Chelsea, and in particular their manager Graham Potter, will visit Newcastle on Saturday in a match of maximum pressure for the “Blues” on Matchday 16 of the Premier League, the last one before the World Cup break in Qatar.
The London side have picked up just two points from their last four league games, adding to that an elimination this week in the English League Cup by losing to Manchester City. In the Premier ranking he is only seventh and Potter is on the razor’s edge.
The distance with Tottenham (4th), the last team in the ‘Champions zone’, is already five points. And six to Newcastle, third, even though those two teams have played another game.
Tottenham, who have lost three of their last four games, will try to react by hosting Leeds (12th) on Saturday, who have great confidence after beating Liverpool (2-1) and Bournemouth (4-3).
For his part, the Arsenal leader has in principle an affordable match, visiting the Wolverhampton of Julen Lopetegui, nineteenth in the standings. Manchester City, second on two points, will host Brentford (11th).
Liverpool, after beating Tottenham 2-1, will try to continue to climb the rankings and to do so they will host Southampton (18th), who changed their coach this week.
To close the last weekend of the English championship before the World Cup, Manchester United (5th) visits Fulham in London, trying to avoid a new setback that will complicate their race for the top positions.
– Program of the 16th day of the Premier League
– Saturday:
(12:30 GMT) Manchester City – Brentford
(15:00 GMT) Bournemouth – Everton
Liverpool – Southampton
Nottingham Forest – Crystal Palace
Tottenham – Leeds United
West Ham – Leicester
(17:30 GMT) Newcastle – Chelsea
(19:45 GMT) Wolverhampton – Arsenal
– Domingo:
(14:00 GMT) Brighton – Aston Villa
(16:30 GMT) Fulham – Manchester United
Classification: Pti JGEP GF GC Dif
1. Arsenal 34 13 11 1 1 31 11 20
2. Manchester City 32 13 10 2 1 39 12 27
3. Newcastle 27 14 7 6 1 28 11 17
4. Tottenham 26 14 8 2 4 27 18 9
5. Manchester United 23 13 7 2 4 18 19 -1
6. Brighton 21 13 6 3 4 22 17 5
7. Chelsea 21 13 6 3 4 17 16 1
8. Liverpool 19 13 5 4 4 25 16 9
9. Fulham 19 14 5 4 5 23 24 -1
10. Crystal Palace 19 13 5 4 4 15 17 -2
11. Brentford 16 14 3 7 4 21 24 -3
12. Leeds 15 13 4 3 6 19 22 -3
13. Aston Villa 15 14 4 3 7 14 21 -7
14. Leicester 14 14 4 2 8 23 25 -2
15. West Ham 14 14 4 2 8 12 15 -3
16. Everton 14 14 3 5 6 11 14 -3
17. Bournemouth 13 14 3 4 7 15 32 -17
18. Southampton 12 14 3 3 8 12 24 -12
19. Wolverhampton 10 14 2 4 8 8 22 -14
20. Nottingham 10 14 2 4 8 10 30 -20
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