Matchday liveFootball Spurs and Villa hunt first league wins, Arsenal face Sunderland test – matchday live ⚽️ Buildup, news and discussion before Saturday’s games ⚽️ This weekend’s fixtures | Tables | Mail us your thoughts LIVE Updated 8m ago Tom Bassam Sat 12 Sep 2026 08.11 BSTFirst published on Sat 12 Sep 2026 08.00 BST Share Key events 20m ago Preamble From left: Bradley Barcola of Liverpool, Joshua King of Fulham and Pedro Neto of Chelsea.
Composite: Getty, Rex From left: Bradley Barcola of Liverpool, Joshua King of Fulham and Pedro Neto of Chelsea.
Composite: Getty, Rex Key events 20m ago Preamble Good morning football fans, before we start looking ahead to today, shall we have quick recap of last night’s action?
There’s not much to recap, to be honest, although West Ham did pump Wrexham 6-0 in east London.
Jarrod Bowen got the first just before the half hour as one of six different scorers.
North of the border, Hearts won 3-0 at Stenhousemuir to reach the Scottish League Cup semi-final.
Tom will be here shortly, but just to get you in the mood for today’s football action, here are the Premier League games: Bournemouth v Brentford (3pm, all times BST) Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest (3pm) Crystal Palace v Ipswich Town (3pm) Chelsea v Hull City (3pm) Liverpool v Fulham (3pm) Tottenham v Everton (5.30pm) Sunderland v Arsenal (8pm) And here are all of today’s fixtures.
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