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Chelsea host Manchester United on Sunday
Chelsea host Manchester United on Sunday

Chelsea host Manchester United, while Tottenham travel to Liverpool in the next round of Barclays Premier League fixtures.

SATURDAY 4 FEBRUARY

Arsenal v Blackburn 1pm

Arsenal midfielder Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (knee) will be assessed ahead of tomorrow's clash with Blackburn at Emirates Stadium.

Full-back Kieran Gibbs (groin) has returned to full training, but Carl Jenkinson (back), Andre Santos (ankle) and midfielder Abou Diaby (hamstring) are still out.

Ivory Coast forward Gervinho is still away at the African Nations Cup, but Morocco striker Marouane Chamakh is due back, although not in time for tomorrow. Midfielder Jack Wilshere suffered a setback in his rehabilitation from an ankle injury.

Arsenal provisional squad: Szczesny, Sagna, Vermaelen, Mertesacker, Koscielny, Walcott, Song, Ramsey, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Arteta, van Persie, Fabianski, Rosicky, Henry, Park, Coquelin, Benayoun, Arshavin, Miquel.

Blackburn team news to follow…

Norwich v Bolton 3pm

Ryo Miyaichi and Marvin Sordell could make their Bolton debuts at Carrow Road.

Midfielder Miyaichi, who has joined on loan from Arsenal for the rest of the season, and striker Sordell, recruited from Watford in a permanent deal, are both in the Wanderers squad after completing their moves on transfer deadline day.

Fellow new arrival Tim Ream, the centre-back signed earlier in the January window from the New York Red Bulls, is flying in from the United States too late to be considered for selection, while another defender, Gretar Steinsson, is a major doubt having picked up a knock in Wednesday's 0-0 draw with the Gunners.

Bolton provisional squad: Bogdan, Jaaskelainen, Wheater, Boyata, Knight, Mears, Eagles, Robinson, Muamba, Petrov, K Davies, Klasnic, Tuncay, M Davies, Pratley, Ngog, Blake, Reo-Coker, Ricketts, Riley, Miyaichi, Sordell.

Norwich will again be without left-back Marc Tierney. Tierney is suffering from a groin injury, but centre-back Elliott Ward made his long-awaited return to the squad following a pre-season knee injury for the midweek defeat at Sunderland and could be included again.

Striker James Vaughan has also recovered from his knee ligament injury, but may need more time to get fully match fit.

Norwich provisional squad: Ruddy, Martin, Whitbread, Ayala, Naughton, Bennett, Johnson, Crofts, Pilkington, Holt, Morison, Steer, Surman, Hoolahan, Wilbraham, D Fox, Jackson, Ward, Vaughan.

QPR v Wolves 3pm

Bobby Zamora is in line to make his QPR debut against Wolves.

The England forward, who joined Rangers from Fulham on transfer deadline day, is set to form a new-look strike partnership with Djibril Cisse.

Adel Taarabt and Armand Traore are back from African Nations Cup duty and Jay Bothroyd could return from a groin problem but Heidar Helguson (groin), DJ Campbell (hamstring) and Alejandro Faurlin (knee) are out while Akos Buzsaky (Achilles) is a major doubt.

QPR provisional squad: Kenny, Cerny, Murphy, Gabbidon, Onuoha, Ferdinand, Taiwo, Traore, Hall, Hill, Young, Derry, Barton, Buzsaky, Taarabt, Ephraim, Smith, Mackie, Wright-Phillips, Hulse, Macheda, Balanta, Bothroyd, Cisse, Zamora.

Wolves manager Mick McCarthy has no fresh injury worries ahead of the trip to Loftus Road.

Defender Sebastien Bassong could make his first start for the club after moving from Tottenham on loan until the end of the season, while midfielder Jamie O'Hara is back in contention after recovering from a double hernia operation.

Midfielder Karl Henry is still suspended for the trip to west London, where Wolves will be looking to end their nine-game winless league run.

Wolves provisional squad: Hennessey, Ward, Johnson, Berra, Foley, Edwards, Kightly, Frimpong, Jarvis, Jonsson, Fletcher, Bassong, De Vries, Elokobi, Stearman, Hunt, Milijas, Ebanks-Blake, Doyle, O'Hara.

Stoke v Sunderland 3pm

Stoke winger Matthew Etherington is a doubt for Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash with Sunderland at the Britannia Stadium.

Etherington has missed two days of training due to a virus and will be assessed ahead of kick-off.

Aside from that concern, manager Tony Pulis has virtually a full squad to select from, with only long-term absentee Mamady Sidibe (knee) unavailable.

Sunderland boss Martin O'Neill will be without defender Wes Brown and midfielder David Vaughan as the pair face up to weeks on the sidelines.

Brown (knee) will be missing for up to two months, while Vaughan (ankle ligaments) is expected to be out for a lesser, but still significant, period.

Midfielder Lee Cattermole (hamstring) is hoping to return to training a the end of next week, while defenders Matt Kilgallon (ankle) and Titus Bramble (Achilles/foot) are still sidelined, but Sotirios Kyrgiakos is available to join fellow loan signing Wayne Bridge in the squad.

Sunderland provisional squad: Mignolet, Westwood, Bardsley, Bridge, O'Shea, Turner, Kyrgiakos, Lynch, Richardson, Gardner, Larsson, Elmohamady, McClean, Meyler, Colback, Sessegnon, Wickham, Ji, Campbell.

Stoke City provisional squad: Sorensen, Begovic, Wilkinson, Huth, Shawcross, Wilson, Pennant, Delap, Palacios, Etherington, Crouch, Walters, Shotton, Upson, Diao, Jones, Whitehead, Whelan, Woodgate, Fuller, Jerome, Collins.

West Brom v Swansea 3pm

West Brom boss Roy Hodgson is weighing up whether to give full debuts to newcomers Liam Ridgewell and Keith Andrews against Swansea.

Former Birmingham defender Ridgewell has completed only one game so far in 2012 while midfielder Andrews, signed from Blackburn, has not figured since playing on loan for Ipswich on Boxing Day.

Winger Jerome Thomas (calf) remains a doubt but right-back Steven Reid (ankle), striker Shane Long (digestive problem) and midfielder Paul Scharner (Achilles) are close to fitness.

Albion skipper Chris Brunt (fractured ankle) and fellow midfielder Zoltan Gera (knee) are long-term absentees.

West Brom provisional squad: Foster, Fulop, Reid, Jara-Reyes, Olsson, McAuley, Dawson, Tamas, Mattock, Ridgewell, Shorey, Mulumbu, Andrews, Morrison, Thorne, Scharner, Dorrans, Thomas, Tchoyi, Cox, Fortune, Odemwingie, Long.

Swansea manager Brendan Rodgers has to decide whether to include new signing Curtis Obeng in his squad.

Highly-rated full-back Obeng, 22, joined the Swans this week from Wrexham on a three-and-half-year contract for an undisclosed fee, with Daniel Alfei being loaned out to the Dragons for the rest of the season.

The Swans will be without Ferrie Bodde for at least two weeks after he suffered a knee injury in a reserve game and will be assessed over possible surgery. Fellow midfielder Andrea Orlandi is also out for six weeks with a hamstring strain.

Swansea provisional squad: Vorm, Rangel, Caulker, Williams, Taylor, Britton, Allen, Sigurdsson, Dyer, Graham, Sinclair, Tremmel, Routledge, Monk, Lita, Moore, Agustien, Richards, Obeng.

Wigan v Everton 3pm

Wigan will welcome back key midfielder Mohamed Diame for the clash with Everton following his return from the African Nations Cup.

Striker Hugo Rodallega was only fit enough for a place on the bench against Tottenham on Tuesday because of a soft tissue injury but should be in contention to start along with David Jones (calf).

Franco Di Santo was forced off at White Hart Lane with a badly cut leg while Antolin Alcaraz has a groin injury but both could be involved.

New signings Nikica Jelavic and Steven Pienaar are set to be included in Everton's squad to face Wigan at the DW Stadium.

The pair joined on deadline day but the former is closer to match fitness than Pienaar, who has returned to his ex-club on loan and has struggled for pitch time at Tottenham this season.

Defender Sylvain Distin and midfielder Jack Rodwell (both hamstring) are edging closer to fitness but are not quite ready while Phil Jagielka (knee), Leon Osman (knee) and Seamus Coleman (thigh) are still some way off a comeback.

Wigan provisional squad: Al Habsi, Figueroa, Watson, Boyce, Alcaraz, Diame, Caldwell, Moses, Gomez, McCarthy, Di Santo, Jones, Stam, McArthur, Lopez, Thomas, Sammon, Maloney, Crusat, Gohouri, Rodallega, McManaman, Beausejour, Pollitt, Kirkland.

Everton provisional squad: Howard, Heitinga, Baines, Hibbert, Neville, Gibson, Cahill, Drenthe, Fellaini, Donovan, Stracqualursi, Mucha, Barkley, Duffy, Gueye, Vellios, Pienaar, Jelavic, McFadden, Baxter.

Manchester City v Fulham 5.30pm

Mousa Dembele and Mark Schwarzer return for Fulham's Barclays Premier League clash at City.

The former has missed recent matches with a hip problem but is fit to return, while goalkeeper Schwarzer has recovered from a spine injury picked up in mid-December.

Andrew Johnson (groin) and Steve Sidwell (hernia) both miss out, while Pavel Pogrebnyak will not feature as he awaits international clearance.

Fulham provisional squad: Schwarzer, Stockdale, Etheridge, Hangeland, Senderos, Riise, Kelly, Frei, Murphy, Etuhu, Gecov, Dempsey, Ruiz, Davies, Duff, Hughes, Baird, Dembele, Trotta, Kasami.

Manchester City are again without suspended striker Mario Balotelli for tomorrow's Barclays Premier League clash with Fulham at the Etihad Stadium.

Defender Kolo Toure and midfielder Yaya Toure are still at the African Nations Cup but playmaker David Pizarro, signed on loan from Roma this week, is in contention.

Defenders Vincent Kompany and Micah Richards are expected to overcome minor knocks.

City provisional squad: Hart, Pantilimon, Richards, Zabaleta, Kompany, Lescott, Savic, Kolarov, Clichy, Nasri, Johnson, Milner, Silva, Hargreaves, De Jong, Barry, Pizarro, Dzeko, Aguero, Suarez, Razak.

SUNDAY 5 FEBRUARY

Newcastle United v Aston Villa 1.30pm

Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor is again a major fitness doubt with back and hamstring spasms.

Agbonlahor is to undergo a special fitness programme with the club's conditioning coach, Adrian Lamb, to try and eradicate such problems after missing the midweek home draw with QPR.

Winger Marc Albrighton (thigh) and central defender James Collins are also battling to be fit while midfielder Chris Herd continues to recover from an ankle injury.

Villa provisional squad: Given, Guzan, Hutton, Lichaj, Collins, Cuellar, Dunne, Warnock, Baker, Bannan, Clark, Petrov, Ireland, Albrighton, Bent, Keane, Agbonlahor, Heskey, N'Zogbia, Weimann, Marshall, Johnson, Gardner, Stevens.

Senegal strikers Demba Ba and Papiss Demba Cisse are included in the Newcastle squad.

Fifteen-goal Ba and new signing Cisse are available following their country's premature departure from the African Nations Cup with the latter in line for a debut following his big-money January move from Freiburg.

Midfielder Yohan Cabaye serves the second game of his three-match suspension after being found guilty of violent conduct, while defender Steven Taylor (Achilles) and midfielders Sylvain Marveaux (groin) and Sammy Ameobi (knee) continue their respective recoveries.

Newcastle provisional squad: Krul, Elliot, Harper, Simpson, R. Taylor, Santon, Ferguson, Perch, Coloccini, Williamson, Kadar, Obertan, Ben Arfa, Gutierrez, Gosling, Abeid, Vuckic, Ba, Cisse, Best, Shola Ameobi, Lovenkrands.

Chelsea v Manchester United 4pm

Alex Ferguson is ready to welcome Ashley Young and Tom Cleverley back to his squad for Sunday.

Young has been missing for six weeks with a knee problem, while Cleverley has not featured since injuring an ankle at Everton in October.

Wayne Rooney (ankle) and Nani (foot) are also back after missing two games, while David De Gea is set to return in goal as United look to record their first Premier League win at Stamford Bridge since 2002.

Danish goalkeeper Anders Lindegaard will be sidelined for at least a month with an ankle injury.

Man United provisional squad: De Gea, Amos, Smalling, Rafael, Ferdinand, Evra, Evans, Fabio, Fryers, Cole, Carrick, Cleverley, Scholes, Pogba, M Keane, Valencia, Park, Giggs, Young, Nani, Rooney, Welbeck, Berbatov, Hernandez.

John Terry will miss out with the knee problem that kept him out of Tuesday's match at Swansea.

Terry, who was this morning stripped of the England captaincy for the second time in his career, has been unable to train this week, meaning Gary Cahill may make his debut.

Frank Lampard could return from the calf injury that has kept him out of the last two games, but Ashley Cole is suspended, while Ramires (knee) and John Obi Mikel (hamstring) are still out.

Chelsea provisional squad: Cech, Bosingwa, Ivanovic, Luiz, Cahill, Chalobah, Hutchinson, Bertrand, Romeu, Essien, Lampard, Mata, Malouda, Meireles, Torres, Sturridge, Lukaku, Turnbull.

MONDAY 6 FEBRUARY

Liverpool v Tottenham

New signing Louis Saha could make his Tottenham debut in Monday night's game at Liverpool.

Jermain Defoe (hamstring) is unlikely to play, Rafael van der Vaart is struggling with a calf problem and Emmanuel Adebayor hobbled off during Tuesday's win over Wigan with a hamstring complaint.

Aaron Lennon (hamstring) is extremely doubtful, William Gallas (calf) and Tom Huddlestone (ankle) are unavailable, but Kyle Walker (groin) and Ledley King (knee) should be fit.

Tottenham provisional squad: Friedel, Gomes, Cudicini, Assou-Ekotto, Rose, Kaboul, Khumalo, Walker, King, Dawson, Nelsen, Livermore, Sandro, Parker, Bale, Kranjcar, Lennon, Dos Santos, Modric, Van der Vaart, Defoe, Adebayor, Saha.

Striker Luis Suarez returns from an eight-match suspension and will go straight back into the Liverpool squad.

The Uruguay international has not played since St Stephen's Day and is likely to be given a place among the substitutes.

Captain Steven Gerrard is also back having been rested for the midweek win at Wolves.

Liverpool provisional squad: Reina, Johnson, Agger, Skrtel, Enrique, Adam, Gerrard, Downing, Henderson, Kuyt, Carroll, Doni, Kelly, Carragher, Coates, Aurelio, Spearing, Shelvey, Bellamy, Suarez, Rodriguez.

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