Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 33. (Read 792243 times)

Liverpool can show consistent play every week, that is their main capital so they are difficult to beat. Apart from their defeat in the EFL and when they had to draw when facing Manchester United, overall they did play well.
But there is something that also bothers me, yes it is the question of whether they will be able to play consistently until the end of the season or not. Because if we go back to the previous season, they always declined when the season was about to end. even though it was a crucial moment and they actually lost a lot of points at a crucial moment like that.

I'm sorry but winning two games for a team like Manchester City is nothing. We remember this team could win all the games during the season easily and they were having performance in the games we saw from Gudaila and his players but now Manchester City is not in good form at all and they are far from the top of the table which means they should forget about winning the tile at the end of the season even after having a coach like Guardiola in this team who can bring the title like a magician.
Winning two games against teams like West Ham and Leicester City is not something big to say Manchester City is back in good form again because both teams are weak teams in the Premier League.

I agree with both of you, arsenal squad looks strong but also weak in the championship race, their mentality and consistency is often disturbed when they must to face crucial matches, indeed the main squad of arsenal is relatively strong at the moment and even on the 3 last seasons, but do you not realise that the depth of the squad they have is quite bad actually?. Just look at how the reserves they have at the moment are not able to keep the arsenal squad stable when their main players are injured, Saliba previous injuries and absences have made their defence bad if you remember after the previous match against Bournemouth, if later Declan Rice is absent or injured, do they have another CM or DM equivalent to him?
Then we see now how poor their attacking effectiveness is after Saka injury, and even the reserves are not able to perform and contribute as well as Saka when playing.

Liverpool have built an unswerving defense making it tough for opponents to penetrate, I'm considering their next game with Nottingham forest a plus  although forest's recent five straight win performance is a threat, but the reds would hold them down. As for Man City they'll need more wins to climb on to that top 4, which relies on the results of the first four teams.

There will be an FA Cup match between Liverpool vs Accrington and also a few other matches of course, but I'm just curious whether Liverpool will still manage to win with an impressive score or only win with a thin score. Because after all, considering the opponent faced by Liverpool is only Accrington and will certainly make Liverpool play with second-tier players.

Thus, I became not too confident to choose Liverpool, because of course Liverpool became very favorite with very low odds. Thus, if I continue to bet on this match then of course I am looking for other options to get bigger odds, but at the same time I am not entirely sure Liverpool will win with a big score because they may only play second-tier players.

I don't think Guardiola will want to compete for the Premier League title this season. I think Guardiola's goal this season will be to qualify for the Champions League from the top four of the Premier League. I don't think City has any chance of winning the Premier League title. Liverpool's achievement in 19 matches is 46 points. On the other hand, City's achievement in 20 matches is 34 points. Manchester City is far behind.

At the moment, Guardiola will definitely want to qualify for the next round of the Champions League. If they don't do well in the next two matches of the Champions League, Manchester City will not want to qualify for the playoffs. Manchester City will be eliminated in the first round. Guardiola will definitely not want Manchester City to be eliminated in the first round of the Champions League. At the moment, Guardiola's main target is to win against PSG and Club Brugge.

You may be right. I don't see why they keep rating Haaland over Harry Kane. Harry Kane to me is far more better than Haaland in everything. Haaland depends on the creativity of Kevin de Bruyne to be able him function at his best while Harry Kane is an exceptional striker that don't only score goals when needed but also provide with valuable assists too.

Well if Harry Kane had the opportunity to work with Pep Guardiola, I think his level would have upgraded by now as he would have won lot of trophies both collectively and individually but irrespective of anything Harry Kane still is above Haaland based on work rate, and individual brilliance.

Most of the English soccer fans were expecting final between Arsenal vs Liverpool, but suddenly we have few changes like Arsenal lost their few big players through injuries, and they lost their game against Newcastle United at home while Liverpool is also having troubling time, but they still can fight back against Tottenham which won first leg semifinal game at home now they have to play at the Anfield which could be not easy and Liverpool can fight back for having spot into final of the EFL Cup.

Due to injuries and workload, we have serious trouble for clubs because they are not able to keep things on level. Even few are having good replacements but gap is still widening due to their top player's injuries even though they are having priority for Premier League but all other teams are with their full squads for these games.

If I'm not mistaken, indeed in the last summer window, Arsenal had a budget of €300m, but specifically in the last summer transfer window 2024, Aretta only spent €108.90m.


Source: TArsenal FC
and he only got:

• David Raya - Goalkeeper (permanent)
• Riccardo Calafiori - Left-Back (permanent)
• Mikel Merino - Central Midfield (permanent)
• Neto - Goalkeeper (loan)
• Raheem Sterling - Right Winger (loan)

However, I agree with you that Arsenal really need a striker and winger. For the striker, Arsenal wants to sign Sporting striker, Viktor Gyokeres. but indeed, the challenge is they have to compete with Man United, where Amorim is.

In this season only Liverpool have consistent and better performance than big four premier league teams such as Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea have losses many points. But Manchester City although drop outside from the big four teams still have bigger opportunity reaching back to the higher standings behind six points remaining awhile with Arsenal on 2nd standings position awhile.
Actually Manchester City have return back to top performance after two consecutives winning against Leicester City and West Ham United with two upcoming match will face mediocre teams Brentford and Ipswich Town get bigger chance to secure three points.

However Manchester City have focus for two matches left in Champion League will at the end this month by facing PSG and Club Brugge, its two important matches left for Citizen if want secure the playoff round spot place and other side they have remaining many points left from Liverpool in domestic league.

I think we should look back at Kane's track record at Tottenham, he has extended his contract with Tottenham Hotspur several times, at least Kane has played for Spurs for 9 years, starting from the 2014/15 season to the 2022/23 season. That's not a short time, Kane has made an extraordinary contribution to the team, but with Spurs, Kane did not get a single trophy, and this is what made Kane move to Bayern Munich.

And regarding Kane and Lewandowski, as attackers, both players have almost the same abilities, where they are not only good at scoring goals but also good at providing assists. And I never thought that Lewandowski would leave Bayern Munich, he has played for Bayern Munich for a long time and has won many awards and also presented many trophies for Bayern Munich.

300 million dollars was what Mikel Arteta spent on the last transfer window and he failed to get good replacement for the important positions. Or do you think the money was not enough for him? Well compared to the amount giving to Chelsea coach and Pep Guardiola at that time it was small. Still, it can afford to get a good replacement for Odegard and Saka most importantly. If you notice most of the players now in their team that are performing very well is Lewis Skelly and Ethan Nwaneri. The two players are not above 19 years of age. Coming from the Academy and doing wonders in the big team. I dont think Mikel Arteta should focus on getting a midfielder or defender again. He did that last season. This time if he really wants to win the league then he should prioritize getting a striker, and two wingers (left and right).

Not Manchester City alone face troubling time due to injuries and poor performance from their top players many other big clubs are also having same problems which are hurting them badly with recently we have troubling time for Chelsea which is having no win in last 4 games after having impressive start of their season while Arsenal is also in trouble with few other leagues are also having same problem because things are keeping on same level is not easy while we have good increase in matches for top clubs as well.

Now as we are entering into second phase of this season transfer window is daily giving good updates about transfers while many clubs are in search of their suitable players which will bring better results and also give them better performance.

I don't think failing in the EFL is a big problem for Liverpool. And I think Liverpool are also still fine with their performance. Even though Liverpool didn't manage to win in the last two matches, at least in the Premier League they still maintained their record of only losing 1 game all season in the Premier League. so I'm still optimistic about this team.

But I hope Liverpool won't lose in the FA Cup. because if they also lose in the FA Cup then it will not be good at all for the mentality of their players. I'm afraid their squad is experiencing a decline in confidence. Because usually a series of declines in performance always start as a result of an unexpected defeat which makes the players lose confidence. I hope Arne Slot is able to maintain the mentality of the Liverpool players to remain strong and continue to move forward and win many trophies this season. After the match against Accrington in the Fa Cup, Liverpool will compete in the Premier League against Nottingham. And I hope Liverpool will be careful in this match. because we all now know that Nottingham's strength really cannot be underestimated this season. And this team is also the only team that managed to beat Liverpool at the start of this season.

Yes, it is certain that in the second leg Tottenham or Newcastle will definitely implement a defensive strategy. Because this strategy is very suitable to be carried out when you are currently ahead in score in the first leg. But in my personal opinion, Tottenham will not fully implement a defensive strategy, because as we know, currently Tottenham is only one goal ahead of Liverpool. So with this, it is certain that in the second leg Tottenham will also be chasing goals. Because if Tottenham fully implements a defensive strategy, it is very likely that Liverpool will still be able to score goals. Because as we know in the first leg, Liverpool continued to press Tottenham's defense, but because their use of opportunities was not optimal, Liverpool could not score a goal. But in the second leg, I'm sure Liverpool will not repeat the same mistake. Therefore, in my personal opinion, rather than implementing a defensive strategy, it would be better for Tottenham to implement an attacking and defensive strategy. Because basically in the second leg Tottenham still needed a goal to further secure their team's to qualify for the final round.

Talking about Arsenal against Newcastle, in this match Arsenal will have quite a hard time beating Newcastle with a score of at least 3-0. Because as we know, in the first leg alone, Arsenal were completely overwhelmed when facing attacks from Newcastle players. Therefore, I personally don't know what tactics the Arsenal coach will use in this match. But what is clear is that Arsenal must use an attacking strategy in this match. Because currently Arsenal have lost 2-0 on aggregate to Newcastle, and Arsenal have to catch up by scoring lots of goals.

Stop joking around and get real bud 😁, this excuses are baseless and useless as a result, this is nothing but procrastination.
If Arsenal was unable to win the title last two seasons because they were competing with a winning machine, and this season the winning machine has broken down, but they still can not win the Premier league title this season as well because Liverpool is impeccable, when then will they win it?
Maybe next season, the winning machine isn't fixed yet, and Liverpool have fallen short of stamina to keep up, and then, Chelsea now have become unbeatable, when will Arsenal then get the chance to win?

It is written in the Bible that the kingdom of God suffers violence, but only the violent ones take it by force, Arsenal need to step up and do whatever they have to do to improve their performance to better their chances of winning the title, if this requires them to get more good players, let them do it.

Yes, that's right. And that's actually the problem. But actually since last season Arsenal have made quite good preparations by buying several pretty good second-tier players. So last season we saw Arsenal almost win the title and only narrowly lost in terms of points to Manchester City. But unfortunately this season Arsenal seem to have returned to previous seasons where their consistency was always prone to being disrupted and that's when they always lost opportunities to stay at the top. Arsenal have been repeating the same mistakes for several seasons. But we can also understand this because until now Arsenal has not always caused a stir in the transfer market. they tend to recruit mediocre players. So it's not surprising that it is difficult for this team to develop to a higher level.

Arsenal are strong and competitive against many clubs in Premier League and they only lack of some very important players to help them winning Premier League title in the two latest seasons. This season looks to be not good for them in title race but if it is about a second position, it is good enough for Arsenal. I see it like it's not important that how impressive they perform during a season, their ending rank and how many points they get at the season ending means all. Perhaps Arsenal will not have anything better than two latest seasons but won't get too worse ending rank and total points in this season.

This season is likely reserved for Liverpool to be a winner with many coincidence to support them. They have excellent form unexpectedly and their competitors all have problems and very inconsistent performances. Challenge for Liverpool is being realistic about their player resource and narrow their targets in this season. They must be realistic that winning all titles in a season is very hard and in this season, Liverpool are not too strong like this so if they chase all titles, their players will be affected like too tired, exhausted, get injuries, and in the end they might not win any title.

A last season with Klopp is a big lesson for them, and it's not too far in their memory, so I hope Liverpool will learn and don't be too greedy like that and lose all.

On the contrary this will be an important moment for Liverpool to sweep all competitions with trophies rather than having to give up one of them just because of the player's physical condition. If they are more ambitious, I believe they can win the FA Cup. There is still the second leg to be played and Liverpool can still equalize. Considering this season could be the last for Mo Salah, TAA, and Van Dijk, it is better to maximize the remaining opportunities to end a brilliant career with Liverpool.

Amorim's words are indeed good and reasonable and it is certainly not easy for Amorim to be able to make Manchester United advance and of course it is possible that Ten Hag's strategy is still a little attached to every Man United player. so the point is for me Man United's victory against Man City is also certainly a good thing for Man United even though Man City is in poor performance at that time but of course this makes the spirit of Man United fans and Man United players and also entertaining.

if the Man United match against Liverpool with a draw is indeed an extraordinary thing and it is true that very few people would have thought that Liverpool would be held to a draw by Man United and indeed I agree with you because even though the result is a draw, of course this is a good thing for Man United. it seems that in the upcoming FA CUP match Man United will really be tested and we will see whether Amorim will be able to bring Man United to victory against Arsenal or not in my opinion the match was a tense match.