Manchester City v Everton, Newcastle v Leeds: Premier League – live

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Wolves 0-0 Manchester United: It remains scoreless at Molineux, where Marcus Rashford is on as a second-half substitute for Manchester United. Wolves have gone closest to scoring since half-time, with Ruben Neves bringing an extremely smart save out of David De Gea with an excellent free-kick. Rob Smyth has the latest …

Marcus Rashford: Manchester United’s in-form striker was a surprise omission from the Manchester United lineup to face Wolves this afternoon and had to settle for a place on the bench. Despite the England international’s status as living saint and national treasure, his manager Erik ten Hag revealed he had been dropped for an undisclosed disciplinary reason. Ben Fisher reports from Molineux …

Marcus Rashford was dropped from Manchester United's starting lineup today for an undisclosed breach of club discipline.
Marcus Rashford is not the Messiah, he’s a very naughty boy. Photograph: Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Getty Images
Alessia Russo celebrates victory on the final whistle during the Women’s Euro 2022 final between England and Germany at Wembley Stadium.
Alessia Russo celebrates victory on the final whistle during the Women’s Euro 2022 final between England and Germany at Wembley Stadium. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

Today’s Premier League fixtures

  • Wolves v Manchester United (latest)

  • Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (3pm GMT)

  • Fulham v Southampton (3pm)

  • Manchester City v Everton (3pm)

  • Newcastle v Leeds United (3pm)

  • Brighton v Arsenal (5.30pm)

  • View the Premier League table

New Year's Eve clockwatch

Season’s greetings one and all and welcome to our coverage of the last afternoon of Premier League action this year. Following last night’s wins for Liverpool and Brentford, Wolves and Manchester United got today’s action under way at Molineux. Looking for their third successive win under new manager Julen Lopetegui

We have four top flight matches kicking off at three o’clock before Brighton host Arsenal at the Amex Stadium at 5.30pm. Bournemouth host Crystal Palace at the Vitality Stadium, Fulham welcome Southampton to Craven Cottage, Manchester City will hope to – at least temporarily – close the gap between themselves and Arsenal when they face out-of-sorts Everton at the Etihad, and in-form Newcastle take on Leeds United in what could be a humdinger at St James’ Park.

We’ll bring you team news, build-up, the latest on all the goals and major talking points, followed by post-match reaction and on-the-whistle reports from all the grounds. Don’t touch that dial …

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