Chelea's Ramires celebrates with Cesar Azpilicueta after scoring the third goal during their Premier League soccer match against Leicester City, April 5, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]

Arsene Wenger's team, who face a resurgent Hull City on Monday, are level on 67 points with last season's champions and second place Manchester City, who have played a game extra and travel to Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday.

Fourth-placed Manchester United have suffered two defeats in a row but they host West Bromwich Albion on Saturday hoping to cement their Champions League qualification bid.

United's cause has been helped by fifth-placed Liverpool going off the boil and Tuesday's 1-0 defeat against Hull left Brendan Rodgers's side seven-points adrift of their north west rivals.

Queens Park Rangers are the visitors to Anfield on Saturday and the 19th-placed side are in desperate need of a victory, although three points against Liverpool would still not be enough to lift them out of the relegation zone.

Seventeenth-placed Leicester, one point above 18th-placed Sunderland who host Southampton at the Stadium of Light, can condemn Newcastle United to an eighth straight league defeat on Saturday.

Bottom club Burnley, five points behind Leicester, face West Ham United at Upton Park on Saturday having won one of their previous 13 league fixtures.