Live: Southampton v Portsmouth, Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest, Hull v Everton
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The Guardian's live blog covers multiple English football fixtures including Southampton v Portsmouth, Crystal Palace v Nottingham Forest, and Hull v Everton on October 11, 2026.
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In Sergej Jakirovic and David Moyes, Hull City and Everton boast two of the more “pragmatic” managers in the Premier League. Renowned for their safety-first defensive styles, both teams are happy to surrender possession, rank among the top flight’s lowest sides in pass completion rates, and rely on rapid transitions and set pieces for a major share of their total expected goals. A game featuring two defences that pride themselves on their obduracy may well be settled by a well-delivered dead ball into a packed penalty area. While it may not be aesthetically pleasing, expect to see the massed ranks of defenders on both sides spending much of Sunday afternoon bracing themselves for rearguard action while peering towards the sky. The last time these sides met in the Premier League, Everton ran out easy 4-0 winners. A decade on, the aerial traffic is unlikely to be quite so one-way.
All eyes will be on Oliver Glasner as he returns to Selhurst Park with Nottingham Forest on an afternoon that will be emotionally charged for both sets of supporters and in the boardroom. The Crystal Palace chair, Steve Parish, sought to defuse tensions last week when he urged fans to “buck the trend” by welcoming the manager who led the south London club to the first three major trophies in their history in the space of 12 months. “I would be mortified if he gets anything other than the roof blown off,” said Parish. But given the strength of feeling towards Forest and their owner, Evangelos Marinakis – who is still blamed by some for Palace’s demotion to the Conference League at the expense of Forest last season – many have still not forgiven Glasner for joining their rivals and could still make their feelings known when the Austrian takes his seat in the dugout before kick-off.
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This is a rolling live blog from The Guardian tracking several domestic football matches simultaneously. The featured fixtures include a south-coast derby between Southampton and Portsmouth, a London meeting of Crystal Palace and Nottingham Forest, and Hull hosting Everton. As a live coverage format, the article aggregates minute-by-minute updates, team news, goals, and key incidents across the day's action. The fixtures suggest an early-round domestic cup schedule in the English football calendar.
Chance analysis
Live multi-match blogs are a staple of English football weekends, especially during cup rounds when several compelling fixtures stack up on the same day. The Southampton–Portsmouth south-coast derby carries strong regional and historical weight, while Palace–Forest and Hull–Everton offer their own subplots depending on league standing. For readers, the value is in having goals, lineup news, and key moments from all games consolidated in one feed rather than scattered across separate reports.
General live coverage of multiple English football matches with no single dominant story that materially shifts expectations for any one team or player.