Michel Vorm will start in goal as Tottenham look to pick up their first win of the season at home to Crystal Palace on Saturday.

Spurs came from behind to draw 1-1 at Everton on the opening day, but lost first-choice goalkeeper Hugo Lloris to injury midway through the first half.

The France international now faces around four weeks on the sidelines with a hamstring injury.

“We trust in Michel and he was doing well in the pre-season,” says Spurs boss Maurico Pochettino. “He played a lot of friendly games, he is ready to compete.

“He is a goalkeeper who has a lot of experience in the Premier League and in internationals. There is no doubt about his quality.” Naija and Bet

Palace suffered a 1-0 home defeat to West Brom on the opening day and lost to Spurs both home and away in the league last season.

Villarreal host 2004 Uefa champions League finalist ‘Monaco” for the first leg of their Uefa Champions group Stage qualification clash.

Villarreal are in search of their first Uefa champions group stage ticket since the they last appeared in 2011/2012 edition. The yellow submarine will be looking forward to replicate the great show they pulled in this stage of the competition in 2011/2015 season, when the defeated Denmark based side ‘Odense Fc” 4-0 over 2 legs to book what was their last appearance in the prestigious competition.

Monaco defeated Fernabahce to book their plays in the last play-off before the Group Stage. The French giant and 2004 UCl finalist pulled a great performance at home to turn thing around in a close battle with the Turkish side.

Villareal vs Monaco: Key Facts

• Villareal maintains 3 games losing streak going into their first Uefa Champion League game since 2011/2012 season
• Villareal maintains 4 straight games winning streak in 4 European competitive game (i.e. Europa league), and haven’t lost a game to any French team at home
• Monaco has 1 win in their last 5 games, and this win was produced in their qualification game against Fernabahce
• Monaco have lost 7 of their last 8 clashes against a Spanish side away

Villareal: Team News

Garcia Toral Marcelino will be missing is top amn for tis clash against Monaco. Roberto Soladao suffered a tear on is right knee during is side re-season clash with Deportivo la Coruna.

Villareal: Predicted Line-Up (4-4-2)

Asenjo: Bonera, Costa, Ruiz, Mario: Soriano, Santos, Ndiaye, Mauel- Pato, Bakambu

Monaco: Team News

Jardim Leonardo decided to drop two of his top (i.e. Falcao & Germain) in their league game against Guingamp. In addition, 39 years old Italian goal keeper “ De Sanctis” won’t be available for this game due to injury issue.

Monaco: Predicted Line-Up (4-4-2)

Subasic: Sidibe, Raggi, Glik, Mendy: Fabinho, Moutinho, Dirar, Lemar: Falcao, Germain.

Villareal Vs Monaco: Head to Head

Both sides haven’t met in the 21^st century, and since the beginning of a new era in club European competition.

However, Villarreal have a lot of good experience playing French side. The yellow Submarine, have yet to loss any game in the 4 times they have met a French team in the competition.

Moreover, Monaco has more experience locking horns with Spanish club compared to Villarreal experience with French side. The French giant has recorded 18 meeting with Spanish club, winning 6, losing 8, and 6 ending in a draw.

Villareal Vs Monaco: Prediction

Villarreal will be playing a fully fit Monaco side, has the french club have been involve in more competitive game than them.

However, the massive support of the fan who will be the 12^th man could push Villarreal all the way to a maximum point. Monaco will be looking to start a new form of great performance in their visit to play as Spanish club. The French giant has lost 7 times in their last 9 away games with Spanish side.

Therefore, it will be an evenly poised clash with 50:50 chance of victory for both side getting the maximum point in this first leg

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2004 Uefa champions League winners “ Fc Porto” host Roma for the first leg of a two legged Champion league qualifier affair.

Porto finished 3^rd at the end of 2015/2016 Portuguese Primeira league campaign, will fight for their place in their group satage of 2016/2017 season Uefa Champions league. Nuno Espirito Santos led team, started their the league season with an emphatic 3-1 away victory over Rio Aves. The Portuguese will however be hoping to replicate such great performance and result when Roma comes visiting on Wednesday

Roma finished 2015/2016 season with 2 point adrift of the position for a straight Uefa Champions’ league group stage ticket. Luciano Spalletti led side gathered 82 point to claim the 3^rd position at end of the 2015/2016 Seria A season. Though the Seria A season as not started (i.e. 2016/2017), Roma have been getting busy with many friendly, in which they have produced some nice performances. And will hoping to go through to the next round in what is their first Uefa champions league play-off.

Porto Vs Roma: Key Facts

• Porto maintains 5 game unbeaten runs
• Porto won 3 of their last 5 competitive game at home, and lost 2
• Roma maintains 5 games winning streak going in to this clash
• Roma are also unbeaten in 5 away games in a competitive match.

Porto: Team News

Nuno Esprito who is just joining the Portuguese giant, will be going into this game with is best squad, as he as no major injury headache

Porto: Predicted Line-Up (4-2-3-1)

Casillas – M.Pereira, Felipe, Marcano, Telles – D. Pereira, Herrera – Corona, Andre, Otavinho –  Valente.

Roma: Team News

Spalletti will be without the services of 3 defenders for this clash due to knee injury suffered by the trio. Nigerian Abdullahi Nura, German Antonio Rudiger, and portuges Mario Rui are the three men that would be out of this one.

Roma: Predicted Line-Up (4-3-3)

Szczesny – Florenzi, Vermaelen, Fazio, Juan – Nainggolan, De Rossi, Gerson – Iturbe, Totti, Salah.

Porto Vs Roma: Head to Head

Both side haven’t met in the 21^st century, and since the beginning of a new era in club European competition.

However, Porto have a lot of experience with playing Italian side with the unforgettable one been their 1-0 loss to Ac Milan in the 2003 UEFA Super Cup that took place in Monaco.

Same goes for Roma experience with Portuguese team. The Italian giant has 12 encounters with a Portugal based club, and lost 3 times, with 2 of the 3 defeat been in one of the legs played in Portugal

Porto Vs Roma: Prediction

Porto will be more composed going into this one, as the Portuguese league kick started on Friday which will serve as a competitive game playing advantage to Porto compared to Roma.

Both side are looking to redeem their image when it comes to playing in this competition, as they both failed to score in their last 3 European competition game.

Moreover, it will be soar fight that I think will be won over two legs but I see Porto nicking this one on Wednesday.

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Chelsea kick off the new Premier League season with a tough home clash against London rivals West Ham in the first Monday night fixture of the campaign – a game that is sure to hand Blues manager Antonio Conte plenty to think about.

The Italian has overseen a largely successful pre-season tour of the US and Europe, with Chelsea beating the likes of Liverpool and AC Milan on their travels.

Conte has used different tactical formations during that time, from 4-2-4 to 4-3-3, but the former Italy and Juventus manager will now have to decide on his strongest team as the West Ham game draws ever closer.

The Hammers may not have the best Premier League record against Chelsea – with the Blues having won 22 and lost just 11 of their top-flight fixtures against the east Londoners – but Slaven Bilic’s side did get the better of Chelsea last season.

Indeed, West Ham beat the Blues 2-1 at Upton Park in October before narrowly missing out on another win in the reverse fixture as a late Cesc Fabregas penalty sealed a 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge.

And despite enduring a mixed pre-season – West Ham won only two games – their narrow 3-2 loss to European heavyweights Juventus on Sunday will give the club belief they can open the new campaign with a win over a Chelsea side still finding their feet under a new manager

Form guide

Chelsea lost to Rapid Vienna (2-0) and Real Madrid (3-2) in pre-season but beat RZ Pellets (3-0), Liverpool (1-0), Milan (3-1) and Werder (4-2).

West Ham, meanwhile, began their pre-season with a 3-0 loss to Seattle Sounders before drawing 2-2 with Carolina RailHawks and FC Slovacko and then being beaten 3-0 by Rubin Kazan.

The Hammers next overcame Karlsruher SC 3-0 before their Europa League qualifiers saw the club lose 2-1 away to NK Domzale but win 3-0 at the Olympic Stadium. They ended off their preparations with a 3-2 loss to Juve.

One to watch

Chelsea fans will be keen to see how Kante fares against West Ham after the Frenchman played a huge role in Leicester City storming to their first-ever Premier League title last season.

For Hammers fans, though, all eyes are likely to be on the return of Euro 2016 finalist Dimitri Payet although if record-signing Andre Ayew makes an appearance, he will be the man to keep a close eye on following his impressive debut season in England with Swansea City last term.

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Pep Guardiola gets his tenure as Manchester City boss underway by hosting Sunderland at the Etihad Stadium in their Premier League opener on Saturday evening.

The former Barcelona and Bayern Munich boss will likely hand a debut to John Stones in central defence, after he joined from Everton for £47.5million earlier this week.

Guardiola will face off with David Moyes in the late kick-off, who returns to management for the first time since being sacked by Real Sociedad last season.

Moyes replaced Sam Allardyce at the Black Cats, after he left to take the England job last month having kept Sunderland up in impressive fashion last season.

Nicolas Otamendi requires a fitness test after a tendon problem while captain Vincent Kompany (thigh) is sidelined and Eliaquim Mangala has lacked match fitness after his late return to training following Euro 2016.

Two other summer signings in Ilkay Gundogan (knee) and Leroy Sane (hamstring) are injured but striker Nolito and midfielder Oleksandr Zinchenko could make debuts.

New signings Adnan Januzaj, Paddy McNair and Donald Love will go straight into the Sunderland squad for Saturday’s opener at City.

Midfielder Januzaj, who completed a season-long loan move on Friday, will be joined in the travelling party by permanent signings McNair and Love, who are both defenders, although Moyes has a decision to make over wantaway centre-half Lamine Kone.

However, the Scot will definitely be without Seb Larsson, who is facing up to six months on the sidelines following knee ligament surgery, while fellow midfielders Lee Cattermole (groin) and Jan Kirchhoff (hamstring) and full-back Billy Jones (hip) are also out.

City are unbeaten in their last seven Premier League opening weekend fixtures (W6 D1), including winning each of the last five.

Guardiola has won the opening league game of the season as a manager in each of his last six seasons (three for Barcelona, three for Bayern) – he lost his first league game as Barcelona boss (0-1 at Numancia), however.

Sergio Aguero is the top scoring player in the Premier League so far in 2016 (17 goals in 18 games).

Jermain Defoe has scored in 15 different Premier League seasons and will be looking to become only the eighth different player to net in 16+ seasons in 2016/17.

Moyes is 5th in the all-time Premier League standings for most games managed (P461 W190 D129 L142).

The newly appointed Sunderland boss has won five times at the Etihad Stadium in the Premier League – the only visiting manager with more wins is Arsene Wenger (6).

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As at this post Manchester City has 1.22 odd to win the match on NaijaBet while sunderland  has 11.50 odd to win the match also, while the odd to draw the match is 6.12