Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 1828. (Read 773725 times)

There is a possibility that in the second round Chelsea can turn things around and beat Middlesbrough at Stamford Bridge, in my opinion a one goal deficit is not too difficult for a club as big as Chelsea. Of course, to be able to turn things around, Pochettino must be able to make his fleet stop "joking around", there are no acceptable excuses for losing to a 2nd division club. Pochettino must apply different standards to his players, Players must realize that mistakes are bad luck, there are many opportunities that fail to be converted into goals. If this is not resolved, the crisis of trust in the team will decrease drastically in the future.

Pochettino is the person most responsible for the results, now many fans are asking him to resign as head coach, and I think if Abramovich was still in charge of the club, Pochettino would have been fired last year. Everything is pointing towards setbacks, there is very little we can be proud of about Chelsea this season. Their performance has been a roller coaster, so betting on their win would be a disaster.

Not appearing in European competitions does not change anything, in the sense that he can't be used to compete in the title race, a fact that makes the fans reaction very disappointed. Perhaps the only understandable reason why the Blues have performed poorly this season is their aggressive transfer policy, building a squad with young players and not managing the transition well. The rest are just factors that are generally experienced by all clubs, such as injuries and so on.

Liverpool vs Fulham tonight in the 1st leg of the EFL Cup. Hopefully we can win by a couple of goals to take a nice lead to the 2nd leg at Craven Cottage.

I was surprised to see Middlesborough beat Chelsea last night, although I expect Chelsea to turn that round at Stamford Bridge.

From the point of view of things, Chelsea just downgraded Middlesbrough because, from the beginning of the match, Chelsea were playing the game like they were playing a game with small children. Since they see they have an advantage over Middlesbrough, even though Middlesbrough are from the lower league, Chelsea downgraded them too much, which made Middlesbrough use that opportunity and score. After that, they engaged in a serious defence that made it so hard for Chelsea to defeat them again. The game was so inconceivable, but that is what is called a game.

Although the game cannot be predicted, to me, Chelsea have a lose-guide that made many of their fans angry yesterday, but it is still the second leg, which we can still look up to, but we can’t say anything since Chelsea have already seen yesterday's result. I think they will be more serious about their game and try to gain their possession in the game, but Chelsea didn’t deserve to lose that game.

I won't say he failed, but he couldn't use the time he had to improve this team well, and this could have led to his dismissal. How many times have they changed coaches, and they can't show changes that bring hope to their supporters. I think they are starting to miss Thomas Tuchel at the moment, because he was sacked when Chelsea was declining, but he wasn't given many opportunities, it was a hasty decision and it seems like there was another reason behind his sacking at that time. The reason is that now he is doing well with Bayern Munich. If only they had not made hasty decisions at that time, maybe Chelsea would not look like it does now. Of course many people will associate this with Thomas Tuchel.

People still gets disappointed from Chelsea performance, I have remove them since first week of December from my favorite teams for gambling. I don't pick them to win and I don't their rival to win because I don't know them again. The last time I check their standing on the table was the same early December and I check and then they remain where I left them, 8 win 8 loss and 4 draw, damn Todd Boehly is a calm man. If I'm the owner, my hot temper would have sent him a sack letter to live my fucking club for his incompetent.

How can you have 70 ball possession and can't make a simple chance, all their shot on target were useless and conversion was poor. Been in Premier League is a privilege and hardwork, when a team of Premier League has a match from another team from other leagues, it shouldn't be ground breaking thing to do, more like a soft work but Chelsea made it look like impossible miracle. Maybe the next time they start having less fans coming to watch the team matches, the owner will become proactive person.

Agree, Mancity is still a strong team. Under performance in 1 or 2 games is the better words, and they definitely can go back to their top performance anytime soon.
Injured and fatigue are common for any team who plays 3 or 4 times in a week.

Since 2023 they have won: Premier League, Champions League, FA Cup, Super Europa Cup, and UEFA Club World Cup.
They're 3rd in the League with 40 points from 19 matches while Liverpool leading with 45 points from 20 matches.
I would say they might going stronger than before in this year.

I think Middlesbrough will focus on maintaining the current score instead of winning the match. I have this expectation for the second match. I didn't expect them to win the first match, I'm sure they are very happy now. If it had been played as a single match, Chelsea would have been eliminated. Lucky for them, there is a rematch of this match.

From my own point of view it's like Chelsea lack a competent striker and most of their attackers are poor finisher they are not clinical in front of goal the likes of Jackson, Palmer, Sterling and Boja are prone to missing clear scoring chances in their match against Middleborough Palmer missed three clear chances Jackson too had a poor record of goal scoring since he came to the club, though Nkunku is back from injury probably he may be the team best goal scorer, meanwhile this is Pochettino first season in charge of the club though the team had been average so far in the league, however I think the manager should be given more time to prove himself till the end of the season.

Don't understand why they say Manchester City is no longer a strong team while still in the top 4? They also have one game left if they win they are only second then where is Manchester City not strong? It's a bit strange.

Indeed Manchester City have lost 3 times but the decline of this team does not mean it is not strong in theory this team is still tough and difficult to beat, I believe Pep Guardiola can still overcome this and be able to compete again with Liverpool even though they are a little behind points but they can still catch up.

Now the players have recovered including Kevin De Bruyne who has appeared, only Haaland is uncertain but I'm sure it won't be long and he can play.

No matter how much you can dominate a match, it will be useless if you don't score goals and win the match. I saw Chelsea having difficulty creating opportunities in front of the Middlesbrough goal. They were only able to make 5 shots on target and Middlesbrough with 2 shots on target. I think this doesn't matter because it's still the first leg but I think Middlesbrough will play defensively in the second leg and try to win the match with the current goal aggregate advantage or occasionally try to counterattack in the match in the second leg later.

Do you mean that Man City is no longer a strong club like the previous season because they lost in several previous matches and do you know why Man City experienced that defeat? Overall Man City's performance is still quite good, it's just that there was a slight setback after their creative midfielder suffered an injury so Man City's appearance changed slightly and now he has returned to playing.

What I like about Man City is that they have players who almost all have abilities and even though they are not star players, when they play they can provide support to each other. I think Pep Guardiola is good at making his players adapt and need each other, the overall collectivity is built very well at the club, that's what made Man City successful last season.

I really loved Mahrez's playing style especially how he was used when he played at Mancity,he was one of the best wingers in the league as at then.I wish a team in premier league brings him back to come and play for them,and I would have loved him playing for Arsenal.If he is to play alongside Saka or Martinelli in those wings,the Arsenal front line which is losing balance at the moment would have being rekindled,and their scoring percentage would increase because Mahrez is a regular goal scorer.
Now,Mancity uses Grealish and Doku,who are also very pacy and important to this current City squad.

If Chelsea is losing this match, there is a problem. I don't care if it's a cup match or not. Chelsea should have won this match. It is obvious that there are problems in the goal path. Alarms are ringing in Chelsea after losing to a team from a lower league. Now it is necessary to seriously question why the players play like this.

Crap!

Do you even play football? How was Mahrez a junk player? Anybody who watched him knew he had one of the finest touch, if not the finest in the Premier League and in the world.
This is same player that won the Premier League Competition with Leicester City and at the same time, assisting Jamie Vardy who was also top scorer that same season.

Taking a good look at him career profile, he's won good trophies, now adding the Treble with Manchester City. ( If I'm correct, he must have also won the African best player award )
Mahrez alongside De Bruyne, Bernado Silva and Ilkay Gundogan made Manchester City unstoppable. Thanks to Pep Guardiola included.

It was disappointing that chelsea could not create goals with the dominance of the match which in my opinion deserved to get a lot of goals in that match, unfortunately chelsea did not have a striker who could produce goals that night.

To be honest, if traced properly, they have players who are quite capable, and with the quantity of players that can be relied on but unfortunately they do not have a strategy that can really penetrate the middlesbrough defense.
But we also need to remember that Chelsea indeed when against strong teams they will also strengthen but when against teams below them, sometimes they play with poor performances, but maybe the second round they can get a victory and avenge the annoyance they get for the embarrassing 1-0 defeat.

Mahrez is never a junk player rather I think he’s one underrated player who’s got so much impact especially when he’s on the pitch of play. He was signed to Man City when he was part of the helping hands that aided in Leicester win of the EPL trophy. Pairing of Alvarez and Grealish is a disaster as Grealish needs someone very experienced to do the finishing jobs for him and most times Alvarez isn’t that person to do it. Alvarez and Doku or Foden will be a better pair because these 2 are also young and would want to achieve a lot especially as they’re not big money signings

 Mahrez over Grealish anytime, anyday he's plays better and is more reliable than Grealish despite his age, I still don't understand why Pep had to let him go, maybe he kept Grealish cause of the money the got him for and decided to sale Mahrez cause of his age, however you're right instead of start Grealish I think Goku is more preferable currently.

Chelsea got humbled by a Championship team under Pochettino, To me, Raheem Sterling, Gallagher were finding it difficult to operate from the wing side, and Palmer was the major spoiler of that match last night for Chelsea, missed major chances he got in the box, even that one-on-one with the keeper all were being thrown away, but that poor performance was unlike Palmer I used to know that barely miss chances with the ball, but I think hard luck was what followed Chelsea in that game that stopped them from winning the match.

Im sure chelsea will be winning home match as long as pochettino will stop to do another stupid things. It was absolutely pathetic, mate. Chelsea lose after it has made so many chances. Chelsea finished it exactly the same chelsea started it. Pochettino's in game management was so dreadful.
Palmer was a flop in that game by missing many opportunities, im not going pinpoint on the moments but cole palmer has no instict to play as a striker and how can pochettino put him to play at the number 9 which is so strange.
Chelsea's performance was so awful. This team is terrible to watch. Im also questioning myself about why did poch put sterling as a regular player while he was performing so inconsistent?
I can't even answer it by myself. Chelsea was playing so poorly in that game against mediocre team. Sterling was so terrible. He deserves no spot in the starting line up. It's such a disgrace for a club spent more than a half of billion to lose against a garbage club.

The most annoying part of that match was that Chelsea has the opportunity of wining Middlesbrough but couldn't utilize the opportunity but however if we should talk about performance they performed so well and dominated the match from the first half to the second half but they miss all there scoring opportunities they had on that match, because if they had utilize those opportunities they would have given Middlesbrough more than two goals, actually Chelsea inconsistent this season is nothing like before because even if they are not that strong but at least they should have always taking advantages of any opportunities that's presented to them because I don't really understand there goals or target this season.

The reason is, in the Championship standings the fact is that Middlesbrough is also only in 12th position with 36 points. Comparing with Chelsea position in the Premier League standings is in 10th place even though Chelsea also only has 28 points but ya, at least playing in the Premier League is clearly more difficult. Therefore, Chelsea should still be able to win in this EFL Cup match against Middlesbrough. Although Chelsea still failed to do so, but because Chelsea has very good statistics in this match then ya, of course Chelsea should be able to avoid defeat by ending the match with a draw. So ya, with a defeat in a match like this it is certainly a disappointment and it looks like Chelsea must move to find a new coach.