Fresh from a weekend of Super FA Cup action – featuring our favourite player Adebayo Akinfenwa – it’s time for some EPL Midweek Tips.
Some EPL sides will coming into the midweek fixtures on a high, other with the tail firmly between the legs after an upset. That’s for the sides who didn’t get bundled out in the third round.
EPL teams will moan about fixture crowding, but not us. More Football the better for us. We love midweek sport to ease the workday boredom.
Each week we attempt to put our selections up against tips decided by a strange or absurd method, and this week’s EPL Midweek Tips are no different.
Since the FA Cup is still in the mind of the teams, we’ve decided to base our opponent tips on each EPL side’s form from the third and fourth round. Our theory is winning form in any competition leads to winning in every competition. So those teams doing well in the FA Cup so far, should in our theory go better than teams who have been knocked out.
How does that work for EPL Midweek tips then?
Glad you asked.
For each FA Cup match played we award points as they would be awarded in the league. 3 – 1 – 0. Plus total the goal difference of the games. We haven’t included replays, just the first result.
Sure this is an advantage for teams who played two games, but that is the point.
Anyway, here’s is how the results are after the third and fourth rounds of the FA Cup.
FA CUP 3rd and 4th ROUND TABLE – EPL SIDES ONLY
| EPL Side | Sum of Points | Sum of GoalDiff |
| Man City | 6 | 8 |
| Man Utd | 6 | 8 |
| Chelsea | 6 | 7 |
| Arsenal | 6 | 6 |
| Middlesbrough | 6 | 4 |
| Spurs | 6 | 3 |
| Burnley | 4 | 2 |
| Leicester | 4 | 1 |
| Watford | 3 | 1 |
| Hull | 3 | -1 |
| Sunderland | 1 | 0 |
| Liverpool | 1 | -1 |
| Crystal Palace | 1 | -3 |
| Southampton | 1 | -5 |
| WBA | 0 | -1 |
| Everton | 0 | -1 |
| Stoke | 0 | -2 |
| Swansea | 0 | -2 |
| Bournemouth | 0 | -3 |
| West Ham | 0 | -5 |
GURGLER’S EPL MIDWEEK TIPS
ARSENAL to beat Watford
BOURNEMOUTH to beat Crystal Palace
BURNLEY to beat Leicester
DRAW – Middlesbrough v WBA
DRAW – Sunderland v Spurs
SWANSEA to beat Southampton
LIVERPOOL to beat Chelsea
MAN CITY to beat West Ham
MAN UTD to beat Hull
STOKE to beat Everton
EPL MIDWEEK TIPS from FA CUP FORM
ARSENAL to beat Watford
CRYSTAL PALACE to beat Bournemouth
BURNLEY to beat Leicester
MIDDLESBROUGH to beat WBA
SPURS to beat Sunderland
SOUTHAMPTON to beat Swansea
CHELSEA to beat Liverpool
MAN CITY to beat West Ham
MAN UTD to beat Hull
EVERTON to beat Stoke
PREVIOUS RESULTS
Currently we are better than our opponents, only just. We are getting less than 50% correct, and getting worse. Some very ordinary tipping really. Except for this midweek we hope.
THE GURGLER RESULTS
Total – 100 / 202 (only started Match Day 6 – includes FA Cup Rd 3)
Average – 4.95 / 10
Best: 8/10 (1) – Worst 2/10 (1) – Last Week – 5/10
OPPONENT’S RESULTS
Total – 89 / 202
Average – 4.41 / 10
3 Year Old – 6/10
7 Month Old – 3/10
Pack of Cards – 3/10
The Dog – 2/10
Cars that drove past – 5/10
Frankington Stanley 2/10
Scrabble – 5/10
Alphabetical Order – 4/10
Colour of Kits – 5/10
Person in City/Town per Points – 7/10
Team Nicknames – 4/10
British Train Stations – 6/10
Team Abbreviations – Results Pending – 3 / 10
Famous Faces – 6/10
Last 6 Form (for FA Cup) – 16/32
The Sack Race – 5 / 10
Hours of UK Sunshine – 4/10
