Chris picked up his first win of the season after getting seven correct results – including three exact scores – from the 10 matches in week two.<\/p>\n
After a slow start, five of his correct results – and two of his exact scores – came in the five games on Sunday and Monday.<\/p>\n
That gave him a total of 160 points, enough to hold off a strong challenge from the BBC readers and AI.<\/p>\n
The collective efforts of the readers helped them get six correct results, with two exact scores, for 120 points.<\/p>\n
Like Chris, AI managed seven correct results, but with only one exact score, leaving it on 100 points.<\/p>\n
Chris’ guest, Royal Blood drummer Ben Thatcher, did not fare so well. He got four correct results with no exact scores, and ended up with 40 points.<\/p>\n
“It’s not how you start the weekend, it’s how you finish it,” Sutton said. “I am burying AI at the moment, which is a lovely feeling.”<\/p>\n
Everyone was right about three of the fixtures – Manchester City<\/a>‘s win at Crystal Palace<\/a>, Manchester United<\/a>‘s victory over Ipswich and Arsenal<\/a>‘s success at Aston Villa<\/a>.<\/p>\n There were only two fixtures where none of our predictors picked the right outcome – Liverpool<\/a>‘s draw with Nottingham Forest<\/a> and Hull’s win at Coventry.<\/p>\n From almost 37,000 predictions for the latter, only around 5,000 (15%) of you backed the Tigers to take the three points, and fewer than 1,500 (4%) went for them to win by a 1-0 scoreline. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris picked up his first win of the season after getting seven correct results – including three exact…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-613640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}