BC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.
Lawro's opponent for this weekend's Premier League fixtures is actor Adil Ray, who stars as Citizen Khan in the eponymous BBC One sitcom.
Adil Ray says his character Citizen Khan is more of a cricket fan than a football follower
Ray is an Aston Villa fan, who is not enjoying their current struggles and predicts that they will be beaten by Southampton on Monday night.
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Man City v Swansea
Nothing less than two wins will do for Manchester City from their next two games - first against Swansea and then Bayern Munich in the Champions League on Tuesday. It is important that Manuel Pellegrini starts by picking his best team against Swansea to get the points in the bag, then works out how to beat Bayern.
Yaya Toure will surely play for 90 minutes on Saturday because he is banned in Europe after his stupid red card against CSKA, and Pellegrini should tell him that he owes his team-mates, big-style.
Swansea will punish any defensive uncertainty by Manchester City, with Vincent Kompany still sidelined, but I can see Pellegrini's side winning comfortably.
I can actually see them beating Bayern too, because the German side are already through to the last 16 as group winners.
Lawro's prediction: 4-0
Adil's prediction: 3-1
Merson also predicts 4 goals
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news ... s-round-12
This should be a good game really as Swansea beat Arsenal last time out, while Man City are now in a position where they just have to win every game, draws are already no good and we have just started the season! City need to get three points, badly. For me, they have just got to concentrate on this game first, and then worry about Bayern Munich in the Champions League afterwards. I think they'll do that and get the points. Swansea did great to come back against Arsenal but I am going to go
3-1 to Man City.
