Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 685. (Read 774925 times)

I also think that Pochettino's dismissal was a mistake, especially since it was inappropriate on Boehly's part, because he had previously said that their cooperation with Pochettino would be long-term and that he should concentrate on working in the team. And if he had stayed in the team, I would have expected better results from Chelsea than now, when Maresca has joined the team, and there are many changes in the team again. Perhaps it's not even that Boehly has too little patience, but that he makes wrong decisions regarding coaches. By the way, I think the time when Pochettino was a coach was the most adequate period regarding transfers.

Chelsea are currently in poor condition, their performance in pre-season is very disappointing, there is no significant development shown under the current coach, poor defense is one of Chelsea's weaknesses, last season and this season only show disappointment for the fans, there needs to be a real overhaul that can rebuild Chelsea's glory, yes and it seems there is no hope for Chelsea in the competitive league which is now getting closer

as reported by goal Enzo Maresca is currently breaking the deadlock and problems faced by Chelsea at this time and even Enzo alluded to Mauricio Pochettino after what The Blues showed through poor performance in pre-season.

I don't understand why Enzo alluded to the previous coach, for the failure he showed in this pre-season.?

source https://www.goal.com/en-om/lists/enzo-maresca-working-to-solve-chelsea-problem-aims-dig-at-mauricio-pochettino-real-madrid-defeat/blta0523e7fd9ebfeb3#csd2af37a5a192361a

Well, they had an opportunity to make this upcoming season much better but they decided to let it slide by kicking Mauricio Pochettino out, that man took them to the Europa League spot after several errors by previous coaches and if not that Manchester United defeated City to win the FA Cup, Chelsea would've played in Europa League instead of Conference League, but then how did the board pay him back, by cutting ties with him when his bond with players on an off the team became strong. Enzo Maresca might encounter lots of difficulties and things might be worst than other coaches, not leaving behind the fact that he could have a serious confusion in selecting his best XI due to bulky squad depth. As for changing Maresca, it won't come like a surprise given that Todd Boehly lack patience and won't hesitate to look for another option if Maresca doesn't miss his expectations.

That's right, Chelsea management has made many mistakes so that their team is as bad as it is now and Enzo Maresca's task is very difficult, it is not easy for him to build a team from the beginning again like Chelsea now which does not have a strong team framework.

Several Chelsea pre-season matches have actually proven that they are now getting worse.
And I think there is nothing more to expect from Chelsea, they will not be better next season than last season and one way to make Chelsea rise is to provide support and also time for Enzo Maresca to build this team through the process, but if not then Chelsea will change coaches every year.

I think Guardiola used his young players in pre-season games because he did not want his top players to be injured before the Premier League season began. likewise, Ten Hag doesn't want to make use of his top players because few of the players they need to perform at a high level next season were injured in pre-season games, and it would be dangerous if any of their players sustained more injuries. However, based on the pre-season games played by both clubs so far, Manchester City surpassed Manchester United. Guardiola's young players performed much better than Manchester United's young players. So I believe it will be interesting to bet on Manchester City as the favorite to win.


Enzo Maresca needs to learn from the pre-season game they played, plus the challenges he will face next season with the players the team provided to him. Chelsea is not a team that is patient with its managers, they are always interested in achieving good outcomes each season. I won't think about Maresca as a bad manager only because they failed the pre-season games, I believe Chelsea will recover and win their games.

It's hypocritical to say Chelsea is improving with the performance we have seen so far in this preseason matches. They conceded twelve goals in just five games and only scored nine goals. A lot of work has to be done in the defense.

Yesterday, I only watch the second half of that match but frankly speaking, Chelsea is not in any way different from what they've been before. Whoever plot Pottechino out has done a very bad thing to Chelsea. Seeing how €100m players were dominated by kids is very heartbreaking. I wonder how they are going to defend this team when premier league finally starts.

For Guardiola, this will be a great chance to prove that the last defeat to Manchester United in the cup final was a fluke. I would not pay attention to the teams' recent friendlies, especially their defensive play, because in official matches everything will be different. City are again favorites, but this time Guardiola must take his opponent very seriously to avoid another such disastrous first half. Ten Hag's pre-season preparation has not been very successful, he has lost several players due to injuries, losses in attack and defense, which also gives City an advantage.

Actually, nobody expected Manchester United to even have a competition against Manchester City. We all thought that Manchester City was going to win the match easily against Manchester United. Why Manchester City was unable to win is very easy to understand. The defense of Manchester City did not work very well at that particular day. If someone, before the match thought that Manchester United was going to win against Manchester City, he was absolutely a Manchester United fan. Otherwise, almost nobody thought that Manchester City would lose. And even though Manchester United was able to win the FA Cup, probably the coach Ten Hag should still have been fired. He did not do a good job. Obviously, it is good for the authority that they are giving him another chance. But will he be able to make amends?


FA Community Shield
By the way, this weekend the FA Cup winner is coming up to fight against the Premier League champions 
Looking forward to this match.. 

Manchester United has a great chance to win the Community Shield, because why as happened in the FA Cup of course they have a chance, if compared to these two teams City is indeed superior in terms of players but talking about Man United they work very hard when City has several opportunities that are not optimal then Man United has one maximum opportunity, Man United itself is indeed experiencing a shortage of players due to injury but I am sure that Ten Hag will stabilize it all with a special victory for its fans.

In the final later I support Man United because Mqn United is more ambitious than City, of course it is not easy to give up on City but what they did in the FA Cup final is a big reference how they play with full confidence and also work until the last minute, and City can't do whatever they want because they have difficulty pressing Man United because they are also very strong in defense, of course I think Man United will have a proud season next season the factor is because they currently have some good players especially with their young players I think next season Ten Hag will bring Man United to where they should be.

After previously getting negative results from two friendly matches, in today's match Madrid were able to return to winning ways and end their pre-season tour with positif result, while Chelsea will likely still receive criticism from fans after achieving another negative result in this match, to be honest even though the match was a friendly match, I doubt whether Chelsea next season will be able to compete with other teams in the EPL, although they have currently made major changes to their squad, but in this match the majority of Chelsea players played very badly and I don't even know what hhat Maresca did looked like it was really which difficult to instruct her players to play well in that match, the substitutions she made did not improve Chelsea game and tended to make their game worse.

The two goals scored by Madrid in that match were actually not due to the greatness of the Madrid players, but rather the poor and weak defense that Chelsea currently has, even from what we saw today, don't we all really miss Rudiger, Thiago Silva and also Koulibally is currently in Chelsea defense, not the clowns that Chelsea bought expensively, such as Fofana, Colwill and Badiashile.
I think Madrid second goal could have been prevented if only Badiashile had moved quicker to block the ball into the goal and not just watched without making the slightest effort to prevent it.

Mr @X-ray I never said the Blues have improved and never will I say such until I see some improvement which I haven't seen in a very long while, they look like a team that can withstand the pressure of Madrid from the start but after few minutes they went back to default settings. Careless with the ball never know when to release the ball and the manager isn't seeing those crazy errors. No matter how long the players of Madrid stay due to resting or holiday as the case maybe, the Madrid B team will always beat Chelsea and is a shame that for almost 3-4 friendlies they (Chelsea) haven't changed a bit and they're even get extremely bad in performance.
The manager Enzo Maresca hasn't done anything since his arrival at Stanford Bridge because all the players have been doing is run without direct, no coordination like team play, at least try to recreate something, is like nobody is learning from their mistakes. Chelsea defense has never been in good shape right from last season so this is a medium for other clubs to make use of the chance to get 3 point out from them, it will be another season of point giveaway.
Chelsea isn't finished yet, I'd blame the manager for trying something he knows won't work, he doesn't have what it takes to deliver and it seems like the manage is trying to bring this trial and error style which I don't fancy in any way, it will only bring more confusion to the squad and come to think of it, doesn't Maresca knows his first 11?🤔

After reading some of the opinions you guys have discussed, I conclude that although this match is not too important, it is difficult to predict.
If we think Manchester City will win, but Man Utd in the FA Cup was able to beat Pep Guardiola's troops, while an unimportant match like this, Manchester City usually won't take it seriously and just play simply without pursuing victory.
However, if we think so, it is impossible for Manchester City to give up in this Community Shield match because Pep Guardiola's reputation will certainly still be prioritized before the match starts.



From my betting choices, there are 2 choices, such as if you want to get certainty, maybe choose City to score more than 1.5 with odds @1.58.
However, if you want to get big profits from our prediction speculation, choosing Man Utd to score more than 1.5 with odds @2.95 is very profitable.

I remember Ten Hag said when they won the FA Cup that he was confident of beating City if his key players were not injured. But unfortunately many of Manchester United's players are injured ahead of the Community Shield. I favor City to win the Community Shield. Ten Hag probably still has a good tactic to beat City because he did it in the FA Cup final. But without the players he needs it will be difficult for Ten Hag to play his tactics. I just hope United's players can recover from their injuries when the season starts. I expect United to have a good start to the season with their current squad.

Dude, Chelsea hasn't improved. They keep getting fresh complaints. Some Real Madrid players are back from their holiday. They are not fit to play, like Rodrygo. But Chelsea's defense looks so disastrous to fight Real Madrid players. I'm really disappointed. Chelsea's defense has never improved at all.
Also, the season hasn’t even started, and teams have already figured out how to beat Chelsea. Just sit and wait for Chelsea's defense to make mistakes. This is not funny how Maresca's system doesn't fit Chelsea's roster.

Some nonsense things happened in the game. They put Malo Gusto at midfielder. This wasted Gusto's attacking potential with this inverted RCB nonsense. Chelsea fans must be tired of their club. The clueless owners and directors bought all the wrong players. I think Chelsea is finished.

There wasn't much Chelsea could do in the friendly matches they played recently and today Chelsea was defeated by Real Madrid with a narrow score of 1:2 Chelsea also didn't make many shots. I also don't think Chelsea can beat Real Madrid because in the previous match they were defeated by Man City.
Chelsea got less than satisfactory results and I also didn't expect many to criticize Enzo Maresca because Chelsea lost in this pre-season match even though we don't know what the coach will do when the season starts later.

as I predicted before Chelsea and Real Madrid will definitely not score more than 4 goals.

Ten Hag was expected to be fire around the end of past season but Manchester United decided to continue with him at least one more season. It's not easy to say this decision is good or bad because he will have one more season to defend his coach position. Manchester United will use a next season to assess his work and at this moment, there is no enough more evidence from Manchester United to make a tough decision against Ten Hag.

I see it is pure rumor, nothing more than that. If Manchester United did not sack Ten Hag months ago but oppositely decided to use him, it does not make sense to sack him now when a new season is in the air.

As far as I know Manchester United are banking on their current manager for one more season. Manchester United did not get good results under this manager yet Manchester United gave the manager another chance. 

If Manchester United stick to their singular decision this transfer season, if they extend their current manager's contract for another season, I would assume this is the last chance for Ten Hag. If Ten Hag fails to deliver good performance this season, Manchester United will definitely fire this manager without thinking about next season. But now there are rumors that Manchester United could change this manager. 
Basically when the transfer window opens there are many such rumors and all kinds of rumors are likely to come true now it remains to be seen whether Manchester United will trust their old manager or hand over the reins of their club to another manager.

One shot on target and we have a goal in the friendly between Madrid vs Chelsea, I just hope that before the end of the game we won't be having a fresh complain from the Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca because it seems like is what we're going to be getting from him especially whenever things doesn't work as planned next campaign.
The Chelsea squad look fresh to take on this Madrid side but they lack that togetherness, playing with much confidence and I don't see anything too special about the Madrid side that can drop the morale of the Blues, they can get something in this game if they go all out after all nothing much is at stake, they (Chelsea) should just avoid defeat.

I see nothing special in this game. We know the FA Cup is more prestigious than the Community Shield. I prefer to bet on a City win. United beat City in last season's FA Cup, but I'm not sure if City will play with their full squad. And losing in this game doesn't make one of these clubs a loser. 
United had a few new players. They have not yet integrated with their system. I take double chance as my safe zone to bet. Also, winning or losing doesn't matter in this game. I see it as a glorified friendly match between Manchester United and Manchester City.

It will simply be a City match... I would say that Manchester United moral for the pre-season has been calmed by injuries of both their old and newly signed players. So, I do not expect them to face Manchester City with alot of energy in order not to sustain more injuries before season will start.

However it is community shield which doesn't have much importance but yet it is a derby match and so we expect it to have the derby weight. So, it will still be an interesting match and probably a win for the citizens.