Rediff.com brings you the previews of the main matches scheduled for this weekend and early next week in the English Premier League calendar
Born-again Liverpool bid to end woeful league run against United
Livepool v Manchester United
Tuesday, October 18
12:30, IST
Liverpool will be looking to end a dismal Premier League run against Manchester United and build on a promising start to the campaign with victory over their bitter north west rivals on Monday.
Resurgent Liverpool are three points ahead of United in the table as Jose Mourinho's rebuilding programme stutters, but their current run of four successive league defeats to the Old Trafford club is their worst against them for eight years.
Liverpool, who knocked United out of the Europa League last season, have not beaten them in domestic competition since March 2014, but they meet for the first time in this campaign with Juergen Klopp's men in supreme form.
The Reds have won their last four Premier League matches and suffered only one defeat in all competitions so far.
In contrast, Mourinho's men have won just one and lost two of their last four in the league, crashing 3-1 at Watford and being held at home by StokeCity.
Despite the heavy investment in new players that followed Mourinho's much-heralded arrival at Old Trafford, his team currently have three points fewer than they managed from their first seven games of last season, when Louis van Gaal was in charge.
Leicester City v Chelsea
Saturday, October 15
17:00, IST
Reigning champions Leicester City meet Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on Saturday, but neither club has looked like title material so far this season.
Chelsea currently lie seventh, five points behind leaders Manchester City, while Leicester, who shocked the football world with their title success last May, are marooned in 12th place, with just two wins from their first seven games.
They have beaten Chelsea only four times in 20 Premier League games -- although their most recent success was less than a year ago as they stormed to the title.
Manchester City vs Everton
Saturday, October 16
19:30, IST
ManchesterCity still lead the Premier League, despite their first defeat of the season, at Tottenham Hotspur, in their last outing.
After crushing all before them in the first two months of the campaign, City will be bidding for their first win in three games in all competitions on Saturday when they host fifth-placed Everton, who are four points behind them.
Second place Spurs are waiting to pounce should City slip up and Mauricio Pochettino's side visit West Bromwich Albion on Saturday, when Arsenal host SwanseaCity -- who will be led for the first time by new manager Bob Bradley.
