John Acres
BBC Radio 5 Live commentator

Wow, what a welcome for the two teams at Villa park.

Boy can these Villa fans belt out a tune - Brentford, welcome to the Premier League, this is the tastiest atmosphere they will have experienced.

Oof, Norwich summer signing Milot Rashica crunches Jamie Vardy in a sliding tackle. The ex-England man is OK to continue although it looked painful. No booking.

Brighton have an injury concern within about 30 seconds as Lucas Digne stands on Leandro Trossard's ankle by accident. The medical team are on.

Away we go. All five of this afternoon's matches are under way.

It's almost time.

Manchester City

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola spoke to BBC Sport: “We scored a goal that we didn’t deserve. We didn’t play that good to score a goal.

"The first time we arrived in the Arsenal half we scored. We had problems in the fist 15-20 minutes in our build up. After 2-0 and sending off the game is completely different."

On what he wanted to see in the second half: “Respect the opponent, be serious in our process and our job. We created chances, we scored two more, the most important thing is that we played with respect to the opponent and not do silly things with the ball. We are still in the process of improving. Like I said to the players after the game. It was nice winning today but we have to be better."

On Mikel Arteta: “Arteta knows how I love him. In the two or three years he was here he was important to what we built. People want results right away, with the players he had today, Ben White, Thomas Partey were missing, many players they invested in were missing, without that it is difficult.

"I know his awareness as a manager and as a leader, the moment everyone is back he will do an excellent job. I know this because I know him, I know the job he can do."

Norwich make two changes from the side that started their 5-0 drubbing at Manchester City, with Brandon Williams and Kenny McLean replacing Dimitrios Giannoulis and Lukas Rupp.

Williams makes his first Premier League start since his loan move from Manchester United.

Norwich XI: Krul, Aarons, Gibson, Hanley, Williams, Lees-Melou, Gilmour, McLean, Cantwell, Pukki, Rashica.

Substitutes: Gunn, Zimmerman, Rupp, Dowell, Sorensen, Sargent, Giannoulis, Idah, Omobamidele

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There is just the one change for Leicester, with Marc Albrighton coming for the suspended Ayoze Perez following his red card in the 4-1 loss at West Ham.

Leicester: Schmeichel, Pereira, Amartey, Soyuncu, Thomas, Tielemans, Ndidi, Albrighton, Maddison, Barnes, Vardy.

Substitutes:Ward, Jakupovic, Iheanacho, Choudhury, Dewsbury-Hall, Praet, Castagne, Daka, Soumare.

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Brighton boss Graham Potter makes just one change from last week's win over Watford, with Jakub Moder replacing Solly March after the Pole's impressive display in Tuesday's Carabao Cup win at Cardiff.

Neal Maupay, who scored in the first two games of the season, has recovered from a shoulder injury to lead the Seagulls attack.

Brighton XI: Sanchez, Webster, Dunk, Duffy, Gross, Bissouma, Lallana, Moder, Trossard, Allister, Maupay.

Subs: Steele, Connolly, Mwepu, Alzate, Welbeck, Zeqiri, Roberts, Richards, Veltman.

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There are two changes for Everton from their absorbing 2-2 draw with Leeds at Elland Road as Mason Holgate and Andros Townsend - who scored his first goal for the club in the Carabao Cup defeat of Huddersfield - are called into the line-up.

Everton XI: Pickford, Coleman, Holgate, Keane, Digne, Allan, Doucoure, Gray, Richarlison, Townsend, Calvert-Lewin.

Subs: Begovic, Lonergan, Kenny, Iwobi, Nkounkou, Gomes, Gordon, Branthwaite.

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It's early days but West Ham started the day top of the table after two wins out of two so it is unsurprising David Moyes has named the same starting line-up for the third successive game.

Declan Rice has the captain's armband as the Hammers look to make it three wins out of three.

West Ham XI: Fabianski, Coufal, Dawson, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Soucek, Rice, Bowen, Fornals, Benrahma, Antonio.

Substitutes: Yarmolenko, Lanzini, Areola, Noble, Diop, Fredericks, Johnson, Coventry, Baptiste.

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Crystal Palace are still seeking a first win under Patrick Vieira.

The Palace boss makes one change following last week's goalless draw with Brentford as Jordan Ayew comes in for Jeffrey Schlupp.

Palace announced the signing of Watford midfielder Will Hughes earlier. He will have to wait to get involved.

Crystal Palace XI: Guaita, Ward, Andersen, Guehi, Mitchell, Gallagher, Kouyate, McArthur, Ayew, Benteke, Zaha.

Substitutes: Butland, Tomkins, Mateta, Schlupp, Kelly, Hannam, Riedewald, Street, Rak-Sakyi.

There's just one change from the Newcastle side that lost 2-0 to Aston Villa last time out in the Premier League. In comes Sean Longstaff for his first Premier League start of the season.

He replaces Isaac Hayden, who came off in the Villa game with a knee issue.

Newcastle XI: Woodman, Murphy, Schar, Lascelles, Fernandez, Ritchie, Willock, Longstaff, Almiron, Wilson, Saint-Maximin.

Subs: Clark, Joelinton, Lewis, Hendrick, Krafth, Manquillo, Fraser, Gillespie, Gayle.

There's two changes for Southampton as in come Kyle Walker-Peters and Mohamed Elyounoussi, who makes his first Premier League start for the Saints.

He scored a hat-trick in the Carabao Cup rout of Newport.

Southampton XI: McCarthy, Walker-Peters, Stephens, Salisu, Livramento, Elyounoussi, Romeu, Ward-Prowse, Djenepo, Adam Armstrong, Adams.

Subs: Redmond, Perraud, Broja, Tella, Diallo, Walcott, Bednarek, Valery, Forster.

Shamoon Hafez
BBC Sport at Villa Park

Interesting bits of team news from Villa Park today.

Aston Villa captain Tyrone Mings is not in the squad, so former Brentford defender Ezri Konsa takes the captain's armband. On-loan Axel Tuanzebe comes in at the back.

That is one of three changes made by Dean Smith from last weekend's 2-1 win over Newcastle, with Matt Targett and Carney Chukwuemeka also coming in, John McGinn and Jacob Ramsey drop out.

Another former Bee Ollie Watkins is only on the bench.

Villa XI: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Tuanzebe, Young, Chukwuemeka, Luiz, Targett, Buendia, El Ghazi, Ings.

Brentford make one change to the side that drew 0-0 at Crystal Palace last time out.

Saman Ghoddos comes in for Frank Onyeka.

Brentford XI: Raya, Ajer, Jansson, Pinnock, Canos, Ghoddos, Norgaard, Janelt, Henry, Mbuemo, Toney.

Let's have a little reminder of all this afternoon's team news...

Shamoon Hafez
BBC Sport at Villa Park

It's all been very cordial in the build-up this game, as highlighted by Aston Villa boss Dean Smith in his programme notes.

"Today we host my former club at Villa Park so I would like to extend a warm welcome to Thomas Frank, his players and staff.

"I was delighted to see the Bees clinch promotion at the end of last season. Having seen the hard work done by so many people behind the scenes as well as visible on the pitch, I know they are fully deserved of their opportunity in the Premier League."

Dion Dublin
Former England striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

Crystal Palace do need time, they have a new manager getting used to new surroundings, getting used to the players.

Vieira does things meticulously, he wants to play a certain way, he wants to play the beautiful game. Whether he has got the tools to play the beautiful game at Palace remains to be seen.

I think he could be a very good manager in the long-term.

Shamoon Hafez
BBC Sport at Villa Park

This game sees Aston Villa boss Dean Smith and striker Ollie Watkins face their former club Brentford.

Smith managed the Bees from November 2015 to October 2018, while Watkins netted 45 goals in 143 Championship games between 2017 and 2020.

And Watkins, who is on the bench, still has friends at the club, as boss Thomas Frank explained on Friday.

“I want and wish him all the best, said Frank. "So happy every single time he gets success, it was a sad moment when he had to leave, he was in tears when he left because he wanted to play in Premier League with Brentford, we’re texting once in a while.”

Villa defender Ezri Konsa, who captains the side today, spent the 2018-19 season at Brentford too.

Another goalscoring landmark in his sights.

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Jermaine Beckford
Ex-Everton striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

The Arsenal fans are applauding, trying to get behind Arteta, the players, I don't know why. They're saying, 'keep faith, try new things, keep going. We know it will be a difficult run.'

You've got to respect the fans still there, because that was difficult to watch.

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