Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 716. (Read 800912 times)

It's funny that some soccer analyst had started rating Man Utd based on thrashing Barnsley a lowly rated side yesterday, it's obvious when the premier league resume the same mentality of the team would continue some of which are lack of desire to win matches, poor tactical formation and poorly manage substitution, unless those issues is addressed or corrected else Erik ten Hag would continue to struggle with the team, meanwhile Fulham had to protect their first team players in EFL championship due to lack of depth if their manage plays some of his key players he may risk losing them to injury.

Manchester United fans today continue to cheer and celebrate the big victory as if they had beaten a team as big as Arsenal and Manchester City yesterday, the 7-0 victory over Barnsley at this time obviously causes pride in Ten Hag squad but I think beating a team like Barnsley not should Ten Hag fielded a lot of their main players in the match, because it is difficult for Barnsley to even be able to get a draw result if Ten Hag fielded  their young players were in that match, but I think at the moment Ten Hag just wants to show for us if they are a tough team by destroying other teams with big scores and without conceding.

The next match Manchester United will face Crystal Palace even though it has the potential to trouble them in the later match, but I think for the match it is clear that Manchester United can get points from Crystal Palace which have performance and poor condition , besides that the quality of the squad owned by Manchester is clearly superior to that owned by Oliver Glasner squad ar the moment.

The most interesting thing for me so far when Manchester United wins is the celebration they do, especially when Garnacho manages to score a goal and he will celebrate the goal like his idol Ronaldo has been all along, but it seems that not only in the Argentina national team he gets a ban on celebrating like Ronaldo, but in Manchester United there are often players who prohibit him from celebrating siuuu like what happened in yesterday match, when Garnacho scored and Instead, Casemiro tried to pull him to prevent him from celebrating Ronaldo style.

Young players need challenge, time and patience to complete themselves and by playing with more important roles, bigger pressure, they will improve their mentality stronger with time. It's a common way for all youth players to become star and super star players in football at any club, not only in Chelsea and not only restrict to this player generation that are using by Chelsea.

Every young players need time to grow up, sharpen their skills and get familiar with more important tasks and bigger pressure too. They need time to become a better versions of themselves and to be able to carry bigger tasks. Chelsea are aiming at building up a young squad which can help them to play competitively in next 10 years. This is a big and ambitious plan from Chelsea but players they bought look are not too promising to complete this plan well.

Maresca is experiencing his job at a first big and rich club in his coach career. It's quite not familiar feeling and huge pressure for Maresca and he needs time to adapt to these big changes. He has bigger budget to spend for player transfers, better player resource but he also has bigger pressure from the boss. At big clubs like Chelsea, pressure is huge and they are not familiar with staying low on ranking table. Moreover, with big budget spent for player transfers and salary, boss doesn't want to wait for a long time to see success. A streak of bad results means big risk of losing your job and this pressure is on shoulders of Maresca as well as in his mind.

Lol I thought Barnsley is a division 2 club, well it's the reason why Manchester United can beat them by scored 7 goals.

However, what I think funny is the match Fulham vs Preston North End, the match is really long, they need to take until the 17 penalty kick. However, penalty is full of luck, so it's not really surprising to see Fulham lose the match.

Too bad Fulham underestimated this team because they play not with all senior players.

Currently, it could even be said that Chelsea does not have enough players with long experience. This team just has a lot of potential young players. In order for these players to reach their peak performance, it will take time. But currently this team has succeeded in producing several young players who are quite prominent and have brought positive results for Chelsea. The only weakness of this team is consistency. Because sometimes they play extraordinary and sometimes they play below their own quality.

Enzo Maresca may slowly be able to take Chelsea in a better direction. But I don't think so soon. Because Enzo's task is quite difficult. because he definitely realizes that as a coach at a club that relies on young players, the coach must have a different touch in the training methods applied to bring out the potential of the young players so that it is maximized when it is revealed.

Yes winning the match with a score of 7-0 cannot be an indication that this season Man United is better considering Barnsley is a division 3 club, although I am happy with the victory but I still doubt Man United in the EPL can compete better, in the 5th week Ten Hag's troops will face Crystal Palace who have performed poorly this season and have not won a single victory, reflecting on this, the Red Devils should have been able to get 3 points, we'll see later whether MU can shift all our doubts.

Jackson may not be scoring as much scores as we would expect but Mikel Obi should quit criticizing the players at the end of every game. Of all people I expect these ex players will understand better how if feels to be criticized because they have been there before. I expect kind words of encouragement from these players not attacking them on social media platforms.

Every season Pep Guardiola can always get through this phase very well. Because we know Man City always has very high quality second tier players. But this season there seems to be something a little different about Man City's second tier players. Because we now know that Julian Alvarez has moved to Atletico Madrid. And usually this is the player that Pep Guardiola always relies on when Pep wants to give Haaland a rest. Even though there are still several options that can be taken, usually Julian Alvarez's quality is always able to make Man City maintain good sharpness in the attack line. And it's a shame that Man City no longer has a second tier player as good as Julian Alvarez.

But last season I always saw that Arsenal was one of the clubs that was always most affected when a busy schedule came their way. Last season, Arsenal also lost several points due to their busy match schedule. But Arteta should have had much better preparation this season.

In the last 2 seasons Arsenal has always competed in the title hunt with Manchester City and has a narrow points difference but for this third season, for some reason I doubt Arsenal because I have been disappointed enough to expect too much from Arsenal even at the beginning of this season, Manchester City still looks very strong and has not lost points from the last 4 matches so if Mikel Arteta wants to win the title this season they have to beat Man City who are superior in points.
But Arsenal's steps will be a little easier if Man City gets a point deduction sanction and makes the points difference with Arsenal a little wider, this can be used by Arsenal so that Man City cannot win the title this season.

Measure or assess performance of Manchester United and their coach Ten Hag, can be based on their performances in two latest seasons and some early matches in this season are good confirmations on how Ten Hag actually failed to make his job well in Manchester United.

Many people saw that Ten Hag did not manage the team well and he brought some players to the club with very expensive cost while the club received very little contributions from these expensive players. As a head coach, who requested to buy these players, Ten Hag is fully responsible for these failed transfers. Two seasons with disappointed endings are enough but he was given more opportunity to continue managing Manchester United in this season.

So far, I see no positive things from their performances and I really believe that this season will be a last one for Ten Hag. He will even struggle to keep his job till the season ending and has very big risk to be fired in mid of season.

Especially if it's a match against such a weak team that lost all their opening games. Unfortunately it's true, Manchester United haven't improved, they can beat weak teams like they beat Barnsley yesterday, but it doesn't matter for the results in the Premier League. In a few days they'll go to Selhurst Park to play Crystal Palace, they're also a strong team that started the season badly and they'll definitely want to beat Manchester United at home, I want to be wrong but I don't think Ten Hag will be able to get three points from this match.

It seems regardless of the good or bad performance of Ten Hag in Manchester United he is having hard days with the fans of this team because they think Ten Hag doesn't have good relationships with many players in this team and Jadon Sancho was one example of of the players who had a bad relationship with Ten Hag and that's why he had to leave the team while he as good player for Manchester United who could help this team to get better results.
Now it's about Antony. Ten Hag said Antony doesn't show hard work in pieces of training and that's what Ten Hag also said about Sancho in the last season.

Aside from Arsenal, I don't think any team in the Premier League might endure the pressure of Manchester City. Chelsea lost their first home game against Manchester City, but we weren't disappointed because we didn't expect them to beat Manchester City; my prediction for that game against City was that Chelsea would lose or be lucky to draw, Chelsea just lost one game this season, and I believe that the results this season show that Chelsea is doing better than last season. At the start of the previous two seasons, no name familiar with Chelsea appeared among the top ten teams in the Premier League.

However, I believe you forget how bad Chelsea's performance was last season when Wolves defeated them both at home and away. This season, Chelsea performance seems to be different, as they defeated Wolves in an away match by plenty of goals, I can't say Chelsea is weak this season since it's too early, and they're currently greater than some Premier League teams, unlike Manchester United, who has lost two games this season.

We can't measure the strength of a team from just one match, we have to look at it as a whole and it is undeniable that Manchester United's performance this season has not developed from the previous season even though Ten Hag has made many changes. I am actually quite pessimistic about Ten Hag's ability, he has made many changes but there has been no visible progress in the team since Ten Hag's arrival as Manchester United coach so I conclude that the Manchester United team will continue like this without any significant development if they are still coached by Ten Hag.

They Chelsea have collected 7 points from their 4 games, and this shows Maresca has made quite an impact at the start of this season, all of this will not be easy for them to build because we know Chelsea are under pressure, so I think Maresca is quite good not too bad for him, and we know he has managed to lift Leicester last season and he has shown his ability and I think not only me but Chelsea fans also believe that Maresca will be better than now with Chelsea if the club gives him a full chance like Arsenal did with Arteta and Maresca also needs all of that.

And under Maresca Chelsea play quite open with one-two touches between players and this shows that they are building a mentality with each other in rebuilding their glory and it is not easy so give him a long chance there then I am sure he will show his best for Chelsea.

So this one is Ten Hag's biggest win as manager?

If Man United fan are extremely deluded, only then they will make this win a big deal, because otherwise, this is literally JUST Barnsley. But there are positives to take here as a United fan that the tactic allows them to score if they want to. Now they know, if played well they can overcome their shortcomings. The way they played in the game if replicated in a dominant mentality, could bring a lot of good results in the Premier League.




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I think Erik Ten Hag had a lot of the blame pointed at him, which is deserved, but the players do need to step up at games at times. You can coach or teach someone how to do a certain thing, but you can't go out there and do it on their behalf right? That's what it looked like about United recently. The whole club now needs to live up to their name, and stay united during the hardships and comes back strongly for everyone's good.
Look what Ten Hag said, they just gave opportunities to each other to score and boost their confidence. 26-year-old Rashford had a great chance of making hat trick, but he gave a penalty to Antony. Working as a team was the main factor of such kind of success.

Although almost all their key players were not on the pitch yesterday but apart from the main possession, every other statistics was on their favor but who cares? Statistics don't win matches, it's the result that matters the most. Playing against a poor southampton team who just got promoted newly into the league deserves much better performance than what I watched yesterday. Southampton lost their first four games in the premier League but Everton still lagged behind them. Everton was playing as if they were one man down because they refused to press their opponents and give them much time to romance with the ball. Imagine having a twenty five percent possessions against a newly promoted club? Things aren't getting better for them.

That is still not enough for the development of the Manchester United team because Ten Hag still needs more wins in the Premier League although it is also not wrong if Manchester United is able to focus on the EFL Cup and win a lot over Barnsley yesterday. I was actually a little surprised when I saw the number of scores for the Manchester United vs Barnsley match so I immediately judged that the team was very weak because actually Manchester United this season is still not too strong in the Premier League and still has to make more efforts in order to continue to develop.

The main reason for Anthony to take the penalty was probably because he doesn't get a lot done otherwise and ten Hag as well as the other players knew that there is nothing to lose. They already took the lead thanks to Rashford's goal and losing against Barnsley at home was essentially impossible. Those games serve as an experimental stage to give players like Anthony a feeling of triumph.

But nobody really thinks that this will turn him into a top striker out of a sudden. He is still not living up to expectations. They didn't even bring him on against Southampton as a substitute. That's saying a lot about his status within the team. I bet that they would have never allowed him to take that penalty against any serious opponent in any serious competition. They barely let him play this season and this was more of a test game than anything else.

Painful enough to know that Manchester United is playing against Barnsley in a week when the best clubs in the world play the Champions League.