The FanSided soccer staff make their predictions for the weekend’s Premier League games, including Liverpool vs. Arsenal at Anfield.
The big match in the third week of the Premier League sees Arsenal travel to Anfield to face a Liverpool side who thrashed Hoffenheim in their Champions League playoff second leg on Wednesday. The Reds’ front three of Sadio Mane, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah looked electric, but Arsene Wenger will be confident his side can get in behind what remains a weak defense.
The other big matchup of the weekend also takes place on Sunday, as Chelsea, a week removed from a big win against Tottenham at Wembley, welcome Everton to Stamford Bridge. The Toffees have aspirations of breaking into the top four this season, and showed they can compete against the other top sides on Monday, earning a draw away at Manchester City. If Ronald Koeman’s side can take points of Chelsea as well, it might be time to start taking their top four credentials more seriously.
The other matches on Sunday see West Brom put their perfect record on the line against Stoke at the Hawthorns and Tottenham attempt to bounce back from that Chelsea defeat, and put their Wembley woes behind them, against Burnley.
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On Saturday, Manchester City play Bournemouth in the early kickoff, Watford look to make it three wins out of three at home to Brighton, Newcastle host West Ham, Crystal Palace and Swansea face off with both looking for their first wins of the season, while Huddersfield face their toughest opponents yet in Southampton. League leaders Manchester United play Leicester at Old Trafford in Saturday’s late kickoff.
FanSided’s soccer staff will be competing in a weekly picks league all season. The rules are simple: three points for a correct score, one for a correct result and none for an incorrect score. Here are the picks for the second week of matches:
Thomas was the high scorer in matchweek 2, with two correct results and two correct scores, but his eight points still trailed Andrew’s 11 from matchweek 1. Andrew maintained his lead, but it shrunk to three points. Here’s the full table heading into matchweek 3:
