Gameweek 10 Roundup

Gameweek 10 was an easier week to call than the last two. 54% of predictions got the right result, including the 12% that landed the exact score. That's up from 38% in Gameweek 9, though still short of the 60% of Gameweek 7. Five of the ten results went against the crowd's favourite, down from seven in each of the last two weeks.

The biggest miss was Nottingham Forest's 3-1 win over Manchester City. 88% of players backed City, 15 of the 17, and only one backed Forest. Forest had not scored at home in any of their first four games, and this was their first home goal and first home win of the season. For City it was a third defeat in a row after seven straight wins, and they have scored twice and conceded six in those three games. Two Golden Results went on the game, from Jax and heatherlauren, and both scored nothing. Sunderland's 1-0 win over Chelsea was nearly as lopsided, with 14 of the 17 backing Chelsea and one player calling the Sunderland win. It was Sunderland's first win since Gameweek 2.

Leeds 1-0 Tottenham went against the 53% who had backed a draw, with four players backing Leeds, and ended Tottenham's run of three straight wins. Manchester United 4-4 Aston Villa, the joint-highest scoring game of the season alongside Manchester City's 5-3 win over Sunderland, was the closest call of the week: 39% backed Villa, 33% the draw and 28% United. Nobody called the exact score, and Villa are now unbeaten in six. Fulham 1-1 Newcastle split the pool, with 47% backing Fulham and 41% a draw, and six of the 17 players predicted exactly 1-1.

The rest went the way the crowd expected. Every one of the 17 players who predicted Crystal Palace v Liverpool backed Liverpool, who won 3-1, and three of them nailed the score. 16 of 17 called Arsenal's 1-0 win over Hull, and 16 of 17 called Bournemouth's 2-1 win at Ipswich, where seven players predicted exactly 2-1, the most exact scores on any game this week. Bournemouth have now won four in a row. Brighton's 2-0 win over Brentford was called correctly by 71%, and Everton's 3-1 win over Coventry by 69%, their second win in a row after two defeats.

Arsenal's win took them to 27 points, five clear of Brighton on 22, with Manchester City third on 21, Liverpool fourth on 18, and Chelsea and Everton both on 16. At the bottom, Crystal Palace are last on 7, with Manchester United and Sunderland on 8 and Forest and Coventry on 9.

Our own calls in the Gameweek 10 preview got 5 of the 10 results right, with one exact score, against 54% for the crowd. That's level with last week's 5 of 10, and brings our record to 21 of 50 across five previews. The right ones were Everton, Arsenal, Brighton, Liverpool at Palace and Bournemouth at Ipswich, where our 2-1 was exactly right. We shared the crowd's view that Manchester City and Chelsea would win, we called a 1-1 at Leeds and a Fulham win, and we had Villa winning at Old Trafford.

18 players made 170 predictions, up from 14 players last week. sjd won the gameweek with 38 points, including 6 from a Golden Result on Arsenal's win, and takes the £25 prize. It's sjd's third gameweek win of the season, after Gameweeks 5 and 6, and comes days after sjd won the £100 Last Man Standing prize. sideshowbob finished second on 35 points, with two exact scores, for the £10, and three players tied on 32 for third. Eight players set a Golden Result and six of them put it on Arsenal v Hull, each taking 6 points, while the two who went for Forest v City scored nothing.

Last Man Standing returns after the international break, on 21 November, and the next gameweek starts that weekend.