Watford vs Burnley LIVE: Premier League latest score and goal updates from this afternoon’s 3pm fixtures
Latest scores and goal updates from the Premier League’s 3pm kick-offs, including a huge relegation clash at Vicarage Road
Follow live updates as Burnley look to continue their late survival push in a Premier League relegation six-pointer against Watford. Since the shock sacking of Sean Dyche, Burnley have picked up seven points in three games under caretaker boss Mike Jackson to leapfrog Everton in the table. Victory at Watford this afternoon would see Burnley move five points clear of the drop ahead of Everton’s home fixture against Chelsea tomorrow.
But Watford have plenty to play for themselves, and will hope to end their miserable winless home run to salvage any late hope of avoiding an immediate relegation back to the Championship. Roy Hodgson’s side have lost 10 matches in a row at Vicarage Road - a run dating back to a 4-1 win over Manchester United in October - and another defeat would leave them seven points adrift with just four fixtures remaining.
A Burnley win would also relegate Norwich, if Dean Smith’s side lose to Aston Villa. The Canaries are 10 points adrift of Burnley and relegation would be confirmed if results elsewhere don’t go their way and Smith is defeated by his former side at Villa Park. Meanwhile, Southampton host Crystal Palace and Wolves take on Brighton in mid-table clashes.
Follow live updates from this afternoon’s matches below:
Newcastle 0-1 Liverpool
86 mins: Wood challenges Thiago for the ball in the air but commits a foul in the process. Liverpool taking the sting out of it.
Newcastle 0-1 Liverpool
85 mins: SUB! Josh Murphy is on for Emil Krafth for the last five minutes of this one. Eddie Howe rolling the dice with an attacking change.
Newcastle 0-1 Liverpool
84 mins: Newcastle have the ball back but Liverpool’s shape is utterly imperious and the hosts have to go back to their defenders before attempting to build once more.
Eventually Keita wins the ball back and Liverpool break. Keita finds Diaz on the left and he beats Krafth before trying to sneak one in the near post but it hits the side-netting.
Newcastle 0-1 Liverpool
82 mins: Thiago feeds a nice pass into Jota who turns delightfully inside the area but Burn then fights back at him and clears the danger.
Thiago already pulling the strings just minutes after coming on. Exactly the sort of player you want to see out a match like this.
Newcastle 0-1 Liverpool
81 mins: 10 minutes for Newcastle to find a surprise equaliser. 10 minutes until Liverpool will return to the top of the Premier League table.
Newcastle 0-1 Liverpool
80 mins: Another good save from Dubravka! The game is becoming stretched and that is likely to play into the visitors’ hands.
Jota drifts in from the right and tries his luck with a left-footed strike that Dubravka is equal to at his near post.
Newcastle 0-1 Liverpool
78 mins: James Milner goes off and is replaced by Thiago. Not bad.
Newcastle 0-1 Liverpool
78 mins: CHANCE! Oh, it was offside again but Chris Wood didn’t know.
Saint-Maximin bursts in between the lines and slides a ball in for Wood. Wood takes a touch and fires into the chest of Alisson. Then the flag goes up.
The New Zealander was half a yard offside. Just as well, he should have buried that.
Newcastle 0-1 Liverpool
76 mins: Newcastle have to do better in the final third! Shelvey plays a wonderful ball over the top for Saint-Maximin and for a moment it’s two-on-two on the edge of the Liverpool box.
Saint-Maximin sizes Matip up but then gets his control horribly wrong and the chance is effectively gone. Really poor.
Newcastle 0-1 Liverpool
74 mins: CHANCES! Diaz skips away from Krafth and stands the ball up on the byline. Salah controls it wonderfully inside the box and tries to bend one towards the top corner but Dubravka comfortably saves.
Liverpool are then in again as they find Jota in behind, only for his effort to be blasted straight at Dubravka who got his body behind it.
Newcastle on the ropes.
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