Matchplug

Arsenal will look to get back to winning ways when they face Aston Villa in the Premier League for this game.

The Gunners have just been beaten 2-0 at home by Liverpool, but they will feel Liverpool is one of the most in-form clubs in the world now.

Mikel Arteta’s side has done very well against lesser opponents, but can they beat Villa?

They might not be playing against Liverpool, but they will face a former Liverpool star in hot form.

Philippe Coutinho joined Steven Gerrard’s side at the start of this year and he has been lighting up the Premier League.

The midfielder has 4 goals from 9 Premier League games and will be keen to improve on that tally when he visits Villa.

Arsenal won the reverse of this fixture, but Villa had won the previous three matches between both clubs and would be fancying their chances of upsetting the odds in this game.

City will visit Palace hoping to keep the gap between them and Liverpool at the top of the league table at 6 points, before the Reds play their outstanding game.

Pep Guardiola’s side are under a lot of pressure to keep winning matches and Jurgen Klopp’s men relentlessly pursue them.

Both clubs will still face each other in the league this season in a game that could decide where the title ends, but City needs to keep winning.

Palace has been an exciting club to watch under Patrick Vieira this season and they will put up a real show in London for this game.

They have won so many matches, but they have done enough to secure a comfortable finish inside the top half of the league table.

The Eagles are unbeaten in their last four matches and will not want to lose that record at home to City.

City was beaten by Tottenham not so long ago, and they will be worry about losing to yet another London club.

When both clubs met in the reverse of this fixture, City lost 2-0 at home to an unfancied Palace side, and a similar result will be disastrous.

Leeds United’s new manager, Jesse Marsch will look to get off to a winning start when he takes his side to visit Leicester City for this crunch Premier League game.

The American will quickly want to plug holes in a very leaky defence that conceded 20 goals in last month alone.

Leeds’ defence has always been poor, but this time they just concede and rarely score, which forced them to sack Marcelo Bielsa.

Leicester City is recovering from a bad form which nearly cost Brendan Rodgers his job and they will want to get their three points from Leeds.

They have won their last two matches against Randers and Burnley. The return of Jamie Vardy to full fitness means they will have a strong squad for this game.

While Leicester have three wins from their last five matches, Leeds has lost their last four matches in all competitions and conceded 10 goals in the last two.

This stat means Vardy could take good advantage of the Whites and score as many goals as he could in this game.

Matches between these two sides have been close, but Leeds are unbeaten in the last two head to heads.

Everton faces the toughest test of the Frank Lampard era when Manchester City comes to town for this fixture.

The Toffees have been inconsistent since the former midfielder became their boss and they would face a City side that needs to be ruthless.

Tottenham beat Pep Guardiola’s side in their last league game to blow the title race wide open and Lampard can help Liverpool close the gap at the top.

He played for Chelsea and now manages Everton, so he is the wrong person to help Liverpool, but his team needs a positive result more than the Reds do.

Everton has lost two and won two of their competitive matches under Lampard, but they have lost two of their last three matches in the league.

Before losing to Tottenham, City were on a splendid run of form and Pep Guardiola’s side is a well-oiled machine that can easily return to form.

They would play under some kind of pressure in this game, but Everton would need to be at their brilliant best to stop the defending champions from winning.

Liverpool will look to close the gap between them and Manchester City to just three points when they face Leeds in this rescheduled game.

The Reds were at one stage 12 points behind City, but they have now closed the gap on the defending champions.

Jurgen Klopp’s men have been brought back into the title race after Tottenham thrashed  City 2-3 at the weekend to blow the race open.

Liverpool added  Luis Diaz to their attack in the January transfer window and they now have one of the strongest squads in England.

The Colombian has not needed time to get used to playing for them and he would be keen to ensure keeps doing well when selected.

Leeds are struggling in this campaign and would still spend most of it battling to remain in the Premier League.

Marcelo Bielsa’s side heads into this game with no win from their last four games and three of them have been losses.

They also have a poor record against Liverpool with no wins from their last five head to heads. The Whites have also lost four of those fixtures.

Liverpool will host Leicester City in this exciting Premier League game that brings Brendan Rodgers back to his old club.

The Northern Irish man almost won the league with the Reds in the 2013/2014 season, but Klopp eventually did it in the 2019/2020 campaign.

He has since won league titles in Scotland with Celtic and recently won the FA Cup with his current Foxes team.

They have been eliminated from all the cup competitions and will now focus on a good run in the Premier League, but this game against Liverpool will be tough.

The Reds had to deal with losing Sadio Mane and Mohamed Salah to the AFCON, yet they have done very well in their absence.

Jurgen Klopp’s men remain in every competition including the Carabao Cup where they have already reached the final.

However, they want to win the league most especially and they are currently second on the table, behind Manchester City.

The champions are above Liverpool with nine points, but they have played a game more and they know Klopp’s men can do whatever they can.

Leicester is currently 11th on the league table and continues to struggle for consistency. They have not won any of their last three games in all competition.

However, they earned an impressive 1-0 win over Liverpool earlier in the year despite having a makeshift defence.

Liverpool has not lost any of their last five home matches against Leicester City, winning four of them.