{"id":256629,"date":"2025-12-29T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/256629\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:57:07","slug":"premier-league-predictions-chris-sutton-v-singer-songwriter-tom-a-smith-and-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/256629\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League predictions: Chris Sutton v singer-songwriter Tom A Smith – and AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

City did not have it all their own way when they beat Sunderland<\/a> at Etihad Stadium, but they dismantled them in the end and they are capable of doing the same at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n

It is hard to see anyone stopping City at the moment, really. Rayan Cherki is a big talent, and with such quick feet. Phil Foden almost scored against Forest on Saturday, and when Haaland draws a blank, like he did in that game, you know a goal is not far away.<\/p>\n

Still, Sunderland<\/a> have the aggression that saw them rattle Arsenal<\/a> and they are so well organised defensively too.<\/p>\n

That’s why they still haven’t lost at home this season, and I feel bad for writing them off so often, but I am sorry to say I am going to do it again.<\/p>\n

I feel like City have found their flow so I can’t back against them, but I am expecting Sunderland<\/a> to put up one heck of a fight.<\/p>\n

Sutton’s prediction:<\/b> 1-3<\/p>\n

Tom’s prediction: <\/b>My heart is telling me one thing, and my head is telling me another!<\/p>\n

From my heart, this is the sort of game we just win. I don’t know if we will, but even just the fact we are at home to City on New Year’s Day again really gives me that feeling – I’ve got very good memories of Ji Dong-won getting our winner against them on 1 January 2012.<\/a><\/p>\n

With my head, though, it is going to be tough. We had chances at the Etihad a few weeks ago but, being realistic, I think we need a full-strength side to get anything from City and we don’t have that at the moment because we have lost players to the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n

We definitely won’t have enough to win the game, but I am never going to say we will get beaten – I can’t do that. So, with my fingers crossed, I am going to say we will get our noses ahead but then City will pile on the pressure and I don’t see us absorbing it and holding out. 1-1<\/p>\n

AI’s prediction:<\/b> 0-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City did not have it all their own way when they beat Sunderland at Etihad Stadium, but they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-256629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115804389254742929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}