Come on lads, let's not have our first 0-0 of the Premier League season. We've got mad standards to uphold.

Fresh from helping England Under-21s qualify for the European Championships in midweek, former Fulham starlet Ryan Sessegnon has started a loan spell at Hoffenheim in the Bundesliga.

I am sure Fulham fans would have welcomed him back for another spell at Craven Cottage.

Crystal Palace make four changes to the side that were thrashed 4-0 by Chelsea before the international break.

Gary Cahill comes back in to skipper the Eagles with Jairo Riedewald, Jeffrey Schlupp and Michy Batshuayi also starting.

Mamadou Sakho, James McCarthy, Eberi Eze and Jordan Ayew drop out.

New signing Nathaniel Clyne is on the bench but £1m acquisition Jack Butland is not involved.

Palace XI: Guaita, Ward, Kouyate, Cahill, Mitchell, Townsend, McArthur, Riedewald, Schlupp, Zaha, Batshuayi.

Brighton make two changes to the team that lost 4-2 against Everton last time out.

Dan Burn and Adam Lallana come in, with Steven Alzate and Aaron Connolly missing out.

Striker Danny Welbeck did not join in time to feature in the match.

Brighton XI: Ryan, Lamptey, White, Dunk, Webster, Burn, Bissouma, March, Trossard, Lallana, Maupay.

Khun Kai: The matches at the bottom are better later in the season. Now it looks like both teams have all the time in the world to save their season.

Life comes at you fast, though, Khun. If I was either of these sides I wouldn't have Louis Armstrong playing in the dressing room.

Now here is a question for you...

Sheff Utd have now gone 328 minutes without a goal at Bramall Lane in the Premier League.

Go warm yourself up, Rhian lad.

Well, that wasn't dreadful.

No goals, but there could have been some.

We go again in 15.

Knocking Sander Berge off the ball is a serious job. He drives to the byline, with a Fulham man flailing after him, before digging out a cross that is too high for his team-mates in the box.

The free-kick is hit by Mitrovic, and well-struck too. It beats the wall but not Aaron Ramsdale, who doesn't have to move to allow the ball to rest in his midriff. It's the first real meaningful attacking involvement for Mitro so far.

Excellent stuff from Anguissa on the edge of the box, hurdling a few challenges before being felled by another for a dangerous free-kick just outside the home box.

Willem Mevius: Sheffield Utd are playing well but have been lacking a goalscorer. Now they have one and they keep him on the bench??

United thought this was the breakthrough. But the flag is up quickly to rule out what would have been an own goal from Tosin Adarabioyo, sliding in to prevent what would have been a certain tap-in for McBurnie from Berge's low cross.

Berge moved a tad early, though. VAR confirms the assistant's call.

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Neil McDonald
Former West Ham assistant manager on BBC Radio London

Fulham have got to engage. They can't just stand and mark space in the box. I can see now why they have been conceding goals. They have got to man-mark - space never scores.

Chris Wilder's side have had four shots on target in the first half so far, as many as in their previous four first halves combined in the Premier League.

They are certainly on top at the moment. If they don't capitalise they may very well regret it.

Just seen a replay of the McBurnie chance. He headed it onto his own shoulder. Made the save a lot easier to make.

The Blades continue to push forward, and they carve out another chance for McBurnie, who steers a first-time shot across goal and wide from a Stevens cross.

Flag was up, though.

Rhian Brewster will be sat in the stands now, wishing that the McBurnie chance had come his way instead.

Meanwhile, United continue to push forward and cause a bit of chaos in the box with a long throw that bounces but evades a goal-bound touch from the home side.

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Neil McDonald
Former West Ham assistant manager on BBC Radio London

Fantastic save from Alphonse Areola and it needed to be. Oli McBurnie had a free header and that was a fantastic save. A let-off for Fulham. Sheffield United seem to be getting at their goalkeeper too easily at the moment.

Areola drawn into another save, this one more routine. Sander Berge drives a shot from 20 yards that skids off the turf but is claimed by the diving keeper.

Should be 1-0.

Oli McBurnie is handed a chance that he should bury, with a cross from the right finding him between two defenders and just a few yards out. He makes contact but heads it straight at Alphonse Areola, who palms the ball away.

There, in a nutshell, is why the Blades are struggling this season.

What a waste. Fulham break up an attack from the home side and set off towards goal. Antonee Robinson carries it and finds Aleksandar Mitrovic, but his pass inside is behind his advancing team-mates and ends the opportunity.

It has been that kind of game so far. Moments where you think something might happen, and then it very much doesn't.