Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 2528. (Read 777441 times)

Losing Young in the 35th minute made it very difficult for Everton to defend in this match but interestingly they were still very strong to defend even Liverpool had to wait until Salah's penalty and goal which was enough at 90+7.

Liverpool won very well but apart from some mistakes made by Everton in this match such as some fouls that were not really necessary they defended very well in this match and I appreciate that but on the other hand with this 2-0 score I am also quite happy because my bet is not in vain in this match.

Rodri's return in today's match made Man City's midfield much more secure and contributed significantly to the victory. Rodri came on the field to help his teammates feel secure. He is responsible for distributing the ball and stopping opponents' attacks. In this match, HaalanH-Alvarez scored to help Man City end their losing streak in the Premier League. Man City still completely overwhelmed the away team. Man City defeated Brighton 2-1 to temporarily return to the top of the table.

Pep Guardiola can temporarily rest assured during De Bruyne's injury while Julian Alvarez is more mature and classy in his new position.

For the first time since the beginning of this campaign I saw Manchester United played a wonderful football, no misunderstanding, they all played as a team like they should have been doing, I don't really know what ETH did since they all got back from international break, what ever he did let him continue.
The way and manner Man UTD played was too flexible, at some point I was wondering how the players get to switch positions on and on and back to their normal position. It's so impressive to me.
If they continue with this style of play I believe before the end of this month Manchester United will be competing for the top 4, if not for the title. I just hope this isn't a temporary form because this is going to help the team in a long while. Also seeing Maguire doing his best in today's game I believe he has gotten that shine back. What a lovely win for UNITED.

It feels like i see a league 1 team gameplay on chelsea. League 1 gamplay is focusing into the long ball and chelsea was performing like a league 1 team. That reminds me when poch was still in PSG. He used this kind of strategy. Chelsea may need also to make sure its club will able to play with short ball as well. Im also willing to see chelsea scoring through openplay. It will be far better if chelsea would have implemented hybrid gameplay like used open gameplay once it was in the penalty box.
Chelsea is missing someone like lampard which is having very good long shoort accuracy. There's no one in chelsea who has proper shoot. Enzo doesn't have good shoot accuracy. He needs to train evne harder to make sure his shoot will not be only wasting the chance.
This is the only thing missed by chelsea. Chelsea needs also to recruit a good striker too. The gameplay and the decipline of club was good but its striker like jackson is too slow.
Chelsea needs to put someone who can play better than jackson. I do support this club to recruit osimhen from napoli or even mbappe after he leaves from PSG.

Liverpool won by 2-0 today maybe but one game could have been played this poorly honestly. After Everton got a red card I thought Liverpool would finish them off easily. But this wasn't what happened. Liverpool still continued to struggle quite much during the game. Despite having the full control they just wasted so many opportunities.

The goals came really late by Salah. He at least put on a show and became the savior. But this team performance needs to be improved for sure. Because it can create some trouble for Liverpool in bigger games later. They need to play more efficiently.

The weakest team in the Premier League is Sheffield. So far they have not won any match, even they have managed to earn points in only one match. Their defense is very weak. There was no doubt that Manchester United would win against such a team. Even then, Manchester United's performance was quite poor. I expected a better performance from Manchester United, because the opposition was very weak. If United can't improve on this performance, they won't win against a mediocre team.



I have no doubt that Chelsea played brilliantly today. It was not easy to get points against Arsenal. Chelsea led 2-0 until 76 minutes. Although Arsenal players attacked a lot, Chelsea players successfully countered every attack. However, after 70 minutes, Chelsea's performance slowed down a bit. Suddenly their performance deteriorates. And so they failed to win the match. But Pochettino seems to be able to gradually stabilize his squad.

Consistentcy is always become the main problem here. I meant chelsea was almost winning the game but after pochettino changed some players like mudryk and everything changed a lot. Some players like jackson does have small work rate. He was not willing to help his club to defend like sterling. This guy is a lazy striker. Pochettino shall try to buy a new striker which was not a lazy striker. Jackson was obviously useless striker here.
Chelsea needs also to play the short ball. Chelsea was making some confussions for arsenal caused by it was very often use the long ball as its weapon and i can see that how frustate arsenal is. Mudryk is improving a lot and his time to train int he club paid him something. Many people are really applausing his goal to the arsenal. Chelsea was almost breaking the unbeatable record by arsenal. Im very disappointed with the performance of some players like jackson. This guy is so garbage.

Arsenal had a terrible first half performance. It surprised me and everyone else how Chelsea was playing Arsenal in the first half of today's match since nobody thought Chelsea's performance would get much better than it did. But Arsenal brought pride to the supporters in the second half.
I think they do a good job of holding their ground and playing Chelsea back-to-back; otherwise Arsenal will be very disappointed if they fail to equalize these two goals. However, the way David Raya catch the ball today was a significant risk, and Arteta should warn him against the next match since fans are complaining that Arteta should start utilizing the ramsdale back.

Though Manchester United were able to secure a win against Sheffield United tonight, but I don't think they had an impressive performance in that very game. It took a spectacular strike from United defender Diogo Dalot to help them secure all three points from that game.
United manager Erik Ten Hag must understand that there's a lot to do in this current team as they're struggling at the moment to deliver good results for the club. If United plays against bigger clubs the same way they performed against Sheffield United tonight, they'll be beaten.

Even with Manchester United's poor performance, I knew they would win the match. I was expecting them to struggle before they would be able to win, and it happened. Sheffield United is also a weak team that is currently in a relegation zone. If not for Manchester United's poor performance this season, they should be able to win the match with a wide goal margin, they struggled to score just two goals in the match. But pressure will reduce a little bit on Ten Hag. If Manchester United loses or draws today's match, everyone will already be asking for Ten Hag to be sacked.

I can see improvement in Chelsea performance now, and I think Pochetino is beginning to find the perfect pattern that will work for Chelsea. Everyone is just surprised with the way Chelsea played today, it would have been more interesting if Chelsea was able to win the match, but I am still satisfied with the draw with the way they played today, it came as a surprise to most people.

You don't have to say he committed an unnecessary foul because it was unintentional and never planned. Assuming he slid and committed the foul, then I would say he didn't do right. I'm not really happy either because it was a poor performance from Arsenal during the first half. I've noticed this several times. Arsenal's coach often takes the first half less seriously and then comes back strong during the second half. He looks like someone who knows the right thing to do but sets it aside to try new things he isn't sure of. He's always forcing players to play positions they're not naturally suited for. Zinchenko always plays at left back and ends up creating spaces for the opponents to exploit because, naturally, he is a midfielder. That's why he overlaps.

Also, I'd say I'm impressed with Chelsea because they played well during the first half, created more scoring opportunities, and defended very well against Arsenal. I thought this would be the first loss for Arsenal in this Premier League season, but the team still remains unbeaten this season with three draws, first against Fulham, then Tottenham, and now Chelsea.

Chelsea didn't dominate the game, I will disagree with you on that, they only had some level of dominance at some point and this came after their goals but later Arsenal was able to balance the game with some forced attack and good balance at the midfield, Chelsea had a mediocre start with Arsenal dominating until they scored their first goal that was when Chelsea was then seen coming out to perform.

Gradually Chelsea may be restored to it's past glory under pochetino but this few games well played isn't enough proof yet he will still need some more time to show that he has become capable enough to get the team to their glory again. He has got the good players enough for him to build a better team , I think he just needs to work on his tactics and improve better on it, we just hope Chelsea gets better before the season ends.

Mctominay is the top scorer for Manchester United, and maybe this season is his own, as last season was Rashford's. Dalot's goal was also a good goal, never would have seen him as the player who will score the match winner for Manchester United. Sheffield suffer in the premier league with no win and just one point to their name. It is not looking good for them and as it stands if they do not improve very well, they will be relegated. Manchester United were expected to win, but Sheffield did not make it easy them.

Yeah, I'm not happy with this result, especially in the first half.  Once again the Arsenal defender committed an unnecessary foul. Even though it is difficult to avoid, actually, the ball can be left for Raya to catch it. Unfortunately, in the end Chelsea had the opportunity to take the lead from the penalty spot which was executed by Cole Palmer. I hoped Arsenal would be able to equalize in the first half, but no goals were scored. In the second half, to be precise in the 48th minute, Mundryk cleverly took advantage of a gap, seeing Raya's position slightly further forward than the crossbar. Mundryk fired a shot which had sweet results, a goal was scored and it was 2-0 for Chelsea.
In this phase, our sense of optimism as supporters begins to wane. In fact, I didn't think that Arsenal would be able to equalize. 

Fortunately, Declan Rice gave us hope with a goal he scored in the 77th minute. Not long afterward Martinelli was taken off to be replaced by Trossard, 6 minutes later Trossard equalized the score at 2-2. I hope Arsenal can score 1 more goal in the final minutes of this match. Unfortunately, up to 90 minutes of normal running time the score did not change with the result 2-2. In the end, both teams only got 1 point. At least, Arsenal avoided defeat. So, I'm quite happy. Even though Arsenal is currently in 2nd place, fortunately Arsenal's points are the same as Manchester City's.
In the next match, Spurs will host Fulham. So that this competition becomes more competitive, I hope the Spurs vs Fulham match ends in a draw.

We can't deny that Chelsea won 2 matches before they played against Arsenal. They defeated Burnley and Fulham. Sure, it is a good progress, everyone expects Chelsea can maintain their current performance. In the match against Arsenal, they only got a draw but it was a good result for Chelsea because they succeed to steal points from one of the strongest team in EPL. I think if Chelsea defenders can be stronger, they probably won the match. They already lead with 2 goals, but they conceded 2 goals in the 2nd half.

I agree that Chelsea needs to keep Pochetino. His work looks quite well, there is an improvement on Chelsea performance although Chelsea position is still in the middle of EPL standings.

Actually saying Chelsea were lucky with their conditions like against Arsenal was a mistake in my opinion because it was Arsenal who were lucky with 1 goal created by Rice because it came from Sanchez's mistake whose communication was not too good with the defender who made him make a passing error and the ridiculous blunder made by David Raya could not be maximized properly by Palmer because if it could be maximized properly then I am sure Chelsea actually locked the victory in this match.
It was already very good for Arsenal with the draw they had in this match although indeed for some people's bets might be ruined in this match.

We can say that Chelsea came back from nothingness with Pochetino. I think it was an important stance for Chelsea and they dominated the game. If this team and team continues, Chelsea will do very well in the future. Chelsea is on the rise, it is a matter of curiosity whether they will achieve continuity.

Arsenal had a hard time getting to the goal, the first shot on goal was in the second half, think about it, I think it was a difficult match due to the ground, so there were a lot of mistakes and both teams disrupted each other.

I disagree Chelsea where the unlucky side in this game. Arsenal were trailing from the very first minute to almost the last whistle, they came alive when Sanchez the Chelsea goalkeeper made a big error that lead to Declan Rice getting is second goal for the gunners, after game it became nervy for Chelsea and they almost let the game slip off there hand as Trossard added a second after a brilliant cross by Saka who to me was totally not in the game today. Saka might be back but his fitness is still a concern, I thought he would even be the first to be withdrawn from the game by Arteta.

Trossard should be starting but i didn’t blame Arteta for staring Martinelli over him, he had a knock but that doesn’t justify him on the bench but to be honest Martinelli has had better contributions than him and his last minute goal against Manchester City was also an edge for him. The striking role would have been the best players since both Nketiah and Jesus are yet to deliver.

My only suggestion in todays line up is Arsenal should look for a proper replacement with the playing pattern of Partey. Joginho actually did played well but he was to slow and allow Gallergher to control that midfield

That's an additional challenge yes. I didn't want to ignore them at all and you are right that for now it seems like we will have an extended field of contenders that are in it for the title. I think the strength of the favorite teams is closer to each other. Manchester City isn't winning every game with 3 or 4 goals scored and Liverpool finally understands again how to win games. Arsenal and Tottenham must be considered and after this 4-0 win for Newcastle, I don't think they can be ignored at all. They are a bit behind, but if they can win some of their games against teams from the first 8 or so, this could quickly turn into their favor and they may leave some more teams behind them.

A couple of wins shouldn't fool you. I'm not saying Pochettino should be sacked, but saying he's a good coach for having a few wins is reaching.
We've seen Pochettino in other clubs, we know how he is, and it's the same thing he's doing at Chelsea.
He made Tottenham a formidable team, but he couldn't win any itrophy, he was inconsistent when you needed the wins the most.
The same thing happened in PSG. He won the league, but barely and that was because of the difference in quality between PSG and other French teams.
Even if Chelsea doesn't want to sack him, they should start exploring for better options because I don't think Pochettino can return them to glory.