Bournemouth v Liverpool team news
AFC Bournemouth (4-4-2) Ramsdale; Francis, Mepham, Ake, Rico; Fraser, Lerma, Billing, Danjuma; Solanke, Callum Wilson.
Subs: Boruc, Gosling, Surman, Ibe, Lewis Cook, Stacey, Simpson.
Liverpool (4-3-3) Alisson; Gomez, Lovren, van Dijk, Robertson; Milner, Henderson, Keita, Salah, Firmino, Oxlade-Chamberlain.
Subs: Mane, Adrian, Shaqiri, Origi, Jones, Alexander-Arnold, Elliott.
Referee Chris Kavanagh (Lancashire).
Championship Leeds, who started the day in second, lead Huddersfield 1-0 thanks to a sizzling volley from Ezgjan Alioski. There are just over 20 minutes remaining in that game.
La Liga Real Madrid have beaten Espanyol 2-0 to go top of the table. Raphael Varane and Karim Benzema troubled the scorers.
The leaders Liverpool will go 11 points clear, at least for the next 23 hours, if they win at Bournemouth. They famously lost 4-3 at the Vitality Stadium three seasons ago, having been 3-1 up, though that was in the slightly shambolic days before VAR – Virgil, Alisson and Robertson. On their last two trips to Bournemouth, Liverpool have won emphatically, 4-0 each time.
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Preamble
Hello and welcome to coverage of another bumper afternoon of association soccer. There are only three 3pm kick offs in the Premier League, but there are plenty of other sources of the old entertainment. One of the more intriguing fixtures is in Germany, where the leaders Borussia Mönchengladbach host the champions Bayern Munich.
You can see a full list of fixtures here. We’re unable, in the absence of 482 hands, to focus on all of them. So these are our featured games this afternoon (all 3pm kick-offs unless stated, but you probably knew that anyway, and in truth we could have done without this parenthesis, especially as it’s starting to go on a bit. For heaven’s sake, it’s taken up more than half of this paragraph!).
Premier League
- Bournemouth v Liverpool
- Spurs v Burnley
- Watford v Crystal Palace
Championship
- Fulham v Bristol City
- Sheffield Wednesday v Preston North End
League One
League Two
Scottish Premiership
Bundesliga
- Borussia Mönchengladbach v Bayern (2.30pm)
We’ll have team news and all that jazz imminently. In the meantime, you can follow Everton v Chelsea with Scott Murray. You’ll not believe the score!
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