Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 2638. (Read 773987 times)

I don't think you should write Manchester United off that top 4 despite the fact they're having problems they can't identify, this guys have their way of doing things with that last minute of the season and this distraction of the champions league is another issue that they can't add up with the frustrated form they have in the EPL.
The coach on the other hand is running out of options like he doesn't know the style to play any more. Is best he starts thinking of a new strategy because the old one isn't helping at all and I don't think changing the coach is going to be a good idea, it will make things worse and that's when they won't make it to the top 4.


You won't blame him, I believe he wants to do like his mates talking about the likes of Bellingham or Mbappe and some other players of his age, he (Rashford) just thinks he had to carry the burden of the club on his shoulder, that will only bring a one man soldier on the field which will increase his selfish behavior.
So is best he always start from the bench and not to stay off the field of play, it will kill his momentum because as it is, Rashford is like the face of UTD.


Take a look at the Man UTD team, do they look like a team that have quality players to replace anybody from the starting 11? They're just trying to groom some of the teenages to the first team. For example Alejandro Garnacho Ferreyra has joined the senior team and played out his best and ever since ETH stopped starting him from the bench he has never been that great player United saw in him. And I can't say emotions has ever been attached to ETH's decision on who to play or not.

We would not call it football if there would be so many changes to happen. Everything has been coming since a few days ago when duo manchester was losing together against mid table club.
Arsenal has not yet shown its stability as it's still facing easy fixtures. It will be tested once arsenal will face hard fixtures soon. Probably the same like last season.

Saw the press release, only to be backed by the manager,  off course  he wouldn't  want  to fight and drag his best players outside for some little issues  that can be handled internally.
Rashford likewise Antony are no different players  they barely create good goal chnaces. All we see are attempted and failed dribbles.  There need to be a quick change.

He should know he is a wingers and he has to support  the new striker  with all he has. I do think  it's the right call to have him seated on the bench. 

It's difficult for Erik Ten Hag because several of their main players have been injured this season, even for Lb, they don't have players who are truly impressive in guarding their defense this season. The absence of Shaw, Malacia and Reguilon will be a headache for Erik Ten Hag in the upcoming matches. He has had many big obstacles this season because the storm of injuries is something that has hit Manchester United players this season. A bad defense line will make them easy to beat by their opponents.

Crystal Palace was even able to beat Manchester United at the Old Trafford Stadium, making it even more difficult for Manchester United to show their best strength in the EPL. I think this defeat will make it even more difficult for them to return to winning ways because Erik ten Hag has difficulty rotating the game scheme if many of his players are injured.

The top-four spot is out of reach for the Manchester United team this season given the way things currently stand. Their entire team's performance is poor. I have no idea what must have happened to them to make them play so terribly that it is now obvious they need a new coach or new football strategies.

Rashford has not been in his best form this season, and the manner he has been playing recently indicates that he needs to take some time off the field to regain his composure before playing again.

This time, despite Manchester United's bad performance, Ten Hag needs to behave firmly without showing any emotion over who to play in a specific match or not. Rashford needs to take a short break and Ten Hag needs to allow other players to play in games.

Football has too many surprises. The Premier League rankings have changed.
Surprisingly, Man City lost 1-2 to Wolves but still maintained the top spot in the rankings.
Tottenham is the team that shocked me the most. From the beginning of the tournament until now, they have yet to lose a single match. They won against Liverpool. I suspect they will decline further when they lose center striker Kane. On the contrary, they are in 2nd place. Son Heung Min did better than his senior. He continuously shines.
Arsenal this season also showed its stability. The saddest thing is probably Man United fans. Their team continued to lose at home.

Marcus Rashford was so good last season that fans were beginning to compare him with Kylian Mbappe as many believed he was in the category with Mbappe when it comes to playing football but has not been able to replicate the same form since the start of the season.
Manchester United as a team has been very poor this season as they possess a squad that has enough quality to conquer not just the English Premier League but also the whole of Europe. However, I think Rashford should've done better than he's done all season.

Thanks for sharing and this is really great into what's happening. I missed all of this and you know what, imagine the worst case scenario and this didn't happen at the beginning of the season, but in a head to head race on the last two matchdays when the title was still to be won for two teams and one team would be affected by such a decision. Skipping a goal scene like this and not drawing the graphic line with a computer is something that goes beyond me. I don't get it. I would really like to know whether they had technical issues or prefer to claim "significant human error". Both is really bad because a computer should be able to calculate it unless, and this is a problem, we are talking about 0.5 mm or something like that. Can their computers even catch that? I would also like to know the tolerances because it was very close but if I had to guess, I would say it was a goal. That is unacceptable.

What has Rashford done to deserve this comment from some of you guys that are not even Manchester United fans? I think he deserves his spot to start in the first eleven ahead of any other player that is capable of playing the same wing as he did because he still remains the best on the list of Manchester United wingers with one goal and two assists this season.

To be honest, even with a dependable striker in the top nine, he is stingy with passes, and that is perhaps his only issue on the team since he always wants to score instead of supplying or making assists for other players. Aside from that, if we recall all of the memories we had last season, Marcus Rashford needs some time to overcome the poor form he is currently experiencing, because if he bounces back strong, he will make Manchester United's fans proud.

Definitely he has been poor this season and I wasn’t expecting him to start the game against Crystal Palace because of his form and also reports that he got involved in an accident. Rashford affirmation that he needs to score 40+ goals this season hasn’t gone down well even though he has been shooting more than he did per game last season. One thing he needs to understand is that last season he was united pointed man and this time around they have a proper striker so for the betterment of the club Rashford needs to come to realization that his goals will reduce but he doesn’t seems that and that’s why he is hardly passing at the moment.

I will also second he be dropped to the bench to create competition in the team but Ten Hag isn’t buying that which I know is because of the fact that Gernacho himself hasn’t done well when he started. He looked lost against Tottenham and as such can be depended on to start. My pick would have been Sancho but he is still feeling too big to apologize if not this is his time to shut haters up but boy doesn’t wants to take the chance.

My pick will be to try Martial at that position, since he lost his starting place to Hojlund, Martial looks more like a determined man this days and adds more energy to his game. Against Bayern he nearly engineered a come back. Martial has played that role in the past before and should he be deployed there maybe he would want to steal the position to himself

People think Tottenham had a good performance in the last games we saw from when and this is not completely wrong because we know they had players like Harry Kane in the last season but still because of their bad performance Conte got fired there and this time Ange Postecoglou had perfect performances in this team. However he was lucky in some games, for example against Liverpool, they had two more players than Liverpool but Ange Postecoglou and his palyer won the game in the last seconds of the this match thanks to Joël Matip.

I think premier Premier League winner for this season might be between Manchester City and Arsenal, those two clubs are the ones that are consistent this season. Before the beginning of the season, I was expecting Manchester United to perform well, but as we can see, Manchester United's performance is so poor this season. I hope Erik Ten Hag will fix Manchester United error before it’s too late. Liverpool and Tottenham are inconsistent this season, they will struggle for top four this season, and I can’t really predict the position in which Chelsea is going to end the season.

It’s really a shame that Manchester City lost to Wolves in their last match, no one expected that result from Manchester City. Since Manchester City will be playing against Arsenal in their next match, Arsenal will have confidence, but I am sure Pep Guardiola already knows his lapses and will make the necessary amendments before the match. Manchester City vs Arsenal will be a difficult match to predict because Manchester City losing their last match does not mean they won’t perform well against Arsenal. I can’t really predict who will win the match.

With the way his performing I don't think he deserves the starting 11, i think he should be benched for a while so he'll watch and learn, he owes the club his best after an increment in his salary, if you watch their EFL game against Crystal Palace you'll see that Gernacho is so ambitious and deserved to start again in the EPL, Rashford showed no class, he was very poor with decision and greedy with pssses most times.

 Before the season started Rashford made a statement that he was going to attain 40 goals this to beat his last season's performance but since the season started he's yet to keeo up to that statement and has not even scored up to 5 goals yet, and i believe that's why he's being stingy with his passes cause he's trying to prove himself  yet is not working hard enough to be at his best, but i believe if he's benched for a while he'll take correction and performan better.

I agree. The 3 early goals that Aston Villa scored in the first half made Brighton become more different and more focused on the attack which actually backfired on them.

Ansu actually gave a good idea at the start of the second half but when their attacks were too sporadic, they were carried away by the rhythm Aston Villa created in this match which made them lose their identity and not play as usual.
However, 6 goals should be a warning to Brighton and De Zerbi so that in other matches they do not do the same thing because losing with a landslide score like this disturbs the mentality and spirit of the players.

I really wonder what happened to Rashford this season. I see him being quite unproductive since the beginning of the season. He scored only 1 goal in 7 league games so far. This is really poor statistics considering what he did in the previous season. The bad look of the team must have affected him mentally as well.

He has started to become selfish again as far as I can see. This isn't good at all. Manchester United need a solid team effort these days to start recovering again. Their target must be no less than finishing in top four. This needs a solid and consistent performance.

Aston Villa was in an alfa mood and they showed superiority over the early goals also contributed and from what happened yesterday they scored the most goals yesterday and aside from the six goals they have six shots on target, the play was just impressive and even Manchester city was beating and no one expected it. and with the way the goals were coming Brighton's target was just to score by all means so the more they focused on goals the more their defense was left open. O. Watkins scored three goals and one assist the player is one of a kind.


Aston Villa surprised me first half they had 3 goals already and I feel they used the same strategy as Manchester City once they scored the first goal the next thing they increased on there counter-attack and started dropping goals like Water and with that, they will get there opponent in a confused state, majority of clubs play well especially when they are at home, and home advantage contributed to them defeating brighton.

The match against City will be a tough match for the Gunners. Even though this match was held at the Emirates Stadium, it was not an easy matter to defeat Pep Guardiola's squad. Next week, this match will be the biggest match of all the available match schedules. Referring to the odds currently available, there is no team that is too superior in terms of odds. Arsenal with @2.75, while Manchester City with @2.41. Before the match is held, the odds can change according to the conditions and situation.

As an Arsenal fan, I hope the Gunners are able to overthrow TheCitizen. The reason is, Arsenal had previously beaten City in the Community Shield even through a penalty shootout. However, thanks to this victory, Mikel Arteta's squad should have great motivation to perform more optimally in the next match. and they must overthrow City in the Premier League. Apart from winning the top position in the standings, this match is a mental testing match for the Gunners squad. Fortunately, in the match City will not be strengthened by Rodri, who is still suffering from a red card.

Apart from that, Pep Guardiola will not implement his 3-2-4-1 pattern. Most likely, Pep will still apply the 4-2-3-1 system. or, 4-3-3.  The point is, City's position is not as strong as when their squad was still complete. for example, De Bruyne, Rodri, Bernardo Silva, even Gundohan. So, there is no reason if Arsenal does not provide fierce resistance in next week's match.

Maybe the players really have nothing to motivate them, they are often confused on the pitch, it just means that they don't hear each other, because I doubt that Ten Hag is inarticulate in giving the set-up for the game. Even if we assume that the set-up is bad, why? Last season there was nothing wrong with it, but suddenly something has changed drastically, isn't that strange?

In this match, Manchester City controlled the game quite well and were even able to make 23 shots and 8 were on target. However, Pep Guradiola's explanation is quite correct because Wolves' defense in this match was quite good at guarding the movements of Haaland and Foden so that when they had a good opportunity they had difficulty completing their shot for a goal. Wolves were also supported by a good performance from Jose Sa because he was able to block several shots quite well in this match.

The big obstacle for Manchester City at the moment is ending the bad streak in the last two matches in the upcoming match. Pep Guardiola must make several changes for the upcoming match to be able to return them to winning ways. But this is their first defeat this season so it is not a big burden for Manchester City because they have a good enough squad so it is believed that in the next match they will return to winning ways.

Brighton in this match actually played very well, it's just that they made mistakes that were not corrected from the beginning to the end of the match where they only focused on attacks and when anticipating counterattacks they always waited without seeing or marking the opponent they should do.
Almost all the goals scored by Aston Villa are the same scheme where Brighton defenders are very much in defence but their marking is poor and always provides a gap for opposing players so that this can be used well by opposing strikers who always punish them with goals scored by Aston Villa.
Brighton always wins big in some matches but when they lose they also always get a bigger score because their 2 defeats at the beginning of this season there are 9 goals nested.