Our Premier League Tips for the Weekend - 30/10/21

Leicester City host Arsenal at the King Power Stadium this Saturday with both teams on 14 points from their opening nine Premier League games. The similarities don’t end there, however, as both teams have four wins, two draws and three losses this season, with Leicester only beating Arsenal on goal difference.

Leicester have won six, lost six, and drawn one of their previous 13 league home matches, and are just one win away from registering their 200th Premier League victory.

The Foxes have kept just one clean sheet in their last 15 league games, but have only failed to score on one occasion. The Gunners are unbeaten in their last 6 Premier League games, having lost their first 3 games of the 2021/2022 campaign.

Jamie Vardy is expected to return to the Foxes starting lineup, having missed the EFL Cup game midweek due to a knee injury. The Leicester striker has seven goals in his nine league appearances this season – only Liverpool’s Mohamed Salah has more with 10.

It's set to be a very close game and one that gets goals.

Brighton travel to Anfield on Saturday to face a Liverpool side who have won 5-0 in their last two league outings, beating Watford at Vicarage Road in Claudio Ranieri’s first game in charge, followed by a historic win at Old Trafford last weekend.

Salah became the first visiting player to score a hat-trick against Manchester United in the Premier League era, taking his goal tally for the season to 10 and the Egyptian forward is also on course to score in his eight consecutive league game.

Liverpool currently sit in second, one point behind league leaders Chelsea, but they have been unbeaten in all competitions so far.

Brighton have stunned football fans across the country this season, currently sitting in fifth place in the league, two points behind fourth-placed West Ham United. The Seagulls’ flying start to the season hit a bump last week, however, as they were brought back down to earth after suffering a 4-1 defeat against title contenders Manchester City.

Salah will likely score again and Liverpool are clear favourites to win.

Pep Guadiola’s Manchester City face Patrick Vieira’s Crystal Palace on Saturday, with City currently sitting in third place and Palace struggling in 15th.

City have lost just one Premier League game this season, suffering a 1-0 defeat on the opening day against Tottenham. Meanwhile, Palace have only came out victorious once this season, beating Spurs 3-0 with summer arrival Odsonne Edouard scoring twice when he came off the bench.

Phil Foden has been in fine form so far this season, scoring three goals and an assist in his five league appearances, two of which came against City’s 4-1 win over Brighton last weekend. The Stockport-born forward was deployed as a false nine last week and could feature in the same position again this weekend.

Interim manager Graeme Jones will take charge of his second league game as 19th place Newcastle host league leaders Chelsea at St James' Park.

Newcastle are still without a win the Premier League this season, having drawn four and lost five of their nine games so far. Chelsea, on the other hand, are coming into the game having humiliated Norwich last week by winning 7-0 and have only dropped points twice all season, losing 1-0 against Manchester City and holding Liverpool to a 1-1 draw at Anfield.

Many eyes this weekend should be on Chelsea wing-back Ben Chilwell. The England international has scored in each of his last four league appearances for Thomas Tuchel’s side, a feat which hasn’t been matched since Belgian winger Eden Hazard donned the famous Blue shirt and it's never been done by a left-back in Premier League history.

Chilwell is also the first English player to score in four consecutive league games since fellow Chelsea compatriot Frank Lampard in 2013.

Spurs host a deflated Manchester United side this weekend who will be determined to pick up some much-needed points after their embarrassing 5-0 defeat against rivals Liverpool last week.

The north London side haven’t been on top form either since appointing Nuno Espirito Santo as manager in the summer. In three of the four games they’ve lost this season, Spurs have conceded 3 goals in each and have failed to score in 3 of their 9 matches so far, including in last week's 1-0 defeat to West Ham.

England striker Harry Kane – who has scored 167 goals in 253 Premier League games – will be hoping United’s lacklustre defending continues as he’s only found the back of the net once this season in eight games.

Meanwhile, United’s target man, Cristiano Ronaldo, will be looking to make amends after last weeks’ demolition job by Liverpool. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner had United’s only goal last week disallowed by a tight VAR offside call, but Ronaldo could make his 203rd Premier League appearance this weekend and will be looking to add to his three league goals this season.