Premier League predictions: Lawro v Guy Mowbray
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BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.
Lawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League fixtures is BBC Match of the Day commentator Guy Mowbray.
Mowbray has predicted five draws on a tight Bank Holiday Monday but has backed Manchester City to beat title rivals Leicester.
Lawro is also up against a state-of-the-art super-computer called SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) for the second week running.
Our scoring system has changed this season and a correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is now worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
On Boxing Day SAM predicted three correct results, plus two perfect scores, to register an impressive 110 points - equal top on the guest leaderboard!
SAM - built by Professor Ian McHale, Dr Georgi Boshnakov and Tarak Kharrat from the Centre for Sports Business at the University of Salford - pipped Lawro, who picked four correct results and one perfect score to score 80 points.
Who will come out on top this time around? Is man better than machine? Is anyone better than a commentator?
Premier League predictions - Week 19 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Result | Lawro | Guy | SAM | |
MONDAY | ||||
Crystal Palace v Swansea | 0-0 | 1-1 | 2-0 | 1-0 |
Everton v Stoke | 3-4 | 2-1 | 1-1 | 1-0 |
Norwich v Aston Villa | 2-0 | 2-0 | 1-1 | 1-0 |
Watford v Tottenham | 1-2 | 1-2 | 2-2 | 1-1 |
West Brom v Newcastle | 1-0 | 2-0 | 2-1 | 1-1 |
Arsenal v Bournemouth | 2-0 | 2-0 | 3-0 | 2-0 |
Man Utd v Chelsea | 0-0 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 1-1 |
West Ham v Southampton | 2-1 | 0-2 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
TUESDAY | ||||
Leicester v Man City | 0-0 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 1-1 |
WEDNESDAY | ||||
Sunderland v Liverpool | 0-1 | 0-2 | 1-3 | 0-1 |
We are keeping a record of the totals for Lawro and his guests (below), and showing a table of how the Premier League would look if all of Lawro's predictions were correct (at the bottom of the page).
Make your own predictions now, compare them to Lawro and other fans and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
Total scores after week 18 | |
|---|---|
Lawro | 1,260 |
Guests | 930 |
LAWRO'S PREDICTIONS
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated
MONDAY
Crystal Palace 0-0 Swansea
Everton 3-4 Stoke
Norwich 2-0 Aston Villa
Watford 1-2 Tottenham
West Brom 1-0 Newcastle
Arsenal 2-0 Bournemouth
Man Utd 0-0 Chelsea
West Ham 2-1 Southampton
TUESDAY
Leicester 0-0 Man City
WEDNESDAY
Sunderland 0-1 Liverpool
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Guy Mowbray's prediction: 1-3
SAM's prediction: 0-1
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Tom Rostance.
Lawro v Guests | |||
|---|---|---|---|
P18 | W11 | D4 | L3 |
SCORE | GUEST LEADERBOARD |
|---|---|
110 | Sam Tomkins, SAM Super Computer |
100 | Wealdstone Raider |
90 | Amir Khan |
70 | Lawro (average after 18 weeks), Osi Umenyiora |
60 | Stuart Broad, Tim Burgess |
50 | Mark Radcliffe, Jack Whitehall |
40 | Neville, Mumford & Sons |
30 | Darren Campbell, Luol Deng, Mark Webber |
20 | Graeme Swann |
10 | Paul Heaton, Kelly Jones |
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week three v Jack Whitehall & week four v Darren Campbell)
Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week one v Graeme Swann)
ARROWS & +/- DENOTE POSITION DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAWRO'S TABLE AND REAL TABLE | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
POS | TEAM | P | W | D | L | PTS | DIFF | +/- |
1. | Man City | 18 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 45 | +2 | |
2. | Arsenal | 18 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 42 | 0 | |
3. | Chelsea | 18 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 41 | +12 | |
4. | Liverpool | 18 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 40 | +4 | |
5. | Man Utd | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 33 | +1 | |
6. | West Brom | 18 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 33 | +7 | |
7. | Southampton | 18 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 32 | +5 | |
8. | Crystal Palace | 18 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 29 | -3 | |
9. | Tottenham | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 28 | -5 | |
10. | Newcastle | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 24 | +8 | |
11. | Stoke | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 0 | |
12. | Swansea | 18 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 20 | +4 | |
13. | Everton | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 18 | -4 | |
14. | Norwich | 18 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 16 | +3 | |
15. | Bournemouth | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 15 | -1 | |
16. | Sunderland | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 15 | +3 | |
17. | Leicester | 18 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 12 | -16 | |
18. | West Ham | 18 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 11 | -8 | |
19. | Watford | 18 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 10 | -12 | |
20. | Aston Villa | 18 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 6 | 0 | |
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