Match talking points will appear here before kick-off.

• 1
  Roberto De Zerbi is Tottenham's third head coach in barely a year, brought in last season specifically to stop them going down — which he did, on the final day, beating Everton 2-0 with the club needing exactly that result to survive.
• 2
  This season is his first full campaign in charge, and he's led a genuinely major summer spending spree alongside sporting director Johan Lange and the club's hierarchy — the kind of outlay that raises the stakes on every poor result rather than lowering the pressure.
• 3
  The start hasn't matched the ambition: back-to-back defeats to open the season, including a chastening 0-2 loss at home to Newcastle where two of Newcastle's own summer signings did the damage, before Forest held them to a goalless draw that De Zerbi's side were relieved to take as their first point.
• 4
  De Zerbi has already had to publicly defend the summer spending — not the conversation a club wants to be having in September after paying for a rescue job and a rebuild in the same calendar year.
• 5
  Spurs avoided relegation by a matter of days last spring, which means every slow start this season reads differently to their fans than it would at a club with more cushion — there's real history behind the anxiety, not just habit.

• 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.