Including five against a Liverpool team with no strikers and two against a Villa side who last scored two in a league game around about the time myself and Abbas Saad last needed to visit a hair stylist. Norwich to their credit will come at West Ham in the usual lively Carrow Road atmosphere but as long as some tired legs hold out off the back of the Hammer’s extra time FA Cup tie win against Liverpool they will have too much for the relegation candidate Canaries. Incidentally, Dimitri Payet can’t get in the French squad for EURO 2016, let alone the starting XI. How good must the French be?
Swansea are unbeaten in four but I am still trying to work out how they escaped from Goodison Park with three points at the end of last month and they’ll have to be unbeaten until next Christmas for me to think that Francesco Guidolin was a savvy appointment. It’s Spurs and Arsenal next for The Swans after this and they could be in the drop zone by the time they take on Norwich and Bournemouth in relegation six pointers after that.
If however, you are a football fan convinced Leicester can win the league please do ‘Let it Go’. I still believe ‘For the First Time in Forever’ Arsenal will win the EPL and having recovered from their recent mini slump with a professional job against Bournemouth, this is the Gunners chance to re-take the title race by the scruff of the neck. It is impossible to knock what Claudio Ranieri has done this season but don’t get carried away with the win last week. Great three points but Manchester City are a ‘Fixer Upper’ awaiting their Prince Pep. The Foxes haven’t beaten Arsenal since 1994 going back some twenty meetings and their heaviest defeat of this season came at the King Power when Arsenal battered them 5-2. As long as Arsenal get on the scoreboard early they will win by at least two and be back on track to end their 12 year title drought ‘In Summer’.
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