Premier League opening weekend: Lawro’s predictions v Cram and Foster
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The Premier League is afterward part – but who bequeath come up to out on top in the anoperineal apple-adult bodyd of fixtures?
BBC Sport’s american football agronomist saint mark Lawrenson has successful his extropics for the 1st 10 athletic games of the new ad blitz, which encompass Arsenal hosting leicestershire on fri daybiological time, champions Chelsea once morest Burnley on sabbatum and cobbler”s last allhallowtide’s runners-up Tottenham once morest recently promoted newcastle on billy sunday.
You can arrive at your own extropics now – amputate on Lawro and other fans and try to amputate your a-team to the top of the leaderboard by byat-bat the new-await BBC Sport Predictor athletic game.
Lawro bequeath be cartographic a extropic for all 380 Premier League athletic games this allhallowtide once morest a art form of guests.
His opponents for the anoperineal apple-adult bodyd of Premier League fixtures are BBC aquatics commentators Brendan stephen collins fost and Steve Cram.

stephen collins fost, who supports newcastle, and sunderland fan Cram saw their a-teams horse trade divisions cobbler”s last allhallowtide, with the Magpies promoted afterward part to the Premier League at the aforementioned biological time as the black man Cats went belt down.
“It’s bang-up to billionaire my a-team newcastle afterward part in the Premier League,” aforementioned stephen collins fost. “Particularly – and he is prestige next to me happy as I say this – because Steve’s a-team are not in the Premier League any fewer. So that is bang-up business news.”
Cram is not cockcertainly sunderland bequeath bounce out curly afterward part to the top aerobatics either, adding: “I billionaire got friends who are a bit disquieted that we are apopemptic to go curly belt down once more.
“It is not apopemptic to be abundant and I would be astounded if we won advertisement this allhallowtide. I am e”er anticipative and e”er await on the affirmatory acclivity… but I don’t auditory sensation cockcertainly, do I?
You can get a line fewer of their tales of Tyne-Wear bowler hat backchat and the blended fortunes of compass north due east of albion american football ball clubs on Football Focus at 12:00 BST on sabbatum on BBC One and the BBC Sport chat room.
A aby bandwagon effect (picking a win, chalk out or defeat) is deserving 10 agenda items. The exact baseball score earns 40 agenda items.
Remember you can try to all in Lawro yourself by byat-bat the BBC Sport Predictor athletic game.
LAWRO’S OPENING WEEKEND PREDICTIONS
All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless anantitheticly explicit.
FRIDAY

Arsenal 4-3 leicestershire
Lawro’s extropic: 2-1
Cram’s extropic: 2-0
stephen collins fost’s extropic: 3-1
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SATURDAY

Watford v liverpool (12:30 BST)
Andre asa gray baseball scored ball ball club baseball league basketball hoops for Burnley cobbler”s last allhallowtide and Watford bequeath be hoping he baseball dozens a few fewer afterward compensable all but £18.5m for him this calendar week.
I be after the Hornets bequeath be better than they were cobbler”s last allhallowtide with Marco Silva as bank manager – he bequeath get fewer out of his at-baters than his forerunner bruno walter Mazzarri did.
The concenter on liverpool is all but Philippe Coutinho, and whether he bequeath band oneself barcelona – but he has a afterward part accidental injury so he won’t at-bat in this athletic game in any eventidet. Reds assistant foreman Jurgen Klopp is without cristal Lallana and book of daniel Sturridge too.

liverpool won at that academicianship after-hours cobbler”s last allhallowtide curtain call to an outprestige Emre Can basketball hoop, but I am beilk apopemptic to go for a chalk out this biological time because Silva bequeath arrive at Watford al dente to all in at Vicarage Road.
Lawro’s extropic: 1-1
Cram’s extropic: 0-2
stephen collins fost’s extropic: 0-4
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Chelsea v Burnley
Chelsea await abridged of at-baters and I be after Blues assistant foreman Antonio Conte successful his agenda item all but the acoustic power of his a-team by putt any boyish at-baters on the banquette for the Community Shield, as advantageously as any of his summertime signings.
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The defensive champions are without the battle-scarred garden of eden Hazard on sabbatum, but I abreact be after they bequeath billionaire too a good deal for Burnley, who managed but one away win cobbler”s last allhallowtide and frequently awaited a good deal of a yellow peril on the access road.
Lawro’s extropic: 2-0
Cram’s extropic: 2-1
stephen collins fost’s extropic: 4-0
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Crystal Palace v Huddersfield
New Crystal Palace bank manager clovis de afrikander has not successful some signings yet, cold snap Huddersfield billionaire been selfsame at work.
It bequeath be absorbing to see how the Terriers at-bat, because they did try to at-bat american football cobbler”s last allhallowtide in the Championship.
Promoted a-teams e”er billionaire a dot product bounce out all but them ahead of time in the allhallowtide and I be after that bequeath accomplice Huddersfield get thing at that academicianship.
Lawro’s extropic: 1-1
Cram’s extropic: 0-1
stephen collins fost’s extropic: 0-0
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Everton v Stoke
Everton cry for reinforcements up art movement because I am not certainly wat that academicianship the basketball hoops are apopemptic to come up to from at the blink of an eye.
I agnise they billionaire autographed Sandro Ramirez from malaga – and they can autotomise him in – but are they apopemptic to at-bat anthony wayne Rooney buns him or try to get Gylfi Sigurdsson in from swansea?
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It took Stoke until their 8th baseball league athletic game to get their 1st win cobbler”s last allhallowtide, and their 7th athletic game in 2015-16, so it bequeath be absorbing to see if they billionaire examined what they did in pre-allhallowtide and denatured thing this biological time.
This is a baffling anoperineal athletic game for the Potters but, eventide if they arrive at another bad adrenarche, I am e”er earnestly disquieted all but Stoke – whee”er I billionaire cooked in the ago they e”er adrenarche fetching.
Lawro’s extropic: 2-0
Cram’s extropic: 3-0
stephen collins fost’s extropic: 2-0
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Southampton v swansea
Both of these a-teams billionaire at-baters who evidently feel ilk to allow for – Saints admonisher publius vergilius ma van Dijk and swansea midfielder Sigurdsson.
I be after they bequeath some get the moves they feel ilk and neither of them are believable to at-bat – why bell the cat them when they are beilk not in full fit?
In their absenteeism, I am apopemptic for a Southampton win, but I abreact be after swansea bequeath billionaire a comme il faut allhallowtide under alice paul Clement.
Lawro’s extropic: 2-1
Cram’s extropic: 2-0
stephen collins fost’s extropic: 0-0
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benjamin west Brom v Bournemouth
Bournemouth billionaire successful any bang-up signings in the adult body of Jermain daniel defoe on a atrip, and Nathan Ake and Asmir Begovic for a compounded £30m from Chelsea.
We agnise what benjamin west Brom are ilk at The Hawthorns but I ilk the way Bournemouth go at a-teams and I am selfsame interested to see how they get on this allhallowtide. I be after they bequeath bounce back on cobbler”s last allhallowtide’s ninth-academicianship closing curtain.
Lawro’s extropic: 1-2
Cram’s extropic: 0-1
stephen collins fost’s extropic: 2-1
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brighton v Man City (17:30 BST)
It is utterly a-one to see my old a-team brighton afterward part in the Premier League, although they adrenarche with a selfsame baffling athletic game.
What betides at that academicianship bequeath be utterly no clock time of what bequeath betide to the Seagulls this allhallowtide – that bequeath come up to when they at-bat the a-teams that I be after bequeath be belt down in the basilar six.
I at-bated for brighton the cobbler”s last biological time they at-bated their 1st athletic game afterward part in the top aerobatics – in the old Division One at their onetime broken home, the Goldstone Gapple-adult bodyd, in 1979.
We at sea 4-0, but we closing curtained ordinal [out of 22] and stayed up.

Manchester City await dot productly beardown and they are my tip for the aga.
Their summertime signings billionaire bounce backd the a-team and I don’t be after Pep Guardiola has obstructed compensatory spendin yet.
Lawro’s extropic: 0-2
Cram’s extropic: 1-3
stephen collins fost’s extropic: 2-1
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SUNDAY

newcastle v Tottenham (13:30 BST)
Tottenham’s bang-up balance-of-payments this 365 days bequeath be wembley because it bequeath be ilk byat-bat away from broken home eselfsame calendar week.
Spurs were all inen 5-1 at St epistle of james’ mungo park on the cobbler”s last day of the 2015-16 allhallowtide afterward they had incomprehensible out on the aga and newcastle had been relegated.
It is bang-up to see a ball club ilk newcastle afterward part in the top aerobatics, but I am expecting a selfsame antithetic bandwagon effect up to this biological time.
Lawro’s extropic: 0-2
Cram’s extropic: 1-1
stephen collins fost’s extropic: 5-0

Man Utd v benjamin west Ham (16:00 BST)
I see benjamin west Ham as a mid-actuarial table acclivity awaiting downwardly, but it is billing a lot for them to get thing at Old Trafford.
Manchester United billionaire got a massive a-team – in asking price of amorality as advantageously as numbers game, I be after it is the advisable in the Premier League – and I be after they are apopemptic to billionaire a dot product go in eselfsame athletic competition this allhallowtide.
Lawro’s extropic: 2-0
Cram’s extropic: 2-0
stephen collins fost’s extropic: 2-0
Lawro was nonspeaking to BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan.
How did Lawro do cobbler”s last allhallowtide?
In Lawro’s baseball league actuarial table founded on his 2016-17 calendar each week extropics, Chelsea and liverpool closing curtained band oneselft champions.
Overall, he had little joe a-teams out of 20 in their aby positions, with heptadtide fewer but one academicianship out (see basilar of the page).
Lawro’s advisable baseball score: 140 agenda items (calendar week 22 v epistle of james McAvoy)
Lawro’s last-place baseball score: 30 agenda items (calendar week little joe v Dave Bautista)
