Crystal Palace v Manchester City, Brentford v Newcastle, and more: football

Key events

Goal! Brentford 1-1 Newcastle (Isak, 11)

The ball pinging all over the place and it’s Isak’s cool head that gets it done. He’s on such a scoring run. Could be a goal bonanza at the G-Tech.

Up in Scotland, Celtic are leading Hibs 1-0, Arne Engels got it.

Aston Villa 0-0 Southampton: Villa looking for those Southampton errors in defence but having to do a bit of defending themselves.

Goal! Brentford 1-0 Newcastle (Mbeumo, 8)

That one’s a bit late for Brentford, right? Mbeumo is such a player. All his own work.

By the way, it was Kyle Walker playing Munoz onside.

An eyewitness at Selhurst tells me Pep Guardiola is chewing his gloves.

Goal! Crystal Palace 1-0 Manchester City (Daniel Munoz, 4)

There was a VAR delay but that City defence has been breached already. Munoz is in banging form!

Crystal Palace’s Daniel Munoz scores their first goal. Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters

We are go in the Premier League!

Just those three games, but plenty to play for.

Thomas Frank has been speaking to the BBC ahead of Brentford v Newcastle: “I am looking forward to playing at home. We have built a fortress here and we are looking to keep it that way. We will be aggressive and come out and we are looking forward to it.”

Louise Taylor was at Elland Road to see Leeds go top/joint-top.

Jeremy Boyce gets in touch: “Sorry John, but you are incorrect. NotAsNastAsTheyUsedToBeLeeds are actually TOP of the Championship by virtue of their superior goal difference. Your positing of the “joint” top possibility could pose enormous problems for statisticians, trophy engravers, supporters, owners…. Leeds will be top until West Brom 0 – 1 Sheff U later this afternoon.”

Until the season is past halfway along, then joint-top is allowed.

Those other scores: Sheff 1-1 Preston, Sunderland 2-1 Stoke.

Final score: Leeds 2-0 Derby. Goals from Rodon and Wober won the day, and Leeds go joint-top.

Later, at 3pm in the Championship:

Sheffield Wednesday have equalised against PNE: it’s 1-1 after Michael Smith’s goal.

Sunderland now lead Stoke 2-1: Tom Watson has got it.

Paul MacInnes on an important topic – how clubs are squeezing the pips of fans.

It is time for unity.

Jeremy Boyce gets in touch: “Looking forward to your MostlyPremierLeagueClockwatch. There could be plenty of slapstick, given the weather conditions, and possibly a custard pie in the face for are they/aren’t they ? Citeh at Selhurst Park, one of the most difficult grounds to get to I can remember from my days following Shrewsbury Town round the 2nd and 3rd division in London back in the day (Griffin Park (RIP), Brisbane Road (RIP), The Old Den (RIP) etc…. Thanks for the update on my other team, NotAsNastyAsTheyUsedToBeLeeds.”

On Friday, Pep was able to put on his comfy shoes, and hit back at José Mourinho after their latest exchange.

It was a joke. But he’s another one in the huge list that want the team [City relegated to] League One or the Conference. I would say to José the same: we are innocent until proven guilty. After that we will see what happens. It is what it is, it was completely a joke. If I have offended him I’m so sorry. The fact is he has three and I have six. This is a fact. But the intention was completely fine.

The major news there is four changes for City, with Nathan Ake and Manuel Akanji missing with injury, Rico Lewis and Kyle Walker into defence. Palace might fancy their chances a bit more.

Newcastle seemed to have rotated out Sandro Tonali and Anthony Gordon for the perfectly capable Sean Longstaff and Harvey Barnes.

Aston Villa v Southampton teams

Aston Villa: Martinez, Konsa, Carlos, Torres, Maatsen, McGinn, Kamara, Rogers, Tielemans, Bailey, Duran. Subs: Cash, Mings, Digne, Onana, Barkley, Buendia, Philogene, Watkins, Olsen.

Southampton: Lumley, Bree, Walker-Peters, Harwood-Bellis, Wood, Manning, Downes, Fernandez, Dibling, Armstrong, Archer. Subs: Edwards, Taylor, Aribo, Fraser, Sugawara, Amo-Ameyaw, Kamaldeen, Brereton-Diaz, McCarthy

Brentford v Newcastle teams

Brentford: Flekken; Lewis-Potter, Collins, Pinnock, Van den Berg; Norgaard, Yarmoliuk, Carvalho, Mbeumo, Thiago, Wissa. Subs: Valdimarrson, Schade, Mee, Ajer, Damsgaard, Konak, Trevitt, Roerslev, Maghoma

Newcastle: Pope; Livramento, Schar, Burn, Hall; Longstaff, Guimaraes, Joelinton; Murphy, Isak, Barnes. Subs: Dubravka, Trippier, Kelly, Targett, Tonali, Almiron, Gordon, Wilson.

Crystal Palace v Manchester City teams

Crystal Palace: Henderson, Guehi, Lacroix, Chalobah, Mitchell, Lerma, Hughes, Munoz, Eze, Sarr, Mateta. Subs: Turner, Ward, Nketiah, Schlupp, Clyne, Kamada, Richards, Doucoure, Devenny

Man City: Ortega, Walker, Gvardiol, Dias, Gundogan, Lewis, De Bruyne, Silva, Savinho, Nunes, Haaland. Subs: Ederson, Carson, Grealish, Doku, Wright, Simpson-Pusey, O’Reilly, McAtee, Wilson-Esbrand

Here’s the games that won’t be taking place.

Premier League

Championship

League One

League Two

That early Championship action, latest scores:

Leeds 2-0 Derby
Sheff Wed 0-1 Preston
Sunderland 1-1 Stoke

Preamble

It’s bitter out, and the lunchtime fun has been cancelled.

There’s always Leeds against Derby. But that’s not our specific wheelhouse here. There’s red-hot Premier League action. Thankfully, if windy, it’s not too bad in London, and the champions are in town, and with Liverpool not playing, can lick their wounds. Yes, Crystal Palace v Manchester City takes centre stage, and then Brentford v Newcastle sees Eddie Howe’s team taking on the team with the best home record in the Premier League. And Aston Villa v Southampton sees Villa, on that bad recent run, against Russell Martin’s bottom-of-the-table evangelists.

There will also be news from the EFL and across Europe, too. Join me.