Key events
Aston Villa v Bournemouth team news
Unai Emery makes two changes from last weekend’s win over Fulham: Ezri Konsa and John McGinn return for Villa in place of Diego Carlos and Leon Bailey.
Ryan Christie and Justin Kluivert, who came off the bench to score in Bournemouth’s win over Arsenal, come into the starting XI along with Mark Travers and Enes Unal. Alex Scott, Marcus Tavernier, Kepa and Evanilson drop out.
Brentford v Ipswich team news
Brentford are boosted by the return from injury of the excellent Yoane Wissa. He replaces Kevin Schade and Mads Roerslev is in for Kristoffer Ajer.
Kieran McKenna has made a number of changes to his Ipswich side. Harry Clarke, Jens Cajuste, Sam Szmodics, Chiedozie Ogbene, Conor Chaplin and George Hirst replace Luke Woolfenden, Omari Hutchinson, Sam Morsy, Wes Burns, Jack Clarke and Liam Delap.
Brighton v Wolves team news
Three changes for Brighton. Pervis Estupinan, Kaoru Mitoma and Jan Paul van Hecke come in for Igor Julio, Evan Ferguson and Jake Hinshelwood. That means Danny Welbeck is fit to start.
Just the one change for Wolves: Tommy Doyle replaces Andre in midfield.
Manchester City v Southampton
Our Pep makes three changes from last weekend’s win at Molineux. Manuel Akanji replaces goal machine John Stones, Phil Foden is in for Jeremy Doku and Matheus Nunes replaces Ilkay Gundogan. City have only named five outfield subs.
It looks like Southampton have switched to a back five. Jack Stephens, Adam Lallana come in for Yukinari Sugawara and Joe Aribo.
Your City line-up this afternoon! 🩵
XI | Ederson, Lewis, Akanji, Dias (C), Gvardiol, Kovacic, Bernardo, Nunes, Savinho, Foden, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Carson, Stones, Ake, Gundogan, O’Reilly, McAtee#ManCity | @etihad pic.twitter.com/ipKyuD4kua
— Manchester City (@ManCity) October 26, 2024
On the same night… Dragan Stojkovic strolls through the legendary AC Milan defence.
On this day in 1988… a sizzling finish from Mike Phelan helps Norwich secure the second of five successive wins over Manchester United.
EFL latest
It’s half-time in the 12.30pm games. In-form Leeds are being held by Bristol City, while Luton are 2-0 up at Coventry.
Willum Willumsson has put the League One leaders Birmingham in front at Mansfield.
You can get the latest from all the games on our live scores page.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to another Saturday afternoon clockwatch. There are four games in the Premier League this afternoon, three of which involves teams still looking for their first win of the season: Ipswich, Southampton and Wolves. All have away games that range from tough to utterly, spirit-crushingly impossible.
There’s a full EFL program as well. And in Germany, second-placed Leipzig meet third-placed Freiburg. Our featured games are listed below; you can follow the rest via our live scores page.
Premier League
Championship
Bundesliga
Kick off 3pm unless stated