Guy Mowbray
Match of the Day commentator

Villa's last Premier League home game finished goalless. It was a dismal match with Newcastle - enlivened only by the throwing of beach balls onto the pitch by angry fans.

What a difference 1,197 days make! Villa Park will be packed, with the Holte Enders expecting to be put sky high by a win against a side that tends not to travel well.

Beset by injury problems, Bournemouth will have to battle hard in these early weeks, but as Eddie Howe has said and his team has often proved: "When we're clicking we can win any game."

For Villa, it's a case of how soon their TEN players new to the club can click together.

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As per usual, our MOTD velvet voices are ready at their mics. They've been busy making wads of notes in the build-up to Saturday's matches.

Here are their thoughts...

Chris Wise
BBC Radio 5 Live at St Mary's

Have been watching Adrian's pre-match warm up on the South Coast. For what it's worth, the Liverpool goalkeeper isn't showing any ill-effects of that freak ankle injury picked up in Istanbul.

Jurgen Klopp has been speaking to the media at the stadium in the last hour. He said Adrian's recovery has been ‘remarkable' because his ankle had 'swollen up like an elephant's'.

Everton and Watford may not be one of the traditional great Premier League rivalries - but the clubs meet at Goodison Park on Saturday for a fixture that has had inflatable snakes, threats of legal action and even Kelly Clarkson played in anger as its recent backdrop.

Sounds interesting right? You can read the full story here.

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Mark Lawrenson
Ex-Liverpool defender

Norwich are dangerous but I do worry about them - they scored lots of goals in the Championship last season, but they conceded a load too.

If they are going to be as open as they were at Anfield when they play at home as well, then they are going to get some beatings.

Prediction: 1-2

Mark Lawrenson
Ex-Liverpool defender

Everyone at Goodison Park is anticipating a better campaign, with better football, and I would back them to get the win here.

Prediction: 2-0

Mark Lawrenson
Ex-Liverpool defender

I am going to go for a draw here. West Ham were beaten heavily by Manchester City last week and I am expecting to see a reaction from them.

Prediction: 1-1

Mark Lawrenson
Ex-Liverpool defender

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Aston Villa put in a decent performance for long periods against Tottenham and the way they have to look at that defeat is to think that not many teams will go there and get anything.

What happens here will be a much better signal of where this Villa team is at, and I am expecting them to kick on and get their first win of the season.

Prediction: 2-1

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Aston Villa make just the one change from last week's defeat by Spurs. New signing Douglas Luiz makes his first start for the club with Conor Hourihane dropping to the bench.

Aston Villa XI: Heaton, Taylor, Luiz, McGinn, Wesley, Grealish, Trezeguet, El Ghazi, Engels, El Mohamady, Mings

Subs: Steer, Lansbury, Hourihane, Ngoyo, Targett, Jota, Davis

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Eddie Howe makes two changes to his Bournemouth starting line-up following last week's draw with Sheffield United. Last week's goalscorer Chris Mepham and Diego Rico are on the bench, with Charlie Daniels and debutant Harry Wilson starting.

Bournemouth XI: Ramsdale, S Cook, Ake, King, Lerma, Daniels, C Wilson, Smith, H Wilson, Fraser, Billing

Subs: Boruc, Surman, Solanke, Ibe, Stacey, Rico, Mepham

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Marco Silva makes just the one change for Everton, with Jean-Philippe Gbamin making his first start in place of the suspended Morgan Schneiderlin. Andres Gomes was a doubt with an ankle injury, but he starts, while Gbamin played the entire second half in last week's goalless draw at Crystal Palace.

Watford also show just one change from the side that lost at home to Brighton, with Roberto Pereyra coming in for Andre Gray.

Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Mina, Digne, Gbamin, Andres Gomes, Richarlison, Sigurdsson, Bernard, Calvert-Lewin

Substitutes: Lossl, Holgate, Walcott, Tosun, Iwobi, Davies, Kean

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Watford XI: Foster, Femenia, Dawson, Cathcart, Holebas, Doucoure, Capoue, Hughes, Deulofeu, Pereyra, Deeney.

Substitutes: Gomes, Janmaat, Cleverley, Welbeck, Gray, Quina, Kabasele

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Graham Potter makes one change to his Brighton side who beat Watford last Saturday as new signing Leandro Trossard comes in for Jurgen Locadia to make his Seagulls debut.

Elsewhere, Glenn Murray retains his place to lead the line as £20m man Neal Maupay, who netted against the Hornets, is named on the bench.

Summer arrivals Adam Webster and Aaron Mooy are also named among the substitutes.

Brighton XI: Ryan; Montoya, Duffy, Dunk, Burn; March, Gross, Propper, Stephens, Trossard; Murray.

Subs: Button, Bernardo, Webster, Mooy, Locadia, Maupay, Locadia, Andone.

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West Ham boss Manuel Pellegrini makes five changes to the side which were thrashed by Manchester City last weekend.

Angelo Ogbonna replaces Fabian Balbuena in the heart of defence and Arthur Masuaku comes in for Aaron Cresswell at left-back.

New signing Pablo Fornals makes his first start, replacing the injured Felipe Anderson, while Robert Snodgrass and Javier Hernandez start in place of Michail Antonio and Sebastien Haller, who misses out through injury.

West Ham XI: Fabianski; Fredericks, Ogbonna, Diop, Masuaku; Wilshere, Rice; Fornals, Lanzini, Snodgrass; Hernandez.

Subs: Jimenez, Balbuena, Zabaleta, Yarmolenko, Sanchez, Ajeti, Antonio.

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Final Score

Norwich City have plenty of injury problems, the freshest of which has fallen on winger Onel Hernandez, who is out for a while after damaging his knee on the stairs in his home.

The only change from last week's 4-1 loss at Liverpool sees Kenny McLean, who has a back complaint, drop to the bench for Moritz Leitner

Norwich City XI: Krul, Aarons, Godfrey, Hanley, Leitner, Lewis, Cantwell, Buendia, Stipermann, Trybull, Pukki

Substitutes: Fahrmann, Byram, Roberts, Vrancic, McLean, Tettey, Srbeny

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Two changes for Newcastle from the 1-0 loss to Arsenal. Emil Krafth and Ki Sung-yueng come in for Javier Manquillo and Sean Longstaff.

Allan Saint-Maximin misses out all together with a hamstring problem.

Newcastle XI: Dubravka, Dummett, Sung-ueng, Schar, Lascelles, Shelvey, Joelinton, Ritchie, Hatden, Krath, Almiron

Substitutes: Darlow, Clark, Muto, Willems, Fernandez, Manquillo, Longstaff

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Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl reacts to last week's 3-0 defeat at Burnley by making two changes - with former Liverpool forward Danny Ings one of those dropping to the bench.

Jack Stephens also makes way as Japan defender Maya Yoshida and Denmark midfielder Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg return to the side.

Southampton XI: Gunn, Bednarek, Yoshida, Vestergaard, Valery, Ward-Prowse, Romeu, Hojbjerg, Bertrand, Adams, Redmond.

Subs: Cedric, Ings, Djenepo, Armstrong, Obafemi, Danso, Forster.

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The big news from the Liverpool dressing room is Spanish keeper Adrian is fit to play after recovering from the damaged ankle he suffered in a collision with a pitch invador after the Uefa Super Cup victory over Chelsea in midweek.

There are three changes from the side that started in Istanbul - Georginio Wijnaldum, Roberto Firmino and Trent Alexander-Arnold all returning.

With Jordan Henderson dropping to the bench, James Milner captains the side while 35-year-old Andy Lonergan - whose last competitive appearance was for Rochdale in League One in March - is among the substitutes.

Liverpool XI: Adrian, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, van Dijk, Robertson, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Wijnaldum, Milner, Salah, Firmino, Mane.

Subs: Lonergan, Fabinho, Gomez, Henderson, Lallana, Shaqiri, Origi.

Anyway, more of the post-match reaction from the Emirates soon. Now we're going to look ahead... here is the full team news from the 3pm games.

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"Reaching out, touching me, touching you..."

The good times have never seemed so good for Arsenal. Well, this season at least.

Sweet Caroline blasts out as Arsenal celebrate a hard fought victory which puts them, ahem, top of the table. I know, I know, it doesn't count yet.

Nope. A Burnley counter attack is stopped by Ashley Barnes fouling an Arsenal defender in the home half - and that sees the Gunners over the line.

Two from two for Arsenal. First time that has happened in a decade.

One more chance for Burnley?

The ball pings around the Arsenal box as James Tarkowski takes command with a header across the goal... but Jay Rodriguez's ambitious overhead kick goes over the bar...