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Here are Monday's lunchtime headlines.

• Amorim 'not naive' to 'difficult' Man Utd task
• Is Premier League title race already down to two teams?
• Fernandes 'is back' as main man with Amorim era beginning
• Who has made Troy's Premier League team of the week?

Manchester United

Ruben Amorim's first experience of coaching in English football will be at Portman Road, when Manchester United visit Ipswich Town in the Premier League on Sunday, 24 November.

A few days later, Amorim will make his Old Trafford bow as United host Norwegian side Bodo/Glimt in the Europa League on November 28.

Then it is straight into the packed Christmas schedule, with one date circled in red ink for United - 15 December, when they travel to Manchester City.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter

A combination of the number of players leaving for international duty this week, and some of those not called up being given time off, means that it will be largely those who are injured that Ruben Amorim first gets to see when he reports for duty at United’s Carrington training complex this week.

It means the fact United need a couple of days to secure his work visa is not too much of an inconvenience.

It also allows the club to tie up all the loose ends around Amorim’s coaching team, with interim boss Ruud van Nistelrooy stating after the Leicester game he expects to hear either on Sunday or Monday whether he and the remainder of Ten Hag’s team who stayed on following the Dutchman’s dismissal last month are to stay.

Sporting have announced that former B team manager Joao Pereira will step up to be first team coach, replacing Manchester United-bound Ruben Amorim.

The 40-year-old won 40 caps for Portugal and played at the 2014 World Cup, as well as for Benfica, Braga and Sporting - including being part of the Lisbon team which won the Primeira Liga in 2020-21, under Amorim.

The former right-back retired in 2021 following that title, and has come up through the coaching ranks at Sporting having worked with both their under-23s and reserve teams.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter

New Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has been pictured getting into a private plane - with a load of luggage - getting ready for his flight to the UK.

It looks to be quite sunny in Lisbon. It has been drizzly in Manchester.

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Daz, frustrated Spurs fan: Hi Phil, what do you make of Tottenham's indifferent form? We can beat the likes of Manchester City and Aston Villa and yet lose poorly to Palace and Ipswich, plus the Brighton capitulation. I hope Ange is successful but is he out of his depth in the PL, or is it a deeper issue at Spurs seen as we've also not achieved anything with the likes of Mourinho and Conte?

Phil: Hello, Daz. Where do you even start when trying to make sense of Spurs? So impressive in beating Manchester City and Aston Villa and yet so poor on so many other occasions, latterly losing at home to Ipswich Town, who had not won a Premier League game before yesterday.

I do not think Ange Postecoglou is out of his depth in the Premier League but, as he readily acknowledged, there is a maddening inconsistency about Spurs that is his job to resolve.

It is also down to the players as well. If they reach certain standards they need to maintain them. They cannot be perfect every week but, on the other hand, their attitude must be questioned if there can be such a remarkable drop-off from game to game.

The good Spurs could fulfil Postecoglou’s claim that he always win a trophy in his second season. The bad Spurs can, as we have seen, lose to anyone.

Postecoglou must come up with the answers or, as he again readily admits, he will take responsibility for it.

It’s still early days, however. Remember Spurs are only three points behind Chelsea and Arsenal.

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Mike: Rather than breaking up the season three months in a row, isn’t it better to have one international break for three weeks? Just feels silly from a logistics point of view to have players flying around the world three months running. Maybe there’s an obvious reason why it wouldn’t work?

Phil: Hello, Mike. I totally get the frustration of supporters when they feel the season (and more specifically their team) is gaining momentum only to see it interrupted by international breaks, but this is the calendar and it will not be changing any time soon.

The other side of that coin is that it can sometimes give struggling managers and teams a spell to regroup after a poor spell.

There are two sides to the argument and I understand both of them.

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Adam: Good morning Phil. A lot of people are writing off Arsenal at this stage, but to me, this seems premature. They've had the toughest run of fixtures compared to Manchester City and Liverpool, and have lost only two games in the league, which isn’t disastrous. Plus, with the return of Odegaard and others, they looked so much better and fluid against Chelsea. You would think that they will be hitting peak form after the international break and into the New Year. How do you assess their chances this season after what you’ve seen so far?

Phil: Hi, Adam. That nine-point gap to Liverpool is certainly a concern but I would not write Arsenal off yet at all.

You’re right. They have had a tough set of early fixtures and there is still time to turn things around, although Liverpool’s start to the season has made life difficult. Not sure anyone, even Arne Slot, was expecting them to start the way they have.

Martin Odegaard is certainly a welcome return, although manager Mikel Arteta will be hoping the injuries suffered by Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice at Chelsea do not keep them out when the Premier League resumes after the international break.

If I have a concern about Arsenal, and it is one I have been expressing since last season, I still think they should have signed a recognised 20-goal a season striker. I still think this could come back to hurt them.

But write them off? No.

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Fulham continued their fine early-season form with a comfortable Premier League win at struggling Crystal Palace.

The result lifted the Cottagers up to sixth in the table on the same points as fourth-placed Chelsea, although the Blues play their game in hand against Arsenal - who are also on 18 points - on Sunday.

Emile Smith Rowe set Fulham on their way in the second minute of added time in the first half, racing on to Raul Jimenez's pass and dispatching a left-foot effort past Dean Henderson after a mistake from Palace defender Maxence Lacroix.

And on an afternoon when Marco Silva's team could and should have won even more emphatically, Harry Wilson scored his third goal of the week after coming on as a substitute with seven minutes left.

Read Steve Sutcliffe's match report here

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West Ham failed to ease the pressure on manager Julen Lopetegui as they played out an uneventful goalless draw at home to Everton.

The visitors settled more quickly at London Stadium but other than a tame Iliman Ndiaye effort from the corner of the penalty area, Hammers goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski was untroubled in a dull first half.

West Ham, meanwhile, were virtually non-existent as an attacking force but almost took the lead on the stroke of half-time, when Jordan Pickford kept out Jarrod Bowen’s near-post drive with a one-handed stop.

Lopetegui's team were marginally improved after the restart and Guido Rodriguez forced another fine save out of Pickford 10 minutes into the half, before Fabianski tipped a goalbound Jesper Lindstrom header over the crossbar at the other end.

Read Matthew Howarth's report in full here

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Brentford twice came from behind to beat Bournemouth and bounce back from Monday's agonising defeat at Fulham.

The Bees conceded two stoppage-time goals to lose Monday's London derby and have dropped more points from winning positions (14) than anyone else in the Premier League this season.

This time it was Brentford who fought back, though, equalising in each half before Yoane Wissa's winner maintained the best home record in the Premier League.

Read Ben Collins' match report in full here

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Matheus Cunha's stunner inspired Wolves to a first Premier League win of the season in their showdown with relegation rivals Southampton.

The forward struck from 25 yards to settle the nerves around Molineux and lift the hosts off the bottom of the table and above the Saints.

He had earlier set up Pablo Sarabia's opener, and victory, which moves Wolves to within a point of safety, eases the pressure on boss Gary O'Neil.

The spotlight instead shines on Saints head coach Russell Martin after a ninth loss in 11 games, but Southampton will point to the decision to disallow Ryan Manning's equaliser, and they felt Cameron Archer was fouled in the build-up to Cunha's strike.

Read Nick Mashiter's match report in full here

We'll hear more from Phil answering your questions throughout the day. Now, let's take a look back on some of Saturday's action...

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Bob, Liverpool fan: Hi Phil. Does Phil Foden go missing when the going gets tough. You never see him grab a game in the way Roy Keane, Steven Gerrard or Kevin De Bruyne could drag their team out of the doldrums.

Phil: Hello, Bob. Take your point re. this season. Phil Foden has not been at his best, although he has missed games through illness, and certainly he has not been the influence he should be for England in recent times.

I have, however, seen him take control of plenty of games over the course of his career and he was absolutely magnificent last season, taking a clean sweep of the big awards while scoring 27 goals.

And he is still only 24.

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Jez, Cheltenham: Hi Phil. Do you still think Manchester City will be Premier League champions at the end of the season?

Phil: Morning, Jez. I picked Manchester City as my predicted champions before the start of the season so I will not be backing away from them after only 11 games.

What I will say is that the landscape is very different from what I expected, with City suffering many injuries – Rodri being the most debilitating of all – and looking more vulnerable than I have seen them for a long time.

Liverpool have also played into this change, looking so efficient and confident under new head coach Arne Slot.

Pep Guardiola will, of course, get zero sympathy from outsiders should he mention injuries but he has every right to do so, as other managers at the top of the table have when they get problems.

I was at Brighton on Saturday night and they could have no complaints about their fourth successive defeat. They were overpowered for most of the second half, the midfield provided little protection for the defence and Brighton targeted Kyle Walker relentlessly and successfully.

So, in answer to your question, I stick with City as champions but I am a lot less confident than I was at the start of the season and would now not be surprised if this was the season when their run came to an end.

Martin O'Neill
Former Celtic manager on BBC 5 Live

On Pep Guardiola's future: If it’s something that’s on the minds of the players that their manager is thinking of leaving, then perhaps he should come out now and say listen I’m hanging around I’m not leaving at the end of the season andthat might relieve doubts in player’s minds.

It’s very difficult to keep winning.

Nigel Reo-Coker
Former West Ham midfielder on the Football Daily podcast

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Maybe we've been spoiled for too long with what Manchester City have achieved and the standards they've set.

They haven't been strong defensively. They do concede a lot more goals than we are used to seeing them. It's the manner of how easily teams are breaking through them and causing problems that we haven't seen from them before.

But it's hard to go against Pep Guardiola. He knows the players he's got. It's going to be little tweaks. It's down to the players than the manager. It's been individual errors that have led to City conceding too many goals.

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