Chelsea v Nottingham Forest, Manchester City v Fulham: clockwatch – live | Premier League

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Brentford v Bournemouth line-ups

Brentford: Flekken, Hickey, Mee, Pinnock, Henry, Jensen, Norgaard, Janelt, Mbeumo, Wissa, Schade.

Subs: Ghoddos, Onyeka, Ajer, Strakosha, Collins, Lewis-Potter, Roerslev, Yarmolyuk, Olakigbe.

Bournemouth: Neto, Aarons, Zabarnyi, Senesi, Kerkez, Christie, Cook, Semenyo, Billing, Kluivert, Solanke.

Subs: Mepham, Brooks, Rothwell, Smith, Tavernier, Andrei Radu, Moore, Traore, Kilkenny.

Referee: Robert Madley (West Yorkshire)

Just back from injury, Marcus Tavernier is on the Bournemouth bench for today’s match against Brentford at the Community Stadium. Photograph: Robin Jones/AFC Bournemouth/Getty Images

Chelsea v Nottingham Forest line-ups

Chelsea: Sanchez, Disasi, Thiago Silva, Colwill, Gusto, Gallagher, Caicedo, Chilwell, Sterling, Fernandez, Jackson.

Subs: Palmer, Deivid Washington, Petrovic, Cucurella, Mudryk, Madueke, Ugochukwu, Maatsen, Bergstrom.

Nottingham Forest: Turner, Boly, Worrall, McKenna, Aurier, Mangala, Danilo, Aina, Yates, Gibbs-White, Awoniyi.

Subs: Tavares, Aguilera, Kouyate, Wood, Felipe, Niakhate, Elanga, Montiel, Horvath.

Referee: Tim Robinson (West Sussex)

Ben Chilwell presses the flesh on his way into Stamford Bridge ahead of Chelsea’s match against Nottingham Forest.
Ben Chilwell presses the flesh on his way into Stamford Bridge ahead of Chelsea’s match against Nottingham Forest. Photograph: Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC/Getty Images

Burnley v Tottenham Hotspur line-ups

Burnley: Trafford, Roberts, Al Dakhil, O’Shea, Beyer, Gudmundsson, Cullen, Berge, Koleosho, Amdouni, Foster.

Subs: Cork, Brownhill, Rodriguez, Benson, Redmond, Bruun Larsen, Delcroix, Odobert, Muric.

Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario, Porro, Romero, van de Ven, Udogie, Sarr, Bissouma, Kulusevski, Maddison, Solomon, Son.

Subs: Skipp, Hojbjerg, Sanchez, Richarlison, Emerson, Perisic, Forster, Davies, Phillips.

Referee: Darren England (South Yorkshire)

A peek inside the visitors’ dressing-room at Turf Moor, where Burnley host Tottenham Hotspur.
A peek inside the visitors’ dressing-room at Turf Moor, where Burnley host Tottenham Hotspur. Photograph: Alex Morton/Tottenham Hotspur FC/Shutterstock

Manchester City v Fulham line-ups

Manchester City: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Akanji, Ake, Rodri, Kovacic, Foden, Alvarez, Doku, Haaland.

Subs: Phillips, Ortega, Bernardo Silva, Gomez, Gvardiol, Matheus Luiz, Carson, Bobb, Lewis.

Fulham: Leno, Tete, Diop, Ream, Robinson, Cairney, Reed, Andreas Pereira, Wilson, Jimenez, Reid.

Subs: Rodak, Bassey, Traore, Rodrigo Muniz, Willian, Castagne, Vinicius, Francois, Harris.

Referee: Michael Oliver (Northumberland)

The Etihad Stadium, where Fulham will try to prevent Manchester City making it four Premier League wins out of four this season.
The Etihad Stadium, where Fulham will try to prevent Manchester City making it four Premier League wins out of four this season. Photograph: David Blunsden/Action Plus/Shutterstock

Championship: Sam Bell fires home at the Liberty Stadium, where Bristol City have come from behind against Swansea City to lead by the odd goal of three.

GOAL! Sheffield United 2-2 Everton (Danjuma 55)

Premier League: Arnaut Danjuma stretches to get on the end of a Nathan Patterson cross from the right and make it all square in an excellent game at Bramall Lane.

Championship: Sunderland are running amok against Southampton at the Stadium of Light, where Bradley Dack has put Tony Mowbray’s side 4-0 up with his first goal for the club early in the second half.

Elsewhere in the Championship, Mark Sykles has restored parity for Bristol City in their game against Swansea City at the Liberty Stadium, where it’s all square at one goal apiece. In today’s other early kick-off, Birtmingham City have just equalised against Millwall at St Andrew’s, where it’s also 1-1.

Sheffield United v Everton: The Blades came from behind to lead Everton 2-1 at half-time in a game that didn’t promise a great deal on paper but has been very exciting on the grass at Bramall Lane. The second half has just started and you can follow the action with Rob Smyth …

Today’s Championship fixtures

  • Birmingham City 0-1 Millwall (L)

  • Sunderland 3-0 Southampton (L)

  • Swansea City 1-0 Bristol City (L)

  • Coventry City v Watford

  • Ipswich Town v Cardiff City

  • Leeds United v Sheffield Wednesday

  • Leicester City v Hull City

  • Middlesbrough v Queens Park Rangers

  • Plymouth Argyle v Blackburn Rovers

  • Rotherham United v Norwich City

  • Stoke City v Preston

  • West Bromwich Albion v Huddersfield Town

  • View the Championship table

Kyle Walker-Peters (left) and Pierre Ekwah, who scored two of Sunderland’s three first-half goals at the Stadium of Light, battle for the ball.
Kyle Walker-Peters (left) and Pierre Ekwah, who scored two of Sunderland’s three first-half goals at the Stadium of Light, battle for the ball. Photograph: Will Matthews/PA

Today’s Premier League fixtures

Abdoulaye Doucoure (left) celebrates with Arnaut Danjuma after scoring Everton’s first goal of the Premier League season at Bramall Lane.
Abdoulaye Doucoure (left) celebrates with Arnaut Danjuma after scoring Everton’s first goal of the Premier League season at Bramall Lane. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA

Saturday clockwatch

Following last night’s win for West Ham over Luton Town at Kenilworth Road, it’s a big day in the top flight ahead of the first international break of the season. Sheffield United and Everton got the day’s action under way at Bramall Lane, where thr hosts have come from behind to lead at half-time.

Abdoulaye Doucoure poked Everton ahead with his side’s first Premier League goal of the season, a goal that was cancelled out by a fine strike from Jordan Archer on his Premier League debut for the Blades. Archer helped increase his team’s lead, forcing an own goal off Jordan Pickford with an even better effort that struck thge post deep in first-half added time.

Later this afternoon, free-spending Chelsea, league leaders Manchester City and born again Tottenham are among the big name sides kicking off at 3pm. Having spent over £1bn under their new ownership regime, Chelsea host a Nottingham Forest side who are without a league win on the road since their victory at Southampton in early January.

City, the reigning Champions, host Fulham and Spurs will try to put their midweek Carabao Cup defeat behind time by consigning Burnley to a third consecutive defeat. In today’s other 3pm fixture, Brentford will look to continue their excellent start to the season against Bournemouth.

We’ll bring you team news, updates on all the major talking points and flag up all the goals as they go in, before bringing you on-the-whistle reports from our correspondents at the grounds.

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