Key events21 Mar 2026Brighton v Liverpool kick-off delayed21 Mar 2026Brighton v Liverpool team news21 Mar 2026PreambleShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureRighty, time to close down this edition of Matchday live. I’ll point you in the direction of today’s other live blogs: words courtesy of Scott Murray and Emillia Hawkins.Brighton v Liverpool kick-off delayedActually, it’s just over 45 minutes until kick-off at Brighton. Traffic congestion means they’ve put the start back until 12.45pm.Florian Wirtz has been chatting to Steve McManaman for a TNT Sports interview which is showing right now. Just over 30 minutes until Brighton v Liverpool.Liverpool’s German playmaker says: “Everyone in the world knows that the Premier League is the most intense and physically it was maybe a bit more than I was thinking but there’s always difficult things on the pitch where you have to adapt. Maybe you have also a bit more responsibility for more people who are supporting you and wanting you to do good.“When I was at Leverkusen, I could have more time on the ball and maybe turn easier. Here you have to be so ready, with your first touch you have to be away already because otherwise there are three people on you and smashing into you. That’s maybe also a big difference. I have to be faster in my decisions.”Millwall in the Premier League next season? They could go second if managing to take three points at Ipswich in today’s 12.30pm kick-off. Here’s another read from Barney Ronay, a Millwall fan through and through.We have three 12pm kick-offs in the WSL. Here’s Emillia Hawkins with a live blog already packed with team news.Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson, who misses today’s game, has posted on Instagram. Perhaps he’ll be out longer than first imagined. “Unfortunately I’ll have to stay a while out of action. Already working hard to be back stronger. Thank you for your support.”Giorgi Mamardashvili will be making his 13th appearance of the season for the Reds. Not bad for a back-up goalkeeper. Steve Ogrizovic made just five first-team appearances for Liverpool between 1977 and 1982 when second choice to Ray Clemence!Brighton v Liverpool team newsThis is how they line up for today’s early kick-off in the Premier League.Brighton: Verbruggen; Wieffer, Van Hecke, Dunk, Kadioglu; Milner, Gross; Gomez, Hinshelwood, Minteh; Welbeck.Subs: Steele, Rutter, Baleba, Kostoulas, Boscagli, Mitoma, Ayari, De Cuyper, Veltman.Liverpool: Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Szoboszlai, Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Wirtz, Ekitike, Gakpo.Subs: Woodman, Gomez, Chiesa, Jones, Robertson, Nyoni, Ramsay, Morrison, Ngumoha.Referee: Darren England (Doncaster)Our Brighton v Liverpool blog is live! Scott Murray has been preambling a game that looks hard to call. Team news coming up in just under 10 minutes. Liverpool, we know, are definitely without Mo Salah and Alisson.Japan win the Women’s Asian Cup again. A 1-0 win secures victory over hosts Australia – a familiar scoreline in this tournament.The Guardian has kicked off a new chapter in puzzles with the launch of its first daily football game, On the ball. It is now live in the app for both iOS and Android … so what are you waiting for? I scored 63pts in today’s game which puts me in the top 17% of players apparently. I’m sure you can beat that though.Nottingham Forest and Tottenham both go into their Sunday showdown on the back of European wins. While Spurs’ 3-2 victory over Atletico Madrid wasn’t enough to undo the damage of the 5-2 self-induced tonking in Spain, Forest hit back from their 1-0 first-leg loss at the City Ground to oust Midtjylland on penalties and reach a first European quarter-final for 30 years. Ben Fisher checks in with the Forest camp.Igor Tudor is a good name, isn’t it. Perhaps the name of a chess player. There’s certainly something 3D chess about his answer here, putting us left-brain dullards to shame as we blithely trot out “six-pointer” for Sunday’s Tottenham v Nottingham Forest clash.Asked if he believed in the concept ahead of the clash between the two relegation-threatened sides, Tudor said: “No.“Because there are a lot of points to play for. Of course, it’s an important game because we are together there, so let’s say not six, but four?“It’s not a final. Maybe not three points, a four-point game but still a lot of points (to go). Especially when we are so close, it’s important, but it will not decide who will (stay up).”Iran: Sardar Azmoun has been omitted from the squad announced for two World Cup warmups after Iranian media reports that the striker had been expelled from the national team for a perceived act of disloyalty to the government.Azmoun, who has scored 57 goals in 91 internationals, was the most notable absentee from a 35-man squad named by Iran head coach, Amir Ghalenoei, on Friday for friendlies against Nigeria and Costa Rica in the Turkish city of Antalya.There are three 12.30pm kick-offs in the Championship today. They feature second-placed Middlesbrough and a key showdown between Ipswich (third) and Millwall (fourth).