Lawro's Premier League predictions v England spinner Moeen Ali
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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 guests.
Lawro's opponent for the midweek Premier League fixtures is England cricketer Moeen Ali, who is a Liverpool fan.
Moeen is part of the England squad touring India, and you can hear BBC Radio 5 live sports extra commentary of their final Twenty20 international in Bangalore from 13:15 GMT on Wednesday.
Moeen Ali's Premier League predictions
You can make your Premier League predictions now, compare them with those of Lawro and other fans by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
Premier League predictions - week 23 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Result | Lawro | Moeen Ali | |
TUESDAY | |||
Arsenal v Watford | 1-2 | 3-0 | 3-1 |
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace | 0-2 | 1-1 | 2-1 |
Burnley v Leicester | 1-0 | 1-2 | 0-0 |
Middlesbrough v West Brom | 1-1 | 1-2 | 2-2 |
Sunderland v Tottenham | 0-0 | 1-0 | 0-3 |
Swansea v Southampton | 2-1 | 2-0 | 1-1 |
Liverpool v Chelsea | 1-1 | 1-1 | 2-1 |
WEDNESDAY | |||
West Ham v Man City | 0-4 | 0-2 | 2-3 |
Man Utd v Hull | 0-0 | 2-0 | 1-2 |
Stoke v Everton | 1-1 | 1-1 | 3-2 |
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
On FA Cup fourth-round weekend, Lawro got 11 correct results, including three perfect scores from the 16 ties for a total of 200 points.
Lawro was up against BBC Radio 1's Adele Roberts and 1Xtra's A.Dot.
He beat Roberts, who got eight correct results, including three perfect scores for a tally of 170 points, but A.Dot came out on top, with 10 correct predictions, including four perfect scores, giving her a total of 220 points, and putting her top of the FA Cup leaderboard.
FA Cup leaderboard after round four | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Correct results | (Perfect scores) | Total | Success rate | |
A.Dot | 10/16 | (4) | 220 | 34% |
Adele Roberts | 8/16 | (3) | 170 | 27% |
Lawro | 20/48 | (6) | 380 | 20% |
Blue Moon Rising TV | 14/32 | (3) | 230 | 18% |
Spurred On | 12/32 | (2) | 180 | 14% |
Reev | 12/32 | (0) | 120 | 9% |
Those scores do not count towards Lawro's total for the season from Premier League fixtures or appear on the guest leaderboard.
Total scores after week 22 | |
|---|---|
Lawro | 2,040 |
Guests | 1,720 |
LAWRO'S PREDICTIONS
All kick-offs 19:45 GMT unless otherwise stated.
TUESDAY
Bournemouth 0-2 Crystal Palace
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Moeen Ali's prediction: 2-1
WEDNESDAY
Man Utd 0-0 Hull City
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Moeen Ali's prediction: Hull to win - well, I hope so anyway. 1-2
Stoke 1-1 Everton
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Moeen Ali's prediction: It's tough going away to Stoke, so I am going for them to win. 3-2
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
Lawro v Guests | |||
|---|---|---|---|
P22 | W15 | D0 | L7 |
SCORE | GUEST LEADERBOARD |
|---|---|
150 | Elis James |
130 | Boris Becker, James McAvoy, Tim Vine |
120 | Robbie Williams |
110 | Michael van Gerwen |
100 | Joe Clarke |
93 | Lawro (average after 22 weeks) |
90 | Josh Franceschi, Colin Murray |
80 | Nicole Scherzinger |
70 | Dave Bautista, Sam Burgess, Athletico Mince |
60 | Rick Astley |
50 | Charlie Sloth, Laura Kenny |
40 | Ed Balls |
30 | Michael Bisping, Blossoms, American hip-hop duo Run The Jewels |
20 | Lloyd Griffith |
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week 22 v James McAvoy)
Lawro's worst score: 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
+/- DENOTE POSITION DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAWRO'S TABLE AND ACTUAL POSITION | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
POS | TEAM | P | W | D | L | PTS | +/- |
1 | Arsenal | 22 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 54 | +1 |
2 | Liverpool | 22 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 54 | +2 |
3 | Man Utd | 22 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 51 | +3 |
4 | Man City | 22 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 50 | +1 |
5 | Chelsea | 22 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 48 | -4 |
6 | Leicester | 22 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 46 | +9 |
7 | Tottenham | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 46 | -4 |
8 | Everton | 22 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 31 | -1 |
9 | West Ham | 22 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 31 | +1 |
10 | Crystal Palace | 22 | 6 | 8 | 8 | 26 | +8 |
11 | Stoke | 22 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 25 | -2 |
12 | West Brom | 22 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 24 | -4 |
13 | Bournemouth | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 21 | -1 |
14 | Sunderland | 22 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 21 | +6 |
15 | Middlesbrough | 22 | 4 | 6 | 12 | 18 | +1 |
16 | Burnley | 22 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 15 | -3 |
17 | Southampton | 22 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 15 | -6 |
18 | Watford | 22 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 11 | -4 |
19 | Swansea | 22 | 2 | 4 | 16 | 10 | -2 |
20 | Hull | 22 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 2 | -1 |