Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 428. (Read 793437 times)

Chelsea lost to Newcastle 2-0 last night and I don't believe they are a big favorite against Manschester United. Manchester United also had a very good performace against Leicester City in their first match without Ten Hag.
Bookmakers also believe that it will be a tight match. I just chekced the odds on two different casinos and on both of them, the odds for their victory were equal.

We will have a good match in the next few days, Manchester United vs Chelsea!

Manchester United successfully beat Leicester City in their latest match, Chelsea is strong enough in this season. The match will held in Old Trafford, but Manchester United lost too many players.

What do you guys think? personally I still view Chelsea is stronger due to their consistency.

Of course, Newcastle was a very difficult team. However, if Chelsea wanted to return to their old days, they had to win these matches. Maresca and his students got their first bitter experience by being eliminated in this match. They are also far from the expected performance in the Premier League. Chelsea could not prove themselves in any way. They are one of the two teams that have caused the biggest disappointment in recent years, along with Manchester United. It seems that Maresca could not be a solution for the team either.

Man City have won the Carabao Cup consecutively from 2018 to 2021. But this time Guardiola has placed the competition lowest on his list of priorities as he aims to defend his Premier League title and reclaim the Champions League trophy from Real Madrid. Pep Guardiola will not risk using any of his Man City first-team players for this match. With one less tournament, Man City players will have more time to rest and recover from injuries and avoid overload. This is understandable for coach Pep Guardiola who does not want his key players to get injured because the Premier League and Champions League are the top tournaments.

Although Manchester City may not take the carabao cup seriously, but Tottenham are very difficult to beat them in that match even though in fact Guardiola played a second-tier player as a starter in the match to maintain the fitness of their core players, I don't think if Guardiola will sacrifice the Champions League and the Premier League for the sake of the Carabao Cup, because with the current busy schedule of course he will prioritize the trophy more tbe prestigious for he get, even though they fielded the subs player in the match,but  Manchester City were also able to play well and this shows that if the mentality and ability of the current Manchester City players are quite good, both their reserves and main players, I think Guardiola will not regret the defeat and their elimination from the Carabao Cup,  but losing Savinho in the match due to injury will obviously be Guardiola main regret now.

You say EFL is not the main goal for the big team but Chelsea is not a big team anymore to focus on the Premier League. They are far from their golden days and I think Chelsea this could be a good chance to win the trophy but they lost it.
This is how Maresca in Chelsea lost the first trophy, and this can definitely have a negative effect on this team. I think Maresca was not lucky, though, because they even had more goal appetites and more chances in this match, but they couldn't score any goal.
Also playing against a team like Newcastle in the round of 16 was hard for Maresca and his palyers.

 

You know that these rotational attitude of most top teams in the English carabao cup is nothing new, it's something that has become a normal thing among top clubs in the English premier league, due to the fact that they have a whole lot of matches to play in the league and also in Europe, so  I don't think that resting of players in this kind of matches is actually a new thing.

Ok let's look at Chelsea, why do you think that they lost to Newcastle? They lost because of the same reasons, they are just protecting themselves against fatigue of playing too many matches, though they lost this game, but sometimes it mostly works for them in keeping the team fresh from fatigue, so in essence of what am trying to say is that due to the fact that they don't rate this carabao cup that much, and they can't say that they are not playing it, they try to use it as an opportunity to rest most of their key players and keeping them fresh for a more important game.

I read his interview after the Spurs's game and he claims that this is the first time in his career that he has 13 healthy players available. Looks like the injury crisis is quite bad for City. On the other hand Arsenal and Liverpool also have some troubles with injury, although you could argue most of their key players are healthy for now. But who knows, City always perform well in the second half of the season so this time is crucial for Liverpool and Arsenal to gain as many points as possible to make sure they have a chance to win the league.

I think this is quite common tbh. A new coach, new energy, etc. The problem is whether they can sustain that for long or not. At the end of the day, a new coach will come and the players must be prepared for that.

Manchester United's impressive win against Leicester City was really interesting. Most people thought that Manchester United might not be able to achieve in this match but it was their strong performance that really changed their game. Interim coach Ruud van Nistelrooy replaced Ten Hag with a brilliant strategy that led to Manchester United's impressive win. However, their impressive win against Leicester City will depend on how aggressively they can play against Tottenham in the next match. In any case, Manchester United played very well in this match but if they can hold on to this game, they will face Chelsea next and there is a high probability that they will lose. But if the interim coach puts his best foot forward and what he can achieve against Chelsea, it will be more interesting indeed.

When I watched the match scheme, seem like Manchester City wasn't serious to win the match, they fielded a second players as a starter but still used the core player to stabilize the strategy. Even it is not considered, I still watch the spirit form squad to draw the match. I admit, Tottenham was on best performer last night, they struggled to hold the win until the last minutes. But, with the narrow win, I think Tottenham still need to fix their squad, I still watch a gap when the city able to shrink behind on minutes 45. Beside that the city also lost their moment when Savinho got injured. This is become a big loss for them in the middle premier and champions league.

Not that Manchester city head coach doesn't consider this match to be for their favour but the full force Tottenham players used to Play Manchester city make them not to equalize the goals despite the different strategies Manchester city apply at the end of the match but the match still ended up 2-1. Assume Manchester city head coach make use of all their potential players to play the England league competition, I don't think Tottenham would have win the match, because Manchester city head coach reserved those players for other matches for them to perform well in the champions League and premier League competition which they are standing in a good position already in those tournaments.

Guardiola is a very experienced coach and with deep player resource in Manchester City, he has better opportunities to rotate players than other coaches. Nevertheless, it is not enough for him to try winning all titles in one season, and the injuries of Rodri, De Bruyne are warnings for him. I believe that Pep Guardiola did a great decision for Manchester City in this long season. Winning two biggest titles, Premier League and Champions League are enough for Pep Guardiola and Manchester City as a successful season.

They can win these titles but we see in Premier League, Manchester City have more challenge from Arsenal and Liverpool in this season while in Champions League, Real Madrid and Barcelona are not easy to be beaten in this season.

The names of these coaches are certainly familiar to us, because all of them have coached big teams in Europe. In addition, these coaches can be said to have quite good achievements with the teams they coach. Especially Zidane, he is a coach who is very experienced in the world of football, because it is proven that when he coached Real Madrid he made many very proud achievements. Therefore, if Manchester United could make Zidane a coach, I think it would have a very good impact on Manchester United. Because at Manchester United Zidane will definitely not lack anything, whether in terms of finances, facilities, or players. So it is certain that with this Zidane can definitely create a strong team at Manchester United.

But according to the news circulating, Zidane is now being offered a contract by the Saudi Arabian national team. Although there is still no clarity on Zidane, it is possible that Zidane will be successfully wooed by the Saudi Arabian national team. Because it is certain that if Zidane coaches the Saudi Arabian national team, he will get a fairly large salary. But once again I emphasize that this is still just a rumor and there is no clear point. So Manchester United's chances of being able to bring in Zidane are certainly still very big. Then talking about Xavi, he is also a pretty great coach, because the proof is that he was able to lead Barcelona to become champions in Laliga in the 2022-2023 season. Therefore, if Xavi were brought to Manchester United, it would certainly be quite good too. So for now, let's just wait and see who will be the new coach at Manchester United.

It is very clear that the slump experienced by Man United so far is due to Ten Hag inability to handle the club. Look at how Man United played under Van Nistelrooy, they played very disciplined and were able to build good chemistry between the players. This victory not only took Man United through to the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup, but also saw van Nistelrooy beat Erik ten Hag record for the most wins against a Premier League team as Man United had never won by five goals against a Premier League team during Ten Hag's tenure. A very good start for Van Nistelrooy, he needs to be able to make Man United perform like this in the Premier League as they desperately need a win to improve their position in the standings.

Amorin will still come Nistelrooy will still be an assistant coach, I think it will be perfect because their ages are not much different they can exchange ideas to bring Man United to the right realm, I am quite sure Amorin can bring Man United back to shine but he must change everything first there in terms of formation Man United must stop with 4-2-3-1 and we know Amorin prefers to use 3-4-3 it is quite good in attacking strategy, and the big win just now shows that Man United players still have good quality but only Ten Hag does not know how to use it well.

I think even though this big win Amorin will still come to Man United and I read he is doing a health check and others, Man United's goal in bringing Amorin is the right thing after showing his ability with Sporting which is quite promising we can trust him to coach Man United.

That's right, also with Guardiola himself he doesn't want to take risks in this match so they rest key players on their bench, this is one of the strategies that is quite good even though they lost by one goal but what the Manchester City players have done is quite good only they lack in defense, also besides that we know their typical game is with ball possession so when their opponent makes a counterattack it is not strange that they are always off guard and this also happens to their main players.

if Guardiola plays their key players maybe the result is a draw or even they can win, but Guardiola has his own strategy which he thinks is the best for their team. Also by playing this second string squad it can be an anticipation for them to be better in the future.

That is reasonable reason because Manchester City also performed very well in the Premier League and they are still focusing on the UCL because too many competitions will also make the players performance less than optimal if they focus too much on everything, there must be one competition that is not so pursued like the EFL Cup.
Pep just wants to get what they deserve to be able to maintain and provide great benefits, I think in the future prioritizing the Premier League and also the UCL is more than enough and Manchester City performance in the EFL Cup is less than satisfactory always happens almost every season.

Yes Manchester United beat Leicester impressively but their next game against Chelsea will be tougher. Their great performance makes us wonder if they can keep it up. Interim coach Van Nistelrooy might not get to continue this success. Manchester United is close to hiring new coach from Sporting Lisbon. If deal is not done Van Nistelrooy will still lead team against Chelsea..The players worked well together but they must keep doing so. If they really need to beat Chelsea to make fans happy.

I think that now the MU has to take its chance because that was what they left , that was what they chose, it was known for more than 4 seasons that these things could happen , the MU fans should not get their hopes up About the team at least this season because things with the team will continue like this as long as Ten HAG remains in the team, but Fortunately the MU had a hard blow to the head and finally Ten Hag left, I think that now they can work better , I hope now that the MU that has been forgotten comes to light.

Manchester United where so impressive today, I didn't expect a massive win from them against Leicester, their performance was so spectacular but the question is would it last up to their next game against Chelsea, a more fierce team? However, too bad the Interim Coach won't get the chance he deserves to prove that he's capable of handling the team his boss Erik Ten Hag left for him cause news have it Manchester United are on the final stages of negotiations with Sporting Lisbon for their coach Amorin to take over. Well, Van Nistelrooy could be opportuned to lead Manchester United to face Chelsea during the weekend, that's if Manchester United are not fast enough to finalise a deal with sporting before then. Anyways the players did well today, I saw the team spirit in them, I don't know if it was a show-off to impress the interim coach and grab a spot but they need to maintain such form again Chelsea and make the fans happy again.