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Premier League match time returns to Anfield as Liverpool get set to host Manchester United in a second leg game in match week 29, on Sunday, March 6. Liverpool lost 3-1 away at West Ham in their last league game; United beat Wigan 4-0 away at the DW Stadium in match week 28. Given the current form of both teams, Liverpool will need a large slice of luck to be able to salvage any points from this game.

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Premier League match time returns to Stamford Bridge, when Chelsea host Manchester United, in a first leg game on Tuesday, March 1, a match that was originally scheduled to be played on December 19, and got postponed owing to inclement weather. In the defending champions, Manchester United can expect tougher opponents than cellar team Wigan, their rivals in match week 28. But on current form, it would be a steep challenge for Chelsea to take away full three points from Tuesday’s game.

This Scottish Premier League game is due to kick off at 19:45 GMT, on Wednesday 23 February 2011, hosted at Fir Park, Motherwell. With two straight wins under their belt since the 6-0 humiliation at Ibrox, Motherwell are in much better heart and will look to extend their winning run to three games when they welcome a despondent St Mirren outfit now adrift with Accies at the bottom of the league. A win for the Steelmen will see them return to their earlier season promise.

This Scotitish Premier League games will kick off at 19:45 GMT, on Tuesday 22 February 2011, at Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen. This will be Aberdeen’s fifth home game in a row, which must be some kind of record. They did extraordinarily well on Saturday to recover in such superb style from the traumatic defeat by Motherwell – the Dons would have been highly confident of a win in that game.

This Scottish Premier League game is set to kick off at 15:00 GMT, on Saturday, 19 February 2011, at Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen. A very disappointing result for Aberdeen on Tuesday against Motherwell will surely cast doubt now on whether they really have turned the corner since Craig Brown’s arrival as manager, or whether they just had a couple of decent results they might have had anyway.

This Scottish Premier League game is due to kick off at 12:30 GMT, on Sunday, 20 February 2011, at Celtic Park, Glasgow This is the Old Firm game, the biggest game in Scottish football. Any preview of an Old Firm game you have ever read starts off by saying “form goes out the window”. That’s because it’s true. League position never matters either as between them they’re always first and second. And, it doesn’t matter which competition the two meet in. And it doesn’t matter what happened in the last meeting.

This Scottish Premier League game is due to kick off at 15:00 GMT, on Saturday 19 February 2011, at Tynecastle Stadium, Edinburgh. Pretty much everybody outside of Tynecastle believes that the Hearts title challenge is over following their recent defeats in Glasgow to the Old Firm, but manager Jim jeffries would never subscribe to that view until it’s mathematically impossible for Hearts to win the league and you can be sure that Hearts will be out to build another long undefeated run to keep their faint hopes alive.

This Scottish Premier League game is due to kick off at Tulloch Caledonian Stadium, Inverness, at 15:00 GMT, on Saturday 19 February 2011. Inverness Caley’s recent from, in terms of win / loss / draw doesn’t look all that great, but neither does it tell the whole story. There have been some very hard games in there and although they may not have won them all, they have nevertheless been playing very well and with even just a little bit of luck, there would be a much better look to their stats.

This Scottish Premier League game is due to kick off at 15:00 GMT, on Saturday, 26 February 2011, at New Douglas Park, Hamilton. In spite of having a squad of players any other similar sized club would be delighted with, Accies continue to defy themselves and underperform to the extent that they are not just bottom of the league, but they are cast adrift and marooned at the bottom of the league. And it’s not as if they have a bad manager, they don’t – Billy Reid is one of the most respected and capable managers in the country. All in all, a bit of a mystery.

This Scottish Premier League game is due to kick off at 12:00 GMT, on Saturday, 26 February 2011, at Pittodrie Stadium, Aberdeen. Aberdeen’s revival graph continues to be just a little bit up and down but with a general upward trend, and things are looking a little better statistics-wise now that all those awful results against Celtic are disappearing off the recent record.

It will be Premier League match time at the Britannia Stadium, when Stoke host West Brom in the second leg meeting between the sides on Monday, February 28. Stoke have won 7 of their 13 home games this season, while drawing 2 and losing 4; Albion have won 2 of 13 games on the road, while losing 9 and drawing the remaining 2. On current form, Stoke should edge this one.