At Selhurst Park Barcola tries to meet a cross from the right and gets a fairly gentle push in the back as he does so. He goes down, but a penalty for that would be a bit much.
GOAL! Ipswich 0-1 Bournemouth (Evanilson, 5 mins)
A disastrous goal for Ipswich! Chris Walton, the home side’s keeper, tries to take the ball past the onrushing Evanilson, fails, is dispossessed, and the rest is a formality!
A glimpse of goal for Palace, as Mitchell’s driven cross is met by Strand Larsen, but he can’t do much more than get a foot to it, and he deflects it limply wide of goal, from where it’s cleared for a throw-in.
I’m focusing, for now, on Crystal Palace v Liverpool, where Isak has just had half a chance, but rather than racing onto the ball he rather meandered up to it, and his shot then hit a defender.
2.01pm: Football o’clock!
The players are out and action is imminent. There’ll be a minute’s silence before all the games, because it is Remembrance Sunday.
Weather update! It’s sunny in Brighton …
… cloudy in Ipswich …
… and it’s been raining in Sunderland.
Fabian Hurzeler on what makes Brighton good: “Brilliant at the basics. That’s our foundation. That’s what made us strong and hopefully will make us strong in the future. It’s not about first outplaying the opponent, it’s about outworking the opponent.”
Marco Rose is asked to identify Ipswich’s threat to Bournemouth today, and his response is, I have to say, vicious: “They want to win the game, I’m quite sure. It’s a nice ground.”
Team news!
Team news has leaked (well, been published), and here are the lineups for the 2pm Premier League games:
Brighton v Brentford
Brighton: Verbruggen, Costinha, Vuskovic, Dunk, Boscagli, Gross, Andres, Gomez, Ayari, De Cuyper, Kostoulas. Subs: Steele, Hadjam, Hinshelwood, Rutter, Minteh, Kadioglu, Wieffer, Svoboda, Yalcouye.
Brentford: Kelleher, Kayode, Ajer, van den Berg, Hickey, Sangare, Janelt, Ouattara, Schade, Lewis-Potter, Thiago. Subs: Valdimarsson, Yarmolyuk, Jensen, Wilson, Anthony, Collins, Damsgaard, Diouf, Schuster.
Referee: Michael Oliver.
Crystal Palace v Liverpool
Crystal Palace: Henderson, Lerma, Richards, Disasi, Mingueza, Wharton, Timber, Mitchell, Kamada, Pino, Larsen. Subs: Benitez, Canvot, Nketiah, McNeil, Hughes, Osorio, Khalaili, Doucoure, Chilwell.
Liverpool: Alisson, Araujo, Jacquet, van Dijk, Kerkez, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Gakpo, Wirtz, Barcola, Isak. Subs: Mamardashvili, Gomez, Endo, Tsimikas, Munoz, Nyoni, McConnell, Koumas, Ngumoha.
Referee: Tony Harrington (Cleveland).
Ipswich v Bournemouth
Ipswich: Walton, Ouattara, O’Shea, Diop, Davis, Florentino, Palacios, Maeda, Enciso, Philogene-Bidace, Emersonn. Subs: Scherpen, Furlong, Matusiwa, Fatawu, Flemming, Lukic, Greaves, Akpom, Clarke.
Bournemouth: Petrovic, Smith, Hill, Silva, Truffert, Adams, Christie, Rayan, Kluivert, Tavernier, Evanilson. Subs: Di Gregorio, Cook, Soler, Scott, Doak, Diakite, Adli, Junior Kroupi, Rodriguez.
Referee: Simon Hooper.
Sunderland v Chelsea
Sunderland: Roefs, Hume, Mukiele, O’Nien, Mandava, Xhaka, Sadiki, Meunier, Talbi, Le Fee, Brobbey. Subs: Ellborg, Danso, Methalie, Nilson Angulo, Rigg, Isidor, Ahoka, Fofana, Tutierov.
Chelsea: Penders, Palestra, Fofana, Colwill, Chavarria, Caicedo, Lavia, Palmer, Henderson, Rogers, Pedro Neto. Subs: Sharman-Lowe, Barco, Welbeck, Emegha, Quenda, Gusto, Anselmino, Nicoll-Jazuli, Estevao.
Referee: Jarred Gillett.
Preamble
Hello world! We have four intriguing Premier League matches ahead of us today, with the teams currently fourth (Chelsea) and sixth (Liverpool) in the table playing away to the teams in 20th (Sunderland) and 19th (Crystal Palace), while the early afternoon’s big clash, between Brighton and Brentford, gives us the prospect of Brighton – with more than a quarter of the season played mind you – moving to second in the table. Plus, bubbling away in the background, half a game in the Scottish Premiership, the best part of three in the WSL and a side-order of FA Cup action. So, and to summarise, welcome! Here are the 2pm Premier League fixtures:
Brighton v Brentford
Crystal Palace v Liverpool
Ipswich Town v Bournemouth
Sunderland v Chelsea
And then at 4.30pm:
Manchester United v Aston Villa
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