2025-26 Premier League: Round 18 Match Previews

Merry Christmas, Premium gang!

The schedule is a bit different this week due to the festivities, but we are of course still here to provide you with your Premier League match previews as we do for every fixture each season.

This week, there's a huge game at the bottom as West Ham look to get themselves out of trouble, while at the top we have 4th vs. 3rd in a big game at Stamford Bridge.

Here's something to keep you up to date on every fixture in Round 18 of our Premier League Predictor.

Man. United vs. Newcastle

This is the only Boxing Day fixture in this season's Premier League, and there's plenty to consider when making your prediction for it. Manchester United are considered very slight favourites by both the bookies and our Insights data, but that's largely down to Newcastle's shocking away form as opposed to Ruben Amorim's side being in a particularly strong position themselves. The Red Devils have failed to win any of their last 3 home league games and were beaten 2-1 at Aston Villa last weekend. That match was their first without AFCON participants Bryan Mbeumo, Amad Diallo and Noussair Mazraoui, but even more worryingly, captain Bruno Fernandes was…