Topic: ⚽ Premier League 2023/2024 Discussion Thread ⚽ - page 341. (Read 70784 times)

For Manchester United I can agree with you. I also don't expect them to make a big comeback from the point they are at for a Champions League spot. But for Tottenham I don't think so. The gap between Aston Villa and Tottenham is only two points and Tottenham have a missing game which can be used as an advantage like I said. 

Do you really believe Tottenham have literally zero chance to close a gap like 2 points in 8 games they are going to play? That's a really bold comment honestly.    Tottenham and Aston Villa both have had inconsistencies so anything can happen.

Manchester City won their match against Aston Villa convincingly having a 4-1 score even without their star player Haaland in the lineup. That just shows how dominant they still are even still being behind Arsenal who are now the leaders of the table. They are tied with Liverpool in points at 67.
I can definitely see what happened last year happen this one where they came back to take the title. Especially with the remaining teams left to play. They once again can dominant them with the same score line as yesterday.

Both teams are really struggling this season but I think United is the better side and the stats points in the red devil's favour. Chelsea has not won man united in the last 5 meetings, three matches have ended in a draw while united has won the last two. The injuries list doesn't look good for the blues, about 7 players are reported to miss tonight's encounter while man utd have just few players on the sideline. United has not been consistent in their performance but they're better than Chelsea, and an away win or draw looks very likely.

Arsenal and Manchester City managed to win their week 30 match easily, so they could again take the top of the table from Liverpool, Arsenal managed to beat Luton with 2-0, and Manchester City, which from the beginning of the game did not field some of its main players, could win with a big score, facing Aston Villa, of course, many predicted to be a difficult match for Manchester City,  It is true that Aston Villa was able to make it difficult for Manchester City in the first half, but in the second half finally Manchester City took over the game and made Aston Villa lose 4-1

Today Liverpool will play again and try to reclaim the top of the table from Arsenal by facing Sheffield United at Anfield, Sheffield United is the weakest team in the Premier League so I think also Liverpool will only play its young squad to win the game, I think facing Sheffield United will not be a difficult job for Liverpool later Because Liverpool are superior in head to head, besides that just 3 victory obtained by Sheffield United from 29 games proves that their game and performance is very poor this season and deserves relegation for next season.

This is an easy work to be done by Liverpool absolutely!    Their real challenge will be a week later which is against Manchester United at Old Trafford only 3 days later.

The schedule is very busy for Liverpool so Klopp might want to make some changes in the starting eleven against Sheffield Utd today. Resting some crucial players or giving them a shorter playing time than the usual would be a big help for Liverpool to get ready against Manchester United. The previous match between ended 0-0 so I really wonder what's going to happen this time. 

Imho, Liverpool won't lose points this time. They are in a really heated title race and Manchester United are having really difficult days - especially in the defense line.

Arsenal could have been a bit more competitive with Manchester City last season if most of Arsenal's starting XI had not been plagued by injuries. Last season we saw that towards the end of the season Arsenal were missing all their key players due to injuries in the last matches which may have made Arsenal unable to compete with Manchester City till the last match. I don't see any major injury problems from this team so far this season, but if Arsenal stay injury free this season, Arsenal will definitely compete with Liverpool and Manchester City for the Premier League title. Although Liverpool were not in the best form last season, Liverpool are in the best form this season, so this season it will be difficult for Arsenal and Manchester City to win against Liverpool.

Liverpool will play Sheffield United tonight. It wasn't a difficult game so I thought it was impossible that Liverpool would lose. Sheffield United is the bottom team in the standings so the possibility of them winning the match is almost impossible. Unless there is crazy luck. All players are in fit condition. I think Klopp will rotate players for that match. In the 31st week, Liverpool remains in first place, Arsenal is in second place and City is in third place.

An interesting match is that Tottenham will play Nott Forest, and if they win they will move Aston Villa from fourth position after they lost 4-1 to City.

I also missed these two matches even though it was quite clear that Arsenal and Manchester City would definitely try their best to continue to get the full 3 points and they would continue to win no matter who the opponent they faced. I passed the advantage in front of my eyes and we shouldn't miss it tomorrow's match between Liverpool vs Sheff United and Chelsea vs Manchester United. Liverpool is definitely the favorite in this match because they will also do the same thing as Arsenal and Manchester City as challengers for the English Premier League title and maybe Liverpool doesn't need to play with all their might because the opponent they face is the weakest club in the league and there is only a small chance of beating Liverpool who are in good form.

However, the match between Chelsea vs Manchester United is a match that is quite difficult to predict, Chelsea usually plays well when facing top clubs, especially with the advantage of being the home club, they will definitely make good use of the home game, especially since their performance has improved quite a lot in the last 5 matches. and have not experienced defeat while Manchester United's performance is not yet completely stable, a double chance might be a good choice for this match.

I agree, Chelsea is currently lack of defenders because many of them are injured, according to their line up, they defenders are: Cucurella, Disasi, Badiashile, and Gusto. Come on, both Disasi and Badiashile are bad defenders, they often scored own goals or made mistakes, Cucurella is nothing different. Only Gusto is above average, if Manchester United always try to attack on the left side, I'm sure they will win.

There will be some interesting matches to come soon. The first one from chelsea vs manchester united and another one, liverpool vs sheffield united.

United vs chelsea

I remember that in the first leg, Chelsea lost against Manchester United away. This also raises the question of whether United will repeat the same result at SB in the upcoming match. I strongly believe that united, we will win the game with a narrow score. The gameplay of manchester united is far better compared to the chelsea.

It really convinces me to pick united compared to the chelsea. I will prefer to take double chance in this game. It appears that if draw is also possible to happen soon.

Liverpool vs sheffield.

No comment. It's obvious if liverpool is gonna take three points, sheffield needs to put a lot of players in front of the goal keeper to prevent liverpool from scoring.

EPL matchday, most people are pretty unaware and it pains to missed out on your favorite team, however I'll make myself available for tomorrow game, Chelsea vs Manchester United. Meanwhile for the competitive clubs. Manchester City and Arsenal won tonight, big concrete moves done by Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta for the improvement of their perspective clubs. It skipped my mind due to work, just returned and swiftly scrolled livescore and I've seen the important points been grabbed by elite teams and they're all aiming for winnings.

It is more interesting that three English Premier League clubs are contesting for the title of this season English Premier League. Last year it was just 2 clubs which we are Manchester City and Arsenal. At a time everyone thought that Arsenal will be the champions but they started declining in their performance which might Manchester City to overtake them. If that was Liverpool, it would have been difficult for Manchester City to overtake them at the 11th hour. This is the reason I am happy that Liverpool has entered the picture and we know that Liverpool do not easily give up like Arsenal. Now that the three coaches of the three top teams in the English Premier League are desperate to get the English Premier League title, it will become more interesting but I think Liverpool will not allow Manchester city to snatch the title again this time around.

I totally missed out on today's EPL matches and somehow I'm upset due to the fact that I missee out on the opportunity to make some good bucks on the Arsenal and City games earlier today. What's sweet about the league at the moment especially for gamblers is the fact that now that Liverpool, City and Arsenal are gunning for the title, it's almost certain that they would win the remainder of their games for the season.

Arsenal and City gain more grounds vs Liverpool so I expect Liverpool to ace pass Sheffield United tomorrow at Anfield. I won't be missing that one for anything.

Mikel Arteta will not relent, probably not when he's having this incredible moment with his outstanding squad, they're winning it consistently this season. Arsenal comes first on the table when it have to do with status of elite teams that falls favorites to win the EPL. Gunners have everything it takes to continue pushing for good results. Luton Town are in the relegation zone and it's the priority for the Hatters headcoach, Rob Edwards to enter full race to exits this zone. Luton Town defeats to Arsenal 2 nil on Emirate ground was remarkably.

I already know before the match that Arsenal will win Luton without any difficulties, and I am happy that I bet on Arsenal to win the game. Arsenal are on the lead, and I don't think that Luton would be able to equalize two goals or draw the match, because Arsenal needs all three point to maintain their position on the table.

If Arsenal wins this match, they will be back on top of the table, until when Liverpool win their next match, but if it ends up a draw or a defeat for Liverpool, Arsenal remains on top.

Yesterday's draw against Arsenal was certainly not satisfactory, therefore today's match against Aston Villa is a determining factor for Manchester City to catch up on points with Arsenal and Liverpool, even though Manchester City's opponent is a little complicated, of course it will not be an easy opponent, especially if Aston Villa makes things difficult. just like Arsenal yesterday, of course Manchester City will lose points again and cause them to experience failure in the EPL title race this season, even though we also know that currently Manchester City still has a chance to win the UCL title this season apart from the EPL.

Arsenal seems to have an easy time overcoming Luton and currently they have won 2 - 0 in the first half, I am sure Arsenal will get the full three points to be able to strengthen them at the top of the standings displacing Liverpool for a while, the competition at the top of the standings and the EPL is very tight and quite complicated for That's why the fight for the trophy is getting more and more interesting, Guardiola seems to be putting pressure on his players to show their best game to be able to win, get the full three points and secure their position so that they don't have a big point difference with Arsenal and Liverpool.

The Arsenal and Luton game has started, so far Arsenal can still dominate the game even though they did not field most of their main players in game, I think what Arteta did was the right move because indeed they will need their best squad later when facing Bayern Munich in the Champions League, the rotation of players carried out today is just to avoid injuries that might potentially occur due to the previous game, against Manchester City some of Arsenal's main players such as Saka and Martinelli look still in poor shape, so it would be a gamble for Arteta to play them at the moment, but so far I see that Arsenal still seem to have difficulty in breaking Luton's goal and often they miss opportunities just because they are too hasty in passing.
It's quite interesting to see Premier League clubs that respect Muslim players who fast in Ramadan at this time and we can see how Luton respects their Muslim players who fast and gives time to break their fast when entering the 10th minute earlier, I think that scene will not be found in the French Ligue 1 where many clubs prohibit their players from fasting during matches.

What Guardiola did may have the same reasons as Arteta, but it is quite risky if Guardiola does it in the game against Aston Villa, because after all Aston Villa is a fairly strong team at the moment, I hope if the rotation made by Guardiola today will not backfire on their who are competing for the Premier League trophy.

Today's games are interesting, I put Arsenal and Aston Villa in my multibet bet. although the arsenal's odds if they win are 1.17 now that the 11 starting players have already been announced. I still don't understand why Arsenal's coach chose to choose this starting 11



he left good players on the bench, perhaps the arsenal coach is seeing this opponent as the type of opponent that they can afford to rotate the team and with that some good players can rest because the next games will be difficult, I'm talking about European champions league game that arsenal will have to play against bayern, but before this game against bayern, arsenal will still have one more premier league game. the problem with this arsenal strategy is that luton town is a team that in the last 15 games they have scored goals in all the last 15 games, so luton town is a team that scores goals, it is true that they have conceded goals in the last 11 games in all of them. but this could also mean that underestimating luton town could lose points in this game, something like the game ending in a draw

It's strange that I talked about Arsenal not having all the good players at the start of the game, and now as I write I'm seeing that Manchester City did the same thing, I don't know why Manchester City is underestimating Aston Villa knowing that it was Aston villa that in December last year managed to beat Manchester City even playing with their best players, and today the Manchester City coach left Erling Haaland on the bench and Kevin De Bruyne is also on the bench. the manchester city coach must be seriously underestimating aston villa. As I bet on Manchester City, I hope they can win without too many difficulties, but looking at the Manchester City coach's choices for the start of the game, it made me worried.

Last season Haaland performed brilliantly in the league and in all competitions. This season he doesn't have the same performance. Also, Kevin De Bruyne has played some good games since returning from injury but he hasn't fully taken control of the helm. We also have to open a parenthesis for Mateo Kovačić. He's also a player of great quality, but he hasn't been as creative as Ilkay Gundogan, who played in that position last season. In short, Manchester City are not the same team and do not have the same momentum as Manchester City at the end of last season.

I think Manchester City performance in those two matches involving their biggest rivals this season was not too bad as they played very well even though they were unable to take all the three points and the game ended in a draw, coming to their match today against Aston Villa I think playing at home the game may be tough but they have got the advantage and more quality players and a better team all together to beat an informed team like Aston Villa. Despite the result Manchester City has recorded in the last few matches they have good history against Villa and considering the situation of brings in the league it will be a big disaster for Manchester City if they fail to win Aston Villa in their home ground and they will give Liverpool and Arsenal more advantage to extend their gap difference over them since they already topping City with 3 points for Liverpool and 1 point for Arsenal. If City is able to win tonight and Arsenal fails to win Luton, City will go back to first place, Arsenal third and Liverpool second till the outcome of their next game against Manchester United I guess.