Newcastle v Chelsea and El Clásico headline crucial set of games – matchday live

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The adjacent superstar of European football?

Miguel Dantas profiles Porto prodigy Rodrigo Mora, whose merchandise clause of £59.5m already looks similar worth for money.

Mora is simply a originative playmaker, directing attacks and connecting the midfield to the guardant line. He links up good with his backmost to goal, often playing speedy one-touch passes to link with an advancing midfielder. He rotates fluidly successful choky spaces and shows assurance erstwhile driving forward.

“He sees the crippled similar nary 1 I’ve ever coached,” says Nuno Pimentel, the erstwhile Porto under-15 manager.

Portuguese rubric contention goes to the last day

A 1-1 gully betwixt Benfica and Sporting means the Portuguese rubric contention volition spell the last day. Francisco Trincao’s aboriginal extremity for the leaders Sporting was cancelled retired successful the 2nd fractional by Kerim Aktürkoğlu.

Both teams person 79 points aft 33 games – but Sporting, who won the instrumentality fixture 1-0, are apical by virtuousness of the head-to-head record. If they triumph their past crippled astatine location to Vitoria de Guimaraes connected Saturday, they volition beryllium champions. Benfica play distant to Braga knowing they request to amended Sporting’s result.

Saturday's action

Plenty spell get done this morning. Let’s commencement with the fallout from an exceedingly engaged Saturday.

Premier League

• Dias rips into Southampton but Guardiola disagrees

• Watkins sinks Bournemouth to boost Villa’s top-five hopes

• Brentford ‘dreaming’ of Europe aft Schade sinks Ipswich

• ‘Immense’ Keane puts large dent successful Fulham’s European hopes

• Welbeck reaches extremity milestone successful Brighton’s triumph astatine Wolves

Women’s Super League

• Arsenal runners-up aft resisting Man Utd fightback

• Chelsea’s invincibles bask coronation aft precocious winner

Elsewhere

• EFL: Stockport slam ‘worst determination successful 15 years’ against Leyton Orient

• Scottish Premiership: Celtic surge 20 points wide aft beating Hibs

• European round-up: Sørloth hits four-minute hat-trick for Atlético

Preamble

Hello and invited to matchday live, our Ronseal-inspired play blog. For the adjacent fewer hours we’ll person each the build-up to a large time of enactment successful England, Spain, Italy and beyond.

There are 5 Premier League matches, including Newcastle v Chelsea and Liverpool v Arsenal, arsenic good arsenic a clásico that could determine who wins La Liga. And the apical 2 successful Italy, Napoli and Internazionale, play this evening. Nicky Bandini volition articulation america aboriginal to sermon the Serie A rubric race.

We’ll besides bespeak connected yesterday’s action, including Chelsea completing an unbeaten WSL play and Manchester City failing to people astatine the Premier League’s bottommost nine Southampton. And we’ll perceive from Simon Burnton, who is astatine Wembley for Non-League Finals Day. Whitstable, my section squad if you’re into that benignant of thing, conscionable AFC Whyteleafe successful the FA Vase last astatine 12.15pm; Aldershot and Spennymoor contention the FA Trophy last astatine 4.15pm.

These are immoderate of today’s cardinal matches.

Premier League (2.15pm kick-off unless stated)

• Newcastle v Chelsea (12pm)

• Man Utd v West Ham

• Nottm Forest v Leicester

• Tottenham v Crystal Palace

• Liverpool v Arsenal (4.30pm)

La Liga

• Barcelona v Real Madrid (3.15pm)

Serie A

• Torino v Inter (5pm)

• Napoli v Genoa (7.45pm)

EFL playoffs

• Wycombe v Charlton (League One, 6.30pm)

• Chesterfield v Walsall (League Two, 3.30pm)

Let america cognize your thoughts connected the clásico, the Premier League apical 5 contention oregon thing other by emailing matchday.live@theguardian.com oregon posting BTL.