So, if you're Forest here, do you just think 'a 1-0 loss wouldn't be bad' and move on?

They've immediately got 11 men behind the ball.

Stephen Warnock
Former England and Liverpool defender on Final Score

For what is at stake between Fulham and Palace, the visitors needing the points and the hosts playing this exciting attacking football, that could be the game to watch today.

Only the three games for you today at 3pm. We've had to wait a while for it, but finally we have some Premier League action to enjoy.

So, yeah, enjoy it!

Fara Williams
Former England midfielder on Final Score

Some of these young ambitious players nowadays feel like they need to move on to bigger clubs in order to be recognised.

Eberechi Eze has had that England call up while at Crystal Palace, and it is important he made that break through while still at the club.

Crystal Palace are enjoyable to watch, Roy Hodgson is a renowned manager and he has shown he can implement that attacking style of play that these young stars want to be playing.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport at Kenilworth Road

Luton last won a top flight game on 25 April 1992 when they beat Aston Villa here.

John Major had won a General Election only a couple of weeks before that.

Is this going to be the day when the long wait for a Premier League victory comes to an end?

Chris Bevan
BBC Sport at Etihad Stadium

Manchester City's injury problems have seen Pep Guardiola name only eight of his nine permitted substitutes today, and two of those are goalkeepers.

One of the six outfield players who will be on the bench, Jack Grealish, has been out for the past four weeks with a thigh injury and did parts of the pre-match warm-up on his own... but he looked pretty spritely when he jogged off just now after a shooting drill.

Michael Brown
Former Manchester City midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live

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City have had to adapt, they've had to evolve.

Whether that be the centre backs coming into central areas, or Phil Foden playing more in the middle, with the wing backs providing that width and overloads down the sides.

At times you feel that you want City to move a bit quicker, look to get in behind, but it is all about that delay and getting that element of control.

It is all about dominating and strangling the opponent.

Simon Stone
BBC Sport at Kenilworth Road

It's a shame Ross Barkley is sidelined through injury.

The former Everton and Chelsea player has missed too much football in recent seasons to have to sit out more matches.

Luton are hopeful Barkley will have recovered from a hamstring problem in time to face Everton next week.

Fara Williams
Former England midfielder on Final Score

I think if you look at the calibre of players that City are missing, De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva, John Stones for example, it looks like Pep Guardiola has a bit of a point when he says he is worried about the injuries.

You see some players have benefitted from the absences in the team, Julian Alvarez has got more game time and is playing really well.

But the players missing are key players who would normally start most games. It is not the same amount as some of the injury lists throughout the rest of the league, but he is right to be concerned about missing that quality of player.

• This is the first top-flight meeting between Luton Town and Wolves since the 1983-84 campaign, with the Hatters winning home (4-0) and away (2-1) that season.
• Wolves are unbeaten in their past seven league games against Luton (W4 D3), and have won the past three in a row. This is their first such meeting since a 3-2 win at Kenilworth Road in March 2007.
• Luton are looking to avoid becoming just the sixth team in Premier League history to lose their first five games in a season, after Southampton in 1999-00 (finished 17th), Sunderland in 2005-06 (20th), Portsmouthin 2009-10 (20th), Crystal Palace in 2017-18 (11th), and Norwich City in 2021-22 (20th).
• None of Gary O’Neil's past 21 Premier League games as a manager has ended as a draw across spells with Bournemouth and Wolves (W8 L13). After a run of seven victories in the first 12 games of this run, he has sincelost eight of the past nine, winning the other 1-0 against Everton in August.
• Luton Town faced 46 shots in their first two Premier League games (average of 23) but have since faced 22 in their past two (average of 11). They also faced an xG of 6.28 in their opening two matches, comparedwith 1.99 in their past two, while they’ve allowed exactly half the number of touches in their box on average in their past two (23) compared with their first two fixtures (46).

Michael Brown
Former Manchester City midfielder

When you come up to the Premier League, you are trying to find a fragile horse that you can get over.

All three newly-promoted sides, Luton, Burnley and Sheffield United, will be saying, "Which club can we get at?"

Are Wolves in that category? They have started well although they would like more points and so they are probably a club people are looking at.

I imagine Luton will be looking at them and thinking that this is a must-win game if they want to stay in the Premier League.

Michael Brown was speaking to BBC Sport's Joe Bradshaw

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• After a run of three straight Premier League victories over Fulham between 2018 and 2020, Crystal Palace are now winless in their past three against the Cottagers (D2 L1).
• In Fulham’s last game, a 1-0 win over Luton Town, the Cottagers had their most successful passes (733) and highest average possession total (77.6%) in any of their 537 Premier League games Opta has on record since 2003-04.
• Palace’s Eberechi Eze has completed more dribbles than any other player in the Premier League so far this season (20). Eze has also had 23 attempts at goal, second only to Manchester City striker Erling Haaland (29) across the division.
• Fulham have only won one of their past 20 away Premier League London derbies (D5 L14), but that was a 3-0 victory at Crystal Palace last season. The Cottagers have just a 9% win ratio in those derbies in their Premier League history (P76 W7 D24 L45).

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Steve Cooper hopes the players he has brought in this summer give Nottingham Forest "more variety" but accepts his squad remains a work in progress.

Callum Hudson-Odoi and Anthony Elanga have both opened their accounts in recent weeks and offer a different blend of pace and trickery to how Forest attacked last season.

With champions Manchester City looming at the weekend, Cooper says there is plenty of work to do in his strive for improvement.

"Things don't just happen," he said. "We are always trying to find the right balance but the intention is always to improve the squad and give ourselves a bit more variety.

"But new players coming in don't always hit the ground running and play well. You saw that a bit against Burnley where there were some positive signs and in other parts we looked very new.

"Eventually, we want a squad that is full of togetherness and has good connections. We are further along the line with that but have to pick up results along the way too."

Cooper also praised Hudson-Odoi for his fine equalising goal against Burnley and is pleased with what the former Chelsea winger has shown so far.

"He has been great since he came in," Cooper added. "He had some good moments the other nights and also showed some things we need to work with him.

"We will support him, push him and be tough with him in the right moments to try to get the best out of him.

"If we do that, we have a good player on our hands."

• Manchester City are looking to start a Premier League season with a run of six consecutive victories for only the second time, having done so in 2016-17.
• This is just Nottingham Forest's third visit to the Etihad Stadium to face Manchester City – they won an FA Cup tie 3-0 in January 2009, before losing this fixture 6-0 last season.
• Erling Haaland has scored 43 goals in his 40 Premier League appearances for City. Among the 48 teams who have played 40 games in the competition, it’s more than 16 of them managed in their first 40 matches, including Forest (40).
• Taiwo Awoniyi has been involved in at least one goal in his past nine Premier League appearances for the Reds, scoring nine goals and assisting two, despite not completing 90 minutes in any of those games.
• Julian Alvarez has created 16 chances in the league this season – assisting two goals against West Ham last time out. Only Wolves' Pedro Neto (17) has created more.

Fara Williams
Former England midfielder on Final Score

22 signings would be hard for any manager to try and fit into the squad and find a way to gel.

This season Steve Cooper has been able to bring in a higher quality of player and more experienced players into the squad.

They have come into the team and helped bring things together. The manager has also had that experience of last season to build on.

Stephen Warnock
Former England and Liverpool defender on Final Score

It's going to be so difficult for Luton this year.

The gulf in class between the Championship and Premier League is huge, and they need to make sure they cut out the mistakes in their games.

Rob Edwards will want to stick to his style of play but at times they should look to take more risks. The issue is that when you do take those risks you are going to be punished more heavily at this level if you make a mistake.

Mark Scott
BBC Radio 5 Live commentator at Selhurst Park

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Roy Hodgson was in a really jolly mood when I saw him earlier and told me he’s delighted to be back in the dug out after missing the Villa game due to illness.

He speaks in his programme notes about the importance of confidence amongst his attacking players and Fulham hope Carlos Vinicius will have plenty of that after scoring on his first appearance of the season last weekend, as they continue to look for the answer up front after the departure of Aleksandar Mitrovic.

Emma Jones
BBC London

Where are Fulham’s goals going to come from? That is becoming a big question, and a genuine concern for supporters.

They’ve lost Aleksandar Mitrovic, so who in the current squad can fill his very large goalscoring boots?

No doubt there was relief as Carlos Vinicius made his first appearance of the season, off the bench, against Luton and scored the winning goal. But is that going to be the first of many?

Raul Jimenez got three goals for Mexico on recent international duty. But it has been 18 months since he last scored in the Premier League. Marco Silva says he is sure the goals will come. And perhaps - under a manager who gave Mitrovic the confidence he needed - that’s true. But how long will it be before that first Fulham goal?

Rodrigo Muniz is back from a season on loan at Middlesbrough, where he didn’t play as often as he would’ve hoped. The fact that he hasn’t gone out on loan again and is part of the Fulham team at the moment might be something of a surprise. But is he really ready to be playing regularly in the Premier League?

Silva reminded journalists at a recent press conference that there were 15 different scorers for Fulham in the league last season.

But are there any players in the current squad who can reach double figures this season? Fulham fans will certainly hope so, they just might not be sure who that player is yet.

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