GOAL! Brighton 1-0 Everton (Pascal Gross, 73)
Pascal Gross scores his first goal for Brighton since rejoining the club – and it could prove to be a crucial one!
Championship: Preston finally break the deadlock against Ipswich thanks to Lewis Gibson.
GOAL! Leeds 0-3 Arsenal (Viktor Gyökeres, 69)
Viktor Gyökeres silences his critics with a close-range strike from a Gabriel Martinelli cross.
That should be three points wrapped up for the Gunners.
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Scottish Premiership: The misery continues for Aberdeen as Tyreece John-Jules makes it three for Kilmarnock.
Championship: Richard Kone levels things up for QPR against Coventry.
League Two: Calum Agius puts Crewe 1-0 up against Colchester. Meanwhile, Josh Flint doubles Crawley’s lead over Harrogate.
Championship: Marvin Ducksch makes it two for Birmingham against Oxford United at Kassam Stadium.
League One: Alex Robertson strikes again to turn the match on its head and put Cardiff 2-1 up against Burton.
Scottish Premiership: Graeme Shinnie has been sent off for Aberdeen against Kilmarnock, with the visitors already 2-0 down.
League Two: Ben Thompson gets his hat-trick as Bromley lead Gillingham 4-1 at Priestfield Stadium.
Championship: Coventry find a breakthrough against QPR as Josh Eccles hits the back of the net.
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Championship: Ebou Adams puts Portsmouth three goals up against West Brom. This is huge for the club’s relegation battle.
League One: Cardiff go level with Burton at the very start of the second half thanks to Alex Robertson.
Elsewhere, Radinio Balker puts Huddersfield 2-0 up against Peterborough.
We’re back under way across the grounds!
Scottish Premiership scores
Kilmarnock 2-0 Aberdeen
St. Mirren 0-0 Dundee
Livingston 0-2 Motherwell
You can keep up to date with the Premier League Golden Boot race here:
(Disclaimer for Arsenal fans – own goals are not counted)
League Two scores
Oldham Athletic 0-0 Cambridge United
Crewe Alexandra 0-0 Colchester United
Chesterfield 2-1 Walsall
Shrewsbury Town 0-0 Barnet
Tranmere Rovers 0-0 Salford City
Accrington Stanley 2-0 Cheltenham Town
Gillingham 1-3 Bromley
Fleetwood Town 0-1 Notts County
Swindon Town 1-1 Barrow
Crawley Town 1-0 Harrogate Town
League One scores
Northampton Town 0-2 Reading
Stockport County 0-1 Plymouth Argyle
Peterborough United 0-1 Huddersfield Town
Mansfield Town 0-0 Wycombe Wanderers
Exeter City 0-1 Rotherham United
Luton Town 0-0 Blackpool
Burton Albion 1-0 Cardiff City
Barnsley 2-1 Stevenage
Leyton Orient 0-1 Port Vale
Wigan Athletic 0-1 Lincoln City
Championship scores
QPR 0-0 Coventry City
Millwall 1-1 Sheffield United
Portsmouth 2-0 West Brom
Watford 0-0 Swansea
Blackburn Rovers 0-0 Hull City
Oxford United 0-1 Birmingham City
Middlesbrough 1-0 Norwich City
Ipswich Town 0-0 Preston North End
Premier League scores
Leeds United 0-2 Arsenal
Wolves 0-1 Bournemouth
Brighton 0-0 Everton
Half-time
It’s half-time across the grounds in the Premier League and elsewhere. Let’s look at the scores…
League One: Caleb Watts puts Plymouth 1-0 up against Stockport on the brink of half-time.
League Two: Notts County are 1-0 up against Fleetwood thanks to a 38th-minute strike from Alassana Jatta.
GOAL! Leeds 0-2 Arsenal (Karl Darlow OG, 38)
And just as I said that, Arsenal score again! Well, Karl Darlow puts the ball into his own net.
Calvert-Lewin appears to get in the goalkeeper’s way as a corner is taken and Darlow punches the ball in.
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The rate of goals across the EFL has seemingly slowed as we approach half-time. Just two have been scored in the Premier League this afternoon.
League Two: Reading are two goals up against Northampton Town with around 13 minutes left to play. That game kicked off at 2pm.
GOAL! Wolves 0-1 Bournemouth (Eli Junior Kroupi, 33)
And there’s the opener at Molineux! Eli Junior Kroupi fires Bournemouth into the lead with a brilliant strike into the top-left corner.
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We’ve hit the half-hour mark and there has only been one goal in the Premier League so far. Surely we’ve got to see another before the break…
GOAL! Leeds 0-1 Arsenal (Martín Zubimendi, 27)
Martín Zubimendi heads home a cross from Noni Madueke to give Arsenal the advantage at Elland Road.
As things stand, the Gunners will move seven points clear at the top of the Premier League table.
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Championship: Conor Chaplin and Millenic Alli both get on the scoresheet to put Portsmouth 2-0 up against West Brom.
Championship: Mihailo Ivanović strikes to put Millwall level with Sheffield United after 17th-minute goal from Andre Brooks.
Meanwhile, Myles Peart-Harris scores an own-goal to put Birmingham ahead against Oxford United.
Viktor Gyökeres has not had a glowing review so far…
Sean Orlowicz says: “Watching Gyokeres pass that throw in straight back out of play… I think I’ve seen enough. His strength and finishing is not worth the seemingly complete lack of technical ability. He’s a bust and needs to be dropped if Arsenal are going to win this league.”
Calieb Jones adds: “As every game goes by I’m convinced Arsenal got a turd in Gyokeres. Not once has he looked like the 25 goal striker we need. It’s late January and he’s had plenty of opportunity.”
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Scottish Premiership: Kilmarnock score two in two minutes to establish a good lead in the early stages against Aberdeen.
Championship: Middlesbrough score the first Championship goal of the afternoon through to Hayden Hackney, who capitalises on a mistake from Vladan Kovačević.
League Two: Will Grigg strikes to give Chesterfield the lead against Walsall.
League One: Jake Beesley scores to put Burton 1-0 up against Cardiff.
League Two: Shaun Whalley fires Accrington Stanley into a 1-0 lead against Cheltenham. Meanwhile, Ben Thompson gives Bromley the advantage at Gillingham and Danny Rose fires home a shot for Barrow against Swindon.
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Wolves 0-0 Bournemouth: Matheus Mane puts the ball in the Bournemouth net but it won’t count due to an offside.
Scottish Premiership: Tawanda Maswanhise scores once again to fire Motherwell into the lead against Livingston.
League One: Port Vale get the first goal of the afternoon as Kyle John strikes to give the visitors an early lead at Brisbane Road.
Kick-off
Here we go!
Saka out of Arsenal line-up
Arsenal have confirmed that Bukayo Saka suffered an injury in the warm-up and is now unavailable to play against Leeds.
Noni Madueke starts in his place, with Gabriel Magalhães taking the captain’s armband.
Christian Nørgaard is now on the bench.
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Scottish Premiership (3pm GMT unless stated otherwise)
Kilmarnock v Aberdeen
St. Mirren v Dundee
Livingston v Motherwell
Dundee United v Hearts (8pm)
Elsewhere in Europe
Bundesliga (2:30pm GMT unless stated otherwise)
Eintracht Frankfurt v Bayer Leverkusen
Werder Bremen v Borussia Mönchengladbach
Hoffenheim v Union Berlin
Augsburg v St. Pauli
RB Leipzig v Mainz
Hamburg v Bayern Munich (5:30pm)
LaLiga
Osasuna v Villarreal (3:15pm)
Levante v Atlético Madrid (5:30pm)
Elche v Barcelona (5pm)
Ligue 1
Paris FC v Marseille (4pm)
Lorient v Nantes (6pm)
Monaco v Rennes (8:05pm)
Serie A
Pisa v Sassuolo (2pm)
Napoli v Fiorentina (5pm)
Cagliari v Verona (7:45)
Leeds v Arsenal: It’s being reported that Bukayo Saka suffered an injury during the warm-up and will likely now withdraw from the starting line-up.
More to follow…
League Two fixtures
Oldham Athletic v Cambridge United
Crewe Alexandra v Colchester United
Chesterfield v Walsall
Shrewsbury Town v Barnet
Tranmere Rovers v Salford City
Accrington Stanley v Cheltenham Town
Gillingham v Bromley
Fleetwood Town v Notts County
Swindon Town v Barrow
Crawley Town v Harrogate Town
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League One fixtures (3pm unless GMT stated otherwise)
Northampton Town 0-0 Reading (live, KO 2pm)
Stockport County v Plymouth Argyle
Peterborough United v Huddersfield Town
Mansfield Town v Wycombe Wanderers
Exeter City v Rotherham United
Luton Town v Blackpool
Burton Albion v Cardiff City
Barnsley v Stevenage
Leyton Orient v Port Vale
Wigan Athletic v Lincoln City
Joe Pearson says:
“I don’t want to be that guy, but whenever I see the words “stress fracture” and “foot” together, I think the player’s career is all but over. The NBA is full of examples: Yao Ming, Sam Bowie, Bill Walton. They don’t heal without surgery, and even then it takes years. At his age (30), I just don’t see a rosy future for Grealish.”
It’s such a shame that Grealish’s season has come to an end so prematurely. He had a great start to the campaign and looked like he was really enjoying his football again. Hopefully he gets another chance at Everton, whether that be another loan or a permanent deal.
It’s full-time in the early games across the EFL so here are the results:
Championship:
Stoke City 0-2 Southampton
Sheffield Wednesday 0-1 Wrexham
Leicester City 0-2 Charlton
League One:
Bradford City 1-0 Doncaster Rovers
Wimbledon 0-1 Bolton Wanderers
League Two:
Bristol Rovers 3-0 Newport County
Grimsby Town 2-2 MK Dons
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Arsenal fan Lenny Peters has messaged in to say:
“As much as Arsenal win with ease against Kairat and Both Havertz & Gyokeres scored. They also seemed to get in each others space a few times. I wonder if they could be great if terrible together?”
I found it quite fun to watch the dynamic between the two in that game. Although they were very close together at times they also appeared to help each other for their goals.
Havertz assisted Gyökeres with a through ball for the opener, then Gyokeres kept a Kairat defender out of the way for Havertz to score his.
It’ll be interesting to see how the duo operate against Leeds today…
David Moyes confirmed on Friday that Jack Grealish will have to undergo surgery on a foot injury, meaning he will likely miss the rest of the season.
Team news - Brighton v Everton
Brighton starting line-up: Verbruggen, Dunk, Van Hecke, Rutter, Baleba, Welbeck, Mitoma, Kadioglu, Ayari, De Cuyper, Gross.
Substitutes: Steele, Julio, Gruda, Minteh, Milner, Kostoulas, Boscagli, Veltman, Howell.
Everton starting line-up: Pickford, Keane, Tarkowski, Ndiaye, Barry, O’Brien, Dewsbury-Hall, Gueye, Branthwaite, Garner, Armstrong.
Substitutes: Travers, Patterson, McNeil, Beto, Dibling, Coleman, Alcaraz, Röhl, Iroegbunam.
Team news - Wolves v Bournemouth
Wolves starting line-up: Sa, Mosquera, S. Bueno, Agbadou, R Gomes, J Gomes, Andre, H Bueno, Mane, Hwang, Arokodare.
Substitutes: Johnstone, Doherty, Moller Wolfe, Strand Larsen, Arias, Lima, Bellegarde, Tchatchoua, Abbey.
Bournemouth starting line-up: Petrović, Smith, Hill, Senesi, Truffert, Scott, Cook, Jiménez, Kroupi, Adli, Evanilson.
Substitutes: Mandas, Christie, Diakité, Ünal, Tóth, Rayan, Milosavljević, Rees-Dottin, DaCosta.
While there has been plenty of debate around who should start in midfield for Arsenal today between Martin Ødegaard and Eberechi Eze, Mikel Arteta has opted for a completely different option – Kai Havertz.
The 26-year-old scored on his return from injury against Kairat Almaty on Wednesday and will play behind Viktor Gyökeres again today.
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Team news - Leeds v Arsenal
Leeds starting line-up: Darlow, Bogle, Gudmundsson, Rodon, Struijk, Justin, Ampadu, Gruev, Stach, Aaronson, Calvert-Lewin.
Substitutes: Perri, Byram, Bornauw, Longstaff, Tanaka, Buonanotte, Okafor, Gnonto, Piroe.
Arsenal starting line-up: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapie, Rice, Zubimendi, Havertz, Saka, Trossard, Gyökeres.
Substitutes: Kepa, Mosquera, White, Ødegaard, Jesus, Eze, Martinelli, Madueke, Calafiori.
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We’ve got some Premier League team news to bring you next, starting with Leeds v Arsenal…
Championship fixtures
QPR v Coventry City
Millwall v Sheffield United
Portsmouth v West Brom
Watford v Swansea
Blackburn Rovers v Hull City
Oxford United v Birmingham City
Middlesbrough v Norwich City
Ipswich Town v Preston North End
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Premier League fixtures (3pm GMT unless stated otherwise)
Leeds United v Arsenal
Wolves v Bournemouth
Brighton v Everton
Chelsea v West Ham (5:30pm)
Liverpool v Newcastle (8pm)
Preamble
Hello, good afternoon and welcome to another clockwatch! We’ve got three Premier League games to look forward to this afternoon, along with fixtures in the Championship, League One, League Two and from across Europe.
Arsenal will look to bounce back from last week’s 3-2 loss to Manchester United against Leeds at Elland Road, with Manchester City hot on their heels in the title race. A win for the Gunners will see them move seven points clear at the top of the table before City face Tottenham tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Wolves host Bournemouth as they look to close the gap on Burnley in the relegation scrap. A win for the Cherries could see them leapfrog Brighton.
Speaking of, the Seagulls host Everton at the Amex Stadium with the aim of overtaking David Moyes’ side in the table and moving up to 10th.
I’ll be with you all afternoon, keeping you updated on all the action from across the leagues – join me!