Premier League clockwatch: live - Telegraph 21.37 Knocked out of both cups in four days, now back to another league defeat. Villa squander second half chances and it's now a fourth successive home defeat. If Wigan score, Lambert's troops will be in the bottom three. 21.35 QPR hold City, who fail to score against the bottom side. Ryan Nelson waves goodbye to the Rangers faithful, perhaps his last game before moving across the pond. 21.34 Bramble saves Sunderland's blushes, blocking Graham's weak shot. That's the last chance. All over. Sunderland stay 11th, Swansea ninth. 21.33 Five minutes for Villa to find something. 21.32 Ping pong in the QPR box. Cleared and QPR go upfield. Taarabt wins an incisive corner. Breathless. 21.30 Onuoha with a key tackle for the R's. City fans can forget those pleas for a pen. Class, sliding challenge. 21.29 Newcastle all at sea at the back from a long free kick. It evades everyone, even Benteke's head. 21.26 This is all City. Silva with another shot. Blocked. QPR hanging in gamely. Forget those dressing room fracas stories for now. Third substution for City, James Milner off, Scott Sinclair on. 21.25 At Loftus Road, Zabaleta with a low stinging cross, here's Silva in the six-yard box. Fine reaction save from four yards from Cesar. 21.24 Gutierrez sticks out a foot and clears off the line from Benteke. Time running out for Villa. 21.23 Still nothing to report from Stadium of Light. Swansea shading it perhaps. 21.22 If QPR nick this a la Chelsea.... 21.21 Boos aplenty at QPR as City earn their RADA degrees with plenty of theatre in their wall. Granero is over the ball for a minute and then blasts his free kick way over. 21.18 Remy goes down Platoon-like in the City box. Nothing doing. The Frenchman looks on in disbelief. Blatant dive as the R's fans give ref Dowd plenty of abuse. 21.16 Benteke with a great chance to level for Villa. Scuffs wide across goal. 21.15 Lovely move from City. Barry's diagonal ball to the right, Zabaleta nods back and Aguero blazes over. Dave Garner, emailing from the future: "Paul Lambert will be fired tomorrow after this. Nigel Adkins in to keep Villa up. Dave Garner, emailing from the future. 21.13 Silva becoming an everpresent for City with 20 minutes left at Loftus Road. City, though, just can't break them down. Dzeko with a shot way wide from a corner. 21.12 A win for Wigan, remember, will take them out of the bottom three. Villa will fit neatly into the basement if they fail to score again tonight. 21.11 QPR fans chanting: "Oh Joe Hart, he's got a dry scalp'." 21.10 Gareth Barry goes into Dowd's little black book. Granero goes in hard on Hart down the other end. Brute force being applied in this second half. Stoke 2 Wigan 2.Wigan slowing meandering their way back into the game. They have never come back from two down in the Premier League but Franco Di Santo has given them every chance of three points. Much deserved. 21.06 QPR will be glad to hear that MK Dons, down to 10 men, are drawing with Yeovil. 21.04 Nothing much doing at the Stadium of Ligght. 21.03 Cracking ball from Benteke to Weimann on the right, who drags his shot into Krul's grateful arms. Great game now. 21.02 Dzeko replaces Nasri, "who's been toilet," according to our man Jonathan Liew at Loftus Road. 21.00 Granero receives a yellow for a late one on Silva. Lively stuff though, and so is the clash at Villa Park, thanks to the hosts' second-half performance. What the dickens did Lambert say, we wonder? Stoke 2 Wigan 1. Cool as you like, James McArthur pulls one back for Wigan. Stoke 2 Wigan 0. Peter Crouch, who hasn't scored for 18 games and linked in the tabs with a move to QPR, slots home on 49 mins after Charlie Adams' shot lands in the lanky striker's path. Aston Villa 1 Newcastle 2. Agbonlahor, the sub, goes down - Debuchy the culprit - and Benteke slams home. What a turnaround. 20.50 Villa now flat back four. They are right in tune with Paul Lambert's half-time tirade. Two chances in as many minutes 20.49 QPR seeing some early ball. Traore doing some solid work down the left flanks. 20.48 Off and running once more... Half times a blowin' at the four grounds... Bottom-proppers QPR are somehow holding City (though Redknapp's troops are catching the visitors with remarkable ease on the break). Newcastle are all over Villa. Plus, plus facile. The hosts have received plenty of abuse as they troop off too. Not much to report at Stoke and Sunderland. 20.30 N'Zogbia booked for charging into scorer Cabaye. Blatant foul. Easy yellow. 20.28 Gareth Barry with a piledriver. The Brazilian Cesar is one of three R's 'keepers kitted out tonight. So thank his stars that he saves with a brilliant dive. 20.27 Benteke does well to control from chest to feet. A quick turn before his right-footer goes way, way over the bar. 20.25 Second QPR break in as many minutes. This time Taarabt is free down the left. Runs 40, 50 yards. He's into the six-yard box and the scampering Hart smothers. QPR beginning to threaten City, who lack ideas. Too narrow. 20.22 Just seen an image of a Villa fan with hands on heads, staring directly at nothing in particular. As if he's thinking about some spreadsheet tomorrow at work. Or that parking fine he's got to pay. Anything but the football. Le Toon Armie, meanwhile, are loving their trip. Aston Villa 0 Newcastle 2. Vlaar with a weak clearance. One touch from Yohan Cabaye. Then, he unleashes a half volley! A wonder, wonder strike from the Frenchman (who has been there a wee while) as it curls away past Guzan. 20.13 Look away Villa fans for the following stat-o-worry. Aston Villa have won fewer points from losing positions this season in the Premier League than any other side. It is also over a year since Villa came back to win a match after falling behind. 20.11 Just when you think Redknapp's side are just too insipid, they strike. Here, they catch City cold but Remy's effort deflects just wide of Hart's goal. Corner. Stoke 1 Wigan 0. Espinosa tries to clear, it hits a team-mate, possibly McArthur before Ryan Shawcross volleys home on 21 minutes. Just what an otherwise drab game needed. 20.06 I'm sure they will be singing Alain DePardew before not too long. They may even rack up a Chateauneuf score on this evidence tonight. 20.05 The wind is swirling at Loftus Road. QPR look a tad nervous too. 20.02 Look away from the Swansea game for a few minutes and by the time you return, the Welsh outfit will still be playing on the floor, Barcelona style football. They are all over the Black Cats. Aston Villa 0 Newcastle 1. Cisse and Sissoko combine before the former takes two touches and slam! A debut goal. 20.00 Mike Dean turns down appeals for Coloccini handball. But not before Villa fans ironically cheer their team clearing danger from a corner. Dear, oh dear! 19.59 Michu, after a fine sweeping move across the Sunderland box, has a last-ditch shot blocked on the six-yard box. 19.58 But not with the Toon Army. Did you know that Thune, in French, is the slang word for cash. Wahey! 19.57 All quiet at the Stadium of Light too. 19.56 Julio Cesar makes a mockery of David Silva's corner. Here's Lescott, whose chance goes Jonny Wilkinson-like over the bar. 19.54 Newcastle bossing it at Villa Park in the opening salvos. Gutierrez has shot blocked for the Toon. Drab atmosphere to boot. 19.51 Hernandez goes down in the box for Swansea. O'Shea looks to be late, but so does the dive. 19.50 Slashing down at the Britannia. Di Santo and Huth clash in the opening salvos and the German is down. Several minutes delay as Huth is bandaged up. We've seen that before. The Tricolour, onions and berets spotted in the away end at Villa Park. A few empty seats in the home end too. 19.35 Pour Le Toon ce soir, Alan Pardew hands debuts to French midfield duo Moussa Sissoko and Yoan Gouffran against Villa. Changes afoot for Villa too. There are four changes with goalkeeper Brad Guzan, defender Nathan Baker, midfielder Barry Bannan and striker Christian Benteke recalled after that Millwall defeat. 19.25 Yes, you guessed it. No Balotelli on the team sheets. The Italy striker will undergo a medical tomorrow in Milan so is not involved at Loftus Road. Mancini made three changes. Samir Nasri and Sergio Aguero come into the side that won at Stoke, while Joe Hart returned in goal to make his 150th league appearance for the club. QPR make eight changes - ONLY THE EIGHT?! - to the side embarrassed by MK Dons on Saturday. Fabio, Armand Traore and Esteban Granero are the only survivors. 19.20 A good spot by one Liverpool fan in residence at Telegraph Towers. This from Brendan Rodgers, after presiding over a Swansea team who had just lost 2-0 ... at Sunderland. It is great for the public here at Sunderland to see us. They must have been wondering what this team everyone is talking about are all about and now they have seen. We were wonderful. Our intention is always to pass teams to a standstill, but give credit to Sunderland, they defended ever so well when other teams might have wilted. 19.10 And to Loftus Road and the Britannia. And to La Villa Park too! Queens Park Rangers: Cesar; Onuoha, Nelsen, Hill, Traore; Mbia, Derry; Fabio, Granero, Taarabt; Remy. Subs: Green, Park, Ben Haim, Zamora, Murphy, Faurlin, Bothroyd. Manchester City: Hart; Zabaleta (c), Garcia, Lescott, Clichy; Milner, Barry, Nasri; Aguero, Silva, Tevez. Subs: Pantilimon, Dzeko, Sinclair, Kolarov, Rodwell, Nastasic, Rekik. Stoke City: Begovic; Cameron, Shawcross (c), Huth; Whitehead, Whelan, Nzonzi, Adam, Etherington; Walters, Crouch. Subs: Sorensen, Jones, Owen, Upson, Wilkinson, Shotton, Jerome. Wigan Athletic: Al Habsi; Golobart, Caldwell (c), Figueroa; Boyce, McArthur, McCarthy, Espinoza, Beausejour; Maloney, Di Santo. Subs: Robles, Jones, Henriquez, Gomez, McManaman, Stam, Mustoe. Aston Villa: Guzan, Vlaar (c), Clark, Bennett, Baker, Lowton, Westwood, Bannan, N'Zogbia, Benteke, Bent. Subs: Given, Ireland, Lichaj, Holman, Agbonlahor, Weimann, Bowery. Newcastle United: Krul; Debuchy, S Taylor, Coloccini, Santon; Perch, Cabaye; Gouffran, Sissoko, Gutierrez; Cisse. Subs: Harper, Yanga-Mbiwa, Williamson, Bigirimana, Anita, Sammy Ameobi, Shola Ameobi. 19.05 First thing's first. The all-important team details. To Stadium of Light we venture. Sunderland: Mignolet, Gardner, Colback, O'Shea (c), Bramble, N'Diaye, Vaughan, Larsson, Johnson, Sessegnon, Fletcher. Subs: Bardsley, Wickham, Kilgallon, Mangane, McClean, Elmohamady, Westwood. Swansea City: Tremmel, Tiendalli, Flores, Williams (c), Davies, Britton, de Guzman, Dyer, Michu, Hernandez, Shechter. Subs: Cornell, Bartley, Lamah, Routledge, Su-Yeung, Rangel, Graham. 19.00 Good evening and welcome to some Tuesday action. The delight of four games for you tonight. We should be doing this in French, given the shenanigans at Newcastle in the past 48 hours. On y va.