Premier League updates from the 8pm BST kick-offTen things to look for in the Premier League this weekendAnd feel free to email Nick or tweet him @NickAmes82 7.52pm BST Mings does start – confirmation just in. He and the other 21 hopefuls will emerge shortly. 7.43pm BST In a quick hop to other news – last-ditch hope for Bury, who are a little over four hours from extinction as things stand?Breaking news: @buryfcofficial @forever_bury I believe a credible proof of funds has now been provided to #EFL +Steve Dale will be made a fair offer for the club before EFL deadline. I am optimistic the EFL who are being helpful can give us the extension needed to save the club. 7.42pm BST Tyrone Mings had a little problem in the warm-up there . looks as if he should be OK but if there’s any news to the contrary, I’ll let you know. 7.36pm BST Meanwhile, there’s a word you definitely shouldn’t say to Smith. It’s the F word! Related: Dean Smith upbeat as Aston Villa aim to show F-word jibe is misplaced | Paul Doyle 7.32pm BST Yerry Mina and Richarlison both start today but Silva has had a word in their ears – in English! Related: Everton’s Marco Silva tells Richarlison and Yerry Mina to improve their English 7.26pm BST Lovely warm evening, isn’t it? I took a little stroll along the canal to Camden before settling down to spend a few hours with you lovely people. In doing so I consumed an ice cream with one scoop marzipan flavour, one scoop mint & cucumber flavour. Respectively I found them a little bit overbearing and a little bit icy/watery. Anyone enjoyed a weird ice cream flavour today? 7.19pm BST Told you this one gives us a fuzzy feeling.203 - Aston Villa vs Everton is the most played fixture in English football league history. This will be the 203rd league meeting between the sides - all of them in the top-flight (73 wins for Aston Villa, 76 for Everton). Harmonised. pic.twitter.com/GaffaOEXVe 7.13pm BST Marco Silva:“Our goal is to do better than last season, it’s something we must do. It’s too early to talk about the top six or whatever, we have to prove it on the pitch every week.” 7.09pm BST Villa boss Dean Smith speaks:“It feels a little bit odd the way we’ve played that we’ve got nothing, but we’re only two games in. Our performances on the whole have been OK without being top performances but we felt we could have got something out of both games.” 7.07pm BST Aston Villa: Heaton, Guilbert, Engels, Mings, Taylor, Douglas Luiz, Trezeguet, McGinn, Grealish, Jota, Wesley. Subs: Lansbury, Steer, Hourihane, Konsa, El Ghazi, Elmohamady, Davis.Everton: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Mina, Digne, Schneiderlin, Andre Gomes, Richarlison, Sigurdsson, Bernard, Calvert-Lewin. Subs: Holgate, Walcott, Iwobi, Sidibe, Stekelenburg, Davies, Kean. 6.06pm BST Friday night football ahoy! And this one’s the equivalent of a cosy evening under a rug with a glass of something nice. It’s Villa v Everton – two familiar, old-world Premier League names, both relatively unthreatening and usually *there*.Well, that wasn’t quite the case during Villa’s recent stint in the Championship but they’re back now and gunning for mid-table stability in the short term. They haven’t quite looked set for that yet, defeats at Spurs and – more disappointingly – at home to Bournemouth making for an inauspicious start and leading to a few concerned mentions of the “Fulham” word. Villa revamped their squad at great expense over the summer; has it been too much change, too soon? Continue readingreadfullarticle
