IT’s a new season of the Premier League, but our weekly look into the EPL and tips return as ever. Our 2022-23 Premier League Week 1 Predictions + Stats Preview is a stat filled, barely interesting look at a bunch of Premier League stats and things.
Each week we provide a meandering look into the upcoming round of Premier League football, with not only our predictions for the upcoming Premier League fixtures, but offer up a wide range of H2H and in-season stats and barely interesting facts.
There’s so much to go through we can barely contain it to just one long page.
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2022-23 Premier League Week 1 Predictions
Here are our fearless predictions for the fixtures ahead, and tune in below for all the stats and barely interesting stats that go along with them.
Crystal Palace 1 Arsenal 2
Fulham 0 Liverpool 3
Bournemouth 0 Aston Villa 2
Leeds 0 Wolves 0
Newcastle 2 Nottingham Forest 1
Spurs 1 Southampton 0
Everton 0 Chelsea 2
Manchester United 2 Brighton 0
Leicester 1 Brentford 1
West Ham 0 Manchester City 2
21-22 Season Record – 50% – 191/380 – 40 Correct scores
Read on for the match by match full preview and stats.
2021-22 English Premier League – Season Summary Recap
Here is how the Premier League went down last season for interest in case you forgot. We will bring the new season when there’s enough games to bother.
Results colour coded. Goals stats. And a look at who each team is getting their points against.
2022-23 English Premier League Week 1 – Quick Stats
2021-22 – EACH TEAM’S FIRST SIX GAMES
CHAMPIONSHIP FIRST SIX GAMES
2021-22 – RECORD V PROMOTED SIDES
2022-23 Premier League Week 1 Predictions – Barely Interesting Stats
Here are the choicest cuts of barely interesting stats for the upcoming round of fixtures.
Arsenal (W1 D5 L2) have beaten Crystal Palace just once in their past eight meetings.
Arsenal and Crystal Palace have only met one before on a Friday – Boxing Day 1980 and it was a 2-2 draw.
Liverpool have won the past two games against Fulham on a Saturday by 4-0.
Bournemouth have beaten Aston Villa by 2-1 in the past three games.
Wolves (W3 D1) are undefeated in their last four trips to Leeds Utd.
Nottingham Forest were dead last in the Championship after six games last season.
Newcastle have never lost to Nottingham Forest in the Premier League (W5 D3 from 1992). And Newcastle have won all three Saturday Premier League fixtures at home v Forest.
Spurs (W3 D2) have never lost to Southampton in August.
Everton (W4 D2 L1) have lost just one of the last seven matches v Chelsea on a Saturday. Including the last two matches on a Saturday.
Manchester Utd have never lost to Brighton at home. The record is W13 D3. They have also won the last eight matches at home to Brighton.
Leicester (W9 D1) are undefeated in their last 10 games v Brentford and the last five in a row. Brentford’s last win v Leicester was in 1953.
Manchester City are undefeated in their last 14 games v West Ham going back to 2016 (W11 D3). And undefeated in the last eight games on a Sunday (W7 D1). West Ham have drawn the last two at home to City.
2022-23 Premier League Week 1 Predictions – Match by Match Stats Previews
Our big, beautiful full visual preview of each game is below.
More stats than you could probably ever want or need, for now.
FRIDAY 8PM – CRYSTAL PALACE v ARSENAL
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
Crystal Palace 1 Arsenal 2
SATURDAY 12:30PM – FULHAM v LIVERPOOL
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
Fulham 0 Liverpool 3
SATURDAY 3PM – BOURNEMOUTH v ASTON VILLA
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
Bournemouth 0 Aston Villa 2
SATURDAY 3PM – LEEDS v WOLVES
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
Leeds 0 Wolves 0
SATURDAY 3PM – NEWCASTLE v NOTTINGHAM FOREST
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
Newcastle 2 Nottingham Forest 1
SATURDAY 3PM – SPURS v SOUTHAMPTON
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
Spurs 1 Southampton 0
SATURDAY 5:30PM – EVERTON v CHELSEA
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
Everton 0 Chelsea 2
SUNDAY 2PM – MANCHESTER UTD v BRIGHTON
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
Manchester United 2 Brighton 0
SUNDAY 2PM – LEICESTER v BRENTFORD
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
Leicester 1 Brentford 1
SUNDAY 4:30PM – WEST HAM v MANCHESTER CITY
WHO’S GOING TO WIN?
West Ham 0 Manchester City 2
