5 Tips for Saturday’s Premier League Action - 31/12/22

Saturday’s early kick-off sees Wolves host Manchester United at Molineux, with both sides looking to build on good form following the World Cup in Qatar.

The Red Devils enter this match as favourites, while Marcus Rashford is on a hot streak of form, having bagged five goals in his last eight appearances. Bruno Fernandes has been a regular name in referees’ notebooks this campaign, as the Portugal international has received a total of eight bookings.

In United’s last match, which resulted in a 3-0 victory over Nottingham Forest, each side had a total of nine corners.

Fulham against Southampton will be an interesting match-up, as the Cottagers are ninth in the table, ten points clear of the Saints who sit at the bottom of the standings.

Marco Silva’s men comfortably dispatched Crystal Palace by a 3-0 scoreline last time out, while Southampton suffered a humiliating 3-1 home defeat to south coast rivals Brighton.

Serbian forward Aleksandar Mitrovic is having a superb season and bagged Fulham’s third goal of the game at Selhurst Park via a header. The 28-year-old has scored ten goals in 13 Premier League matches during the 2022/23 campaign.

Manchester City hosts Everton at the Etihad Stadium on New Year’s Eve, with Pep Guardiola’s men expected to run out as comfortable winners as they look to apply pressure on top-of-the-table Arsenal.

Norwegian striker Erling Haaland has already scored three Premier League hat-tricks in his first campaign at the Etihad Stadium and will be looking to add to the brace that he scored away at Leeds in midweek that took his league goals tally to 20 in 14 matches.

Newcastle and Leeds United go head to head at St James’ Park on Saturday with Eddie Howe’s men looking to keep up the blistering form that has seen them become serious contenders for a place in next season’s Champions League.

The Magpies have won their last six Premier League matches against the likes of Everton, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Southampton, Chelsea and Leicester and will be expected to beat Leeds.

In their 3-0 win over Leicester, Newcastle were 3-0 up inside 32 minutes and had five corners in what could’ve been a tricky away game on paper. Leeds were shown three yellow cards against Manchester City in their 3-1 loss, while having three corners to the Cityzens five.

Brighton and Arsenal face off in Saturday’s late kick-off, with Mikel Arteta’s side looking to maintain their current points gap to Manchester City.

England winger Bukayo Saka is having a superb season for Arsenal and is priced at 14/1 to have a shot on target in each half during a Gunners win here. Saka has scored six and created six assists in 21 appearances, while having 26 shots with an accuracy of 54%.

Arsenal have been irresistible at times this season and will hope to carry their form on into the new year, having won 13, and drawn one of their opening 15 matches in the Premier League.

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