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And here’s our write-up from Southampton, where Bruno Fernandes completed a very nice week indeed for the no-longer-crisis club:

Anthony Gordon starts for Everton at Brentford this afternoon. His £60m move to Chelsea is “a nonexistent transfer that seems to capture so much that is transgressive about this industry”, says our own Barney Ronay. Read his column here:

It’s all over at St Mary’s, where Manchester United’s heroic resurgence continues. Live reaction here:

Brentford v Everton team newsBrighton v Leeds team newsManchester City v Crystal Palace team news

🔵 TEAM NEWS 🔵

XI | Ederson, Walker, Stones, Dias, Cancelo, Rodrigo, De Bruyne (C), Bernardo, Mahrez, Haaland, Foden

SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Gundogan, Alvarez, Gomez, Palmer, Gomes, Lewis, Knight, Wilson-Esbrand#ManCity | @HaysWorldwide pic.twitter.com/vyZoI93fv2

— Manchester City (@ManCity) August 27, 2022 Chelsea v Leicester team newsLiverpool v Bournemouth team news

📝 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗡𝗘𝗪𝗦 📝

🔺 Christie and Anthony start 🔺 Solanke back in squad 🔺 Smith wears the armband

Our team for #LIVBOU 📋 pic.twitter.com/Eq3b4Pj2YV

— AFC Bournemouth 🍒 (@afcbournemouth) August 27, 2022

Erik Ten Hag’s Resurgent United have taken the lead against Southampton, Bruno Fernandes blamming a very tidy volley into the bottom corner. What a difference a week makes, eh? Read all about it here:

Here’s your game-by-game bitesize preview:

Preamble

What’s your favorite “one last job” story? Unforgiven (1992)? Heat (1995)? Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)?

Or what about The Saturday 3pm Kick-off (today), which – much like Messrs Eastwood, De Niro and Cage – has reappeared from the wilderness and got the old gang back together for a final high-stakes extravaganza. The gang in question? Beleaguered Liverpool, who in recent weeks have started to resemble Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast: an old warhorse whose youthful energy has long since waned and now would like nothing more than to sip a margarita by the pool. They take on Bournemouth at Anfield – and if that fixture doesn’t kick-start their season, surely nothing will.

Similarly besieged are Chelsea, whose past fortnight has been more Naked Gun than Ocean’s Eleven: first denied by Spurs, then battered by Leeds, and finally seeing their manager’s post-match handshake etiquette subject to an eight-page report from an independent regulatory commission. None of this has been good for the club’s dignity. They host Leicester, another listlessly out-of-form outfit, in a meeting that the visitors will be desperate to win not only in order to arrest their slump but to pre-emptively stick it to turncoat Wesley Fofana, who’s in the process of screeching off to join today’s opponents.

And then there’s Manchester City, a crack crew whose cocky new recruit may or may not have upset the finely tuned sense of harmony. Certainly their steely professionalism deserted them during last week’s rollercoaster draw at Newcastle and they will be looking to reassert themselves this afternoon at home to Crystal Palace – who pulled off a smash-and-grab heist of their own at the Etihad last season.

Elsewhere, Brighton and Leeds convene on the south coast to suss out each other’s title credentials – the winner could conceivably end the day top of the league – and Brentford, upstart masters of the big-club ransacking, host Everton, whose manager is surely starting to feel the heat around the corner.

We’ll also bring you the latest from the Championship – where Watford, Reading and Blackburn all have the chance to usurp Sheffield United at the top of the table – as well as the rest of the Football League. Buckle up!

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