Guy Mowbray
MOTD commentator

The start of a new season - and we're all full of the joys of summer, right? Well, not everyone.

He may have a point, but Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino has grumbled about his international-heavy squad needing more of a break, with nine of his starting line-up at Everton having played at the Euros or Copa America.

Perhaps last year's slow-ish start to the campaign is about to be replicated?

Given Palace's results in 2016 so far, Alan Pardew can be excused for not having a perma-grin - especially after losing two more players since losing to West Brom.

Christian Benteke's arrival will help on the smile front - but not as much as the possibility of playing Spurs early enough to catch them cold.

With wind and rain forecast, it could be a rusty afternoon all round.

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Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is not happy with the five-week turnaround between the end of Euro 2016 and start of the Premier League.

The English top flight kicked off a week before La Liga and Serie A, and two weeks before the Bundesliga.

"You cannot play the Euros and start [the Premier League] on 13 August. How can you give rest to the players after the whole season?" asked Pochettino rhetorically.

"If you give rest in training and say, 'I don't want to use this player that was involved in the Euros' and you have no positive results - the media, the supporters, the board and the president kill me.

"You are in competition for 11 and a half months and the players, because you pay them good salaries, don't deserve the holidays? Come on. And the families? The sons? The kids? They are not machines."

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Tottenham make two changes to the team that started last week's draw at Everton. Michel Vorm starts in goal in place of the injured Hugo Lloris and summer signing Vincent Janssen comes in for England midfielder Dele Alli.

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Crystal Palace start life with Christian Benteke without Christian Benteke. The Belgian signed too late to feature in today's game.

Alan Pardew makes one change to the team beaten 1-0 by West Brom last week with Joe Ledley replacing the departed Mile Jedinak.

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Celtic have beaten St Johnstone 4-2. Reaction to that game and updates from all the Scottish Premiership's 15:00 BST games are thisaway.

Tony Pulis has stuck with the same West Brom side who started last Saturday's 1-0 win at Crystal Palace, which means that Saido Berahino continues in attack alongside Salomon Rondon, and centre-half Jonny Evans continues to fill in at left-back.

West Brom XI: Foster; Dawson, McAuley, Olsson, Evans; Phillips, Fletcher, Yacob, Gardner; Rondon, Berahino.

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Everton are also unchanged, meaning that they should stick with the 3-4-2-1 line-up that Ronald Koeman deployed for last week's 1-1 draw against Tottenham. Romelu Lukaku, who returned to training on Tuesday following a heel problem, is on the bench with new signings Yannick Bolasie and Ashley Williams.

Everton XI: Stekelenburg; Holgate, Jagielka, Funes Mori; McCarthy, Gueye, Barry, Baines; Mirallas, Barkley; Deulofeu.

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Burnley give a debut to new £8m midfielder Steven Defour, who joined for a club record fee in midweek. The Belgian replaces David Jones, who has joined Sheffield Wednesday, but otherwise the Clarets are unchanged from the side that lost to Swansea last week.

Burnley XI: Heaton, Lowton, Keane, Mee, Ward, Arfield, Defour, Marney, Boyd, Gray, Vokes

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The headline news from Jurgen Klopp's team selection is that Alberto Moreno, heavily criticised by some Liverpool fans after his display in last week's win over Arsenal, has been dropped to the bench. James Milner comes in. The only other change sees Daniel Sturridge replace Sadio Mane, who suffered a shoulder injury in training.

Liverpool XI: Mignolet, Clyne, Lovren, Klavan, Milner, Henderson, Wijnaldum, Lallana, Firmino, Coutinho, Sturridge

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Swansea City head coach Francesco Guidolin makes one change from the 1-0 win at Burnley on the opening weekend, with midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson - reintroduced to the team gradually after starring for Iceland at Euro 2016 - replacing the injured Leon Britton.

Swansea XI: Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Amat, Kingsley, Cork, Fer; Barrow, Sigurdsson, Routledge, Llorente

Hull name the same starting 11 that beat champions Leicester on the opening day. Not that they have many other options.

Hull XI: Jakupovic, Elmohamady, Livermore, Davies, Robertson, Meyler , Huddlestone, Clucas, Snodgrass, Diomande, Hernandez

Spurs hand a first start to summer signing Vincent Janssen, with Dele Alli dropping to the bench.

Full team news to follow.

Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp has dropped left-back Alberto Moreno, while Daniel Sturridge comes in up front.

Record signing Steven Defour makes his debut for Burnley.

Full team news to follow.

Christian Benteke won't be playing for Burnley either, despite his Twitter bio briefly suggesting he had signed for them.

Soon after his move to Palace was completed, his page read 'Burnleyl FC and Belgium national team.' It now reads 'CPFC & Belgium national team.'

We will be getting team news from our five 15:00 BST kick-offs soon, but I can already tell you one person who won't be playing.

Crystal Palace signed Liverpool striker Christian Benteke for £27m this morning, but he wasn't signed in time to face Tottenham.

Martin Keown
Former England defender on Football Focus

Under Louis van Gaal, the football was boring to watch. Now it is the Manchester United of old and it is almost overnight.

What has impressed me most is the goals Zlatan Ibrahimovic has scored with his head, he is very powerful and a machine when winning trophies and scoring goals. It has raised the bar at the club and it is good for the youngsters too.

People would look at Patrick Vieira in the tunnel and say, 'how big is he?' United also have Marouane Fellaini and he is pulling the strings for them now.

Mark Lawrenson
Former Republic of Ireland defender on Football Focus

Anyone who watched Paul Pogba play for Juventus last year will have seen he was sensational. 

Forget what happened with France at the Euros, because he was in a slightly different role. 

Manchester United need big stars like him. They've made a really good start, albeit against two teams I think will be in the bottom half of the league. Through the spine of the team, Manchester United look really strong. 

Zlatan Ibrahimovic made it three goals in two Premier League games (and four in three, including the Community Shield) with both strikes in last night's 2-0 win over Southampton.

However a lot of talk after the game was about £89m Paul Pogba, who made his first start for the club.

He had more passes (71), touches (103), shots (4) and won more duels (20) than any other United player.

Pogba, whose last game was France's Euro 2016 final defeat by Portugal, ran 11.2km, the third most of any player.

Boss Jose Mourinho said he was "fantastic" and Pogba himself said: "It's a great feeling. I was relaxed, didn't have nerves and played my game. I came here to win, that is what I always wanted. It's a top club."

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Celtic lead St Johnstone 3-0, live text of that is over here.

It's Sheffield Wednesday 0-0 Leeds in the Championship. Live text of that game here.

It's half-time between Stoke and Manchester City. Follow radio and text commentary of that game on our dedicated live page.

It's 2-0 to the Citizens (does anyone actually call them that?) at the moment, with Sergio Aguero scoring a brace (does anyone actually say brace?)

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And this evening's game sees last season's top two meet, both of whom lost their opening games. Leicester were vanquished 2-1 at Hull, with Arsenal falling to a 4-3 Liverpool defeat.  

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Can West Brom make it two from two today as they host Everton? Tony Pulis gone one over on his old side, Crystal Palace, a week ago.

Everton drew 1-1 with Spurs.

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