Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 318. (Read 789780 times)

Having winning streak has never been easy for any new coach as they are having huge challenge in front of them while they will have few easy games after this international break Ruben Amorim is surely having good ability, but he needed to be adjusted in Premier League for having better results.

Games against Ipswich and Everton could be tested case which make new coach to have better strategy and understanding for games which are surely challenging for them if they want to bring themselves on better spot in near future after these two games we have Arsenal, Nottingham and Manchester City which are surely not easy and needed better work and performance from both players and coach now having 15 points from 11 games with 4 wins and 4 loses and their attack is crap with just 12 goals like defense which conceded 12 goals as well.

Manchester City is actually not that messy, especially since they have only experienced 2 defeats in 11 matches in the Premier League. However, since Manchester City has experienced 4 defeats across competitions, it seems that this season is bad for them. Losing 4 matches in a row makes this team look like an underperforming team, apart from the factor of several injured core players. I don't know what happened inside Pep Guardiola's squad, especially in the last 4 matches across competitions. Looking at Manchester City's data and statistics, especially in the last 4 matches across competitions. Pep has rotated his players several times while benching players who are not playing optimally. Some of them are Akanji, Nathan Ake, their performance is unstable. In the end, Pep rotated some of his back lines and no exception with the midfielders. Plus, playing their young defenders. But clearly, a team as tough as City should be able to overcome the problems that occur to them. In fact, City has difficulty getting full points in 4 matches across competitions.  It could be because of the tight schedule, players who are forced to perform optimally, making it difficult for them to show their best performance. In addition, injuries to several players certainly affect their performance as a team. The international break should be a turning point for Pep Guardiola's team to get back on track, because even though several players are injured, the other players available are quite competitive. So, there is no reason for City to slump again after the international break. Unless, they have internal problems. however, I am still very sure that City will return to their best performance.

It's true that Manchester City has played 11 games in the Premier League but the 4 loss didn't come in the Premier League games alone, it's a combination of games they have played in last month to now and it's 4 in total. They have only lose 2 games in the Premier League, when you compare the number to last season, no hope lost yet because they actually lost 3 games last season and were still able to win the Premier League title over Arsenal.

It's not Manchester City doesn't lost or draw matches, they do but it's been a long time since they lost match in a row. Only teams below top 10 and relegation zone experience such kind of games but there is not best in any competition, anyone can loss and anyone can win and that's just the phase Manchester City is experiencing right now. In my opinion, they can still win this league if they really want to, it's not like they are that bad with much injuries.

If you only go by the number of points they have lost so far after 11 games, then you could argue that they are at their lowest. They could not win 4 out of their 11 games, which I think was not the case in the season 22/23. Back then I believe both Arsenal and Manchester City were doing quite well and were not dropping a lot of points during the early phase of the season. It wasn't a perfect start for either of them if remember correctly, but this is unusual for Manchester City. Taking into account how they have been doing across all competitions, I think that this is their lowest considering the last couple of years and how they have been doing then.

There's no unbeaten team in the premier league, all the clubs has been defeated atleast one time and Manchester city has lost twice already and this season is just beginning. This season is already looking very open and any team with the right mindset can win the league. After the international breaks, the table is going to change just after one game as the points separating teams aren't that much. Across Europe other league have unbeaten teams but the premier league that is supposed to be the best league in the world don't have teams that have gone unbeaten. This means no team has dominated the league this season except maybe Liverpool.

I feel like that mentality issue will be the biggest problem they will have. Amorim could be decent, and a change of pace definitely showed the world that United could still win, look at how they did well or at least better with Ruud, which means that we are going to end up seeing better with Amorim probably.

By the end times of ETH period, they were considered not good at all based on many things and because of this they were facing teams they should be easily beating and still not considered favourites, because they were considered as bad. At one point they were happy to get 1 point from Porto, that is not the United I know and that shouldn't really be considered as good for them. With Amorim in charge, maybe they are not going to go for title anytime soon, but they will surely not going to be all that great for a long time neither, we are going to see this changing for a long time and we can definitely see them just gradually get better, not quickly.

Don't think Manchester City is at their lowest performance in seven years because two seasons ago, I could remember that Arsenal was topping Manchester City with about 7 points but Manchester City was able to pick up and won the league. Even last season, there was still a time that Arsenal and Liverpool were ahead of Manchester City but they still won the league.

 Injury is what is affecting Manchester City currently and due to the fact that they didn't sign much players during the last transfer market apart from Savinho and free transfer Ilkay Gundogan made them to be short of quality players even though they still have replacement for some of their injured reliable players but their energy is not giving at all. I think they should consider signing few new players this January transfer market so that they won't have this same experience next year. Even if they may not win the title again this season but there is need for them to still continue in good performance with the quality of players in the squad.

It's been a long time Manchester City lost 4 consecutive games in all competitions but I also feel that maybe it could be as a result of the fact that they played all the matches while at away. There next premier league game is against Tottenham so let's see if they can win from home but if they don't win that means the club will have a big problem this season.

Premier league style of play will demand more work from Ronaldo to survive, and considering his age, he cannot cope which is why I will say that he can’t survive in the Premier League again because he will have less impact to any team that signed him, and also considering how influential he is, his fans will demand more from him and it will make him perform lesser than their expectations because of his age and the nature of the Premier League style of play.

Where he is now is the perfect place for him, I hope he will stay at Al Nader until he say goodbye to football because his strength is not as it used to be before, he even tried at this age because many players don’t play to this age before retirement.

Honestly, Ronaldo at 40 years old doesn't feel like it would be an ideal situation for United at all, not even remotely. Ronaldo is happy where he is at the moment, sure he is not winning there but at least he is playing better there considering the competition, scoring bunch of goals.

At United, it is not that Ronaldo would be bad, but the reality is that it would be requested to do a lot more from him, the expectations would be too high, and for a 40 year old, having that kind of tough task, to bring the Striker position of United to a better place, it's a lot to ask, doesn't seem like it would be worth it. This is at least my opinion, if he thinks he can do it then he can do but I do not think that we are going to see that.

Manchester City are really experiencing a hard time; they are not in their best form currently, and this is really affecting them in competition. Although football is full of surprises, anything can happen, but even though Liverpool, who are the top currently, should do more because Manchester City can fix their problem and be consistent like they were in the last season, and we all know what will happen if Manchester City get to their best performance. I believe they will get to the top, but if Liverpool do more and secure more pints, it will definitely be hard for Manchester City to catch up.

So let's wait and see how the Manchester City season will be because they can get back to their feet at any moment. Pep Guardiola is a very good coach, and he knows the problems and every error that is happening, so I feel like he will do everything to solve the issue.

Maybe before the break ends, I think the Premier League will become more tough. However Tottenham defeat against Manchester City, I think Manchester City will be waiting for them in the second leg in their home, and I believe they will revenge

I laugh sometimes when I see rumors and separations about some players move. How can Ronaldo comes back to Manchester United? Where is his shame and dignity. The guy is done from the club, that was what people were saying he is going to back to Real Madrid when he was there and he eventually went to Saudi Arabia. He is not coming back to any club but I remember he said he is going to retire in sporting, even if it's a season because that's where he started his career.

Amorim will learn from Erik no cap, he will from his players and wouldn't buy to anyone pressure like they were trying to make Erik sign some players. However, i hope he find a solution to Onana. The guy is good but a replacement is needed. That club can't go with Degea and end up with such Basket, it's either he step up or should be replace and so are other defenders.

I have seen this news headline in a number of platforms but I did nothing but laugh at it because I know it is just the handiwork of bloggers that are looking for traffic to their platform. No matter how we view it, there is nothing Cristiano Ronaldo is coming to do in Manchester United because he should be busy putting himself in order for retirement and not for active football in a league like the English premiership and a struggling club like Manchester United that desperate need the best hands on board to turn things around for them. Age is no more on the side of Cristiano Ronaldo and he has diminished so much in his energy so he will find it hard to cope in England.

We all believe Amorim will change Manchester United and probably bring them to winning ways again or at least bring them to perform better than they did with Ten Hag. Winning the treble is not an easy task and i believe it will take years to achieve and also not with these caliber of players at the club meaning they will have to sign in more players.

Ronaldo coming back to the club is impossible not after all they did to him, not even with Amorim as manager. I hope your claims turns out to be true because the league will be even more interesting if Manchester United stand back on their feet again and challenge.

It was sad that all those hopes were shattered by Ten Hag but at least Ronaldo is still doing well for club and country breaking and setting new records. Ronaldo felt betrayed despite all he did for the club and the fact that he could have joined Guardiola’s side Manchester City and win trophies but chose to join Manchester United out of love and respect he has for them is what pains me the most.

When I saw anything about Ronaldo in the media relating to Manchester United, I will first assume it to be a joke really, he should be taking about managing the team rather than going back their to play as a player. Amorim may like him as a player and a fellow country man, but I also feel his criticism for the club that went public may not make that happen. I don’t know maybe a public apology will suffix that and we may see him coming back to play for the team again. I don’t see anything wrong in him coming to play for them again, if that is what will make the team better and get what they want, they could consider it even if he had previously criticised the team, but he also did well for the team and won a lot for them in the past too. This is coming as a shocking rumor, but we will wait to see how things turn out for the team.

I still dont know the reason why the fans and the club were expecting Erik Ten Hag to come out with a good result like winning the trophy in his debut season and two seasons before he was fired when the same players that are incapable of playing well are still in the team. It's just like giving a strong farmer a blunt machete to weed on the farm. He may struggle to do some clearing but not as much as he would if the machete was sharpened. My blame and criticism of Manchester United do not go to Erik Ten Hag but to the players and the director mostly. In other for Manchester United to win good trophies, they need a good manager and good players. Both are important for the success of the club. Now that the club believes they have the perfect manager they should get the perfect players for the club. If not Ruben Amorium will not do anything good to the team.

Well, I saw the match and, honestly, Chelsea didn't do badly at all. Chelsea were playing disorganized at the beginning but they were able to take the match ahead. A draw is better than losing the game. For me, Chelsea did excellently Arsenal came out with everything, but it must be recognized that Chelsea knew how to read Slot's strategy, so the match was very close and this draw could have been achieved. Many bet against Chelsea, but to tell the truth, it seems that Chelsea has improved a lot and that must be recognized.

Nistelrooy did manage to improve United's performance in a short time. It proves that United's mistake so far was partly in the selection of the coach. And Ten Hag's dismissal was not a wrong move.
However, Nistelrooy got a short time and received a lot of praise. He must prove his quality by coaching another team. We also haven't seen United's performance with the new coach. There is a lot of hope that Amorim can also work well with the team.
Hopefully, Nistelrooy will have a good career as a coach.

I can not deny the fact that  Erik ten Hag was a great coach in Ajax that what Manchester United management saw in him to even bring him over,  Erik ten Hag came to Manchester and improved them in his early stay but along the line he declined and everything was falling apart due to lack of some quality, Benni Mccarthy the former Manchester United assistant coach also mentioned that  Erik ten Hag lacked passion and fire which players will like to see with him as their coach, he also lack style of playing as said by Sky Sports' Gary Neville. I saw Ruben Amorim as a rescue for Manchester United because am sure he his better than  Erik ten Hag

This is what is interesting about the Premier League which always gives surprises like this, sometimes they are on top and unbeaten and sometimes they lose in a row. However, even though Man City is slumping, Liverpool who are currently in first place must still be aware of Man City's rise because Man City is known to be consistent at the end of the season. If in February Liverpool is still at the top with a difference of more than 6 points from position 2, then Liverpool can feel confident that they will be safe.

Or maybe Pep's Era at Manchester City is over, and this is proven that Pep Gurdiola always underestimates his opponents. Man City will face a tough match after the International break, this will certainly be tough for Pep Guardiola considering Rodri and several other players are still injured. After the International break Man City will face Tottenham, Feyenoord, Liverpool, Nottingham, Palace, Juventus, Man United, and Aston Villa. While the condition of the players is uncertain, this will be difficult for Man City.

This was Ruud van Nistelrooy’s final message to Manchester United:

"To everyone at Manchester United Football Club, in particular the backroom staff, the players and the fans. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your incredible efforts and support. It has been a privilege and honour to represent the club as a player, coach and manager, and I will always cherish the memories we have shared together. @ManUtd will always have a special place in my heart, and I hope there are many more glory days at Old Trafford very soon - not only because I want the club to do well, but because you all deserve it! All the best and take care, Ruud.”

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I strongly believe that in the future, Ruud van Nistelrooy will be called to manage Manchester United. The fans love him and depending on the success he achieve wherever he goes next, he will win the respect of the club hierarchy as a manager. Ruud van Nistelrooy has been able to achieve what many ex-players turned coaches haven’t, he had an undefeated streak as Manchester United’s manager.