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Aston Villa is 4th with 55 points, sitting a big 7 points ahead of 6th place, with today's game in hand on them, with top 5 making the Champions League. On the other side, Sunderland is 11th with 46 points, sitting just 2 points below the 6th place that leads to Europe. Aston Villa hasn't been at their best of late with a 2-3-4 record in their last 9 games. They have been playing midweeks and made the Europa League semifinal, which takes a toll on the team playing so often. On the other side, Sunderland has been very good of late with a 3-1-1 record in their last 5 games. They drew the first H2H match of the season, and they also drew 3 of the last 4 H2H meetings played at Villa Park, so it feels like both sides could get something from this match via another draw.

Everton is 10th with 47 points, while Liverpool is 5th with only 5 more points. Everton is in very good form with a 3-1-1 record in their last 5 games, while Liverpool is just 1-1-2 in their last 4 games. Liverpool also played midweek and has lost their last 4 road games in all competitions. Everton won their last 2 home games, and they have only 1 loss in their last 8 head-to-head meetings when hosting their bitter city rival. Hosting them for the first time in the new stadium should give ahuge motivation to Everton, and given how Everton has been playing well of late combined with Liverpool's struggles, simply got to back the hosts to edge out this one and win.

Nottm Forest is 16th with 33 points, sitting 2 points above the relegation zone, while Burnley is next to last 19th with only 20 points, sitting a massive 12 points below safety. Nottm Forest has been playing really well lately, being undefeated in the last 4 games with 1 win and 3 draws, and they also reached the semifinal of the Europa League. On the other side, Burnley is winless in the last 6 games, with 4 losses in last 5 of those games. Nottm Forest is undefeated in the last 3 head-to-head meetings with Burnley, they are at home, and are playing better, so got to expect them to have the edge in front of their loud crowd and earn 3 massive points in the fight for survival.

Man City is 2nd with 6 fewer points and a game in hand on leading Arsenal, so this is a massive game regarding who will win the title. Man City has been playing superbly of late. They beat Arsenal in the League Cup final by 2 goals, then demolished Liverpool by 4 goals in another cup tie, and also destroyed Chelsea in their last league game by 3 goals while keeping 3 clean sheets in those wins. Conversely, Arsenal got knocked out of another cup by Championship side Southampton following that League Cup final loss, then lost to Bournemouth at home and only squeaked by Sporting in the Champions League. All in all, Man City is seemingly on a higher level of late and they know they have to win this one, so got to expect the best from the hosts, and this Arsenal side, given the way they have been playing of late, can hardly match that, which should see all 3 points stay at home in the end.

Bernardo Silva earned 9 yellow cards in the Premier League this season, plus 3 more yellow cards and 1 red card in the Champions League, so in a big game that feels like a title decider, got to expect tensions to be high, which could easily see Bernardo getting booked again.

Knapp is playing some excellent golf this season with 7 finishes inside the top 11 in 8 events he played this year. He ranks 2nd for SG Putting while also leading the PGA Tour in Scoring Average showing how well he is playing at the moment. He made the cut in his only previous appearance here in 2024 when he started with a rather bad round of 74, and that was during a span when he was struggling, so arriving back this time in superb form, fresh off his best result in a major with an 11th-place finish at Augusta, makes Jake a solid pick to be right in the mix for the win.

Aberg found some form late, notching very good finishes of T3 at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, T5 at The Players Championship, and T5 at the Valero Texas Open. He followed that with a decent showing at Augusta last week, finishing T21, where the only thing missing was his putter. He had the Players title in his grasp but threw it away with a terrible final round of 76 on the TPC Sawgrass course he practices a lot on and lives just close by since moving to the U.S. This week's Harbour Town has a lot of similarities to it, and Ludvig was T10 here on debut in 2024 with a couple of phenomenal starting rounds of 66, so got to feel like he should be at his best this weekend, and with some better putting he could easily be in the mix for the victory.

Hisatsune is playing very well this season, having made the cut in 9 straight events with 5 top-15 finishes, highlighted by T2 at the Farmers Insurance Open. He was T18 on debut here a year ago, and he leads the PGA Tour in Greens in Regulation this season. On these smaller, tougher-to-hit greens at Harbour Town, that should come in quite handy and could see Ryo contend for top places come Sunday afternoon.