Premier League predictions: Lawro v Tailenders co-host Felix White
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Can things get any worse for Everton? Former Toffees manager David Moyes must hope so.
Moyes goes back to Goodison Park on Wednesday having just picked up his first point in charge of West Ham, thanks to their draw against Leicester on Friday.
Everton, meanwhile, remain managerless and leaked more goals in their 4-1 defeat at Southampton on Sunday.
BBC Sport football expert Mark Lawrenson says: "It is hard to be positive about Everton at the moment because they have lost all of their vim and their vigour, and the worst thing is they are not even proving difficult to beat.
"So I am going to go for a Hammers win - which would be massive for Moyes in every way."
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Lawro scored 70 points in week 13, which meant he slipped to 2,659th place out of more than 275,000 users.
He will be making a prediction for all 380 top-flight games this season, against a variety of guests.
Lawro takes on musician, writer and cricket fanatic Felix White, for the games on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The former guitarist in The Maccabees is co-hosting the Tailenders Ashes podcast for BBC Radio 5 live with DJ Greg James and England bowler James Anderson. You can hear the next episode on Wednesday.
White told BBC Sport: "We will take a serious look back at what happened in the first Test - and talk a lot of nonsense about what might happen next too."
The Maccabees split last summer after playing two farewell gigs at London's Alexandra Palace
White is a Fulham fan who is hoping to see them back in the Premier League soon but admits the club's glory days, when they reached the 2010 Europa League final under Roy Hodgson, feel like they are getting "further and further away".
"If you look at the Championship, there are lots of big clubs who have come down from the Premier League and not made it back up," he told BBC Sport.
"When we went down [in 2014] I thought we could bounce straight back but it is a hard division to get out of, and it gets even harder after a couple of years when your parachute payments stop.
"It also makes it even more difficult when you are a team like Fulham are, with footballing principles. A lot of the teams are very physical and they just try to smash you."
Premier League predictions - week 14 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Result | Lawro | Felix | |
TUESDAY | |||
Brighton v Crystal Palace | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
Leicester v Tottenham | 2-1 | 0-2 | 0-2 |
Watford v Man Utd | 2-4 | 0-2 | 1-0 |
West Brom v Newcastle | 2-2 | 2-1 | 2-1 |
WEDNESDAY | |||
Arsenal v Huddersfield | 5-0 | 3-0 | 0-1 |
Bournemouth v Burnley | 1-2 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
Chelsea v Swansea | 1-0 | 2-0 | 4-1 |
Everton v West Ham | 4-0 | 0-1 | 0-1 |
Man City v Southampton | 2-1 | 2-0 | 3-0 |
Stoke v Liverpool | 0-3 | 1-2 | 1-0 |
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
LAWRO'S PREDICTIONS
All kick-offs 19:45 GMT unless otherwise stated.
TUESDAY
Brighton 0-0 Crystal Palace
Leicester 2-1 Tottenham
Watford 2-4 Man Utd
West Brom 2-2 Newcastle
WEDNESDAY
Chelsea 1-0 Swansea
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Felix's prediction: I really worry for Swansea this season. 4-1
Everton 4-0 West Ham
Lawro's prediction: 0-1
Felix's prediction: Moyes going back to Everton to get his first win as West Ham manager? It is as if it is meant to be. 0-1
Stoke City 0-3 Liverpool
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
Felix's prediction: 1-0
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan
How did Lawro do last time?
From the last round of games, Lawro got four correct results, with one perfect score, from 10 matches, for a total of 70 points.
He beat comedian and rapper Michael Dapaah, aka Big Shaq, who got five correct results, but with no perfect scores, giving him 50 points.
Total scores after week 13 | |
|---|---|
Lawro | 1,160 |
Guests | 1,000 |
Lawro v Guests | |||
|---|---|---|---|
P13 | W7 | D1 | L5 |
SCORE | GUEST LEADERBOARD |
|---|---|
160 | Chris Shiflett |
130 | James Anderson** |
120 | Will Poulter, Moeen Ali |
100 | Cesaro & Seamus, Wretch 32 |
89 | Lawro (average after 13 weeks) |
70 | Brendan Foster*, Mark Strong |
60 | Will Ferrell, Non Stanford |
50 | Steve Cram, Michael Dapaah, Channing Tatum, Osi Umenyiora and Jason Bell, Joe Root |
*Foster and Cram both provided predictions on week one, but only Foster's score contributes to the guest total.
**Anderson and Moeen both provided predictions on week nine, but only Anderson's score contributes to the guest total.
Lawro's best score: 150 points (week eight v Wretch 32)
Lawro's worst score: 40 points (week four v Umenyiora and Bell, and week five v Non Stanford)
+/- DENOTE POSITION DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAWRO'S TABLE AND ACTUAL POSITION | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
POS | TEAM | P | W | D | L | PTS | +/- |
1 | Man City | 13 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 0 |
2 | Man Utd | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 0 |
3 | Tottenham | 13 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 31 | +2 |
4 | Liverpool | 13 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 29 | +2 |
5 | Arsenal | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 25 | -1 |
6 | Chelsea | 13 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 25 | -3 |
7 | Southampton | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 23 | +3 |
8 | Bournemouth | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 21 | +5 |
9 | West Ham | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 16 | +9 |
10 | Leicester | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | +2 |
11 | Stoke | 13 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 15 | +4 |
12 | Swansea | 13 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 15 | +7 |
13 | Burnley | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -6 |
14 | Everton | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 12 | +2 |
15 | Crystal Palace | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | +5 |
16 | Newcastle | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | -2 |
17 | West Brom | 13 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 0 |
18 | Watford | 13 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 7 | -10 |
19 | Brighton | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 6 | -10 |
20 | Huddersfield | 13 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 3 | -9 |