Danny Murphy
Ex-Liverpool midfielder on BBC Radio 5 live

"Don't look into the benching of Hazard too much. He is Chelsea's best player and he obviously just needs a rest. The Blues should still have more than enough to beat Villa."  

Image source, Opta

West Bromwich Albion make one change to the team that lost at Crystal Palace last time out.

Former Sunderland man Stephane Sessegnon comes into the starting line-up in place of James Morrison, who is out with an ankle problem, and comes up against his former club.

Image source, Opta

Sam Allardyce's first selection as Sunderland boss shows three changes from the 2-2 draw against West Ham two weeks ago.

Two of those changes are enforced, as midfielder Jeremain Lens and defender Sebastian Coates are both suspended.

Ola Toivonen also drops out, with Younes Kaboul, Jordi Gomez and Sebastian Larsson coming in.

The main talking point from today's team news is about players who are not starting. 

Memphis Depay is dropped to the bench for the first time this season for Manchester United, while Vincent Kompany and Eden Hazard are also sitting with the substitutes for Manchester City and Chelsea respectively.

Southampton maketwo changes from their last time out as goalkeeper Kelvin Davis and midfielder James Ward-Prowse start.

Image source, pa

Nathan Dyer has overcome a knee problem forLeicester and is named on the bench, while winger Riyad Mahrez remains on the substitutes bench, despite an impressive start to the season.  

Image source, PA

Image source, .

Swansea are top, Newcastle are bottom, while Liverpool and Spurs make up the rest of the bottom three.

Our Predictor game pits fans of Premier League clubs against each other and ranks them in a table. Have a go at predicting the results of this weekend's matches now and help your club move up the league. You can do it right here.

Liverpool think they should have a penalty against Tottenham when Adam Lallana goes sprawling in the box under Dele Alli's challenge. Not given. Remember, kick by kick live text commentary is available here.

Everton midfielder Gareth Barry becomes only the second player to make 550 Premier League starts, while youngster Brendan Galloway makes plays just his 10th top flight game at left-back. Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku starts up front.

Image source, Opta

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal shuffles his team after defeat against Arsenal last time out.

Daley Blind, Michael Carrick, Memphis Depay - who had started every Premier League game this season - and Ashley Young all miss out, while Phil Jones, Marcos Rojo, Morgan Schneiderlin and Ander Herrera come in. Fit-again Wayne Rooney also starts.

Image source, Opta

Nick UTA: Liverpool utterly toothless up front and wobbly at the back. Klopp has a lot of work to do.

Kewku Adaboh: Origi is not, and will not be, a Liverpool goalscorer.

Phil McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer

"Huge smile from Jurgen Klopp as Spurs keeper Hugo Lloris is chased down and forced into a hurried clearance. He likes that. And then another grin as he has a chat with Mauricio Pochettino after the Spurs boss had furiously disputed a decision."

Up front for Manchester City today is Wilfried Bony, and the Ivory Coast striker is likely to see a fair bit of action as the injured Sergio Aguero's understudy.

Bony is yet to truly shine at City - but manager Manuel Pellegrini is not concerned.

"We bought him because we had a lot of information about him," said the Chilean. "He is a very professional player, who always works 100%.

"He was very unlucky with the malaria he had at the start of the season and he has had three or four important (serious) things that didn't allow him to demonstrate why he is here.

"But now with Kun (Aguero) out for one month I think it's the moment, although we can't put all the responsibility to score goals on Bony."

Vincent Kompany is on the bench for Manchester City, while Wilfried Bony starts in attack. Yaya Toure returns to the side.

Full team news to follow.

It has just gone 14:00 BST, which means team news for the 15:00 BST is dripping in. Time to find out who makes it and who misses out...

Bournemouth are at Manchester City today and, rather than being envious of the millions at Manuel Pellegrini's disposal, Cherries boss Eddie Howe is pragmatic. 

"You can look at transfer fees in isolation and think it's an obscene amount of money, but the reality is whatever fee is paid that is what the player is worth and the players deserve to earn the money that they get," Howe said.

"We know we are not going to be in a position to compete (financially) with them but we've never been in a position where we can compete, even in the Championship with some teams.

"I have no problem with the guys who spend money at the top end of the league. They're more than welcome to do as they see is right for their football club but we are in a different market.

"Would I like to spend £50m? Yeah, if we had it I'd probably spend it but then attracting a player for £50m is another matter."

Excellent, Dan...

So, Sunderland have a new manager this afternoon in the shape of Sam Allardyce. That's the Black Cats staying up this season then?

So goes the theory - but what does Big Sam think about it all?

"Every game is enormous for us," he said. "We will have to be consistent, we will have to be resilient, we will have to be mentally tough in terms of believing in ourselves to try to get ourselves out of this position because in all honesty, winning three games on the trot is going to be very difficult for us.

"But it would be three games winning on the trot before we would even consider ourselves being able to start to feel a little bit safe."

They're back under way in the entertaining encounter between Spurs and Liverpool at White Hart Lane. Both sides are going at it hammer and tong - Simon Mignolet easily saving a Christian Eriksen free-kick just now. A dedicated live text on that game is here.

Manchester United are the visitors to Goodison Park this afternoon, and Reds boss Louis van Gaal wants an Evertonian of his own, Wayne Rooney, to be the star of the show.

Speaking to the media earlier this week, Van Gaal said: "Maybe against Everton his average is not so good, so it's getting time that he changed that pattern.

"I don't know why he has struggled, that you have to ask Wayne, but I'm a manager who analyses opponents and gives him advice as to how we can disorganise Everton's defence and then maybe he can score."

BBC Radio 5 Live
Former Everton striker Graeme Sharp

"It was enjoyable to come into training every single day. The first day of pre-season, he'd get players on side. He was a players' manager, realising you have to be a team both on and off the field. We always mixed socially. 

"He always told us to attack and the Gwladys Street End would suck the ball into the goal for us. And it did."

BBC Radio 5 Live
Former Everton captain Kevin Ratcliffe

"As a manager Howard was so forward-thinking in his day. What he achieved typified what he was about. He was at Everton to win things and he did it. 

"His training methods were absolutely fantastic, and pre-season meant we never got injuries in training. 

"He made it a joy to attend training every day - you loved going in.

"If Howard had stayed at Everton then I think the club would have dominated in the 1980 and 90s."

Over on BBC Radio 5 live, they are paying tribute to Howard Kendall who died this morning at the age of 69.