Chelsea v Bournemouth, Sunderland v Brighton, and more: football – live

Ipswich Town could propel themselves into the top seven with a win today.

Ipswich Town: Walton, Ouattara, Diop, O’Shea, Davis, Florentino, Lukic, Maeda, Enciso, Philogene, Emersonn.

Bench: Scherpen, Furlong, Greaves, Matusiwa, Palacios, Walle Egeli, Clarke, Akpom, Flemming.

Fulham, meanwhile, have put out a strong team who will push to get themselves out of the relegation zone.

Fulham: Leno, Tete, Affengruber, Bassey, Sessegnon, Berge, Charles, King, Bobb, Gonzalo, Iwobi.

Bench: Lecomte, Andersen, Castagne, Larsson, Manuel Angel, Smith Rowe, Palacios, Kevin, Muniz.

Sunderland are hosting Brighton today and supporters have aired their grieveances at Regis Le Bris’ defensive set up.

Sunderland: Roefs, Hume, Mukiele, Danso, Reinildo, Xhaka, Sadiki, Meunier, Le Fee, Angulo, Isidor.

Bench: Ellborg, Methalie, O’Nien, Alderete, Talbi, Juan Riquelme, Rigg, Fofana, Jocelin.

Brighton, meanwhile, welcome back all of their stars from the international break with a strong line up.

Brighton: Verbruggen, Struijk, Gross, Chema, Kostoulas, Boscagli, Kadioglu, Gomez, Ayari, De Cuyper, Vuskovic.

Bench: Steele, Hadjam, Dunk, Georginio, Promise, Osman, Costinha, O’Riley, Yalcouye.

The teams have been announced for the match at Stamford Bridge. For Chelsea, they start Cole Palmer who has committed his future to the club and Moises Caicedo is back in the team after recovering from injury.

Chelsea: Martinez, Acheampong, Lacroix, Colwill, Chavarria, Henderson, Caicedo, Neto, Palmer, Rogers, Joao Pedro.

Bench: Penders, Fofana, Gusto, Hato, Palestra, Lavia, Quenda, Estevao, Wellbeck.

For Bournemouth, David Brooks starts with some fans frustrated that Ben Gannon-Doak is on the bench.

Bournemouth: Petrovic, Truffert, Hill, Brooks, Evanilson, Christie, Adams, Silva, Smith, Tavernier, Rayan

Bench: Di Gregorio, Cook, Soler, Gannon-Doak, Diakite, Juanlu, Toth, Jebbison, Rodriguez.

This weekend will be the first time Manchester City have played since the guilty verdict on their Premier League charges. The club deny any wrongdoing and they are appealing the verdict. Manager Enzo Maresca, however, hasn’t confirmed or denied if he will stay if the appeal is unsuccessful, read more here:

Chelsea take on Bournemouth at 3pm BST and earlier today their star man Cole Palmer signed a new deal until 2034.

He said: “Chelsea means a lot to me and I think the club is going in the right direction, so I’m delighted to sign and I’m obviously very happy.

“Speaking to the owners, to the sporting directors and obviously the manager, they gave me a lot of confidence so it was only right to sign.

“Speaking to players as well, everyone has the same ambitions. I feel like we win major trophies here consistently and I want to be a part of that and play a big role in it too.”

Arsenal are currently drawing 0-0 with Leeds and the second half has just begun, you can keep up to date here:

Hello and welcome to today’s Premier League clockwatch. The action in the English top-flight has returned after an international break and a game is already underway with Arsenal hosting Leeds, a score update on that game to come shortly.

Fans then have a batch of four 3pm BST kick-offs which we will be updating all of you on here as the goals come in.

Aston Villa v Brentford

Ipswich Town v Fulham

Chelsea v Bournemouth

Sunderland v Brighton

The team news for those games will be dropping soon and we will bring you that but first up let’s see how Arsenal and Leeds are getting on.