Everton will take on Bournemouth in the Premier League football match on Saturday, August 31, 2024 (31-08-24) at Goodison Park in Liverpool, England.

How to watch: Fans can watch the match with a free trial on fuboTV

Here’s what you need to know:

What: Premier League Match Week 3

Who: Everton vs. Bournemouth

When: August 31, 2024

Time: 10:00am ET

Where: Liverpool, England

TV: USA Network

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Here’s a recent soccer story from the AP:

The Premier League rarely stands still.

For the 2024-25 season, which starts on Friday, five new managers have been hired, approximately $1.6 billion in new players have been added (and counting), new offside technology has been introduced, financial rules have been updated and the fixture list has been adjusted.

COACHING CHANGES

A quarter of the managers will be taking charge of a Premier League game for the first time, with Liverpool (Arne Slot), Chelsea (Enzo Maresca) and Brighton (Fabian Hurzeler) all under new managers and both Southampton (Russell Martin) and Ipswich (Kieran McKenna) promoted with managers with no top-flight experience. Add to that Julen Lopetegui as the new man at West Ham after 4 1/2 years with David Moyes at the helm and Steve Cooper replacing Maresca at Leicester, and the dugouts are going to look a lot different this season. Most of the intrigue, though, will focus on Slot and what style he implements at Liverpool after the team’s nearly nine years with the fan-favorite Jurgen Klopp. Rock ‘n’ roll could morph into a more controlling style, with Slot favoring a possession-based game.

SLOWER MARKET

The Premier League’s 20 clubs have spent as much on new players this transfer window as Spain, Italy and Germany combined, according to transfermarkt.com. So why has it felt like such a quiet summer? Perhaps because there have been no blockbuster deals, with the most expensive being striker Dominic Solanke, who joined Tottenham from Bournemouth for £65 million ($83 million). Many deals in the $30-70 million range add up quickly, though – and there are still three weeks left in the window in which Manchester City, Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea are expected to make their moves. City (Savinho) and Arsenal (Riccardo Calafiori) have made just one new signing so far, while Liverpool have yet to make any. Don’t be surprised if Premier League clubs have spent well over $2 billion by the August 30 transfer deadline – even if most are balancing the books with sales due to the league’s stricter financial rules.

SEMI-AUTOMATIC OFFSIDE

Expect offside decisions to be made much quicker in the Premier League this season. The league is introducing semi-automated offside technology for the first time, with the new system set to launch in the first half of the season. Multiple cameras will track player movements and record data points on body parts relevant to an offside decision. The data will be processed using artificial intelligence to create a 3D offside line that will be flagged to the VAR officials’ team. It is expected to shave an average of around 30 seconds off the time it currently takes for VAR officials to manually make a decision. Semi-automated offside decisions were used at the 2022 World Cup and the recent European Championship. On Tuesday, the league launched an account on its social media platform X, which is dedicated to providing live referee and VAR clarifications for every match this season. “For the first time, the social media account will provide near-live explanations and updates on operational and officiating matters for every Premier League match,” the league said.

EXPENDITURE RULES

Last season in the Premier League was notable for some clubs, such as Everton and Nottingham Forest, receiving points deductions for breaching the league’s profitability and sustainability rules, which are now being more strictly enforced. This coming season will be the final year of those rules, with two new forms of spending caps being trialled ahead of their introduction in the 2025-26 season. Teams in England’s top division will trial a “Squad Cost Rules” system, which will cap spending on players at 85% of a club’s football revenue and net profit or loss on player sales. A second system, called “Top to Bottom Anchoring,” caps – or anchors – spending at a multiple of the lowest combined prize money and TV rights money a team is expected to earn. The league said the systems were intended to “improve and maintain the financial sustainability of clubs and the competitive balance of the Premier League.” “Of course we want to move to a new system that people have confidence in and can stick to,” Premier League CEO Richard Masters told the BBC on Tuesday, “and maybe move away from normalising asterisks against league tables or long-running regulatory issues. That’s not what we’re aiming for.”

NO WINTER HOLIDAY

The Premier League is renowned for its relentless drudgery – even more so this season. There will be no winter break for clubs this time around, with the season starting later to give players more time to recover from international tournaments this summer, and thus being squeezed. Last year, for example, five games were held per weekend over a two-week period, giving teams at least one weekend off in January. All other major leagues in Europe have a winter break.