Sunderland v Leeds: Premier League – live
Sunderland face Leeds United at the Stadium of Light in the concluding Premier League fixture of the weekend. Join Rob Smyth
4.35pm GMT
5 min Bogle’s cross evades Aaronson, under pressure from a Sunderland defender at the far post. Leeds have started really well.
4.33pm GMT
3 min Bogle shoots well wide from 20 yards after a nice little run infield. Leeds have started positively.
4.31pm GMT
1 min Peep peep! Leeds, in their yellow change strip, kick off from left to right as we watch.
4.27pm GMT
Prokofiev is on the tannoy at the Stadium of Light, which means the teams are about to take the field.
Sunderland (4-2-3-1) Roefs; Hume, Mukiele, O’Nien, Mandava; Xhaka, Sadiki; Angulo, Rigg, Le Fee; Brobbey.
Subs: Ellborg, Methalie, Talbi, Alderete, Diarra, Ahoka, Fofana, Juan Angulo, Tutierov.
Leeds (3-4-2-1) Trafford; Justin, Bijol, Muharemovic; Bogle, Ampadu, Tanaka, Gudmundsson; Wilson, Aaronson; Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Zetterer, Longstaff, Nmecha, Stach, Okafor, Bahoya, Bard, Gruev, Cresswell.
Referee Stuart Attwell.
4.19pm GMT
Match report: Man Utd 0-3 Bournemouth
After Bruno Fernandes was dropped for “pure football” reasons - according to Michael Carrick - could Manchester United actually win a game of football?
The answer, again, was a resounding, humiliating no, and if the manager’s job remains in real peril, you have to wonder, too, if this beleaguered team should steel itself for a relegation dogfight. They lack imagination, cohesion, fight, confidence, and anything resembling joy and so now hovering a point above the drop zone, survival cannot be taken for granted.
Related: Michael Carrick on the brink after Manchester United are humiliated by Bournemouth
4.18pm GMT
Match report: Liverpool 2-0 Brighton
Brighton’s emphatic run was blown off course at Anfield as Liverpool moved up to fourth with an appetite and urgency at both ends of the pitch that showed Andoni Iraola’s methods taking root. It is Liverpool, convincing winners on home soil for the first time this season in the Premier League, who looked upwardly mobile.
Florian Wirtz was instrumental in an opening goal officially credited to Brighton’s Pascal Gross and Alexander Isak converted his sixth league goal of the campaign to shatter the visitors’ sequence of four successive Premier League wins. Brighton’s winning streak had included 15 goals and none against but there was neither attacking verve nor defensive resilience on show from Fabian Hürzeler’s side. Liverpool had a monopoly on both, and the sight of Bradley Barcola racing back to defend and Ronald Araújo thundering into challenges will have satisified Iraola just as much as the incisiveness up front.
Related: Isak applies finishing touch as Liverpool bring Brighton’s winning run to an end
Updated at 4.18pm GMT
4.08pm GMT
Sunderland v Leeds evokes one game more than any other. You know the one. It’s 1973. Never mind the Sunday roast, who’s ’avin ’oops?
Related: Leeds vs Sunderland 1973: ‘Dreams do come true ...’
Updated at 4.16pm GMT
4.07pm GMT
The updated Premier League table
Pos Team P GD Pts 1 Man City 8 11 21 2 Arsenal 8 8 21 3 Brighton 8 16 16 4 Liverpool 8 3 15 5 Chelsea 8 2 13 6 Brentford 8 5 11 7 Newcastle 8 -2 11 8 Aston Villa 8 -3 11 9 Leeds 7 3 10 10 Hull 8 1 10 11 Everton 8 -1 10 12 Ipswich 8 -4 10 13 AFC Bournemouth 8 -1 9 14 Tottenham Hotspur 8 -2 9 15 Fulham 8 -2 8 16 Man Utd 8 -3 7 17 Crystal Palace 8 -10 7 18 Nottm Forest 8 -4 6 19 Coventry 8 -9 6 20 Sunderland 7 -8 4 3.56pm GMT
Premier League results Crystal Palace 0-2 Newcastle
Hull 1-1 Brentford
Liverpool 2-0 Brighton
Man Utd 0-3 Bournemouth
Daniel Harris has reaction to another dreadful day for Manchester United (and much else besides).
Related: Manchester United v Bournemouth, Liverpool v Brighton and more: clockwatch – live
3.36pm GMT
Team news The talismanic Brian Brobbey returns to the Sunderland attack after injury. Leeds are without Nico Elvedi, Anton Stach and Noah Okafor; in come Jaka Bijol, Harry Wilson and Brenden Aaronson.
Sunderland (4-2-3-1) Roefs; Hume, Mukiele, O’Nien, Mandava; Xhaka, Sadiki; N Angulo, Rigg, Le Fee; Brobbey.
Subs: Ellborg, Methalie, Talbi, Alderete, Diarra, Ahoka, Fofana, J Angulo, Tutierov.
Leeds (3-4-2-1) Trafford; Justin, Bijol, Muharemovic; Bogle, Ampadu, Tanaka, Gudmundsson; Wilson, Aaronson; Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Zetterer, Longstaff, Nmecha, Stach, Okafor, Bahoya, Bard, Gruev, Cresswell.
Referee Stuart Attwell.
Updated at 4.31pm GMT
3.00pm GMT
Premier League half-time scores Crystal Palace 0-0 Newcastle
Hull 1-0 Brentford
Liverpool 2-0 Brighton
Man Utd 0-2 Bournemouth
You can follow all the action at Old Trafford and elsewhere with Daniel Harris.
Related: Manchester United v Bournemouth, Liverpool v Brighton and more: clockwatch – live
3.00pm GMT
Preamble Hello and welcome to live, minute-by-minute coverage of Sunderland v Leeds at the Stadium of Light. Last season, these teams breathed new life into the English football pyramid by comfortably avoiding relegation on their return to the Premier League. Leeds have started 2026-27 in a similar vein – but Sunderland, almost unnoticed, have slipped to the bottom of the table after taking four points from the first seven games.
The distraction of the Europa League, in which Sunderland have started superbly, is probably the main reason for that. And three of their seven league games were against the top three, so there’s nothing to worry about yet.
Nor will Sunderland – or Leeds, for that matter – take anything for granted. This is only the third Premier League meeting between the sides since 2002, a reflection of how much these two huge clubs have struggled. English football is a better place when they are in the top flight.
Kick off 4.30pm
