Match talking points will appear here before kick-off.

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  Brighton head into Sunday's trip to newly promoted Coventry with seven first-team players sidelined, including fan-favourite winger Kaoru Mitoma, who's been out since May. That's a serious chunk of the squad missing this early in the season.
• 2
  Manager Fabian Hürzeler is hopeful attacking midfielder Georginio Rutter and new deadline-day signing Femi Azeez might be fit enough to feature. Handy to know if you want to sound across Brighton's team news rather than just their results.
• 3
  Brighton's start to the season has been a genuine mixed bag — one win, one draw, one defeat in their opening three games. Too early to read much into it either way, which is exactly the kind of measured take that marks you out as someone who actually follows the club.
• 4
  Mitoma's absence matters more than most — he's one of Brighton's most direct creative outlets, and the club say he's unlikely back until at least next month. Worth flagging gently rather than acting surprised, since it's been known at the club for weeks.
• 5
  Brighton signed winger Femi Azeez from Millwall right on deadline day — a classic Brighton move, picking up a lower-profile player who could turn into a bargain nobody saw coming. That's basically been their recruitment model for a decade.

• 1
  Aston Villa tore up most of their spine this summer, selling Morgan Rogers to Chelsea for £120m — the biggest transfer fee ever paid between two English clubs. Bring that stat up and watch a Villa fan wince and nod at the same time.
• 2
  Villa's World Cup-winning goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez also left for Chelsea, for a fee that raised eyebrows — just £7.5m for a player of that pedigree. It says a lot about how much the club wanted the wages off their books rather than about his ability.
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  Coming the other way was striker Nicolas Jackson, arriving from Chelsea for £65m, in a summer where the two clubs basically swapped chunks of their squads. Point that irony out and you'll sound sharper than most pundits on the radio phone-in.
• 4
  With Ollie Watkins also gone (to Al Hilal) and a host of new faces still bedding in, Unai Emery is effectively rebuilding on the fly. It's the kind of overhaul that needs patience — worth telling whoever you're talking to not to judge this Villa side on early results alone.
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  The bright spot: Villa beat Club Brugge 3-2 in their Champions League opener, their first win of the campaign. Handy to know if you want to sound like you're following more than just the league table.