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Cape Town - Supporters of English Premiership leaders Chelsea, who are about to tackle Manchester City away, won’t want reminding of last season’s results between the clubs - 3-0 to City on each occasion.
But the London-based Blues seem a different, resurgent proposition this season, setting the tone for a potential humdinger at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday; a share of the honours is the most popular forecast from the Sport24 experts.
Given the volume of football coming up, a double-round of predictions, covering the next two weekends, is presented here.
Each round of the 2016/17 Premiership campaign, a group of our staff has a crack at predicting the results - do the exercise yourself, if you like, and see how you compare afterwards.
Compiled by Rob Houwing (Newcastle-partial; he swears the Championship is more competitive), the others are Garrin Lambley (Everton), Lloyd Burnard, Tashreeq Vardien, Maano Nekhavhambe and Lynn Butler (all Man Utd) plus Craig Taylor (Liverpool).
Three points are awarded for an entirely correct scoreline, and one for right result.
OUR FORECASTS:
MANCHESTER CITY v CHELSEA
Saturday, 14:30
Rob: 1-1
Garrin: 1-1
Tashreeq: 2-1
Maano: 1-1
Craig: 1-1
Lynn: 1-2
Lloyd: 0-2
Last season: 3-0
CRYSTAL PALACE v SOUTHAMPTON
Saturday, 17:00
Rob: 1-2
Garrin: 2-1
Tashreeq: 2-1
Maano: 1-0
Craig: 0-2
Lynn: 0-1
Lloyd: 1-1
Last season: 1-0
STOKE v BURNLEY
Saturday, 17:00
Rob: 2-0
Garrin: 2-1
Tashreeq: 2-2
Maano: 0-2
Craig: 1-1
Lynn: 0-0
Lloyd: 2-0
Last season: Not applicable
SUNDERLAND v LEICESTER
Saturday, 17:00
Rob: 1-1
Garrin: 1-1
Tashreeq:1 -2
Maano: 1-0
Craig: 1-2
Lynn: 2-2
Lloyd: 1-0
Last season: 0-2
TOTTENHAM v SWANSEA
Saturday, 17:00
Rob: 2-0
Garrin: 2-0
Tashreeq: 3-1
Maano: 3-1
Craig: 2-1
Lynn: 1-0
Lloyd: 2-0
Last season: 2-1
WEST BROM v WATFORD
Saturday, 17:00
Rob: 2-1
Garrin: 1-1
Tashreeq: 1-2
Maano: 2-2
Craig: 1-1
Lynn: 1-0
Lloyd: 1-0
Last season: 0-1
WEST HAM v ARSENAL
Saturday, 19:30
Rob: 1-2
Garrin: 1-2
Tashreeq: 2-1
Maano: 1-1
Craig: 1-2
Lynn: 1-2
Lloyd: 1-3
Last season: 3-3
BOURNEMOUTH v LIVERPOOL
Sunday, 15:30
Rob: 0-2
Garrin: 1-2
Tashreeq: 1-4
Maano: 0-2
Craig: 1-2
Lynn: 1-3
Lloyd: 0-2
Last season: 1-2
EVERTON v MANCHESTER UNITED
Sunday, 18:00
Rob: 0-1
Garrin: 1-2
Tashreeq: 1-2
Maano: 1-0
Craig: 1-2
Lynn: 1-1
Lloyd: 1-2
Last season: 0-3
MIDDLESBROUGH v HULL
Monday, 22:00
Rob: 1-0
Garrin: 2-1
Tashreeq: 2-1
Maano: 0-0
Craig: 2-1
Lynn: 2-1
Lloyd: 1-0
Last season: Not applicable
WATFORD v EVERTON
Saturday (10th), 14:30
Rob: 0-0
Garrin: 1-1
Tashreeq: 2-3
Maano: 1-2
Craig: 1-1
Lynn: 1-1
Lloyd: 1-3
Last season: 1-1
ARSENAL v STOKE
Saturday (10th), 17:00
Rob: 2-0
Garrin: 2-0
Tashreeq: 3-0
Maano: 3-1
Craig: 2-0
Lynn: 2-0
Lloyd: 3-0
Last season: 2-0
BURNLEY v BOURNEMOUTH
Saturday (10th), 17:00
Rob: 1-0
Garrin: 1-1
Tashreeq: 1-2
Maano: 0-0
Craig: 1-1
Lynn: 0-0
Lloyd: 1-0
Last season: Not applicable
HULL v CRYSTAL PALACE
Saturday (10th), 17:00
Rob: 1-1
Garrin: 1-1
Tashreeq: 2-3
Maano: 1-1
Craig: 1-1
Lynn: 0-1
Lloyd: 1-0
Last season: Not applicable
SWANSEA v SUNDERLAND
Saturday (10th), 17:00
Rob: 1-1
Garrin: 2-1
Tashreeq: 2-1
Maano: 2-1
Craig: 2-1
Lynn: 1-0
Lloyd: 1-1
Last season: 2-4
LEICESTER v MANCHESTER CITY
Saturday (10th), 19:30
Rob: 0-2
Garrin: 1-2
Tashreeq: 1-1
Maano: 1-2
Craig: 1-3
Lynn: 1-3
Lloyd: 1-2
Last season: 0-0
CHELSEA v WEST BROM
Sunday (11th), 14:00
Rob: 2-0
Garrin: 3-0
Tashreeq: 1-0
Maano: 3-0
Craig: 3-0
Lynn: 2-1
Lloyd: 3-0
Last season: 2-2
MANCHESTER UNITED v TOTTENHAM
Sunday (11th), 16:15
Rob: 2-0
Garrin: 2-1
Tashreeq: 1-0
Maano: 1-0
Craig: 2-1
Lynn: 1-2
Lloyd: 1-1
Last season: 1-0
SOUTHAMPTON v MIDDLESBROUGH
Sunday (11th), 16:15
Rob: 1-0
Garrin: 2-0
Tashreeq: 1-0
Maano: 0-1
Craig: 2-1
Lynn: 1-2
Lloyd: 2-1
Last season: Not applicable
LIVERPOOL v WEST HAM
Sunday (11th), 18:30
Rob: 2-0
Garrin: 2-0
Tashreeq: 2-1
Maano: 2-1
Craig: 2-1
Lynn: 3-1
Lloyd: 3-1
Last season: 0-3
*LEADERBOARD:
107 - Garrin (8 points in last round)
102 - Lynn (10)
99 - Tashreeq (10)
97 - Maano (12) & Craig (10)
87 - Rob (8)
83 - Lloyd (5)
