The English Premier League builds towards a Stamford Bridge crescendo on Sunday afternoon, with a full set of fixtures across the weekend.
Chelsea will go into their crunch home clash with Manchester United at the top of the EPL table, barring a mathematical miracle below them in the ‘goals for’ column.
Thomas Tuchel’s Blues are in fine form on the domestic front and in Europe, with a handsome midweek win over Italian hotshots Juventus doing confidence no harm at all in west London.
The Red Devils start Premier League life without Ole Gunnar Solskjaer way off the pace at the top and desperately seeking to stop the rot that has long-since set in around Old Trafford.
Neighbours Manchester City are the Londoners’ nearest title challengers at the moment.
Pep Guardiola’s men are also in Sunday service at the Etihad Stadium, taking on a West Ham side whose outstanding run of form bit the dust last weekend.
Liverpool have roared back into life following their upset by the Hammers, with Southampton the unlucky team to be trying their luck at Anfield on Saturday.
The weekend’s Premier League action kicks off on Saturday lunchtime at the Emirates Stadium when Arsenal host Newcastle, who slipped to the bottom of the EPL table despite pinching a point in new boss Eddie Howe’s first game in charge.
It’s anyone’s game in the late fixture, as out-of-form Brighton welcome Marcelo Bielsa’s underperforming Leeds to the Amex Stadium.
Steven Gerrard takes his winning start as Aston Villa boss on the road to Crystal Palace, meanwhile, with the Eagles having lost just twice all season.
Norwich have a job on their hands to make it three wins on the bounce to pull away from the bottom when they go to Molineux to face a Wolves side flying high in sixth.
Tottenham are at Turf Moor on Sunday as they attempt to crack the top six themselves under Antonio Conte, with Burnley the hosts who are starting to stir in their battle to beat the drop.
Nostalgia for the early days of the EPL campaign will be high in west London on Sunday afternoon, too, as Brentford meet with three points a distant memory for both despite such promising starts to the season.
Leicester boss Brendan Rodgers could really use a win against his former club too, as his flagging Foxes host Watford at the King Power Stadium.
English Premier League predictions for 27 – 28 November
Prediction methodology explained: The expected win percentage is based off publicly available odds. For example, if a team’s odds are 2.30, the expected chance of winning is 43%. If the odds are 1.62 the expected chance of winning is 62% and so on. These are accurate at the time of writing but are subject to change. Where there is no value listed, the odds were not available at the time of writing.
