Premier League predictions: Lawro v Countdown star Rachel Riley
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BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.
Lawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League fixtures is Countdown co-presenter Rachel Riley.
Riley is better known for her love of Maths of the Day rather than Match of the Day - she is the numbers expert on the long-running Channel Four show.
But the Oxford University mathematics graduate actually knows her football as well as her figures and was brought up as a Manchester United fan - starting with a United babygrow and teddy bear when she was born - because her dad is from Salford.
Her favourite United players are Ryan Giggs and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and she also enjoys playing too - she starred at the Soccer Six Fest in August.
Will Riley get her calculations correct with her scores for the weekend? You can see all of her predictions on Football Focus at 12:10 GMT on Saturday on BBC One and the BBC Sport website.
| Premier League predictions | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Lawro | Rachel | |
| SATURDAY | |||
| Newcastle v Liverpool | 1-0 | 1-1 | 1-3 |
| Arsenal v Burnley | 3-0 | 3-0 | 3-0 |
| Chelsea v QPR | 2-1 | 3-0 | 4-0 |
| Everton v Swansea | 0-0 | 2-0 | 1-1 |
| Hull v Southampton | 0-1 | 2-1 | 0-1 |
| Leicester v West Brom | 0-1 | 2-0 | 2-1 |
| Stoke v West Ham | 2-2 | 1-0 | 2-1 |
| SUNDAY | |||
| Man City v Man Utd | 1-0 | 2-0 | 3-2 |
| Aston Villa v Tottenham | 1-2 | 1-1 | 0-2 |
| MONDAY | |||
| Crystal Palace v Sunderland | 1-3 | 2-1 | 2-2 |
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth ONE point. Getting the exact score correct earns THREE points.
Last weekend, Lawro got one correct result from 10 Premier League games, predicting the perfect score in Swansea's 2-0 win over Leicester.
His total score of three points was beaten by The Only Way Is Essex star Mark Wright and his Strictly Come Dancing partner Karen Hauer, who got four correct results including one perfect score.
We are keeping a record of the totals for Lawro and his guests (below), and showing a table of how the Premier League would look if all of Lawro's predictions were correct (at the bottom of the page).
| Total scores after week 9 | |
|---|---|
| Lawro | 70 |
| Guests | 52 |
LAWRO'S PREDICTIONS
SATURDAY
Newcastle 1-0 Liverpool
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Rachel's prediction: 1-3
Arsenal 3-0 Burnley
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Rachel's prediction: 3-0
Chelsea 2-1 QPR
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Rachel's prediction: 4-0
Everton 0-0 Swansea
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Rachel's prediction: 1-1
Hull 0-1 Southampton
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Rachel's prediction: 0-1
Leicester 0-1 West Brom
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Rachel's prediction: 2-1
Stoke 2-2 West Ham
Lawro's prediction: 1-0
Rachel's prediction: 2-1
SUNDAY
Man City 1-0 Man Utd
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Rachel's prediction: 3-2
Aston Villa 1-2 Tottenham
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Rachel's prediction: 0-2
MONDAY
Crystal Palace 1-3 Sunderland
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Rachel's prediction: 2-2
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan
| Lawro v Guests | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| P9 | W5 | D2 | L2 |
| SCORE | GUEST LEADERBOARD |
|---|---|
| 10 | Liam Fray |
| 7.78 | Lawro (average after 9 weeks) |
| 8 | Roddy Doyle |
| 7 | Ossie Ardiles |
| 6 | Mark Wright & Karen Hauer |
| 5 | Joe Cole, Sarah Harding & Leon Fagbemi, Van McCann |
| 4 | Kell Brook |
| 2 | Neil Lennon |
Lawro's best score: 17 points (week seven v Ossie Ardiles)
Lawro's worst score: 3 points (week nine v Mark Wright and Karen Hauer)
| ARROWS DENOTE DIFFERENCE TO REAL TABLE | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POS | TEAM | P | W | D | L | PTS | DIFF | +/- |
| 1. | Chelsea | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 25 |  | 0 |
| 2. | Man City | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 21 |  | +1 |
| 3. | Liverpool | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 21 | | +4 |
| 4. | Man Utd | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 20 | | +4 |
| 5. | Arsenal | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 18 | | 0 |
| 6. | Stoke | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 16 | | +6 |
| 7. | Southampton | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 15 |  | -5 |
| 8. | Everton | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | | +1 |
| 9. | Tottenham | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | | +2 |
| 10. | Newcastle | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | | +4 |
| 11. | Sunderland | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 11 | | +7 |
| 12. | Swansea | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 10 | | -6 |
| 13. | Crystal Palace | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 | | +3 |
| 14. | West Brom | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | -1 |
| 15. | Aston Villa | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 0 |
| 16. | QPR | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | | +3 |
| 17. | West Ham | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | | -13 |
| 18. | Hull | 9 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | | -8 |
| 19. | Leicester | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | | -2 |
| 20. | Burnley | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 4 | | 0 |