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Chelsea vs Tottenham headlines our six games this time round as the Blues look to make it seven straight league wins over their London rivals.

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Every week, we bring you the form, key stats and more for each of our six games to help you make your predictions.

Ready to check how we see it all playing out on Matchday 8?

ARSENAL 2-0 EVERTON

• Kick-off: Sat 24th Oct, 15:00
• Match odds: Arsenal 4/11; Draw 18/5; Everton 13/2
• Arsenal PL form: WWLWW
• Everton PL form: LDWDD
• Player to watch: Bukayo Saka (Arsenal)
• Key stat: Arsenal have been drawing at half-time in five league games this season… and won all five

Arsenal tend to save their best stuff for the second act these days.

Five times this Premier League season Mikel Arteta’s side have gone in level at half-time, five times they’ve won. Eight of their 11 league goals have arrived after the break, too.

Everton, scorers of a first-half goal in just one of the last seven meetings, should know this script by now.

March’s encounter followed it virtually to the letter: goalless at the interval, settled 2-0 in Arsenal’s favour by substitutes Viktor Gyokeres and Max Dowman.

As such draw/Arsenal half-time/full-time heads our 8/1 Bet Builder alongside a Bukayo Saka shot, given he has tested the keeper with 10 of his 17 efforts to date.

The referee’s whistle should be well used with Arsenal the most fouled side in the league, while James Garner comes in with five fouls in his six league starts.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean cards. Everton commit the fewest fouls of any team overall and the Gunners rarely see yellow; the March meeting produced 23 fouls but zero bookings.

Backing under 3.5 total cards could prove a smart play by that measurement.

BetMGM’s Bet Builder: HT/FT draw/Arsenal, under 3.5 cards, Garner 1+ foul & Saka 1+ SoT @ 8/1

COVENTRY 2-1 FULHAM

• Kick-off: Sat 24th Oct, 15:00
• Match odds: Coventry 15/8; Draw 23/10; Fulham 13/10
• Coventry PL form: LWWLL
• Fulham PL form: WLDDL
• Player to watch: Jack Rudoni (Coventry)
• Key stat: No Coventry match has ended in a draw yet this season

Coventry and Fulham passed each other on the stairs back in 2001, the Sky Blues heading down as the Cottagers came up.

A quarter of a century later they finally share a Premier League pitch.

So far Coventry haven’t done half measures – they’ve yet to share the spoils in seven top-flight outings while their last three home games in all competitions have contained three goals or more.

Fulham, meanwhile, have won once in their last 13 Premier League away trips and lost both Championship meetings with the Sky Blues the last time they shared a division five years ago.

Coventry goalscorer against Spurs on Monday Jack Rudoni, with six of his 12 shots finding the target across all competitions, features alongside Fulham’s Alex Iwobi in our BetMGM Bet Builder.

Iwobi peppered Hull with five shots last weekend – including scoring the winner. A shot on target for both Iwobi and Rudoni in a Coventry win and over 2.5 total goals could be worth supporting at 11/2.

BetMGM’s Bet Builder: Coventry to win, over 2.5 goals and Iwobi & Rudoni 1+ SoT each @ 11/2

CHELSEA 3-1 TOTTENHAM

• Kick-off: Sat 24th Oct, 17:30
• Match odds: Chelsea 4/6; Draw 3/1; Tottenham 16/5
• Chelsea PL form: WWLDL
• Tottenham PL form: WDLDD
• Player to watch: Cole Palmer (Chelsea)
• Key stat: At least six cards have been shown in each of the last three meetings

Chelsea have beaten Tottenham in six straight Premier League games and are unbeaten in five at Stamford Bridge this season.

Spurs picked up their first win of the season on Monday night, 3-1 over Coventry, doubling their previous goal tally for the season in one game while moving them out of the relegation zone.

But they shouldn’t get too cocky just yet, having managed just six shots on target and a single goal across the last three London derbies against the Blues in the league.

No player has scored more against them in recent times than Cole Palmer with three, all from the spot.

This fixture has never needed an excuse to boil over, with 23 cards shown across the last three meetings alone.

Expect Conor Gallagher to be in the thick of it as he so often is. The ex-Chelsea man averages two fouls a game and committed four on his return to the Bridge in May.

BetMGM’s Bet Builder: Chelsea to win, Palmer to score, Gallager 2+ fouls & over 5.5 cards @ 10/1

CRYSTAL PALACE 1-1 NEWCASTLE

• Kick-off: Sun 25th Oct, 14:00
• Match odds: Crystal Palace 13/8; Draw 5/2; Newcastle 11/8
• Crystal Palace PL form: LWDLW
• Newcastle PL form: LLWLD
• Player to watch: Daichi Kamada (Crystal Palace)
• Key stat: Newcastle have won just one of their last 12 league visits to Selhurst Park

Both managers could do with a win here, but neither defence inspires much confidence.

Palace have shipped the joint-most goals in the division with 17 – their most at this stage in over 45 years.

Things are just as bleak up north.

Newcastle have lost their last two away games, conceding four in both, while their xG difference of -3.9 ranks 18th in the league.

They don’t travel well to Selhurst either, winning just once in their last 12 Premier League visits, with half of those occasions ending in a stalemate.

Will Osula will fancy his chances all the same. The Denmark international scored there in April and is taking just over three shots a game – the second-most for Matthias Jaissle’s men behind Joe Willock.

At the other end, the ever-reliable Daichi Kamada has twice as many goals and assists as any other Palace player in the league and could well add to that against a team that can’t help but give up chances.

Simply put, birds of a feather draw together.

BetMGM’s Bet Builder: Draw, BTTS, Osula 2+ shots & Kamada to score or assist @ 11/1

LIVERPOOL 1-2 BRIGHTON

• Kick-off: Sun 25th Oct, 14:00
• Match odds: Liverpool 23/20; Draw 13/5; Brighton 2/1
• Liverpool PL form: WLWDW
• Brighton PL form: WWWWD
• Player to watch: Charalampos Kostoulas (Brighton)
• Key stat: Brighton have won their last four league games 15-0 on aggregate

‘Flying’ is putting it lightly when it comes to Brighton’s start to the season.

They arrive at Anfield third in the table as the division’s top scorers with 23 goals and haven’t conceded in four league games.

Surprisingly, Liverpool are yet to win a league game at Anfield this season, drawing with Nottingham Forest and Fulham before losing 3-0 to Manchester City.

Andoni Iraola will be without a number of key players here due to injury. That list includes Hugo Ekitike, who scored twice in the 2-0 win over the Seagulls on Merseyside last season.

Alexander Isak is back, though, and his winner at Brentford suggests he could be the man to finally beach the visitors’ momentum.

Charalampos Kostoulas is no pushover in his own right – a scorer in two of Brighton’s last four league games, he is also their most frequent shooter with around three per 90.

The Reds may end Fabian Hurzeler’s clean sheet run but they don’t look capable of ending their unbeaten one.

Quite the opposite, actually.

BetMGM’s Bet Builder: Brighton to win, BTTS, Isak 1+ SoT & Kostoulas 3+ shots @ 5/1

SUNDERLAND 1-1 LEEDS

• Kick-off: Sun 25th Oct, 16:30
• Match odds: Sunderland 2/1; Draw 11/5; Leeds 13/10
• Sunderland PL form: LLLLD
• Leeds PL form: DLDWD
• Player to watch: Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Leeds)
• Key stat: Leeds have drawn four of their seven Premier League games this season

The Stadium of Light played an essential role in Sunderland’s seventh-place finish last season, with no visiting side winning there until February.

Two have already done so this term and it’s not looking good.

Rock bottom and with pressure mounting, Regis Le Bris has little choice but to encourage his team to go for it on Sunday and the possible return of Brian Brobbey would certainly help.

Leeds have no reason to make it any easier for them, though.

They finished 24 points above Sunderland when both were promoted yet failed to beat them last season – drawing 1-1 on Wearside and losing 1-0 at Elland Road – despite having more shots and corners in both.

The Whites’ decent start to the season has slowed down a tad, with two draws and one loss in their last three.

But Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored on his last visit here and, with four league goals already this season, he’s the man most likely to get on the scoresheet.

Whether that’s enough for three points is another matter.

BetMGM’s Bet Builder: Under 2.5 goals, Calvert Lewin to score, Leeds most corners @ 14/1

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