Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 624. (Read 801481 times)

My predicted interim results:
* Liverpool win (score 1-0)
* West Ham win (score 4-1)
* Arsenal half win (score 3-1)
* Manchester City half loss (score 3-2)
* Newcastle win (draw)
* Chelsea not played yet

I think some of your predictions are wrong like you chose Newcastle to win and chose Ipswich compared to West Ham to win.
Speaking of Chelsea since when Chelsea beat Liverpool at Anfield? even though they have not met this season and their meeting will be held after the international break in 2 weeks which will come.

City scraped through with a tough 3-2 win against Fulham, but they allowed way too many chances at the back. Fulham managed to get three one-on-one opportunities against Ederson, which is just too much. City got lucky that Adama Traoré couldn’t finish his chances — if he had, the game could’ve turned out very differently.

Interestingly, City fans are already worried about Pep Guardiola leaving at the end of the season. They've even been asking him to stay, not just in Spanish, but in Catalan, showing just how much they don't want to lose him.

This week continues with wins for Liverpool, Manchester City and Arsenal so we have three competitors stand closely with each other at top three of Premier League. Liverpool are leading with 18 points and both Manchester City and Arsenal have 17 points. Behind them, Chelsea and Aston Villa have 13 points but they both have 1 match to play. If both of them win, they will have 16 points and are not too far from top three in total points.

They look to be very fitted for best competitors of Premier League title but I really want to see Chelsea joining this title race too. It's some seasons since a last time Chelsea were good enough to join title competition in Premier League. They are coming back strongly this season and are ready to challenge Manchester City for a trophy.

Source: https://sport.detik.com/sepakbola/liga-inggris/d-7573982/man-city-vs-fulham-brace-kovacic-bawa-the-citizens-menang-3-2/amp

Manchester City performed extraordinary, their players had good performance and a good mentality. The proof was that Manchester City was able to turn things around when Fulham was the first to score a goal through Andreas' kick, but fortunately the Manchester City players had players with a strong mentality so they were able to return the goal through Kovacic's kick and his performance were certainly very impressive in that match because in the end Manchester City was able to win the match against Fulham with a score of 3-2.

but I was amazed by the Fulham players, they played optimally and well and of course I personally was nervous because I was afraid that my bet would lose because I bet on Manchester City winning, but fortunately Manchester City won and of course the heroes in that match were of course Kovacic and J.Doku Both of their kicks were so accurate and right on target that the Fulham goalkeeper couldn't block their kicks.

Manchester City has now got 3 points but of course now Manchester City has to be patient because currently Liverpool is still leading the standings and of course the competition between Liverpool and Manchester City is now very tight and don't forget that Arsenal is now on the same points as Manchester City so of course the competition between the 3 teams is very tight, what do you all think, will these 3 teams continue to compete fiercely until the end of the season?

I saw Pep look dizzy when Traore almost created 2nd goal for Fulham. I don't know why the city defender is look careless and lose quickly when face Fulham attacker. That happen several time when fulham make a quick counterattack. And suddenly, the city formation changed slightly from 3 defender, going to 4, and Kovacic, I look become as libero, but it doesn't mean he stand at behind but as a central, so that makes Fulham defender confused, thus forgetting him who stands free on penalty box to equalize the score. That still happens on 2nd half, fulham player still not really paying attention to him, so he can make brace to the city.

Great result in the end. But there are some concerns, especially in the first half. I might sound harsh, but Arsenal need to be better at home. We need to really push to take advantage of our control when we have it; in the first half, we looked very poor. We must rotate players over the season. This to build chemistry between starters and the bench.

I was very impressed with that second half. The Saka-Havertz combo was phenomenal. They helped us more decisive on the ball in the second half. They could be doing that in every game.

We haven't fully learned yet from last season. We struggle to have a full 90 minutes of control in home games. We looked so badly in the first half, but played differently in the second half. Still not consistent.

Even though Newcastle had those chances, it was a shame that they missed them. This proves that ball possession does not necessarily give victory. Because Newcastle's on-target attacks on Everton were also very few.

And Gordon's missed penalty kick completed it all so that the score remained 0-0 until the end.

Source: Everton vs Newcastle

The only factor that might bring back my belive for arsenal, is when the seasons finally  ends and their performance  is kept constant, then I will truly  believe that they've changed  from their previous seasons experience. For now, I'm not impressed  with their performance.  I would want a different  team other than the pre champions of the league  to win the EPL title. If Manchester City  wins the EPL title again, the league would be considered children's league but when a several teams are consecutively acquiring the title, it would make the league  more fun to watch as the competition  would be massive.

I thought Manchester city was going to lose this game as it wasn't looking easy for them. Fulham played very well and I didn't think that they were going to lose. Kovačić scoring two goals is very surprising for me and he is the reason Manchester city got confidence back that they were going to win the game then Doku added another goal but still Fulham didn't stay back, they tried their best and got another goal although it wasn't enough for them to share the point. Manchester city now has 30 unbeaten run, no club has been able to defeat them in the premier league and that it insane. Brentford game against wolves had me on my feet as the goals were just coming in and it was exciting.

The games against Arsenal, Brentford United and Fulham United has indeed displayed the importance of Rodri to this Manchester City sqaud. If they don't get a quality replacement for him, I don't see Kovacic giving them stability in midfied. Exactly! They've come so close to winning the Premier League Competition, I think tjis is the perfect season for them. Arne Slot having a great start but i don't think they jave the squad to win the Premier League Competition. Saw some disrespect channelled towards Saka and these are stats to say he's arguably one of the best in the Premier League Competition.





  He deserves respect and enough credits.

In my opinion, Alex Ferguson will not come out of retirement to take over Ten Hag role as manager.
After Ferguson retired, Manchester United had several bad seasons, and last season was recorded as the worst. It is not surprising that The Red Devils finished outside the top four again this season, because they still seem reluctant to fire their manager. The Red Devils have only managed to win three of the nine matches they have played in three competitions, this bad record is clearly very worrying. But I don't understand why Maguire still defends Ten Hag, saying that all Manchester United players are responsible for his team poor performance so far.
The match against Aston Villa seems to be Ten Hag last hope, if he fails again, most likely the manager will be fired.
https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/41621244/man-united-players-blame-not-erik-ten-hag-harry-maguire

Manchester City performance has been good but they are indeed showing a lot of vulnerability this season that they didn’t as of last season. Could it have been just because of Rodri’s injury and out of the game? I just hope they get to reconcile and make things fixed up soon or else they will themselves falling down from that position on the table. Manchester City are still trying to be the best that they can but with this performance, it won’t last them for a whole season to be able to keep up.


This is football and anything can happen. I won’t because this is Arne Slot’s first season that he can’t win the premier league, he can if he keeps up with this performance and maintain the consistency in their game throughout the competition. Arsenal are also a major contender and with their performance so far, you can’t help but to keep them in the title contenders because they’re showing that much performance needed by a club to excel in the premier league.

Manchester United is losing points every game and they can't even have good performance regardless of the result they get and this made Manchester United's coach Ten Hag under more pressure to leave the team. Manchester United is really about to get him fired from the team because of the performance he had since Ten Hag joined Manchester United. But I think now Manchester United should start working on the next coach.
The interesting thing for me about Manchester United is about their legend Alex Ferguson watching their game and it would be awesome if he could once again start working in Manchester United to save this team.

Personally I think the Liverpool players and the manager especially deserve to be praised for getting the most important thing in the game the 3 points, no one is asking the score line but you could see how the rook the lead in just 9 minutes of the kick off and they maintained their lead until the full time this shows how the team is determined to defend rhe only goal they are able to score in difficult matches.

The 0:1 win against Palace came as a surprise to me because earlier before the game began I was expecting them to share points considering the time of the game and the last outcome of Manchester City's early kick off game that ended in a 1:1 draw but Liverpool managed to win to retain the league position it's indeed a good one for Arne Slot and his boys.

The league is still very open and they will have so many challenges but if they are able to maintain the winning strategies they can be a surprise to Manchester City and Arsenal who are more like the favorite team for the league trophy this season.

Southampton literally did well in this game such that till the end of the first half they were able to keep Arsenal to not getting a goal and they further went on to get a goal in the first half and it became normal that at that point everyone will be thinking that its going to end in a draw at the end because for Southampton to have held the game to that point they literally would be bale to stop Arsenal from getting too many goals to the point they will be able to draw the game but then Arsenal with their emotional tactics got the game really emotional for the fans by allowing their opponent lead and then came back to win the game flawlessly.

The injury to Manchester City's midfielder Rodri I think is a big blow to Pep Guardiola's quest to retain the title this season. Manchester City without doubt have been winning games since Rodri's injury but none of them have been convincing as the ones they won when he was fit. Today's result against Crystal Palace is another strong indication that the absence of the Spaniard is affecting the team.
For Arsenal's game, I wasn't in any doubt that they'll win the match even after they went behind in the 55th minute of the game. Mikel Arteta's men dominated the game and was able to make a comeback. The English Premier League title race is very competitive at the moment and that I think is what makes the league interesting

Yes, Fulham despite the fact that they had less possession and less shots during the match still managed to score two goals and to be honest they could have levelled the score, but I think Manchester City controlled everything and would not allow a draw in this match. Fulham play Aston Villa next, it is very interesting how they will show themselves this time, if they were so vigorous against Manchester City.

I really realize that, Manchester City is really difficult to stop. They are the best team in the Premier League at the moment and only Liverpool have broken their title chain in the previous 5 seasons. Pep Guardiola has won 7 Premier League titles with Manchester City so far and he seems ambitious to win another title this season. However, all Premier League teams seem to be struggling to beat Manchester City so Pep Guardiola does not win 5 titles in a row.

Many people hope that Liverpool or Arsenal can stop Manchester City, but I believe these two teams will always find it difficult to do so. Arsenal were good at the start but often declined at the end, this is what Manchester City took advantage of to secure their title over the last four seasons.

Manchester City again fell behind early in the match but managed to turn the game around. Arsenal also went behind in the second half after a quiet first half but then scored 3 goals to win. Havertz, Martinelli and Saka scored. Arsenal's attacking power is really high. The team feels that they can score at any moment. You never worry about that. Liverpool also won with an early goal. It looks like these three teams will break away from the other teams early in the race and fight for the title among themselves again.

I'm not disputing this fact, but moreso, they don't have the facilities to defeat Liverpool either way. Judging from your quote below,it seems you really think City is like the "supposed" wounded lion that can atleast - roar to remind the rest of his prowess in his prime. But, how does that count? Struggling to win against smaller teams just after a single player got injured is a sign of a the team's mental formidability, but an easy penetration for a competition.

Again, this is an understatement. We do not have any reasons to underestimate a team that's already doing just fine. You speak about conceived goals? I think City is a perfect example of a team that has conceded alot already.
Mind you, I'm not a fan of neither of these teams and I have no personal vendetta against them.