And welcome to coverage of the 3pm kick offs from the Premier League with four games impacting the top and bottom of the table.
For 24 hours at least, Manchester City can top the Premier League table with a win at home to Luton Town.
But could City’s focus be elsewhere with a Champions League second-leg clash with Real Madrid on Wednesday?
”We have to [focus on Luton Town], the Premier League is so important,” Pep Guardiola said on Friday. “It’s 11, 10 months we’ve been fighting for the title, we know what position we are in.”
Luton will be desperate to get something from the game having scored a late winner at Bournemouth last week. A shock win would see them climb as high as 16th.
At Turf Moor, Burnley are six points from safety heading into today’s match with Brighton. Burnley manager Vincent Kompany will not be on the touchline after being found to have used improper and/or abusive and/or insulting towards a match official.
Brentford have drawn their last three matches and have not won a league game since February 10. They face Sheffield United, who sit bottom of the league and seem destined to be relegated but Thomas Frank has warned Brentford they cannot afford to underestimate their opponents.
He said: “We are facing a Sheffield United team that look much more like a Chris Wilder Sheffield United team, when they got promoted under him.
”The last four games, they have been very much in form, great performances, very good results as well – 2-2 against Chelsea, Liverpool only just beat them at Anfield, 3-3 against Fulham, and 2-2 against Bournemouth.
”They have more fight and they are more difficult to beat. They are doing everything I would expect from a Chris Wilder team.
”I think he has done a very good job in general, and we are seeing what he is building at the club now, so I expect a difficult game.”
Relegation threatened Nottingham Forest host Wolves, who are winless in three but could move up to ninth with a win.
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