Premier Predictions (Week 31)

Back after that pretty dull international break, with the England games hidden away on Sky I forgot about both of them till the day after, then only saw the 3 minute highlight package.
World Cup draw on Friday (of interest to Biopunk for a change with Canada in the hat).

Premier League (Week 31)
11 games this week, 7 on Saturday, 2 on Sunday, 1 on Monday and 1 on Wednesday.
Liverpool have the chance to go top, although Watford really need points with Burnley and Everton playing twice this week.
Big European week for some so possibly some rested players.

Liverpool v Watford
Brighton v Norwich
Burnley v Man City
Chelsea v Brentford
Leeds v Southampton
Wolves v Aston Villa
Man Utd v Leicester

West Ham v Everton
Tottenham v Newcastle

Crystal Palace v Arsenal

Burnley v Everton

Good Luck All   😀

Premier Predictions (Week 30) + FA Cup 6th Round

Re-posting this as nobody has done any predictions yet, and it's less confusing 😀

Due to all the postponed games we only have 4 League games this week, so I'm throwing in the 4 FA Cup games 🏆 as well to make a reasonable week of 8 games (90 min scores in Cup games).
 
Starts on Friday night with 2 more on Saturday and 5 on Sunday.


Week 30 (Fri 18/03/22 - Sun 20/03/22)

Wolves v Leeds
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Aston Villa v Arsenal
Middlesbrough v Chelsea (FA Cup)
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Crystal Palace v Everton (FA Cup)
Leicester v Brentford
Southampton v Man City (FA Cup)
Tottenham v West Ham
Nottm Forest v Liverpool (FA Cup)


Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 29)

Week 29 includes 3 more re-arranged games taking place on Wednesday and Thursday, while week 30 starts on Friday night.

Week 29 has 3 games on Saturday, 6 on Sunday, 1 on Monday, 2 on Wednesday and one on Thursday.
Liverpool have the chance to catch Man City with 2 games, while City have to play their bogey team Palace.
Interesting game is Chelsea v Newcastle, with one now sanctioned due to a dodgy owner being  linked with a country bombing innocent civilians, vs the other owned by a dodgy country who are bombing innocent civilians? ... enough politics for now 😒

Top 4 race is looking set unless Arsenal lose their 2 home games this week, relegation looking like Norwich, Watford and any one from 4 so a big week for Lampard

Week 29    (Sat 12/03/22 - Thur 17/03/22)

Brighton v Liverpool
Brentford v Burnley
Man Utd v Tottenham
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Chelsea v Newcastle
Everton v Wolves
Leeds v Norwich
Southampton v Watford
West Ham v Aston Villa
Arsenal v Leicester
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Crystal Palace v Man City
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Brighton v Tottenham
Arsenal v Liverpool
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Everton v Newcastle

Good Luck All  😀

See new post above for Week 30

Premier Predictions (Week 28)

Bumper week of fixtures, 14 at the moment (*subject to change).
7 games on Saturday, 2 Sunday, 1 Monday and now 4 on Thursday.

6 games from Week 30 postponed due to FA Cup now to be crammed into the fixture list somewhere, in addition to the 7 games that already needed re-arranging due to Covid postponements.
All these re-arranged games on Thursdays to suit TV companies making it a bit of a nightmare to separate weeks  😕

Anyway here goes with the provisional weeks fixtures.

The Manc derby is the big one, Man U seem to have the hex over City recently which will suit Liverpool although West Ham are due a good performance? (but I'm sure the refs will make sure there are no shocks there) 😜

Week 28    (Sat 05/03/22 - Thur 10/03/22)

Leicester v Leeds
Aston Villa v Southampton
Burnley v Chelsea
Newcastle v Brighton
Norwich v Brentford
Wolves v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v West Ham
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Watford v Arsenal
Man City v Man Utd
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Tottenham v Everton
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Norwich v Chelsea
Southampton v Newcastle
Wolves v Watford
Leeds v Aston Villa

Good Luck All   😀

F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (5th Round - Part 3)

FA Cup 5th Round  🏆

Games spread over 7 days?
3 Tuesday, 3 Wednesday, 1 Thursday and one Monday (Tues 01/03/22 - Mon 07/03/22)
Toughest tie to predict probably Saints v West Ham, Southampton with an extra 2 days rest which doesn't seem fair :(

(90 minute score)

Peterborough v Man City
Crystal Palace v Stoke
Middlesbrough v Tottenham
Luton v Chelsea
Southampton v West Ham
Liverpool v Norwich
Everton v Boreham Wood
Nottm Forest v Huddersfield

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 26 + 27)

Going for a double bill this time as the weeks merge into one another.

Week 26 includes 4 re-arranged games so 8 games Saturday, 2 Sunday, 3 Wednesday, 1 Thursday.

Week 27 starts on Friday 25th so 1 Friday, 6 Saturday, 2 Sunday (including League Cup Final - 90 minute score), and a re-arranged game on Tuesday 1st March.

FA Cup 5th Round is midweek starting 1st March but will do a seperate post for that.

* For FPL types Burnley have 4 games in this period and Chelsea have 1, shame there aren't any Burnley players worth having.

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Week 26    (Sat 19/02/22 - Thur 24/02/22)

West Ham v Newcastle
Arsenal v Brentford
Aston Villa v Watford
Brighton v Burnley
Crystal Palace v Chelsea
Liverpool v Norwich
Southampton v Everton
Man City v Tottenham
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Leeds v Man Utd
Wolves v Leicester
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Burnley v Tottenham
Watford v Crystal Palace
Liverpool v Leeds
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Arsenal v Wolves

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Week 27    (Fri 25/02/22 - Tues 01/03/22)

Southampton v Norwich
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Leeds v Tottenham
Brentford v Newcastle
Brighton v Aston Villa
Crystal Palace v Burnley
Man Utd v Watford
Everton v Man City
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West Ham v Wolves
Chelsea v Liverpool (LCF)
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Burnley v Leicester
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Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 25)

Get this in before Week 24 finishes, can't get used to these Thursday games.
Just 9 games this week as the Chelsea v Arsenal game was postponed with Chelsea playing Palmeiras in Dubai.
5 games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.
European games start again next week so Liverpool, Man City and Leicester might rest a few players?

Man Utd v Southampton
Brentford v Crystal Palace
Everton v Leeds
Watford v Brighton
Norwich v Man City

Burnley v Liverpool
Newcastle v Aston Villa
Tottenham v Wolves
Leicester v West Ham

** Extra game added on Tuesday **

Man Utd v Brighton

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 24) + F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (4th Round - Part 2)

Double bill this week with Premier league and F.A Cup.

F.A Cup 4th Round  🏆
Starts Friday 4th February through till Monday night.
1 game Friday, 12 on Saturday, 3 on Sunday and one on Monday.


Man Utd v Middlesbrough
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Chelsea v Plymouth
Kidderminster v West Ham
Crystal Palace v Hartlepool
Everton v Brentford
Huddersfield v Barnsley
Man City v Fulham
Peterborough v QPR
Southampton v Coventry
Stoke v Wigan
Wolves v Norwich
Cambridge v Luton
Tottenham v Brighton
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Liverpool v Cardiff
Nottm Forest v Leicester
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Bournemouth v Boreham Wood
 
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Premier League Week 24
Starts early on Saturday, then games onTuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Burnley and Watford play twice, Chelsea and Brighton called off due to Chelsea going on a jolly to Abu Dhabi.


Burnley v Watford
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Brighton v Chelsea (Postponed)
Newcastle v Everton
West Ham v Watford
Burnley v Man Utd
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Man City v Brentford
Norwich v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Southampton
Aston Villa v Leeds
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Liverpool v Leicester
Wolves v Arsenal

Good Luck All  😀

Winter Transfers 2022

Here's where the Premier league cash was splashed this window.
(Info based on the best sources I could find, includes squad and youth players).
Many Undisclosed figures, but mainly for youth players so the figures shouldn't change much.

Newcastle the biggest spenders unsurprisingly, although I guess the fans were expecting Mbappe and they got Chris Wood.
West Ham needed players but ended up with just one youth player.
A lot of teams buying players and immediately loaning them out?
One odd transfer was Dele Alli who has gone to Everton on a free but they will have to pay up to £40m depending on games played, so if he got injured in the first 20 games Tottenham might not get a penny.

The Chart:

Total Spend - £316,740,000,000
Most Players In - Brighton 8, Everton 6, Watford 6
Most Players Out - Arsenal 15, Brighton 15, Wolves 14
Most Money Paid - Newcastle £91.89m, Liverpool £40.5m, Everton £33.75m
Most Money Received - Man City £49.5m, Burnley £27m, Everton £27m
Largest Profit - Man City £34.2m, Burnley £14.4m, West Ham £0.9m
Largest Defecit - Newcastle £91.89m, Liverpool £40.5m, Aston Villa £27.86m

Largest Fees Paid (£5m +)

Ferran Torres [Man City - Barcelona] £49.5m
Luis Diaz [Porto - Liverpool] £40.5m
Bruno Guimaraes [Lyon - Newcastle] £37.89m
Chris Wood [Burnley - Newcastle] £27m
Lucas Digne [Everton - Aston Villa] £27m
Vitaliy Mykolenko [Dynamo Kiev - Everton] £21.15m
Rodrigo Bentancur [Juventus - Tottenham] £17.1m
Julian Alvarez [River Plate - Man City] £15.3m (Loaned Back)
Hwang Hee chan [RB Leipzig - Wolves] £14m
Dan Burn [Brighton - Newcastle] £13.5m
Kieran Trippier [Atletico Madrid - Newcastle] £13.5m
Wout Weghorst [Wolfsburg - Burnley] £12.6m
Nathan Patterson [Rangers - Everton] £12.6m
Kacper Kozlowski [Pogon Szczecin - Brighton] £9.9m (Loaned Back)
Jean Philippe Mateta [Mainz 05 - Crystal Palace] £9.9m
Dejan Kulusevski [Juventus - Tottenham] £9m (Loan Fee)
Deniz Undav [Union SG - Brighton] £6.3m (Loaned Back)

Predictions Table

Transfer window closing on Monday night, and at the moment not a lot to talk about.

Newcastle, Villa and Watford doing some business but nothing too exciting.

Claudio Ranieri is the latest Watford manager to go, with Roy Hodgson in charge for a few games.

Patrick Vieira must be a bit worried as Palace are next for Norwich, who have accounted for Benitez and Ranieri.

Here's the complete predictions table so far, a bit confusing this time as everyone has missed some games.

Biopunk in prime position at the moment, but Gibbo also having a good season.

Premier Predictions (Week 23)

Friday night start for Week 23.
Then 4 games Saturday, 5 on Sunday.
The plan is that there is 11 days without football (apart from the AFCON), although I'm not sure if they will cram in some of the postponed games?

Watford v Norwich
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Everton v Aston Villa
Brentford v Wolves
Leeds v Newcastle
Man Utd v West Ham
Southampton v Man City
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Arsenal v Burnley
Crystal Palace v Liverpool
Leicester v Brighton
Chelsea v Tottenham

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 22)

Due to re-arranged games I'm going to have to start Week 22 early.
Just learned that more games have been added next week so it's a bumper 17 game week (Covid permitting)

Starting Tuesday 11th till Wednesday 19th

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Southampton v Brentford
Everton v Leicester (Postponed)
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West Ham v Norwich
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Brighton v Crystal Palace
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Man City v Chelsea
Burnley v Leicester (Postponed)
Newcastle v Watford
Norwich v Everton
Wolves v Southampton
Aston Villa v Man Utd
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Liverpool v Brentford
West Ham v Leeds
Tottenham v Arsenal (Postponed)
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Burnley v Watford (Postponed)
Brighton v Chelsea
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Leicester v Tottenham
Brentford v Man Utd

Good Luck All  😀

F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (3rd Round - Part 1)

F.A Cup Predictions 2022 (3rd Round - Part 1)      🏆   ⚽   🏆

Here we go with Season no.7 of the NBTF F.A Cup predictions Competition.
Rules - 3 points for a correct score, 1 point for a correct result.
Scores after 90 minutes only (not including extra time and penalties).
No replays this season, if Covid gets the game postponed I will take these predictions whenever the game is played.

Round 3 x 32 games, Round 4 x 16 games etc, So a total of 63 games.
Winner will be whoever scores the most at the end.

Part 1 (3rd Round) - 32 Matches starts Friday through to Monday 7th Jan to 10th Jan
Part 2 (4th Round) - 16 Matches around the Weekend of 5th February
Part 3 (5th Round) - 8 Matches around the 2nd March
Part 4 (Q/F) - 4 Matches around the Weekend of 19th March
Part 5 (S/F) - 2 Matches around the Weekend of 16th April
Part 6 (Final) -  14th May

Here are the games (Copy & Paste advised), 1 on Friday, 21 Saturday, 9 Sunday and 1 Monday.

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Swindon v Man City
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Mansfield v Middlesbrough
Bristol C v Fulham
Burnley v Huddersfield
Coventry v Derby
Hartlepool v Blackpool
Millwall v Crystal Palace
Barnsley v Barrow
Boreham Wood v AFC Wimbledon
Kidderminster v Reading
Leicester v Watford
Newcastle v Cambridge
Peterborough v Bristol R
Port Vale v Brentford
QPR v Rotherham
West Brom v Brighton
Wigan v Blackburn
Birmingham v Plymouth
Chelsea v Chesterfield
Hull v Everton
Swansea v Southampton
Yeovil v Bournemouth
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Luton v Harrogate
Cardiff v Preston
Charlton v Norwich
Liverpool v Shrewsbury
Stoke v Leyton Orient
Tottenham v Morecambe
West Ham v Leeds
Wolves v Sheff Utd
Nottm Forest v Arsenal
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Man Utd v Aston Villa

 Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 19 + 20 + 21)

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 "So here it is Merry Christmas, it's a bumper Christmas special" sung to the Slade tune.

All 3 festive weeks of matches played over 9 days (if any of them happen?).
No idea at the moment if any are to be postponed? (Will Update as I find out)
Myself and Paulo really need to get something here 😳

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Week 19 (Sunday 26th - Monday 27th)

Liverpool v Leeds (Postponed)
Wolves v Watford (Postponed)   
Burnley v Everton (Postponed) 
Man City v Leicester
Norwich v Arsenal
Tottenham v Crystal Palace
West Ham v Southampton
Aston Villa v Chelsea
Brighton v Brentford
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Newcastle v Man Utd

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Week 20 (Tuesday 28th - Thursday 30th)

Arsenal v Wolves (Postponed) 

Crystal Palace v Norwich
Southampton v Tottenham
Watford v West Ham
Leeds v Aston Villa (Postponed) 

Leicester v Liverpool

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Chelsea v Brighton 

Brentford v Man City 

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Everton v Newcastle (Postponed)

Man Utd v Burnley

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Week 21 (Saturday 1st (Jan 2022) - Monday 3rd)

Arsenal v Man City
Leicester v Norwich (Postponed)
Watford v Tottenham
Crystal Palace v West Ham
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Brentford v Aston Villa
Everton v Brighton
Leeds v Burnley
Southampton v Newcastle (Postponed)
Chelsea v Liverpool
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Man Utd v Wolves

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Anyway after all that I'd like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and hopefully a Happy New Year, stay safe, don't get too drunk and enjoy.

Good Luck All  😀

AFCON

For anyone interested? this Christmas period will be the last chance for over a month to see these players, who could be off to the AFCON (African Cup of Nations) from 9th Jan - 6th Feb.
Liverpool, Palace, Watford and Leicester seem hardest hit.

Potential 7 matches missed for those still in the Carabao Cup.

Arsenal: Partey, Aubameyang, Pepe, Elneny
Aston Villa: Traore, Trezeguet, Nakamba
Brentford: Onyeka, Jeanvier, Fosu
Brighton: Bissouma
Burnley: Cornet
Chelsea: Mendy, Ziyech
Crystal Palace: Kouyate, Ayew, Schlupp, Zaha
Everton: Iwobi, Gbamin
Leicester: Iheanacho, Ndidi, Amartey, Mendy
Liverpool: Salah, Mane, Keita
Man City: Mahrez
Man Utd: Bailly, Diallo
Southampton: Djenepo, Salisu
Watford: Etebo, Dennis, Troost-Ekong, Louza, Masina, Sarr
West Ham: Benrahma
Wolves: Boly, Saiss

Leeds, Newcastle, Norwich and Tottenham shouldn't lose anyone, unless they sign someone during the transfer window.

Premier Predictions (Week 18)

Covid chaos ongoing, many games already postponed.
* Edit - 5 games now off *
The plan was 6 games on Saturday and 4 on Sunday.
If any games go ahead the Top 3 are all away on Sunday, I guess Newcastle might want a postponement?

Man Utd v Brighton (Postponed)
Aston Villa v Burnley
Southampton v Brentford (Postponed)
Watford v Crystal Palace (Postponed)
West Ham v Norwich (Postponed)
Leeds v Arsenal

Everton v Leicester (Postponed)
Wolves v Chelsea
Newcastle v Man City
Tottenham v Liverpool

Good Luck and a Merry Christmas to all, stay safe 😀

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Premier Predictions (Week 16 + 17)

Another double week with games over the next week (see below).
Top 3 all have 2 home games, while West Ham get 2 away 😧

Possibility that their might be some Covid postponements? with Tottenham and Leicester having outbreaks. 💉😷 

Highlights probably Gerrard going to Anfield, and Dean Smith taking on Villa. Chelsea v Leeds always throws up a memory of 1970 😄
Could be a bad week for the teams at the bottom?

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Week 16 (Friday 10th - Sunday 12th)
1 game Friday, 5 on Saturday, 4 on Sunday

Brentford v Watford

Man City v Wolves
Arsenal v Southampton
Chelsea v Leeds
Liverpool v Aston Villa
Norwich v Man Utd

Brighton v Tottenham
Burnley v West Ham
Leicester v Newcastle
Crystal Palace v Everton

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Week 17 (Tuesday 14th - Thursday 16th)
3 games on Tuesday, 4 on Wednesday, 3 on Thursday

Brentford v Man Utd
Norwich v Aston Villa
Man City v Leeds

Brighton v Wolves
Burnley v Watford
Crystal Palace v Southampton
Arsenal v West Ham

Leicester v Tottenham
Chelsea v Everton
Liverpool v Newcastle

Good Luck All  😀   🎄 🎅  😷

Premier Predictions (Week 15)

Just a single week this time before the crazy Christmas period, although it's European games for some.
5 games on Saturday, 4 on Sunday and one on Monday night.

Early game is Hammers v Chelsea, Lukaku back fit just in time to get his usual goal against us 😟 a few players need to get some form back as the top 4 place is slipping away.
All the top 3 are away, at the bottom Newcastle have another 6 pointer as they try not to become the richest club in the Skybet (was funnier when it was the fizzy pop league).
Norwich unbeaten in 4 go to Tottenham.

West Ham v Chelsea
Newcastle v Burnley
Southampton v Brighton
Wolves v Liverpool
Watford v Man City

Leeds v Brentford
Man Utd v Crystal Palace
Tottenham v Norwich
Aston Villa v Leicester
Everton v Arsenal

Good Luck All  😀

Premier Predictions (Week 13 + 14)

Double header this week.
With 6 full Premier weeks plus European and Caribou cup games to cram in before 🎄 Christmas, it's going to get busy. West Ham, Chelsea, Leicester, Liverpool and Tottenham have 9 games in 30 days.
Not feeling over confident about the Hammers trip to Man City just 3 days after a trip to Lockdown Austria, but will be hoping for the best 👍 Chelsea face Olé free Man U, don't expect much to change.

In week 14 reunion's week it's the Benitez derby, Ranieri v Chelsea and Grealish back at Villa.

Also the first big relegation six pointer.

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Week 13 (Saturday 27th November - Sunday 28th November)

Arsenal v Newcastle
Crystal Palace v Aston Villa
Liverpool v Southampton
Norwich v Wolves
Brighton v Leeds

Brentford v Everton
Burnley v Tottenham
Leicester v Watford
Man City v West Ham
Chelsea v Man Utd

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Week 14 (Tuesday 30th November - Thursday 2nd December)

Newcastle v Norwich
Leeds v Crystal Palace

Southampton v Leicester
Watford v Chelsea
West Ham v Brighton
Wolves v Burnley
Aston Villa v Man City
Everton v Liverpool

Tottenham v Brentford
Man Utd v Arsenal
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Good Luck All  😀

The full predictions table so far

Premier Predictions (Week 12)

Managerial merry go round over for a few weeks, new bosses at Villa, Newcastle, Norwich and Tottenham. Interesting to see if Kane can do it for Tottenham after 7 goals in 2 games for England? (Leeds are a bit better than San Marino).

8 games on Saturday, 2 games on Sunday.

Leicester v Chelsea
Aston Villa v Brighton
Burnley v Crystal Palace
Newcastle v Brentford
Norwich v Southampton
Watford v Man Utd
Wolves v West Ham
Liverpool v Arsenal

Man City v Everton
Tottenham v Leeds


Good Luck All  😀