Key events
87 min: Everton 1-2 Sunderland A powerful close-range header from Joey O’Brien hits the collarbone of Robin Roefs, who had almost no time to react, and flies over the bar. O’Brien will probably feel he should have scored.
85 min: Brentford 1-2 Crystal Palace A shot from Dango Ouattara is pushed round the post by Dean Henderson, a pretty good save. Meanwhile…
84 min: Everton 1-2 Sunderland Apparently Enzo Le Fee is both magician and superhero.
82 min: Everton 1-2 Sunderland That goal lifts Sunderland to ninth, behind Brentford only on goal differencee. Brentford go to Anfield next Sunday; Sunderland play at home to Chelsea. At home.
GOAL! Everton 1-2 Sunderland (Le Fee 81)
And now Sunderland are right in the hunt for European football! Enzo Le Fee puts them in front and celebrates by donning a Spiderman mask. After a brilliantly cool square pass from Chris Rigg, Le Fee scuffed a shot from 10 yards that Jordan Pickford could only push into the net.
Since you asked, this is the final round of Premier League fixtures a week today. Don’t ask me what order they’re in.
The latest scores with around 10 minutes remaining
77 min: Leeds 0-0 Brighton Leeds substitute Joel Piroe flashes a curling shot just wide from the edge of the D.
Newcastle v West Ham team news
The biggest game of the day kicks off at 5.30pm. Daniel Harris has the team news from St James’ Park.
Snakes and ladders department
After almost 37 games, there are only two points separating five teams in the race for Europe.
74 min: Leeds 0-0 Brighton Poor Anton Stach appears to have suffered a serious injury at Elland Road. He’s being helped onto a stretcher and looks in considerable distress. That’s a really sad end to a superb first season at Elland Road.
The latest scores
69 min: Wolves 1-1 Fulham Hwang plays a cute through pass to Adam Armstrong, who chips the ball over the outrushing Bernd Leno… and off the outside of the near post.
67 min: Leeds 0-0 Brighton Diego Gomez, who has also just come on the field, slashes an excellent chance off target. If results elsewhere stay the same, a goal for Brighton would guarantee European football next season. I think.
65 min: Leeds 0-0 Brighton Leeds old boy Georginio Rutter has come on to replace Danny Welbeck.
The latest scores
GOAL! Everton 1-1 Sunderland (Brobbey 59)
Everton are no longer in a European spot, but Sunderland are scrapping for one. Brian Brobbey has equalised at Hill Dickinson Stadium with a well-taken goal. After a mistake from Joey O’Brien, Brobbey ignored a physical challenge from James Tarkowski and finished emphatically.
58 min: Everton 1-0 Sunderland Trai Hume’s mishit cross forces Jordan Pickford into a desperate, acrobatic save. It’s hard to tell whether the ball would have dropped into the net or hit the crossbar; Pickford ensured we’ll never know.
On this day in 1980… Wales give England one hell of a beating.
57 min: Everton 1-0 Sunderland Wharton’s goal means Everton are in a European place as things stand.
55 min: Brentford 1-2 Crystal Palace No wonder Adam Wharton was so euphoric: that’s his first goal in two-and-a-bit years at Palace.
GOAL! Brentford 1-2 Crystal Palace (Wharton 54)
Palace restore their lead at the Gtech Community Stadium. Adam Wharton celebrates with a somersault – who knew he was a Peter Beagrie fan – after rifling a long-shot through Caiomhin Kelleher. A decent strike, and it came through the crowd, but Kelleher would usually save that.
“It’s all over in the SPL for another season, Rob, except for the play off between St. Mirren and Partick Thistle which will decide who takes the final spot for next season,” writes Simon McMahon. “Hearts were undoubtedly the story of the season. Gonna take them a while to get over how it ended I think. They’ll always have 1986 1965 1960.”
Too soon, McMahon. Too soon to talk about 1986, never mind yesterday.
On this day in 1997… the fastest FA Cup final goal (until 2023)
50 min: Leeds 0-0 Brighton Danny Welbeck almost puts Brighton ahead with a smart turn and shot that is headed off the line by Ethan Ampadu.
Peep peep! Leeds 0-0 Brighton is back under way, and the other games should soon follow.
The race for Europe (as it stands)
Half-time scores
The half-time whistle has been blown in all four Premier League games. This is what’s what.
GOAL! Wolves 1-1 Fulham (Robinson 45+3 pen)
With Raul Jimenez on the bench, Antonee Robinson steps up to score calmly from the spot. Fulham are level.
Penalty to Fulham!
Mateus Mane has done a Mathys Tel: after scoring a belter to put his team ahead, he has conceded a penalty with a foul on a player he didn’t realise was behind him. In this case it was Fulham’s Timothy Castagne. VAR needed to get involved but it was pretty clear.
45 min: Leeds 0-0 Brighton Bart Verbruggen makes a flying save to deny Dominic Calvert-Lewin. Meanwhile…
GOAL! Everton 1-0 Sunderland (Rohl 43)
The impressive Merlin Rohl has put Everton ahead at Hill Dickinson Stadium. He cut inside from the right and drove a hopeful low shot that took a big deflection off Granit Xhaka and flew over the diving Robin Roefs.
That goal means Everton are behind eighth-placed Brentford only on goal differencee.
GOAL! Brentford 1-1 Crystal Palace (Ouattara 41)
Palace should be miles in front; now they not in front at all. Dango Ouattara has equalised for Brentford with a goal he knew very little about. A defensive header from Jaydee Canvot hit Ouattara, seven yards out, and ricocheted into the net.
38 min: Everton 0-0 Sunderland A header from James Tarkowski is shovelled round the near post by Robin Roefs. A goal for Everton or Sunderland would change the picture in the race for eighth.
Ewan Murray
The placing of a full stop on any league campaign offers cause for reflection. In Scotland, there are reasons to wonder if the grim denouement to a stunning title race will prompt a shift in attitudes on two fronts. Whether a Celtic board which has been castigated for its stewardship regard the securing of another title as vindication is an intriguing question.
More immediate is how the champions and others will respond to the grim scenes that triggered an enforced conclusion to the visit of Hearts. The behaviour of a section of the Celtic support is so unruly during dominance that one wonders what on earth may happen if the team struggle badly.
Strand Larsen hits the post!
33 min: Brentford 0-1 Crystal Palace A curling shot from Jorgan Strand Larsen beats Caiomhin Kelleher and clatters off the far post. Palace have hit both posts and could be out of sight already.
32 min: Brentford 0-1 Crystal Palace A long cross is headed back across goal by Igor Thiago to Nathan Collins, who shoots straight at Dean Henderson from close range. A very good chance, though I think any goal would have been disallowed for offside against Igor Thiago.
Premier League latest scores
28 min: Wolves 1-0 Fulham Saying which, they’ve just had an excellent chance to equalise. A corner from the right was headed onto the roof of the net by Sander Berge with Jose Sa out of the game.
27 min: Wolves 1-0 Fulham Fulham’s form has gone to seed in the last few weeks:
0-2 Liverpool (A)
0-0 Brentford (A)
1-0 Aston Villa (H)
0-3 Arsenal (A)
0-1 Bournemouth (H)
GOAL! Wolves 1-0 Fulham (Mane 26)
Mateus Mane, one of the few Wolves players to enhance his reputation this season, has smashed a 20-yarder past Bernd Leno at Molineux. That’s a cracking goal.
