 18 4 29
9 Aston Villa 15 13 26
10 Chelsea 17 11 26
11 Arsenal 18 1 24
12 Leeds 18 -4 23
13 Crystal Palace 18 -7 23
14 Wolverhampton 19 -8 22
15 Newcastle 17 -9 19
16 Brighton 19 -7 17
17 Burnley 17 -13 16
18 Fulham 16 -10 12
19 West Brom 18 -27 11
20 Sheff Utd 18 -20 5

This just in from Ed Aarons at the London Stadium:

For a player who was once rejected by Wimbledon over a £7 registration fee, Michail Antonio has definitely proved his worth to West Ham. Absent since the end of November with a groin injury, it took him less than 10 minutes to find the net against Burnley as David Moyes’ side secured a battling victory.

Antonio was signed as a winger in 2015 and even played as a full-back under Manuel Pellegrini but it is as a lone striker that he is excelling under Moyes. Inspired by their returning talisman in attack, West Ham should really have put this game beyond doubt in the first half and were forced to dig deep to hold off a spirited late onslaught from Sean Dyche’s side. But a victory that lifts them into real contention for the top six thanks to Antonio’s 40th Premier League goal – just seven behind Paolo Di Canio’s West Ham record – was just about a fair reward.

Much more here:

David Moyes has a chat:

His teams have always been incredibly hard to play against. They defend really well and they’re a real threat going forward, so it’s a really good win for us. I thought we defended really well. Against Burnley there’s things you have to do, you have to defend crosses well and we did that. I was a bit disappointed we didn’t play better, but Burnley kept at it and we showed that resilience.

We’d like to strengthen if we can but the most important thing is we win our games. I’d like some pace and someone who can run in behind. Mickey gives us that but if we don’t have him through injury or he needs a rest we need that.

Louise Taylor has filed her match report from Elland Road:

A slow, messy thaw had begun melting the thick snow banked up by the sides of the roads outside the stadium and, inside it, Leeds United’s once solid midfield seemed to be dissolving in sympathy.

Marcelo Bielsa’s side have had much better days and a big part of that was down to Brighton’s excellence. Graham Potter’s team were so good that it was extremely hard to credit that this was their first Premier League win since November.

Much more here:

Final scores!

Here follows a classified check on today’s full-time scores.

Premier League

Fulham v Chelsea (5.30pm)
Leeds 0-1 Brighton
Leicester v Southampton (8pm)
West Ham 1-0 Burnley
Wolverhampton 2-3 West Brom

Sky Bet Championship

Bournemouth 0-1 Luton
Barnsley v Swansea (7.45pm)
Blackburn 1-1 Stoke
Bristol City 2-0 Preston North End
Cardiff 1-2 Norwich
Derby 0-1 Rotherham
Middlesbrough 0-1 Birmingham
Nottm Forest 3-1 Millwall
QPR v Wycombe (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Wycombe)
Reading v Brentford (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Brentford)
Watford 2-0 Huddersfield

Sky Bet League One

Wimbledon 0-3 Sunderland
Accrington Stanley 0-1 Gillingham
Bristol Rovers 0-1 Charlton
Burton Albion 0-1 Ipswich
Fleetwood Town 0-1 Portsmouth
Hull 1-1 Blackpool
Northampton v Oxford Utd (match postponed because of a waterlogged pitch)
Peterborough 3-0 Milton Keynes Dons
Plymouth 1-1 Crewe
Rochdale 3-3 Wigan
Shrewsbury v Lincoln City (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Shrewsbury)
Swindon 1-2 Doncaster

Sky Bet League Two

Barrow 1-0 Scunthorpe
Bolton 1-1 Cheltenham
Bradford v Crawley Town (postponed because of something about the weather)
Colchester 1-1 Cambridge Utd
Forest Green 1-1 Port Vale
Grimsby 0-0 Southend
Harrogate Town v Exeter (postponed because of a frozen pitch)
Leyton Orient 2-0 Morecambe
Mansfield v Carlisle (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Carlisle)
Newport County 0-0 Salford City
Stevenage 0-0 Tranmere
Walsall 1-1 Oldham

Scottish Premiership

Celtic 0-0 Livingston
Hamilton 0-0 Dundee Utd
Hibernian 2-0 Kilmarnock
Ross County 4-1 Aberdeen
St Johnstone 1-0 St Mirren

Final scores: Leeds 0-1 Brighton, West Ham 1-0 Burnley

The final whistle sounds at both Premier League games at almost the same moment, and the results mean Brighton vault Burnley, who sit 17th (albeit with two games in hand on the Seagulls), while West Ham move at least temporarily into eighth!

Disaster for Wayne Rooney, as Rotherham break the deadlock against Derby in the 86th minute, through Jamie Lindsay! It would be Rotherham’s second away win of the season, and take them above the Rams in the table (though both would be in the bottom three).

Rotherham’s Jamie Lindsay is a happy chappy. Photograph: Matt Bunn/BPI/Shutterstock
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West Ham should have clinched victory on the break, but Yarmolenko took a shot and hit Mee with it, when he could have passed to his left and presented Antonio with a tap-in.

More professional foul news, as Stoke’s James Chester is sent off for one at Blackburn, a couple of minutes after the home side equalised through John Buckley. It’s 1-1 there too!

Hull are were a goal up against Blackpool but are a man down after the most professional of professional fouls from Reece Burke. Still, it preserved their lead. But then, as I type...

1-1. Blackpool equalise after the ball pinballs inside the box.

🐯 1-1 🍊 [82'] #HULBLP

— Hull City (@HullCity) January 16, 2021
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Good and bad news for Norwich: Cardiff scored in the 65th minute through Ralls (bad), but the home side are now down to 10 men after Pack was sent off (good). and now Luton have gone a goal up at Bournemouth (also good), Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall with a left-foot curler. Talking of left-foot curlers, Sammy Ameobi’s second for Nottingham Forest against Millwall was a peach.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall of Luton Town opens the scoring in style. Photograph: Naomi Baker/Getty Images
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There have been 17 shots at West Ham and 10 at Leeds, plenty of goalmouth action at both venues, but just the one goal in each game. Surely more to come?

A second goal for Watford at home to Huddersfield, excellent work from Kiko Femenia on the right and his low centre presents Joao Pedro with a far-post tap-in. At West Ham, Bowen sees a shot go just the wrong side of the near post.

Joao Pedro of Watford celebrates after scoring his team’s second goal. Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images
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Fiacre Kelleher, older brother of highly-rated Liverpool goalkeeper Caoimhin, has scored to give Wrexham a 2-1 lead at home to bottom-of-the-table Dover in the National League.

Over to West Ham, where a right-wing cross from Bowen Antonio chests the ball down and hammers a volley ... off entirely the wrong part of his foot, and he falls over while doing so to boot, and it goes for a throw-in.

Watford take the lead against Huddersfield, in hilarious style! Toffolo wins a header against Sarr out on the Watford right and the ball rolls to O’Brien, who passes back to Vellejo, who passes back to Schofield. All the while Cleverley is scurrying about, closing down, and when Vellejo’s pass proves underhit he reaches it before Schofield and slides it in from six yards!

Tom Cleverley of Watford scores his team’s first goal past Huddersfield Town keeper Ryan Schofield. Photograph: Richard Heathcote/Getty Images
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Excellent work from Veltman at Elland Road, who runs across his own goal to nick the ball off the toe of Bamford in the penalty area. It runs to Harrison, who curls a first-time effort across goal but just wide!

Brighton & Hove Albion players watch the shot by Jack Harrison of Leeds United glance wide. Photograph: Jon Super/Pool/Getty Images
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Further uncomfortable head contact news from the London Stadium, where Craig Dawson has been sent from the field to deal with a bleeding nose.

Play is back under way! As in the first half Burnley have a player on the floor within 35 seconds of kick-off. This time it’s Barnes, who goes up for a header, butts a defender’s buttock and takes a while to recover.

Half-time scores

Here are the half-time scores. Not a lot of goals about:

Premier League

Fulham v Chelsea (5.30pm)
Leeds 0-1 Brighton
Leicester v Southampton (8pm)
West Ham 1-0 Burnley
Wolverhampton v West Brom (12.30pm)

Sky Bet Championship

Bournemouth 0-0 Luton
Barnsley v Swansea (7.45pm)
Blackburn 0-1 Stoke
Bristol City 1-0 Preston North End
Cardiff 0-2 Norwich
Derby 0-0 Rotherham
Middlesbrough 0-1 Birmingham (full time)
Nottm Forest 1-0 Millwall
QPR v Wycombe (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Wycombe)
Reading v Brentford (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Brentford)
Watford -=- Huddersfield

Sky Bet League One

Wimbledon 0-3 Sunderland (full time)
Accrington Stanley 0-1 Gillingham
Bristol Rovers 0-0 Charlton
Burton Albion 0-0 Ipswich
Fleetwood Town 0-1 Portsmouth
Hull 0-0 Blackpool
Northampton v Oxford Utd (match postponed because of a waterlogged pitch)
Peterborough 2-0 Milton Keynes Dons
Plymouth 1-0 Crewe
Rochdale 1-2 Wigan
Shrewsbury v Lincoln City (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Shrewsbury)
Swindon 0-2 Doncaster

Sky Bet League Two

Barrow 0-0 Scunthorpe
Bolton 0-0 Cheltenham
Bradford v Crawley Town (postponed because of something about the weather)
Colchester 1-1 Cambridge Utd
Forest Green 1-0 Port Vale
Grimsby 0-0 Southend
Harrogate Town v Exeter (postponed because of a frozen pitch)
Leyton Orient 0-0 Morecambe
Mansfield v Carlisle (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Carlisle)
Newport County 0-0 Salford City
Stevenage 0-0 Tranmere
Walsall 1-0 Oldham

Scottish Premiership

Celtic 0-0 Livingston
Hamilton 0-0 Dundee Utd
Hibernian 0-0 Kilmarnock
Ross County 2-1 Aberdeen
St Johnstone 0-0 St Mirren

It’s half time at the London Stadium, where West Ham take a 1-0 lead over Burnley into the break. Brighton are 60 seconds from doing similar in Leeds.

Stoke have only won one of their last nine in all competitions, and that was against Blackburn last month. Today they play Blackburn again, and they’re winning again: Nick Powell has just headed in from six yards.

The head of Nick Powell opens the scoring. Photograph: Paul Currie/BPI/Shutterstock
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West Ham hit the post! It’s a corner from the right, which is played in by Bowen, flicked on, and then hammered against the far post by Ogbonna!

Burnley have a goal disallowed! It’s a low cross from Wood on the left, which flicks off the back of Cresswell’s trailing leg at the near post and loops in at the far, but Wood was offside in the build-up.

More good news for Norwich: Bournemouth are a man down at home to Luton, after Jefferson Lerma was sent off (apparently very harshly). It could have been better still, but Watford’s Troy Deeney has not been sent off when he might have been.

Brighton hit the bar! It’s a deflected cross, but Casilla is helpless as it crashes against the meat of the woodwork and away!

Norwich are two up! The not-quite-runaway-but-getting-there (walkquicklyaway?) Championship leaders double their lead against Cardiff as Todd Cantwell snaffles the rebound after Jordan Hugill’s shot is saved.

Todd Cantwell slots home for Norwich City’s second goal. Photograph: Kieran McManus/BPI/Shutterstock
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GOAL! Leeds 0-1 Brighton (Maupay, 17 mins)

Maupay stays on his feet this time, and is left with the easiest of finishes when Mac Allister draws the keeper before setting him up with low square pass!

Brighton and Hove Albion’s Neal Maupay celebrates scoring his side’s first goal. Photograph: Jon Super/PA
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Bristol City are a goal up at home to Preston, Famara Diedhiou nodding in a corner with what we generally call aplomb. At Elland Road Maupay goes down in the area, but it’s a horrible dive and the referee does not reward it (or punish it, for some reason).

Famara Diedhiou of Bristol City scores a goal to make it 1-0. Photograph: Rogan/JMP/Shutterstock
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GOAL! West Ham 1-0 Burnley (Antonio, 10 mins)

A fine Fornals cross from the left is misjudged by Tarkowski and finds Antonio in all sorts of space at the far post, and he makes no mistake from a couple of yards!

West Ham United’s Michail Antonio (left) steers the ball home. Photograph: Julian Finney/PA
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Chance for Leeds! It’s a low cross from the left and Rodrigo only needs to touch it in as he runs onto the ball five yards out, but with a defender diving in to distract him he misses it completely!

Norwich are the first team in the English Football League to score this afternoon, Grant Hanley heading in from a couple of feet after a corner is flicked on at the near post.

A diving Grant Hanley heads Norwich City in to the lead. Photograph: Kieran McManus/BPI/Shutterstock
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Here’s Paul Doyle’s report on Wolves 2-3 West Brom:

Six matches after being parachuted in to save West Brom, Sam Allardyce can at last say he has presided over a victory – and a particularly sweet one, at that. Matheus Pereira scored two penalties either side of a headed goal by Semi Ajayi as West Brom upset their local rivals with a display of opportunism, spirit and relative defensive rigour. Wolves, though, should mostly blame themselves. They have lost six of their last nine league matches and look no closer to solving problems at both ends of the pitch.

For nine years Wolves had waited for a chance to avenge their defeat in the last Black Country derby, a 5-1 clobbering that convinced the club to oust their then manager, Mick McCarthy. West Brom have already jettisoned one manager this season and the replacement arrived at Molineux looking for a victory to kickstart his rescue mission.

Much more here:

“Afternoon Simon,” writes our occasional voluntary Scottish football correspondent Simon McMahon. “ Scottish Leagues One and Two were suspended earlier in the week, but still some games taking place in the top two divisions, for now anyway. Crisis club Celtic are at home to high-flying Livingston, while Micky Mellon’s Dundee United travel to Hamilton (and if anyone hasn’t seen Lawrence Shankland’s goal for United against St Johnstone during midweek, they really should). In the Scottish Championship, leaders Hearts are at Alloa, and struggling Dundee host Ayr (though there’s a doubt about that one as, after recent snow and rain, part of the pitch at Dens resembles a ploughed field*). *Insert your own joke about 1970’s industrial style football.”

Sadly as Simon was pressing send on his email, Dundee were making the following announcement:

Today’s match against Ayr United has been postponed.

The referee David Munro deemed the pitch to be unplayable despite an earlier pitch inspection and both clubs wanting the match to be played #thedee pic.twitter.com/evY3AlrmyK

— Dundee Football Club (@DundeeFC) January 16, 2021

Sunderland have won one and lost one league game in a drawful last two months, but Charlie Wyke has just completed his hat-trick to give them a 3-0 lead in the last minute at Wimbledon, so there’ll be three more points in the bank this evening.

Sean Dyche has named an unchanged team to face West Ham today. He has a chat on the telly:

We’ve got a good belief. The performance level against Man Utd was really good, that’s why we’re sticking with the same side. Other players [he mentions Dwight McNeil] are close to fitness, and our squad strength is improving all the time.

On doing the double over West Ham last season:

When you win it’s always good memories. We were decent both games, and the last couple of seasons we’ve done well here. There seems a more solid feel about West Ham at the moment. Maybe not as free flowing but still a good side, we know that. We’re never far away defensively but our production in the front third has got to improve.

Dortmund’s match against Mainz kicked off 10 minutes or so ago, their players having warmed up in special jerseys encouraging Axel Witsel, nicknamed Chaloupe (“Chaloupe is my nickname. They gave it to me when I was playing for Standard Lièege because I am always… A Chaloupe is a small wooden boat, which always moves very slowly on the water. That is how I am every day: cool, relaxed, not stressed. That’s why they called me that years ago and I’m still like that today.”), to recover quickly from his torn achilles tendon.

Erling Haaland had the ball in the net within 90 seconds of kick-off, but the goal was disallowed for handball.

Dortmund’s Erling Haaland warms up prior to the German Bundesliga match against Mainz. Photograph: Friedemann Vogel/EPA

A few photographers are trying their very best to produce interesting pre-match images on a day when drab slate-grey skies make such a task rather difficult. Here’s a puddle of the day:

A general view of University of Bolton Stadium, home of Bolton Wanderers, before the League Two match against Cheltenham Town. Photograph: Dave Howarth/CameraSport/Getty Images

Leeds v Brighton teams!

Meanwhile at Elland Road, the names on the team sheets are these:

Leeds: Casilla, Dallas, Ayling, Cooper, Alioski, Struijk, Raphinha, Rodrigo, Klich, Harrison, Bamford. Subs: Poveda-Ocampo, Roberts, Llorente, Helder Costa, Hernandez,
Davis, Caprile, Shackleton, Jenkins.
Brighton: Sanchez, Webster, Dunk, Burn, Veltman, White, Gross, March, Mac Allister, Maupay, Trossard. Subs: Bissouma, Alzate, Tau, Propper, Zeqiri, Walton, Sanders, Khadra, Jenks.
Referee: Kevin Friend.

📋 Your #LUFC Starting XI...

— Leeds United (@LUFC) January 16, 2021

💪 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 𝗜𝗦 𝗜𝗡...

Your Albion side for #LEEBHA!

📲 https://t.co/S3j1TIvOB3#BHAFC 🔵⚪️ pic.twitter.com/owkCBfGvfT

— Brighton & Hove Albion (@OfficialBHAFC) January 16, 2021

West Ham v Burnley teams!

Lining up at the London Stadium will be this lot:

West Ham: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Rice, Soucek, Bowen, Benrahma, Fornals, Antonio. Subs: Alves, Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Noble, Diop, Fredericks, Johnson, Randolph, Odubeko.
Burnley: Pope, Lowton, Tarkowski, Mee, Pieters, Gudmundsson, Westwood, Brownhill, Brady, Wood, Barnes. Subs: Cork, McNeil, Stephens, Rodriguez, Norris, Bardsley, Vydra, Long, Benson.
Referee: Chris Kavanagh.

Here's how we line up today at London Stadium...#WHUBUR

— West Ham United (@WestHam) January 16, 2021

LINE-UP | Here is how the Clarets line-up against West ham this afternoon. ⬇️#WHUBUR | #UTC | @eToro pic.twitter.com/v0LUbhyeMD

— Burnley FC (@BurnleyOfficial) January 16, 2021

Hello world!

Saturday afternoon is once again upon us, and with it the weekly game glut. Here, then, is your big fixture check. A few stand out: outside the Premier League there are big games at the top and bottom of the Championship, with this evening’s Barnsley v Swansea match seeing two of the division’s form teams play each other, while Wayne Rooney’s first match as a full-time manager sees his Derby side, 22nd in the league, host the team immediately below them, Rotherham (who have two games in hand). The leaders of Leagues One and Two are both out of action because of postponements, and in their absence the big games in both divisions are towards the bottom: in League One 23rd-place Wigan visit Rochdale, three places but only two points ahead of them, while in League Two four of the bottom five play each other, with Scunthorpe hoping to pull themselves clear of the relegation scrap with victory at Barrow and the bottom two, Grimsby and Southend, meeting at Blundell Park.

Today’s fixtures (3pm kick-offs unless stated):

Premier League

Fulham v Chelsea (5.30pm)
Leeds v Brighton
Leicester v Southampton (8pm)
West Ham v Burnley
Wolverhampton v West Brom (12.30pm)

Sky Bet Championship

Bournemouth v Luton
Barnsley v Swansea (7.45pm)
Blackburn v Stoke
Bristol City v Preston North End
Cardiff v Norwich
Derby v Rotherham
Middlesbrough v Birmingham (12.30pm)
Nottm Forest v Millwall
QPR v Wycombe (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Wycombe)
Reading v Brentford (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Brentford)
Watford v Huddersfield

Sky Bet League One

Wimbledon v Sunderland (1pm)
Accrington Stanley v Gillingham
Bristol Rovers v Charlton
Burton Albion v Ipswich
Fleetwood Town v Portsmouth
Hull v Blackpool
Northampton v Oxford Utd
Peterborough v Milton Keynes Dons
Plymouth v Crewe
Rochdale v Wigan
Shrewsbury v Lincoln City (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Shrewsbury)
Swindon v Doncaster

Sky Bet League Two

Barrow v Scunthorpe
Bolton v Cheltenham
Bradford v Crawley Town
Colchester v Cambridge Utd
Forest Green v Port Vale
Grimsby v Southend
Harrogate Town v Exeter
Leyton Orient v Morecambe
Mansfield v Carlisle (postponed because of a Covid outbreak at Carlisle)
Newport County v Salford City
Stevenage v Tranmere
Walsall v Oldham

Scottish Premiership

Celtic v Livingston
Hamilton v Dundee Utd
Hibernian v Kilmarnock
Ross County v Aberdeen
St Johnstone v St Mirren

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