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8am (all times BST)Matchday live

Normally the Premier League weekend starts here, but David Tindall will have the reaction to Friday night’s Bournemouth v Manchester United game as well as the buildup to the day’s action. He will be looking at the fallout from Thomas Tuchel’s England squad selection, as well as looking forward to the day’s four Premier League games. It’s a full-on day in the Championship, too, with Middlesbrough’s recent stumbles opening up third-placed Ipswich’s shot at automatic promotion – except they are at home to a fourth-placed Millwall side motivated by injustice, after losing against Blackburn in a game that turned on a red card that was subsequently annulled. Send your thoughts on anything to do with the day’s games to matchday.live@theguardian.com

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NoonWomen’s Super League clockwatch

Do we have a WSL title race? Manchester City could only draw at Aston Villa last weekend, and the pack have a chance to put a bit of pressure on them if the leaders slip up again at home to Tottenham. Chelsea at least closed to within seven points in midweek and are at London City Lionesses, while Arsenal – four points worse off than Chelsea but with two games in hand – are at struggling West Ham. Emillia Hawkins will have all the goals from those matches plus the visit of Everton to Manchester United, who will regret only drawing at West Ham on Wednesday when they could have cut City’s lead to six points.

12.30 p.mBrighton v Liverpool live

As Ed Aarons wrote in our things to look out for this weekend: “The Amex has not been a happy hunting ground for Liverpool in recent years: they have won only once at the ground in their last five visits and that was in the Carabao Cup last season.” Can Brighton – who like the Reds have three wins in their last five league matches – frustrate Arne Slot’s men again? When the sides met on the south coast last May, the visitors had been partying as champions so the late defeat barely stung, but losing again would threaten their top-five hopes. Scott Murray follows the action minute-by-minute, while Sam Cunningham reports from Sussex by the sea.

3pmClockwatch

“O tempora, O mores,” as Cicero would say: there is only one Premier League game with the traditional kick-off time this weekend, as European outsiders Fulham take on a Burnley side who would love to have that status. But there are seven Championship games, with teams hoping to respond to or take advantage of results in the lunchtime matches, while Southampton, at home to Oxford, and Wrexham, at Sheffield United, will keep an eye on each other on the edge of the playoff zone. In Scotland, the three title contenders have staggered kick-off times, with Hearts getting the chance to put pressure on Rangers (an evening match) and Celtic (in Sunday’s game). Billy Munday is at the helm

5.30 p.mEverton v Chelsea live

Not a fixture noted for its historical needle but recent quasi-judicial announcements have spiced up the first staging at Hill Dickinson Stadium. As Andy Hunter writes: “It is a fine coincidence that Chelsea’s first Premier League game since being fined for breaching financial rules during Roman Abramovich’s ownership should be at Everton, the club the Premier League made an example of when reinforcing its authority over disobedient members.” Andy himself will be on match report duty, while Rob Smyth will be listening out for the pointed chants as the game goes on. Only five points separate the sides, and a home win would cap a painful week for Liam Rosenior, despite his successful mole hunt.

8pmLeeds v Brentford live

The day’s last Premier League game features two managers who have defied expectations. Keith Andrews was seen as having a stiff task after succeeding Thomas Frank at Brentford, with key players having left and no experience of the top job, but has fared rather better than the Dane did at Tottenham. Daniel Farke, meanwhile, seemed to be on his way out of Leeds in December but only four defeats in their past 20 games has turned things around in the league and brought an FA Cup quarter-final. Leeds are only three points clear of the drop zone, mind, and Brentford need points to reach Europe. Dominic Booth will give live updates, while Will Unwin reports from Elland Road.

8amMatchday live

With all due respect to Saturday’s combatants, Sunday has the three games that are the pick of the weekend, and Emillia Hawkins will have all the buildup. There’s the north-east championship match as Newcastle host Sunderland; there’s Tottenham v Nottingham Forest in the archetypal relegation six-pointer; and there’s Arsenal v Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final. Plus, she will have reaction to all Saturday’s matches. Email matchday.live@theguardian.com with your views.

NoonNewcastle v Sunderland live

It was a sobering week for Newcastle, after a promising start at Barcelona as they twice equalised gave way to a humiliating 7-2 (seven-two) scoreline. Still, Jacob Ramsey’s pass for the seventh was surely not the most embarrassing moment of Newcastle’s season: that honour lies with Nick Woltemade’s headed own goal that decided December’s derby. The chances of a rematch with Barça any time soon look remote, but luckily for Eddie Howe there is a shot at parochial redemption when Sunderland visit the Toon at noon. Luke McLaughlin steers the live blog, while Louise Taylor is at St James’ Park.

2.15pmTottenham v Nottingham Forest live

A clash between the two sides immediately above the relegation zone kicking off at the same time as the team just below them are playing – meaning anyone losing this match could be in the bottom three at the final whistle – is one to have the fans sweating. Spurs and Forest arrive bolstered by European victories, albeit the former still went out of the Champions League despite a first win for Igor Tudor and the latter needed a shootout to put paid finally to Midtjylland. Any feelgood factor from those results, and from Spurs’ creditable draw at Anfield last Sunday, would be wiped out by defeat, regardless of how West Ham were faring at Aston Villa. Rob Smyth will have live updates, before reports, reaction and analysis from Ben Fisher and Jonathan Wilson.

4.30 p.mArsenal v Manchester City

Only one side are still chasing a clean sweep, after Real Madrid once again got the better of Pep Guardiola in the Champions League, but has there ever been a higher stakes League Cup final? It’s the quadruple hunters of Arsenal up against the treble chasers of Manchester City, with apprentice Mikel Arteta in one dugout against master Guardiola in the other, first in the Premier League against second. The only League Cup final we can find between the two sides that finished the season first and second was 1978, when the eventual champions, Nottingham Forest, beat the eventual runners-up, Liverpool, in a replay. To borrow a phrase popularised by Phil Thompson’s reaction to that loss, Daniel Harris will be first with news of who finishes the game sick as a parrot, while David Hytner, Jamie Jackson and Barney Ronay are at Wembley.