One thing that Premier League clubs need to manage during the season is how they approach cup tie games—the ancillary matches in things like the FA Cup. This past week, for instance, 14 Premiership clubs played a mid-week match for the Carabao Cup (purists still call it the League Cup). These matches are often a test of club depth and focus, as teams try to do well enough in the early rounds to avoid an embarrassing upset loss (oh United) while also not over-extending and exhausting players that clubs rely on for regular League matches. The weekly EPL swarm, still performing at a sizzling rate, considered those factors when predicting this weekend’s games:
Tottenham raised eyebrows the last few months when they became the first club in the modern Premier League era to not have any paid transfers in – or out – of the team during the summer transfer window. Spurs are obviously a talented club coming off a 3rd place finish last season, but it remains to be seen if the strategy of sitting on their finances pays off. The team comes off a Wednesday win on kicks versus Watford in the Carabao Cup, and hope to ride that momentum into an away win at hapless Huddersfield on Saturday.
This is the swarm’s second most confident pick this week, behind only to the group’s prediction of a City win at home against Brighton Hove Albion. The replay above shows a small split in the swarm between a 1-goal and 2-goal confidence level, but the group overall is fully taking the puck to the left side of the hex. That slight waver in confidence is understandable for a club who have become an adjective (“Spursy”) for kicking away potentially easy wins, but even so the swarm has high conviction that Mauricio Pochettino’s side will win this match with comfort.
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