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Scores from elsewhere:
Hull 0-0 Blackburn
Norwich City 4-0 Walsall
Sheffield United 3-4 Mansfield Town
Swansea 1-1 West Brom
West Ham 1-0 QPR
We’re at the 66-70 minute mark in the top four matches, with almost an hour gone at West Ham.
ShareFULL-TIME: Portsmouth 1-4 Arsenal
For about 50 minutes, this was a terrific contest, but class eventually told and Arsenal remain in the hunt for all four major trophies.
90+3 min Odegaard crosses, Havertz chests down and swivels into a shot in search of what’d be a crucial goal for his mental state, but Ogilvie gets low to block.
Updated at 16.54 CET
90+1 min Portsmouth need to take the energy and endeavour of this performance and apply it in every Championship fixture; if they do, their relegation fears will soon dissipate.
90 min We’ll have three additional minutes.
90 min Ball into Odegaard, who finds Havertz through the middle, and his backheel finds Madueke, but the resultant cross is headed clear.
89 min Madueke slows down Williams, does him on the outside, there’s a coming together that knocks him off his feet … but it’s not enough for another penalty.
87 min A look at the score suggests this has been easy for Arsenal, but that’s not the case – Portsmouth have made them work hard, and if they could only defend set-pieces – easier said than done – things might’ve gone differently. Arteta’s men, though, don’t believe they can lose matches of this ilk, and after falling behind they retained composure then did what they do.
85 min Eze swings to the near post, Poole leaping amid a phalanx of bodies to head behind, then Bishop and Chaplin combine to clear the second delivery.
83 min Oh man, Umeh chases a ball down the channel and his hamstring goes. He’s had trouble of this ilk before, and you feel for him; Pompey having used their five changes, are consequently down to 10. Meantime, Devlin blocks a Havertz shot at cost of a corner.
82 min Off goes Martinelli who, after the whole Conor Bradley kerfuffle, has had quite a few days; Zubimendi replaces him.
81 min Anditdontstop. Rob Smyth is on-hand for Manchester United v Brighton, which kicks off in 50 minutes.
80 min Elsewhere, Mansfield of League One lead 3-1 at Sheffield United of the Championship.
Mansfield are running riot against Sheffield United. Photograph: Connor McMain/Every Second Media/ShutterstockShare
Updated at 16.49 CET
78 min “I think Gazza’s peak was the first couple of years at Lazio,” returns Niall Mullen.” “I never saw an English player with that level of skill and ability to dominate a game in the toughest league there maybe ever was. He burned brightly but briefly obviously.”
I dunno, Gazza only played 43 times for Lazio, in three years. I don’t think I can award best-ever status for so small a body of work.
76 min Another change for Arsenal, the 16-year-old Marli Salmon becoming the youngest player to represent arsenal in the FA Cup. What a feeling that must be for him and his family.
74 min Arsenal’s set-piece prowess is surely a self-fulfilling prophesy. Opponents know there’s something coming, the players have got good at taking their time to up the anticipation, and when the execution is good, it’s pretty difficult to do much about it.
ShareGOAL! Portsmouth 1-4 Arsenal (Martinelli 72)
Another vicious corner from Madueke, Martinelli leaping at the near post to flick in his hat-trick goal – it’s the first of his career – and though Bursic might’ve saved it, he could only help it into the net.
Gabriel Martinelli has his hat-trick Photograph: Catherine Ivill/AMA/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 16.36 CET
71 min Havertz is back into it right away, sending Madueke away, and he slows Poole down, speeds up to work a shooting lane then, from a tight angle, shoots low and hard, Bursic’s save earning Arsenal another corner.
69 min A triple change for Arsenal, Timber, Odegaard and Havertz replacing White, Nwaneri and Jesus. Decent options to have in reserve.
68 min Again, Segecic wriggles away from a challenge then cuts across White, who fouls him and is booked.
66 min Eze looks to feed a ball through the centre for Jesus, but Poole does well to intercede. Meantime Mark Dawson emails thusly: “Everyone loves Gazza, but he’s not even the best midfielder to play for Spurs (in my 54 years watching). Hoddle stands supreme. I’d also rate Le Tiss over Gazza. But probably still Robbo over all.”
Le Tiss was brilliant, I agree, but I’ve never seen the combination of power, touch and imagination that Gazza brought to things. He’d be as brilliant today, whereas I think Hoddle – and Le Tiss – would have to adjust to the physicality.
Paul Gascoigne in action on a snow covered pitch against Sheffield Wednesday in 1988. Great days. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 16.32 CET
65 min Segecic megs White out on the left, so White shoves him over by way of punishment for his effrontery; Segecic then curls in a decent free-kick, headed away well by Merino.
63 min Zachary Roth adds Christian Norgaard to the list of religious names; similarly, Eberechi means “God’s mercy” in Igbo.
62 min Changes for Portsmouth, Le Roux and Shaughnessy going off with Pack and Ogilvie coming on.
61 min Now Portsmouth move forward down the right, White opting to take no chances with a searching cross, helping it behind; the resultant corner comes to nothing.
60 min Arsenal win another corner, this time down the right, Madueke with it, and Portsmouth clear at the near post.
59 min And for balance:
58 min “Captain Marvel was exceptional,” reckons Niall Mullen, “but at his peak I’d say Gazza was the best English midfielder (and player) in my 43 years of watching football.”
Gazza was special and unique, but when was that peak? Was Spurs’ 1991 FA Cup run enough? Incidentally, Gazza rates Robson as the best player he encountered.
57 min Nice from Arsenal, White into Madueke who, inside the box, plays a little ball to Nwaneri, follows the flicked return … and is crowded out.
56 min Nwaneri, who’s been quiet so far, veers through midfield, Le Roux moves in for the kill, fouls him, and is booked.
55 min Portsmouth are still going after this and, though you feat for them as gaps appear, they may as well lose by a couple more trying to get back into the match.