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Nick Woltemade’s own goal gave Sunderland a Tyne-Wear derby win, while Villa, Man City and Forest beat West Ham, Palace and Spurs respectively Righto, that’s us done here. Thanks all for your company and comments, sorry I couldn’t use them all. Rob Smyth has got you for the rest of the afternoon: But otherwise, peace out. Morgan Rogers, people. If you’ve not seen his winning goal, here it is: Aston Villa have turned it around! A wonderstrike from Morgan Rogers! ? pic. twitter. com/g7Uhi I29y S Otherwise, Xhaka says he was told about the pain of the Cup defeat, and in a derby it doesn’t matter how you win, just that you do win. What a signing he’s been; when can Sunderland start aiming for Europe? Granit Xhaka has a cut on his eyelid – which is ironic because I do too. I bet he didn’t get his waking up in the night, going to the toilet, and incorrectly measuring the distance between throne and wall, thereby headbutting the towel rail. If I’m backing champions, I’m going for City – I’d almost always pick a team that scores freely over one that finds it harder, and they’re still improving while Arsenal might just be dipping. I’d not be surprised to be totally wrong, though. Here’s Ed Aarons’ report from Selhurst. It’s wild at the Stadium of Light, the crowd still in the ground and players lapping up the moment, recreating the team photo on the pitch that Newcastle took after beating them in the Cup the season before last. I can feel the reverberations of the buzz through my screen. Crystal Palace 0-3 Manchester City Nottingham Forest 3-0 Tottenham Hotspur Sunderland 1-0 Newcastle United West Ham United 2-3 Aston Villa Sunderland win the first league Tyne-Wear derby in nine years! They move up to seventh in the table, while Newcastle stay 12th. A massive result for City, the rest of the league on notice that they’re on the move. A crucial win for Forest, who end the Spurs revival and move up to 16th. Six wins on the spin for Unai Emery’s men. For now, at least, they’re in the title conversation. Isidor and Mukiele are still giving out, various bookings are issued, four I think – Guimaraes, Isidor, Willock and Miley. …which is cleared at the front post then, when the ball comes back, Roefs, comes to collect and goes down following a challenge from Willock which porovokes minor scuffling, Miley and Isidore getting to it, shoving and so on. Everything that no one, apart from everyone, wants to see. Ball into the box by Schar, it’s cleared to halfway, and Newcastle build again, every man bar Ramsdale in the Sunderland half. They win a corner…. At Sunderland, the home side look pretty solid at the back; they’ve four minutes of added time to survive. Haaland stutters, watching Henderson, who dives left, so he sweeps right. Huge result for City. Hughes crosses, City half-clear, and Savinho races through the middle from inside his own half, rounding Henderson, who brings him down. The keeper thinks it wasn’t a foul, I’m not sure how; he does well to avoid a red card because he wasn’t really near the ball. Newcastle are not replete with ideas. Without Joelinton, they don’t have the same physicality in midfield, an attribute that helps them compensate for a lack of guile; Sunderland have four minutes and change to survive. Join Rob Smyth for this one… “Just when Celtic fans thought it couldn’t get any worse, ” says Simon Mc Mahon, “St. Mirren have scored after 90 seconds to take the lead at Hampden in the Scottish League Cup final. .. ” At least they’ve got the tracksuits. Given the ball 25 yards from goal, Rogers advances and sweeps a fantastic finish across his body, over Areola, and into the roof! He can play some football, and once again Villa have come from behind to lead! Forest work the ball back to just outside the box, Sangare – who’s been brilliant today – marching on to it and hurling his entirety into an away swinger that tears past Vicario and into the net. Poor old Nick Woltemade is subbed – Wissa replaces him – and of course the home crowd offer him a fantastic reception. Palace will be gutted to be 2-0 down – Pino’s first-half miss, in particular, was a massive oversight. But they now look like a team that knows the jig is up. City are going back to within two points of league-leaders Arsenal. Sunderland are responding, a ball over the top brilliantly controlled by a leaping Isidor, who then leathers a shot – Sunderland’s first on target – that Ramsdale parries clear. Newcastle are dominating possession now but, as I type, Sunderland move down the right and work Hume into the box, but he can’t quite find a teammate. The tweaks Guardiola has made have worked well for Fill Phoden. The first time I saw him play, at age-group level, I messaged a mate and told them he was special, but progress is rarely linear so I’m not surprised he’s struggled at times. Now, though, he’s been given the responsibility to play centrally, and even at his worst, he’s a goal-threat – never mind now he’s hitting top form. City win the ball on halfway, out on the right, move it infield and Cherki battles through a challenge then offloads to Foden who, from 20 yards, drags a low shot across his body – one of those that looks saveable but isn’t – and it skips into the corner. He is back. Malen is on for Villa – he’s such a brilliant option to have – and almost immediately, he leathers a shot from the edge that Areola fists clear. Back to Kamada, the issue seems to be a hamstring one, which is not what Palace need given their workload and small squad. Newcastle are still struggling to create, or even to work a position from which creation might eventuate. Similarly, Spurs are not threatening at Forest, while Palace have lost Kamada, who’s hobbling off to be replaced by Hughes.