Under-fire Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl was relieved to be on the right side of fine margins after easing pressure on his position with a vital victory at south coast rivals Bournemouth.Che Adams’ early header secured a nervy 1-0 success at Vitality Stadium to propel Saints out of the Premier League relegation zone following a five-match winless run.Bournemouth dominated the second ha...Full Story »

Burnley manager Vincent Kompany admitted he was annoyed at conceding a “cheap” goal after they missed the chance to regain top spot in the Sky Bet Championship after being held to a 1-1 draw by Birmingham at St Andrew’s.Substitute Johann Berg Gudmundsson handed the Clarets a 74th-minute lead just four minutes after coming off the bench.The Iceland international struck with a cu...Full Story »

Graham Potter defended his decision to leave Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on the bench for 81 minutes of Chelsea’s goalless derby draw at Brentford.Former Arsenal striker Aubameyang, who has scored three times in his last five matches, was left kicking his heels as his team-mates laboured in front of goal.Aubameyang was finally sent on with nine minutes remaining but his only half-chance was ...Full Story »

Jim Goodwin hailed his players for a job well done as Aberdeen comfortably progressed to the semi-finals of the Premier Sports Cup, routing Partick Thistle 4-1.The Dons were 3-0 up at the break after Luis Lopes’ effort, a Kevin Holt own goal and a Hayden Coulson strike that may yet go down as an own goal after taking a massive deflection off Jack McMillan.Thistle pulled one back early in t...Full Story »

Bruno Fernandes brilliantly wrapped up a mightily impressive Manchester United victory against Tottenham as Erik ten Hag’s men produced their finest performance of the season.Three days on from the frustrating scoreless home draw with Newcastle, the Red Devils produced an exceptional display to see off Champions League qualification rivals at a rocking Old Trafford.Antonio Conte’s Sp...Full Story »

Chelsea maintained their unbeaten run under Graham Potter but had to settle for a point after a damp squib of a derby at Brentford finished goalless. The Blues made the short trip across west London on the back of five successive victories in all competitions, winning each of the last four without conceding. Once again they kept a clean sheet, but there was a distinct lack of cutting edge up...Full Story »

Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez’s first Anfield goal capped an impressive individual performance as a 1-0 win over West Ham was secured thanks to Alisson Becker’s penalty save. The 23-year-old, a summer arrival in a £64million deal which with add-ons could eventually make him a club-record signing, has had a disjointed start to his Liverpool career but is already becoming some...Full Story »

Southampton eased mounting pressure on manager Ralph Hasenhuttl by climbing out of the Premier League relegation zone thanks to a nervy 1-0 win over Bournemouth.Che Adams’ early header proved decisive at Vitality Stadium as Saints ended a five-match winless run and kept a first clean sheet in 17 top-flight games, dating back to April.Bournemouth dominated the second half but created little...Full Story »

Burnley missed the chance to regain top spot in the Sky Bet Championship after they were held to a 1-1 draw by a resolute Birmingham at St Andrew’s.Johann Berg Gudmundsson handed the Clarets a 74th-minute lead just four minutes after coming off the bench.But Scott Hogan equalised just six minutes later to give John Eustace’s side a deserved point.The point for Vincent Kompany’s...Full Story »

Martyn Waghorn scored his first Coventry goal for over a year as the Sky Blues moved off the bottom of the Sky Bet Championship with a 1-0 win over Sheffield United.The striker came off the bench to score a penalty in the 87th minute to make it back-to-back wins for Mark Robins’ men for the first time since April after their 1-0 victory against Cardiff at the weekend.The defeat leaves Paul...Full Story »

Fulham are expected to be without Kenny Tete for the visit of Aston Villa.The full-back has had a number of setbacks in his recovery from injury and is not expected to be fit enough to feature on Thursday.Aleksandar Mitrovic is likely to be fully fit despite saying he was in pain during Fulham’s 2-2 draw with Bournemouth, while Layvin Kurzawa and Manor Solomon remain out with injuries.Came...Full Story »

N'GOLO KANTE is set to be out for the next FOUR MONTHS after having hamstring surgery. The midfielder will now miss the World Cup as France seek to defend their crown. N'Gole Kante will be out for the next four months after undergoing hamstring surgery Kante, 31, has spent much of the season sidelined by injury. He managed to play just the first two games of the campaign before picking up th...Full Story »

Rotherham manager Matt Taylor admitted luck played its part in his team’s smash-and-grab 1-0 Sky Bet Championship win at frustrated Stoke.Ollie Rathbone scored after six minutes with the Millers’ only shot on target while City managed 29, including 12 on target.Rathbone’s strike – his second goal in the Potteries this season after scoring in the EFL Trophy at Port Vale &n...Full Story »

West Brom caretaker head coach Richard Beale insisted the club’s next manager inherits a strong squad to climb the Sky Bet Championship after Bristol City beat them 2-0 at The Hawthorns.Goals from Joe Williams and Nahki Wells clinched City’s second win in eight outings, moving them six places up the table to 11th.Wells made the first goal and scored the second – his seventh of ...Full Story »

Inverness remain level on points with Scottish Championship leaders Partick Thistle despite a 1-0 home defeat to Hamilton Academical.Despite trailing their hosts by 13 points prior to kick-off, it was ninth-placed Hamiltonwho left with all three points from the clash.Andrew Winter scored the only goal of the game in the 22nd minute after capitalising on a low cross to slot home.It was Winter&rsq...Full Story »

Blackburn went top of the Sky Bet Championship as Ben Brereton Diaz’s stunning goal on his 100th Rovers start helped them to a 2-0 win over Sunderland.In an even game, Jon Dahl Tomasson’s men did what they are becoming accustomed to doing and put their opponents to the sword with a display of clinical finishing, exemplified by Brereton Diaz’s magnificent opener from Blackburn&r...Full Story »

West Bromwich Albion’s home woes continued as they were beaten 2-0 by Bristol City.The managerless Baggies, with Richard Beale in caretaker charge after the sacking of Steve Bruce, haven’t won in five home games after Joe Williams and Nahki Wells scored before half-time.Former West Brom assistant manager and caretaker boss Nigel Pearson’s side won for only the second time in ei...Full Story »

Ollie Rathbone scored the winner to earn Rotherham a 1-0 victory over Stoke at the bet365 Stadium.Rathbone struck in the sixth minute, but the Millers were indebted to goalkeeper Viktor Johansson for ending a five-game winless streak against the home side stretching back to 2005.Rotherham’s only away win this season came via a 2-1 Carabao Cup success at City’s neighbours Port Vale ba...Full Story »

Nottingham Forest climbed off the bottom of the Premier League table following a battling goalless draw which extended Roberto De Zerbi’s winless start as Brighton manager.Seagulls forward Leandro Trossard rattled the crossbar in the first half on a frustrating evening for the dominant hosts at the Amex Stadium, while Pascal Gross was denied a late winner by a superb save from visiting goa...Full Story »

Preston moved to within two points of the Sky Bet Championship play-off places courtesy of Greg Cunningham’s second-half header as they defeated Huddersfield 1-0 at the John Smith’s Stadium.Both sides had come into the game in stuttering form and it showed in the first half as they failed to impose themselves on each other, with Preston’s Alvaro Fernandez having the best chance...Full Story »