With the Premier League calendar decimated by a wave of positive Covid-19 cases, just four games out of a scheduled ten have made the cut ahead of what's likely to be a manic festive period.
Arsenal hammered Leeds 4-1 in Saturday's only game, inspired by a brace from Gabriel Martinelli and goals from Bukayo Saka and Emile Smith Rowe, but the bulk of action comes on Sunday, headlined by a trip to Tottenham for Jurgen Klopp's in-form Liverpool.
Premier League leaders Manchester City are also in action against struggling Newcastle, while Chelsea, who have also been hit hard by positive Covid-19 cases, are at Molineux to take on Wolves, having seen a request rejected by the Premier League to postpone the fixture.
Here's 90min's coverage of the action as it unfolds.
Newcastle 0-2 Manchester City
TV channel/live stream? Sky Sports Main Event (UK), fuboTV( US)
Highlights? Sky Sports Football YouTube, Match of the Day 2 (BBC One 10.30pm - UK)
Manchester City are already in cruise control at St James' Park, against a beleaguered Newcastle side who really do appear to be in desperate, desperate trouble.
Comically bad defending allowed Pep Guardiola's side to open the scoring after just four minutes, as a complete breakdown in communication allowed Ruben Dias to head home Joao Cancelo's limp cross home after a corner wasn't properly cleared.
To make matters worse, Cancelo then reminded us all why he's in millions and millions of FPL teams around the world by a sauntering through a non-existent Newcastle midfield, before hammering past a helpless Martin Dubravka in the home goal. A wonderful finish but more awful defending.
Newcastle: Dubravka, Murphy, Lascelles, Clark, Ritchie; Almiron, Willock, Hayden; Joelinton, Fraser, Wilson
Man City: Ederson; Cancelo, Dias, Laporte, Zinchenko; Rodri, Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne; Mahrez, Jesus, Sterling
Goals: Dias (4), Cancelo (26)
Wolves 0-0 Chelsea
TV channel/live stream? Not being broadcast live (UK), fuboTV (US)
Highlights? Sky Sports Football YouTube, Match of the Day 2 (BBC One 10.30pm - UK)
Chelsea's attempts to postpone their clash with Wolves proved futile, meaning Thomas Tuchel had to take a depleted squad into battle at Molineux.
Covid-19 cases and injuries have ravaged the Blues' squad, but their ability to name a 17-player squad meant the game went ahead as planned despite Thomas Tuchel's pleas that the environment the players had been mixing in meant it wasn't safe off to proceed.
The game itself has started off as a cagey affair, though the hosts did have the ball in the back of Chelsea's net just past the quarter of an hour mark. However, replays showed an offside in the build-up to Daniel Podence's goal, meaning it's still honours even.
Wolves: Sa; Kilman, Coady, Saiss; Hoever, Dendoncker, Neves, Moutinho, Marcal; Jimenez, Podence
Chelsea: Mendy; Azpilicueta, Thiago Silva, Rudiger; James, Chalobah, Kante, Alonso; Mount, Ziyech, Pulisic
Tottenham vs Liverpool
TV channel/live stream? Sky Sports (UK), Peacock (US), DAZN (Canada)
Highlights? Sky Sports Football YouTube, Match of the Day 2 (BBC One 10.30pm - UK)
Tottenham end their wait for Premier League football with the unenviable task of hosting in-form Liverpool in Sunday's main game.
COVID-enforced postponements have sidelined Spurs since easing past Norwich at the start of December. In that time Liverpool have played - and won - three matches, and currently reside one point behind league leaders Manchester City.
Antonio Conte still has a raft of COVID-affected absences to juggle, stressing that it isn't as simple as throwing players straight back into the starting XI after they return from isolation given the lack of match fitness time away from training will have caused.
Liverpool had their own players missing through COVID for a comfortable midweek win over Newcastle United, as Curtis Jones, Fabinho and Virgil van Dijk sat out. However, Jurgen Klopp could welcome back Roberto Firmino into the starting XI for the first time since the start of November, after he came on as a sub against the Magpies.
Source : 90min