Match of the Day Season 54, Episode 4: 26th August 2017

6th August 2017: Community Shield: Chelsea v Arsenal

Manish Bhasin presents highlights of the traditional curtain-raiser to the Premier League season as Champions Chelsea face FA Cup winners Arsenal at Wembley. Antonio Conte's team will be looking to quickly forget that 2-1 FA Cup Final loss to the Gunners at the same ground back in May, with both teams expected to show off some of their expensive summer signings.

80 min

12th August 2017

Gary Lineker introduces highlights from the Premier League's opening weekend, including Watford v Liverpool, Chelsea v Burnley, Everton v Stoke, Crystal Palace v Huddersfield, Southampton v Swansea, West Brom v Bournemouth and Brighton & Hove Albion v Manchester City, as well as Friday night's curtain-raiser between Arsenal and Leicester. Jurgen Klopp will be expecting his Liverpool side to make a winning start as they travel to Watford in Saturday's early game. The Reds won at Vicarage Road last season thanks to a stunning overhead kick by Emre Can, which was voted Match of the Day's Goal of the Season. Champions Chelsea will be looking for a repeat of last season's 3-0 home win over Burnley, while Brighton & Hove Albion face a tough start to life in the Premier League as they take on Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.

80 min

19th August 2017

Gary Lineker introduces highlights from the day's Premier League matches, which include Swansea v Manchester United, Stoke v Arsenal, Liverpool v Crystal Palace, Bournemouth v Watford, Burnley v West Brom, Leicester v Brighton and Southampton v West Ham.

80 min

9th September 2017

Gary Lineker presents Premier League highlights, including Manchester City v Liverpool, Leicester v Chelsea, Everton v Tottenham, Brighton v West Brom, Arsenal v Bournemouth, Southampton v Watford and Stoke v Manchester United.

80 min

16th September 2017

Gary Lineker presents Premier League highlights, including Tottenham v Swansea, Watford v Manchester City, Huddersfield v Leicester, Liverpool v Burnley, Newcastle v Stoke, West Brom v West Ham and Crystal Palace v Southampton.

80 min

23rd September 2017

Gary Lineker presents Premier League highlights, including Manchester United's trip to Southampton and West Ham's home clash with Tottenham. Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool head to Leicester, and Stoke host last season's title winners Chelsea.

80 min

30th September 2017

Gary Lineker introduces Premier League highlights, including the visit of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to champions Chelsea. Other games include Huddersfield v Tottenham, Manchester United v Crystal Palace, Bournemouth v Leicester, Stoke v Southampton, West Brom v Watford and West Ham v Swansea.

80 min

14th October 2017

Gary Lineker introduces Premier League highlights, including the lunchtime kick-off at Anfield between old adversaries Liverpool and Manchester United. Other matches include the clash between struggling Crystal Palace and reigning champions Chelsea, plus Watford v Arsenal, Burnley v West Ham, Manchester City v Stoke, Swansea v Huddersfield and Tottenham v Bournemouth.

80 min

21st October 2017

Gary Lineker introduces Premier League highlights. Champions Chelsea host Watford, Newcastle play Crystal Palace, Manchester City face Burnley, Huddersfield take on Manchester United, Bournemouth visit Stoke, Swansea welcome Leicester, and Southampton play West Brom.

80 min

28th October 2017

Gary Lineker introduces Premier League highlights, including the heavyweight clash between Manchester United and Tottenham at Old Trafford. Other matches include Manchester City's trip to West Brom, Bournemouth against Chelsea, Crystal Palace's London derby with West Ham, Arsenal against Swansea, Watford hosting Stoke and Huddersfield visiting Liverpool.

80 min

4th November 2017

Gary Lineker introduces Premier League highlights, including West Ham's early evening kick-off with Liverpool at the London Stadium, Stoke's clash with Leicester and Southampton's encounter with Burnley at St Mary's.

80 min

18th November 2017

Gary Lineker presents Premier League highlights, including the north London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham. In the other games Manchester City visited Leicester, Manchester United hosted Newcastle, Liverpool played Southampton, West Brom welcomed Chelsea, Bournemouth hosted Huddersfield, Swansea visited Burnley, and Crystal Palace and Everton met at Selhurst Park.

80 min

25th November 2017

Gary Lineker presents Premier League highlights, including Manchester United v Brighton, Tottenham v West Brom, Crystal Palace v Stoke, Newcastle v Watford, Swansea v Bournemouth and, in the late kick-off, Liverpool v Chelsea.

80 min

29th November 2017

Dan Walker presents all the action from the midweek Premier League games. Arsenal host Huddersfield, Chelsea entertain Swansea City and Liverpool travel to Stoke. Other games include Brighton & Hove Albion taking on rivals Crystal Palace and Manchester United heading south to face Watford.

80 min

2nd December 2017

Gary Lineker presents Premier League highlights, including Arsenal v Manchester United. The Gunners ended United's 25-match unbeaten run in the Premier League in the corresponding fixture last May, which also gave Arsene Wenger his first competitive victory over Jose Mourinho at the sixteenth attempt. Other games include Tottenham's visit to Watford and Brighton's first Premier League game against Liverpool.

80 min

9th December 2017

Gary Lineker introduces Premier League highlights, including the lunchtime kick-off between London rivals West Ham and Chelsea. Other games include Tottenham against Stoke, Crystal Palace playing Bournemouth, Watford visiting Burnley, Huddersfield hosting Brighton, Swansea against West Brom and Leicester's trip to Newcastle.

80 min

13th December 2017

Gary Lineker introduces highlights from all ten midweek Premier League games. West Ham entertain London rivals Arsenal, Manchester City travel to Swansea, and Newcastle meet Everton.

80 min

16th December 2017

Gary Lineker introduces Premier League highlights, including the heavyweight clash between Manchester City and Tottenham, Arsenal's encounter with Newcastle, Chelsea's meeting with Southampton and Crystal Palace's trip to Leicester. Brighton play Burnley, Huddersfield visit Watford, and Stoke host West Ham.

80 min

23rd December 2017

Gary Lineker introduces Premier League highlights, with all 20 clubs in action as the busy period of festive football begins. The fixtures see Manchester City host Bournemouth, Manchester United travel to Leicester, Tottenham visit Burnley and Chelsea play at Everton. Swansea play Crystal Palace, Stoke entertain West Brom, Brighton play Watford, West Ham host Newcastle, and Huddersfield travel to the south coast to play Southampton. There are also highlights of Friday night's encounter between Arsenal and Liverpool.

80 min

26th December 2017

Gary Lineker introduces match highlights of the traditional Boxing Day festive fixtures in the Premier League. There are eight games, including Tottenham's match against Southampton at Wembley, Manchester United versus Burnley, Chelsea's meeting with Brighton and Liverpool's game with Swansea. Other highlights include Leicester's trip to Watford, Huddersfield against Stoke, West Brom versus Everton, and Bournemouth against West Ham.

80 min

30th December 2017

Gary Lineker introduces Premier League highlights, featuring Stoke's trip to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea and Liverpool hosting Leicester. Other games include Manchester United v Southampton, Bournemouth v Everton, Huddersfield v Burnley, Newcastle v Brighton and Watford v Swansea.

80 min

2nd January 2018

Highlights of the day's four games, including Manchester City v Watford and Swansea v Tottenham, as well as a chance to catch up on Monday's five Premier League fixtures, which included Manchester United's trip to Everton.

80 min

6th January 2018: FA Cup Third Round

Highlights from the third round of the FA Cup, the stage at which Premier League and Championship sides join the competition.

80 min

13th January 2018

Gary Lineker introduces Premier League highlights, including Leicester's trip to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea. Other matches include Huddersfield against West Ham, Crystal Palace versus Burnley, and Everton's trip to Spurs.

80 min

20th January 2018

Gary Lineker presents highlights of eight Premier League matches including title hopefuls Manchester City's clash with Newcastle United, Arsenal's London derby with Crystal Palace and Chelsea's trip to Brighton & Hove Albion.

80 min

27th January 2018: FA Cup Fourth Round

Highlights from the day's games in the FA Cup fourth round, including Newport v Tottenham, Liverpool v West Brom and Peterborough v Leicester.

80 min

31st January 2018

Gary Lineker presents highlights of all the midweek Premier League fixtures, which include Liverpool's trip to Huddersfield and Tottenham hosting Manchester United at Wembley.

80 min

3rd February 2018

Gary Lineker presents highlights of the day's seven games, including Manchester City's clash with Burnley at Turf Moor and Manchester United's match against Huddersfield at Old Trafford.

80 min

10th February 2018

Highlights and reaction from the day's six top-flight games, introduced by Gary Lineker. The top fixture was at Wembley, with Spurs seeking to avenge defeat by Arsenal in November.

80 min

17th February 2018: FA Cup Fifth Round

Action from the latest fifth-round matches, which included Brighton & Hove Albion v Coventry City and West Bromwich Albion v Southampton, featuring analysis of the main talking points and post-match reaction from managers and players. Plus, a look back at the two matches from Friday night, which were Leicester City v Sheffield United and Chelsea v Hull City.

80 min

24th February 2018

Gary Lineker is joined by Alan Shearer and Frank Lampard to present highlights and analysis from the day's Premier League fixtures. The action includes a midlands derby between Leicester City and Stoke City, as well as West Ham United's trip to Liverpool.

80 min

3rd March 2018

Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the day's Premier League games, including the match between Liverpool and Newcastle United. The visitors' manager, Rafael Benitez, spent six successful years in charge of the Reds, but he returns to Anfield with his current side in need of points as they struggle to secure their top-flight status.

80 min

10th March 2018

Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the day's Premier League games, including Liverpool's trip to fierce rivals Manchester United, with both sides battling to secure Champions League football next season. West Brom, in need of points to preserve their top-flight status, host Leicester.

80 min

17th March 2018: FA Cup Quarter Final

Dan Walker introduces highlights of the day's four Premier League games, including crucial encounters towards the foot of the table as West Brom travel to Bournemouth and Huddersfield host Crystal Palace. Also includes highlights of the day's FA Cup quarter-finals as Manchester United host Brighton and Swansea face Tottenham.

80 min

31st March 2018

Gary Lineker presents highlights and analysis from the day's Premier League fixtures. The action includes Manchester City's visit to Goodison Park to play Everton and Newcastle United hosting Huddersfield Town. There's a huge clash at the bottom of the table between West Ham and Southampton, while Manchester United host relegation-threatened Swansea. Alan Shearer and Jermaine Jenas join Gary in the studio.

80 min

7th April 2018

Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the day's Premier League games, including Manchester City's home game against Manchester United. There are also games with relegation implications, including West Brom against Swansea, Brighton versus Huddersfield and Bournemouth taking on Crystal Palace.

80 min

14th April 2018

Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the day's seven Premier League games, including the evening kick-off between Tottenham and Manchester City. Spurs were looking for revenge after losing 4-1 to Pep Guardiola's men when the sides met at the Etihad Stadium in December. City have lost their last two games away to Tottenham, although both of those matches came at White Hart Lane, whereas this time the game took place at Wembley. Relegation-threatened Southampton host Chelsea, whilst Crystal Palace welcome Brighton to Selhurst Park.

80 min

21st April 2018

Dan Walker introduces highlights of the day’s Premier League game between Watford and Crystal Palace at Vicarage Road. For Roy Hodgson’s Palace points remain vital as they battle to secure their Premier League status. They face a tricky game against a Watford side that have also improved under new management since Javi Gracia took over.

80 min

21st April 2018: FA Cup Semi Final: Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur

Dan Walker presents highlights of the FA Cup semi-final between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley.

80 min

22nd April 2018: FA Cup Semi Final: Chelsea v Southampton

80 min

28th April 2018

Gary Lineker introduces highlights from the Premier League, including Liverpool’s home game against Stoke and Chelsea’s trip to Swansea. There are also several matches involving sides threatened with relegation including Huddersfield against Everton and the south coast derby between Bournemouth and Southampton.

80 min

5th May 2018

Gary Lineker presents Premier League highlights and analysis, with guests Martin Keown and Frank Lampard. The games include Tottenham's visit to West Brom and Everton hosting Southampton.

80 min

13th May 2018

Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the final day of the Premier League season, with all 20 clubs in action. Manchester City wrapped up the title last month and will hope to end their impressive campaign on a high by winning away to Southampton, while neighbours Manchester United entertain Watford at Old Trafford. Other games include Swansea against Stoke, Huddersfield versus Arsenal and Brighton's trip to Liverpool. With studio guests Alan Shearer and Ian Wright

80 min

19th May 2018: FA Cup Final: Chelsea v Manchester United

Highlights of the FA Cup final between Chelsea and Manchester United from Wembley Stadium.

80 min