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Crystal Palace v Leicester team news
Palace’s new signings Max Lacroix and Eddie Nketiah, as does Cheick Doucoure. Nathaniel Clyne, Will Hughes and Daichi Kamada do not.
One change for Leicester, with Stephy Mavididi preferred to Abdul Fatawu.
81 min: Southampton 0-2 Manchester United
Still 2-0 at St Mary’s but the home side are down to 10 men: Jack Stephens has been given a straight red card for serious foul play. Barry Glendenning will give you chapter and verse.
Brighton v Ipswich team news
What’s with this eyes nonsense? It’s the Brighton team for a routine league game, not an unconfirmed report that Donald Trump has come out as a Democrat who prefers Burger King.
As for the teams, Brighton are without James Milner and Joao Pedro, so Yasin Ayari and Georginio Rutter start.
Ipswich bring in Dara O’Shea and Wes Burns for Luke Woolfenden and Chiedozie Ogbene.
Fulham v West Ham team news
Two changes for Fulham. The new signing Joachim Andersen and Raul Jimenez come in for Issa Diop and Rodrigo Muniz.
Julen Lopetegui prefers Tomas Soucek to Lucas Paqueta, the only change from West Ham’s 3-1 defeat to Erling Haaland.
Liverpool v Nottm Forest team news
Arne Slot sticks with the XI that embarrassed Manchester United a fortnight ago. Forest bring in James Ward-Prowse, Ryan Yates, Nicolas Dominguez and Alex Moreno for Ibrahima Sangare, Anthony Elanga, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Neco Williams.
Man City v Brentford team news
Ilkay Gundogan makes his second full debut for City after returning to the club from Barcelona. Erling Haaland also starts; there were suggestions he might miss the game for personal reasons. Kyle Walker, John Stones and Savinho all return; Bernardo Silva and Josko Gvardiol are rested.
Sepp van den Berg and Keane Lewis-Potter come into the Brentford team in place of Kevin Schade and the injured Mathias Jensen.
Your City XI for #MCIBRE 🩵
XI | Ederson, Walker (C), Stones, Akanji, Lewis, Gundogan, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Grealish, Savinho, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Dias, Doku, Rodrigo, Bernardo, Gvardiol, Nunes, Foden, McAtee#ManCity | @etihad pic.twitter.com/dUDFJQFb8o
— Manchester City (@ManCity) September 14, 2024
On this day in 1997 … association football teams managed by Roy Hodgson and George Graham trade seven goals before half-time.
Pep Guardiola on Manchester City’s FFP case
I’m happy it starts on Monday and I know there will be more rumours about the sentences that come up and we’re going to see. I know what people are looking for, I know what they are expecting – I know it because I have read it for many years – but I’ve said everyone is innocent until guilt is proven.
Arne Slot on Liverpool’s busy schedule
For the players it might be a lot. If it is too much then it is a question for them to ask because I don’t feel what they feel but I do see it is a lot and it is up to us to prove we can handle that: the ones who play almost every game and the ones to come in and show they can continue to get results like we have so far.
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Half time: Leeds 0-1 Burnley
Burnley had only 25 per cent possession in the first half at Elland Road, but they lead through Luca Koleosho’s 18th-minute goal. Will Ferrell is among the crowd for that game.
The other half-time scores in the Championship are Oxford 0-0 Stoke and Millwall 0-1 Luton (Mengi 10). No word yet on Vince Vaughn being at The Den.
Half time: Southampton 0-2 Manchester United
After a diffcult start to the season, Erik ten Hag is having a more comfortable afternoon at St Mary’s. It might have been different had Andre Onana not saved Cameron Archer’s penalty when the game was goalless. But he did, and Matthijs de Ligt and Marcus Rashford scored soon after to put United in control. You can follow the second half with Barry Glendenning.
Preamble
It’s not often that both Manchester City and Liverpool grace us with their presence at 3pm on a Saturday, but that’s the case today. The top two have what look like home bankers against Brentford and Nottingham Forest respectively, although we’ve maded that mistaken assumption in the past. It’s less than two years since Brentford won famously at the Etihad just before the World Cup.
Third-placed Brighton are also in action at home to Ipswich, with Fulham v West Ham and Crystal Palace v Leicester completing a decent set of 3pm games. We’ll also have updates from the big games elsewhere, including Leeds v Burnley and Plymouth v Sunderland in the Championship.
These are our featured games, all 3pm kick-offs unless stated.
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