English Premier League preview: what to watch this weekend

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English Premier League preview: what to watch this weekend

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The second weekend of the EPL is coming up and the opening round of fixtures brought plenty of drama with a shock home defeat for Chelsea and dramatic late goals at Arsenal and Watford. Man Utd, Man City and Tottenham all hit the ground running while the champions were beaten by Burnley.

 

Man Utd travel to Swansea for Saturday’s early kick off with Romelu Lukaku (pictured) in fine form after three goals in his last two games, that game kicks off at 6:30pm. The pick of the 9pm kick offs is probably Liverpool’s home game with Crystal Palace, both teams will be looking to bounce back after disappointing results last week.

 

It will also be an opportunity for Christian Benteke to prove a point against his former employers, particularly as Liverpool have struggled to defend set pieces this season. The fixture falls between UCL playoff matches for the home team, which might favour the visitors.

 

At 11:30pm Arsenal travel to Stoke. After shipping three goals at home to Leicester this weekend they will need to look much sharper defensively, while Stoke will be hoping that striker Saido Berahino can finally find the sort of form that made him prolific during certain spells at West Brom.

 

At 7:30pm on Sunday Newcastle Utd travel to Huddersfield for a battle between two newly promoted clubs who enjoyed contrasting fortunes last weekend. But the biggest game of all is at 10pm on Sunday when last year’s runner’s up Tottenham host reigning champions Chelsea at Wembley Stadium.

 

Chelsea are in disarray after losing several key players and failing to bring in a suitable calibre or quantity of replacements. The match probably comes too soon for Eden Hazard, who recently returned from injury, but Spanish striker Alvaro Morata will surely be handed his first start of the season.

 

At 2am on Tuesday Everton travel to Manchester City. Ronald Koeman’s side have yet to concede a goal this season and Gylfi Sigurdsson could be set for his debut but with attacking options like Gabriel Jesus, Sergio Aguero, Kevin de Bruyne, Leroy Sane, Bernardo Silva and Raheem Sterling to choose from Manchester City will take some stopping.

 

Saturday

6:30pm Swansea vs Man Utd (BeinSport 1)
9pm Bournemouth vs  Watford (BeinSport 12)
9pm Burnley vs West Brom
9pm Leicester vs Brighton (BeinSport 1)
9pm Liverpool vs Crystal Palace (BeinSport 2)
9pm Southampton vs West Ham
11:30pm Stoke vs Arsenal (BeinSport 2)

 

Sunday

1:30pm Huddersfield vs Newcastle (BeinSport 2)
10pm Tottenham vs Chelsea (BeinSport 2)

 

Tuesday

2am Man City vs Everton (BeinSport 1)

 

Source: http://huahinacademy.com/index.php/2017/08/18/english-premier-league-preview-watch-weekend-2/

 

-- HUA HIN SOCCER ACADEMY

 

[wilai]

^ Not particularly accurate;

 

Liverpool v Palace is on beIN Sports 1, Leicester v Brighton is on beIN Sports 3.

Burnley v West Brom is being shown (beIN Sports 4) as is Southampton v West Ham (beIN Sports 2)

Also, Bournemouth v Watford is on beIN Sports 5 (not 12 which is an Arabian channel)

 

Full details of all today's games is here:

 https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/986885-footy-on-the-telly/?page=10&tab=comments#comment-12189679

 

Edited August 19, 2017 by wilai

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I will be watching the Clarets in the Red Lion, Chiang Mai