Premier League fixtures today - your guide to Sunday's games
The first weekend of December has arrived, bringing an extra chill to the air, advent calendars on the mantlepiece and a torrent of Premier League football.
Sunday's slate of fixtures is stuffed with no fewer than five matches. Three of the division's current top four are in action alongside a capital derby and familiar faces strewn all over an engrossing round of games.
Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming clashes.
The last time that Aston Villa manager Unai Emery came up against Bournemouth boss Andoni Iraola, the pair were in opposite dugouts in La Liga 19 months ago. Emery's Villarreal eviscerated Iraola's Rayo Vallecano 5-1 away from home, repeatedly beating their hosts' ambitious high press.
Iraola has belatedly begun to coordinate the trademark pressing schemes that took Rayo out of the second tier and into mid-table on the south coast. However, Emery is further along in his project at Villa and is well placed to cause his former foe more problems this weekend.
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Graham Potter may be long gone but the one-way-pollination from Brighton to Chelsea is still strong. Three of Chelsea's possible rearguard — Robert Sanchez, Marc Cucurella and Levi Colwill — this Sunday have pulled on a Brighton shirt in the recent past.
Watching on from the bench, Chelsea's goalkeeping coach Ben Roberts will be familiar with many faces of his former colleagues in the other dugout. Even further up the ladder of the club's hierarchy, co-sporting director Paul Winstanley was poached by Chelsea from Brighton's roster.
The Blues may have dominated the war of recruitment but Brighton have been in the ascendancy on the pitch. The Seagulls are unbeaten in five
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