Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 2355. (Read 789572 times)

I don't think so because after all if you look at the current statistics they are still quite good until now even though there are some matches that should be won instead end with a draw like against Fulham at the beginning of the season. But their performance has been quite good so far. Holding Tottenham and Chelsea and winning against Manchester City is actually something very good.
Moreover, they are now in the top position so I think it's a bit inaccurate to say the performance is worse than before.On other hand its still too early to say their performance is better or worse when compared to last season because we have to look at the whole season to compare now unless the difference is too significant to be seen but now it's not much different from last season.

They are not hundred percent strong like they played last season. Point deduction will also strike City whenever they do not expect it. They have been accused of violations pointing at the rules.

Not just Man City,  Liverpool,  Arsenal and  Newcastle are clubs that will make it to the champions league and fight for who will won the league tittle. Pep Guadiola is so good that how he wants to play reflects on a good player. Akanji did not play the midfield welwith Rodri during the weekend he has been converted to defender.

Manchester City’s squad is not as strong this season as their last season; the new players they added are yet to be fully in the team, and as a result of that, it’s affecting their performance even though they are still doing well this season. One of the main Arsenal problems last season was squad depth, and the second was the inability to beat Manchester City both home and away. But this season, even though it is becoming tough because so many teams are competing for the title, I still see Arsenal as a team to give them a challenge, if not even win the league, because their consistency in the competition matters.

Last season, Arsenal were also at the top of the standings for quite a long time. However, their mistakes kept repeating and their inconsistency made them overtaken by Man City at that time. If this season continues to be the same, it is possible that Arsenal will fail again. Even though we admit that Arsenal can always provide a good surprise, we also don't doubt the strength of the squad and Arteta's intelligence in managing the team. However, sometimes there is still inconsistency in them, so they sometimes fall during games that are not too tough. Hopefully this season won't be like that. However, the rivalry with Man City must also be considered because after all, Man City is a very strong rival and it would be dangerous if Arsenal slipped to losing once, maybe this will give Man City another chance to take over. top of the standings again. But at least, for the next few matches, Arsenal will have opponents who are not tough enough for them, while on the other hand, Man City is still taking turns getting tough opponents.

I don't think so. Arsenal fans must expect Arsenal to stay in the top of the EPL standings. It is just the fans of their opponents that expect Arsenal to miss points and drop its position. Sure, the point gap is very small, it is 1 point only. However, 1 point means a lot, it make Arsenal to have a better chance to be the champion.

Are you a fan of Man City, dude?  
What's happening in the last season can't be the measure for the same thing to happen now. Although Arsenal failed to maintain their position in the previous season, doesn't mean it must happen in the current season as well. I think Arsenal squad is better now, they has a better capability to do a different thing. Sure, Arteta must take a big lesson from everything happened previously. So, he must have a plan to avoid the same thing to  happen in this season.

The EPL competition is getting more interesting seeing strong candidates such as Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool who are trying to compete for first place. So far it seems that these three teams appear competitive in every match, especially I see Liverpool who are able to hold the defending champions Manchester City and Arsenal to a draw. beating Manchester City in the 8th match in the EPL, it seems that currently Manchester City has a tough competitor to win the title this season because Arsenal and Liverpool seem to have almost the same potential as Manchester City's strength.

It is not yet certain whether Arsenal will recruit new players when the winter transfer market opens because the English league has regulations not to exceed the spending limit in buying players or what are called FFP rules. If they are violated, they will be subject to sanctions like Everton, apart from being detrimental. This will also have a negative impact on the players' mentality.

Arsenal are very confident in winning a trophy this season. Arsenal board appointed Mikel Arteta and he has brought out the best performance from the club, they're currently competing with Manchester City for the league title this season. Mikel Arteta have growned and gain solid experience in football specifically the EPL this season. He knows how to handle current matters on ground without facing any panic, he will keep scale through these difficult times and before anybody would realized, they're ontop of the English Premier League this season.

Arsenal is leading the Premier League table, and this is a feat they achieved over a period of time during last season’s outing till they made some mistakes which cost them the title at the long run. Now again, they’re leading with just a point and they’ve got to do everything possible to avoid same mistakes they made last season. Currently, Arsenal aren’t playing in their best form but they still keep getting 3 points and that’s what essential to win a trophy

 They still need to have a very good squad depth to avoid repetition of last season especially as they’re having more fixtures than last season. A strong investment will be needed to get this team in a pretty good shape and serious title contenders, in my opinion I think they should focus more on strengthening their defense line than any other areas.

It's very natural for you to say that, after all the difference in points from the top 4 in the standings is not that far from Arsenal. especially the difference between Manchester City and Liverpool, who are only 1-2 points apart. which means, changes can occur every week. however, if I refer to Arsenal's future matches, especially against Wolves, Loton and even Aston Villa, Arsenal still has a big chance to win.
So, it's possible that Arsenal will survive in the next few weeks. in fact, it is possible that they will still maintain it. Most importantly, Arteta and his squad are able to perform consistently, especially as their target this season is to win the Premier League trophy. As for the match between City and Arsenal, there is still quite a long time lag.

We agree that Arteta is a competent coach, but that doesn't mean he is inconsistent. IMO, one thing that I think is lacking from Arteta is when responding to his team being or having difficulty creating opportunities or being left behind first. However, recently there has been a change for Arteta. Likewise, he started to dare to try rotating some of his players.  Different from last season, currently Arteta is preparing his team more to compete fiercely in the race for the League trophy. the only thing I want, Arsenal has another different striker. at least, as a replacement for Nketiah who has the status of a pure striker. thus, this team will be even more competitive.

I think there is no significant change in Arsenal performance so far, I mean they have performed quite well this season and it is certainly an interesting journey for them in achieving their target of winning the title this season. Last season, Arsenal performed well and this season they are also very strong, but the difference this season is that Arsenal is participating in the Champions League and has a busier schedule. Arteta has changed Arsenal to become stronger, where Arsenal young players are getting stronger in their mentality to win titles and last season failure has become motivation for them to continue to be consistent this season.

This week, Arsenal is back at the top of the standings, so this could be a more impressive comeback in competing with Manchester City. We hope that Gabriel Jesus, Saka and Martinelli will not have anything negative happen to them such as injuries because these 3 players play quite an active role in Arsenal progress in every match. Last season Gabriel Jesus was injured at the end of the second half of the season which made Arsenal lose an important figure last season which had fatal consequences for them. When compared with other teams, Arsenal certainly has a greater chance of breaking Manchester City dominance in the Premier League.

Am I the only one who thinks Arsenal's performance was better last season than this season? They played better football at the beginning of last season, but I am not really certified by their performance this season yet. Even with the signings that Arsenal made, their performance was still better last season. Let’s just hope there is a difference in Arsenal's performance this season. Let’s hope they can maintain their current position till the end of the season, which I am not really sure will be possible yet. But since everyone is expecting improvement in Arsenal's performance due to new signings, let’s just wait and see.

Arsenal are strong enough to challenge as well so it is too early to conclude if they are winning the league or not. Last season is in the past now and they must have learned from their mistakes so they would be much better prepared this time around though it will be difficult to win the title this season because it seems three teams will be challenging for it this season so it will be a tough challenge.

It will be interesting if Arsenal wins it so we don’t see one team winning the league again and again everytime. Arsenal can surprise us this season even if Manchester City is experienced enough, if Arsenal can keep up the momentum then they can probably extend the lead even further.

I do not think that they are "that" bad, I do not think that they will win the title neither, that is true and I do think that they are going to end up losing games and these are all fine, however, I feel like it is not going to be as bad as you might think, I think it is going to be fine.

I understand a lot of people think that they are not that good and I understand why people think that way, but I think it is quite clear that they are going to be in the top four guaranteed. That should be good enough for them to be fair, they are not spending as much money as some of the other teams as far as I know, and getting a consistent top four would mean that they would get a lot more money and that could make the team better.

I still doubt their ability to stay longer than next week on the first position on the league table because the point difference between them and Manchester city is just too slim and it will take Manchester city to win just a match alongside arsenal loosing a match and Manchester city will be ahead.

Arteta is a good coach but he lacks consistency with how well he is able to maintain his position on the league table, I hope he will be able to do better than he did last season where he couldn't win the league title allowing Manchester city to come from behind and win, some how I can spot some their recent performance to have the possibility of getting them to put up same performance as they did yesterday which cost them the league title.

Manchester United for ten years have been a terrible hero-villain club. There is always a villain the fans and management blame for their losses.Harry Maguire was that villain for years. People forget Maguire is a good defender but then he comes to Manchester United and it seems all that has been washed away.
Now Andre Onana is this week’s villain. Erik Ten Hag expected a replica of Onana’s Inter Milan performance at United. I think the criticism of Onana are unfair, he’s not your 100% goalkeeper but he’s 90% in my books.

The consistency of Liverpool and Manchester City has been tested from the previous few seasons although last season there were some problems that befell Liverpool especially when some players like Jota who went back and forth to the recovery room, Luis Diaz who was absent for a very long time and Nunez who still did not perform well but now with new strength in midfield and the return of Salah's performance and some players who are still very fit like Diaz and Jota this adds to their strength and will return to compete in the title race again.
For Arsenal they have indeed in recent seasons seemed to rediscover the rhythm of their game but sometimes the rapid changes in terms of performance always occur for them and this is still a problem that they must solve. At the moment they are still very good but that does not mean the same problems as last season cannot occur so Arteta must be aware of this.

Rotation of these players is quite important to maintain the fitness that occurs especially at this time for sure besides the EPL, Arsenal and Arteta's priority is to qualify from the Champions League group phase because even though they are quite comfortable at this time with a difference of 4 points but still there must be at least 1 more victory for them in order to qualify comfortably as first place in this group phase and this can also be a revenge event for them because the opponent is Lens.
But for the EPL they will also definitely do their best to stay at the top because after all they were in this situation last season and I think even though there are some differences about some clubs like Liverpool this season but Arsenal will definitely be able to stay at the top at least a few weeks.

I don't dispute the fact that you see Liverpool and Manchester city as the strongest clubs in England because when you watch the play pattern of this both clubs you will know that the two clubs almost play same pattern of football and as well they have experienced and tactical players. Arsenal seems to also be among the strong contenders in the premier league but the problems they have is inconsistency as they will perform very to a level they will start dropping form again if not Arsenal is also a great club in England.

You are right and this even happened at the end of the last season when Manchester City won the Premier League title while Arsenal was in the first place in the league for weeks and people were thinking this team is going to the win the title.
But I think this time Arteta is more experienced and he is not going to lose this place easily anymore.

Arsenal might not look like a serious contender but them coming close to winning the EPL title last season means that they have something different to show this time around. I feel they can push Manchester city again this year. The morale and the confidence is still there. I think Arteta now have them playing kind of different this season which is underlined by their statistics. Last season they were a free-flowing side who scored plenty but were not the toughest defensively. I think that has now changed with Arsenal now having the meanest defence in the league.
It looks like Arteta will be approaching the campaign differently from last season. They were a bit too open in the defense and scoring a lot of goals and it didn’t give them what they wanted at the end.
This season they’ve become more compact in the defense and they’re now controlling more in the games they’ve played. I think the approach is a bit solid and it can make them more solid overall.