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Well I never! Neco Williams has scored against his old club with a deflected shot. He doesn’t celebrate, with it being against his former club, and that performative nonsense really has to stop doesn’t it.

Diogo Jota missed a sitter in the first half; this time he has scored from close range to give Liverpool the lead. They’re going to finish in the top five, aren’t they, maybe even the top four.

“Trent is clearly an amazing footballer,” says Tom Walling. “He does things with a football that few others can. Above all weight of pass and imagination. But does he suffer from being neither full back nor midfielder? I don’t know. I feel like he should be more appreciated. Does Klippety know how to use him? This new hybrid role suits him, I think. Hope it sticks. He’s too talented to be used a stick with which to beat Klopp or Liverpool through tribal idiocy.”

He feels like a wing-back in full-back’s clothing. He’s far too good not to excel, wherever he plays, and if Liverpool can find another Jordan Henderson I think he’ll probably be okay at full-back. All this excitement about his new role – it’s more pronounced, for sure, but hasn’t he been wandering into midfield for the last five years?

He’s a fascinating player, maybe even unique. There have even better attacking full-backs, but I can’t think of any with Alexander-Arnold’s ability to manipulate the ball. The obvious comparisons, certainly in English football on that side of the field, are David Beckham and Kevin De Bruyne. Beckham played as a wing-back for England under Glenn Hoddle but never, as far as I’m aware, in a back four.

FA Cup semi-final: Man City v Sheff Utd

The first FA Cup semi-final kicks off at 4.45pm local time. Scott Murray has the team news (spoiler: Beast starts).

Women’s Champions League: Chelsea 0-1 Barcelona

Barrow 0-1 Carlisle

Mansfield 1-0 Stevenage

Northampton 3-1 Harrogate

Stockport 0-0 Rochdale

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Birmingham 0-0 Blackpool

Burnley 0-0 QPR

Cardiff 1-1 Stoke

Coventry 1-0 Reading

Norwich 0-2 Swansea

Wigan 1-1 Millwall

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It’s all fairly quiet in the Premier League, with only two goals in the four 3pm games. These are the half-time scores.

Brentford 0-0 Aston Villa

Crystal Palace 0-0 Everton

Leicester City 1-1 Wolves

Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest

Peterborough 0-1 Ipswich

Plymouth 1-1 Cambridge

Sheff Wed 0-0 Exeter

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“Will the real Liverpool please - finally, finally - stand up? Free-scoring goal monsters or impotent rabble?” says Joseph Arafa. “It’s playing havoc with my Fantasy Football decision-making. Hoping Diaz gets on the pitch mind you.

“As we’re discussing friend’s son’s bands with singles just out in all the usual spots: I’ve got one of those too. Any chance of a shout out as well? And to Neill Brown - have you been to one of their gigs yet? Simultaneously the youngest I’ve felt in a while (proximity to boundless youthful energy) and the oldest I’ve felt, ever (pressed to the wall holding a pint whilst kids pogo 10 yards away).”

“Almost exactly 35 years since this,” says Niall Mullen. “Thirty-five years man, where has it gone? Anyway, I doubt Sir Tom Finney would be quite as effusive about Liverpool’s performance today.”

It’s a lovely tribute, Sir Tom, but can you slag someone off so we can use it on the socials?

Premier League latest

Fulham 2-1 Leeds

Brentford 0-0 Aston Villa

Crystal Palace 0-0 Everton

Leicester City 1-1 Wolves

Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest

Brentford 0-0 Aston Villa

“I opted to watch Brentford - Aston Villa, and it’s been fairly dull,” boasts Kári Tulinius. “Two good teams negating each other. It threatens to entertain every once in a while, but then the defences sort themselves out and deal with it. It’s not quite sh1t on a stick, but Jorge Valdano certainly wouldn’t be raving about the quality of the spectacle.”

Championship A few scores of note:

Norwich 0-2 Swansea

Coventry 1-0 Reading

The race for the last two playoff places is exquisitely tight.

Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Diogo Jota has just missed a terrific chance, heading wide from Trent Alexander-Arnold’s cross.

“The OTHER thing about doing line-ups by squad numbers (and most upsetting for my OCD) is it’s totally inconsistent,” says Mark Hooper, “because the goalie is always listed first, even if (in Forest’s case) his squad number is 12.”

Here’s a special torture for you.

A nerveless penalty from Kelechi Iheanacho brings Leicester level! This is what it means at the bottom of the table.

Leicester 0-1 Wolves Vardy is still down. Apparently Jose Sa slipped into Vardy, so maybe I shouldn’t have called it a brainfade, especially as I’m not even watching the game.

Crystal Palace 0-0 Everton Palace have dominated, but Sam Johnstone – who is far too good to be a back-up keeper – has just made a brilliant save to deny Alex Iwobi.

Penalty to Leicester! Jose Sa has had one of his occasional brainfades, needlessly taking out Jamie Vardy, and Leicester have a big chance to equalise.

Championship/League One George Saville has equalised for Millwall at Wigan, as has Sam Smith for Cambridge at Plymouth. As things stand, a) Wigan are down and b) Ipswich are top of League One.

Leicester 0-1 Wolves “It’s all Wolves,” says Tim Sherwood on Soccer Saturday. The good news for Leicester, Leeds, Southampton, Forest and Everton – who are all struggling, big-time – is that only three of them can go down. Based on last night, I fancy Southampton’s chances of staying up.

“The Guardian should buy one of the fishing boats sidelined by Brexit, hire a hacker that could steal the feed from Peacock and start a pirate-radio style setup so the MBM writers can view all the fixtures and work around the blackout,” says Mary Waltz. “Power to the people!!!!”

Boats, you say.

Leicester 0-1 Wolves “Just as I opened this email, Tielemans decided to be dozy and Wolves are one up,” weeps Graham Randall. “This team is intent on shooting ourselves in the foot every game. Everyone else in the bottom six or so seems to have some fight, not this team. No leaders in this team at all. Vardy is a shadow of his former self and is done at this level. Championship is fun though!”

James Maddison is a leader, no? I can’t get my head round what has happened to a) Youri Tielemans and b) Leicester.

Premier League latest

Fulham 2-1 Leeds

Brentford 0-0 Aston Villa

Crystal Palace 0-0 Everton

Leicester City 0-1 Wolves

Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest

Scottish Premiership Callum McGregor’s deflected strike has put Celtic ahead against Motherwell. They can’t win the league today, but it’s in the post.

Liverpool 0-0 Nottm Forest Michael Dawson, on Sky Sports, says Forest have been “fairly comfortable” so far.

“My OCD is angrily triggered when lineups and listed by number or alphabet!” says Francisco Oyarzo. “Anyone who loves football should have a decent knowledge about how clubs lineup: goalie to striker and right to left. Don’t get where the issue is with such a simple task!”

You say it’s a simple task, but have you watched Manchester City lately? (I agree with you though, I get inordinately stressed if centre-backs are listed the wrong way round. And that part should be fairly simple.)

Championship You can follow all the games on our live scoreboard, but it’s worth mentioning a couple of early goals:

Wigan 1-0 Millwall (Keane 14)

Cardiff 0-1 Stoke (Laurent 16)

League One The top two are both 1-0 up: Plymouth at home to Cambridge, Ipswich away to Peterborough. Sheffield Wednesday’s game at home to Exeter is goalless.

National League Notts County are already 2-0 up at Maidstone, so it looks like Wrexham will have to beat Boreham Wood tonight to secure promotion to the EFL.

Bundesliga: Mainz 0-1 Bayern Sadio Mane’s goal, an easy header from Joao Cancelo’s perfect cross, is his first since October - when he scored in a 6-2 win over, yep, Mainz.

Youri Tielemans loses the ball in a dangerous area to Mario Lemina, allowing Matheus Cunha to collect the loose ball and crash it into the far corner. That’s a cracking finish, but a grim mistake from Tielemans. Leicester are actually going down, aren’t they?

Crystal Palace 0-0 Everton Palace have started well, it says here, and Jordan Ayew has just missed a decent chance from Michael Olise’s cross.

Match report: Fulham 2-1 Leeds

John Brewin was at Craven Cottage to watch Leeds lose their third game in a row.

“A simple request,” says Mark Hooper. “Could other teams please adopt the Liverpool policy of listing their line-ups in order, from goalie to strikers, rather than squad numbers?”

Ah but even Liverpool don’t have the players in the correct order from right to left. No, I’m not proud of myself: not now, not ever.