15h ago 12.26 EDT And that’s all from me. Congratulations to Doncaster Rovers, Leyton Orient, Bradford City, AFC Wimbledon and Chesterfield on their promotions and their playoff places. Bye!
Share 15h ago 12.24 EDT And here’s a report on Leicester’s 2-0 win over hapless Southampton, who have now won two of the last 33 available points: Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy and Jordan Ayew scored their team’s first goals at the King Power Stadium in five months to secure a 2-0 Premier League victory over fellow relegated side Southampton on Saturday. Vardy, who will leave Leicester at the end of the season after 13 years with the club, put the Foxes ahead in the 17th minute when he latched on to Bilal El Khannouss’s cross and fired high into the net for his 199th goal in a Leicester shirt. Ayew doubled the lead in the 44th when he struck a free-kick into the wall only for the ball to land back at his feet for him to hammer home past the goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale.
Much more here: Vardy ends Leicester’s home drought to keep Southampton stuck on 11 points Read more Share 15h ago 12.22 EDT Andy Hunter has filed his match report from Goodison Park, and here it is: The penultimate game at Goodison Park proved an occasion for relegated Ipswich to savour far more than their obliging hosts. Everton were two goals up and cruising towards a second win in 10 games when Julio Enciso changed the complexion of the contest with a stunning finish. Substitute George Hirst completed the fightback by Kieran McKenna’s spirited side with a late header.
This was a big opportunity squandered by David Moyes’ team. Everton’s energy and composure declined markedly after taking a two goal lead and Ipswich’s punishment, and point, was merited. Much more here: Hirst caps Ipswich fightback to spoil Everton’s Goodison farewell party Read more Share 15h ago 12.21 EDT The current Premier League table Share 16h ago 12.17 EDT The final League Two table Share 16h ago 12.17 EDT The final League One table Share 16h ago 12.11 EDT Final score!
Bradford City 1-0 Fleetwood Town Bradford pip Walsall to the third promotion place in League Two, thanks to a late, deflected, single goal. Walsall are pipped at the very post, and if their morale had anywhere further to sink after the way their season unravelled, it’s just been booted down there. Share 16h ago 12.09 EDT Every game is now over except for the one at Bradford, which is about to briefly restart before the home side’s dramatic promotion is confirmed.
Here are the final (except that one) scores: Premier League Everton 2-2 Ipswich Leicester City 2-0 Southampton League One Blackpool 4-1 Bristol Rovers Bolton Wanderers 1-1 Stevenage Cambridge United 1-2 Birmingham City Charlton Athletic 3-1 Burton Albion Huddersfield Town 1-4 Leyton Orient Lincoln City 0-2 Wrexham Mansfield Town 3-0 Exeter City Northampton Town 1-1 Wigan Athletic Reading 2-4 Barnsley Rotherham United 2-1 Peterborough United Shrewsbury Town 1-2 Crawley Town Wycombe Wanderers 1-3 Stockport County League Two Accrington Stanley 0-1 Chesterfield Bradford City 1-0 Fleetwood Town Bromley 3-0 Cheltenham Town Carlisle United 2-2 Salford City Colchester United 0-0 Barrow Crewe Alexandra 0-1 Walsall Grimsby Town 0-1 AFC Wimbledon Morecambe 1-2 Harrogate Town Newport County 1-4 Tranmere Rovers Notts County 1-2 Doncaster Rovers Port Vale 0-1 Gillingham Swindon Town 0-0 Milton Keynes Dons Share 16h ago 12.06 EDT Leyton Orient are in the League One playoffs! Reading score in stoppage time but lose 4-2, and Orient secure a sixth successive win, beating Huddersfield 4-1! They’ll play Stockport County in the playoff semi-finals after the Hatters beat Wycombe in what was essentially a third-place play-off.
Given Orient’s form perhaps losing that wasn’t a disaster. Share 16h ago 12.05 EDT Final scores: Leicester 2-0 Southampton, Everton 2-2 Ipswich The Foxes have banked three points in the Crapico, Everton’s penultimate game at Goodison saw them give away a two-goal lead, but the real excitement this afternoon is elsewhere… Share 16h ago 12.04 EDT The Bradford game has been paused, and the players taken down the tunnel, because fans are on the pitch engaged in a little premature celebration. They’ll eventually come back out to play the last moments of stoppage time.
Share 16h ago 12.02 EDT Doncaster Rovers win the League Two title! They needed a win and they have got one, thanks to Robert Street’s first-half double at Notts County! County scored in the fifth minute of stoppage time to make the final moments a little nervy, but it’s finished 2-1 there, and that’ll do!
Share 16h ago 12.01 EDT Final score: Accrington Stanley 0-1 Chesterfield Chesterfield are in the League Two playoffs thanks to their win at Accrington, while Salford were held to a 2-2 draw by Carlisle! Share 16h ago 12.00 EDT GOAL! Bradford have just stolen promotion at the death!
Antoni Sarcevic’s deflected shot dribbles past a wrong-footed Fleetwood Town keeper to put them 1-0 up in the sixth minute of stoppage time, and it looks like they’re going to pip Walsall to the last automatic promotion place from League Two! Share 16h ago 11.55 EDT Birmingham City end the season with 111 points! Birmingham have beaten Cambridge United 2-1, and they end the season with a ludicrous, astonishing, remarkable, record points total of 111!
Share 16h ago 11.49 EDT In Harry Kane news, Bayern could potentially win the league as soon as tomorrow, if Leverkusen fail to win at fourth-placed Freiburg, who have won their last three. Share 16h ago 11.47 EDT Thanks to Leyton Orient’s result it hasn’t made a difference, but on the day their sale was confirmed, and with a playoff place on the line (potentially), Reading have fallen apart: Davis Keillor-Dunn has just put Barnsley 4-1 up! Share 16h ago 11.46 EDT David Hytner Here’s some team news from the Emirates Stadium: Jurrien Timber is nursing a minor knock – the one that forced him off in the first-leg of Arsenal’s Champions League semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday – and so Mikel Arteta has left him of the squad for today’s visit of Bournemouth.
In comes Ben White. But the Arsenal manager has made only one other change: Thomas Partey in, Mikel Merino down to the bench. Partey missed out against PSG because of suspension and he was missed.
Arteta is plainly in the mood to ignite some momentum ahead of Wednesday’s second-leg in Paris. Arsenal: Raya, White, Saliba, Kiwior, Lewis-Skelly, Odegaard, Partey, Rice, Saka, Trossard, Martinelli. Subs: Setford, Tierney, Zinchenko, Merino, Sterling, Butler-Oyedeji, Gower, Nwaneri, Clarke.
Bournemouth: Arrizabalaga, Araujo, Zabarnyi, Huijsen, Kerkez, Cook, Adams, Tavernier, Kluivert, Ouattara, Evanilson. Subs: Dennis, Senesi, Brooks, Scott, Smith, Soler, Jebbison, Hill, Semenyo. Referee: Jarred Gillett.
Share 16h ago 11.44 EDT GOAL! Everton 2-2 Ipswich (Hirst, 79 mins) Ipswich have recovered from two goals down, George Hirst heading in to bring them level at Goodison! View image in fullscreen George Hirst of Ipswich Town scores his team’s second goal with a header at Everton.
Photograph: Jan Kruger/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Hirst wheels away in celebration. Photograph: Peter Powell/Reuters Share Updated at 11.50 EDT 16h ago 11.41 EDT Leyton Orient score a fourth, and they’re 4-1 up at Huddersfield and safely ensconced in the playoff places. It’s a great sprint down the right that ends with an inch-perfect long, dipping cross that lands on the head of Azeem Abdulai, who makes no mistake.
Share 16h ago 11.39 EDT To be honest I thought Bayern might celebrate a bit more. I know they conceded a late goal, and the title isn’t absolutely safe, but it’s basically safe and they could at least smile a bit. Harry Kane was pitchside, ready to run on in ecstasy, when Youssuf Poulsen scored at the death, and instead he had to trudge on and soberly shake people’s hands.
They play Monchengladbach at home next Saturday and will surely make it safe then. View image in fullscreen Bayern Munich's Harry Kane and his teammates applauds fans after the match. Photograph: Annegret Hilse/Reuters Share Updated at 11.45 EDT 16h ago 11.29 EDT RB Leipzig have rained on Bayern's parade RB Leipzig only scored an equaliser in the fourth minute of stoppage time!
It’s ended 3-3, and though Bayern Munich have basically won the league (Bayer Leverkusen have three games to play and are nine points behind, with their goal difference inferior by 30), they have not officially won the league. View image in fullscreen RB Leipzig’s Yussuf Poulsen slots the ball home. Photograph: Lisi Niesner/Reuters View image in fullscreen Poulsen (right) celebrates with Ridle Baku.
Photograph: Matthias Schräder/AP Share Updated at 11.32 EDT 16h ago 11.23 EDT GOAL! Crewe 0-1 Walsall (Hall, 59 mins) It’s happening! Er, maybe!
A long throw bounces, it drops to George Hall, and he swivels and half-volleys it in! Walsall, who led the division for so long before completely forgetting how to play the game of association football sometime in the middle of February, are half an hour away from promotion! Share 16h ago 11.20 EDT The big question now is: can either Bradford (at home to Fleetwood Town) or Walsall (at Crewe) win a game of football?
Both are currently drawing 0-0 – if any one of them can win, they will go up. If both win, or indeed both draw or both lose, Bradford will come third. Share 17h ago 11.18 EDT Aaron Rowe has given Gillingham a 1-0 lead at Port Vale, and Doncaster look set to coast to the League Two title from here.
Share 17h ago 11.18 EDT GOAL! Grimsby 0-1 AFC Wimbledon (Hutchinson, 52 mins) A big goal in the League Two playoff chase. As it stands Wimbledon are fifth having vaulted Notts County, and Grimbsy drop down to ninth.
Chesterfield, one up at Accrington, are in the last playoff spot at I type. Share 17h ago 11.15 EDT GOAL! Reading 0-1 Barnsley (Shiels, 53 mins) Reading now fall behind, and it’ll take massive swings at two games for them to overtake Orient now!
Share 17h ago 11.11 EDT GOAL! Huddersfield 1-3 Leyton Orient And that surely is going to wrap up a playoff place! A long ball out of defence leaves Huddersfield’s defence exposed, it’s squared to Agyei and he takes a touch to bring it onto his left foot before curling inside the far post!
Share 17h ago 11.00 EDT Bad and good news for Harry Kane: Bayern Munich have scored two in a minute, courtesy of Eric Dier and Michael Olise, and they’re now drawing 2-2 at RB Leipzig and on course to basically win the league in about 20 minutes (it was a 2.30pm BST kick-off). View image in fullscreen Bayern Munich’s Eric Dier scores their first goal at RB Leipzig. Photograph: Annegret Hilse/Reuters View image in fullscreen Bayern’s Michael Olise celebrates after scoring his side’s second goal to level things up during their Bundesliga match at RB Leipzig.
Photograph: Matthias Schräder/AP Share Updated at 11.30 EDT 17h ago 10.59 EDT So, as it stands: Reading , who need to better Leyton Orient ’s result to steal the last League One playoff spot from them, are drawing while Orient are 2-1 up at Huddersfield. Doncaster are winning the League Two title by three points from Port Vale . Bradford are pipping Walsall to the third and final automatic promotion spot, though continuing their recent poor form neither are winning.
AFC Wimbledon and Chesterfield are in the playoff places; Grimsby, Salford and Colchester just outside them. Share 17h ago 10.53 EDT “Dundee United clearly not fussed about finishing third, 2-0 down at Hibs, going on three or four,” writes occasional voluntary Scottish football correspondent Simon McMahon. “Fifth still gets a European qualifying spot, mind.
St Mirren v Aberdeen is goalless, and in the bottom six it’s not looking good for St Johnstone, whose SPL jaicket is on a very shoogly peg, as they trail Kilmarnock at home.” Half-time scores in the Scottish Premiership: Bottom Six Dundee 1-0 Motherwell Ross County 1-1 Heart of Midlothian St Johnstone 0-1 Kilmarnock Top six Hibernian 2-0 Dundee United St Mirren 0-0 Aberdeen Share
