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A Drummer Guesses The Football Scores

A rock drummer joins a football expert to guess Premier League scores.

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A football sitting on green grass in a stadium
A football sitting on green grass in a stadium (file photo). Photo: Matti Blume, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Do you ever guess who will win a match?

Chris Sutton does it every week for BBC Sport.

He is guessing the scores of all 380 Premier League games.

This week his guest is Ben Thatcher, a drummer.

He plays in the rock band Royal Blood.

Ben loves Brighton, and Sutton thinks Arsenal will win at Aston Villa.

A correct result wins 10 points. The exact score wins 40 points.

Big words

predict
to say what you think will happen later
drummer
a person who plays the drums in a band
expert
someone who knows a lot about one thing
score
the number of goals each team gets
supporter
a fan who loves one team

What do you think?

What do you think: which team will win this weekend, and why?

Talk about it with a grown-up, or write your answer in English.

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