Remember last Friday evening when we all picked defending champions Arsenal to beat new boys Coventry City, and everyone’s 100 per cent prediction record was intact? Life was good.Then, just like Manchester United on their trip to Hull City, those records were mauled by ‘The Tigers’…This season, our band of The Athletic “experts” will give you a preview of the 10 fixtures each gameweek and our predictions: home win, away win or draw, with three points for a correct call — which mirrors the Pick ’Ems game you can play here.Our picks will go up against those of an algorithm (Algo), a weekly guest subscriber and Wilfred, who is now a seven-year-old child.Last time, Oliver Kay bravely went it alone, but for 2026-27 he will be joined by Elias Burke, Andy Jones (me!) and Duncan Alexander to form a rotating cast of know-alls from our pool of writers.In gameweek one, promoted Hull’s home win against United in Saturday’s early kick-off was the first shock result, but it ended up being a weekend full of surprises. Thankfully (from a predictions perspective), Manchester City staged a late comeback to beat Bournemouth on Sunday but there was heartbreak for Algo when Liverpool’s Dominik Szoboszlai netted a 99th-minute penalty to deny Newcastle United an opening-day win a couple of hours later.Results from Gameweek 1 TA ExpertsThe AlgoReader PicksWilfredArsenal ARSCoventry COV ARS ARS ARS ARS Hull HULMan United MUN MUN MUN MUN MUN Everton EVECrystal Palace CRY EVE draw draw draw Ipswich IPSSunderland SUN draw draw SUN draw Nottingham NFOLeeds LEE draw draw NFO LEE Brentford BRETottenham TOT draw BRE draw TOT Brighton BHAAston Villa AVL BHA draw BHA draw Man City MCIBournemouth BOU MCI MCI MCI MCI Newcastle NEWLiverpool LIV LIV NEW LIV LIV Fulham FULChelsea CHE CHE draw CHE CHE My fellow in-house expert Elias was the only predictor brave enough to tip Everton to beat Crystal Palace, while Jack Clarke made us all pay for not backing promoted Ipswich Town, with a 90th-minute winner to take one point away from Sunderland (and three points away from The Athletic, Algo and Wilfred). Wilfred celebrated his seventh birthday at the weekend with a present of Anton Stach’s free-kick brilliance for Leeds United to snatch late victory against Nottingham Forest.Of course, Algo picked Brentford, who are essentially the algorithm of the Premier League, to defeat Tottenham Hotspur, while the experts and subscriber Ryan both correctly predicted wins for Brighton & Hove Albion against Aston Villa and Chelsea over Fulham.So, on to gameweek two.The Athletic leads with five correct predictions (15 points), so that’s where we are going to end things for this season. Thanks for playing…… that’s what I was hoping the editors would say anyway, but instead they’ve assigned me to this set of fixtures, so there’s a great chance for everyone to catch up.% Correct (out of 10 games)Correct Away WinsPoints last gameweekTotal pointsTA experts50%11515Wilfred40%21212Reader picks40%11212The algorithm30%099Oh… and we saw your comments. From this week onwards, we will also include scoreline predictions from our Athletic Experts after you guys said you missed them from last season. They won’t be a part of the scoring, but they are there if you’d like to know the exact score our writers are expecting.OK, off we go with gameweek two, where we are joined by our guest subscriber Matt, 48, a Manchester United fan from London.Subscriber’s match of the weekManchester United vs Ipswich TownMatt says: As a United fan, this is the biggest game of the week. Any pre-season optimism was cut short after last weekend, and it’s vital to get some form of forward momentum back with a win this time. The same could be said for Spurs, while there seems very little to be optimistic about for a decimated Aston Villa.HOME WIN