Ben Mee
Former Brentford and Burnley defender on Sports Extra

A real moment of quality from John McGinn, carrying on from his fantastic performance on Thursday against Nottingham Forest.

Ian Maatsen is caught in possession deep inside his own half by Loum Tchaouna, who delivers a teasing cross but it's just too high for Zian Flemming to get his head on it.

Nice ball from Jacob Murphy across the six-yard box but there's no one there to get on the end of it.

Beto wins Everton a first corner of the game after muscling past a handful of Crystal Palace defenders.

Positive start from the visitors.

After a tentative start, Aston Villa create the first opening with Morgan Rogers latching on to John McGinn's through ball before dragging his effort wide of the far post.

Clinton Morrison
Former Crystal Palace striker on BBC Radio 5 Live

The job that Pereira was brought in to do was to keep Forest safe, and he's done it. Yes they might need another win but I think they are safe.

A pretty poor season for Newcastle means a win for relegation-threatened Forest today will put them on level points in the table.

It would be fairly surprising to see Forest back in the relegation zone at this point but their end to the season is a tough one with Manchester United and Bournemouth left to play.

They will see today as a game they can get something from.

Ben Mee
Former Brentford and Burnley defender on Sports Extra

Burnley have drawn a lot of games and struggled a lot this season. There's a lot of names in the team with not as much Premier League experience. There's not as much Premier League experience in the team today. So I'm not massively surprised, there's been a lot change in the club in the summer, it's always going to be difficult to do what they did last season.

England manager Thomas Tuchel is at Selhurst Park.

Everton's James Garner and Crystal Palace's Adam Wharton will be looking to impress as the Three Lions boss prepares to announce his squad for the World Cup.

It's not often you can rely on the good weather up north but the sun is shining and it's short sleeves all round at Turf Moor.

Proper end of season feel to this one.

We're under way in the 14:00 BST matches at Selhurst Park, Turf Moor and the City Ground.

Nottingham Forest have shown a major improvement in front of goal in recent weeks. Having managed a paltry 28 goals in their first 30 league games of the season they have banged in a remarkable 16 in their last five.

Those 16 goals - from only 49 shots - have come from an xG of just 6.8, meaning they have overperformed it by an incredible 9.2.

Vitor Pereira's sharpshooters have scored three or more goals in three consecutive Premier League games for the first time since March to April 1995 having trounced Sunderland 5-0, Burnley 4-1 and Chelsea 3-1.

Ciaran Kelly
BBC Sport reporter at City Ground

Newcastle United head coach Eddie Howe rarely gives anything away so do not rule out a double bluff in front of prying eyes.

But the visitors are lining up with a back four in the defensive drills during their warm-up at the City Ground this afternoon, which may offer a clue about today's formation.

Newcastle have not fielded a recognised right-back - Tino Livramento and Lewis Miley are both injured, while the departing Kieran Trippier is on the bench - so it was hard to tell if it was going to be a back four or a back five when the team sheets dropped at 12.45.

On the evidence of the warm-up, at least, Lewis Hall could be tasked with filling in at right-back.

After a damaging run of nine defeats in 12 league games, Newcastle stopped the rot last Saturday with a morale-boosting win over Brighton.

It lifted some of the pressure that has been mounting on head coach Eddie Howe, with media reports following the match asserting that he will still be in charge next season.

However, the win over Brighton does not paper over the cracks of what has been an extremely disappointing league campaign and Howe will be desperate to finish strongly, going into what will be a key summer of squad rebuilding.

"It's been a big learning season for us," reflected defender Dan Burn after the win over the Seagulls. "We've struggled mentally, attacking on all four fronts the way that we did. It was tough going into games when you were just recovering and going again."

They will be hoping to address their awful away form that has seen them pick up just 16 points from 17 games. Wolves (seven) and Sunderland (14) are the only sides than have scored fewer than the 16 goals the Geordies have on the road.

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Both Matty Cash and Tyrone Mings today make their 200th starts for Aston Villa in all competitions.

Aston Villa have lost just one of their nine Premier League matches when facing a side already relegated (W5 D3), though that loss came against Burnley in May 2015 (0-1).

Victory today will move Villa above Liverpool into fourth and means they will require just one point from their final two games to be guaranteed a top-five finish.

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Aston Villa have only collected seven points from their past eight league games, a run that has slowed their push for a top five finish. But it would take a significant collapse to miss out on Champions League qualification through their league position.

Reaching the Europa League final has offered an alternative route into Europe's top competition and may allow Unai Emery's side to play with more freedom in the run-in.

Their away record, though, continues to undermine them, with Villa winless in their past five league matches on the road.

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Nottingham Forest's Morgan Gibbs-White could miss the rest of the season with boss Vitor Pereira uncertain about his fitness.

The 26-year-old was an unused substitute in Thursday's 4-0 Europa League semi-final second leg defeat at Aston Villa.

Forest lost 4-1 on aggregate as Villa progressed to the final in Istanbul on 20 May to play Freiburg.

Gibbs-White was named on the bench after suffering a serious cut on his head during Monday's win at Chelsea but Pereira admitted he was not fit.

"I cannot answer because I don't know about Morgan," said Pereira, when asked if he will play again this season.