{"id":2241,"date":"2025-08-30T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2025\/08\/30\/weekend-forecast-sports-illustrateds-premier-league-picks-for-gameweek-3\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:07:07","slug":"weekend-forecast-sports-illustrateds-premier-league-picks-for-gameweek-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/2025\/08\/30\/weekend-forecast-sports-illustrateds-premier-league-picks-for-gameweek-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Forecast: Sports Illustrated\u2019s Premier League Picks for Gameweek 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two weeks into the 2025\/26 season and the Premier League schedule hands supporters another compact, narrative-rich weekend before the first international break. St. James\u2019 Park and Monday night already reminded everyone the league is back, and this weekend\u2019s action is concentrated into under 48 hours with no Friday or Monday fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Sports Illustrated lays out predictions for each game, beginning with a West London derby at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea have historically dominated meetings with Fulham, though the Cottagers won at the Bridge over the festive period last season. Fulham have recorded two draws to start the campaign while Chelsea produced a strong win over West Ham United in Gameweek 2.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s early slate features Manchester United against Burnley. United\u2019s Carabao Cup exit on penalties to League Two Grimsby Town has amplified the importance of this fixture for Ruben Amorim. Burnley arrive off their first victory of the season and have shown encouraging form through two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Sunderland travel to Turf Moor after a heavy defeat and return to the Stadium of Light to face Brentford. Both sides have one win apiece so far. Wolverhampton Wanderers meet Everton after Wolves advanced with a come-from-behind cup victory over West Ham United; Everton will look for their first league win of 2025\/26, inspired by Jack Grealish.<\/p>\n<p>Tottenham Hotspur continued their strong start in Gameweek 2 and host Bournemouth, while Leeds United face Newcastle United at Elland Road with Eddie Howe potentially missing several key players.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday brings Manchester City at Brighton &#038; Hove Albion and Nottingham Forest hosting West Ham United, fixtures both sides will use to recover from recent setbacks. The weekend\u2019s standout match is Liverpool vs Arsenal at Anfield, a meeting capable of shaping the title race despite not deciding it.<\/p>\n<p>Predictions (kick-off times in BST):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12.30 p.m. \u2014 Chelsea vs Fulham: 3\u20131<\/li>\n<li>3 p.m. \u2014 Man Utd vs Burnley: 2\u20131<\/li>\n<li>3 p.m. \u2014 Sunderland vs Brentford: 0\u20130<\/li>\n<li>3 p.m. \u2014 Tottenham vs Bournemouth: 2\u20130<\/li>\n<li>3 p.m. \u2014 Wolves vs Everton: 1\u20131<\/li>\n<li>5.30 p.m. \u2014 Leeds vs Newcastle: 1\u20132<\/li>\n<li>2 p.m. \u2014 Brighton vs Man City: 2\u20133<\/li>\n<li>2 p.m. \u2014 Nottingham Forest vs West Ham: 2\u20130<\/li>\n<li>4.30 p.m. \u2014 Liverpool vs Arsenal: 3\u20133<\/li>\n<li>7 p.m. \u2014 Aston Villa vs Crystal Palace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gameweek 3 preview: concise predictions for the weekend\u2019s Premier League fixtures and scoreboard calls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230,172],"tags":[242,594],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analytics-stats","category-epl","tag-injury","tag-jack-grealish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}