A new first for the BBC as they show a live Premier League game. Bournemouth v Crystal Palace in a prime time Saturday night slot - who'd have thought we'd have been so excited for this fixture?
That's what such a long time without football can do to you. And it does seem so long when you think about where these sides left off; Bournemouth in the last relegation spot while Palace sit pretty safe and just one point off that magic 40-point mark.
Palace are a strange side, with the second-worst expected goals reading for the season on 32.2, just one ahead of Newcastle. The fact they won their last three Premier League games before the break, each by a 1-0 scoreline, says it all.
They are well set up under Roy Hodgson and have some talented players among their ranks, but their level of threat remains pretty low. Especially if Wilfried Zaha or Jordan Ayew are not on song.
Bournemouth's xG for the season is only slightly more at 39. But they have a reason to change that, with the return of David Brooks.
Eddie Howe's side have been able to benefit from the recovery of a number of players, including winger Brooks, who has been out for over a year now. Talked about in our 11 to watch after injury feature, the Welshman really can be the driving force behind their survival bid.
In an interview with Jamie Redknapp in the Mail last weekend, Brooks came across as a confident guy who is not fazed by much. He talked about his excitement at being watched by millions as the Premier League hits the screens around the world in a prime slot. It is his chance to impress and show what the Cherries have been missing and what he is all about.
His xG per 90 and xGa per 90 data for his debut season with the club is impressive, reading 0.48, which means he will score or assist a goal nearly every other game.
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Watford have nine games to complete the great escape and no-one knows more about doing that under Nigel Pearson than Leicester.
The Premier League's restart and that of the Bundesliga have shown that it takes a while for sides to find their feet and get going again. It has now been more than 100 days since these sides played a professional match, so the sharpness could be lacking.
A case of that and Pearson having his side well organised to grind out a result could make for a tight affair.
Regular Sporting Life readers will have seen us mention Abdoulaye Doucoure in our 11 to watch series and he was going to be our goalscorer tip at just over 4/1. But we have talked ourselves out of it after considering he will be marked closely by one of the league's best defensive midfielders in Wilfried Ndidi and central pairing Jonny Evans and Caglar Soyuncu.
The trawling through markets continues and the one that really stands out is another goalscorer in Youri Tielemans. Odds of 7/1 for Leicester's attacking midfielder are astonishing.
If we are comparing this to the start of the season, Tielemans had six shots in his first two games - against Wolves and Chelsea, so certainly no pushover opposition.
The Belgian averages 1.6 shots per game in the league over the course of the campaign, but when he shoots, more often than not they come in a flurry - on 14 occasions he has had two efforts or more.
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The season has been a long one for everyone due to the unforeseen circumstances, but none more so than Wolves, whose first competitive game came last July in the Europa League. Physically they have had a bit of a rest but psychologically it is a long old campaign.
Luckily for them they have an astute manager in Nuno Espirito Santo, whose attention to detail is spot on and he will make sure they are in a position to finish strongly both in the league and in Europe.
For David Moyes and West Ham, they really needed a break with just one win from 10 in all competitions. They should have enough to avoid the drop, but who knows with West Ham as it is rarely straightforward for the east Londoners.
Among their ranks they do have summer signing Tomas Soucek still to bed in properly, with this extended break allowing the on-loan midfielder to fully recover from a muscular injury that hampered his start to life in England after joining from Slavia Prague.
Readers of our tips and the 11 to watch series will know he is a player who can potentially contribute to the Hammers' survival bid going on his previous stats.
The Czech Republic ace is an exciting box-to-box midfielder who could fit in well alongside Declan Rice and Mark Noble in the centre of the park.
Although he is a deep-lying midfielder by trade, the 25-year-old scored 10 goals in 19 appearances for Slavia in the first half of the campaign and his rate of shooting is impressive.
He averaged 2.3 per game in the Champions League (four shots and a goal against both Inter Milan and Borussia Dortmund), 2.7 per game in the UEFA Nations League last year for his country, and he had two shots on his debut against the Seagulls.
With those three in the middle for the Hammers, and Joao Moutinho and Ruben Neves for Wolves, it could well be a battle of the midfield.
An away win is slightly favoured due to the aforementioned Portuguese duo and dangerous attacking three of Diogo Jota, Raul Jimenez and Adama Traore.
But the market for Soucek to have two shots, not necessarily on target, at an odds-against price does appeal. When he has sight of goal, he will not hesitate to try his luck.
Score prediction: West Ham 0-1 Wolves ()
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