Goals from Jordan Slew and Rhys Williams gave League Two club Morecambe a hard-fought 2-0 victory over National League South side Worthing in the FA Cup first round.Slew opened the scoring in the seventh minute but the visitors did not wrap the game up until Williams’ 88th-minute strike.Morecambe started the game on the front foot and soon took the lead.Adam Lewis’ long throw from th...Full Story »

Eddie Howe brushed aside Mikel Arteta’s backhanded compliment after guiding Newcastle to a second successive win over Premier League title hopefuls Arsenal at St James’ Park.Just as they had done last season, the Gunners emerged from their trip to Tyneside on the wrong end of a 1-0 scoreline, and this time there was no controversial goal to blame for the defeat.Arteta instead admitte...Full Story »

Narcis Pelach’s focus on set-pieces paid off as Ben Gibson’s late header secured Stoke a 2-1 win against Derby.Stoke led through an early Tom Cannon penalty before a mix-up between Gibson and goalkeeper Viktor Johansson saw the visitors level midway through the second half.But skipper Gibson headed in from a corner in the 82nd minute to earn Pelach just a second Championship win sinc...Full Story »

Swansea boss Luke Williams described his team’s 2-1 win at Oxford as their best away performance of the season.Strikers Zan Vipotnik and Florian Bianchini struck in the 38th and 80th minutes as the Swans at last found the net after failing to score in October.Sub Dane Scarlett pulled a goal back two minutes from time for Oxford, who slipped to a first home defeat of the campaign.Williams s...Full Story »

Chris Wilder pinpointed Sheffield United’s “dominant” second-half performance after they beat Blackburn 2-0.The Blades deservedly took the lead when Harrison Burrows lashed in his first goal for the club in the first half but they needed Tyrese Campbell’s second-half volley to make the result safe.Wilder’s side have now won seven of their last 10 and when asked abou...Full Story »

Sheffield United made it back-to-back Championship wins with a 2-0 victory at Blackburn.Chris Wilder’s men bossed the game from the moment Harrison Burrows’ crisp strike – his first for the club – fired them into the lead early in the first half.They created numerous opportunities with Kieffer Moore twice going close in the second half before Tyrese Campbell’s secon...Full Story »

Swansea scored their first goals in more than nine hours as they beat Oxford 2-1 at the Kassam Stadium.It was Oxford’s first home defeat of the season and they have now gone eight Championship matches without a win.After failing to find the net throughout October, the Swans eventually ended their barren run in the 38th minute when Zan Vipotnik turned in Ronald’s cross from the right....Full Story »

Ben Gibson headed in a late winner as Stoke beat Derby 2-1 in the Championship.The Potters went into the lead early on through Tom Cannon’s ninth-minute penalty after he was taken down by Jacob Widell Zetterstrom.Derby, somewhat against the run of play, levelled things up in bizarre fashion after Gibson’s header beat his own goalkeeper Viktor Johansson, who got the last touch as the ...Full Story »

Newcastle striker Alexander Isak dented Arsenal’s title hopes as his bullet header condemned them to a second Premier League defeat of the season.The Sweden international converted Anthony Gordon’s inviting 12th-minute cross with aplomb to claim his third goal in as many games and hand the Magpies a 1-0 win in front of a crowd of 52,249 at St James’ Park.Three points were just ...Full Story »

Juventus have reportedly placed unsettled Paris Saint-Germain defender Milan Skriniar at the top of their wishlist for the January transfer window. According to Gazzetta dello Sport, via FCInterNews, the former Inter captain has become the leading candidate to replace Gleison Bremer. Skriniar teamed up with PSG in the summer of 2023 after running down his contract at Giuseppe Meazza. But desp...Full Story »