Newcastle 2-0 Burnley, Leicester 2-1 Brighton and more – as it happened

Newcastle’s good form continues, while Brendan Rodgers saw his new charges break their winless streak and Huddersfield stunned Wolves

10.11pm GMT

And finally ... Newcastle United 2-0 Burnley. Louise Taylor was at St James’ Park to see Toon continue their fine run and become a mid-table concern. Thanks for reading tonight’s Clockwatch; make sure to come back tomorrow evening for some more hot Premier League action! Nighty night.

Related: Sean Longstaff on target as Newcastle end Burnley’s good run

10.05pm GMT

Huddersfield Town 1-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers. Paul Wilson was at the John Smith’s Stadium to watch the Terriers dramatically win an otherwise nondescript scrap with Wolves.

Related: Huddersfield’s Steve Mounié finds reward at the last to see off tame Wolves

10.03pm GMT

Leicester City 2-1 Brighton & Hove Albion. Paul Doyle was on hand at the King Power to witness a winning start for the all-new true-blue Brendan Rodgers.

Related: Leicester impress Brendan Rodgers with determined win over Brighton

10.02pm GMT

Cardiff City 0-3 Everton. Ben Fisher was at the Cardiff City Stadium to see Gylfi Sigurdsson turn Everton’s season around.

Related: Everton get much-needed lift at Cardiff thanks to Gylfi Sigurdsson’s double

10.00pm GMT

It’s not just Newcastle who enjoyed their evening in the Premier League. Everton ended a run of three losses with a comprehensive victory at Cardiff, who remain in serious relegation trouble. Huddersfield are almost certainly going down, but a late Steve Mounie winner against mid-table Wolves will have given Jan Siewert hope for a Championship rebuild. And Leicester have a new manager and a new one-in-a-row winning sequence, no small thing seeing they’d previously not won a league game in 2019. Brighton might have to start looking over their shoulder, though, as their winless streak continues, bringing the relegation zone into sharp focus.

9.56pm GMT

FULL TIME: Newcastle United 2-0 Burnley. The final final whistle of the evening sounds, and that’s four home wins in a row for the Toon. They’ve claimed 13 of the last 18 points on offer! Rafa Benitez really is a class act. They leapfrog Burnley into 13th spot on 31 points; Burnley drop to 15th on 30. Neither team is going down.

9.56pm GMT

James Tarkowski tangles with Joselu in the midfield, then as the Newcastle man falls, makes to stamp near his head. Then he leans over the prone player and has a word. That wasn’t particularly edifying from Tarkowski, who could easily have caused a serious injury there. Inches in it. The ref sees nothing.

9.52pm GMT

Another mad scramble in the Newcastle box! The home side’s nerves are betraying them. They can’t get out at all. But Burnley are a little too desperate, and nobody’s able to get a shot or a header away. The tension at St James’ is palpable, two-goal cushion deep into injury time or no!

9.49pm GMT

Now Crouch has planted an elbow on Mohamed Diame’s temple! That looked totally accidental, to be fair, as three players contested a high ball. But that’s a very sore one for Diame, who is down getting treatment and not moving around so much. Happily he gets up, his head swathed in bandages. The board goes up for five added minutes, but it’ll be a bit more than that now.

9.46pm GMT

Burnley spent a couple of minutes pinning Newcastle back there, looking for the goal that’d rattle the home team’s nerves. There was one almighty scramble in the six-yard box, a good old-fashioned lot of nonsense, but nobody in claret could toe-poke home. Meanwhile the veteran Peter Crouch, on in search of late glory for Burnley, steps on the top of man-of-the-match Fabian Schar’s boot. It’s a really clumsy challenge, as opposed to nasty, but he wasn’t fully in control and can consider himself fortunate to only see yellow.

9.44pm GMT

Still a few minutes to go at St James’ Park, where Newcastle still lead Burnley 2-0. Meanwhile there were some notable celebrations at the final whistles of the 7.45pm kick-offs, with Brendan Rodgers chuffed to bits with his new charges, and Jan Siewert cavorting with delight after securing his first win as Huddersfield boss. The Terriers are still going down, of course, unless something truly surreal unfolds, but there’s a result worth getting carried away about, December and January having been such cruel months.

9.41pm GMT

Premier League
Cardiff City 0-3 Everton
Huddersfield Town 1-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Leicester City 2-1 Brighton & Hove Albion
Newcastle United 2-0 Burnley (L)

Championship
Bristol City 1-2 Birmingham City
Hull City 2-1 Millwall
QPR 1-0 Leeds
Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 Brentford

9.37pm GMT

GOAL! Huddersfield Town 1-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers (Mounie 90+1). Aaron Mooy crosses from the right, and Steve Mounie scores a dramatic late winner! Surely! If the Terriers can hold on, they’ll end a long losing run that stretches back to November ... when they beat Wolves at Molineux. This is exactly how football works, isn’t it?!

9.35pm GMT

GOAL! Cardiff City 0-3 Everton (Calvert-Lewin 90+3). A perfect evening’s work for Everton, who snap their three-match losing run in style. Dominic Calvert-Lewin curls home an injury-time bonus, and they go into the Merseyside derby with an extra bounce in their step.

9.32pm GMT

Newcastle’s Fabian Schar is in a rich vein of form right now. A couple of goals recently against Cardiff, an absolute pearler today against Burnley, and now he’s just sprayed a magnificent 70-yard right-to-left crossfield pass towards Matt Ritchie, sending his team-mate into acres down his wing. The resulting cross isn’t converted, Salomon Rondon unable to get an effort on target from a tight angle on the right, Miguel Almiron sending a curler towards the top left over the bar. Schar, though. Wonderful. It remains 2-0 to the hosts.

9.26pm GMT

QPR are hanging on for the win that’d break their seven-game losing run. But only just, with Leeds pushing for an equaliser. Amid the same penalty-box scramble, Stuart Dallas should have slotted one into the bottom right from ten yards, while Patrick Bamford sent a close-range header straight at Joe Lumley. Nope! Rangers remain 1-0 up.

9.18pm GMT

Burnley aren’t posing much of a threat to Newcastle right now. A free kick’s won in the midfield. Tom Heaton hoicks it long into the Toon area and straight down Martin Dubravka’s throat. They’ve got nothing. So good against Spurs the other day, too. Such a strange game, football. “Almiron really is a gem of a talent,” writes Hubert O’Hearn. “How in heck did he end up plying his trade in the Dog & Duck League that is MLS without having been snaffled up by a Big Club? Whoever scouted him for the Magpies deserves their bonus (which is probably a 10% off coupon for a replica shirt at a Certain High Street Retailer, but still).”

9.11pm GMT

GOAL! Bristol City 1-2 Birmingham City (Diedhiou 66). Famara Diedhiou slams home a Matty Taylor knockdown from close range, and the hosts are back in it at Ashton Gate!

9.10pm GMT

GOAL! Cardiff City 0-2 Everton (Sigurdsson 66). A second for Gylfi Sigurdsson, and the Toffees are warming up nicely, just in time for the Merseyside derby on Sunday afternoon.

9.09pm GMT

GOAL! Leicester City 2-1 Brighton & Hove Albion (Propper 66). Davy Propper becomes the first manager to score a goal against Leicester in the Brendan Rodgers era. Not that we usually make note of things like that, but here we are and there it is.

9.08pm GMT

Meanwhile, Steve Mounie has just hit the side netting. That’s as near as we’ve come to excitement in the Huddersfield-Wolves match. In lieu of John Smith’s related entertainment ...

9.05pm GMT

GOAL! Leicester City 2-0 Brighton & Hove Albion (Vardy 63). Someone’s happy to see the back of Claude Puel, eh.

9.02pm GMT

Cardiff are giving it a good go in their quest for an equaliser against Everton. Kenneth Zohore zipped past Michael Keane, but couldn’t quite tee up Junior Hoilett in the centre. But other than that, we’re in something of a nationwide lull. So here’s a little entertaining whimsy from Vic Neale: “Just having a ‘idle thoughts of an idle fellow’ moment, knowing perhaps this should be posted to The Knowledge. Which manager has had a full house of shirt colours? Brendan now has the colours: yellow, blue and white stripes, white, red, green and white hoops, and now blue in his managerial collage. What next: Villa/Burnley/West Ham? Wolves, maybe a red and white stripe number: Stoke? Or can I predict, if it all goes ‘mammary-ascent’, good old Blackpool beckons. Or is tangerine too close to orange? Ho hum.”

8.56pm GMT

GOAL! Sheffield Wednesday 2-0 Brentford (Fletcher 48). A second goal for Steven Fletcher, a far-post header converting a right-wing cross. All going very well for Steve Bruce in his honeymoon period as Wednesday manager ... if you ignore the fact he was booked in the first half for yakking on far too much about some garden-variety foul or other.

8.53pm GMT

GOAL! QPR 1-0 Leeds United (Freeman 49). A cute flick in the six-yard box from Luke Freeman, converting a low cross from the right. And Leeds’ hopes of regaining top spot in the Championship recede.

8.52pm GMT

GOAL! Bristol City 0-2 Birmingham City (Morrison 47). Connor Mahoney, who scored the opener for Blues, floats a free kick into the area, pretty much straight down the middle. Michael Morrison rises highest and plants a simple header into the bottom left. So easy! Back-to-back defeats for the Robins look very much on the cards now.

8.47pm GMT

HALF TIME: Newcastle United 2-0 Burnley. Newcastle take their two-goal lead into the break. But they shouldn’t be doing so. Clarets defender James Tarkowski misses an absolute sitter! A free kick’s sent into the Newcastle box. Ben Mee wins one header; Ashley Barnes another. And the ball drops to Tarkowski, three or four yards out, near the left-hand post and faced with an open net, Martin Dubravka having gone walkabout. But he slices an awful effort miles over, having got all his limbs tangled up, an awfully uncomfortable shape. He looked like a treble clef. What a miss!

8.44pm GMT

It’s all happening now at St James’ Park! First Burnley claim a penalty, as Gudmundsson tears in from the right and shoots wildly over. But was he impeded by Ritchie, coming in behind. Was there much contact? Replays aren’t conclusive, but you can file that under our old pal Seen Them Given. Then up the other end, new boy Almiron turns on the jets and nearly latches onto a long ball down the left. Heaton in the Burnley goal does extremely well to slide out to the edge of his area, block, then get his arms out of the way as he slides out of the area. He springs up and clears. But after all that, it remains 2-0 to the hosts.

8.41pm GMT

GOAL! Newcastle United 2-0 Burnley (Longstaff 38). Matt Ritchie nearly runs the ball out of play down the left. But he manages to hook a cross into the mixer before it crosses the line. It’s a dangerous cross, forcing Ben Mee to eyebrow away from the edge of his six-yard box. But he can only send the ball to the feet of local lad Sean Longstaff, eight yards out. Longstaff takes a touch and belts it into the bottom left.

8.38pm GMT

Burnley haven’t got going against Newcastle at all. Simple passes are flying into touch. On the touchline, Sean Dyche swings pensively from a bottle of water. He may be trying to stop himself from slipping into a Pochettinoesque seethe ... or perhaps he’s trying to work himself up, given his players might need a half-time salvo. And hold on ...

8.35pm GMT

Premier League
Cardiff City 0-1 Everton
Huddersfield Town 0-0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Leicester City 1-0 Brighton & Hove Albion
Newcastle United 1-0 Burnley (L)

Championship
Bristol City 0-1 Birmingham City
Hull City 2-1 Millwall
QPR 0- 0 Leeds
Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Brentford

8.32pm GMT

GOAL! Hull City 2-1 Millwall (Pugh 42). Todd Kane, on loan from Chelsea, works his way down the right. His low cross is trapped by Marc Pugh, another loanee, from Bournemouth; he whips it into the bottom left. That’s a fine finish.

8.30pm GMT

GOAL! Bristol City 0-1 Birmingham City (Mahoney 42). A big stroke of luck for Blues, as Connor Mahoney cuts in from the left, shoots, and sees his shot - meant for the top right - deflected into the opposite corner. The keeper had no chance.

8.29pm GMT

GOAL! Sheffield Wednesday 1-0 Brentford (Fletcher 42). Barry Bannon releases Steven Fletcher with a long pass down the middle. Fletcher takes a touch and belts a shot into the top right from distance.

8.27pm GMT

GOAL! Cardiff City 0-1 Everton (Sigurdsson 41). Morgan Schneiderlin sends Seamus Coleman off down the right. Coleman cuts back for Gylfi Sigurdsson, who forces home from ten yards.

8.26pm GMT

GOAL! Newcastle United 1-0 Burnley (Schar 23). Oh this is a screamer! Nothing much seems to be happening at all, Newcastle probing very gently around the Burnley box. The visitors holding firm. And then suddenly, 25 yards out down the inside-right channel, Fabian Schar pings a glorious shot into the top right, off the post and in. That was real postage-stamp stuff, the keeper had no chance whatsoever!

8.24pm GMT

GOAL! Hull City 1-1 Millwall (Hutchinson 34). The Lions level it at the KCOM. An awful scramble in the six-yard box, instigated by a low right-wing cross from captain Steve Morison. A fresh-air swipe, then some pinball, and finally the vice-captain Shaun Hutchinson sweeps into the net from close range.

8.20pm GMT

Not a whole lot happening at St James’ Park between Newcastle and Burnley, though it’s hardly fair to single this match out. Anyway, two teams who have slowly rebuilt their confidence are taking turns to stroke the ball around in the midfield without taking any early risks. “Yesterday Celtic fans had Rodgers as their manager,” writes Peter Oh. “Today they’re blasted with photos of him surrounded by blue shirts that say King Power.” Yes, it’ll have felt like an extremely long day in the east end of Glasgow.

8.13pm GMT

Brighton haven’t troubled Leicester much since falling behind. Pascal Gross nearly sends an absurd deflection over Kasper Schmeichel, but otherwise nothing doing. Chris Hughton’s side need to cop on, and quick, because they’ve not won in the Premier League since the turn of the calendar year, and are slipping alarmingly down the division. They’re just three points ahead of 18th-placed Southampton. Though they are doing very well in the FA Cup. A repeat of 1983 is therefore on the cards. That year the Seagulls reached the final - and should have won, oh Gordon! - but also went down. In a world where the luck’s spread evenly over time, they’ll stay up this time round and beat Manchester United in the final.

8.06pm GMT

Birmingham striker Che Adams has just sent a rising pearler crashing off the underside of the crossbar at Bristol City. That was a sensational shot; in a world just and true, that would have flown into the top left. But it remains goalless.

8.01pm GMT

GOAL! Hull City 1-0 Millwall (Bowen 8). Jarrod Bowen opens the scoring at the KCOM. Markus Henriksen aims a shot towards the bottom right from the edge of the box. Bowen flicks it on, confusing keeper Jordan Archer, and in it goes.

7.56pm GMT

GOAL! Leicester City 1-0 Brighton & Hove Albion (Gray 10). Demarai Gray is sent away down the inside-right channel by Youri Tielemans. And Gray becomes the first goalscorer of the Brendan Rodgers era, technically, even if the new boss is hands off this evening.

7.53pm GMT

No early goals tonight. Cardiff are on the front foot against Everton, Leicester starting brightly against Brighton. And Huddersfield, struggling so badly, go close against Wolves through an early Jonathan Hogg shot. Huddersfield haven’t won a game since November. The vanquished that day? Wolves, naturally. Everyone loves a neat story, so can the Terriers break this long miserable run?

7.46pm GMT

The new Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers takes his seat in the stands at the King Power. He’s getting a very warm reception from the fans, beaming, beside himself with glee as he waves back with both hands. Earlier this evening, the former Celtic manager posed for pictures in the dressing room at the King Power. Blue shirts! Blue carpet! The sort of classy wood panelling usually only seen at grand old stadiums built years and years ago with old money! Remind you of anywhere else? Jock Wallace would have appreciated the aesthetic, put it that way.

7.28pm GMT

Huddersfield-Wolves team news. Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santos names an unchanged side, but it’s his opposite number doing all the legwork here. Terriers boss Jan Siewert makes eight changes. The big news: right-back Demeaco Duhaney and striker Karlan Grant both make their full Premier League debuts, while Jon Gorenc Stankovic makes only his second league start at centre-back. Alex Pritchard, Erik Durm, Terence Kongolo, Philip Billing and Steve Mounie all return.

7.21pm GMT

Newcastle-Burnley team news. Rafael Benitez makes just one change as the Toon look for a fourth successive win at St James’ Park. Javier Manquillo replaces DeAndre Yedlin. His opposite number Sean Dyche also limits himself to a single act of tinkering: Johann Berg Gudmundsson comes in for Ashley Westwood.

7.13pm GMT

Leicester-Brighton team news. Demarai Gray and Ben Chilwell return for Leicester, replacing Rachid Ghezzal and Christian Fuchs. Former Leicester winger Anthony Knockaert is Brighton’s only change; he comes in for Jurgen Locadia. And watching from the stands, ladies and gentlemen, in his new neighbourhood, Mr Rodgers!

7.07pm GMT

Cardiff-Everton team news. Both teams make five changes. Cardiff welcome back Aron Gunnarsson, Junior Hoilett, Bobby Reid, Nathaniel Mendez-Laing and Kenneth Zohore, while Seamus Coleman, Phil Jagielka, Morgan Schneiderlin, Theo Walcott and Dominic Calvert-Lewin return for Everton.

7.03pm GMT

Bristol City: Maenpaa, Pisano, Kalas, Webster, Dasilva, Pack, Weimann, Brownhill, Palmer, O’Dowda, Diedhiou.
Subs: Wright, Taylor, Kelly, Eliasson, Paterson, O’Leary, Hunt.
Birmingham City: Camp, Colin, Morrison, Dean, Pedersen, Mahoney, Kieftenbeld, Gary Gardner, Mrbati, Adams, Jutkiewicz.
Subs: Craig Gardner, Vassell, Maghoma, Jota, Davis, Trueman, Harding.
Referee: Geoff Eltringham (Tyne & Wear).

Hull City: Marshall, Kane, Burke, De Wijs, Lichaj, Bowen, Henriksen, Irvine, Grosicki, Pugh, Martin.
Subs: Evandro, Dicko, Milinkovic, Long, McKenzie, Sheaf, Ridgewell.
Millwall: Archer, Tunnicliffe, Hutchinson, Cooper, Murray Wallace, Leonard, Thompson, Ferguson, Marshall, Jed Wallace, Gregory.
Subs: Williams, Onyedinma, Pearce, Martin, Elliott, Morison, O’Brien.
Referee: Darren Bond (Lancashire).

6.57pm GMT

Some big breaking news in the Premier League tonight. Although it’ll come as no surprise to anybody who’s been clicking around the internet today. Brendan’s back!

Related: Leicester City confirm appointment of Brendan Rodgers as new manager

6.50pm GMT

Cardiff City: Etheridge, Ecuele Manga, Morrison, Bamba, Bennett, Mendez-Laing, Bacuna, Gunnarsson, Hoilett, Reid, Zohore.
Subs: Peltier, Arter, Ward, Josh Murphy, Smithies, Paterson, Harris.
Everton: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Jagielka, Digne, Schneiderlin, Gueye, Walcott, Sigurdsson, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Andre Gomes, Mina, Tosun, Bernard, Stekelenburg, Lookman, Kenny.
Referee: Kevin Friend (Leicestershire).

Huddersfield Town: Lossl, Stankovic, Schindler, Kongolo, Duhaney, Hogg, Billing, Durm, Pritchard, Mounie, Ahearne-Grant.
Subs: Bacuna, Kachunga, Mooy, Hamer, Lowe, Depoitre, Jorgensen.
Wolverhampton Wanderers: Rui Patricio, Bennett, Coady, Boly, Doherty, Dendoncker, Neves, Joao Moutinho, Jonny, Jimenez, Jota.
Subs: Ivan Cavaleiro, Helder Costa, Gibbs-White, John Ruddy, Saiss,
Ruben Vinagre, Traore.
Referee: David Coote (Nottinghamshire).

2.47pm GMT

It’s a big evening in the Premier League. Cardiff City look to put a little daylight between themselves and the relegation places. Everton try to snap a three-game losing run. Huddersfield dream of a first win under Jan Siewert. Wolves eye that best-of-rest seventh spot. Leicester want to impress incoming Brendan Rodgers. Brighton search for their first league win of 2019. Newcastle hope to give another standing ovation to Miguel Almiron. And Burnley try to follow up their sensational win over Spurs to make it three victories on the bounce. Here’s the card:

Cardiff City v Everton
Huddersfield Town v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Leicester City v Brighton & Hove Albion
Newcastle United v Burnley

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