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Arsenal 2-1 Brighton.<\/strong> Arsenal are still leading \u2026 but only because David Raya has just spectacularly<\/em> tipped Yankuba Minteh\u2019s shot over the bar. The Seagulls really going for this.<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Brentford 3-1 Bournemouth (Semenyo 75)<\/h2>\n

Antoine Semenyo. Who else?<\/p>\n

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Senegal 1-1 Congo DR.<\/strong> Some worrying news for Sunderland fans. Arthur Masuaku caught his studs in the turf during the build-up to that goal, while mistiming a tackle, and he\u2019s carried off.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal 2-1 Brighton.<\/strong> Needs must, and with Arsenal creaking a bit after conceding, Gabriel is sent on to shore things up. The home fans so happy to see him return from injury.<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Senegal 1-1 Congo DR (Mane 68)<\/h2>\n

Ibrahim Mbaye hares down the right and shoots. Lionel Mpasi saves, but can only push the ball across to Sadio Mane, who can\u2019t miss from six yards. He dispatches the ball into the bottom left, and the joint favourites are level! That didn\u2019t take long.<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Rangers 1-0 Motherwell (Aasgaard 67)<\/h2>\n

Thelo Aasgaard taps a loose ball home from close range, and this Rangers goal will stand.<\/p>\n

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Arsenal 2-1 Brighton.<\/strong> Yasin Ayari has two shots blocked in as many seconds, and suddenly the title favourites are rocking. But holding onto their lead. For now.<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Arsenal 2-1 Brighton (Gomez 64)<\/h2>\n

Diego Gomez roofs home from 12 yards, and perhaps it\u2019s not game over at the Emirates after all.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Diego Gomez slams the ball home to halve Brighton\u2019s deficit.<\/span> Photograph: Dylan Martinez\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Senegal 0-1 Congo DR (Bakambu 61)<\/h2>\n

Good work from Aaron Wan-Bissaka down the right causes confusion in the Senegal box, and C\u00e9dric Bakambu pokes home from close range! The tournament joint-favourites are behind!<\/p>\n

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Burnley 0-0 Everton.<\/strong> \u2026 so having said that, something happens at Turf Moor. Jacob Bruun Larsen is one on one with Jordan Pickford \u2026 but hoicks his shot over the bar. But it\u2019s something! It\u2019s not nothing!<\/p>\n

<\/span>Jacob Bruun Larsen of Burnley reacts after failing to find the target.<\/span> Photograph: Matt McNulty\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n

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Burnley 0-0 Everton.<\/strong> \u201cEverton minus their three good players,\u201d harrumphs Will Unwin. It\u2019s like one of Hemingway\u2019s short stories.<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Brentford 3-0 Bournemouth (Schade 51)<\/h2>\n

Bournemouth had looked lively in the early second-half exchanges, Andoni Iraola having made some half-time tweaks. But Kevin Schade starts and ends a break upfield, and this looks like it\u2019s game over too.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Kevin Schade thumps home his second, and Brentford\u2019s third goal of the game.<\/span> Photograph: Peter Cziborra\/Action Images\/Reuters<\/span>Schade wheels away in celebration.<\/span> Photograph: Peter Cziborra\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n

Updated at\u00a011.25 EST<\/p>\n

GOAL! Arsenal 2-0 Brighton (Rutter og 52)<\/h2>\n

\u2026 but Arsenal are rather better at defending, so this should be game over. Georginio Rutter eyebrows Declan Rice\u2019s header past his own keeper, who was preparing to claim.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Brighton’s Georginio Rutter (right) glances a header into his own net to give Arsenal a second goal.<\/span> Photograph: Bradley Collyer\/PAShare<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Liverpool 2-1 Wolves (Bueno 51)<\/h2>\n

A free header from a corner for Tolu Arokodare. Alisson parries, Santiago Bueno slots the rebound, and it\u2019s game back on at Anfield. Liverpool at their worst this season when a couple of goals up.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Santiago Bueno celebrates getting Wolves back in the game.<\/span> Photograph: Ian Hodgson\/APShare<\/p>\n

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VAR: Rangers 0-0 Motherwell<\/h2>\n

Scrub that. Youssef Chermiti was offside, blocking the keeper\u2019s road, and everyone\u2019s back to where they started at Ibrox.<\/p>\n

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GOAL! Rangers 1-0 Motherwell (Raskin 46)<\/h2>\n

Nico Raskin scores extremely early in the second half in the battle of fourth versus third.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re into second-half territory now.<\/strong> It is on, all over the world.<\/p>\n

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Half-time postbag.<\/strong> \u201cA very moving day for both Liverpool and Wolves fans. Djogo Jota is in everyone\u2019s hearts. The match is being played in the right spirit. Some promising touches from Wolves\u2019 Man\u00e8 (such a familiar-sounding name to Reds fans) but ultimately the superior technique of Liverpool has shone through. Frimpong has been excellent on the right but Ekitik\u00e8 is in simply sublime form, proving the perfectly weighted assist for Wirtz. Season\u2019s greetings and, if poss, a Christmassy shout-out to my friend Andy in Liverpool\u201d \u2013 Colum Fordham<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m at a family holiday shindig with a some Liverpool fans. They were surprised to hear that the Reds scored. I have to think back to the Roy Hodgson\u2019s time at Anfield to remember such a downbeat feeling among Liverpool supporters\u201d \u2013 K\u00e1ri Tulinius<\/p>\n

\u201cLow on quality\u201d \u2013 Will Unwin, our man at Turf Moor, low on energy, understandably drained by that soporific first 45<\/p>\n

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Arsenal 1-0 Brighton.<\/strong> Arsenal captain Martin Odegaard didn\u2019t look particularly happy as he left the field at half time. That\u2019ll doubtless be the fallout from a brouhaha involving Viktor Gyokeres and Bart Verbruggen, the Brighton keeper taking out the striker but escaping with a yellow. That\u2019s because Gyokeres was heading to the corner flag at the time, the result of a poor touch, so it\u2019s not considered the denial of a goalscoring opportunity by either referee or VAR. The level of controversy yet to be determined, contingent on result.<\/p>\n

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Half-time at Afcon<\/h2>\n

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    Nottingham Forest 1-2 Manchester City (FT)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    West Ham United 0-0 Fulham<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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    Updated at\u00a010.49 EST<\/p>\n

    Liverpool 2-0 Wolves.<\/strong> There were 89 seconds between those two Liverpool goals. A proper double whammy for Wolves.<\/p>\n

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    GOAL! Liverpool 2-0 Wolves (Wirtz 42)<\/h2>\n

    It\u2019s happened at long last: a first goal in a Liverpool shirt for Florian Wirtz. All of a sudden, the reigning champions are comfortable. And that\u2019s despite the roof coming off Anfield, which is exactly what happened when Wirtz broke his duck by forensically finding a corner. Hugo Ekitike with the assist.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>Liverpool\u2019s Florian Wirtz slots home to open his account for the club.<\/span> Photograph: Ian Hodgson\/AP<\/span>Wirtz (right) celebrates with Hugo Ekitike.<\/span> Photograph: Ian Hodgson\/APShare<\/p>\n

    Updated at\u00a011.08 EST<\/p>\n

    GOAL! Livingston 2-4 Celtic (Engels 39 pen)<\/h2>\n

    A handball, a whistle, and Arne Engels gives Celtic some breathing room. What an absurd game this is.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>Celtic’s Arne Engels slots home from the penalty spot.<\/span> Photograph: Steve Welsh\/PA<\/span>Engels (centre) celebrates with his teammates after scoring Celtic\u2019s fourth goal.<\/span> Photograph: Steve Welsh\/PAShare<\/p>\n

    Updated at\u00a010.59 EST<\/p>\n

    GOAL! Liverpool 1-0 Wolves (Gravenberch 41)<\/h2>\n

    Jeremie Frimpong cuts back for Ryan Gravenberch, who slots into the corner.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>Liverpool’s Ryan Gravenberch (right) shoots to score the opening goal against Wolves.<\/span> Photograph: Oli Scarff\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n

    Updated at\u00a010.56 EST<\/p>\n

    GOAL! Brentford 2-0 Bournemouth (Petrovic og 39)<\/h2>\n

    A game of pinball, and in.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>Igor Thiago celebrates after Djordje Petrovic of Bournemouth scored an own goal, which doubled Brentford\u2019s lead.<\/span> Photograph: Harry Murphy\/Getty ImagesShare<\/p>\n

    Updated at\u00a010.54 EST<\/p>\n

    Senegal 0-0 Congo DR.<\/strong> A free kick for Senegal, just to the right of centre along the D. Sadio Mane whips it over the wall and down towards the bottom-left corner. The keeper\u2019s beaten all ends up, but the ball bounces inches wide. Probably just as well, because the award of the free kick was preposterous. Absolutely nothing happened, no contact, no hands, nothing, but the referee awarded one anyway.<\/p>\n

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    Burnley 0-0 Everton.<\/strong> This one\u2019s not getting good notices anywhere.<\/p>\n

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    GOAL! Livingston 2-3 Celtic (Nygren 31)<\/h2>\n

    Another goal at Livi, and for the first time, it\u2019s Celtic who hit the front. And it\u2019s Benjamin Nygren again! The first one was a poke home from a couple of yards. This is anything but, a diagonal screamer that flashes into the top-right corner from distance. Wilfried Nancy\u2019s Celtic, ladies and gentlemen!<\/p>\n

    <\/span>Benjamin Nygren thumps the ball home to score his second, and Celtic\u2019s third, and put the visitors ahead at Livingston. <\/span> Photograph: Steve Welsh\/PAShare<\/p>\n

    Updated at\u00a010.40 EST<\/p>\n

    Arsenal 1-0 Brighton.<\/strong> Arsenal remain comfortable at the Emirates. Brighton haven\u2019t shown in attack at all.<\/p>\n

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    Liverpool 0-0 Wolves.<\/strong> Jose Sa tips an Alexis Mac Allister shot onto the post. It\u2019s the second time Liverpool have hit the frame of the goal, Hugo Ekitike having hit its base beforehand. Turns out the Mac Allister effort wouldn\u2019t have counted anyway, as Federico Chiesa was in a live offside position, but a save\u2019s a save\u2019s a save, ain\u2019t that the truth.<\/p>\n

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    Livingston 2-2 Celtic.<\/strong> They\u2019ve all calmed down. So with nothing to report, here\u2019s the belated publication of our old pal Simon McMahon\u2019s Scottish preview. \u201cScottinho! Love Clocko, especially when your team don\u2019t play until 5.45, which is the ko time for Aberdeen v Dundee United in the Scottish Premiership today. Special shout out to United super fans Evie and Ryan, and indeed all those who travel near and far to support their team while the likes of me head up once a fortnight and follow Clockwatch the rest of the time. They haven\u2019t missed a game all season, and after being at Pittodrie today will go to Livingston on Tuesday for one final trip, a lot less glamorous than the ones to Luxembourg and Vienna back in the summer. United have only won four out of eighteen in the league so far, but have recorded nine draws, leaving them in eighth place but still with realistic hopes of making the top six if they can put a run together. Celtic will be hoping to have cut the gap at the top to three points before the teatime kick off by beating Livingston, after Hibs held on in the Edinburgh derby. And at the bottom struggling Dundee welcome high flying Falkirk while St. Mirren host Kilmarnock, and Rangers are at home to Motherwell.\u201d<\/p>\n

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    Senegal 0-0 Congo DR.<\/strong> Nicolas Jackson goes close for Senegal, dragging a low shot inches wide of the left-hand post.<\/p>\n

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    Liverpool 0-0 Wolves.<\/strong> Anfield stands as one to honour the memory of Diogo Jota on 20 minutes. The Wolves fans chant his name, while the Liverpool supporters sing their fallen hero\u2019s song. The most bittersweet of moments.<\/p>\n

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    West Ham 0-0 Fulham.<\/strong> Jarrod Bowen finds himself one-on-one with Bernd Leno. The keeper wins the duel with a fingertip save. Turns out Bowen was offside anyway, but Leno wouldn\u2019t have known so credit the save anyway.<\/p>\n

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    Liverpool 0-0 Wolves.<\/strong> The bottom club are giving as good as they\u2019re getting at Anfield. Mateus Mane, on his first Premier League start, forces Alisson into the first big save of the game.<\/p>\n

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    Senegal 0-0 Congo DR.<\/strong> Aaron Wan-Bissaka has the ball in the net for Congo DR, a fine diagonal lash into the bottom left. But he\u2019s clearly offside.<\/p>\n

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    GOAL! Arsenal 1-0 Brighton (Odegaard 14)<\/h2>\n

    The captain opens the scoring for the Christmas leaders at the Emirates. It had been coming, Arsenal starting strongly in response to Manchester City\u2019s win at Forest.<\/p>\n

    <\/span>Martin Odegaard fires Arsenal into the lead against Brighton.<\/span> Photograph: Bradley Collyer\/PA<\/span>Odegaard (left) celebrates with Declan Rice.<\/span> Photograph: John Sibley\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/p>\n

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    Livingston 2-2 Celtic.<\/strong> The last three goals were scored in a three-minute-and-34-seconds burst.<\/p>\n

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