Derby were favourites for promotion this season but they've started sluggishly - four draws from four games is not a disaster, but not the most exciting new dawn under Paul Clement.

Leeds have also drawn all four games so we are all rather regretting not having a punt on 0-0 here. Leeds looking the most likely still as we reach the halfway point of the first half.

He may only be 19, but Kingsley Coman has had some career.

The French forward has just announced he is joining Bayern Munich from Juventus - having already started his career with PSG.

Tick off Man United next year, maybe a stint at Real Madrid and he can retire by the age of 25. 

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Pretty even first 15 minutes at the iPro Stadium, with Leeds looking a threat down both flanks. The injured Richard Keogh is back in the heart of the Derby defence, a hefty bandage on his head.

Arsene Wenger and Steve McClaren have met 10 times as opposition coaches in the Premier League with the Englishman winning one to the Frenchman's nine victories. Can Steve strike back today?Plenty of updates here but you can follow minute-by-minute updates of that game in a separate page - click here to follow action from St James' Park.

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Derby 0-0 Leeds

Derby defender Richard Keogh is in the wars early doors after a clash with Leeds midfielder Lewis Cook. Cook, on his return from a suspension, catches Keogh with a high boot. There's plenty of blood for the medics to mop up, but that was a genuine accident. 

A nasty wound though.

Even legends have to clean their teeth.

I can't recall any personal rubbish small talk with footballers off the top of my head, though there almost certainly has been plenty.

I once sold a pair of trainers to F1 driver Mark Webber though. He was wearing a full-on Jaguar tracksuit so I asked him if he worked for the team.

"Yes," he said. 

"What do you do there?", I asked.

"Er, I drive the car mate..."

Arsenal were all over the shop in defence on Monday night. Can this man steady the ship?

Bright start from Leeds as former Leicester and West Brom striker Chris Wood flicks a first-time shot onto the roof of the net from 22 yards. Caught everyone by surprise with a proverbial 'good touch for a big man'...

Under way in the day's opening game!

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Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny is fit after a back injury but Per Mertesacker misses out because of illness.

The Gunners make three changes from the draw with Liverpool last time out with Koscielny, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Theo Walcott coming in for Calum Chambers, Mesut Ozil and Olivier Giroud  

Arsenal XI: Cech, Bellerin, Koscielny, Gabriel, Monreal, Coquelin, Cazorla, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Ramsey, Sanchez, Walcott .

You can follow a dedicated live text commentary of this match over here.

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Up in Newcastle, Florian Thauvin makes his first Premier League start after impressing against Northampton in the League Cup. The little man tore the Cobblers to shreds. Heartless. 

He is one of three changes from last weekend's goalless draw at Manchester United, with Moussa Sissoko and right-back Daryl Janmaat, external also included.

You can follow a dedicated live text commentary of this match over here.

The players are already out at the iPro, a very early start to proceedings indeed today. Leeds' away kit is magnificent. You have to say.

We'll keep you across the game as the first Premier League players on display go through their warm-ups 160 miles to the north...

Afternoon one and all, I hope you're all set for a feast of football on this cracking Saturday afternoon.

No rubbish small talk please as we tuck in to a bumper menu of EIGHT Premier League games and a bonus early helping of Championship action from two giants of the second tier.

Here's a picture of Brian Clough to kick us off. Why not eh?

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Just over 45 minutes until kick-off in our first Premier League game of the day so time for me to hand over to Tom Rostance to guide you through the day's action.

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Don't forget, you've still got time to make your predictions for this weekend's Premier League matches. You can enter your score any time before kick-off in this afternoon's fixtures, and at the end of the weekend you'll get a video message from a Match of the Day pundit assessing your performance.

You can play the game here.

Mark Lawrenson
BBC Football Focus

"Joe Gomez has come in and looked as though he's played Premier League all his life, and Nathaniel Clyne has also been really good. The back four look as thought they've got a good understanding."

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Quique Sanchez Flores has just been on Football Focus and here is what he has to say about life as Watford boss:

"We have 22 different nationalities in the dressing room, so it's not easy, but we try to speak English. 

"For me to be a coach is a passion - I took my first coaching course when I was 25, playing for the Spanish national team at the World Cup in Italy."

I think the crucial question that needs answering here, though, is whether Flores looks more like Hugh Laurie, or Phil Brown?

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