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Your support makes all the difference.Another weekend, another programme of Premier League football to get stuck into. Today there are just four league games on offer – with a further two FA Cup fixtures, which you can follow here – with Liverpool vs Watford the final game of the day.
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Saturday’s Premier League fixtures:
Bournemouth 2-1 West Brom
Huddersfield 0-2 Crystal Palace
Stoke 1-2 Everton
Liverpool 17:30 Watford
Good afternoon and welcome to our live coverage of Saturday's Premier League action.
There are four games today on this FA Cup affected weekend with three - Bournemouth vs West Brom, Huddersfield vs Crystal Palace and Stoke vs Everton - kicking off at 3pm.
Liverpool's home clash with Watford comes a little later on.
Without further ado, off we go.
Team news
Stoke: Butland, Johnson, Shawcross, Zouma, Stafylidis, Ndiaye, Allen, Adam, Shaqiri, Crouch, Sobhi
Subs: Bauer, Berahino, Choupo-Moting, Jese, Martins Indi, Fletcher, Haugaard
Everton: Pickford, Coleman, Keane, Jagielka, Baines, Davies, Gueye, Rooney, Walcott, Tosun, Bolasie
Subs: Schneiderlin, Martina, Niasse, Klaassen, Calvert-Lewin, Holgate, Robles
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Team news
AFC Bournemouth: Begovic, Adam Smith, Francis, Steve Cook, Ake, Ibe, Gosling, Lewis Cook, Stanislas, King, Callum Wilson
Subs: Boruc, Surman, Pugh, Daniels, Defoe, Fraser, Mousset
West Brom: Foster, Nyom, Dawson, Evans, Hegazi, Gibbs, Livermore, Yacob, Brunt, Rodriguez, Rondon
Subs: Robson-Kanu, Phillips, Myhill, McClean, Burke, Krychowiak, Field.
Team news
Huddersfield: Lossl, Hadergjonaj, Jorgensen, Schindler, Malone, Hogg, Mooy, Quaner, Pritchard, Ince, Mounie
Subs: Smith, Billing, Kachunga, Coleman, Lowe, van La Parra, Depoitre
Crystal Palace: Hennessey, Wan Bissaka, Tomkins, Sakho, Van Aanholt, Townsend, Milivojevic, McArthur, Schlupp, Benteke, Zaha
Subs: Cabaye, Loftus-Cheek, Lee, Cavalieri, Fosu-Mensah, Kelly, Riedewald
Roy Hodgson previews Palace's trip to Huddersfield
"We're fully aware of the importance of the game. We need to pick up some results and some wins so I think the task for us in every game from now until the end of the season will be the same.
"We've got to make sure we're ready for the fight. Huddersfield have done that all season and we've got to match that."
Jay Rodriguez and Ahmed El-Sayed Hegazi of West Bromwich Albion inspect the pitch ahead of their game away to Bournemouth
West Brom boss Alan Pardew held clear-the-air talks with the club's hierarchy this week and in his pre-match press conference on Friday he revealed how those discussions went.
He said:
"I told them what I think perhaps needs to happen going forward. They listened and I'm still in a job.
"I said it was probably time I spoke to upstairs and said, 'I don't know where all this speculation is coming from, so let's clear the air'".
The Baggies face Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium at 3pm.
Stoke's Peter Crouch warms up ahead of his side's clash with Everton at the bet365 Stadium
Everton face Stoke at the bet365 Stadium this afternoon and, ahead of the game, Toffees boss Sam Allardyce has revealed that he has enlisted the help of a psychologist to boost his players' performances.
He said this week:
"We tried a number of things. I think a change of systems, a change of personnel but I think a change of mentality is the big one.
"They are getting some help with that. We have used our in-house sports psychologist who has been here for a while and slowly he has integrated himself in some of the sessions with some of the players.
"We've been using a bit more work into the mind in the analysis room about who we are, what do we want to get and what we want to achieve.
"The main thing is the focus on being mindful and visualising the performance you give at the top level, and thinking about that to put yourself in a positive frame of mind before you run out onto the field on a Saturday.
"All your preparation tactically and technically is fine but if the player spends a little bit of time thinking about his best performance and putting himself in the right frame of mind, then that best performance has a better chance of being delivered."
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