Premier League is back, and the first game week reminded us of just how much we have missed football in the handful of weeks it hasn’t been on for. As ever, our alternative tipping method for picking winners is on board with the Alternative Week 2 Premier League Predictions
This continues our alternative way of selecting Premier League winners from last season. Some of them based on football stats, and some have a very obscure link to football or news events of that week.
Given the introduction of new Covid restrictions in the UK to six people gathering, we are using UK population density to determine football winners this week.
To find out why and who, please read on in our Alternative Week 2 Premier League Predictions .
Alternative Week 2 Premier League Predictions – UK Population Density
Time for a non football reason to pick Premier League winners, and this week it is based on something newsworthy.
Given the new restrictions to six people change is coming in the UK, we say that towns/places with lower population density will feel the new restrictions less than those in busier areas.
So if they feel it less, the players from those areas will feel more confident and happier, and hence will play better.\
Population density is taken from the figures of each team’s local government area,
Well, we say anyway as an alternative method of picking winners.
Our Week 2 Premier League Predictions
Fresh from our full Week 2 Premier League preview are our tips for the weekend.
Everton 2 West Brom 0
Leeds 3 Fulham 0
Manchester Utd 2 Crystal Palace 0
Arsenal 4 West Ham 0
Southampton 1 Spurs 0
Newcastle 1 Brighton 1
Chelsea 1 Liverpool 1
Leicester 1 Burnley 1
Aston Villa 2 Sheffield Utd 1
Wolves 1 Man City 2
GURGLER v ALTERNATIVE TIPS SCOREBOARD
Week 1
Gurgler – 4/8
First Day Form – 4/8
Week 2 Premier League Predictions – Best of Barely Interesting Stats
Also from our full preview, we have the best of our barely interesting stats from the weekend’s fixtures.
And who doesn’t love stats.
West Brom haven’t beaten Everton at Goodison Park in September since 1965.
The combined xG for Leeds and Fulham last weekend was 0.4.
Four games in row between Leeds and Fulham from 2015 to 2017 finished 1-1.
Prior to their win over Man Utd last season, Crystal Palace hadn’t scored a goal in the six preceding games.
Arsenal’s current winning streak at home to West Ham is five matches, which is the equal longest run consecutively. However looking back through the history, the two previous times Arsenal got to five home wins in a row, West Ham pinched the sixth match.
If you calculate the 19/20 Premier League table from Jose Mourinho’s arrival at Spurs, Spurs would be fourth with 45 points from 26 matches and Southampton fifth with 44 points.
Spurs and Southampton had the exact same number of shots, shots on targets, big chances created, goals scored and conceded, and points won last weekend.
There have been just four goals scored in total in the last six matches at Newcastle.
Liverpool lead Chelsea 6-5 for games at Stamford Bridge since 2010 (+ three draws)
Burnley haven’t won at Leicester since 2007 when Owen Coyle was manager. In the calendar year of 2007, Leicester had seven different managers/groups of caretaker managers.
Sheffield United haven’t won at Aston Villa in the League since January 1966. England have won a World Cup since.
Manchester City have won nine of the ten games between these sides on a Monday. Wolves’ only win on a Monday came in 1982.
