Prem soccer returns with Boxing Day bonanza six days after World Cup closing

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PREMIER LEAGUE soccer is again after a six-week hiatus - and the fixtures will likely be coming thick and quick over the course of the following week.


The English high flight - like its counterparts across the globe - paused in mid-November to permit the first-ever winter World Cup to happen.


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Arsenal return to motion on Boxing Day 5 factors clear on the high of the Premier League Christmas TreeCredit score: AFP

High-flying Newcastle will bid to maintain their push for Champions League football against Leicester

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Excessive-flying Newcastle will bid to keep up their push for Champions League soccer in opposition to LeicesterCredit score: REX

Manchester United hope to close the gap between themselves and fourth-placed Tottenham on the 27th

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Manchester United hope to shut the hole between themselves and fourth-placed Tottenham on the twenty seventhCredit score: GETTY

Prem motion resumes motion with a Boxing Day bonanza.


And there's a lot at stake for groups at each ends of the desk.


League leaders Arsenal will welcome West Ham to the Emirates and can look to keep up their five-point benefit over defending champions Manchester Metropolis.


Metropolis might discover themselves EIGHT factors behind the Gunners by the point they play Leeds at Elland Street on Wednesday night.



The race for Champions League soccer can even take centre stage on Boxing Day, with Tottenham, Newcastle, Liverpool and Chelsea - third, fourth, sixth and eighth-placed - all in motion.


The quartet will face Brentford, Leicester Metropolis, Aston Villa and Bournemouth respectively.


Fifth-placed Manchester United will bid to slender the hole between themselves and Spurs with a win over Nottingham Forest on Tuesday.


Forest are at present 18th within the league with 13 factors to their title after 15 matches however they're in no way solid adrift.



A defeat to United, nevertheless, and a victory for Everton over Wolves might shortly finish the festive cheer on the Metropolis Floor.


The Toffees' conflict with Wolves is among the standout Boxing Day fixtures within the battle to beat the drop.


Actually, it is considerably of a good-old original relegation six-pointer.


Frank Lampard's troops are at present a solitary level above the drop zone with 14 factors.


Wolves, in the meantime, are all-time low of the desk with a mere ten factors to their title.


Wolves and Everton will take part in a Boxing Day six-pointer

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Wolves and Everton will participate in a Boxing Day six-pointerCredit score: PA

Defeat to Everton might show to be an enormous psychological blow to the Black County membership.


Much more so if fellow strugglers Southampton get a end result.


The Saints are two factors forward of Wolves and will breathe new life into their survival hopes with a win over Brighton.


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It is becoming there's a lot on using the primary Prem fixtures following its first-ever World Cup-enforced hiatus.


And if historical past is something to go by, there'll little question be loads of pantomime thrills and spills for footy followers up and down the nation to get pleasure from and lament.




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