Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 1911. (Read 776236 times)

I fully agree with you and the point is if it was the same every single year, nobody would be watching it with excitement. Some people talk about the dominance of Manchester City over the last few years, but what does dominance even mean? When you look at the competition Manchester City had, it took record after record to win the title in some seasons. Yes, they won it several times, but when you consider what it took them to win the title, holy shit that was well deserved then. In 21/22 it was their 93 points against Liverpool's 92 points. In 18/19 it was their 98 points against Liverpool's 97 points.

When people use the word dominance, it is true when you look at the number of titles in recent years only. But when we consider what effort was required to win the title, then it becomes obvious how crazy competitive this league is. Of course there are more relaxed years with a big gap, but sometimes it takes literally 200% effort to cross the finish line as the winner.

Salah is truly unpredictable and have remained relevant in his career. I was expecting the exit of Mane to weaken him somehow considering the role Mane played in the team. But Somehow, Salah always find a way to put the team in the spotlight, scoring important goals as Liverpool continue to make progress.

I was personally of the opinion that it was time for him to go for the oil money of the House of Saud, so his values will be high as he is still in his prime. But it seems he is not thinking in that direction yet. As long as he is getting the results at Anfield, I doubt Jurgen Kloop will be able to let him go. Liverpool's chances of winning the league is very high. They've got all it take to maintain their present lead even though the margin between then and Manchester City, their biggest rival, is not wide.

Strikers and scoring midfielders get all the love. Defenders and goalkeepers arent talked about as much, as it isn't flashy or eye-catching. Here's some goalkeeper stats on how well the GK's have performed so far this season.


PSxG(Post shot expected goals - expected goals based on how likely a goalkeeper is expected to save the shot), PSxG/Sot(Post shot expected goals per shot on target), PSxG+/-(Post shot expected goals minus the goals actually allowed)

Vicario has been a great signing for Spurs. I have highlights PSxG+/- because it highlights how he has performed better in situations where an average goalkeeper would have probably let the goals in. In layman's terms, He's saved more than 6 goals for Spurs, while an average keeper wouldn't have, as a goal was expected outcome depending on where the shot was taken from and where on target it was hit (in short, the quality of the shot).

I might even call him as one of the signings of the season. Who's your fav signing of this season in the premier league?

Liverpool were actually dominant throughout the game and they deserved to win. The amount of goals Newcastle is conceding recently is setting up a bad record for the team especially in away matches. The goalie deserves a very applaud for his excellent performance yesterday otherwise Newcastle would have conceded more than five goals or even more. The players need to work on their ball control and retention as well because the way they lose control of the ball cheaply and giving erroneous passes is getting too much. It's time for Newcastle to upgrade if they truly have the ambitions to be a regular top four and ready to win trophies.

Nevertheless, Newcastle showed a good fighting spirit yesterday at Anfield but the odds was not on their side and the officiating ruined everything in the end. Despite playing defensively, Liverpool were too strong to withstand and they force their way to penetrate in and maintain the lead on the table. It's a great and stylish way to begin the new year.

There would always be good and bad things. Chelsea has decided it caused by the club has been consider it so many times. There shall not be a party who regret it. Chelsea had chosen its own way while salah did it too.
I don't know what are you feeling contradicted with it? Chelsea was still able winning a lot of trophies even without then salah was also getting his golden time when liverpool won UCL with him too.

There will always be pros and cons in any decision taken by the club. Chelsea was not only considering it his performance in the short term but the club needs also to think about the future of team as well.
Chelsea was still able getting UCL, EPL and europa league after that. The club shall never feel regret to let him leave caused by it was giving huge impact to the performance of chelsea a few years ago. AFAIK, chelsea won EPL after salah joined in the roma.

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Liverpool's optimism about winning a trophy this season is very supportive because now they can breathe a sigh of relief and continue to focus on maintaining the top of the standings. Based on trends, it certainly does not rule out the possibility that Liverpool will become more confident. In today's match, Newcastle has put up extraordinary resistance, but because of this, Anfield is the most terrifying stadium and is able to provide plus points for the hosts in improving their playing mentality. So his aggressiveness in the second half could not be stopped.

On the other hand, Man City experienced a slight decline compared to last season because the composition of its players was incomplete. Forcing them to fall in quite a surprising position. Haaland doesn't seem to be able to repeat the success like last season.

He was dumped by Chelsea, then Roma took him and turned him into a dangerous winger in Serie A and after that he returned to the EPL but with a different club until finally making Mohammed Salah enter the list of the top 5 top scorers in one EPL club. Who would have thought he would do it with Liverpool and since wearing the Liverpool uniform in 2017 until now he has collected 151 goals in the EPL. In last night's match against Newcastle he scored a brace and at the same time led Liverpool to victory again at Anfield.

I think Mohammed Salah has become a legend for the Reds and even though his teammates like Mane and Firminho have left before him, he still stays at Liverpool to continue the tradition. Even Jurgen Kloop will be very disadvantaged if he loses Mohammed Salah and he still needs time to find a successor to Mohammed Salah at Liverpool. An achievement we rarely see and huge appreciation for Mohammed Salah for reaching this level.

Salah is in good form for Liverpool, and helping Liverpool win matches by knowing when to score for his club. When it comes to winning this year's premier league top scorer, I see Haaland winning it because Salah will soon go for the African Cup of Nations, and he will miss some matches for Liverpool which will make Haaland score more goals than Salah.

Newcastle defeat was justified, Liverpool were at the peak of their best performance, playing at home, while Newcastle were facing the opposite situation, the injury factor had a big impact on their performance. Many of the goals scored were unexpected, perhaps more if Salah had not failed to execute the penalty, the additional 3 points further confirmed the Reds' position at the top of the standings while also managing to create a gap with their closest competitor Aston Villa.

However, I think Liverpool point difference is not completely safe, because the competition in the future will be even tighter. Man City has shown signs of consistency, and Aston Villa must also be closely watched. I am impressed with the consistency of Unai Emery squad, of course I am curious about them, and to what extent Emery can make his squad stay in the top four of the standings.

Salah does not have too impressive successful rate with penaties. He missed some penalties in his career but he was given many chances at penalty spots because he is a best scorer of Liverpool and they wanted to help him winning leagues scorer award.

Look at his penalty stats.
https://www.transfermarkt.com/mohamed-salah/elfmetertore/spieler/148455
38 penalties, missed 9. Surely it is not a high successful rate.

They are on fire and are showing their power even against strong opponents like Newcastle United. Through a half of season, Liverpool shown that they are very ambitious, strong and seriously want to win another Premier League with Klopp.

I think Eddie Howe has shown his best game with his team at Anfield and of course we all know that it is difficult for Newcastle to win at Anfield because Liverpool always play well, actually Liverpool was helped by two penalties but we still have to admit that Liverpool performed better than Newcastle, plus the absence of several of Newcastle's key players, means they have to rotate players to visit Anfield by fielding all the players you have and playing with maximum strength.

I think Eddie Howe will definitely evaluate Newcastle's defeat, which in these five matches was quite bad, only winning once and losing four times including consecutive defeats, that is really not good for a club, Newcastle must be able to overcome this problem in the future because if not there is no hope of being there. in the top four it will be very difficult for them to catch.

I was surprised with the penalty Salah missed on that match because actually Salah has been one of the best penalty shooter but it was unfortunate that he was not able to score, if not Liverpool would have given Newcastle United 5-2. Actually Liverpool have really peak form because they seem to have been maintaining there consistent wining lately and however with there wining they have gotten more upper edge against every other clubs on the league.

One of the things I like about Liverpool is that they don't joke with there home matches and also aside from playing from home there is no way Newcastle United can win Liverpool on less during the beginning of the season when Newcastle United was in there good performance before they lose form, so now Liverpool remains the best.

How many players were injured? I don't even see a lot of them were injured. Newcastle could still put gordon, or even joelinton in the last games but their performance were dropping drastically. I dunnow what the reason is but it was a setback for all of them.
Eddie howe's position is being threatened with the bad result achieved by the team. I don't see a lot of different and have you watched it before? Isaak was also playing the game which was the main striker owned by newcastle.
That's unlike manchester city which has been missing a lot of most important players like haaland and bruyne which was king of assist and top scorer last season. Newcastle is in a better position.
I would not use injury to make another excuses. Eddie howe shall be sacked or newcastle will still be on the worst performance. He has become the main problem of newcastle. That's why eddie needs to be kicked out.

I would not be surprised by Newcastle defeat after previously knowing that many of the main players were injured and had experienced a decline in performance since then, which had consistently declined greatly. even though previously in the early stages of the season, Newcastle was able to appear impressive and had quite strong consistency, but things slowly changed to become very weak and Liverpool victory was guaranteed previous predictions because Liverpool is in quite good condition at the moment.

Eddie Howe has previously always been praised for being able to provide good consistency at the start of the season and this time the Newcastle coach must be under pressure to deal with this problem.

Im quite happy with the result even though liverpool conceded two goals but this far better rather than get draw or lose against newcastle. So, the bad performance of newcastle is still continue as of now. I believe newcsatle will be struggle in the upcoming game.
Perfect result for liverpool even though i have demanded liverpool to take cleansheet against newcastle but this is not bad at all. Liverpool can strengthen its defensive line to make sure it will not be conceding goals again in the future.

Klopp may need to evaluate the defenders caused by their performance was always very poor. They can't keep the club to get the cleansheet while the attacking lines were working so hard to win the game by scoring as many goals as liverpool can.
Im still concerning about the defensive line of liverpool as it was performing so poorly in any games. The attackers seem perfect but it's not for the defenders. They were making too many mistakes.

Newcastle suffered a setback due to the increasing injury crisis in the team, they have lost most of their starting players to injury and they still keep having players injured. Just before the match against Liverpool they lost trippier to injury again, a key player for them and it is the reason they have been lagging behind recently. They always put up agoid fight against stronger opponents but I guess Liverpool are more good offensively that’s why they couldn’t hold them but they put up a good fight anyway despite having so many injured players.

If Mohamad Salah continues like this, he score more goals than Haaland. Both now have 14 goals, Salah in 20 games and Haaland in 15. So there is a good chance that Mo Salah will soon be the Permian Leagues top scorer. If you look at the Permier Leaugie statistics of both players, Haaland made 50 games and 50 goals... a goal in every game. Mo Salah has 251 games and 153 goals, both stats are very impressive. Last season Arsenal were ton place one after 20 games and had 47 points. In the 21/22 season, Manchester City were first with 50 points.

I have finally decided to be a neutral fan this season because it has been long when my club win a trophy which I continue to exercise patience but right now I give up and change my decision to make my self a champion this time around, Arsenal that I supported badly are trying to kill me with the poor performance this season the same thing they did last season which make me to go trophy less last season, which I will not allow it this time because I must go with trophy this time around, my decision will always be dynamic because my support will always go to the team on the top of the table, with this I will be champion, now my full support goes to Liverpool.

Liverpool is in good form, so winning against Newcastle and maintaining the top position is understandable. Both teams opted for an offensive style of play, but Newcastle seemed to be weaker, making them susceptible to goals in Liverpool's counter-attacks. This early New Year's win is hopefully a stroke of luck for them.

However, Liverpool should look at the examples of Arsenal and Mancity, as they are teams that have also lost their top spots due to complacent matches and consistently dropping points regrettably in recent times. It's essential to remember that Aston Villa is closely trailing them, and with a few missteps, the top spot could slip away from their grasp.
Admitting that Newcastle has been somewhat lackluster recently. From a fairly good position, with a chance to advance to the Round of 16 in the UCL, they have experienced a significant downturn and were eliminated regrettably. In the match against Liverpool, I believe they made a mistake by choosing an offensive strategy against Liverpool, perhaps because they were trailing. However, going offensive against Liverpool is disadvantageous as Liverpool excels in rapid counter-attacks. So, Newcastle was easily defeated.

Their weakness has not been corrected and they have more competitors in this season. In the last season, Arsenal only competed directly with Manchester City but in this season, they have three competitors, Manchester City of course, Liverpool and surprisingly Aston Villa.

Arsenal have more challenge from competitors in this season and with their weakness, they are not competitive enough to win the title. Arsenal are at similar level of Aston Villa while Manchester City and Liverpool look to be at higher level a little bit.

Arsenal can not win if they only create opportunities but their attacking players fail to convert opportunities to goals. Some times they only need one goal to win the match but if they can not score it, they lose 2 points with a draw. Sometimes they need one goal to equalize the match and without it, they lose one point.

Arteta is right that Arsenal attacking players must sharpen his finishing skills to help the club gaining more winnings. Playing with bad finishing skills and weak confidence in front of opponent goalkeeper will be weakness and very harmful for Arsenal chance to win Premier League.

In the match against Fullham, they can not blame that they lost it because Fullham used a very defensive tactics. It's just their attacking players wasted so many opportunities.