Premier League predictions: Lawro v Guy Mowbray
Bobby Wagner Youth Jersey 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 BBC Match of the Day commentator Guy Mowbray. Mowbray has predicted five draws on a tight Bank Holiday Monday but has backed Manchester City to beat title rivals Leicester. Lawro is also up against a state-of-the-art super-computer called SAM (Sports Analytics Machine) for the second week running. 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. On Boxing Day SAM predicted three correct results, plus two perfect scores , to register an impressive 110 points - equal top on the guest leaderboard! SAM - built by Professor Ian McHale, Dr Georgi Boshnakov and Tarak Kharrat from the Centre for Sports Business at the University of Salford - pipped Lawro, who picked four correct results and one perfect score to score 80 points . Authentic Derrick Coleman Jersey Who will come out on top this time around? Is man better than machine? Is anyone better than a commentator? 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. The thing with these games around Christmas is always the quick turnaround. Will sides rotate their teams, move players around? There will be one or two knocks and niggles in every team and Crystal Palace look to be suffering more than most. http://www.seahawksofficialnflonline.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_KJ_WRIGHT_JERSEY.html Yannick Bolasie is out and he is a massive loss. He is such a good player and supplier, and he is a beast of a man. He's very difficult to stop, he unhinges defences. Swansea's win over West Brom will do them the power of good and they can go and nick a point. They still haven't got a manager but they just needed a game where they got a bit of luck and they did that on Boxing Day. Lawro's prediction: 1-1 http://www.seahawksofficialnflonline.com/WOMENS_YOUTH_RICHARD_SHERMAN_JERSEY.html Guy Mowbray's prediction: "Alan Curtis must have conjured up a tremendous effort from his ailing Swans to get their Boxing Day win against West Brom, but I've got to back the other Alan in this one. I'd fancy Pardew's Palace to beat almost anyone at the moment. 2-0."