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There’s no 12:30pm kick off this week, so matchweek 13 gets underway with three 3pm clashes, featuring the likes of Manchester City, Sunderland, and Bournemouth.
City will host an out-of-form Leeds at the Etihad as Pep Guardiola‘s side look to bounce back from a disappointing midweek defeat in the Champions League, with Leeds hoping to climb out of the bottom three.
Brentford will also host Burnley, who are too in the relegation spots, and Sunderland will host Bournemouth which is a somewhat mouth-watering clash.
There are then two later games, with Everton vs Newcastle booked in for 5:40pm and Tottenham vs Fulham 8pm. The, on Sunday, five more games will take place.
They will all feature teams in Europe, with Crystal Palace kicking off the day by hosting Manchester United at 12pm. Aston Villa vs Wolves, Nottingham Forest vs Brighton and West Ham vs Liverpool will follow at 2:05pm, before Arsenal and Chelsea wrap up the weekend at 4:30pm.
Daily Mail Sport’s Kieran Gill is this week’s expert for you to try and beat.
Here are Kieran’s thoughts and picks:
EXPERT PREDICTIONS
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Man City vs Leeds – HOME WIN
Everton vs Newcastle – DRAW
Tottenham vs Fulham – HOME WIN
Crystal Palace vs Man Utd – HOME WIN
Aston Villa vs Wolves – HOME WIN
West Ham vs Liverpool – AWAY WIN
Chelsea vs Arsenal – HOME WIN
Let’s start at the end with the Premier League’s final fixture of the weekend: Chelsea vs Arsenal.
Now, I reckon most folk will see an away win coming. I don’t. Chelsea can be good in big games – very good. Paris Saint-Germain in the Club World Cup final? Easy peasy, 3-0. Barcelona in the Champions League? Even easier, 3-0 also, could have been 6-0.
They were both tactical masterclasses. I see this one being a somewhat tighter tussle between two of Pep Guardiola’s proteges in Enzo Maresca and Mikel Arteta, but I’ve gone for a Chelsea win.
It’s got an Enzo Fernandez scruffy opener in the 72nd minute written all over it in my mind’s eye. Feel free to send hate mail my way when Arsenal are leading by three goals at half-time.
My crystal ball also says Crystal Palace will beat Manchester United and not only that, Jean-Philippe Mateta will score amid his contract impasse and use his celebration to kiss the badge and show how much he wants to stay… if they cough up the cash on his wages, that is.
Elsewhere, Liverpool will win at West Ham because if they can’t, maybe Arne Slot really should be sacked. The Hammers may have won their last two outings at the London Stadium – against Burnley and Newcastle – but Slot should be able to extract a performance out of his underperforming players on this occasion. They owe him that much, methinks.
Aston Villa winning is the easiest one to pick given Wolves’ woes, up there with Manchester City beating Leeds because after their Champions League loss to Bayer Leverkusen, Pep Guardiola will have been fuming and have his players snarling.
Tottenham may have conceded five goals to PSG and yet, in a weird way, they will feel much better about their performance than the pathetic one they put in at Arsenal last weekend. I’ll go for a Spurs win over Fulham. That only leaves Everton vs Newcastle: draw, all day long.
