A couch warrior's guide to the weekend sporting action Sergio Aguero will return to Premier League action for Manchester City this weekend. Fox Sports 1 - Saturday, 11.30pm Another cracker at a tasty time for EPL fans this weekend, with league leaders Arsenal taking on fourth-placed Manchester City on Saturday night. Both teams are coming off a draw and three wins, with Manchester City's title aspirations seemingly on an upward curve after a rocky first 11 rounds of the season. City will certainly believe anything's possible, after they came from 2-0 down to beat Bayern Munich in this week's Champions League stoush. And they regain Sergio Aguero, Vincent Kompany and Samir Nasri after the star trio sat out a disappointing 1-1 draw with Southampton last weekend. For those who don't have to function on Sunday, Chelsea takes on our boy Mile Jedinak's Crystal Palace straight after the big one, while Hull and Stoke square off at 4.30am. If you believe the bookies, Arsenal have no chance. The Gunners are paying $3.85 with TAB, while City is at $1.80 and the draw $3.75. Reckon City will lead at both the half and full-time whistles? Odds of $3 are all yours. Channel 9 - Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 1.30pm As always, the best part about the WACA Test is that anyone whose boss is an office TV heathen gets to race home and catch the last three hours or so. The later start time for cricket fans in the eastern states will allow more people to watch this Ashes rout roll into the third Test on Friday, put in enough family time on Saturday and Sunday mornings to earn a leave pass for the rest of the day, then back up for a bit more on Monday and Tuesday (if it lasts that long). We shouldn't be cocky, but England would want to find some inner Odour Eaters for the stink they've put out there so far in the series if they're to have any hope of keeping it alive. Forget about plonking on the Aussies to win. Given what he's done on decks that won't be as quick as this, Mitchell Johnson is solid value at $2.50 to claim the most wickets in England's first innings. Ryan Harris is at $3 with TAB and Sidds is at $4.50. Simon Whitlock will need to be at his sharpest if he's to knock off the favourites at the World Darts Championship. Fox Sports 1 - Saturday 6am, Sunday 6.30am It's that time of year again, when drunken Brits scream all manner of profanities at blokes in horrific shirts. Darts has gathered steam as a sporting spectacle in recent years, and if human-powered missiles are your thing, you'll get more than your fill over the coming weeks. The World Darts Championship starts on Saturday AEDT and runs until January 2, and this year there are four Aussies in the queue to take down Phil "The Power" Taylor. Headlining our chances is perennial top 10 contender Simon "The Wizard" Whitlock, who takes on young Brit Ross Smith in the first round. You can't miss Whitlock. He's the bloke with the biker beard and biblically epic ponytail. Phil Taylor is, as always, at almost prohibitive odds ($1.90), while the man he beat in last year's final, Michael van Gerwen, can be had for $3.50. Throw a blanket over the rest, with Whitlock on the fourth line of betting at $26. Andrew Bogut will again have his hands full with Houston's Dwight Howard when Bogut's Golden State Warriors meet them this weekend. ESPN - Saturday, noon AEDT Boy oh boy, what a Saturday feast. If you can only watch one of the NBA clashes on offer on Saturday afternoon, make it the latter (2.30pm) as the Bogey man's Golden State Warriors take on the 15-7 Houston Rockets. Houston gave them a 22-point touch-up just a week ago, but that was in Texas. This time the Warriors will attempt to reverse the result at home and stay in touch with Phoenix in the NBA's Pacific division. There's still the slight problem of overcoming Dwight Howard, James Harden and Jeremy Lin, so keep your collective fingers crossed. If parking yourself in front of five hours of NBA is your idea of a perfect Saturday, switch on from noon, when the LA Lakers attempt to climb out of the Pacific division basement. The Lakers are yet to win since Kobe Bryant returned from eight months on the sidelines last week, chalking up two losses at home as their list of nobodies struggled to assimilate the bloke who's sucking up most of the salary cap. Joseph Benavidez will be hoping for more of this when he takes on Demetrious Johnson. Fox Sports 3 - Sunday, 1.30pm The UFC's brutality was brought into sharp focus and attracted considerable debate this week after the growing sport ventured to Brisbane. While the card on offer here isn't up to Pay-Per-View status, there's still a flyweight title bout between Joseph Benavidez and challenger Demetrious Johnson to keep diehards happy. On paper, Johnson looks like he'll be more than a handful, with more punches landed more accurately, more takedowns, better takedown effectiveness and better takedown defence throughout his 18-win, two-loss UFC career. But Benavidez hasn't won 19 times inside the octagon for nothing. Johnson enters as a slight favourite at $1.74, with Benavidez just north of the $2 mark.