Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 4888. (Read 776679 times)

Honestly conceding six goals by a big club such as Man Utd is absolutely degrading and humiliating, a club that won four matches consecutively, infact Man City could have score more goals if Guordiola did not substitute Kevin DeBryne, Foden, Gündogan and Grealish, Man Utd were overpowered and bullied in every area of the field in midfield McTominay, Christian Eriksen and Bruno Fernandes were clueless with no impact to provide passes to Rashford, Anthony and Sancho in the attack,  in defence Varane, Martinez and Malacia were ineffective enough to stop Foden and Haaland.

I also think the same as you, for me Liverpool are either very asleep or I really don't know what happens to the players who are slowing down or maybe they all went on a rampage, I think it's very fashionable that the big teams go through very difficult situations and almost at the same time, not only here, in the other leagues also very strong and favorite teams are having a crisis, I don't know if it's the proximity of the World Cup or something similar, but something is happening and they must correct it now.

Regarding the Liverpool-Arsenal game, I think Salah has to wake up, he is the only one who has the spirit to do it and infect his teammates.



Well, I am a person who has always followed the trajectory of CR7, but now I would like to know what excuse Ten Hag will give to justify that they have lost by such a wide margin? He is a coach who does not have any kind of track record, however CR7 did, he did not put him in to play knowing that CR7 could have done something, but he was good in a certain part, because if he had put it in they would have blamed him for the 5th or 6th goal , now Ten Hag who is going to blame? what I still don't understand is how the managers of Manchester United still have that technical director? why don't they fire him? I don't like it when someone loses a job, but I think that coach is not good for the team, if I have a star on my team, I put him to play and take advantage of his talent, what Ten Hag does is very childish, and obviously He is angry at CR7, it doesn't matter that CR7 is that age, El Bicho still has a lot to give and they are wasting their talent there.

And in almost all the articles they always say the same thing, and I bring it here so you can see that CR7's face does not reflect what Ten Hag said:

Erik ten Hag explains why Cristiano Ronaldo did not come on for Manchester United vs Man City




Source: https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-united-cristiano-ronaldo-sub-25159776

I think that Ten Hag wants to deceive the whole world with his destructive diplomacy, but every footballer knows that this is not the case, we all know that if there is a very good footballer, a star, it is illogical that he is on the bench, then Ten Hag has to tell them to the directors of MU that out of respect for the Man City they cannot win the PL.

Yes, Manchester city and Arsenal are in a good position to win this premier league title because Manchester city have never experience any defeat from any teams since the beginning of this tournament till now, Showed that if they maintain this winning till the end of the tournament, Manchester city will definitely embrace the title again in this season. It was a great celebration in the camp of Manchester city fans for the massive victory they got from Manchester united to prove to their fans that they have what it takes to win this season title and many titles to come, because Haaland is very ready to help the team to achieve more goals.

We still have a game between Leicester City vs Nottingham Forest, and the two teams at the bottom of the table will play later.
and Leicester City host Nottingham Forest at the King Power Stadium, and a bad start to the season for Leicester City as they are winless this season, losing six and drawing one of their seven games so far. And also lost 6-2 to Tottenham in their last game.
while Nottingham Forest are above it after Leicester City are bottom of the table, and Nottingham Forest are on a four-game losing streak and haven't won since a 1-0 win over West Ham.
Nottingham Forest is not an easy opponent for Leicester City and also both have poor defense, but victory must be won by Leicester City to move from the bottom of the table.

But that doesn't justify him been benched throughout the game. Somehow Manchester united managed to get three goals from that game and with Ronaldo on the pitch, there's every chance you can get a goal or two from him and let say he played and got a goal then the pressure would had been on Manchester city which might result to them playing under pressure and Manchester united would had then taken advantage of that situation to counter play them as they usually do to opponent that seems to outplay them in open play and a perfect example was the arsenal game.

Ronaldo should be used as super sub, there was a reason Manchester city were attacking united every chance they had, it was because they knew there was no one in the Manchester united team that could cause their defense some problem. Back in the days of Sir Alex Ferguson, when Ronaldo was younger, we saw Sir Alex bringing in supper sub of older players later in the game and that's how a manager utilized their older players that has quality in them. Same should be done about Ronaldo instead of disrespecting him always.

Like it or not, Manchester United has a lot to learn from Manchester City. Especially Ten Hag, where Erik Ten Hag was too confident in the inaugural Manchester Derby. Just look at Erik Ten Hag maintaining the composition of the players as they did against Liverpool and Arsenal, but Manchester City is not both because this team has a much more aggressive performance. Pay attention to the midfield that Pep Guardiola's composition is really so easy and free to penetrate Manchester United defense both from the left wing and right wing.

Erik Ten Hag must learn from Ancelotti, where the game that Ancelotti uses to suppress Pep Guardiola's strategy is a reactive football composition, not playing openly in the first half. As a result in the first half Manchester United had to receive 4 goals, we saw in the second half they were able to provide resistance after the entry of Casemiro, Marshall, and Fred who actually made a slight change. Ten Hag should have realized the composition of the second half had to be applied in the first half and maybe the result wouldn't be as bad as this.

It's not easy to bounce back after lost 4-0 in the first half and this happend to Manchester United although Antony score amazing goal but it cannot help the team to equalized the score and indeed it is predictable Manchester United will lose at Manchester City home ground but i didn't expect they will conceded 6 goals in this match and with the decline performance from Liverpool and Chelsea i will dare to say race title for this season is only between Manchester City and Arsenal

A big club like Manchester United are not suppose to be thrashed a huge like this but let us be sincere that this statement doesn't stand when you play against Haaland and Manchester city lol. The way Manchester City dominated the game in the first half was very impressive, I expected Martinez will be able to hold Haaland just as some fans were saying yesterday but the case was different, Manchester united were taught a lesson instead.

He does not prioritize Ronaldo in the squad but Ronaldo is responsible for hks decreasing performance too. He would have played better if he had not try to leave in summer. He was not joined pre-season training and worse his mind was not ready for the new season. When he realized that he has to stay in Manchester United, it is just too late to get back training and get his body ready.

His too high salary is main barrier why other clubs rejected to take him.  Ronaldo will not sign a new contract with Manchester United as we all see that they are still in bad organization as well as bad results. It is not convincible enough to ask Ronaldo continues with them.

From Manchester United and Ten Hag sides, I also don't see why they have to keep Ronaldo too. They want another start of another project without Ronaldo but with more younger players.

Ronaldo's productivity has decreased so sharply this season, some say because Erik Ten Hak did not provide more playing time, but if you look further the opportunities provided by Ronaldo also have no impact on Manchester United, even though he played from the bench.
To maintain the good name of a Ronaldo, what was done by Erik Ten Hag is very appropriate, because if Ronaldo is played in the early minutes, but his contribution is not visible and does not have an impact like last season, then people will assume Ronaldo's career is over.

The strength possessed by Manchester City is absolutely perfect, they have players who are equal to each other, so they are able to play consistently in the English league until now. And I'm also not so sure, that Asenal can break the positive trend of Manchester City going forward

despite the defeat, United has shown a pretty good response in the second half. they didn't just fall apart and slumped when they trailed by quite a few goals in the first half.
put aside the defeat suffered by United. Of course, all of his fans are enjoying United's current development. they have been entertained with 9 goals created in that match.
We have to salute the fans who never tire of supporting their team, even when the defeat is so obvious.

Agree with you that he's been beaten by age and that has to be accepted by him and by his fans it's impossible to perform as well as he did a few years ago and I don't think he will contribute to yesterday's game, can't always look at his past greatness.
In yesterday's match, although MU lost badly but in the second half they tried to perform better and that they did 3 goals to prove it, but unfortunately they should have appeared braver from the first half, having conceded 4 goals in the first half it was very difficult for them.
An interesting fact that I saw during yesterday's match was how MU fans kept cheering when MU players scored, maybe this is support for the MU squad that just scoring goals against City is already an achievement even though they already know that defeat is what they will experience.

In fact we have to realize that Ronaldo has been beaten by age productivity has dropped drastically and maybe in 3 years he will retire
For now nothing can stop Manchester City in the Premier League and Arsenal are the most obvious competitors yes at least before the middle of the season.

According to Erik Ten Hag " Bringing Cristiano Ronaldo in would have have been so embarrassing especially to his big career" don't you also think so ? I don't think because Marcus Rashford was fit or shit Nah!

Erik Ten Hag stood by the same tactics that has won him the previous game's,but most of them never had a derby match like this before so I see the reason why they flopped, tactics from Erik Ten Hag also, the game showed Manchester City's attacking power, Manchester United don't really play same, if you have read or listened to Wayne Rooney, you'll hear him say absorb pressure at all cost and hit them with counter attack's.

Erikson or Bruno Fernandez should have been benched, cause the defending and ball recovery was too much for Mac Tominay to do alone. A middle trio of Casemiro, Mac Tominay and Fred Bruno Fernandez or Erikson upfront and ten two attacking players would have done the job. I expected the loss anyways, and faluires ? Yes good we ( Manchester United needs them to learn )

I hope they bounce back immediately though. Great game from Manchester City and Pep Guardiola. But I honestly hope they don't win the Premier League once again. It sucks totally! 

Mane has different play style compared with nunez and salah being so confidence to play with sadio mane rather than nunez. The chemistry between salah and mane is far better. I meant salah can be a good partner for mane. I hope that liverpool will not show the same performance like that again. that's really hurt to see that the team can't get full points while its competitors like manchester city and arsenal are getting full points from defeating MU and totenham in this week. This must become a bad week for liverpool.
The champion league match will come soon. I hope liverpool can prepare its team for that match

Seeing how MU was defeated by MC, I realized that until now there are no MU players who are included in the top 5 top scorers of the EPL. I wonder what happened to cristiano ronaldo, I still remember that he is a "GOAT", he seems to lose motivation and it makes me a little frustrated because I idolized him for a long time. ten hag made the wrong decision, leaving cristiano on the bench is just a stupid strategy!!!

It will be a tough game to predict and if you look at it from a head-to-head perspective, Liverpool have the upper hand. But if you look at the game, this season the situation is reversed because Arsenal's game is very good and also very aggressive in terms of attack and emphasis.
Liverpool's performance is still not good, especially in defense because the opponent easily breaks through his defense and produces goals, but we don't know in Liverpool's match against Arsenal later. And it will definitely be a very interesting game, and I hope Arsenal can maintain their position at the top of the table.

If there is no result, and 6-3 from their principled neighbors from Manchester is a terrible result, then it is not surprising that people complain about the absence of this or that player who, in their opinion, could strengthen the game. Maybe you are right about the fact that Ronaldo would not have coped with the pace of the match, but I think it is useless to speculate about what did not happen, and ten Hag did not give Ronaldo a chance to prove himself in this match. I also think it is a suicidal step for the current Manchester United to try to compete with a club like Manchester City at the pace of the match and we need to look for other ways to achieve an acceptable result, including with the participation of Ronaldo. As it is, I feel that the wall of mutual misunderstanding between the head coach and the player will only grow, because it is difficult to show your best qualities when you are physically prevented from doing so.

Arsenal are still maintaining their lead in the standings but this might not last too long as well. Because their next league game is going to be against Liverpool. Even though it is in Emirates it is still a tough game for them. Liverpool are still dealing with defensive issues and we saw how serious it was in the Brighton game. Arsenal are even a tougher opponent.

Looking at the head-to-head games, Liverpool have been superior to them in this stadium in league games. However this time is much different than those because of the recent problems. Arsenal are a very effective offense team now. The best betting option would be both teams to score @1.54.

Due to the team's depth, losing one or two players to injury doesn't really affect the performance. It is possible for one player to play multiple positions. That's what Manchester United lacks. The genius of Pep Guardiola was his foresight to place a player outside of his position.