Our Premier League Tips for Gameweek 5 - 18/09/21

Off the back of their European encounters against Rennes and Zenit St Petersburg, respectively, Tottenham Hotspur play host to Chelsea on Sunday in the game of the weekend.

Tottenham’s previous game in the Premier League saw them lose embarrassingly to Crystal Palace 3-0 as Odsonne Edouard scored twice on his debut for the Eagles, while Wilfred Zaha scored an early penalty. Chelsea, on the other hand, are coming off a 3-0 win against Aston Villa, where Romelu Lukaku continued his great start to life at Chelsea scoring twice, with Mateo Kovacic grabbing the other goal.

Last season’s games saw Chelsea win 1-0 away at Spurs thanks to a Jorginho penalty, while the earlier encounter saw the points shared and a similarly right game is expected here.

With Chelsea possessing the firepower of Lukaku and Spurs showing the weaknesses they have in the defence while also potentially missing Son Heung-min, this puts Chelsea in the driving seat with a win, albeit, a narrow one.

West Ham United host Manchester United at the Olympic Stadium with the spotlight likely being on Crisitano Ronaldo once again following his third goal in two games for the club since rejoining.

West Ham played out a goalless draw with Southampton last weekend with Michail Antonio being sent off in the dying stages of the game who will be greatly missed for the Hammers, and this has no doubt forced United as the clear favourites here.

The Red Devils played out a 4-1 win against Newcastle United which saw Ronaldo score twice on his second debut for them, while last season, United won both games as they came from behind to win 3-1 at the Olympic stadium then 1-0 at Old Trafford.

With three goals in two games for the Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side already, we don't see how he slows down here and gets a goal and three more points for United.

Liverpool will want to continue their unbeaten start to the season as last time, they beat Leeds United 3-0 thanks to goals from Mohammed Salah, Fabinho, and Sadio Mane in what was a very convincing victory again. Palace. however, thrashed Spurs by the same scoreline and do come into this game with a sudden spark of form.

Liverpool won both encounters last season, most notably beating Palace 7-0 at Selhurst Park, which was the Reds' biggest ever win on the road in the Premier League. Later on in the season, they beat the Eagles again on the last day of the season 2-0 thanks to a Sadio Mane double.

With Liverpool looking to maintain their unbeaten run and Palace not being the most settled team, Liverpool are likely to be the winners in this game and we think Salah and Mane will get on the scoresheet again.

Manchester City host Southampton at the Etihad Stadium as they look to continue their title defence and get back amongst the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool and United.

City are coming off a close 1-0 win against Leicester City as a Bernardo Silva goal won City the points, while they also thrashed RB Leipzig 6-3 in midweek in the Champions League.

Southampton, on the other hand, are coming off a 0-0 draw with West Ham. City won both games last season, winning the first 1-0 thanks to a Raheem Sterling goal, before winning the second a lot more comfortably through a 5-2 victory at the Etihad.

With City continuing to look strong defensively, we can't see the Saints scoring and nothing but a City win with relative ease.

Finally, newly promoted Brentford travel to Wolves as the Bees look to continue their impressive start to the season.

Wolves are coming off their first win of the season as they beat Watford 2-0 thanks to an own goal from Francisco Sierralta and a Hwang Hee-Chan goal on his debut for Wolves. On the other hand, Brentford are coming off their first loss of the season as they lost 1-0 to Brighton after a late Leandro Trossard goal.

The last time these two teams played was three years ago in the Championship as Wolves won one game 3-0 with goals from Ruben Neves, Barry Douglas, and Diogo Jota.

With Wolves looking impressive under Bruno Lage despite the points saying otherwise and having finally got their win, they will be wanting to capitalise on that once again, and we think Hee-Chan should get another goal.