Premier League: Round 30 (midweek)

According to Grok;


Question; what are the most likely results of the English Premier league round 30 games?


Predicting the most likely results for English Premier League Matchday 30 (scheduled for around April 1-3, 2025) involves considering current team form, standings, injuries, and historical performance. As of today, March 30, 2025, I’ll base this on available context about the 2024-25 season up to mid-March (e.g., from Wikipedia’s updates on standings and notable events) and general trends, since exact results for Round 30 aren’t yet available. Here’s a breakdown of the likely fixtures and outcomes based on the season so far:

Expected Matchday 30 Fixtures and Predictions

(Note: Exact fixture dates may vary slightly; these are inferred from typical scheduling patterns and available data.)

Arsenal vs. Fulham
Arsenal have been strong contenders, often in the top four, while Fulham have been a mid-table side fighting for European spots. Arsenal’s home form is typically robust.

Likely Result: Arsenal 2-1 Fulham

Wolverhampton Wanderers vs. West Ham United
Wolves have struggled, sacking Gary O’Neil in December, and sit near the bottom, while West Ham, despite their own managerial change (Lopetegui out, Potter in), are mid-table.

Likely Result: Wolves 1-2 West Ham

Nottingham Forest vs. Manchester United
Forest have been a surprise package, sitting third at times, while Manchester United have been inconsistent but still dangerous.

Likely Result: Nottingham Forest 1-1 Manchester United

AFC Bournemouth vs. Ipswich Town
Bournemouth have been in-form, climbing the table, while Ipswich, newly promoted, are battling relegation.

Likely Result: Bournemouth 3-0 Ipswich

Brighton & Hove Albion vs. Aston Villa
Both teams are in the European chase, with Villa slightly ahead after strong results like their 7-0 thrashing earlier in the season (albeit against different opposition).

Likely Result: Brighton 2-2 Aston Villa

Manchester City vs. Leicester City
City remain a powerhouse, even with occasional slips, while Leicester, back in the Prem, are likely struggling.

Likely Result: Manchester City 4-0 Leicester

Newcastle United vs. Brentford
Newcastle are pushing for a top-four spot and are unbeaten in recent home games against Brentford, who sit mid-table.

Likely Result: Newcastle 2-1 Brentford

Southampton vs. Crystal Palace
Southampton are bottom and leaking goals (e.g., 0-5 vs. Spurs earlier), while Palace have been solid under new management.

Likely Result: Southampton 0-3 Crystal Palace

Liverpool vs. Everton
Liverpool lead the league, with Salah breaking records, while Everton, despite a managerial shift (Dyche sacked), are mid-table at best.

Likely Result: Liverpool 2-0 Everton

Chelsea vs. Tottenham Hotspur
Chelsea are resurgent, while Spurs have been inconsistent but capable of flair. A tight London derby is expected.

Likely Result: Chelsea 2-2 Tottenham

Reasoning

Form and Standings: Liverpool lead, followed by Arsenal, Manchester City, and Nottingham Forest (as of mid-March). Relegation battlers include Southampton, Ipswich, and possibly Wolves or Leicester.

Key Events: Managerial sackings (e.g., Wolves, Southampton, West Ham, Everton) suggest instability, while big wins (e.g., Forest 7-0 Brighton) show potential upsets.

Home/Away Trends: Top teams like City, Liverpool, and Arsenal rarely drop points at home, while bottom teams struggle away.

These predictions are educated guesses based on trends up to March 30, 2025, and align with sentiment from posts on X, which favor wins for top teams and struggles for the bottom three. For real-time updates closer to the matches, team news and injuries would refine these further!

So cutting edge AI technology has reached the level of the Lawro Predictor

could be a while before the robots take over....

Paul the Octopus was quite good and reputedly better than pet hamsters.

Yesterday Grok got 6 results right in league 1. 3 of them with correct scores.

A small sample but I think it's worth following.


It'd be funny if Grok was named after Elon's pet hamster

Form ought to be more predictable at this stage of the season, as you say, worth following after the initial promising result. The disadvantage of AI is you can't eat it if it turns out to be useless.

Form is everything at this stage of the season. IMHO if you can't turn a profit now you never will.

Chelsea are free money against Spurs.

Can't believe the goal line in that game is at 3.5. Chelsea have forgotten how to attack since Palmer's downturn in form, while Tottenham would take a scrappy draw easily. 0-0 at 28/1 is too big to pass up.

Form ought to be more predictable at this stage of the season, as you say, worth following after the initial promising result. The disadvantage of AI is you can't eat it if it turns out to be useless.


Form is maybe less important after such a break, followed by cup weekend.

Scouts don't like end of season as players are fatigued, and others already
have new homes for August.

Must be the first time Forest have been favourites against Man United since 1990

fulham, ipswich and everton to win is 863/1.  3 prem league teams with players on mega money have little chance of winning.

wolves are the best bet 6/4 to beat west ham

ALFIE out for 6 to 7 weeks, allegedly

This Arsenal team that are @1.45 to beat Fulham tonight, would that be the same Arsenal team that lost at home to West Ham a few weeks ago? That just managed to scrape a draw again Man Utd?

Apr 1, 2025 -- 4:41PM, SirNorbertClarke wrote:

This Arsenal team that are @1.45 to beat Fulham tonight, would that be the same Arsenal team that lost at home to West Ham a few weeks ago? That just managed to scrape a draw again Man Utd?

Yes.

Nwaneri, Merino, Martinelli up top for Arsenal. Saka on bench

Arsenal XI: Raya, Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Lewis-Skelly, Partey, Rice, Odegaard, Nwaneri, Martinelli, Merino

Subs: Neto, Tierney, Saka, Kiwior, Zinchenko, Trossard, Jorginho, Sterling, Gower

Fulham XI: Leno, Castagne, Diop, Andersen, Cuenca, Robinson, Berge, Lukic, Adama, Smith Rowe, Jimenez

Subs: Benda, Bassey, Reed, Muniz, Cairney, Iwobi, Pereira, Willian, Sessegnon

Wolves XI: Sa, Doherty, Agbadou, Toti Gomes, Semedo, Joao Gomes, Andre, Ait-Nouri, Munetsi, Bellegarde, Strand Larsen.

Subs: Johnstone, Bueno, Traore, Hee-Chan, Doyle, Sarabia, Forbs, Nasser Djiga, Lima.

West Ham XI: Areola, Cresswell, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta, Mavropanos, Kilman, Paqueta, Guilherme, Bowen, Wan-Bissaka, Ferguson, Scarles.

Subs: Fabianski, Soler, Coufal, Fullkrug, Alvarez, Rodriguez, Todibo, Soucek, Emerson.

Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Aina, Murillo, Milenkovic, Williams, Danilo, Yates, Gibbs-White, Anderson, Elanga, Awoniyi

Subs: Morato, Toffolo, Moreno, Boly, Sangare, Sosa, Silva, Dominguez, Miguel

Man Utd XI: Onana, Mazraoui, De Ligt, Yoro, Dalot, Ugarte, Casemiro, Dorgu, Garnacho, Fernandes, Zirkzee

Subs: Bayindir, Amass, Lindelof, Maguire, Collyer, Eriksen, Kone, Mount, Hojlund.

Ferguson 7/2 to score May look value later. Looked sharp shooting for Ireland.

Arsenal will probably struggle to score for 90 minutes, then get 2 in added on time, unders is a good bet

Another hammer injury for Arsenal. Gabriel this time

1-0 Forest

Great run and shot from Elanga

I remember about 12-15 years ago when there was a lot of questions asked about training methods at Arsenal, because of all the injuries they were getting. Dunno if similar criticisms are being levelled now. Maybe mostly bad luck, who knows?

1-0 Arse Merino

United need a proper goalscorer

1.08 PSG 2 down away to dunkirk

40 mins gone PSG 2.20

PSG back to 2-1

Traore still not been rumbled? still picking up a wage! Unbelievable.

Saka returns

PSG desmond

Arse back to 2-1

2 mins to go

PSG lead 3-2

Leverkusen knocked out of German Cup by 3rd division bielefeld

the first 3. Liga side to reach the DFB Pokal final since Union Berlin in 2001.

Wow Forest goal line clearance 97th minute

FT 1-0

Arsenal were playing around traffic cones for the whole match, 2-1 makes it look way closer than it was

Good wins for arse and forest almost there for champs league

Wolves look safe, well... even safer.

PSG win 4-2

Real 2-3 on agg with 10 left

3-3

Madrid trail sociedad 3-1 in battle of the reals
and 3-2 on aggregate, having scored 2 own goals
in last 10 minutes.

Up pops Bellingham to tie it up on agg

4-3 real on agg

Sorry lurka didn't see your posts... Must refresh forum...

I use live view

Over 6.5 matched at 250.

Over 7.5 1000

2nd own goal given to oyarzabal who celebrates by notching another on 90+3

Barclays in domestic euro cups tonite

Extra time

Spanish Cup on Premier Sports

Didn't know I had that channel

Atletico v Barca tomorrow 4-4 on agg

Rudiger appears to have won it

All the favourites in the PL won last night. Can't see that lasting.

Bank on City tonight pending team sheets

Full bank job again Nobby?

leiester lost-away to city 6 in 6, soton - home to palace lost 5 in 6, ipswich - away to bournemouth lost 5 in 6.

i dont expect that pattern to change tonight

at least if nobby is full bank on city,  the tramps in the park can enjoy their chips knowing nobby wont be around to pinch the last one

Ha Ha

I'll have you know I gave a tramp a box of curry and chips earlier this year.

Yes Foinavon all my Palace and Preston winnings. Easy come easy go

I will be splashing out 0.5% of my bank on 3-0 and aohw with a view to trade should a decent prophet materialise. GL Nobby.

Thank you Foinavon and GL to yourself

Liverpool team news confirmed - NO Alisson as Jones starts at right-back.

Liverpool starting XI vs Everton: Kelleher; Jones, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Salah, Szoboszlai, Diaz; Jota.

Subs: Jaros, Endo, Nunez, Chiesa, Gakpo, Elliott, Tsimikas, McConnell, Quansah.

Manchester City: Ederson, Matheus Luiz, Dias, Gvardiol, O’Reilly, Gonzalez, Gundogan, Savio, Grealish, Doku, Marmoush.
Subs: Ortega, Kovacic, De Bruyne, Silva, Vitor Reis, Foden, Bobb, Lewis, McAtee.

Leicester: Hermansen, Faes, Coady, Thomas, Justin, Ndidi, Soumare, Kristiansen, Daka, El Khannous, Vardy. Subs: Buonanotte, Coulibaly, Skipp, Ricardo Pereira, Ayew, De Cordova-Reid, Okoli, Mavididi, Stolarczyk.


Hmmm. I don't know what to make of that City lineup. It looks very attacking but where is the grit?

1-0 City

City's defence is lackadaisical

My Chinese feed is unwatchable. Greened out.

Southampton can overtake 2008 Derby

Bournemouth have completely done me in, a real stinger.

Slippy The Tractor boys know where the net is and Bournemouth are a real up and down side.

What has happened to Palace tonight?

Villa flying

Bottom teams waking up for easter,... Again.

Good win for Liverpool, a step closer.

What's up with goalie?

And now the game you've all been waiting for (said somewhat tongue-in-cheek)... Chelsea v Tottenham (Sky 8pm)

Both teams underperforming of late, the latter down-under performing (even worse). Hard one to put your life savings on, but still expect Chelsea to nick it. Prediction 2-1.

Your having a LARF
Spurs wont score in a month of Sundays

The result surely depends on whether Palmer rediscovers his form.

One to watch before betting

Chelsea XI: Sanchez; Gusto, Chalobah, Colwill, Cucurella; Caicedo, Fernandez; Palmer Sancho, Neto; Jackson.

Subs: Jorgensen, Adarabioyo, Badiashile, Madueke, Nkunku, Dewsbury-Hall, James, George, Acheampong.

Tottenham XI: Vicario; Udogie, Romero, Van de Ven, Spence; Bergvall, Maddison, Bentancur; Odobert, Solanke, Son.

Subs: Kinsky, Bissouma, Tel, Gray, Johnson, Porro, Sarr, Davies, Moore.

Was surprised that Chelsea were so short.

Hmmm?

Romero and VDV were crocked in the return fixture. Could it happen again?

wtf was that Vicario, Superman esque, double fisted punch of the ball in the 13 minute instead of just making a simple catch, then apologising to is team mates, he's a nervous kitten

How are Spurs only 5.4?

Surprised no goal(chavs)
Spurs TOOTHLESS

1-0 Enzo

Should've stood. Shame a goal like that is dismissed.

16th loss (and running) in the league. It's who we are, MATE.

cracking goal

2 great goals ruled out, neither would have been without VAR. Great for entertainment

Yep, goals are what the crowd really wants, not controversy

Sky want controversy

Greened out

At least 8 mins of added time

12 added

100 minutes of football is physically too much for players. No wonder they  have taken Palmer off

If I counted that right, Sanchez held onto that ball for 16 seconds. Won't be able to do that for much longer

8 seconds next season else it's a corner
and likely another minute to take corner...

Ref can award free kick this season, but they wont play
to the laws of the game.

Ange cupped his hand to his ear at the Spurs fans after the 'goal' as they were singing 'you don't know what you're doing'. Then it gets chalked off

the Spuds look a lot a better with Van de Ven back, defended well for long periods, the keeper needs replacing, the difference was that Chelsea just have much higher quality players, players like Bergvall, Odobert and Solanke are not going to get you anywhere significant in the long run. Maresca probably the bigger fraud if there was one as Chelsea are less the sum of their parts. Kind Regards.

and Levy recently been talking about sensible and 'sustainable spending' this summer

that means paying peanuts and getting monkeys, manager gets the blame for under performing, like serial winners in Conte and Jose, with Nuno know also ripping up trees, new manager comes in to ease pressure on Levy, rinse and repeat.  Kind Regards.

VDV most at fault for the goal imo. He had Enzo marked, let him slip in behind him, then goes to challenge Romero's man. Spence can't be blamed for not covering there imo, he couldn't have anticipated VDV doing that.