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The Premier League action continues with three more matches at 3pm BST:


TEAM NEWS

There’ll be quite a few cheap players being ‘boosted’ at Portman Road as Ipswich Town face Sunderland.

All the £4.0m defenders we thought would start do: Ipswich’s back four and the Mackems’ Luke O’Nien.

But, as feared, £4.5m forward Sindre Walle Egeli drops to the bench.

He is among the two changes that Gary O’Neil has made from the Tractor Boys’ final friendly. Jack Clarke also drops out, with summer signings Abdul Fatawu and Julio Enciso promoted to the XI.

Other new arrivals Emersonn, Issa Diop, Daizen Maeda, Kjell Scherpen and Sasa Lukic all start, too.

Sunderland’s only incoming player, Thomas Meunier, returns from injury to take the place of Chemsdine Talbi in Regis Le Bris’ one alteration from the Black Cats’ final warm-up match last weekend.

Trai Hume will thus be ‘out of position’ on the right wing again.

Omar Alderete and Nordi Mukiele are on substitute duty on their returns to fitness.

At the Hill Dickinson Stadium, David Moyes’ one change from last weekend sees Tyrique George oust Tyler Dibling.

Iliman Ndiaye starts amid rumours of a move away, while James Garner is fit enough for the bench. Garner has missed the whole of pre-season after surgery.

Speaking of potential exits, Ismaila Sarr is absent from the Crystal Palace squad; the winger is supposedly pushing for a move to Galatasaray.

Dean Henderson recovers from an ankle issue to start for the Eagles, whose Gameweek 1 line-up shows three changes from last weekend. In come Eddie Nketiah and, despite a shortage of pre-season minutes, Daniel Munoz and Jean-Philippe Mateta, with Sarr absent and Oscar Mingueza and Jorgen Strand Larsen demoted to substitute roles.

Oliver Glasner’s first Premier League XI as Nottingham Forest boss was always going to be different from the reserve side he sent out last weekend.

In the big calls, Glasner prefers James McAtee and Jair Cunha to summer signings Xaver Schlager and Ousmane Diomande.

As for Leeds, it’s a line-up we expected to see. Indeed, it’s the same one from the 4-0 win over Augsburg.

New recruits James Trafford, Tarik Muharemovic and Harry Wilson all start.

LINE-UPS

Everton XI: Pickford, Rohl, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Hackney, Armstrong, Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, George, Barry.

Subs: Travers, Patterson, Keane, Beto, O’Brien, Dibling, Johnson, Alcaraz, Garner.

Crystal Palace XI: Henderson, Munoz, Canvot, Richards, Riad, Mitchell, Wharton, Kamada, McNeil, Nketiah, Mateta.

Subs: Benitez, Mingueza, Tomiyasu, Sosa, Hughes, Khalaili, Pino, Guessand, Strand Larsen.


Ipswich Town XI: Scherpen, O’Shea, Diop, Greaves, Davis; Nunez, Lukic, Fatawu, Maeda, Enciso, Emersonn.

Subs: Walton, Furlong, Kipre, Walle Egeli, McAteer, Akpom, Humphreys, Ouattara, Clarke.

Sunderland XI: Roefs, Meunier, Ballard, O’Nien, Mandava, Sadiki, Xhaka, Hume, Le Fee, Angulo, Brobbey.

Subs: Ellborg, Talbi, Rigg, Mundle, Alderete, Isidor, Diarra, Mukiele, Ta Bi.


Nottingham Forest XI: Selz, Williams, Cunha, Milenkovic, Murillo, Aina, Sangare, McAtee, Gibbs-White, Jesus, Ndoye.

Subs: Victor, Diomande, Hudson-Odoi, Dominguez, Wood, Kalimuendo, Schlager, Netz, Abbott.

Leeds United XI: Trafford, Bogle, Bijol, Muharemovic, Rodon, Justin, Ampadu, Stach, Wilson, Aaronson, Calvert-Lewin.

Subs: Perri, James, Longstaff, Nmecha, Okafor, Tanaka, Elvedi, Cresswell, Lienou.


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  1. Totalfootball
    • 9 Years
    9 mins ago

    Bruno F needs to leave Manchester United

    1. el polako
      • 9 Years
      4 mins ago

      Why?

    2. Nightcrawler
      • 7 Years
      1 min ago

      Man united is his level. Surrounded by very average players so he can make low percentage plays, often give the ball away, constantly complain and still get away with it because he's better than those around him

      1. Nightcrawler
        • 7 Years
        just now

        If he was at arsenal areta would have sold him long ago. His sort of style isn't suited to the top teams at all

  2. That result reminded me of how Ormond Hightower met his end in House of the Dragon!

    1. el polako
      • 9 Years
      3 mins ago

      Hightower?
      I thought that was the guy from Police Academy 2?

      1. Google it. IYKYK.

    2. Ball Ake
      • 2 Years
      just now

      He won't complain about his haemorrhoids again.

  3. el polako
    • 9 Years
    4 mins ago

    Who would have thought that Red Devils will struggle in hull?

  4. Its gonna be ok fellow manu enjoyers...they won the exgee and Boomo did great exgeeiiii

    1. Xg = expected gout!

  5. DeSelby
    • 4 Years
    2 mins ago

    If I had known ManU were going to play like that I would have chosen different players for my fantasy team.

    #seasonover

    1. Millions in the same boat. Don’t panic yet, at least you’re clothed!

  6. Jafooli
    • 14 Years
    just now

    Anyone else have their team hacked and they put in Shaw?