Premier League Combo Treble

The main game to watch on Sunday comes at the City Ground with a spot in the Champions League on the line for Forest and Chelsea. Forest’s season has dwindled away as they’ve slipped from comfortably 3rd to 7th. Despite that, they’re still in with a real shot at UCL football with a win here. They will be attacking from the off, looking to carry on their unbeaten streak of 3 games.

Chelsea will fancy their chances against a Forest side who haven’t kept a clean sheet in their last 8. Despite that, Chelsea themselves haven’t kept a clean sheet in 5 in this fixture. The reverse fixture finished 1-1 with chances a plenty. Chelsea racked up 2.46 xG in that game with Forest managing 4 big chances themselves.

Chelsea are comprehensively the most carded side in the Premier League this season, breaking the 100 mark in their last game. They averaged 2.70 cards per game and 2.78 cards per game on the road. In a game with plenty on the line these numbers are only going to go up with a need to win and no suspensions lingering.

Forest are no strangers to games with cards as well picking up 2.32 cards P/90. Over 4.5 cards has landed in each of their last 6 games. They drew 6 cards out of Chelsea in the reverse fixture earlier this season and have drawn the most cards of any side in the league this season with 2.76 per game against.

This fixture should be full of goals a plenty with Brighton and Spurs both susceptible defensively. Brighton have nothing to lose here, needing to win to finish 8th and hope results go their way for European qualification. Having beaten the champions 3-2 last time out, they’ll fancy their chances of goals a plenty at Spurs.

Spurs will be nursing a few hangovers from their Europa League win but should still have enough quality to break down Brighton. They chucked away a 2-0 lead in the reverse fixture to lose 3-2 but were impressive in the first half. BTTS has landed in 4 of the last 5 meetings between these sides.

Another game with plenty on the line comes at St James Park with 4th place Newcastle needing to win to cement a place in the UCL. Level on 66 points with Chelsea and Villa, the pressure is on Newcastle and against Everton they have the quality to break down their low block. They’ve won their last 5 straight at home, keeping clean sheets in 3 and scoring multiple in all 5.

Everton have little to nothing on the line here and having said goodbye to Goodison Park won’t stress about a result here. They aren’t in the worst form having won their last 2 games but are firmly on the beach now and won’t be going out to win this one. The reverse fixture finished 0-0 with a Newcastle missed penalty. They’re definitely scoring here at home.

The corners always flow when Newcastle are playing. They should have all the attacking momentum here which will leads to chance a plenty and corners a plenty. They had the bulk of the attacking momentum in the reverse fixture despite it being a 0-0 which led to them having 10 corners at Goodison.

Newcastle are averaging 5.54 corners P/90 this season while Everton are averaging 5.86 corners P/90 against. On the road, Everton’s numbers only sky rocket with them conceding 6.39 corners P/90 while Newcastle at home average 5.83 corners P/90.