espnstar.com brings you all the latest team news for Saturday's four exciting matches in the Barclays Premier League.Blackburn Rovers vs Manchester United
(Watch this match LIVE on STAR Sports from 0030 HKT)
Wayne Rooney will be fit for England next week, even though he is still a doubt for Manchester United's Barclays Premier League clash with Blackburn at Ewood Park on Saturday.
Rooney has only just returned to ball work in training after injuring his ankle in Aalborg on Tuesday, but Sir Alex Ferguson has "no issues" with the 22-year-old joining up with Fabio Capello's squad for the World Cup double-header with Kazakhstan and Belarus next week.
Skipper Gary Neville is also a doubt with a slight thigh injury, while Owen Hargreaves and Michael Carrick join Paul Scholes (knee) on the sidelines.
Blackburn boss Paul Ince is close to having goalkeeper Paul Robinson and summer signing Vince Grella fit for action, but Saturday's clash could be too early for both players.
Former Gillingham keeper Jason Brown made his first Blackburn start at Newcastle last time out and looks likely to face the reigning champions at Ewood Park as Robinson struggles to shake off the calf injury he sustained against Everton in the Carling Cup.
Australia international Grella could be named among the substitutes for the match but is more likely to make his Rovers return after the international break.
Steven Reid is out with a knee problem, while Benni McCarthy is back in training but is unlikely to be sharp enough for the starting XI.
Teams:
Blackburn (from): Brown, Robinson, Bunn, Nelsen, Samba, Ooijer, Warnock, Emerton, Olsson, Tugay, Derbyshire, Santa Cruz, Villanueva, Fowler, Andrews, Fowler, Grella, Treacy, Pedersen .
Manchester United (from): Van der Sar, Amos, Neville, Brown, Rafael, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evans, Evra, Ronaldo, O'Shea, Fletcher, Anderson, Giggs, Nani, Tevez, Berbatov, Rooney, Welbeck.
Sunderland vs Arsenal
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Arsenal expect to have midfielder Alex Song available for Saturday's league match at Sunderland following a hip problem.
The Gunners have no fresh injury worries following the midweek European win over Porto as they look to bounce back from the shock Barclays Premier League home defeat by Hull.
Abou Diaby (thigh) is a couple of weeks away from a return, but Tomas Rosicky (hamstring), Amaury Bischoff (groin) and striker Eduardo (leg) all remain in recovery.
Sunderland midfielder Liam Miller is struggling to make the clash against the Gunners.
Miller could join Teemu Tainio (shoulder), Phil Bardsley (ankle) and Grant Leadbitter (broken nose) on the sidelines after suffering a groin injury in training.
Striker Kenwyne Jones (knee) is back in training, but is still some way away from a return.
Teams:
Sunderland (from): Gordon, Fulop, Chimbonda, Ferdinand, Collins, McCartney, Diouf, Whitehead, Miller, Reid, Richardson, Malbranque, Henderson, Cisse, Murphy, Healy, Stokes, Chopra.
Arsenal (from): Almunia, Clichy, Toure, Gallas, Sagna, Nasri, Fabregas, Denilson, Walcott, Adebayor, Van Persie, Fabianski, Song, Djourou, Vela, Bendtner, Ramsey, Eboue, Silvestre.
Wigan Athletic vs Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough boss Gareth Southgate could be without three key players for the Barclays Premier League trip to Wigan on Saturday.
Full-back Andrew Taylor is a doubt with a hip flexor problem, while central defender Robert Huth has an ankle injury, so Jonathan Grounds has been recalled from his loan spell at Norwich.
In addition, Gary O'Neil is ill and will be assessed after training.
Skipper Emanuel Pogatetz serves the second game of a three-match suspension, while Tuncay Sanli (knee) is a long-term absentee and Julio Arca (ankle) has returned to Argentina to see a specialist.
Lee Cattermole is the only injury doubt for Wigan manager Steve Bruce.
The young midfielder is determined to face Boro after leaving his hometown club this summer and is battling to overcome the hamstring injury which forced him off during last week's defeat of Manchester City.
Michael Brown is on stand-by after replacing Cattermole early in the second half, Olivier Kapo is hoping to keep his place on the left of midfield, while full-back Erik Edman is nearing a return from a long-term knee injury.
Teams:
Wigan (from): Kirkland, Melchiot, Boyce, Bramble, Figueroa, Valencia, Cattermole, Palacios, Kapo, Heskey, Zaki, Brown, Camara, De Ridder, Kilbane, Koumas, Kupisz, Scharner, Taylor, Pollitt, Kingson.
Middlesbrough (from): Turnbull, Jones, Hoyte, Wheater, Huth, Riggott, Taylor, Grounds, Digard, O'Neil, Aliadiere, Downing, Johnson, Shawky, Alves, Mido, Walker, Emnes, Craddock.
West Bromwich Albion vs Fulham
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West Brom will be forced into one change from the side which won at Middlesbrough with midfielder Kim Do-Heon ruled out of the Fulham match with medial ligament damage.
Former Manchester City striker Ishmael Miller - still searching for his first goal of the campaign is in contention to replace Do-Heon in the starting line-up for Saturday's visit of the Cottagers in the Barclays Premier League.
Filipe Teixeira will not return, despite making a reserve team comeback after six months out with a knee problem in midweek. The Portuguese player is likely to be in contention when Albion are next in action, on October 18 at Manchester United.
Chris Brunt, Abdoulaye Meite and Neil Clement are all out.
Fulham manager Roy Hodgson will wait to ensure that striker Bobby Zamora has recovered from the cold which prevented him from training on Thursday.
With striker Andy Johnson suspended after being sent off in the 2-1 home defeat by West Ham last week, Hodgson will choose between South Korean international Seol Ki-Hyeon, who played at the start of the season while the ex-Everton man was recovering from a thigh injury, United States midfielder Clint Dempsey and Norwegian striker Erik Nevland.
Hodgson has added Swedish right-back Fredrik Stoor and midfielder Julian Gray, who is on a one-year loan from Coventry, to the squad - minus Johnson - on duty against West Ham.
Teams:
West Brom (from): Carson, Kiely, Zuiverloon, Hoefkens, Barnett, Donk, Olsson, Robinson, Morrison, Greening, Koren, Cech, Beattie, Moore, Miller, Valero, Bednar, MacDonald, Pele.
Fulham (from): Schwarzer; Pantsil, Hughes, Hangeland, Konchesky; Davies, Bullard, Murphy, Gera; Zamora, Seol, Zuberbuhler, Nevland, Dempsey, Andreasen, Kallio, Baird, Stoor, Gray.
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