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Full time: Wolves 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur
Premier League: Palhinha got the goal as Tottenham Hotspur secured their first league victory of the year against already relegated Wolves and their players are celebrating like they’ve just won the Champions League. They remain in the drop zone, two points behind West Ham.
Full time: West Ham 2-1 Everton
Premier League: Callum Wilson came off the bench to score the decisive goal for West Ham in the second minute of added time at the London Stadium. The gap between West Ham and Tottenham remains at two points
Full time: Liverpool 3-1 Crystal Palace
Premier League: Mo Salah limped out of what could be his last appearance in a Liverpool shirt with a hamstring injury, while Alexander Isak, Andy Robertson and Florian Wirtz scored the goals that did for Palace.
GOAL! Liverpool 3-1 Crystal Palace (Wirtz 90+6)
Liverpool extend their lead: Liverpool goalkeeper Freddie Woodman didn’t have to make way despite suffering what looked a serious knee injury and is on the field to see Florian Wirtz put this match beyond Palace in the knockings with a half-volley that went in off the woodwork.
West Ham 2-1 Everton: That goal: El Hadji Malick Diouf sent a cross into the Everton penalty area and Jarrod Bowen headed the ball back across the face of goal to tee up WIlson, who made no mistake from close range.
GOAL! West Ham 2-1 Everton (Wilson 90+2)
West Ham restore their lead! On as a substitute, Callum Wilson plunges Spurs back into the relegation zone with a goal in the third minute of added time.
Championship: Jaydon Banel scores in the 88th minute to send Derby County 3-2 ahead against QPR in a ding-dong battle at Lofts Road. At Carrow Road, Kenny McLean has equalised for Norwich against Swansea City.
GOAL! West Ham 1-1 Everton (Dewsbury-Hall 88)
Everton equalise! Not long after Everton had an excellent penalty shout turned down, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall restores parity for them at the London Stadium. As things stand, Tottenham Hotspur are out of the relegation zone, above West Ham on goal difference.
GOAL! Wolves 0-1 Tottenham Hotspur (Palhinha 82)
Spurs take the lead! Pedro Porro takes another corner, Richarlison sends a shot goalwards and Palhinha sticks out a toe to steer the ball past Jose Sa. The goal stands despite a long VAR check for offside.
Championship: Portsmouth go 3-1 ahead against Stoke as Adrian Segecic completes his hat-trick on 82 minutes. Patrick Bamford makes it Sheffield 2-3 Preston at Bramall Lane and Tomi Horvat scores a penalty to halve Bristol City’s deficit against Birmingham at St Andrew’s, where it’s 2-1.
Championship: Lewis Dobbin sends Preston 3-1 up against Sheffield United at Bramall Lane, while Sondre Langas equalises for Derby against QPR at Loftus Road, where it’s 2-2.
GOAL! Liverpool 2-1 Crystal Palace (Munoz 71)
Premier League: Freddie Woodman saves from Ismaila Sarr and injures his knee in the process. He tries to return to his feet but can’t, allowing Daniel Munoz to score into the unguarded net from 20 yards. Liverpool’s third choice goalkeeper looks to have suffered a bad knee injury but hasn’t come off yet.
Championship: Oxford United are leading Sheffield Wednesday 4-1 at the Kassam Stadium. Wednesday pulled a goal back through Will Grainger, only for Myles Peart-Harris to score at the other end for Oxford a minute later.
Wolves 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Spurs win a corner and Jose Sa gets down to save Rodrigo Bentancur’s strong header after the Uruguayan had got on the end of Pedro Porro’s inswinger.
Wolves 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: A mistake by Kevin Danso goes unpunished and he owes Antonin Kinski a couple of pints for sparing his blushes. The Tottenham goalkeeper rushed off his line to bravely deny Adam Armstrong after Danso made a dog’s breakfast of his effort to deal with a long ball from deep.
Xavi Simons forced off with a knee injury
Wolves 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Simons can’t continue and looks very upset as he makes way for Lucas Bergvall. I suspect that may be the last we see of Simons this season and he may be a non-starter as far as the Netherlands’ World Cup campaign is concerned. This afternoon is turning into the stuff of Tottenham’s worst nightmares.
Wolves 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Already a Dominic Solanke down after their centre-forward was forced off in the first half with a hammy, the Spurs bench look on in despair as Xavi Simons goes down with a knee injury. He’s soldiering on for now but it doesn’t look great for the Dutchman. If it wasn’t for bad luck, Spurs wouldn’t have any luck at all.
Mo Salah pulls his hamstring
Liverpool 2-0 Crystal Palace: Mo Salah pulls up lame and limps out of what looks like being his final appearance in a Liverpool shirt. It’s a sad way for his time at the club to end, presuming it is his last hurrah.
Championship: Richard Kone has given QPR a 2-1 lead over Derby County at Loftus Road.
Championship: It’s all square between Stoke and Portsmouth in the Potteries, where unbeknownst to me until a few moments ago, Lamine Cisse equalised for the hosts shortly after half-time.
Championship: Zan Vipotnik scores from the spot to give Swansea City a one-goal lead over Norwich.
GOAL! West Ham 1-0 Everton (Soucek 52)
Premier League: West Ham take the lead through Tomas Soucek, who steers a header past Jordan Pickford at a corner moments after his side had a penalty shout turned down.
West Ham 0-0 Everton: West Ham appeal for a penalty as Taty Castellanos is brought down by Jordan Pickford, whose momentum led to him catching the West Ham striker as he came out to dive at his feet. It’s no penalty but there’s a goal at the London Stadium and if you’re a Spurs fan, look away now …
Tottenham Hotspur: Those who celebrate expected goals might be interested to hear that Roberto de Zerbi’s side had an xG of 0.12 in the first half of their match against Wolves. Mathys Tel is on for Randal Kolo Muani at half-time in a bid to take the bare look off that dismal stat.
Premier League half-times
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Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa (R)
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West Ham 0-0 Everton
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Wolves 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur
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Liverpool 2-0 Crystal Palace
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Arsenal v Newcastle (5.30pm)
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Championship half-times
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Charlton Athletic 2-1 Hull City (R)
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Middlesbrough 5-1 Watford (R)
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West Brom 0-0 Ipswich Town (R)
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Birmingham City 2-0 Bristol City
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Norwich City 0-0 Swansea City
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Oxford United 2-0 Sheffield Wednesday
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QPR 1-1 Derby County
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Sheffield United 0-2 Preston
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Stoke City 0-1 Portsmouth
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Liverpool 2-0 Crystal Palace: Palace have a mountain to climb if they are to beat Liverpool for the fourth time this season. Alexander Isak and Andy Robertson got the goals, as Liverpool secured a 2-0 first-half lead.
West Ham 0-0 Everton: The deadlock remains resolutely unbroken between West Ham and Everton at the London Stadium in a state of affairs that will suit West Ham more than the hal stalemate at Molineux …
Wolves 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Wolves midfielder Andre has been booked for a crunching tackle on Yves Bissouma that perhaps deserved a red card. Tottenham’s players certainly thought so and even Rob Edwards feared the worst as Anthony Taylor pondered his decision. It’s half-time at Molineux.
Wolves 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: We’re still waiting for a shot on target from either team at Molineux. Tottenham have just lost Dominic Solanke to injury and are offering little or nothing in attack.
GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Crystal Palace (Robertson 40)
Premier League: Freddie Woodman pulls off a superb save from JP Mateta at one end, before Liverpool break forward and score through Andy Robertson at the other. The Scot was played in behind by Curtis Jones before firing a low shot past Dean Henderson.
Wolves 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur: Spurs striker Dominic Solanke has gone down with a hamstring injury and it looks like his afternoon, if not his season is over. Richarlison is ready to take his place.
GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Crystal Palace (Isak 35)
Premier League: Alexander Isak puts Liverpool ahead against their 2025-26 bogey team, intercepting an Alexis Mac Allister shot that was going wide and sending the ball past Dean Henderosn. It’s the Swede’s first goal since breaking his leg in December.
Championship: Adrien Segecic has given Portsmouth a one-goal lead at Stoke City in a match between two sides separated by just one point and playing for little more than pride.
Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa
Premier League match report: Ryan Sessegnon scored the only goal of the game as Ollie Watkins and Tammy Abraham missed chances for the visitors in front of the watching England head coach Thomas Tuchel. Ben Bloom reports from Craven Cottage …
Championship: Jhon Solis doubles Birmingham’s lead over Bristol City at St Andrew’s, as the hosts capitalise on a horrific error from Sam Morsy.
Championship: Relegated before they’d even got to kick a ball this afternoon because of early results elsewhere, Oxford United are 2-0 ahead against Sheffield Wednesday courtesy of Will Lankshear’s second goal of the game. Both sides will be playing League One football next season.
Championship: Oscar Fraulo has restored parity for Derby County against QPR at Loftus Road, where it’s all square at one goal apiece after 28 minutes.
No penalty for Liverpool
Premier League: As expected, the decision is overturned. There was no foul but it almost certainly wasn’t a dive either. Salah simply lost his balance and fell over as Johnson chased him down.
Penalty for Liverpool!
Premier League: Crystal Palace’s Brennan Johnson is penalised for a trip on Mo Salah, who goes to ground on the edge of the penalty area and gets straight back up without appealing for a spot-kick. There didn’t look to be any contact and this decision will probably be overturned on the advice of VAR.
Championship: Liam Lindsey scores his second goal of the afternoon, sending a glancing header at a corner past Adam Davies to put Preston two goals up.
League Two: Take a bow Callum Stead. The Barnet striker has scored a hat-trickinside 17 minutes against Gillingham to keep his side’s playoff hopes alive and kicking.
Premier League: We’re still waiting for a goal, or even a chance of note in any of the three top flight matches being played at the moment. West Ham are looking nervous against Everton, while Tottenham are dominating Wolves early doors but have yet to trouble Jose Sa.
Championship: Harvey Vale gives QPR a 1-0 lead over Derby County at Loftus Road, sending a low drive past Jacob Zetterström into the bottom corner after 13 minutes.
Championship: Birmingham City are one up against Bristol City at St Andrew’s, where Phil Neumann has put the home side’s noses in front.
Championship: In the relegation wake between Oxford United and Sheffield Wednesday at the Kassam Stadium, Will Lankshear has given the home side the lead, firing through the legs of Wednesday goalkeeper Pierce Charles. At Bramall Lane, Liam Lindsay has put Preston a goal up against Sheffield United.
Scottish Premiership: Aremu Afeez has given Aberdeen an early lead against Kilmarnock. Celtic host Falkirk at 5.30pm and will leapfrog Hearts and Rangers to take an overnight lead at the top of the table if they win.
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“It’ll take some going for Spain v Cape Verde not to be my game of the tournament,” writes James Humphries, and he’s a Scotland supporter. “I could barely watch the last five minutes, and there was a lot of involuntary yelling and clapping. Football, bloody hell.
“It’s such a pure, pleasing underdog story I’m not even unduly bothered by the sudden realisation that cape Verde may very well end up getting more points than us.”
The story of day five has already been written
Egypt team guide
By Saher Ahmed
Egypt qualified for the World Cup unbeaten after missing out on Qatar 2022, booking their ticket to North America with a game to spare. They scored 19 goals in nine matches, as Mohamed Salah led the way with nine, conceded two goals and kept seven clean sheets. Despite the impressive numbers in qualifying, Egypt’s shape is pragmatic more than romantic and they carried that same muscle memory into the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations: tight games, deep stretches without the ball, quick release into Salah or Omar Marmoush. This was exposed by a semi-final defeat to Senegal, when Egypt were set up more to endure rather than to control.
Egypt will probably begin the World Cup in a 4-3-3 formation that becomes a 4-2-3-1 when they have to chase a game, while occasionally switching to a 3-5-2 against high blocks. Mohamed El-Shenawy is likely to start in goal, although Mostafa Shobeir has lately been giving the veteran a run for his money. The rest of the spine looks solid with Rami Rabia and either Hossam Abdelmaguid or Yasser Ibrahim in central defence. Marwan Attia and Hamdi Fathi will screen the backline and Emam Ashour will look to deliver the ball to the trio up front.
Egypt are cohesive, often hard to score against and emotionally committed, but they can still look blunt if opponents double up on Salah and the midfield cannot pass through the press. The draw placed Egypt in Group G with Belgium, Iran and New Zealand. Egypt have never won a World Cup match so ending that is the floor-level target.
Yara El-Shaboury
Last week Orange, one of Egypt’s leading mobile network operators, released a series of humorous adverts starring Egypt’s Ahmed Fatouh, Rami Rabia and Hossam Abdelmaguid, where the trio’s optimism is met with scepticism as partners and family members struggle to take them seriously. Their crime? Daring to suggest Egypt might finally progress beyond the group stage of a World Cup.
If there is one thing Egyptians do particularly well, it is self-deprecation. Perhaps that comes from history. Despite winning the Africa Cup of Nations seven times, Egypt are still waiting for their first World Cup victory. The Pharaohs will kick off their fourth appearance at the tournament against Belgium on Monday knowing they failed to win any of their seven matches so far.
That is the contradiction at the heart of Egyptian football. No African nation has won more continental titles, yet Egypt remain one of the continent’s World Cup underachievers. While other African nations aim to replicate Morocco’s 2022 semi-final success, many Egyptians would happily settle for something far more modest: a single group stage victory.
Team news
Belgium (4-2-3-1) Courtois; Meunier, Ngoy, Mechele, Ngoy, Castagne; Onana, Tielemans; Doku, De Bruyne, Trossard, De Ketelaere.
Subs: Lammens, Penders, Theate, De Cuyper, Witsel, Lukaku, Lukebakio, De Winter, Seys, Moreira, Vanaken, Saelemaekers, Raskin, Fernandez-Pardo.
Egypt (4-2-3-1) Shobeir; Hany, Fathy, Ibrahim, Fattouh; Lasheen, Attia; Salah, Ashour, Ziko; Marmoush.
Subs: El Shenawy, Soliman, Alaa, Abdelmaguid, Rabia, Abdelmoneim, Trezeguet, Abdelkarim, Hassan, Hafez, Donga, Adel, Saber, Alaa, Zizo.
Referee Ramon Abatti (Brazil)
Full time: Spain 0-0 Cape Verde
Yep, Spain 0-0 Cape Verde. There won’t be a more life-affirming goalless draw at this year’s World Cup; there may never have been one.
Belgium team guide
By Ludo Vandewalle
The head coach, Rudi Garcia, is well aware that the Red Devils’ strength lies in attack. Kevin De Bruyne, Jérémy Doku and Romelu Lukaku can each make a difference in their own way. The defence is, except for goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois, the weak point after the golden generation of Toby Alderweireld, Vincent Kompany, Thomas Vermaelen and Jan Vertonghen gradually retired. “That is why I will always choose four defenders and not five,” Garcia explains. “With five defenders I have to sacrifice an attacking player and that would be a shame.”
Garcia usually opts for a medium block to support the attack and not put too much pressure on the defenders. His reasoning could be described as flawed because there is a problem with Lukaku. He played only 64 minutes for Napoli this season and none for the national team because of injuries until coming off the bench in Tuesday night’s 2-0 win against Croatia, scoring the second goal in added time. He was also deeply affected by the death of his father. Belgium’s all time top scorer – 90 goals – will therefore start the World Cup without any kind of match rhythm.
The other teams in Group G are Iran and New Zealand, who meet in the last of today’s games.
Preamble
Hel and welcome to live, minute-by-minute coverage of Belgium v Egypt at Seattle Stadium. The 2026 World Cup is gathering pace – we’re already into day five, and by tomorrow morning 32 of the 48 teams will have been in action.
So far we’ve seen everything from potential winners to probable also-rans. It’s hard to know where Belgium and Egypt fit on that particular spectrum. Both are adjusting to life after a golden generation, or at least with a dwindling golden generation that no longer glisters as it once did. But they are still serious teams who could do damage in the competition.
This intriguing game should give us a clue as to the extent of that damage.
Kick off 12pm local/8pm BST/3pm EDT/5am AEST
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