Wednesday 2 March 2016 19:56, UK
The Premier League title race is still wide open as it enters the final straight with some hugely significant fixtures taking place on Wednesday night.
Tottenham, Arsenal and Manchester United are all in action and we get to see a mouth-watering repeat of the Capital One Cup final between Liverpool and Manchester City.
Will Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham continue their title charge in a tasty tussle at West Ham? Can Arsenal recover from their weekend defeat at Manchester United to keep pace with their north London rivals when they host Swansea?
With Stoke, relegation-threatened Newcastle and Watford also in action, we look at five key questions ahead of Wednesday's crunch games.
Will it be sweet revenge after penalty heartbreak? (Liverpool v Man City, 8pm, Wednesday)
Liverpool will look to move on quickly from the disappointment of losing the first showpiece event of the season after suffering penalty shoot-out agony at the hands of Manchester City on Sunday.
City, meanwhile, have breathed fresh life into their season in the past week. They had hit problems with back-to-back defeats to Leicester and Tottenham threatening to derail their title bid before a controversial FA Cup loss at Chelsea.
They now want to maintain the momentum and get their bid for a third league crown in five seasons back on track.
Manuel Pellegrini's men have points to make up on surprise league leaders Leicester and are also still very much alive in the Champions League, following an impressive 3-1 win last 16 first-leg away victory at Dynamo Kiev.
And winning the League Cup, for the second time in three years, could spur them onto further silverware at home and abroad.
The Reds comfortably beat City 4-1 at the Etihad Stadium back in November and, although a win against them at Anfield would have a significant bearing on the title race, the Europa League is where it's at for Liverpool right now, with a last-16 tie against arch-rivals Manchester United coming up in the next couple of weeks.
Although that has to be their motivation, a win against City to dent their title ambitions would put a big smile back on Jurgen Klopp's face.
Will Tottenham keep pace at the top? (West Ham v Tottenham, 7.45pm, Wednesday)
Spurs are just behind league leaders Leicester ahead of two crunch London derbies, with a trip to West Ham before the grudge match on Saturday against Arsenal.
Mauricio Pochettino's men showed their mettle by fighting back from a goal down to beat Swansea at the weekend to keep pace with the Foxes.
Pochettino is concentrating on one match at a time to ease the pressure of going for the club's first top-flight title since 1961 and his players are showing the kind of form that could end their long title drought.
They have not lost away from home in the league since the opening day of the season, although they will expect a hostile atmosphere in both his side's next two matches.
Pochettino's first league game in charge at Spurs came at Upton Park in August 2014, when Eric Dier scored a last-minute winner to seal a 1-0 victory and Tottenham's rise since then has been as surprising as it has been impressive.
The Hammers will also be eager to put a dent in Spurs' title ambitions and are gunning for Champions League football themselves as they sit sixth, four points behind fourth-placed Manchester City.
Can Arsenal recover from their faltering title challenge? (Arsenal v Swansea, 7.45pm, Wednesday)
Sunday's 3-2 defeat at injury-ravaged Manchester United left Arsenal five points below league leaders Leicester, compromising the London club's chances of ending their 12-year wait for the title.
Media pundits rounded on Arsene Wenger's side afterwards, former Liverpool manager Graeme Souness branding them "weak and insipid" and ex-Arsenal midfielder Paul Merson saying Wenger should leave if they do not win the league.
Arsenal are desperate to show they are still genuine contenders and face second-place Tottenham in the north London derby at the weekend.
Wenger will want to get his side to use Swansea's visit as a springboard for what could prove a pivotal game in the title race.
This is Swansea's worst tally of points in a Premier League season after 27 games and although they are sitting in a very precarious position - three points above the relegation zone - they gave Tottenham a real scare on Sunday only to lose 2-1. But they will take heart from that narrow loss heading to the Emirates.
Can Marcus Rashford do it again? (Manchester United v Watford, 8pm, Wednesday)
The glum mood around Old Trafford has been lifted by three wins in the space of a week as fifth-placed Manchester United host Watford with 18-year-old striker Marcus Rashford fresh from scoring four goals in two games.
Thrown into the starting line-up against FC Midtjylland in the Europa League, Rashford - a product of the United academy - blossomed under the Old Trafford floodlights.
He netted a crucial brace in that 5-1 win and continued his extraordinary start to life in the United first-team with another double in Sunday's 3-2 win against title-chasing Arsenal. But can he maintain his remarkable form?
"He is a very modest guy so I don't think that shall be the problem," manager Louis van Gaal said of the teenager.
He still has to show his consistency and what better way to do it then against Watford on home soil, albeit, the mid-table visitors won't make life easy.
The Hornets have more points away from home this season (18) than they managed in their two previous Premier League campaigns put together (15). They beat Crystal Palace on the road last time out and will feel they have enough quality in their ranks to take something from the trip up north.
Can Newcastle break mould in Potteries? (Stoke City v Newcastle, 7.45pm, Wednesday)
Newcastle head to eighth-placed Stoke seeking an upturn in fortunes as they continue their battle against the drop.
They have scored just seven league goals and won twice on their travels all season, a return manager Steve McClaren freely admits is simply not good enough.
"You know this team can win games. That's what's really frustrating. We should be winning more games than we're doing, and that's been the message for the last 18 days," he said.
A 2-1 friendly victory over Lillestrom during their warm weather training camp at La Manga instilled some confidence into the players.
But they head to Stoke having won just two of their last 10 Premier League matches and, more worryingly, they have lost 16 of their last 20 top flight away games - including the last five in a row.
Mark Hughes' men hold lofty Premier League ambitions buoyed by their 2-1 weekend win against Aston Villa.
Having won four of the last five Premier League home games against the Magpies, they will look to in-form Marko Arnautovic to help them extend that record.
The Austria international marked his 100th appearance for Stoke with both goals moving him on to 10 goals for the season - his most prolific return since joining Hughes' team for an undisclosed seven-figure fee from German side Werder Bremen in September 2013.
