5 Premier League Tips for the Weekend’s Action - 1/10/22

After failing to score in his first nine Premier League appearances against his North London rivals, Heung-min Son has been a thorn in Arsenal’s defence ever since, scoring four goals in his last five appearances against the Gunners, including home and away last season, a stat he would love to repeat this season.

Like his form against Arsenal, Son has burst into life over the past week after going eight games into the season without a goal to scoring a hat-trick as a substitute against Leicester, scoring twice from outside the area and then scoring in his two games for South Korea on international duty, with one of his goals a great free-kick, putting him in great goalscoring form heading into the derby.

This Manchester derby is tipped up to be a great match between two in-form teams, with Manchester United winning their past four Premier League games and Manchester City yet to be beaten this season, creating tough tests for the two defences.

Raphael Varane will likely be the busier defender, but he is in much-improved form this season and in three of his four starts for Manchester United in the Premier League this season, he has completed 2+ tackles, whilst Manuel Akanji in his three games for Manchester City has made 2+ tackles in two of them.

Neither Chelsea nor Crystal Palace have had their desired starts to the season, with Chelsea sitting in seventh having already sacked their manager and Crystal Palace having just one win from their first six games, placing them in 16th.

Despite underwhelming starts, Sterling and Zaha have gotten off to good goal-scoring form, with Sterling already scoring four times for his new club, including in Chelsea’s only game under Graham Potter so far and Zaha has four goals from his five games so far this season, with three goals in his three home games.

After Everton’s first two games of the season, most Evertonians would have likely thought a lot about another relegation battle, but over the past five games, Frank Lampard’s side have been quite impressive, drawing four and winning once, with their defence being very strong, only conceding three goals.

Since Southampton returned to the Premier League in 2012, they have not enjoyed their away trips to Goodison Park, playing there ten times, losing eight times and drawing twice and to add to this they have lost three of their four away games this season, making them the underdogs entering this game.

Leicester City versus Nottingham Forest is all set up to be a great Premier League game, with it being the East Midlands derby, both teams conceding goals left, right and centre and will go to battle to stop their losing runs.

Both Leicester and Forest have been involved in three games with 5+ goals in them, with Leicester’s last two games seeing a combined 15 goals and Forest’s last three games including 5+ goals.

If both teams come into the game with the same team setup that they have used recently, then this game could see a lot of goals with the goals they both are shipping.