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Newcastle host Manchester United at St James’ Park as they continue their push for Champions League football on Golden Goals Matchday 32.
The Magpies need the points if they are to pip challengers Chelsea, who face Ipswich to Europe’s premier competition.
Aston Villa have top-four aspirations of their own and make what should be a routine trip to the south coast to play already-relegated Southampton while second-place Arsenal follow up Tuesday’s memorable 3-0 win over Real Madrid by welcoming Brentford to the Emirates.
Meanwhile, Everton travel to Nottingham Forest and runaway leaders Liverpool are at home to West Ham.
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Nottingham Forest 1-0 Everton
Nottingham Forest have had a remarkable season and, despite a loss to Aston Villa last weekend, Champions League football remains well within reach.
However, the intensity of such a long season is starting to show for Nuno Espirito Santo’s side.
Chris Wood, the fourth-highest scorer in the league with 18 goals, has been sidelined since the international break and is a doubt for the game with Everton.
Without Wood in the lineup, the Tricky Trees have failed to score more than one in a game.
Anthony Elanga can now be added to the list of casualties at the City Ground as the Sweden international was taken off at half-time on Golden Goals Matchday 31 and is undergoing a scan this week to understand the extent of his discomfort.
The former Manchester United winger is Forest’s most potent provider with eight assists as well as their second-most fruitful forward with six Premier League goals. He will undoubtedly be missed.
Nuno’s injury-hit attack is facing one of the league’s most robust defences. Despite their lowly league position, Everton boast the second-best rearguard outside of the top four.
David Moyes’s issues lie at the other end of the field. Everton have accumulated the worst xG outside of the bottom three and Iliman Ndiaye is the joint-second-lowest leading scorer among Premier League clubs, ranking only ahead of four-goal Paul Onuachu at already-relegated Southampton.
Somehow the Toffees are even more toothless on their travels with a league-low 11 goals away from home this season. Forest to win, both teams to not to score and under 2.5 goals in the game seems an entirely sensible Bet Builder at 5/2.
It won’t be one for the neutrals – but another Forest win is incoming.
Arsenal 3-2 Brentford
A stunning pair of free-kicks from Declan Rice – the first two of his career – helped the Gunners to a memorable 3-0 win over European champions Real Madrid to put them well on the way to a Champions League semi-finals in midweek.
After a frustrating draw away to Everton at the weekend that was further compounded by Liverpool’s loss to Fulham the next day, might that result be just the tonic to turbo charge the end of their campaign?
They have a good recent record against Matchday 32 opponents Brentford, winning four and drawing one of their previous five clashes. However, they have consistently been close affairs with more than one goal separating the two teams just once in that run.
While Gabriel’s injury is a concern, the Gunners still have the best defence in the division, conceding just 26 goals throughout the campaign. Brentford are hardly goal-shy though – only Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham, Arsenal (54) and Chelsea have scored more goals than their London rivals (51) this season.
Curiously, despite their 54 goals, Arsenal are one of only three teams in the top 14 whose top scorer in the Premier League remains in single digits (Kai Havertz with nine).
With the German likely out until the end of the season, can the returning Bukayo Saka step up? He scored seven minutes into his return from his own lengthy absence in the win over Fulham the weekend before last. You can get Saka to score anytime and Arsenal to win at odds of 5/2.
The Bees have been far too streaky this season to sustain a challenge for the European places. Their recent home and away form is proof of that streakiness.
They are without a win in eight at home but have won five of their last six on the road, scoring 15 and conceding just four.
Despite Brentford’s good away form, this one will be a narrow home win.
Southampton 0-4 Aston Villa
Southampton’s Premier League misery is almost over.
Officially relegated, the Saints will be playing Championship football again next season. But they do still need a win to avoid the indignity of usurping 2007/08 Derby County as the Premier League’s worst-ever side.
Managerless Saints couldn’t have chosen a worse opponent right now than Aston Villa. Unai Emery’s men have won four Premier League matches on the spin and lost just one of their last seven.
The Villans have also won four consecutive games against Southampton without conceding a goal while Saints fans have not witnessed a win at St Mary’s since November.
They won’t get another one here.
Averaging just 0.32 points per game, they will have a torrid time against an in-form Villa side.
While they travel to the south coast amid a two-legged Champions League quarter-final against Paris Saint-Germain, they will have too much for their hosts.
Marcus Rashford and Maro Asensio have been a revelation since arriving in January – Rashford to assist and Asensio to score in a Villa win here is an appealing 12/1.
The home side will just want the season over but they may well have a few more moments of pain to endure.
An away win lies in store here, and a comfortable one at that.
Liverpool 3-1 West Ham
The Reds tasted their first league defeat since September this past weekend, their second of this campaign – an impressive run during Arne Slot’s first season in charge that will likely see them lifting silverware in May, if not sooner.
That brings us to Sunday and, with all due respect to West Ham, they aren’t Fulham; winless in their last four, Graham Potter’s side sit 16th in the table after lacklustre performances against Newcastle and Wolves.
The former Brighton and Chelsea manager has won three, drawn three and lost five since his arrival in east London, averaging a measly 1.09 points per game.
It's far from relegation form, given the quality of the bottom three this year, but it's nowhere near good enough for a team many expected to push on after making a few key signings at the start of the season.
Liverpool well and truly hammered the Irons 5-0 the last time they met and we’re predicting a similar affair at Anfield while there is a tasty 6/1 for a over three goals in the match, Mohamed Salah to have a shot on target and Luis Diaz to score or assist.
A win on Merseyside would also be their sixth consecutive win at home. Added motivation to a team on the verge of greatness.
Chelsea 3-0 Ipswich
Ipswich surely blew that last remaining hope of survival when they threw away a lead at home to Wolves last week.
The Old Gold were the only club they could realistically catch and defeat at Portman Road left them 12 points from safety with only seven games to play.
In truth, it was always unlikely. The Tractor Boys haven’t been good enough on their return to the top flight, winning just once in 2025 and only four times overall.
Interestingly, the one side they have beaten at home is the team they travel to face here: Chelsea.
It will be a different proposition at Stamford Bridge, though, where Chelsea have lost just two times all season and only once since the opening day.
The Blues have won their last five league games at home and only conceded twice in the process; they need the points here to continue their push for the top four, too,
With Cole Palmer out of form, midfielder Enzo Fernandez has popped up with some important goals of late – he nabbed the winner against Spurs in the last outing here and 12/5 for him to have a shot on target and Chelsea to win to-nil seems plausible.
With the Blues topping the charts for bookings with a whopping 87 and Ipswich fourth-highest with 74, expect a feisty one in west London where the total match bookings market could provide decent value
Ultimately, though, another afternoon of toil beckons for Kieran McKenna’s men.
Newcastle 3-1 Manchester United
It’s turning into quite the season for Eddie Howe’s Magpies.
A first trophy in over 70 years is already in the bag and now the attention turns to securing a spot in the top four and Champions League football once more.
They face Manchester United here with the Red Devils arriving in the North East after last weekend’s dismal 0-0 Manchester Derby draw.
United have lost four of their last five against Newcastle and haven’t scored in any of those defeats, so this makes for a pretty ominous 90 minutes for Ruben Amorim’s men.
They have improved of late, losing just one of their last six, but have work to do to avoid their worst-ever Premier League finish. They lie in 13th, seven points outside the top half.
Jacob Murphy has seven goals and seven assists for the Magpies this season and notched twice in the comfortable 3-0 win at Leicester. It’s 23/5 for him to score here, the game to have over 2.5 goals and Newcastle to win.
Newcastle’s surge for the Champions League will continue unabated.
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