Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 632. (Read 775292 times)

We really shouldn't draw conclusions too quickly just based on the initial match. We have to be patient and wait for more matches to be played by them. And we must also remember that their new coach must adapt first. Because the season has just started and losing to Man City is quite natural. Maybe you are right, we might have to first see the results of the next match, namely next week when Chelsea face Wolves. Chelsea have indeed tried as best as they can and well we shouldn't have too high hopes for this squad which is full of young players. because young players sometimes need to adapt longer than experienced players.

Even if we know that Chelsea performance sometimes is not encouraging but this there match against Manchester City I don't think is right for us to judge them because we had already know that Manchester City performance is more higher than Chelsea and besides even if Manchester City win the match but we annot also forget that Chelsea tried there best, so I think the only time we should judge or have a doubt about Chelsea performance is only when they are not able to win there next match against wolves that's when we can say that they have a weak team because already wolves is not that good on this season so they shouldn't be a too much problem for Chelsea.

Overall judging Chelsea first match, I think they deserved to lose, but that doesn't mean Chelsea won't develop in the future. So lose they still lose because Man City is superior and Man City's defense is very solid.  now Chelsea must be motivated to work harder, it doesn't matter if they lose the first match, there are still the next matches. The Premier League is a long journey, there will always be ups and downs in performance. If I'm not mistaken, Todd Boehly left the stadium before the match ended, indicating his dissatisfaction because he had spent a lot of money to collect players. But I think it was also his own fault because he was careless in buying players but the quality of the players he bought was not at all as expected.

Seeing how Man City scored two goals in that match, it was even more painful for Chelsea. Because we can see that Chelsea's defense seemed confused for a moment. This is where it is important to have experienced players in a squad. Relying on too many young players is too risky. Everything must be balanced with several senior players who can be trusted to set an example for the young players. But this is only the start of the season so we can't draw any conclusions from this early match.

There is only one match left, namely the Leicester vs Tottenham match and I find it difficult to predict which team will be my favorite in that match.

So much replies have been focused on Chelsea vs Manchester city fixture over the weekend and it's not one I will see as been unexpected because much was expected of Chelsea form their fans and even others who aren't fans but wanted to see what their performance will look like after all the transfer they have been engaged in.

Looking at other games in the premier league over the weekend, I got some entertainment from the Liverpool game as it appears with their new coach they are already appearing promising starting off so well, Manchester United got my attention too but in that game fullham impressed me the most, so far the season looks like it's got a lot to look forward to both around the big teams and the small teams in the premier League.

What to expect from Chelsea? they don't even have any value to argue about even though this season has started.

It's funny to see Chelsea's game which is still directionless and honestly even if they make another major overhaul it won't have a significant impact on determining the desired result. I'm happy to see Manchester City destroy all their hopes and maybe this will still be quite a big trauma for the Blues squad. Enzo Maresca should have stayed at Leicester and not ruined his brilliant career in this ridiculous team.

Haaland has opened his first goal this season and there is no doubt he will be able to win the top scorer once again. On the other hand, Kovacic made Manchester City secure their victory after scoring a goal with his hard kick and he refused to celebrate in front of his former team. What a miserable night for Chelsea and once again the change was not real at all.

Expected victory of City, I said that the odds for Chelsea were too high, it was not worth expecting anything from Chelsea now, especially against City. In the game of Chelsea, I was most upset by the attack, Jackson looked good, but after his substitution it became even worse, Neto tried to add some activity, but his actions were clumsy and sometimes rude.

And City in their style achieved 3 points, yes we can say that Chelsea is at the stage of formation of a new team, but only Boehly is to blame for this, he decided that it was appropriate after the dismissal of Pochettino Chelsea should go through this again. By the way, Boehly demonstratively left his place 10 minutes before the end of the match, it is clear that he is unhappy with such a game of his team, but what did he expect...

I don't know why people especially Chelsea fans think that they can win City or draw the match like last season when it is not the same coach of last season or have they forgotten about that. Pocchetino was able to understand Pep's football pattern and thay was the advantage that he had which made it difficult for City to win Chelsea.

This is a different coach entirely with some new players making it difficult for the players to understand themselves easily and also adopting the new pattern of Maresca. In my wild dream, I will not see Chelsea winning City in yesterday's match.

Chelsea are the only team I think have over 40 players and they're still in a confused state with Enzo Maresca talking about much players and they need to discard some players, like why are they making things difficult for themselves? By the way all these happened as a result of Sterling not being listed in yesterday's game which I think wasn't proper, he wasn't on the bench and even on the first eleven of the squad it made him (Sterling) and his representative questioned the manager's decision, why he wasn't listed and Enzo Maresca is even defending his actions, like why would you drop someone like Sterling who gives everything when it comes to the club and that game he was suppose to be involved but he wasn't, which to me I think Chelsea want to sell this guy off the club since they started avoiding him to be included in a big game as yesterdays' and they shouldn't forget that Sterling is bigger than the likes of Mudryk, Madueke, Chukwuemeka and the rest who was not in that game, he should be given that respect.
Having so much players on the team and now the manager is confused on who to start or drop, even his decision making while making a sub is not even sharp to change the outcome of the game, well this is just the beginning of so much explanation, Enzo Maresca need to know his 1st eleven before the next 5 games.
#Chelsea House Of Commotion...

Chelsea was lacking the best number 10 against Manchester City, despite spending a lot of money on the transfer. No team has signed as many players as Chelsea and seen the result in their first game of the season. Look at the way Kovačić handled the ball and controlled the midfield for Manchester City. The last time Manchester City won an away game without Rodri was in 2022, and now they won without him against Chelsea. The midfield failed to provide passes to its attackers, even though they want to sell Gallagher, Enzo Maresca should have started the game with Palmer as the midfield.

However, I am not sure how poorly Sterling and Madueke performed in the pre-season games that Maresca chose not to bring them against Manchester City, but I feel that if they were in that match, Chelsea would attack more than they did yesterday because no position was good in Chelsea's performance.

It is too early to say that Maresca failed, if we look at Chelsea's performance in the match it was not that bad, it's just that they were a little unlucky even though Chelsea had many dangerous opportunities.
This result is not so surprising because Man City deserved to win this match, they have a stronger strength than Chelsea even though City did not play at their top performance but they had no difficulty in winning this match.

And for Enzo Maresca, he still needs time for him to build Chelsea, the results from playing against the strongest PL team at the moment (Man City) I think are not appropriate to be used as a benchmark.

Don you think it is too early to judge Chelsea's performance from the first game they played for the season, and we all know it was a game played against the strongest team in the premier league. If Chelsea had played their game with any random premier league and they failed to win  then we can quickly express the dissapointment. I know Chelsea have not been performing well for a longtime and fans was expecting to see something different in the first game. There is still enough time to see what Chelsea will be upto in their games this season,  I don't want to use this first game to make conclusions.  

That is how people said that yesterday match will going to be a tough match, between Chelsea vs Manchester city but the outcome of the match results was a surprised to some people, because it was not a surprise to me seen Manchester city to defeated Chelsea 0-2 to embraced victory.  Tottenham will use this match to wake their fans spirit up to defeat Leicester City 1-2 to achieve three points, because many people use this first match to determine what the team will do in the remaining matches, which Tottenham will deploy all the tactics to succeed in the home of the Leicester City today. Leicester City will achieve a goal from this match, but it will be difficult for the match to end up draw 1-1 because Tottenham players will not allow draw match to happen than to make the match 1-2 for the favour of Tottenham.

I appears like Chelsea isn't a good ground for players to strive ever since the exit of ibrimovich, the management down to the team has been more messy than they have ever been in the history of the team but hopefully they get better, Their performance was no where close to that of Manchester city in that game, Manchester city had a more defined pattern and a much better coordination than Chelsea did, I was expecting a better performance from Chelsea not with all the new signing and change of coach and all they could produce was nothing away from the much known regular.

City are also not in their best form now, Guardiola said that some players returned late from holidays and this affects their game, like Foden, who joined the team just a few days ago, look how difficult it was for him to play, I did not see his usual acceleration. I say this because City are also far from their best form. And Chelsea played a very weak match, yes, they tried to be active in some moments, but they looked very weak in many episodes, this was especially noticeable in the attack, and Maresca's substitutions did not work either, so City brought this match to a logical conclusion.

Last time I checked, Man City were awful in the pre season tour but managed to give a public humiliation to Chelsea in the friendlies and still thrashed them in their season opener. It's safe to say that Guardiola doesn't take lightly to games that involve clubs like Arsenal, Chelsea or even Man UTD and as such I didn't expect less. There was something I noticed though; it looked like they wanted to panic when in the first ten minutes City hadn't registered a goal and not starting with all his squad, they controlled the game.
 Chelsea like I always say will go far if their owner isn't desperate. We could see him leaving the scene after City netted their second goal and it was quite pathetic that with all the big money he splashed on players, none of them could deliver.
Another thing I feel is making the team underperform is because of how older players are being treated. Imagine demoting your first team players to train with the U21 because of what? Seriously Chelsea as a club under Todd need a reshaping to their thinking else it we'd keep seeing and hearing more sad things.

Yes! But they'll need to do that with more pace amd consistency, picking the right pass to the right partner at all times, reasons why they need players like Scott MC Tominay gone in that midfied. Hope? Hoping us dangerous if I must say. Manchester United fans do not want to hope, all they want is to see performance and perfection.

I cannot say about him, but he has a great first touch and height, he could use that well for Manchester United. Highest goal scorer? Don't think so but, fingers crossed.

Not just Casemiro and Harry Maguire. Mason Mount did well with those high pressing during the first half, immediately he was substituted, it drastically reduced.
How about Mazraoui? Great debut performance, tactical with those in between passes to link his midfielder's ahead and how he held down Iwobi during that game. Smith Rowe needs time, if he was to perform, it shouldn't have been against Manchester United. Top display for match day 1.

The defeat against Manchester City I think is reasonable because both are two teams that are in different situations at the moment, Chelsea who are in a slump and are trying to rise while Manchester City are in their best form in the last few seasons so the result in the first match of both teams with the victory achieved by Manchester City 2-0 I think is quite appropriate.

This is a result that has been believed from the start and I am quite happy with the result of Manchester City's victory because I won my bet but on the other hand when I watched this match I admitted that Chelsea's performance was not that bad, they created many opportunities and dared to play more aggressively so I think we don't need to be too pessimistic about Enzo Maresca because it seems that there will be better progress made by Enzo Maresca with Chelsea this season.

Chelsea are in desperate need of a striker that's why they are making plans to sign Victor Osimhen. Although one thing I find surprising was that after seeing Nicolas Jackson performances last season, Chelsea first priority should have been a striker rather they pretend as if they were okay with Jackson. It is not about spending money, but the question is are they spending the money on the right players. Chelsea have brought in about eight players this season with no striker. This is a clear indication that the club has lost focus. I don't blame those Chelsea fans that are happy with the scoreline of yesterday, because with the way the Chelsea team has been so far, one would naturally think that Manchester City would have won by a bigger margin. But if Chelsea team get a recognized striker like Osimhen they will be better this season.

Well against Manchester City it is easy to say Chelsea will lose because it’s clear that they are still not up there yet and the fact that they changed manager just after last season proves that they will not be in shape yet. They are likely to struggle in more games to come but they will only get better as the season progresses, they Didn’t play so bad and were able to create some chances for themselves and if they have had a good striker then it would be a different story entirely.

I have so much trust in Enzo Maresca and i don’t think Chelsea will be that poor to get relegated, they had a similar start last season and they were able to fight their way back. This is just the beginning of the season and we still have a long way to go so losing just this match doesn’t prove that they will be relegated. This is Manchester City we are talking about so I expected this result.