Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew has insisted Yannick Bolasie will be included in the squad to face West Brom, saying the forward is in condition to play despite reports linking him with a transfer to Everton.

Palace will host the Baggies in their Premier League opener on Saturday, and Bolasie will be involved at Selhurst Park.

Pardew’s side have managed just 11 points in the Premier League in 2016, so will be hoping for a more positive start to the new campaign.

West Brom, meanwhile, will be hoping to build on last season’s 14th-placed finish that saw them finish a point and a place above the Eagles.

Team news

Of Crystal Palace’s new signings, only Andros Townsend is expected to start in Saturday’s Premier League opener.

James Tomkins has a hamstring problem, while Saturday may prove too soon for Steve Mandanda – the goalkeeper made a late start to pre-season because of his involvement in France’s run to the final of Euro 2016.

West Brom boss Tony Pulis still has Saido Berahino available for the trip to Crystal Palace despite bids from the Eagles and Stoke being on the table.

James Morrison is still troubled by the hamstring injury he suffered in January which ruled him out for the end of last season while Chris Brunt is closing in on a recover from a serious knee injury, having missed Euro 2016, but is not yet fit.

Matty Phillips could make his West Brom debut after signing from QPR for £5.5million this summer but he remains the Baggies’ only summer signing so far.

Opta stats

Crystal Palace have won just three of their last 13 home matches in the league against West Bromwich Albion (W3 D6 L4).

Of all current Premier League teams to have played three or more opening weekend matches, WBA have the lowest win rate, winning one of their 10 previous games (10%).

Crystal Palace have won only one of their last eight season openers held at Selhurst Park (D4 L3) – 3-2 versus Leicester in 2010.

Of clubs still in the Premier League in 2016-17, Crystal Palace have won the fewest points in 2016 so far (11).

Crystal Palace lost the 2016 FA Cup final to Manchester United – the previous two losing FA Cup finalists have been relegated from the Premier League in the following season (Hull City and Aston Villa).

Tony Pulis (1.46) is the only permanent manager to have a better Premier League points per game as Crystal Palace coach than current boss Alan Pardew (1.30).

West Bromwich Albion ended 2015-16 on a nine-match winless streak in the Premier League (W0 D4 L5), with their last Premier League victory coming on March 6.

NaijaBet Odds

As at this post Crystal Palace has 1.93 odd to win the match on NaijaBet while West Brom has 4.19 odd to win the match also, while the odd to draw the match is 3.23

New signing Ashley Williams is set to sit out Ronald Koeman’s first competitive game as Everton boss when Tottenham visit Goodison Park on Saturday.

Spurs, however, could hand debuts to midfielder Victor Wanyama and forward Vincent Janssen as they aim to build on their third-place finish from last season.

Tottenham finished their 2015/16 campaign in disappointing fashion, but will be hoping for better this year as they prepare for life in the Champions League.

For Everton, now without John Stones following his move to Manchester City, it is a fresh start under new boss Koeman as they aim to improve on their 11th-placed finish from last year.

Koeman has said ahead of the Premier League campaign-opener that centre-back Williams, brought in from Swansea on Wednesday, will not be ready to make his debut for at least another week due to a late start to pre-season, and claims the Toffees in general are only on “70 per cent” of the fitness he wants.

Full-back Seamus Coleman (ankle) and striker Romelu Lukaku (heel) are doubts, but skipper Phil Jagielka is available to start in central defence after overcoming a hamstring problem, and two summer recruits are poised to make their bows in goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg and midfielder Idrissa Gueye.

Wanyama, who joined Spurs from Southampton this summer, is likely to start at Goodison Park as fellow midfielder Mousa Dembele remains suspended.

Jan Vertonghen is also in contention. The central defender has recovered from an ankle injury sustained at Euro 2016.

Opta Facts

Everton are winless in their last seven Premier League meetings with Tottenham Hotspur (W0 D4 L3).

No Premier League team has lost more games on the opening weekend than Spurs (9) – level with West Ham.

Everton have drawn their last three opening day matches 2-2, with Ross Barkley scoring two of their six goals in this run.

Koeman has won just one of his four Premier League games against Spurs (W1 D1 L2), but this was in their last meeting in May (Spurs 1-2 Southampton).

Harry Kane’s next Premier League goal will be his 50th – if he scores in this match, he’ll have reached the landmark in 87 games. Only eight players have needed fewer apps to reach 50 PL goals, and Kane will be level with Ian Wright (87 apps).

Kane is on the current longest run of consecutive appearances in the Premier League without missing a game for his team (68).

This will be the 20th Premier League season that Gareth Barry has played in – only Ryan Giggs (22) has played in more, while only Rio Ferdinand & Frank Lampard (20) have played in as many.

Vincent Janssen topped the Dutch Eredivisie goalscoring charts in 2015-16 with 27 goals.

NaijaBet Odds

As at this post Everton has 3.11  odd to win the match on NaijaBet while Tottenham has 2.28 odd to win the match also, while the odd to draw the match is 3.25

Leicester City will begin the defence of their Premier League title live on Sky Sports as they travel to play newly-promoted Hull City at the KCOM Stadium at 12.30pm on Saturday.

It’s been just over 100 days since the Foxes stormed to their crown, and there is still plenty of optimism within Claudio Ranieri’s squad despite the loss of key midfielder N’Golo Kante to Chelsea over the summer.

Leicester will be hopeful of kicking things off with victory against Hull, who will start the season with Mike Phelan in caretaker charge following the departure of Steve Bruce.

The Tigers are yet to make a signing this summer, and have also lost key midfielder Mo Diame – who scored their winner in the play-off final – to Newcastle.

Leicester start the defence of their Premier League title without the suspended Robert Huth. The defender is banned after his three-match sanction for tangling with Manchester United’s Marouane Fellaini at the end of last season.

Matty James is available after missing the whole of last season’s title-winning campaign with a knee injury, while record signing Ahmed Musa could make his debut after joining from CSKA Moscow for £16m.

New boys Luis Hernandez, Bartosz Kapustka, Ron-Robert Zieler and Papy Mendy are also in the squad but Ritchie de Laet and Gokhan Inler will not be included having been told they can find new clubs.

Phelan has just 13 fit senior players to chose from for Hull. Allan McGregor (back), Alex Bruce (Achilles), Moses Odubajo (knee) and Michael Dawson (knee) are all on the long-term injury list while Harry Maguire is a couple of weeks away from full fitness.

Jake Livermore is set to be asked to step in alongside Curtis Davies in central defence while winger Shaun Maloney has been passed fit.

Opta Facts

Hull City are winless in their last five league meetings with Leicester City (D2 L3).

The reigning Premier League champions have never lost the opening game of their title defence in the competition’s history (W19 D4).

A newly-promoted side hasn’t won on the opening weekend of a Premier League campaign since August 2012 when West Ham beat Aston Villa (1-0).

Jamie Vardy has only failed to score against three of the 22 different opponents that he’s faced in the Premier League and Hull City are one of these (alongside Man City & Swansea).

Abel Hernández scored 21 times for Hull in the Championship last season (including play-offs); more than twice as many as any other player for the club.

Ranieri will be looking to secure his 100th Premier League win as a manager in this game – he will be only the fifth non-British/Irish manager to reach this landmark.

Hull City have lost all five of their early Saturday kick-off games in the Premier League.

NaijaBet Odds

As at this post Leicester City has 1.84  odd to win the match on NaijaBet while Hull has 4.36 odd to win the match also, while the odd to draw the match 3.39

Jose Mourinho agrees with Claudio Ranieri that a top-four Barclays Premier League finish remains possible for Chelsea and challenged the champions to kickstart their domestic resurgence against the division’s surprise package.

Monday’s match will have the two sides in somewhat of a role reversal from previous meetings, with Leicester the high-flying form side and Chelsea in need of points to move away from the lower reaches of the top flight.

Leicester are 17 points ahead of Mourinho’s men, although they could be toppled from the summit by Arsenal, Manchester City or Manchester United before the clash at the King Power Stadium.

Chelsea ensured UEFA Champions League progression with victory over Mourinho’s former club Porto in midweek, but languish in the bottom half after a shock home defeat to AFC Bournemouth last weekend.

Ranieri backed his former team this week to claim a top-four spot and Mourinho, who succeeded the Italian at Stamford Bridge when he started his first tenure at Chelsea in 2004, takes a similar view, while holding his opposite number in the highest regard.

“One year ago they were bottom of the league and Ranieri was sacked by the Greece national team for losing to the Faroe Islands, now he is the top manager in the Premier League and their players are top of the league,” said the Portuguese. “That’s the beauty, it’s fantastic.

“Nobody has any doubt that he hasn’t forgotten his time at Chelsea. Everyone who is at this club for a certain period of time likes the club very much and Ranieri is showing the nice feeling he has, but I also believe what he says [about a top-four finish].

“Before we lost three points against Bournemouth I was absolutely convinced about finishing fourth in the table and I was convinced about a great December for us. While it’s mathematically possible we have to try.”

Mourinho has a fully fit squad to choose from, while Matty James and Ritchie De Laet (ankle) are Leicester’s only absentees, the former having made his return from a cruciate ligament injury in last week’s Under-21s defeat to Villarreal.

Ranieri has Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez fit and firing, with the Englishman having scored or assisted in 13 consecutive Barclays Premier League matches.

Mahrez’s hat-trick ensured Leicester a 3-0 win over Swansea City last time out and captain Wes Morgan says his side have nothing to fear.

“[The pressure] is on Chelsea a little bit,” Morgan told the club’s website. “They’re not in the best of form at the moment and they should be doing a lot better.

“We can’t write them off because they’re a fantastic team with fantastic players. At some point we know they will come good and go on a run of winning games.

“Everyone expects them to win every game but we’re full of confidence and we should be looking to get a win.

“I think we just need to carry on playing how we have been. It’s worked so far this season, the boys know their jobs and their roles and we just want to continue our run.”

Chelsea (from): Begovic, Blackman, Courtois, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Djilobodji, Ivanovic, Rahman, Terry, Zouma, Fabregas, Hazard, Loftus-Cheek, Matic, Mikel, Oscar, Ramires, Traore, Willian, Costa, Falcao, Kenedy, Pedro, Remy.

Leicester City (from): Schmeichel, Schwarzer, Benalouane, Fuchs, Huth, Morgan, Simpson, Wasilewski, Albrighton, Drinkwater, Dyer, Hammond, Inler, Kante, King, Mahrez, Schlupp, Dodoo, Kramaric, Okazaki, Ulloa, Vardy.

Match Appointments
Referee: Mark Clattenburg Assistants: S Beck, J Collin Fourth Official: G Scott

Match Facts
    – Leicester City have won seven and lost one of their last 10 Barclays Premier League home matches.
– Chelsea have won the last six BPL meetings with Leicester.
– Jose Mourinho’s side have won one of their last eight league away matches (W1 D2 L5).
– Since losing to Chelsea in April, Leicester have lost one of their last 19 BPL matches (W12 D6 L1).
– The Foxes have recovered 10 points from losing positions this season, more than any other team in the competition.
– N’Golo Kante has made more interceptions than any other top-flight player this season (64).
– Jamie Vardy has scored or assisted in 13 consecutive BPL games, beating Stan Collymore’s run of 12 set between March and August 1995.

NaijaBet Odds

As at this post Leicester City  has 3.13  odd to win the match on NaijaBet while Chelsea has 2.33 odd to win the match also, while the odd to draw the match is 3.43