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Ivan Toney has been named on the bench for Brentford's Premier League match against Aston Villa this afternoon, with the striker nursing a hip injury.

Brentford manager Thomas Frank admitted it was a "tough" decision to drop Toney, but added he is keen to have his star striker "fresh" for the run-in.

"He has a small muscle injury in his hip that affects him," said Frank. "He played the full Brighton game with it. This is his fourth match in quick succession; I want him fresh for the rest of the season. He is on the bench if we need him"

The 28-year-old has made 12 appearances since making his return from an eight-month FA ban for breaching gambling rules.

He has scored four goals in that time and made his England debut in the 2-0 win over Ukraine in March.

Brentford are currently 15th in the table with winnable games against Sheffield United, Luton Town and Everton to come after this afternoon's trip to Villa Park.

Manchester United beat Liverpool 9-1 in their Under-18 Premier League clash on Saturday.

United striker Ethan Wheatley scored a 57-minute hat-trick for the visitors, with ex-Derby youth product James Scanlon also grabbing a brace in a big win at Liverpool’s academy ground in Kirkby.

Liverpool head coach Marc Bridge-Wilkinson was missing eight of the team that beat Arsenal 7-1 in the FA Cup Youth Cup just two months ago and those absentees were keenly felt.

Scanlon put his side ahead inside the first minute of the game before Wheatley doubled their lead 10 minutes later.

Wheatley added his second just three minutes later, before midfielder Ethan Williams found the net to put United 4-0 up midway through the first half.

Liverpool's Joe Bradshaw, 15, scored what proved to be his side's only goal of the game to make it 4-1 at the break.

United added five more goals in the second half to complete a famous 9-1 victory over their bitter rivals.

Mauricio Pochettino says he felt a connection with Chelsea supporters for the first time in the wild celebrations that followed Thursday’s dramatic 4-3 win over Manchester United at Stamford Bridge, and insists he will not become a “populist” to endear himself to fans who still hold his Tottenham past against him.

Cole Palmer’s deflected shot in the 101st minute sparked an outpouring of joy among Pochettino and his coaching staff as supporters in the stands revelled in Chelsea ending a 12-match winless run against United with the latest fightback in Premier League history.

The result lifts Chelsea to 10th in the Premier League table, five points behind sixth-placed United with a game in hand, and Pochettino - who has been abused by sections of his own supporters in recent weeks - hopes the momentum and good feeling generated by the manner of the victory can become a significant turning point.

“I am so happy, not only for the three points or that our performance was better than Manchester United, but that I think this was my first time here at Stamford Bridge that I started to feel the connection with the fans,” Pochettino said. “That is going to be really helpful for us until the end of the season.

“That, for me, should be what’s really important. In a few days, we played one game that we were showing such low energy (against Burnley) and another that we started in the way we need to start them all. We need to be ready and now Sunday, we have another game in which we need to be ready.”

Jurgen Klopp and Erik ten Hag have warned supporters against tragedy chanting ahead of Sunday's Premier League fixture between Manchester United and Liverpool.

A man was charged in relation to tragedy chanting following last month's FA Cup quarter-final tie between the two sides after video footage was shared of a fan in the home section of the Old Trafford crowd. A number of arrests were also made by Greater Manchester Police following a variety of alleged offences.

Liverpool and United have since launched a joint initiative aimed at educating youngsters on the impact of chanting about Hillsborough, Heysel and Munich. Both clubs have vowed to issue bans to anyone committing tragedy-related abuse, whether in stadiums or online.

Klopp urged supporters to "show a bit of class", while Ten Hag called on fans to "focus entirely on backing their team".

“It is super important,” Klopp said. “There are different aspects to this and one is I don’t hear it, honestly, when I am on the sideline. But I heard after the game that it happened and it obviously is not great.

“In general it is just helpful that we educate our kids in specific things: respect, understanding, all these things.

“I just see two of the biggest clubs in the world, so let’s just show a bit of class in these moments, don’t sing this or sing that. Just show class, let the teams fight on the pitch, let’s play football. Besides that, just show a bit of class, that would be my wish for all of us.”

Ten Hag's programme notes for Sunday's game also address tragedy chanting.

“It is part of my duty to remind every supporter fortunate enough to be at today’s game that it must be enjoyed in the proper way, and not used as an excuse for abusing rival fans about Hillsborough, Heysel or any other historic tragedies," the United manager wrote.

"This is one of the truly great rivalries in world sport, for so many of the right reasons, and it is our responsibility to keep it that way.

"Whether the clubs meet at Old Trafford or Anfield, all supporters must focus entirely on backing their team and both Jurgen and I trust that we can count on that happening today”.

A reminder of what we have on the schedule this afternoon in the Premier League.

• Crystal Palace vs Manchester City (12.30pm BST)
• Aston Villa vs Brentford (3pm)
• Everton vs Burnley (3pm)
• Fulham vs Newcastle United (3pm)
• Luton Town vs Bournemouth (3pm)
• Wolves vs West Ham United (3pm)
• Brighton vs Arsenal (5.30pm)

Erik ten Hag says he has “no doubts” he will be in charge of Manchester United at the start of next season and believes he is taking the club in “the right direction”.

United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has asked former Team GB chief Sir Dave Brailsford to undertake a structural review of the club, with Ten Hag’s position likely to be one of the items of consideration.

The Athletic reported earlier this week that no decision has been made on Ten Hag’s future, but planning for next season is happening with the Dutchman at the helm.

Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne are back in for Manchester City as they face Crystal Palace this afternoon.

Pep Guardiola's champions can go top of the Premier League with a wide margin of victory at Selhurst Park.

Both players missed Wednesday's 4-1 win over Aston Villa but are restored to the starting XI alongside John Stones, who also starts after missing out in midweek.

Phil Foden, who scored a hat-trick against Villa, is on the bench.

For Palace the headline news is Michael Olise returning to the squad after missing the last seven matches.

There are two types of entertaining football match.

There are those where some of the best players in the world combine for team moves and flashes of individual quality to produce captivating moments of sporting drama.

There are also those where some of the best players in the world forget years of physical and mental training for reasons best known to themselves, and delirious chaos ensues.

The 2023-24 Premier League season has served a heady dose of both with Thursday's barely believable game between Chelsea and Manchester United a vintage example of the latter.

Sarina Wiegman has won the past two European Championships and is rightly regarded as a tournament specialist. But this qualification campaign for Euro 2025 is, in a sense, a new experience for her — with the Netherlands at Euro 2017 and England at Euro 2022, her sides were the hosts and were not forced to go through this process.

Indeed, this qualification is effectively a new experience for everyone. Rather than the usual groups that pit giants against minnows, this is a four-team group comprised entirely of sides who were at the World Cup last year. England, Sweden, France and the Republic of Ireland probably cannot be considered a group of death given all four sides could eventually qualify — two through the play-offs — but it’s still a very tough group.

Therefore, Friday’s meeting against Sweden felt like an unusual situation: a competitive game against strong opposition that was important but not crucial. It was as much about setting out England’s stall for the next 18 months as earning a good result.

But, in both senses, England will be disappointed with this 1-1 draw in front of 63,000 supporters at Wembley against a Sweden side deprived of a couple of key players.

Enzo Maresca has told his Leicester City players to control their emotions and focus on the final push for promotion as the club’s off-field issues play out in the background.

Leicester face a Premier League charge for breaching profit and sustainability rules (PSR) after announcing losses of £89.7million for last season, and are under an EFL embargo for a suspected breach this season as well.

To avoid a potential sanction, several players may have to be sold before the end of June, while players in the final months of their contracts will not be able to re-sign new ones without special permission from the EFL — unless Leicester are promoted — raising the stakes even higher.

“After the Premier League (charge), the EFL (embargo) and now the accounts, hopefully, it’s finished and there is no more,” Maresca says.

“They are things we can’t control. The lawyers for the club are in charge of that.

“The only thing we can do is try to focus on our games. I try to convince myself and to convince the players that the only thing that we can do and we can be worried about are the games.

“I have the same feeling day by day in the training session that they (the players) are just focused on the football side.

“These things don’t affect us now. They are for the future. Then we see in a few months about the out-of-contract players and maybe look at things around the contracts going forward.

"Probably the best thing we can do is control the emotions because for this amount of events around the club."

Pep Guardiola believes it will be "almost impossible" to win the Premier League title if Manchester City fail to beat Crystal Palace this afternoon.

The defending champions start the day third in the table, three points behind current leaders Liverpool.

They could feasibly go top themselves — for a few hours at least — with the requisite goal difference swing but Guardiola feels anything other than a win could be the end of his side's challenge.

"We're third, not far away from the top of the Premier League, but if we drop points it will be almost impossible," he said with Real Madrid in the Champions League quarter-finals to follow on Tuesday.

"So we have to win that game and after that we will have more time, not for recovery, but to prepare. So I have not had much time to see Real Madrid.

"I said, when we have been fighting for nine or 10 months for the Premier League, why should I be distracted now from this important game against Palace, when the distance is so close?"

Alessia Russo insists England must "demand higher" of themselves after opening their Euro 2025 qualification campaign with a draw against Sweden at Wembley.

Arsenal striker Russo opened the scored for the Lionesses but Fridolina Rolfo equalised in the second-half to earn a share of the points.

It was a disappointing result for Sarina Wiegman's side, even against a team ranked sixth in the world.

England aim high under Wiegman and Russo believes they let their standards slip.

"Sweden are a top side, our group is tough," she told ITV. "We're a good side too so I think it's disappointing but we've come up against a strong side.

"Our standards are high, we know we can demand higher of each other. We will own that, but across the board, there were lower standards that we can improve on.

"We struggled to figure out the problems but we did get a draw. Every result and every point counts."

Brighton head coach Roberto De Zerbi will not take any chances with 19-goal top scorer Joao Pedro against Arsenal at the Amex tonight.

The Brazilian made his comeback from nine matches out with a hamstring injury in Wednesday’s 0-0 draw at Brentford.

De Zerbi says Joao Pedro was “very tired” after playing the whole game.

The Italian added: “We wouldn’t like to take a risk with him especially after two months of injury.”

Danny Welbeck, who came off the bench at Brentford, has scored on his last two starts.

He has scored in four of his last starts against former club Arsenal in all competitions.

Wolverhampton Wanderers head coach Gary O’Neil has insisted he has no intention of walking away from Molineux after his latest comments on the club’s January business sounded alarm bells for some fans.

O’Neil’s post-match press conference following Tuesday’s 1-1 draw at Burnley — in which he appeared to express frustration at the failure to land a striker in January — raised concerns among supporters about his future.

Wolves fans saw former boss Julen Lopetegui leave on the eve of the current season after months of airing his frustrations over the transfer budget, but O’Neil played down comparisons between his situation and that of his predecessor.

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