By Josh Ouellette<\/p>\n
1st<\/sup> Place<\/span>: Chelsea<\/span><\/p>\n Birmingham<\/span> City<\/span> v. Chelsea<\/span><\/p>\n Chelsea is coming off of an upsetting draw away against relegation zone West Ham United team. Frank Lampard continues to score goals to keep the Blues atop the League Table.<\/p>\n Birmingham City is unbeaten in their last nine matches, winning six of those nine, picking up 21 League points and climbing up the Table. With the experience of Lee Bowyer and the youth of Cameron Jerome and Sebastian Larsson, (who have all combined for 11 goals on the season,) City will be tough to beat at home.<\/p>\n Chelsea is maintaining their head seat at the League Table, but they are struggling to points with a 1-3-1 record in five games. Birmingham takes away a point with a draw verse Didier Drogba and Chelsea, 1-1<\/p>\n 2nd<\/sup> Place<\/span>: Manchester United<\/span><\/p>\n Hull<\/span> City<\/span> v. Manchester United.<\/span><\/p>\n Winless in the month of December, Hull is struggling to find the back of the net this month.\u00a0 Sandwiched in between a draw with Blackburn are three-goal defeats to Arsenal and Aston Villa respectively. The Red Devils travel into KC Stadium to face them but Hull and Stephen Hunt have little to no shot at this game.<\/p>\n Man. United is playing strong behind Wayne Rooney and Nemanja Vidic. Though Manchester U. lost to Fulham last week, Zamora and crew are unbeaten in their last five making it a tough match away for Man. U.<\/p>\n With a struggling Tigers squad, Rooney and the Red Devils win away 3-0.<\/p>\n 3rd<\/sup> Place<\/span>: Arsenal<\/span> and 4th<\/sup> Place<\/span>: Aston Villa<\/span><\/p>\n Game of the Week<\/span><\/p>\n Arsenal as stated above is coming off of a three-goal win over Hull City. In the Gunners last five matches they are 3-1-1, with their only blemish coming to the hands of Chelsea. Held scoreless by Hull, Cesc Fabregas and Andrey Arshavin still lead the team in scoring this season. Even with the injury of Robin van Perise Arsenal hasn\u2019t skipped a beat.<\/p>\n Aston Villa has torn through the League Table and is (4-1-0) in their last five, with four victories coming by clean sheets.\u00a0 Currently tied for third the Villains trail the Gunners by goal differential. The Villains are un-beaten in their last eight League games. Their last loss came to West Ham United in the beginning of November on a questionable last-minute goal.<\/p>\n This match could potentially put either team in the second seat or in a tie for second with a victory and a Manchester United draw or loss, so much will be at stake.<\/p>\n With the Gunners ability to score at will and the Villains playing great football, neither team will pull away. The match ends in a draw, 2-2.<\/p>\n Current Picks Record: (4-6 only missed two this week.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Josh Ouellette 1st Place: Chelsea Birmingham City v. Chelsea Chelsea is coming off of an upsetting draw away against relegation zone West Ham United team. Frank Lampard continues to score goals to keep the Blues atop the League Table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1633,1630,1631,1632],"class_list":["post-5014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fanview","tag-arsenal","tag-aston-villa","tag-chelsea","tag-manchester-united"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5016,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5014\/revisions\/5016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}