Aston Villa will face Crystal Palace in the last Premier League match before the international break, with the selections of the two teams made in the midst of transfer speculations surrounding the key players.
Villa and Palace are each looking for their first victory for the new campaign, the hosts having taken up their first two games. Palace settled for prints with Chelsea and Nottingham Forest.
The goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez was strongly linked to a distance from Villa Park, while the speculation of a move to Liverpool continues to swirl around the captain of the Palais Marc Guehi.
But contrasting decisions were made about their involvement in this match.
Aston Villa Team News
Martinez was excluded from the villa team by Unai Emery in the midst of the reports that the Argentinian international has agreed with personal conditions with Manchester United.
Marco Bizot takes the place of Martinez with the goal, the Frenchman having impressed to keep a white sheet against Newcastle United on the day of opening.
Emery made five modifications to the team that lost against Brentford last week, with Ezri Konsa, Ian Maattsen, Donyell Malen and the new signature Evann Guessand, all.
Aston Villa: Bizot, Cash, Konsa, Mings, McGinn, Tielemans, Watkins, Malen, Maatsen, Rogers, Guessand.
Sub: Proctor, Buendia, Digne, Torres, Jimoh-Aloba, Bogarde, Rowe, Patterson, Burson.
Crystal Palace Team News
Despite a persistent conversation around a move to Anfield before the deadline for transfer on Monday, Guehi starts and the Captains Palace.
Oliver Glasner has brought two changes from the team that won the qualification for the league of the conference league in the middle of the week.
Will Hughes and Tyrick Mitchell will return to the departure XI in place of Jefferson Lerma and Borna Sosa.
Crystal Palace: Henderson, Munoz, Mitchell, Lacroix, Guehi, Sarr, Mateta, Kamada, Hughes, Wharton, Richards.
Submarines:: Benitez, Lerma, Pino, Clyine, Esse, Sosa, Rodney, Devenny, Cardines.
