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Thanks for reading this clockwatch. Everton v Chelsea is the Premier League’s teatime offering. Rob Smyth is at the wheel.
Match report: Fulham 3-1 Burnley
A win for West Brom, a draw for Leicester and defeats for Portsmouth and Oxford … here’s how the Championship survival battle looks now. Sheffield Wednesday are, of course, down already.
Fulham are on the cusp of the European places after that 3-1 win, while Burnley failed to close the gap to survival. The writing is on the wall for them, if it wasn’t already.
Kári Tulinius writes in: “Like most neutrals with a passing familiarity with Scottish football, I’ve become mildly obsessed with Hearts this season, and it doesn’t hurt they have one of my fellow countrymen on the team. My heart leapt when I saw they’d scored.”
Here’s how the top of the Premiership table looks:
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Here’s how things finished this afternoon:
Premier League
Scottish Premiership
Championship
Bristol City 0-1 West Brom
Charlton 0-1 Norwich
Hull 3-1 Sheffield Wed
QPR 6-1 Portsmouth
Sheffield Utd 1-2 Wrexham
Southampton 2-0 Oxford Utd
Watford 0-0 Leicester
Bundesliga
Bayern Munich 4-0 Union Berlin
Heidenheim 3-3 Bayer Leverkusen
Köln 3-3 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Wolfsburg 0-1 Werder Bremen
Updated at 13.01 EDT
Full-time: Fulham 3-1 Burnley
Burnley’s spirited performance ends in defeat.
ShareFull-time: Hearts 1-0 Dundee
Hearts go five points clear at the top of the Scottish Premiership!
Updated at 12.58 EDT
GOAL! Fulham 3-1 Burnley (Jiménez 90+5pen)
After a very stuttery runup, Jiménez beats Martin Dubravka from the spot and that seals the points!
Updated at 12.55 EDT
Penalty to Fulham!
Raúl Jiménez is brought down by Josh Laurent. Penalty, red card. Fulham have the chance to wrap it up … if VAR allow it.
Burnley’s Josh Laurent concedes a penalty. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images/ReutersBurnley’s Josh Laurent concedes a penalty against Fulham’s Raul Jimenez and is later sent off. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images/ReutersShare
Updated at 12.59 EDT
League One: Lincoln are four points from promotion after beating struggling Rotherham 3-0.
Championship: Full-time at Ashton Gate – Bristol City 0-1 West Brom. Huge win for the Baggies! A second in a row in their bid for survival.
Championship: Full-time at St Mary’s – Southampton 2-0 Oxford Utd. Another step towards the playoffs.
Updated at 12.50 EDT
Championship: Six for QPR! Koné again. Poor Pompey.
League One: Big goal for promotion-chasing Stevenage as Dan Kemp finds a finish from a tight angle against Reading. 1-0.
League One: Fraser Murray looks to have sealed the points for Wigan, they lead 2-0 against fellow strugglers Exeter now.
Championship: A fifth for QPR, Richard Koné from the penalty spot. Miserable for Portsmouth, 5-1.
Updated at 12.46 EDT
Premier League: Bernd Leno makes a sharp save down low to deny Quilindschy Hartman from the edge of the box. Burnley need something now.
Scotland: A massive goal for Hearts – they are five points clear at the top of the Premiership as it stands. Rangers, six points back, play Aberdeen later. Celtic in second face Dundee Utd tomorrow.
ShareGOAL! Hearts 1-0 Dundee (McEntee 77)
A breakthrough for the Scottish Premiership leaders! Dundee goalkeeper Jon McCracken gets a hand on Oisin McEntee’s header but not enough to keep it out!
Premier League: Josh Laurent spurns a great chance to reply straight away for Burnley but he spoons his effort over the bar from around four yards out!
Championship: Wrexham get their noses in front at Sheffield Utd – it’s Sam Smith! They’ve turned it around since Andre Brooks’ opener.
Updated at 12.36 EDT
GOAL! Fulham 2-1 Burnley (Wilson 73)
Proper turnaround! Harry Wilson, he’s done it again. Pretty disappointing defending from Burnley, who fail to telegraph him cutting inside and letting fly with his left – now they’re in trouble.
Fulham’s Harry Wilson scores their second goal. Photograph: Matthew Childs/Action Images/ReutersAnd of course celebrates. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 12.41 EDT
Scotland: It’s getting a bit nervy at Hearts. Marc Leonard has a shot saved from the edge of the box. Lawrence Shankland is off the bench and plenty of balls are going in the box. Still 0-0 with Dundee.
Championship: Big chance for Leicester. Bobby Decordova-Reid cuts on to his right foot, floats in a cross and Patson Daka, who missed a first-half penalty, puts it wide at the back post. Still 0-0 at Watford.
ShareGOAL! Fulham 1-1 Burnley (King 67)
Scratch that, Fulham have ended their drought! Martin Dubravka comes to claim a cutback, it goes through his legs and Josh King is on the spot to score his first Premier League goal.
Fulham’s Joshua King scores their side’s first goal. Photograph: John Walton/PAShare
Updated at 12.32 EDT
Premier League: The gap to survival is, as it stands, six points for Burnley. That’s doable, isn’t it? They still have Forest and Leeds to play … and Manchester City and Arsenal.
Fulham haven’t scored in their last seven halves of football. On the beach?
Updated at 12.24 EDT
GOAL! Fulham 0-1 Burnley (Flemming 60)
Against the run of play! Lyle Foster sticks it across the box for Zian Flemming to convert. What a precious goal that could be for Scott Parker at his old club.
Zian Flemming of Burnley celebrates scoring his team’s first goal with teammates. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 12.25 EDT
Championship: Rayan Kolli finds the top corner to make it 4-1 to QPR at home to struggling Portsmouth. That’s his second.
Bundesliga: The German clubs are picking up the slack in the goals department. Harry Kane is on the scoresheet as Bayern Munich lead Union Berlin 4-0. Heidenheim have battled back to make it 3-3 against Bayer Leverkusen and Eric Martel has just made it 3-3 as well in the Rhine derby between Köln and Borussia Mönchengladbach. Werder Bremen lead 1-0 at Wolfsburg.
Championship: Wrexham hit back! Josh Windass, formerly of Sheffield Wednesday, converts at the back post but opts – perhaps sensibly – not to goad the punters at Bramall Lane. It’s 1-1.
Championship: Sheffield Utd grab the first goal – and a deserved one at that – of the second half as Andre Brooks sticks it to Wrexham. 1-0.
Updated at 12.08 EDT
Let’s check the mailbag which, after that first half, is unsurprisingly empty of correspondence on Fulham v Burnley or Hearts v Dundee. Alas.
“Apologies for yesterday’s news but i’ve just watched the highlights now, the thing that stood out for me about the Manchester United penalty non-award for the push on Amad Diallo (other than the obvious fact that it was near identical to Maguire’s push on Evanilson) was the reaction of Bruno Fernandez after Ryan Christie subsequently put the ball in the United net. Rather than rushing to whine in the referee’s face as his reputation would lead you to suggest he seemed to concentrate more on stopping the other United players doing that (at least from what you can see on the highlights). I wonder if age, plus being in a coherent and well-functioning team for once, has mellowed him a little?” – David Wall
“The league is stuck between a rock and a hard place on Chelsea. On one hand, you have to pretend to protect the integrity of the league, however little there may actually be. Which, one could say, is what they attempted to do when they forced Abramovich to sell the team for non-financial reasons. On the other, what sort of ownership group is going to buy a club that has no insight into the risk they are taking? Clearly when a sale is being forced through on an accelerated timeline you can’t examine all the potential shady dealings of the previous ownership group. People with this kind of money are not going to be willing to buy if the team’s value is immediately tanked because of said shady dealings that they cannot rectify but we’re not responsible for. This club doesn’t sell for billions if that is the case, and let’s remember that sports is a business at the PL level, not a bunch of lads up the road forming a local club. The consternation of tribalistic fans whose ownership groups mismanaged their own finances is not a real comparison to the situation at hand, and some more reasonable discussion around the very important nuances is pertinent” – Justin Madson
National League South: In case you were wondering, Andy Carroll’s management debut is going all right, I guess. His Dagenham & Redbridge side are being held 0-0 by Torquay, who until a couple of days ago were led by Neil Warnock. What a match-up that would’ve been.
WSL roundup: Everything you need to know on another eye-opening day in the Women’s Super League
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Here’s how we stand after the first 45 …
Premier League
Scottish Premiership
Championship
Bristol City 0-1 West Brom
Charlton 0-1 Norwich
Hull 2-1 Sheffield Wed latest
QPR 3-1 Portsmouth
Sheffield Utd 0-0 Wrexham
Southampton 2-0 Oxford Utd
Watford 0-0 Leicester latest