Unai Emery makes two changes from last weekend’s win over Fulham: Ezri Konsa and John McGinn return for Villa in place of Diego Carlos and Leon Bailey.
Ryan Christie and Justin Kluivert, who came off the bench to score in Bournemouth’s win over Arsenal, come into the starting XI along with Mark Travers and Enes Unal. Alex Scott, Marcus Tavernier, Kepa and Evanilson drop out.
Your Villa XI to face Bournemouth this afternoon! 🟣
Brentford are boosted by the return from injury of the excellent Yoane Wissa. He replaces Kevin Schade and Mads Roerslev is in for Kristoffer Ajer.
Kieran McKenna has made a number of changes to his Ipswich side. Harry Clarke, Jens Cajuste, Sam Szmodics, Chiedozie Ogbene, Conor Chaplin and George Hirst replace Luke Woolfenden, Omari Hutchinson, Sam Morsy, Wes Burns, Jack Clarke and Liam Delap.
Three changes for Brighton. Pervis Estupinan, Kaoru Mitoma and Jan Paul van Hecke come in for Igor Julio, Evan Ferguson and Jake Hinshelwood. That means Danny Welbeck is fit to start.
Just the one change for Wolves: Tommy Doyle replaces Andre in midfield.
Our Pep makes three changes from last weekend’s win at Molineux. Manuel Akanji replaces goal machine John Stones, Phil Foden is in for Jeremy Doku and Matheus Nunes replaces Ilkay Gundogan. City have only named five outfield subs.
It looks like Southampton have switched to a back five. Jack Stephens, Adam Lallana come in for Yukinari Sugawara and Joe Aribo.
Your City line-up this afternoon! 🩵
XI | Ederson, Lewis, Akanji, Dias (C), Gvardiol, Kovacic, Bernardo, Nunes, Savinho, Foden, Haaland
Hello and welcome to another Saturday afternoon clockwatch. There are four games in the Premier League this afternoon, three of which involves teams still looking for their first win of the season: Ipswich, Southampton and Wolves. All have away games that range from tough to utterly, spirit-crushingly impossible.
There’s a full EFL program as well. And in Germany, second-placed Leipzig meet third-placed Freiburg. Our featured games are listed below; you can follow the rest via our live scores page.