Topic: ⚽ Premier League 2023/2024 Discussion Thread ⚽ - page 30. (Read 65138 times)

The Liverpool match was supposed to be a morale booster match for Manchester City, but it didn't happen. Liverpool won the match 2-0.
City couldn't even create a decent position in the match.
Gakpo scored Liverpool's first goal, and after Real Madrid, he also scored against City and continued to shine.
With this win, Liverpool increased the point difference with City to 11 points.
There is a 9-point difference with its closest followers, Arsenal and Chelsea.
I think Liverpool will widen the point gap further this year if there are no injuries.

Arsenal football team performance was at higher level because all boys did excellent game in this match and we saw good match because we saw goals in this match and that is unexpected result because we expected that the result will be 3-2 or 4-2 but West Ham United team played very bad and could not goal but they got many chances but they took pressure of goals because Arsenal players did goals from the start of match and West Ham United team understood that they will definitely lose this match .Wan-Bissaka and Emerson did goal from West Ham United team but they could not save their team from lose in this match. Gabriel and Trossard did first two goals and they gave confidence to their team members in this match.

I think Manchester City had a draw with Feyenord, so technically it's not 4 losses in a row, but 5 losses in 6 matches and one draw. Apparently Guardiola should have left Manchester City last season when he was at his peak with Manchester City, but either he didn't want to leave like Klopp or he didn't think that so many players would get injured at the same time and Liverpool and other rivals would play so well.
When Guardiola replaced Gundgan it was clear he didn't know what to do and if Liverpool had been luckier the score would have been much bigger in Liverpool's favor, but Manchester City were lucky.
Liverpool are unstoppable and this season Liverpool should be the champions.

Liverpool can take the trophy if they keep snowballing till the end of season. They're topping the league with 9 points gap toward Chelsea and Arsenal. It's impossible for competitors to chase them, buit

Liverpool's win against City is just helping them get closer to winning the trophy. We shall wait until mid season to determine how big Liverpool's possibility to win the league. This also determines how possible they're to have competitors for the title race.

I predict Liverpool , Chelsea, Arsenal topping the top 3 until the end of season.

It looks like Liverpool can achieve their goal and become champions, it was a very important match from this point of view, and for City this defeat was a very difficult blow, and after a series of failures they fell to 5th place. The closest pursuers of Liverpool are Arsenal and Chelsea, but they are also 9 points behind Liverpool. I do not want to rush and say that Liverpool will be champions, because any team can have a decline...

Yeah, and almost made it. Very disappointed how shitty totenham. They were leading the game with one nil, then they made a mistake that helped fulham to equalize the score. It's really unaccaptable.

I have no complaints about the rest of the game, but Totenham's game really disappointed me. They looked so inconsistent in UEL and EPL. They're up and down, made too many mistakes and never intend to solve it.

They played worse even after Fulham went down to 10 players.

I was fuming to the Totenham when i was watched so many opportunities missed.

It's a big joke Pep rotated Lewis to play as a right winger, while both Gundongan and Silva that really good in attacking instead of defending, Pep put them as a defensive midfielder. Pep is frustrated and he don't know how to solve it, this will be the worst season for them.

If Liverpool become a champion in this season, it will be a sweat last dance for Salah in Liverpool.

It seems we have the same predicted result with 1 loss in those 4 games.
It was a mistake for me to expect Man City to perform as well as they used to and I even ignored Liverpool recent form and results. It was very disappointing to see Man City lose without a fight.

And in your prediction in the Spurs match, you could almost get a win if Spurs could take advantage of a good chance when Fulham got a red card and only played 10 players. But unfortunately Spurs performance was unable to score a winning score in the final minutes.

This is the result of my prediction,

Tottenham Hotspur has got to be a very useless club, not being consistent will definitely get them.down below this season,  I wonder what's going on within the dressing room. I hate the fact that Everton are doing poorly,  they can't afford to be relegated this season,  I think it's high time Sean Dyche is shown the exit. No atom of creativity was seen from the game they played yesterday. Loving this tactical Chelsea side Enzo Maresca a genius. Caicedo reminds me of Ngolo Kante, anyone agrees with me? Cole Palmer hustled for that goal ams finally got it.

we all know what is wrong with man city's squad that made them continue getting this kind of result, the simple and evident fact is that the players are not complete and if you have followed up most of their recent games, it's not just that they are losing, it is that even the way they are playing doesn't show that this is the same city that won straight four consecutive premier league in a row. look at the moment they brought in Doku into the team, you could see the energy he came with and the whole of that atmosphere took a different tune. KDB also was effective even though they brought him in a bit late, but you could see that he is not playing the usual football because he hasn't recovered fully.

this result is nothing strange and expectedly, it was never possible that this current city players that are making up the first xi will stand against this set of Liverpool players. the confidence on the Liverpool team has grown so strong that they aren't even considering any opposition as strong enough to play against them. at this point, getting a draw in any of their coming games will certainly look like they have lost the game. the plan of city should just be to work on remaining in the top four regardless of how tough it's going to be so they can still qualify for the next champions league cause with the way things are going, the beating run might still continue as the player lose confidence and become more desperate in the coming games.

After Odegaard returned, Arsenal have been flying again. I think Arteta is a good manager only when he has his players available. He always plays a very specific system, and without these specific players, he struggles to get results out. Now that most of his squad is back apart from White, which can be easily replaced by Jurrien Timber, he is starting to get good results again. But football is filled with injuries, the team that is able to get results with worse teams is the one which deserves to win the most trophies.

The way City is losing, it feels like they have the worst team in the world. Which is not the case because they still have a pretty decent and expensive team. When Klopp managed Liverpool, he always had a lot of injuries but he was always able to get results out with that team. That is something that is special, and really hard to accomplish.

So many criticism channeled towards Mo Salah lately,  but he has done his best to shut the mouths of the them all on the pitch. They hate it or love it, he will be remembered as a Liverpool club legend. As much as I love how they've been playing,  I don't want to see them winning the Premier league competition. Ageing players in Man City a big issue for Pep as they can't keep up with the pace of the Premier League this season.

This result can be pressure for Pep. He became the target ridicule from Liverpool fans, "he will be fired soon" echoing on Anfield stadium after Salah created the second goal.
I think Liverpool has established them as champions this season, they play loose, their passing is accurate, and the strategy is suitable for the existing situation.
They're become the most stable club in Europe right now. I don't know how Arni Slot can change the team that was mediocre before to be superpower on England.
It's not just premier league, Liverpool also the 1st standing on Champions League. That something amazing that has been changed quickly by the manager.

Mohammed Salah becomes man of the match last night.

In fact, in this match I saw Liverpool without strong pressure and not like a big match usually for this match because indeed in 90 minutes the match in the end was not as tight as imagined.

Manchester City did remain with their absolute possession but that's all it was nothing more. They struggled to move the ball around to create chances which in turn became a persistent problem as Haaland was heavily guarded and Manchester City struggled to find a finishing and target man.

On the contrary, Liverpool looked more effective when they did a fairly simple scheme but the pattern was very good especially when they continued to press and destroy City's mentality with their on target, of course this made them look more prepared.
With this result Manchester City are getting away from where they should be and Liverpool are very comfortable at the top of the table.

4 consecutive defeats in the Premier League is Pep Guardiola's worst record in his history with Manchester City. He didn't have a record like this before, but this season is completely different. Manchester City have had great difficulty recovering from their downturn this season and they look like a team that has lost confidence when playing. Player performance changes, defense is poor, attack patterns are also ineffective.

The points gap with Liverpool is not 12, but 11 points for now. Liverpool's victory has strengthened the assumption that Liverpool are the team that will win the Premier League title this season, but the title race is expected to be tight if Arsenal can stop Liverpool for the rest of the season.

I think Amorim assumed it wasn't so difficult to play against Bodo/Glimt. So he put Malacia and Antony on the starting lineup. Luckily Man United won the match, people can feel quite satisfied with Amorim's tactic.  

By the way, Amorim at least already have some permanent players on the defense line. he prefers using De Light-Martinez-Mazraoui.

Yep. Rashford and Zirkzee played well today, each of them scored 2 goals. Amorim has tried to always rotate Man United attackers. I think there duo Rashford and Zirkzee who showed a more productive result. I think they deserve to play again as starters in the next matches.

I think the doubt on Amorim are starting to diminish. The more wins got by Man United, the more people will trust on Amorim. I think it is about the time that Amorim will show his quality to anyone. Sure, it is not a mistake to hire him if he can improve the performance of Man United. He also should have the intention to build Man United squad for a long run.

Really smooth game by Liverpool.    They controlled the first half without problems. Manchester City tried to do something later on but I can't say they were very well in general anyway.

This didn't surprise me though. Manchester City were already crying for help like I said. If I'm not wrong it is a 6-game streak of without a win. What a mess... I hope Guardiola doesn't try to injure himself more after this result. He is really unhappy with this horrible streak. The point gap with the leader literally has gone up to 11 points.

Liverpool are really comfortable at the top. Arne Slot is running for a new record I guess.

Chelsea under the coaching of Enzo Maresca has been able to rise from the slump where they were able to show their strength again when facing strong teams. In today's match I was amazed to see the development of Chelsea's game which is getting better where they are very united with each other and they are also able to withstand the pressure of their opponents, it is really good development done by Maresca.

Aston Villa is not a weak opponent because they have many quality players in their team but by improving Chelsea performance, Aston Villa was unable to keep up with the previous match well. As a result, Chelsea was able to launch many good attacks and if you look at the match statistics, of course Chelsea is very reasonable to win with a score of 3-0 because they were able to make many accurate shots and attacks.

It was a rough game for Villa, even if i had suspected Chelsea of winning this game i had the opinion of a different result not like this, the defeat was really a bad one for their record. Chelsea has been up doing this whole season, Maresca truly understand what he is building with the club, despite some lapses in the squad, he still manages to extract useful points, clearly he now have higher hopes of qualifying for the Champions League if they would keep up this performance.

Manchester United did an impressive performance today, 4 goals against Everton, not a tough team but at worst it has helped them move forward on the table, now at the 9th position. I don't know what is up for Manchester City, they are taking too long to get on track, the gap from Liverpool is becoming really ambiguous each played week, the title might be settled on them.

After Amorim's 2 silly experiments with Malacia and Antony against Bodo/Glimt it seems like he realizes that priorities and winning are paramount and he's got the momentum this time around with players that I think are much more stable than his previous lineups.

The game ended without a hitch for them with 2 braces from the feet of Rashford and Zirkzee that saw Manchester United end the week's festivities on a high at Old Trafford.

Their momentum is starting to build now although doubts about Amorim are still very big due to the departure of Rudd van Nistelrooy but it seems he still wants to show that Manchester United's decision to sign him from Sporting was not a mistake.