Premier League Pick 3: Round 4.
Season record: 5-2-2
Chelsea provided my lone win while Manchester United gave me a spectacular loss. Huddersfield and Cardiff City gave me the sure draw last week.
Time to brush it off and do better with this weekend's picks.
Liverpool (3-0-0)(9 pts) @ Leicester City (2-0-1)(6 pts)
Saturday
King Power Stadium
Liverpool has maximum points and lead the league with wins over Crystal Palace, West Ham and Brighton. They are the only team that hasn't conceded a goal.
Sadio Mane and Mohamed Saleh has accounted for five of the seven Liverpool goals.
Liverpool has never won their first four games in the Premier League. They last achieved that back in the 1990-91 season in the First Division.
Leicester City have wins over Southampton and Wolverhampton with a loss to Manchester United. Manager, Claude Puel has to be satisfied with the Foxes win over his former club, Southampton. Harry Maguire headed the game winner in stoppage time.
Leicester will be without Big Six killer, Jamie Vardy. He is serving a three game suspension. Vardy has scored 27 of the 63 goals that Leicester have scored against the Big Six.
Liverpool leads the series, 47-39 with 24 draws. The Reds keep it going.
Liverpool 2-1
Tottenham (3-0-0)(9 pts) @ Watford (3-0-0)(9 pts)
Sunday
Vicarage Road
The battle of the unbeatens takes place at Vicarage Road on Sunday. Watford has wins over Brighton, Burnley and Crystal Palace, while Tottenham have defeated Newcastle, Fulham and Manchester United. Watford is looking to winning its first four matches for the second time in their history; (1988-89).
Tottenham is coming off one of their best wins in recent memory against Manchester United at Old Trafford. They have to be cognizant of a letdown against a game Watford side.
Tottenham has a 29-7 lead in this series with 9 draws. The last Watford win over Tottenham was back in October, 1994. They have never defeated Tottenham in the Premier League era.
It's last top flight win over Tottenham was in May, 1987.
Tottenham 3-1
Manchester United (1-0-2)(3 pts) @ Burnley (0-1-2)(1 pt)
Sunday
Turf Moor
Both of these clubs have been struggling mightily to begin this season. Manchester United is teetering on another Jose Mourinho meltdown after consecutive losses to Brighton and Tottenham. United has allowed 7 goals so far this season and its -3 goal differential is their worst since August of 1992.
Burnley may be the shot in the arm the Red Devils need as they have found life with Europa League football difficult. Burnley have losses to Watford and Fulham and lost their first leg match to Olympiakos in the Europa League. The second leg is this week and this thin Burnley squad will be facing a very angry United team this Sunday.
Manchester United leads Burnley, 60-44 with 22 draws. They have shut out Burnley in 9 of the past 10 meetings at Turf Moor. The last time Manchester United lost 3 of their first 4 top flight matches was right before Sir Alex Ferguson took over the club back in 1986.
Manchester United 4-1
