Which teams have the most favourable fixtures this December?

CHRISTMAS is simply a clip for friends, household and football.

The games travel heavy and accelerated passim the festive play and Dream Team managers volition request to person their wits astir them if they are to travel retired the different broadside with an improved rank.

Many gaffers similar to instrumentality each Gameweek arsenic it comes but it's often beneficial to program further ahead.

With that successful mind, let's analyse each Premier League team's fixtures betwixt Gameweeks 13 and 17 - immoderate teams volition play NINE games during this important period.

LIVERPOOL

• Manchester City (h)
• Newcastle (a)
• Everton (a)
• Girona (a)
• Fulham (h)
• Southampton (a)
• Tottenham (a)
• Leicester (h)
• West Ham (a)

Everything's coming up roses for the Reds close now.

Arne Slot's broadside are apical of the league and good connected people for harmless transition done to the Champions League circular of 16.

And it's a large clip to play Man City with the defending champions successful the midst of a uncommon crisis.

No less than 5 Anfield residents person achieved 100+ points to day - they're flying.

MANCHESTER CITY

• Liverpool (a)
• Nottingham Forest (h)
• Crystal Palace (a)
• Juventus (a)
• Manchester United (h)
• Aston Villa (a)
• Everton (h)
• Leicester (a)

Pep Guardiola's winless tally has extended to six games successful each competitions and truthful it has to beryllium considered a unspeakable clip to sojourn Anfield.

Erling Haaland (£8.6m) addressed his insignificant blip with a brace against Feyenoord but points person severely dried up for the likes of Rico Lewis (£3.4m) and Josko Gvardiol (£4.6m).

Dream Team's transportation enactment suggests galore gaffers person mislaid patience with City assets... astatine slightest for the clip being.

CHELSEA

• Aston Villa (h)
• Southampton (a)
• Tottenham (a)
• Astana (a)
• Brentford (h)
• Shamrock Rovers (h)
• Everton (a)
• Fulham (h)
• Ipswich (a)

The Blues are 1 of 5 teams with 9 fixtures to fulfil from this play until New Year's Day.

However, Enzo Maresca has made extended usage of rotation successful the Conference League truthful it's apt to beryllium Christopher Nkunku (£4.5m), Joao Felix (£4.4m) and Mykhailo Mudryk (£3.1m) who currency successful against Astana and Shamrock Rovers.

Those 3 league games astatine the extremity of the period could beryllium profitable for Cole Palmer (£6m) backers if Chelsea's talisman is successful the mood.

ARSENAL

• West Ham (a)
• Manchester United (h)
• Fulham (a)
• Monaco (h)
• Everton (h)
• Crystal Palace (h)
• Crystal Palace (a)
• Ipswich (h)
• Brentford (a)

The Gunners won't beryllium leaving London until 2025 and 1 suspects minimal question clip volition beryllium an vantage erstwhile the docket gets hectic.

A treble header against the Eagles has to beryllium considered a changeable of luck (facilitated by the Carabao Cup quarter-final draw) fixed Oliver Glasner's men are presently languishing 19th successful the table.

Bukayo Saka (£6.4m) could good beryllium a must-have plus for December arsenic ninth-placed Fulham is his toughest home hostile according to the league table.

BRIGHTON

• Southampton (h)
• Fulham (a)
• Leicester (a)
• Crystal Palace (h)
• West Ham (a)
• Brentford (h)
• Aston Villa (a)

Just the 7 games for the Seagulls but a drawstring of bottom-half opponents (and Fulham) until the extremity of Gameweek 16 appears ripe with potential.

Joao Pedro (£4.1m) averages 8.7 points-per-game astatine the clip of writing, a complaint lone bettered by Haaland and Mohamed Salah (£7.4m) among forwards.

Kaoru Mitoma (£3.7m) and Georginio Rutter (£3.4m) mightiness beryllium to beryllium astute differential midfielders.

TOTTENHAM

• Fulham (h)
• Bournemouth (a)
• Chelsea (h)
• Rangers (a)
• Southampton (a)
• Manchester United (h)
• Liverpool (h)
• Nottingham Forest (a)
• Wolves (h)

There's astir nary constituent looking astatine Spurs' docket due to the fact that their inconsistency defies the signifier table; arsenic typified by their mighty 4-0 triumph implicit Man City successful the aftermath of their decision to Ipswich.

Son Heung-min (£5.3m) and institution volition beryllium engaged boys successful the coming Gameweeks though with plentifulness of points connected offer.

As good arsenic the skipper, Pedro Porro (£4.4m), Dejan Kulusevski (£3m), Brennan Johnson (£3.7m), James Maddison (£4.5m) and Dominic Solanke (£4.3m) are each perfectly viable options.

Plus, Fraser Forster (£1.8m) is simply a imaginable bargain portion Guglielmo Vicario (£3.1m) recovers from a fractured ankle.

NOTTINGHAM FOREST

• Ipswich (h)
• Manchester City (a)
• Manchester United (a)
• Aston Villa (h)
• Brentford (a)
• Tottenham (h)
• Everton (a)

After a flying commencement to the campaign, consecutive losses to Newcastle and Arsenal either broadside of the planetary interruption person travel arsenic a world cheque for Forest.

Chris Wood's (£3.8m) owners volition beryllium hopeful of steadfast returns astatine location to the Tractor Boys this play but the docket takes a nasty crook from Gameweek 14.

ASTON VILLA

• Chelsea (a)
• Brentford (h)
• Southampton (h)
• RB Leipzig (a)
• Nottingham Forest (a)
• Manchester City (h)
• Newcastle (a)
• Brighton (h)

In implicit opposition to past season, the Villains person earned much league points distant from location this clip around.

Unai Emery's men are successful a atrocious infinitesimal close present having gone 7 games without a triumph successful each competitions.

Emi Martinez (£3.9m), Ollie Watkins (£5.3m), Lucas Digne (£3.5m) and Morgan Rogers (£2.8m) are each fashionable selections successful the realm of Dream Team but gaffers volition request to spot an upturn from Villa sooner alternatively than later.

FULHAM

• Tottenham (a)
• Brighton (h)
• Arsenal (h)
• Liverpool (a)
• Southampton (h)
• Chelsea (a)
• Bournemouth (h)

The West Londoners person enjoyed a affirmative commencement to the run but their adjacent 4 opponents are each wrong the apical six of the array - a pugnacious test.

Fulham volition beryllium hopeless to get 1 implicit their section rivals connected Boxing Day but their grounds against Chelsea is miserable - they haven't won astatine Stamford Bridge since 1979!

NEWCASTLE

• Crystal Palace (a)
• Liverpool (h)
• Brentford (a)
• Leicester (h)
• Brentford (h)
• Ipswich (a)
• Aston Villa (h)
• Manchester United (a)

Gaffers keen connected backing Alexander Isak (£5.4m), an understandable inclination, mightiness privation to people the Magpies' fixtures successful Gameweeks 15 and 16 (Leicester, Brentford, Ipswich and Villa).

Eddie Howe's broadside looked to beryllium heading the close absorption aft wins implicit Chelsea, Arsenal and Forest but an unexpected decision to West Ham connected Monday nighttime has slowed their momentum.

Truth beryllium told, Newcastle games person been a tad airy connected Dream Team points this season.

BRENTFORD

• Leicester (h)
• Aston Villa (a)
• Newcastle (h)
• Chelsea (a)
• Newcastle (a)
• Nottingham Forest (h)
• Brighton (a)
• Arsenal (h)

The Bees boast the champion location grounds successful the apical formation but the second-worst distant record.

Given the quality of their distant fixtures successful December, their problems connected the roadworthy could widen until the caller year.

That being said, Bryan Mbeumo (£4.3m) is simply a decent midfield enactment for Gameweek 13 - the Cameroon prima averages 8.1 points-per-game this season.

MANCHESTER UNITED

• Everton (h)
• Arsenal (a)
• Nottingham Forest (h)
• Viktoria Plzen (a)
• Manchester City (a)
• Tottenham (a)
• Bournemouth (h)
• Wolves (a)
• Newcastle (h)

The past of our teams with 9 fixtures to fulfil.

A match-up with the Toffees represents a comparatively favourable archetypal league crippled astatine Old Trafford for Ruben Amorim but the Portuguese tactician faces immoderate pugnacious tests successful December.

A travel to Czechia successful the Europa League mightiness supply immoderate alleviation earlier a tricky Gameweek 15 (Man City and Spurs) but if the Red Devils travel done comparatively unscathed determination could beryllium steadfast returns up for grabs against the Cherries and Wolves.

Bruno Fernandes (£6.4m), Alejandro Garnacho (£4.2m), Noussair Mazraoui (£4.1m) and Diogo Dalot (£4m) person each provided their just stock of points crossed the archetypal 12 Gameweeks of the season.

BOURNEMOUTH

• Wolves (a)
• Tottenham (h)
• Ipswich (a)
• West Ham (h)
• Manchester United (a)
• Crystal Palace (h)
• Fulham (a)

Antoine Semenyo (£2.9m) is the lone subordinate successful the squad to marque immoderate waves successful Dream Team truthful acold and he's suspended for this weekend's travel to Molineux.

And with conscionable 7 games for the Cherries, let's determination on...

WEST HAM

• Arsenal (h)
• Leicester (a)
• Wolves (h)
• Bournemouth (a)
• Brighton (h)
• Southampton (a)
• Liverpool (h)

The Hammers person conscionable 7 fixtures with investigating match-ups bookending this tally but a fewer Dream Team managers whitethorn consciousness Jarrod Bowen (£5.3m) is worthy a whirl astatine immoderate stage.

The England planetary has amassed 105 points astatine an mean of 7.5 per outing via 4 goals and 4 assists.

Bowen has astir doubly arsenic galore points arsenic West Ham's adjacent champion performers, Mohammed Kudus (£5.1m) and Aaron Wan-Bissaka (£3.3m), who are level connected 56 each.

EVERTON

• Manchester United (a)
• Wolves (h)
• Liverpool (h)
• Arsenal (a)
• Chelsea (h)
• Manchester City (a)
• Nottingham Forest (h)

There's nary sugarcoating the Toffees' December; it's a brutal run.

Dwight McNeil (£3.7m) has impressed this play but gaffers should astir apt enactment good wide of each Everton assets successful the run-up to New Year's Day.

LEICESTER

• Brentford (a)
• West Ham (h)
• Brighton (h)
• Newcastle (a)
• Wolves (h)
• Liverpool (a)
• Manchester City (h)

The Foxes are successful hopeless request of a caller manager bounce and they'll astir apt request to get their points aboriginal successful December arsenic they look an highly taxing extremity to the month.

WOLVES

• Bournemouth (h)
• Everton (a)
• West Ham (a)
• Ipswich (h)
• Leicester (a)
• Manchester United (h)
• Tottenham (a)

Wolves are a tad airy without European fixtures oregon a Carabao Cup quarter-final but six consecutive bottom-half opponents could output plentifulness of points for Matheus Cunha (£4.8m).

Gary O'Neil's prima subordinate averages 8.3 points-per-game this play and is successful peculiar beardown signifier close present having banked implicit 50 points successful his past 4 appearances.

IPSWICH

• Nottingham Forest (a)
• Crystal Palace (h)
• Bournemouth (h)
• Wolves (a)
• Newcastle (h)
• Arsenal (a)
• Chelsea (h)

Liam Delap (£2.4m) is the lone Tractor Boy with an ownership supra 0.3% and that's improbable to alteration immoderate clip soon, contempt Kieran McKenna's admirable efforts successful Suffolk.

CRYSTAL PALACE

• Newcastle (h)
• Ipswich (a)
• Manchester City (h)
• Brighton (a)
• Arsenal (a)
• Arsenal (h)
• Bournemouth (a)
• Southampton (h)

The Carabao Cup gully has cruelly fixed the Eagles a treble header against the Gunners but astatine slightest they person 8 fixtures, 1 much than 9 different clubs.

Palace person recovered it hard going this play but Eberechi Eze (£5m) is subordinate to support an oculus connected arsenic helium tends to cod Dream Team points for amusive erstwhile acceptable - he's owed backmost from wounded immoderate time now.

SOUTHAMPTON

• Brighton (a)
• Chelsea (h)
• Aston Villa (a)
• Tottenham (h)
• Liverpool (h)
• Fulham (a)
• West Ham (h)
• Crystal Palace (a)

With each owed respect to Saints, determination aren't galore Dream Team bosses retired determination keen connected a nine rooted to the bottommost of the table.

Their adjacent six opponents are each top-half clubs excessively - it could get messy for Russell Martin and his troops.

Target the close fixtures with the close players and you volition surge up the leaderboard this Christmas!