Premier League predictions: Lawro v NBA star Luol Deng
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BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.
Lawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League fixtures is British NBA star Luol Deng.
The 30-year-old Miami Heat forward grew up in south London and is an Arsenal fan.
Deng says he cannot bear to tip Tottenham to beat Chelsea and is backing the Gunners to bounce back from last week's defeat at West Brom when they play Norwich on Sunday.
"You already know what I am going to say about that game," he told BBC Sport. "The Gunners will win, and we are on our way back to the top of the table."
| Premier League predictions - Week 14 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Lawro | Deng | |
| SATURDAY | |||
| Aston Villa v Watford | 2-3 | 1-1 | 2-1 |
| Bournemouth v Everton | 3-3 | 2-1 | 1-3 |
| Crystal Palace v Newcastle | 5-1 | 1-1 | 2-0 |
| Man City v Southampton | 3-1 | 2-0 | 2-3 |
| Sunderland v Stoke | 2-0 | 2-1 | 0-1 |
| Leicester v Man Utd | 1-1 | 1-2 | 3-1 |
| SUNDAY | |||
| Tottenham v Chelsea | 0-0 | 1-1 | 1-1 |
| West Ham v West Brom | 1-1 | 2-1 | 4-0 |
| Liverpool v Swansea | 1-0 | 2-0 | 2-0 |
| Norwich v Arsenal | 1-1 | 0-2 | 0-4 |
Our scoring system has changed this season and a correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is now worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
Last week, Lawro got four correct results from 10 Premier League games, with no perfect scores.
His score of 40 points saw him draw with WWE wrestler Neville, who also picked four correct results and no perfect scores.
We are keeping a record of the totals for Lawro and his guests (below), and showing a table of how the Premier League would look if all of Lawro's predictions were correct (at the bottom of the page).
Make your own predictions now, compare them to Lawro and other fans and try to take your team to the top of the leaderboard by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
| Total scores after week 13 | |
|---|---|
| Lawro | 960 |
| Guests | 690 |
LAWRO'S PREDICTIONS
All kick-offs 15:00 GMT unless otherwise stated
SATURDAY
Aston Villa v Watford
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Deng's prediction: 2-1
Bournemouth 2-2 Everton
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Deng's prediction: 1-3
Crystal Palace 5-1 Newcastle
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Deng's prediction: 2-0
Man City 3-1 Southampton
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Deng's prediction: 2-3
Sunderland 2-0 Stoke
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Deng's prediction: 0-1
Leicester 1-1 Man Utd
Lawro's prediction: 1-2
Deng's prediction: 3-1
SUNDAY
Tottenham 0-0 Chelsea
Lawro's prediction: 1-1
Deng's prediction: 1-1
West Ham 1-1 West Brom
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Deng's prediction: 4-0
Liverpool 1-0 Swansea
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Deng's prediction: 2-0
Norwich 1-1 Arsenal
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Deng's prediction: 0-4
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
| Lawro v Guests | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| P13 | W9 | D3 | L1 |
| SCORE | GUEST LEADERBOARD |
|---|---|
| 110 | Sam Tomkins |
| 100 | Wealdstone Raider |
| 90 | Amir Khan |
| 74 | Lawro (average after 13 weeks) |
| 70 | Osi Umenyiora |
| 60 | Stuart Broad |
| 50 | Mark Radcliffe, Jack Whitehall |
| 40 | Neville |
| 30 | Darren Campbell, Mark Webber |
| 20 | Graeme Swann |
| 10 | Paul Heaton, Kelly Jones |
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week three v Jack Whitehall & week four v Darren Campbell)
Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week one v Graeme Swann)
| ARROWS & +/- DENOTE POSITION DIFFERENCE BETWEEN LAWRO'S TABLE AND REAL TABLE | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| POS | TEAM | P | W | D | L | PTS | DIFF | +/- |
| 1. | Man City | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 33 |  | +2 |
| 2. | Chelsea | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 30 | | +13 |
| 3. | Arsenal | 13 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 27 | | +1 |
| 4. | Southampton | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 26 | | +4 |
| 5. | Liverpool | 13 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 25 | | +4 |
| 6. | West Brom | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 24 | | +6 |
| 7. | Tottenham | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 23 |  | -2 |
| 8. | Man Utd | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 22 | | -6 |
| 9. | Crystal Palace | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 21 | | +1 |
| 10. | Newcastle | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 19 | | +7 |
| 11. | Stoke | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 |  | 0 |
| 12. | Swansea | 13 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 14 | | +2 |
| 13. | Everton | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | | -6 |
| 14. | Norwich | 13 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 13 | | +2 |
| 15. | Bournemouth | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | | +4 |
| 16. | Sunderland | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | | +2 |
| 17. | Leicester | 13 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | | -16 |
| 18. | West Ham | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 6 | | -12 |
| 19. | Watford | 13 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | | -6 |
| 20. | Aston Villa | 13 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | | 0 |
