Mark Lawrenson's Premier League predictions
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BBC Sport football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest on Football Focus each week.
His opponent for the latest round of Premier League games is journalist, TV host and Arsenal fan Piers Morgan.
Piers Morgan's Premier predictions
Morgan was in typically provocative form, expressing his "great delight" that Manchester City's title defence is on the rocks "given that most ex-Arsenal players have washed up there like some ghastly mercenary foreign legion".
He has been outspoken in his criticism of Gunners boss Arsene Wenger in recent months and his dreams of an 8-0 win for Arsenal at Tottenham proved to be wide of the mark on Sunday.
Predictions | Score | Lawro | Piers |
|---|---|---|---|
SATURDAY | |||
Chelsea v West Brom | 1-0 | 2-1 | 2-1 |
Everton v Reading | 3-1 | 2-0 | 2-0 |
Man Utd v Norwich | 4-0 | 2-0 | 4-0 |
Southampton v QPR | 1-2 | 1-2 | 0-1 |
Stoke v West Ham | 0-1 | 2-0 | 1-1 |
Sunderland v Fulham | 2-2 | 2-1 | 3-1 |
Swansea v Newcastle | 1-0 | 1-1 | 2-0 |
Wigan v Liverpool | 0-4 | 1-1 | 1-2 |
SUNDAY | |||
Tottenham v Arsenal | 2-1 | 1-2 | 0-8 |
MONDAY | |||
Aston Villa v Man City | 0-1 | 0-2 | 2-1 |
A correct result is worth ONE point, while a correct score earns THREE points.
From last weekend's Premier League programme, Lawro got an impressive eight out of nine results right, but with no perfect scores. His score of eight proved enough, though, to see off British band Lawson, who got five results right, again with no perfect scores. Both Lawro and Lawson successfully predicted the outcome of the Capital One Cup final too.
This season, we will also be keeping a record of the total scores for Lawro and his guests (below), and showing a table of how the Premier League would look if all of Lawro's predictions had come off (also at the bottom of the page).
Premier League total scores after week 27 | |
|---|---|
Lawro | 193 |
Guests | 158 |
LAWRO'S PREDICTIONS
SATURDAY
Chelsea 1-0 West Brom
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Everton 3-1 Reading
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Man Utd 4-0 Norwich
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Southampton 1-2 QPR
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
Stoke 0-1 West Ham
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Sunderland 2-2 Fulham
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Swansea 1-0 Newcastle
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Wigan 0-4 Liverpool
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
SUNDAY
Tottenham 2-1 Arsenal
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
MONDAY
Aston Villa 0-1 Man City
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan
Lawro v Guests | |||
|---|---|---|---|
P27 | W15 | D4 | L8 |
SCORE | GUEST LEADERBOARD |
|---|---|
11 | Kevin Sinfield |
10 | Luke Campbell, Devlin, Hulk Hogan |
8 | Wretch 32, Mo Farah |
7.16 (average) | Lawro |
7 | James Arthur, Dave Brailsford, Example, Goran Ivanisevic |
6 | Joe Calzaghe, Guy Mowbray, Andy Murray, Peter Reid, Steve Wilson |
5 | Lawson, Lethal Bizzle, Magnus, Natalie Lowe, Joanna Rowsell, Greg Rutherford |
4 | Darren Farley, Marco Gabbiadini |
Michael Vaughan, Justin Young | |
3 | Russell Brand, Jonny Brownlee, Lawrence Dallaglio, Stephanie Houghton |
2 | Dani King, Paul Reid |
1 | Carl Froch |
Lawro's best score: 14 points (week eight).
Lawro's worst score: four points (weeks three, 19, 23 and 24).
ARROWS DENOTE DIFFERENCE TO REAL TABLE | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
POS | TEAM | P | W | D | L | PTS | DIFF | +/- |
1. | Man Utd | 27 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 71 | 0 | |
2. | Arsenal | 27 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 60 | +3 | |
3. | Man City | 27 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 59 | -1 | |
4. | Everton | 27 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 55 | +2 | |
5. | Chelsea | 26 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 53 | -1 | |
6. | Tottenham | 27 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 45 | -3 | |
7. | QPR | 27 | 13 | 5 | 9 | 44 | +13 | |
8. | Liverpool | 27 | 11 | 10 | 6 | 43 | 0 | |
9. | Newcastle | 27 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 41 | +4 | |
10. | Sunderland | 27 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 35 | +5 | |
11. | Stoke | 27 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 33 | -1 | |
12. | West Brom | 27 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 28 | -5 | |
13 | Wigan | 27 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 28 | +4 | |
14. | Fulham | 27 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 25 | -3 | |
15 | West Ham | 27 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 25 | -1 | |
16. | Southampton | 27 | 7 | 1 | 19 | 22 | 0 | |
17. | Swansea | 27 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 20 | -8 | |
18 | Norwich | 27 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 20 | -6 | |
19. | Aston Villa | 27 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 19 | -1 | |
20. | Reading | 26 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 16 | +1 | |
Lawro did not make a prediction before the rearranged Chelsea-Reading game on 22 August.
Make your own predictions, external to see how the Premier League will look after this weekend.
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