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Matchday 29

While the English Premier League once again resumes in earnest on Saturday, it will be on Sunday of Matchday 29 that we focus this week, with a full morning slate of games and likely impacts for both the top four and the bottom three of the table. So wake up early and settle in for a busy Sunday morning of soccer that will run right you up to tipoff of the second round of March Madness, with every game available live on the NBC family of networks or online at NBC Live Extra.

Sunday (all times eastern)

8am – Manchester United @ Middlesbrough – Riverside Stadium, NBC Sports Network

Manchester United may have remained unbeaten in the league, quietly picking up points for a league leading seventeen game run, however they let a golden opportunity slip past when they were unable to capitalize on ten man Bournemouth to split the points for the eighth time during the unbeaten run (W9) and remain just outside of the top four looking in. After an early week defeat to Chelsea to crash out of the FA Cup, they will travel to the Riverside Stadium to square off with a Middlesbrough side still searching for their first win of the New Year after falling to Stoke City 2-0.

The setback was their third in the last four league games and, without a win in their last ten league games and three points from safety with only Sunderland below them in the table, Middlesbrough is running out of time to save their season from ending in relegation with the looming visit from United, who have won four of the last five meetings with Boro across all competitions and the sole defeat in the FA Cup two years ago the only time they have failed to take points in their last twelve meetings (W7 D4), walking away with at least a share of the spoils in their last five trips to the Vitality Stadium (W3 D2).

10:15am – Southampton @ Tottenham – White Hart Lane, NBC Sports Network

Tottenham followed up their 3-2 victory over Everton, which moved Spurs back in to second place, with a comfortable 6-0 stroll past Millwall to book their place in the last four of the FA Cup. They will welcome manager Mauricio Pochettino’s former club Southampton to White Hart Lane for the middle game on the Sunday slate, with the Saints bouncing back from their EFL Cup final defeat to Manchester United with a wild 4-3 victory over Watford to maintain their place in the top half of the table before enjoying a week off with their FA Cup status already decided following a January defeat to Arsenal.

After spending a year and half at Southampton and guiding the Saints to their highest ever finish in the Premier League, Pochettino has not missed a beat since making the move to the capital, with Tottenham closing in on back to back appearances in the Champions League for the first time in club history and enjoying a fourteen game unbeaten run in the league at their friendly confines, taking a staggering thirty-eight points from a possible forty-two and winning eight of their last eleven against their weekend opponent (L2 D1), including four of their last five times they visited White Hart Lane (L1).

12:30pm – Liverpool @ Manchester City – Etihad Stadium, NBC

Manchester City looked set to put their 0-0 draw with Stoke City, which may have just rendered their late season tussle with league leaders Chelsea mute, behind them when they added to Middlesbrough’s recent misery to join Tottenham in a star studded FA Cup final four - which includes fellow top flight giants Chelsea and Arsenal - before wasting a two goal first leg advantage and failing to get past the final sixteen of the Champions League for the fifth time in the last six years. With a spot in the top four far from secure, they will welcome Liverpool to the Etihad Stadium to wrap up the weekend action.

The Reds followed up their massive three points against Arsenal the week before with a hard fought 2-1 victory over Burnley to further consolidate their hold on fourth place in the table, five points clear of the Gunners for the final Champions League spot and just a point behind City ahead of their weekend showdown, with the Reds winning the last four Premier League meetings against the Citizens and taking all three points in five of the last seven across all competitions, although the home side have managed to enjoy a brief run of success at the Etihad, taking all three points in the last two games in Manchester.

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Stoke City vs. Chelsea - Over 2.5 (+108)

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Manchester City vs. Liverpool - Over 2.5 (-133)

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Thanks for the hit yesterday, and on today's




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How in the world did we lose that one? Beyond furious right now.

1-1 on the weekend (-4.98)

40-34-5 (+37.05) YTD

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