Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 558. (Read 778894 times)

Odegaard is their captain and very important player of Arsenal. He helped them to control ball, maintain good ball possession, provide good passes include assists and he is very goal productive midfielder too. Angle injury is not good injury type and in serious case, player can lose a whole career like Marco Van Basten who got it and had to retire when he was very young.

Arsenal will assess his injury carefully and will give Odegaard enough time for full recovery. He is very important for them but they need this player in as many matches as possible, not in some few matches. They will not take risk of using Odegaard too soon that can make him injured again.

Arsenal will most likely be missing their skipper Martin Odegaard in their first EPL North London derby campaign this season with Tottenham after the Norwegian midfielder was befallen with an ankle sprain injury during their game on Monday against Austria in the UEFA nation's league. Source predicts that the span of the injury could take weeks to have him back to field. This means Arsenal would be faced with the challenge of coping with his absence in the midfield while waiting his recovery. What a debacle for the Gunners in the starting of a new season.
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Odegaard's injury is very detrimental to Arsenal, because he is a key player for the Gunners. Often when Odegaard is absent, either because he is rested or injured, it makes Arsenal's gameplan a little messy. Clearly, Arteta will not be happy with what happened to one of his important players. Although Arsenal have other options, Odegaard's role for his teammates is very important. He is a smart midfielder, he is also a leader on the field for his teammates. As for Havertz and Trossard, these two players can play in the position that Arteta wants. However, I doubt that Trossard will be played as a midfielder. It could be that if the choice is Havertz, or maybe Arteta has other thoughts. Referring to the match against Tottenham Hospur, it seems that Arsenal must work hard to score full points in this London derby. Moreover, Spurs' condition is also not on a good track. However, Spurs should be able to take advantage of it, besides playing at home, several Arsenal players will be absent in the match. Anyway, I still hope Arsenal can get full points.

The patience shown to Erik Ten Hag is not shown to any manager in the Premier League. The patience of Manchester United's management towards him is very high. The Premier League is a league that does not accept this much failure. Manchester United is also one of the deep-rooted teams because of its history full of success. To tell you the truth, I thought that the manager would be given at the end of the year last year. However, I was surprised to see him at the head of the team this year.

With the look of things I think it beyond that the management open up publicly and said Erik Ten Hag got their backing and he is free from the word sack but I don't know maybe they will change their mind towards the result of their next match, when I saw this it shocked me because I wasn't having any hope to see Erik Ten Hag managing Man United this season we the poor performance they had in last season but who knows maybe it will be because of this FA Cup trophy, am beginning to suspect something about Erik Ten Hag in Man Utd because Mourinho deed better than him with a record of winning the League Cup, Europa League and Community Shield and he was address as the worse season but Erik Ten Hag is different with only one trophy.

Don't underestimate any club in the English Premier League this season because they've in plans to win games. There are levels when it comes to clubs in the EPL and Manchester City hits on the big status. Pep Guardiola won't hesitate towards his oppositions this season. He's coming for every winnings and trust me when I say, Manchester City have everything within their position to grabbed major winnings. Manchester City hosts Brentford this weekend at Etihad stadium and we know what to expects from the Citizens. It's going to be really a long run for the club.

Well that's the problem, or I mean I think many of us are also questioning something you mentioned above regarding whether Ten Hag will be able to implement the right strategy or tactics in the match or not, and if it turns out that there is nothing surprising in the match from Manchester United even though their three players have recovered then of course various criticisms will be busy again. On the other hand, in general I think Southampton should not be too difficult an opponent for Manchester United even though they will play at home, because in the last few seasons Southampton is one of the teams that often finishes in the bottom position in the standings and we can see now they are also in second place from the bottom by starting the season without a win, meaning they are a team that has poor performance, and I think it would be quite embarrassing if Manchester United failed to take advantage of this opportunity again even though they will play away, at least share points, because I don't think there will be any tolerance from the fans to be patient any longer.

Yes,  Man City football team has potential to come back in this tournament. We saw many tournaments in which they were looking that they will be out of the tournament but in the end they played well and they became successful in their goals. I want good performance from that team and they will not  disappointed us in this match, the stat of MN City team is great and they won 3 matches out of 5 matches and Brentford won two matches against Man City. So we are ready to watch the match in the Saturday and we will get holiday from the office and we will enjoy the match. Brentford team should not be underestimated and if Man City team underestimated that team ,they will be in difficult situations in this match.

If the FA trophy is a measure of Ten Hag still being retained as Manchester United coach, it means that the management does not have big plans for the future. They should be more concerned about the condition of the team than retaining a coach who has only managed to deliver one FA Cup trophy since being appointed as head coach two years ago.

Manchester United started the season in a disappointing manner, Ten Hag was only able to lead his team to one win in three matches, they were only able to collect 3 points from the 9 available. It's still early in the season, but already languishing in 14th place in the table, if Ten Hag remains as manager, Manchester United may not be able to win a single trophy this season and could potentially fail to qualify for European competition next season.

If the reason for giving Ten Hag a chance because he was able to lift the FA Cup trophy, I think it is not relevant, come on, this is Manchester United, not an underdog club. They are a club that has been successful in the past and we know that MU fans are spread all over the world, the management should realize that they have to target the English League trophy and return to providing tight competition in the UCL. So far, the management has spent a lot of money on player recruitment, instead of being able to build a solid squad, Ten Hag can only damage it, the FA Cup is just a consolation for the Red Devils. The management is wrong if they still give a chance, I still doubt that Ten Hag can fix that mistake and bring MU into a strong candidate for the EPL champion this season. He doesn't have that ability.

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Another shitshow is coming from Chelsea. Their civil war is getting started. Their internal problem is getting even more serious at this moment. And their internal are now being divided into two sides. Either Beghdad (Clearlake) & Boehly are exploring the way to get more shares of Chelsea.

From my reading, Boehly opposes Beghdad's focus on trading players. He wants to win the competition. That's changing his view. It's driving him to fight Beghdad for more shares to acquire this club.

Boehly was caring more for the club instead of Beghdad. He has a very good background as a successful sports team owner. He's also a decent owner. Unlike Beghdad, he's a finance bro; he cares only money.

That makes me stand on Boehly's side instead of Beghdad.

I think this is going to be a long and messy saga. And it's potentially harming Chelsea's performance

It's just under a year since Arsenal draw their last match against Tottenham and the one after that doesn't seem to have much difference in goals. The only thing that I can say in this match that might give me some confidence is that Tottenham hasn't been in good foot and Arsenal are kind of better ballers since their round 3 matches, they should give them swift winning since there matches have been clean defensive style, they should do well but I will prefer to bet on over than bet on individual teams.

Arsenal also need to stop skipping win points, they have 2 successful seasons by staying at the top of the table but haven't be able to successfully win the Premier League and the best way to have that run is to have consistent winning. If they don't beat Tottenham based on what this guys has played, no one will ever take then serious again because alot of people will see them as the normal Arsenal that came back and show off but nothing really to give their fans after 17 years.

That assumption Manchester United management had then was a bad one because they should have known that if Erik Ten Hag would turn things around he would have even done it when the premier League was still on last season but he did nothing, if they had more remaining matches on the premier League then before they play the FA Cup they would have understand that Erik Ten Hag has nothing much for Manchester United because they would have noticed it, in other words if that's really the reason why Manchester United management decided to give him another chance I wouldn't blame them because that was the last match for them and wining Manchester City was a promising one, so it clouded the decision of the club management.

I don't really think Manchester United gave Eric Ten Haag the opportunity to continue with the club due to his performance at the F.A cup because for obvious reasons, during when Manchester United was underperforming and the pressure to sack Ten Haag was high but yet the management didn't do anything at all and there was even speculations of his possible sack even before the league ended last season but yet he was still left to continue and believe me had it been that ETH didn't win the F.A cup the club's management would have still left him to continue because they weren't even making any plans of hiring a new coach so it shouldn't sound as though winning the F.A cup was what kept ETH till now. Manchester United's problem has always been related to their coach and I still say it that ETH is not going to deliver Manchester United this season so it's either the club's management start making preparations for another coach or they should bear the aftermath of their decision in keeping ETH. And believe me whether they win their match against Southampton or not they will still leave him to continue.

They will have to work very hard even to reach the 5th position, I am more inclined to think that they will be closer to the middle of the table, somewhere where they finished last season. City and Liverpool are almost out of reach for them, and in order for them to start climbing, they need to start winning, but I see that now they are again starting to discuss a change of coach, there are rumors about Zidane, and that Zidane is not ready to work in a team where the language barrier will hinder him.

I think that in Manchester United, things are more likely to be closer to a change of coach, than to the team starting to win. By the way, Antony started talking about wanting to leave the team...

Arsenal will face a very crucial and also emotional match this end week against Tottenham, so far the London derby is not just to get 3 points but more than all because of the eternal rivalry that has occurred between Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur so far, Arsenal who will away to Tottenham Stadium currently in a bad condition after Declan Rice,  Merino, Calafiori and also Odegaard must be absent in the later match, without a full squad of course Arsenal has a very small chance of winning at Tottenham home, Tottenham does not want to be embarrassed by their rivals altbough so far Tottenham has not found their best performance in the league but I am quite sure if they will play very well and full of ambition to be able to beat Arsenal in the match.

Arteta, who has lost 3 midfielders and 1 defender, of course has to find a solution to be able to keep their squad solid in the  match, because so far they only have two experienced midfielders, namely Jorginho and also Partey, losing Calafiori in my opinion is not a big problem for Arsenal considering they have many defenders in their squad, but the midfield must actually be the main focus for Arsenal, because so far their midfield has been the center of Arsenal game, so when they don't have a balanced midfield it will be difficult for Arsenal to win in that the match and we can see the proof when Arsenal lost Declan Rice against Brighton in the previous match
 

If Man United can only win against weak teams and always loses to teams that are quite strong, then it will be difficult for Man United to get a good place this season, such as fourth place. Because as far as we can see, currently there are Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Newcastle and Aston Villa which look like they will be able to compete strongly. Even Chelsea and Tottenham are still better than Man United so far. So Ten Hag's journey to bring Man United to 4th place feels like it is impossible. But basically nothing is impossible. Because they could rise from next week.

If it is a real reason for that big decision, it's hilarious as FA Cup trophy is not comparable to Europa League trophy that won by Mourinho. Mourinho was fired while Ten Hag with poorer performances, less valuable trophy was kept, this decision is a big joke. Ten Hag was very lucky to get this hilarious support from Manchester United, and it looks like an unconditional support for him. It's big different support from Manchester United compared to what Mourinho received seasons ago. They sacked Mourinho, because they wanted to keep Paul Pogba in their club and after several years, we saw what they got with Pogba, nothing considerable.

Tasks for Ten Hag in this season can be top four in Premier League and as far adventure as possible in Europa League. Chance for them to win Europa League trophy is very small if not say nearly impossible. Top four in Premier League can be impossible for them to if they continue with similar bad performances like early matches so far.

Arsenal is in good shape and the match will end up 2-1 arsenal wins the derby easily at the home ground of Tottenham. The positions of Havertz and Trossard are good in midfield because they can give some good passes towards goal post

The club will definitely be very disappointed with their choice to keep Ten Hag just because they succeeded in making Man United win the FA Cup after Man United lost their good position in the Premier League. But winning against Southampton won't be difficult for this team. Because so far Man United has only lost to teams that are considered quite strong in the Premier League, such as Brighton and Liverpool. But they managed to win against an ordinary team like Fullham. And I don't think Southampton will be an opponent that will make things difficult for Man United. Even though Man United is not in good condition, it feels like they can beat Southampton. So I might even bet on them.