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.
After a slow start, five of his correct results – and two of his exact scores – came in the five games on Sunday and Monday.
That gave him a total of 160 points, enough to hold off a strong challenge from the BBC readers and AI.
The collective efforts of the readers helped them get six correct results, with two exact scores, for 120 points.
Like Chris, AI managed seven correct results, but with only one exact score, leaving it on 100 points.
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.
“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.”
Everyone was right about three of the fixtures – Manchester City’s win at Crystal Palace, Manchester United’s victory over Ipswich and Arsenal’s success at Aston Villa.
There were only two fixtures where none of our predictors picked the right outcome – Liverpool’s draw with Nottingham Forest and Hull’s win at Coventry.
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.
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