Match talking points will appear here before kick-off.

• 1
  Leeds are back for a second straight season in the Premier League under Daniel Farke, having secured promotion the year before. For a club with Leeds' history and support, just being an established top-flight side again is the achievement people are talking about.
• 2
  The summer business was busy: full-back Melvin Bard arrived, and winger Jean-Mattéo Bahoya came in as the club's final signing of the window. Both were brought in to add depth to a squad trying to consolidate rather than just survive.
• 3
  Farke has been giving low-key fitness updates on a couple of players ahead of upcoming fixtures — the kind of detail that sounds a lot more informed in conversation than just talking about results.
• 4
  Elland Road stays one of the most intimidating away days in the league regardless of where Leeds sit in the table. That reputation didn't disappear during their time outside the Premier League, and it hasn't disappeared now they're back.
• 5
  The quiet aim at Leeds this season is simply staying up more comfortably than clubs coming straight back up usually manage. Survival first, then see where that gets them.

• 1
  Eddie Howe's near five-year reign ended abruptly in July, when he stepped down less than 24 hours after a pre-season friendly defeat to Championship side Bristol City. Nobody saw it coming — Howe had just delivered Newcastle's first major trophy in decades the season before, so the timing floored fans as much as it did the club.
• 2
  German coach Matthias Jaissle arrived from Al Ahli to replace him and has started unbeaten: Newcastle came from two goals down to draw 2-2 at Bournemouth, then won 2-0 away at Tottenham.
• 3
  Anthony Elanga swapped Nottingham Forest for Newcastle in a £55m summer deal, and Yoane Wissa arrived too — between them they scored both goals in that win over Spurs, and Wissa's already being called 'Newcastle's best signing' by people inside the club.
• 4
  Elanga did have a scare in pre-season, stretchered off after a bad tackle in a friendly at Valencia. It turned out to be a dead leg and bruising rather than anything serious, and he was fit for the season opener.
• 5
  The Jaissle era has gone smoother than the sudden managerial change suggested it might — an unbeaten start with two big-money new faces already clicking is not the disaster script anyone was writing back in July.