Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend

The Guardian says Manchester City are leaking goals, Crystal Palace are not scoring enough and David Moyes has a quandary.

Key clash for sliding promoted side

The teams that came second and third in last season’s Championship –and now sit in the form table’s bottom four – meet in what looks a seriously important encounter. Brentford go into it without Ivan Toney, who has tested positive for Covid, and Sergi Canós, suspended after getting a fifth booking of the season for taking off his shirt when celebrating a goal against Leeds last weekend. Watford also have significant injuries, most notably to the winger Ismaïla Sarr, and after a run of encouraging performances in extremely difficult fixtures must seize the opportunity presented by their next few games to haul themselves away from the bottom three. As Claudio Ranieri said after they lost to Manchester City last weekend: “Our Premier League starts now, we have to get some points.” SB

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2021/dec/10/premier-league-10-things-to-look-out-for-this-weekend