There’s only one way to bring in the new year, and that is more football. So we offer up our 2022-23 New Years Premier League Week 18 Predictions and stats preview.
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. But here it is.
2022-23 Premier League Week 18 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.
West Ham 0 Brentford 1
Liverpool 4 Leicester 0
Wolves 0 Man Utd 2
Man City 5 Everton 0
Newcastle 3 Leeds 0
Bournemouth 0 Crystal Palace 0
Fulham 2 Southampton 1
Brighton 1 Arsenal 1
Spurs 2 Aston Villa 1
Nottingham Forest 0 Chelsea 1
22-23 Season Record – 50% – 77/153 – 16 Correct scores
Read on for the match by match full preview and stats.
2022-23 English Premier League Week 18 – Quick Stats
(Excludes Leeds v Man City)
PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON RESULTS SUMMARY
PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON RESULTS FORM
2022-23 Premier League Form Ratings…….
For no good reason we have come up with our own form rating system for the Premier League this season. Using performance based stats, with a bias towards recent fixtures, we have a score out of 100% for current form status.
2022-23 Premier League Week 18 Predictions – Match by Match H2H 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.
Note: For Midweek Stats we class midweek as Monday to Thursday.
FRIDAY 30TH DEC 19:45 – WEST HAM v BRENTFORD
OUR PREDICTION
West Ham 0 Brentford 1
- Brentford won both these fixtures last season.
- West Ham have now lost four in a row, sharing the worst current losing streak with Southampton.
- West Ham have won one of their five clashes with London teams this season, which is one more than Brentford.
FRIDAY 30TH DEC 20:00 – LIVERPOOL v LEICESTER
OUR PREDICTION
Liverpool 4 Leicester 0
- Leicester haven’t beaten Liverpool in Liverpool since 2000, it’s been L9 D2 since.
- These teams have met over a hundred times, but not one game has been on a Friday.
- Leicester have lost all five games v big six clubs this season. Wolves and Bournemouth are the only other sides o no take a point.
SATURDAY 31ST DEC 12:30 – WOLVES v MAN UTD
OUR PREDICTION
Wolves 0 Man Utd 2
- Wolves have lost all of their games v big six teams this season, and are yet to score a goal.
- Man Utd (W2 D2) are unbeaten on their last four trips to Wolves.
- Although Wolves (W1 D3) are unbeaten in their last four games v Man Utd on a Saturday.
SATURDAY 31ST DEC 15:00 – MAN CITY v EVERTON
OUR PREDICTION
Man City 5 Everton 0
- Man City have won nine straight v Everton.
- It’s also nine unbeaten v Everton on a Saturday (W7 D2)
- And 12 unbeaten at home going back to 2011 (W8 D4)
SATURDAY 31ST DEC 15:00 – NEWCASTLE v LEEDS
OUR PREDICTION
Newcastle 3 Leeds 0
- Newcastle are on a six game winning streak, the season’s longest run of wins.
- Newcastle’s 33 points in two-thirds of last season’s total after just 16 games. And have scored 72% of last season’s goals already.
- Leeds are undefeated in their last three trips to Newcastle (W1 D2)
- Newcastle have conceded the fewest goals in the Premier League this season. But looking across Europe they are well behind Juventus (7) and Barcelona (5)
SATURDAY 31ST DEC 15:00 – BOURNEMOUTH v CRYSTAL PALACE
OUR PREDICTION
Bournemouth 0 Crystal Palace 0
- Bournemouth have won just one o their last nine games v Crystal Palace. (W1 D4 L4)
- Bournemouth (D3 L5) are yet to beat a side in the middle eight of the table (at time of match)
- Crystal Palace have lost just one game this season v non big six teams (W5 D3 L1)
SATURDAY 31ST DEC 15:00 – FULHAM v SOUTHAMPTON
OUR PREDICTION
Fulham 2 Southampton 1
- Fulham’s games are the most likely to score over 2.5 goals (87.5%) and both teams scoring (75%)
- Going back to 2005, Fulham have won just one of the last 11 clashes with Southampton (W1 D4 L6)
- It’s W1 D2 L3 in their last six home games to Southampton too.
SATURDAY 31ST DEC 17:30 – BRIGHTON v ARSENAL
OUR PREDICTION
Brighton 1 Arsenal 1
- Brighton have only lost one of their last five games at home to Arsenal (W2 D2 L1). They have only lost two of their last nine v Arsenal anywhere.
- Arsenal have a decent record away to non big six teams this season – W5 D1 and a combined score of 12-1.
SUNDAY 1ST JAN 14:00 – SPURS v ASTON VILLA
OUR PREDICTION
Spurs 2 Aston Villa 1
- Aston Villa have lost all three trips to London this season.
- Going back to 2010 – ston Villa have won twice v Spurs in 21 games, Spurs have won 17 of those games.
SUNDAY 1ST JAN 16:30 – NOTTINGHAM FOREST v CHELSEA
OUR PREDICTION
Nottingham Forest 0 Chelsea 1
- Chelsea have won the last seven matches v Nottingham Forest (mainly cups) with Forest’s last win coming in 1997.
- Chelsea are undefeated v Nottingham Forest on a Sunday (W2 D1)
- Chelsea have won all six games v bottom six sides, with only Fulham, Man Utd and Spurs matching the 100% record.
