Lawro's opening weekend Premier League predictions v Blossoms
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BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson will be making a prediction for all 380 Premier League games this season against a variety of different guests.
Lawro's opponent for the opening round of Premier League fixtures are Tom Ogden and Charlie Salt from Stockport indie band Blossoms.
You can 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 new BBC Sport Predictor game.
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Blossoms singer and guitarist Tom is a former Manchester City season ticket holder, who grew up idolising former striker Paul Dickov.
"I wrote his name on the back of my City shirt in black marker," Ogden told BBC Sport. My mum wasn't too happy about that.
"I don't miss those days when we were struggling, though. You want to be winning the league, don't you? Dickov is still my hero because he was playing for us when I first got into football but Sergio Aguero is the man.
"Obviously there is a charm in being everyone's second favourite team when you are in Division One but I much prefer to be where we are now, with Pep Guardiola as manager and having won the title twice in the past four years."
Bass player Charlie supports his home town team despite County's drop into non-league football, but also follows Liverpool.
"I'm biased but I'd love to see us win the league," he explained. "That's not just because I am a fan but for Jurgen Klopp's sake - I think he is such a character, he is good for the game."
Premier League predictions - week 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Result | Lawro | Blossoms | |
SATURDAY | |||
Hull v Leicester | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-2 |
Burnley v Swansea | 0-1 | 1-1 | 4-1 |
Crystal Palace v West Brom | 0-1 | 2-1 | 1-0 |
Everton v Tottenham | 1-1 | 1-1 | 2-2 |
Middlesbrough v Stoke | 1-1 | 1-0 | 0-2 |
Southampton v Watford | 1-1 | 2-1 | 1-3 |
Man City v Sunderland | 2-1 | 2-0 | 4-0 |
SUNDAY | |||
Bournemouth v Man Utd | 1-3 | 0-2 | 5-0 |
Arsenal v Liverpool | 3-4 | 1-1 | 0-3 |
MONDAY | |||
Chelsea v West Ham | 2-1 | 2-0 | 0-4 |
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
You can see how all the guests from last season fared in the scoreboard at the bottom of the page, plus the final table showing how the 2015-16 Premier League would have looked if all of Lawro's predictions were correct.
LAWRO'S PREDICTIONS
All kick-offs 15:00 BST
SATURDAY
Hull 2-1 Leicester
Burnley v Swansea
Crystal Palace 0-1 West Brom
Everton 1-1 Tottenham
Middlesbrough 1-1 Stoke
Southampton 1-1 Watford
Man City 2-1 Sunderland
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Blossoms' prediction: (Tom) The City players are going to want to impress Pep so they will be well up for this game. I am very excited to see how he gets us playing. 4-0
SUNDAY
Bournemouth 1-3 Man Utd
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Blossoms' prediction: (Tom) Bournemouth to win 5-0, and that is my head talking, not my heart.
Arsenal 3-4 Liverpool
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Blossoms' prediction: (Charlie) It has got to be Liverpool, hasn't it? I am not sure who, but I think someone will score a hat-trick for us too. 0-3
MONDAY
Chelsea 2-1 West Ham
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Blossoms' prediction: (Charlie) I don't like Chelsea at all, I never have. 0-4
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
HOW DID LAWRO DO LAST SEASON?
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 2015-16 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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