Fri. Jan 10th, 2025
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Chris got seven correct results from the 10 games in week 20, with three exact scores, giving him a total of 160 points – his highest total this season.

Even so, his victory was not assured until the final whistle of the penultimate game of the weekend, Manchester United’s surprise 2-2 draw with Liverpool.

His guest, Zutons frontman Dave McCabe, had gone for a 3-2 Reds victory and although Harry Maguire missed a late chance to win it for United, Virgil van Dijk had gone close to nicking it for Liverpool moments earlier, when his close-range header was saved.

McCabe ended up with six correct results, with two exact scores, for a total of 120 points.

The BBC Sport readers got six correct results with one exact score, giving them 90 points.

Out of almost 65,000 predictions, only 3,951 (6%) of you went for United to get a draw at Anfield, with 3,278 (5%) thinking they would win.

In terms of the exact scoreline, only 1,034 people (2%) correctly went for a 2-2 draw – the most popular predictions by the public were all big Liverpool wins – 3-0 (14,286 or 22%), followed by 4-0 (10,335 or 16%).

Chris went even bigger, backing them to win 5-0 and 4,138 (6%) of you agreed.

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