Key events
2 Dec 202312.24EST
Fin. So after all that, here’s how the Premier League looks ahead of this evening’s game between Nottingham Forest and Everton – which you can follow here with Luke McLaughlin – and tonight’s big clash of Newcastle and Manchester United. Thanks for reading this Clockwatch.
Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Arsenal | 14 | 18 | 33 |
2 | Man City | 13 | 20 | 29 |
3 | Liverpool | 13 | 17 | 28 |
4 | Aston Villa | 13 | 13 | 28 |
5 | Tottenham Hotspur | 13 | 8 | 26 |
6 | Man Utd | 13 | 0 | 24 |
7 | Newcastle | 13 | 17 | 23 |
8 | Brighton | 13 | 5 | 22 |
9 | West Ham | 13 | 0 | 20 |
10 | Brentford | 14 | 3 | 19 |
11 | Chelsea | 13 | 2 | 16 |
12 | Crystal Palace | 13 | -5 | 15 |
13 | Wolverhampton | 14 | -6 | 15 |
14 | Fulham | 13 | -9 | 15 |
15 | Nottm Forest | 13 | -5 | 13 |
16 | AFC Bournemouth | 13 | -14 | 12 |
17 | Luton | 14 | -13 | 9 |
18 | Burnley | 14 | -17 | 7 |
19 | Sheff Utd | 14 | -28 | 5 |
20 | Everton | 13 | -6 | 4 |
2 Dec 202312.21EST
Arsenal 2-1 Wolves. Ed Aarons was at a freezing Emirates Stadium to witness Martin Ødegaard putting on yet another show.
2 Dec 202312.19EST
Burnley 5-0 Sheffield United. Jay Rodriguez netted after 15 seconds and Burnley never looked back against the increasingly blunt Blades, whose manager Paul Heckingbottom is now under serious pressure.
2 Dec 202312.12EST
Brentford 3-1 Luton Town. Simon Mail was at the Gtech Stadium to see Brentford ram home their superiority over a limited Luton team.
2 Dec 202312.08EST
Scottish Premiership results
Kilmarnock 0-1 Hearts
Livingston P-P Ross County
Motherwell 3-3 Dundee
Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Celtic | 14 | 27 | 36 |
2 | Rangers | 13 | 20 | 28 |
3 | Hearts | 14 | 2 | 23 |
4 | St Mirren | 14 | 0 | 22 |
5 | Hibernian | 14 | -1 | 18 |
6 | Dundee | 14 | -2 | 18 |
7 | Kilmarnock | 15 | -1 | 17 |
8 | Motherwell | 15 | -6 | 14 |
9 | Ross County | 14 | -9 | 14 |
10 | Aberdeen | 12 | -6 | 13 |
11 | St Johnstone | 13 | -11 | 11 |
12 | Livingston | 14 | -13 | 10 |
2 Dec 202312.06EST
Championship results
Birmingham 0-0 Rotherham
Hull City 1-2 Watford
Ipswich 2-1 Coventry
Leeds 3-2 Middlesbrough
Millwall 1-1 Sunderland
Plymouth 2-1 Stoke
Sheffield Wed 3-1 Blackburn
Southampton 2-0 Cardiff
Swansea 1-1 Huddersfield
WBA 1-2 Leicester
2 Dec 202312.05EST
Premier League results
Arsenal 2-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Brentford 3-1 Luton Town
Burnley 5-0 Sheffield United
2 Dec 202312.04EST
Meanwhile at the bottom, life suddenly looks a lot rosier for Burnley.
Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|
16 | AFC Bournemouth | 13 | -14 | 12 |
17 | Luton | 14 | -13 | 9 |
18 | Burnley | 14 | -17 | 7 |
19 | Sheff Utd | 14 | -28 | 5 |
20 | Everton | 13 | -6 | 4 |
2 Dec 202312.04EST
FULL TIME: Arsenal 2-1 Wolves
Wolves pressed for an equaliser during injury time, but the Gunners have managed to hold on. Harder for the leaders than it looked at 3.15pm.
Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Arsenal | 14 | 18 | 33 |
2 | Man City | 13 | 20 | 29 |
3 | Liverpool | 13 | 17 | 28 |
4 | Aston Villa | 13 | 13 | 28 |
5 | Tottenham Hotspur | 13 | 8 | 26 |
2 Dec 202312.02EST
FULL TIME: Ipswich 2-1 Coventry
FULL TIME: Leeds 3-2 Middlesbrough
FULL TIME: Southampton 2-0 Cardiff
The pack keep up the chase of Leicester City.
Pos | Team | P | GD | Pts |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Leicester | 19 | 22 | 46 |
2 | Ipswich | 19 | 16 | 45 |
3 | Leeds | 19 | 14 | 38 |
4 | Southampton | 19 | 4 | 37 |
5 | West Brom | 19 | 11 | 32 |
2 Dec 202312.00EST
FULL TIME: Brentford 3-1 Luton
Brentford win their fourth game in six, snapping a two-game losing run. There goes Luton’s one-in-a-row winning sequence.
2 Dec 202311.58EST
FULL TIME: Burnley 5-0 Sheffield United
A huge win for Burnley and Vincent Kompany. It could be a significant result for Paul Heckingbottom as well; that’s United’s third big humping of the season, and they’re only off the bottom as a result of Everton’s points deduction. They could be bottom for real in a couple of hours if Everton get anything at Forest.
2 Dec 202311.56EST
FULL TIME: Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1-2 Raith Rovers. Aw Dunc. It was nice while it lasted.
2 Dec 202311.55EST
GOAL! Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1-2 Raith Rovers (Gullan 90+4 pen). The Duncan Ferguson Highland honeymoon is over.
2 Dec 202311.54EST
Let the record state that, 54 minutes ago, Charles Antaki sent me this: “It’s a good job that Zinchenko is, on the whole, a likeable character, capable of some absolute zingers – he’s made at least three outstandingly bad giveaways near his own penalty box this last half. Fortune continues to smile on him as none of them actually led to anything, but it feels like it’s only a matter of time, this match or next.”
2 Dec 202311.52EST
GOAL! Arsenal 2-1 Wolves (Cunha 86)
Oleksandr Zinchenko ships possession, allowing Matheus Cunha to curl home and set Arsenal nerves jangling.
![Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (1) Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (1)](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/07c1ef64ed0d9282a76a9a07558f461b8fb334b5/0_0_3853_2076/master/3853.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)
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2 Dec 202311.50EST
Tahith Chong blasts a header home at Brentford. But it won’t cut Luton’s deficit. He’s offside. It’s still 3-1 to the Bees.
2 Dec 202311.46EST
GOAL! Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1-1 Raith Rovers (Vaughan 86). Duncan Ferguson’s unbeaten start to life as Caley Thistle manager is suddenly in a little peril.
2 Dec 202311.45EST
GOAL! Burnley 5-0 Sheffield United (Josh Brownhill 80)
… so the all-new Kompany-era Burnley we were promised has finally arrived. Josh Brownhill the latest to notch. The Blades have now been put to the sword by five goals twice this season, and there’s that 8-0 home defeat to Newcastle to factor in as well.
![Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (3) Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (3)](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/88fb24f35c15396ffb552241513d0eb3db3e8a83/0_60_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)
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2 Dec 202311.41EST
GOAL! Brentford 3-1 Luton (Baptiste 81)
Shandon Baptiste puts paid to any notion of a Luton comeback.
![Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (5) Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (5)](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/acfaaf8b97ed79907738eac5eb867ba2f545d924/0_0_3626_2176/master/3626.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)
2 Dec 202311.38EST
GOAL! Brentford 2-1 Luton (Brown 76)
Ross Barkley sets Luton on the attack, and Jacob Brown halves the deficit. Luton still in it!
![Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (6) Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (6)](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e96ee281e202acf7c13ab1c6f6da83100c2dce92/0_0_3500_2583/master/3500.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)
2 Dec 202311.37EST
GOAL! Burnley 4-0 Sheffield United (Koleosho 75)
Luca Koleosho scores his first goal for Burnley, and Sheffield United are on the end of another thrashing. Paul Heckingbottom’s coat hangs from a shoogly peg.
2 Dec 202311.35EST
GOAL! Burnley 3-0 Sheffield United (Amdouni 73)
An unmarked Mohamed Amdouni crashes home from close range and it really is game over at Turf Moor now.
![Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (7) Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (7)](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/044dfe9163590d685f7ad64bd1da8bf82426a610/0_90_3018_1811/master/3018.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)
2 Dec 202311.34EST
A couple of big Premier League games still to come tonight. It’s the big Newcastle v Manchester United clash this evening, and the 5.30 clash is pretty sweet too. Luke McLaughlin has all the news of Forest-Everton.
2 Dec 202311.28EST
RED CARD: Dijksteel (Middlesbrough). A second yellow for Anfernee Dijksteel and Leeds, who had already seemed the more likely to score the next goal, will look to press home their advantage now. They’re 3-2 up.
2 Dec 202311.23EST
Oli McBurnie, then. Here’s Justin Madson: “McBurnie spent so much time talking at the ref after his first yellow for elbowing someone in the face, it’s frankly incredible that he threw an even worse elbow five minutes later AND STILL tried to talk to the ref as if he wasn’t wrong. What were they even talking about? McBurnie’s training next week: how to jump without throwing elbows.”
2 Dec 202311.22EST
GOAL! Inverness Caledonian Thistle 1-0 Raith Rovers (McKay 61). Duncan Ferguson’s Highland honeymoon continues apace!
2 Dec 202311.21EST
It’s perhaps no surprise that Luton have folded. Their captain and defensive lynchpin Tom Lockyer didn’t come out for the second half. He’d picked up a back injury early in the game.
2 Dec 202311.16EST
GOAL! Brentford 2-0 Luton (Mee 56)
Ben Mee scores his first goal of the season, and all of a sudden it looks game over at the Brentford Community Stadium.
![Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (8) Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (8)](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cd0af6ba11632a5ba7852c5bcda1a1d50acaa7c3/0_179_4699_2820/master/4699.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)
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2 Dec 202311.10EST
GOAL! Brentford 1-0 Luton (Maupay 49)
It’s that man again! Neal Maupay slams home from close range. Two in four now, though, not bad going after that 14-month drought.
![Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (10) Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (10)](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b7bf2dd4b4ef6535249a37bf90fc0b6f48cce87d/0_0_3327_1997/master/3327.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)
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2 Dec 202311.08EST
A reminder that there’s some hot admin action going on here this afternoon. Join John Brewin for the big draw. And since you’re asking for a prediction: France, Hungary, Scotland, Italy. It’s inevitable.
2 Dec 202311.04EST
Championship half-times.
Birmingham 0-0 Rotherham
Hull City 1-1 Watford
Ipswich 2-0 Coventry
Leeds 3-2 Middlesbrough
Millwall 1-0 Sunderland
Plymouth 1-1 Stoke
Sheffield Wed 1-0 Blackburn
Southampton 2-0 Cardiff
Swansea 0-1 Huddersfield
WBA 1-2 Leicester (FT)
2 Dec 202311.02EST
That big Caley Thistle v Raith clash, then. “No goals yet at Inverness, and the home side without a single attempt during the first 45 minutes,” writes Simon McMahon. “Maybe Big Dunc will need to knock a few heads together during the interval.”
2 Dec 202310.54EST
Premier League half-times
Arsenal 2-0 Wolves
Brentford 0-0 Luton
Burnley 2-0 Sheffield United
2 Dec 202310.48EST
RED CARD: McBurnie (Sheffield United)
The Blades are already two goals down at Burnley; they’re now a man down as well. Oli McBurnie, having learned nothing from his close escape a few moments ago, gets elbow-happy in another aerial challenge and is awarded a second yellow.
![Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (12) Arsenal 2-1 Wolves, Burnley 5-0 Sheff Utd and more: Premier League clockwatch – as it happened (12)](https://i0.wp.com/i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2eae6e36c7a77a1a2f72f82ac509645c89eb7343/0_167_3065_1839/master/3065.jpg?width=465&dpr=1&s=none)