Summary

  • Match of the Day on tonight

  • FT: Arsenal 1-0 Southampton - Sanchez late on

  • Everton 1-1 Hull - Aluko levels for Tigers

  • FT: Sunderland 1-4 Man City

  • Aguero (2), Jovetic & Zabaleta for City

Live Reporting

Tom Rostance

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    Stuart in Chelmsford: I fear that the only way of us getting something is to park that bus again.......Hugo get it parked up!

  2. Referee Andre Marriner takes charge of Arsenal tonight for the first time since he sent-off Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain for handball at Stamford Bridge instead of Kieran Gibbs. Remember that? Or was it Gibbs instead of the Ox?

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    Vinney Person: Easy to get carried away with Soldado's first goal in over 600 minutes. To be honest, playing him tonight would be disastrous

  4. Interestingly, Arsenal have attempted more shots from outside the box than any other Premier League side this season (70). Shoot on sight?

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    A few more tweets on the subject of Arsenal and their apparent lack of achievement:

    Amrit Elixir Gautam: Highest ticket price demands some good games, not mediocrity. We are asking for change, challenge for trophies, not 4th place.

    Rian Hoskins: Wenger didn't sign Fabregas and Song when given the chance and didn't replace Vermaelen. Arsenal fans have a right to be angry

    Mike Webb: People forget that there are many new teams with the strength to battle for Europe, it is no longer a given for Arsenal.

  7. AFCON draw

    Ghana, Algeria, South Africa and Senegal have all been drawn together in the same group for January's African Cup of Nations finals.

    Mouth-watering stuff.

    Get the lowdown and all the reaction here.

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    Peter Edekin Michael: Sunderland are giant killers. I fear for Manchester City tonight.

  9. Mauricio Pochettino is the 15th Spurs manager to try and win at Stamford Bridge since that Gary Lineker header in 1990. If he is to succeed he may need terrace darling Harry Kane to get the better of John Terry. A tasty ding-dong on the cards there.

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    Ross in Kent: It would be funny if the one team that Chelsea ALWAYS beat, beat them to end their unbeaten run! Would be typical of football!

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    BBC Radio 5 live

    Tune in to BBC Radio 5 live from 19:30 where Mark Pougatch will have all the day's sports news.

    He'll also go around the grounds for tonight's Premier League action with reporters at all four fixtures.

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    Ben in Norwich: So Soldado finally gets his Premier League goal (from open play) so the next game Poch drops him to the bench?!

  13. Just 20 minutes until kick-off in tonight's games. Still hardly anybody in their seats. This is a night to hover in the stand for as long as you can, clutching on to your bovril.*

    *Other salty meat extracts are available

  14. Ian Dennis
    BBC Radio 5 live senior football reporter at the Stadium of Light

    Ian Dennis teamsheets at Sunderland v Man CityBBC Sport

    Team sheets #SAFC v #mcfc plus bit of scribble!

  15. Metal Gear Solid weather at the Stadium of Light - breath clearly visible for a good few feet around each and every player. If you could hand pick a tricky night for a South American import, this would be it.

    How Manchester City need Sergio Aguero and Martin Demichelis to come up trumps tonight.

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    BBC Radio 5 live

    Hull City midfielder Robert Snodgrass tweets: If you can understand Glaswegian, Tune in @bbc5live tonight 730 to 930 I am on doing "round the grounds"

    Owen Coyle and Trevor Sinclair will also be in the studio with Mark Pougatch from 19:30.

  17. Southampton boss Ronald Koeman on BT Sport: "There has not been a lot of time to prepare. Our performance was not good enough against Man City, we did some big mistakes with our ball position.

    "Hopefully we will have a good result today and to do that our ball quality must be much better. When we have the ball there will be spaces and there will be chances against Arsenal."

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    Stuart Benns: I have an inkling Spurs will get something tonight. One of those feelings. Upset on the cards? 2-1 to Tottenham!

    Haydn Price: So happy to see Didier starting up top for Chelsea, can see him having a cracker tonight. He does love these London derbies

  19. BBC Sport chief football writer Phil McNulty at the Emirates

    "Southampton are without the injured Morgan Schneiderlin tonight and he will be a big absentee for Saints. Approaches from Tottenham were fought off in the summer and Southampton have been rewarded with outstanding form - but they must cope without him tonight.

    "Arsenal bring Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain back against his old club, with Olivier Giroud out but they are missing the influence of Jack Wilshere in midfield as he is sidelined for three months after ankle surgery."

  20. Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak says the club have moved "beyond a period of heavy investment" needed to make them competitive.

    The Premier League champions are a step closer to breaking even, posting losses of £23m for the year to 31 May 2014.

    That figure includes a £16m fine City paid to Uefa for breaching Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations.

    "The club is where we hoped it would be when we began this transformation six years ago," Al Mubarak said.

    He added: "Now we have moved beyond the period of heavy investment that was required to make the club competitive again, it is commercial growth of the kind we are seeing today that will underpin and support our operations in the future."

    Is the sky the limit for City?