Premier League gameweek 4: fixtures, predictions and predicted lineups
Ten games from Saturday to Monday, with Manchester United against Manchester City on Sunday. Every kick-off time and our call on each fixture. Predicted line-ups land on Friday.
Premier League gameweek four runs from Saturday 12 to Monday 14 September, and it carries the biggest game of the week in England: the Manchester derby, Sunday at 17:30 Italian time.
Below are all ten fixtures with kick-off times and our call on each.
Saturday 12 September
16:00 Bournemouth v Brentford. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
16:00 Chelsea v Hull City. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
16:00 Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest. Our call: the away side to score, confidence 5 out of 10.
16:00 Crystal Palace v Ipswich Town. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
16:00 Liverpool v Fulham. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
18:30 Tottenham v Everton. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
21:00 Sunderland v Arsenal. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10.
Sunday 13 September
15:00 Coventry City v Brighton. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 6 out of 10.
17:30 Manchester United v Manchester City. Our call: the away side to score, confidence 7 out of 10.
Monday 14 September
21:00 Leeds United v Newcastle. Our call: under 4.5 goals, confidence 7 out of 10.
The derby, and the rest
Manchester United against Manchester City, Sunday at 17:30 Italian time, is the season's first derby. Our call is the away side to score, confidence 7 out of 10.
Sunderland against Arsenal on Saturday night comes three days after the Gunners won in Naples: we have under 4.5 goals, confidence 7. And Leeds United against Newcastle closes the round on Monday night.
Predicted line-ups
They do not exist yet, and anyone publishing them today is guessing: managers speak the day before the game. This page is updated on Friday with a predicted line-up for every fixture, and again when the confirmed team sheets land, about an hour before each kick-off.
How to read these calls
Every call carries a confidence from 1 to 10, our measure of how solid the picture is: not a promise, a weight. On Monday, with the round closed, we count all of them in the recap, the ones that missed included.
Every game with our calls is on the Premier League page. The record of our settled calls is in the results history, and the individual calls are in player predictions.
