Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 2296. (Read 791162 times)

That was my observation too yesterday, i knew Aston Villa was a tough opponent and they could give Manchester City tough time especially that they played at home. They are very strong at home and the facet that they were 4th on the table proves how good they were. Now after successfully winning Manchester city they have now move up ahead of Manchester City on the table and now they currently sit at 3rd position.

It was an interesting match for the home team but I wouldn’t say the same for Manchester City because they were under pressure almost throughout the match, they struggled and only had 2 shots on target which was very poor for a team like Manchester City.

Apart from that, Man United can win over Chelsea. I watched the Man United vs Chelsea match. Man United really played very well, not because Chelsea played badly, but Man United's game in this match really just flowed like there was no burden, all the players wanted to fight, not soft as usual. I think this is a good start for Man United to continue to rise and continue to maintain consistency in every match.

Man City does not have players like Rodri and De Bruyne who are unable to score goals and win. Players like these two are truly important players in Pep Guardiola's system. Yes that's right. In the next transfer window, I think Pep must immediately look for a replacement for these players because if he only relies on these two players, it is feared that Man City will not be able to defend the EPL title this season.

Aston Villa puts way too much pressure on Manchester City; they have six corners while Man City's have  zero, and Rodri's absence affects Manchester City's performance. When facing a major club like this, Guardiola ought to have some capable players to take Rodri's position. They need to be able to play better, Manchester City has now drawn three straight games before losing to Aston Villa. I don't think Manchester City can win the league this season because of the performance against Aston Villa, falling back to the 4 place in the league, which is very disappointing from the team. In addition, Rodri and Doku was not there, so I believe Guardiola will have another player in order to replace Rodri.

Many people doubt that Manchester United will lose, but i disagree with that no matter how bad they play, they will beat Chelsea. Manchester United actually performs better, if it weren't for the Chelsea goalkeeper Robert Sanchez that saved more goals, Man United would have won by more than two goals. With this performance, I believe Manchester United will win more games but will not finish in the top four. However, McTominay helped Manchester United win after Bruno Fernandes wanted to fail them by missing the penalty. By keeping Rashford on the bench, Ten Hag's is making the best decision.

The appearance of these two teams is difficult to predict. Manchester United and Chelsea are both inconsistent. I previously thought this match would end in a draw but in fact the Red Devils were able to win the match. Against Chelsea is certainly a match that United must win because several unsatisfactory results have made fans very disappointed and even rumors of Erik Ten Hag's dismissal have begun to be raised. But this victory certainly made ETH a little calmer because the success in getting three points still maintained United's position in the competition for the top six. Meanwhile, Chelsea, who were starting to find their rhythm, had to be willing to go home empty-handed. Pochettino is certainly not satisfied with the performance of his team, but slowly he is starting to be optimistic about his squad. Even though they lost, the Blues' game looked very developed.

I was wrong because I forgot not to take into account Manchester City's match, which failed to beat Tottenham in the previous match, when at that time Manchester City should have been more favored because they had a home game. But they could only hold Spurs to a draw. I forgot not to remember that. So I bet on Manchester City in yesterday's match against Aston Villa. And yes, surprisingly, Manchester City actually suffered a defeat, which indicated that their performance had declined since the previous week.

Aston Villa could really corner Manchester City in this match. Meanwhile, Manchester City can really only play in the midfield and have difficulty making attacks and penetrating the layers of defense built by Aston Villa. This time I must not underestimate the Aston Villa coach, Unai Emery. Because it seems like he is really smart at making strategies. He was able to make the strategy created by Pep not move in that match.

However, I think Pep is a coach who will immediately be able to overcome the problems or deficiencies in their squad. Pep will definitely make a new, better strategy. Because the strategy they are currently using seems to have been studied by many other teams. So that other teams can start to break the strategy used by Manchester City.

Aston Villa did even much more than balancing the statistics against Manchester City in this game. They literally dominated the whole game. It is a big disgrace that Manchester City couldn't even have proper goal attempts in this game. Especially in the second half they were lost. 0 goal attempts in a whole half is just horrible.  

This must be the worst game Manchester City have ever played under Guardiola's management so far. I don't remember them being this desperate in any other game. They were able to do nothing other than just passing the ball between each other in the whole game. Aston Villa definitely deserved the win by this performance.

Actually, winning in this match was not too surprising considering that Man United was the host of the match. But what is surprising is that their performance has improved slightly this time. This is like last season. Last season, Man United started to improve towards the middle of the season. And maybe this time they will be able to do it again.

Both teams played well in this match. In fact, I think that Chelsea also made progress in their performance in this match. It's just that the home team seems to still be superior. Chelsea only controlled more of the ball but didn't create many good chances. But Man United created a lot of opportunities even though many were wasted. But overall Man United exceeded my expectations for this match.

That's the same squad Erik ten Hag should be using when they play major teams; the Manchester United squad is very serious about yesterday's game. I like how Erik ten Hag used the squad yesterday, and it's excellent that he benched Rashford. Rashford deserves that, and I know that Manchester United would not have defeated Chelsea if he had started the game with Rashford. I like the intensity with which those players played against Chelsea. Manchester United plays a strong lineup that maintains its position while producing strong play from both its attacking and defensive players.

Maguire is a defensive player who always carries out his duties with excellence. He can even be seen moving from the defensive to the Chelsea post. Maguire deserves to be named player of the month. The team's performance will be better than it was yesterday, in my opinion, if the coach looks at the players who are really serious about starting a game. Garnacho, who is only 19 years old, is a young player, but based on his performance so far, I think he will be the best player in the team because he drive the Chelsea defensive player's crazy.

Gary Lineker the English broadcaster also started complaining about Ten Hag and his behavior had recently with some players in Manchester United. Lineker said Ten Hag's take is hard on players and this is not acceptable, also he said his behavior with Sancho was not good and it definitely damaged the team.
Maybe Manchester United had to close the case before this damaged the team.



https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/man-united-lineker-ten-hag-31612454

We have to give Manchester credit for what they have done so far. It is not easy to be consistent all season and year in year out. I think this is just their dip in form and the team will bounce back during the second half of the season. Even pep told the city fans that they should know that not everytime the team will be recording good results. So he knows that times like this are inevitable in football.

It's been very long I watched a Manchester City side that plays football with less creativity like the Manchester City team that lost at Aston Villa last night. They played like a struggling average team with players that aren't capable creating chances and it made me begin to wonder about what was wrong with them because that's not how a typical Pep Guardiola's team plays. Jack Freakish didn't feature in the game because he picked his fifth yellow card of the season in their game against Tottenham Hotspur during the weekend and so was Rodrigo. Jeremy Doku's was unfit as well after he picked a knock in their last game and that's why Pep Guardiola played two natural  defenders in the persons of John Stones and Manuel Akanji in the midfield position but unfortunately for him, his tactical approach didn't favour him last night as Leon Bailey's deflected shot was all Aston Villa needed to grab all three points from that game.

I think Kelvin De Bruyne's absence since he picked injury in at the start of the season has been the major reason why Manchester City aren't as effective as they were last season and now that the winter transfer window is almost here, Manchester City might consider signing another creative midfielder

3 consecutive draws and ending with a defeat in the last match, is something very terrible for Manchester City. I don't see Manchester City as usual in this match, Aston Villa really succeeded in making it difficult for Manchester City so that their game did not develop at all. Instead Aston Villa managed to play well, although only 1 goal they could create in this match, but that was enough to make them win.
It seems like Manchester City are always in trouble when playing without their mainstay midfielders, their lives are really in the midfielders.

I don't agree that Manchester City's defeat was due to the absence of Rodri who was absent due to a suspended red card.
From the replay that I watched, it was difficult for Manchester City to develop their best game because Aston Villa dominated on all fronts. Douglas Luiz and Pau Torres performed quite extraordinary in deciding attacks and closing down Alvarez and Silva's movements so that Haaland didn't get service like in other matches.

Manchester City's third defeat gave us the advantage of Liverpool who managed to win over Sheffield United.

Missing rodri was obviously making the gameplay of manchester city looks so terrible. Guardiola didn't have someone who can play as good as rodri and de bruyne. What's the point to have many great players while they were unable in scoring against aston villa?
Aston villa was even dominating the match with so many counter attacks that were almost conceding city with lots of goals. City has been decreasing a lot when it must be forced to play without rodri.
Some players like alvarez or even haaland can do nothing without having a creative player like rodri. guardiola needs to target a new midfielder as soon as possible.

Manchester city can find the solution after the transfer window will be opening again. We are only a few weeks away from that moment. Pep can try to search someone who was capable enough in helping the club to play even better.
I hope that rodri or de bruyne will be able to comeback as soon as possible. City losses its soul without all of them.

It was a deserved defeat yesterday for Chelsea judging from what they displayed in yesterday's game. There's no fighting spirit in the team at all. Manchester united despite not in form too this season outplayed Chelsea as they always did. Chelsea was playing with unseriousness from the beginning till the end of the game as if they have played over hundreds of games this season. In fact, that was the worst performance I have seen this season in EPL. Too much error and back passes and the provoking thing is that there's no anger in the face of the couch and perhaps that's why the players are doing what suit them. If anyone is expecting anything good from this current Chelsea, that person should prepare for more disappointment.

Talking about the City goal machine is something most of us would agree that he's not a complete striker as the case maybe, Haaland is like an uncompleted mansion, what I'm saying is that the striker is not that complete. He only has that ability to score goals and nothing more to offer. Alvarez is a complete striker than the big man Haaland. Alvarez is an invincible player that you don't know when he'd strike or even cause much damage to opposition but Haaland can be predicted.
This isn't a comparison but the truth need to be told, no doubt Haaland scored a lot of goals as of last season but this season is like the form of City is some how affecting him and he can't adjust because he only has one plan in his head, that's give him the ball to score, that all he knows how to do.
Pep is worried about the way his team are going about business in as much as he said they'd win the league title this season I feel that's just another of his mind games, I believe he never said such last season and he won it but now that he has come to say it, I think nothing positive is coming out from the Citizens in this campaign.

I knew Manchester City could find it hard to win against Aston Villa in their Premier League match yesterday because Manchester City failed to win against Tottenham, who failed to win their last 3 Premier League matches. For now, Liverpool is the only club that can stop Arsenal from not winning the Premier League trophy.

Emery is just making aston villa to be even better from day to the another day. The defensive line is very consistent against manchester city. My impression for this game it feels like that if manchester city being trapped by aston villa's gameplay.
I mean if we are watching the game about how manchester city didn't have fully domination over aston villa. City has only 55% ball possessions while villa was getting the rest.

Aston villa is also very often threatening manchester city's goal keepers. Pep shall be changing its vision to use a strategy that build an attack from the backpass. It will not be working against a club that was consistently defending in the low blocks.
Manchester city needs to find a new solution for this. Rotating its players have become the best solution owned by manchester city. pep shall also try to be aware about the position of his team.

City may out from title race if it keeps perform so badly like that.

I didn't aspect that Manchester United would defeat Chelsea, To be honest they did a fantastic job in yesterday's match. This demonstrates how Manchester United's play has improved. Manchester United deserves to win because of the effort they put into pressing Chelsea yesterday. Chelsea try to play better in the second half; otherwise, they struggle throughout the first half of the encounter. Manchester United has extend  Chelsea rent to 10th position.

On the other hand the wind is blowing towards Arsenal and Liverpool, both of whom will compete for a while at least Manchester City is not on the list because they are hungry to focus on improving their performance before returning to the Premier League to compete for the top of the standings.

Discussing Manchester City defeat against Aston Villa will show big changes and Manchester City is on the verge of a big question. It's simple and we can see why Manchester City were unable to score goals due to the absence of Rodri, Bruyne and Grealish in this match. The role of these 3 players is very important in creating shooting space for Haaland. Aston Villa will be increasingly confident and will indeed be in a condition where their opponents cannot stop them. Effective attacks, free play, long distance passes were no less effective than the pressure they put on Manchester City defense. It seems that the defending champions will not be able to repeat themselves this season, whether they admit it or not, competition from unexpected clubs is growing rapidly. Appeal to Manchester City to be careful because this is the most difficult league so Pep Guardiola will feel a little stressed over the next few days.