Lawro's final day Premier League predictions v X-Men star Ben Hardy
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BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson has been pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.
Lawro's opponent for the final round of Premier League fixtures was actor Ben Hardy, star of the new X-Men film.
Lawro picked six correct results, including two perfect scores from nine Premier League matches, to give him a total of 120 points.
Hardy also got six results correct, but with no perfect scores, giving him 60 points.
Ben needed to score more than 160 points to knock stand-up comedian Nathan Caton off the top of the guest leaderboard.
Lawro's final league table - based on his predictions - can be seen at the bottom of the page.
Hardy plays Archangel in X-Men: Apocalypse. He has supported Arsenal since he was 10 and says his highlight was the unbeaten 'Invincibles' season of 2003-04. "It was just an amazing year"
Hardy, 25, used to play Peter Beale in BBC soap EastEnders but supports a north London team - Arsenal - and it is fair to say he has not enjoyed watching the Gunners fall away in the title race again this season.
"I am sick of it, it feels like Groundhog Day," he told BBC Sport.
"I have got a lot of respect for Arsene Wenger but, reluctantly, I am in the 'Wenger Out' campaign.
"I think it is a case of 'thanks for the memories, but let's move on'."
Ben Hardy's Premier League predictions
Premier League predictions - week 38 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Result | Lawro | Ben | |
SUNDAY | |||
Arsenal v Aston Villa | 4-0 | 3-0 | 1-0 |
Chelsea v Leicester | 1-1 | 1-1 | 0-2 |
Everton v Norwich | 3-0 | 2-1 | 1-1 |
Man Utd v Bournemouth | 3-1 | 2-0 | 2-1 |
Newcastle v Tottenham | 5-1 | 1-2 | 2-1 |
Southampton v Crystal Palace | 4-1 | 2-0 | 3-0 |
Stoke v West Ham | 2-1 | 1-1 | 1-0 |
Swansea v Man City | 1-1 | 1-1 | 1-2 |
Watford v Sunderland | 2-2 | 2-1 | 0-0 |
West Brom v Liverpool | 1-1 | 2-1 | 1-3 |
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last weekend, Lawro got three correct results, including two perfect scores from 10 Premier League matches, to give him a total of 90 points.
He lost out to two-time world darts champion Adrian 'Jackpot' Lewis, who got four results correct, with two perfect scores.
Lawro also picked up 60 points from his predictions for the four midweek Premier League games (see 19:30 BST entry of Tuesday's live text commentary).His opponent for those matches, world champion boxer Anthony Joshua, did not make any predictions for these games, which were postponed from FA Cup semi-final weekend, but has been awarded 20 points based on his existing points-per-match average, which was 30 points from six matches (five points per match).
Total scores after week 38 (before Man Utd v Bournemouth) | |
|---|---|
Lawro | 2,900 |
Guests | 2,270 |
LAWRO'S PREDICTIONS
All kick-offs 15:00 BST
SUNDAY
Arsenal 4-0 Aston Villa
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Ben's prediction: I want to say 6-0 because Villa have been so poor but it is going to be more a case of us scoring and clinging on to it, rather than pushing forward to get a bag of goals. 1-0
Chelsea 1-1 Leicester
Everton 3-0 Norwich
Man Utd 3-1 Bournemouth
Newcastle 5-1 Tottenham
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
Ben's prediction: I was terrified when it looked like Spurs might win the league because you would never hear the end of it but second or third for them and Arsenal? Who cares? It does not make much difference in my book and I don't think us finishing second would be anything to celebrate. 2-1
Southampton 4-1 Crystal Palace
Stoke 2-1 West Ham
Swansea 1-1 Man City
Watford 2-2 Sunderland
West Brom 1-1 Liverpool
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Ben's prediction: 1-3
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro v Guests | |||
|---|---|---|---|
P38 | W21 | D7 | L10 |
SCORE | GUEST LEADERBOARD |
|---|---|
160 | Nathan Caton |
110 | Nick Bright, Steve Cram, Sam Tomkins, SAM Super Computer |
100 | Carl Frampton, Adrian Lewis, Wealdstone Raider |
90 | Ice Cube & Kevin Hart, Amir Khan |
76 | Lawro (average after 38 weeks) |
70 | James, Guy Mowbray, Osi Umenyiora |
60 | Stuart Broad, Tim Burgess, Idris Elba & Richard Madden, Ben Hardy, Ed Skrein |
50 | Mark Radcliffe, Jack Whitehall, Felix White |
40 | Nobby Butcher, Fatman Scoop, Neville, Mumford & Sons, Michael B Jordan & Tony Bellew. James Skelly |
30 | Darren Campbell, Luol Deng, Anthony Joshua, Blake Harrison & Daniel Mays, Mark Webber, Steve Wilson |
20 | Graeme Swann |
10 | Elis James, Paul Heaton, Kelly Jones |
Lawro's best score: 160 points (week 19 v Guy Mowbray and week 36 v Nathan Caton)
Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week one v Graeme Swann & week 23 v Ice Cube and Kevin Hart)
+/- DENOTE POSITION DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAWRO'S TABLE AND REAL TABLE | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
POS | TEAM | P | W | D | L | PTS | +/- |
1 | Man City | 38 | 29 | 8 | 1 | 95 | +3 |
2 | Arsenal | 38 | 26 | 11 | 1 | 89 | 0 |
3 | Chelsea | 38 | 22 | 13 | 3 | 79 | +7 |
4 | Liverpool | 38 | 19 | 17 | 2 | 74 | +4 |
5 | Tottenham | 38 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 69 | -2 |
6 | Southampton | 38 | 20 | 4 | 14 | 64 | 0 |
7 | West Brom | 38 | 18 | 10 | 10 | 64 | +7 |
8 | Man Utd | 38 | 16 | 15 | 7 | 63 | -3 |
9 | Everton | 38 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 51 | +2 |
10 | Crystal Palace | 38 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 50 | +5 |
11 | Newcastle | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 45 | +7 |
12 | Leicester | 38 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 42 | -11 |
13 | Stoke | 38 | 11 | 8 | 19 | 41 | -4 |
14 | Bournemouth | 38 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 39 | +2 |
15 | Norwich | 38 | 12 | 3 | 23 | 39 | +4 |
16 | Sunderland | 38 | 7 | 14 | 17 | 35 | +1 |
17 | West Ham | 38 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 34 | -10 |
18 | Swansea | 38 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 33 | -6 |
19 | Watford | 38 | 6 | 8 | 24 | 26 | -6 |
20 | Aston Villa | 38 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 6 | 0 |
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