Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 762. (Read 806570 times)

Inter Milan looked quite determined not to allow Manchester city win them for the second time in the champions league after suffering defeat in Manchester city's hand when they met in the final. The defensive approach that inter Milan adopted was the best option they could have done. If they had come out to play the ball with Manchester city, they would have lost the game. I love what the coach did and it worked very well for them. Inter Milan and Manchester city will be looking up to their next opponents in their domestic league as they will want to put away the draw and focus on the next game. Manchester city face Arsenal in the league and it is not a small game for the reigning premier league champions. The earlier they forget about the champions league result and focus on Arsenal the better for them. They have to be sound psychologically if they want to get a win this coming weekend against Arsenal.

It must be admitted that Manchester City played inconsistently in the match and I also saw Haaland not getting many opportunities to break into Milan's goal.
This is like a repeat match of the Champions League final where Manchester City managed to beat Milan.
But Milan learned a lot from those mistakes so they managed to hold Manchester City to a draw at the Etihad Stadium.

Manchester City dominated the match but there were not many opportunities that could be utilized by the front players.
The midfield was less than optimal where they did not have many opportunities to produce measured passes for the attackers.
Pep Guardiola must evaluate these weaknesses because a draw is not a satisfactory result.

I still can’t believe Osimhen couldn’t find a permanent transfer to a top European club. All I can think is that he has really high wage demands or his agent is an asshole or something. He is too good to be in the Turkish league.

It is a win for Galatasaray though as they get a great player without paying a high transfer fee.

Chelsea were interested in Osimhen only because they had the opportunity to get rid of Lukaku, who Maresca thought was not right for them, but as we see in Napoli he scores in every game, so he is still a very high level forward. As for Osimhen, he will most likely try his best in Galatasaray, but this loan showed that he is not a sought after forward and maybe even after a successful season in Galatasaray he will also remain at the same level when no one will be interested in him for such a high price.

Obviously I'm not getting overexcited because it’s Barnsley. But they deserved a lot of appreciation for this. They have struggled against weak teams like this in recent years. So, it's nice to score 7 goals even against a second-tier team.

Also, it's ETH's biggest win. It's their fifth 7-goal win since Blackburn Rovers, over a decade ago.

I don’t have any doubts about Osimhen performance in the Turkish league, he is playing for one of the best team in that league so things will be much easier for him and also if you watch the game he played for them his impact was very impressive even as he was unable to score he made an assist and almost score a goal for them in his debut. I think we are going to see an impressive performance from him during his loan spell because he will want to impress other teams so they can come back for him and probably sign him on a permanent transfer.

None of Palmer, Jackson, Sancho and Nkunku are natural strikers so you don’t expect them to act as a striker, they might try their best but wont be as effective as a natural striker that’s why Chelsea were keen on landing Osimhen.

Well, this is a stats below to show that Victor Oshime has been better than Nicolas Jackson even with lesser games/ minutes played. Do you sti doubt that who Chelsea needs is a clinical finisher like Victor Oshime? Create 10 chances and he'll score 8, create 5 and he's most likely to score 3 or 4 goals. You can doubts no issues, that's on you, but we know what passion, dedication and energy into clubs he has played. There's nothing wrong with his move to Galatasaray, blames are on his agent for not securing a deal for him. Won't be the first time when European clubs try to do African players this dirty. A look back will educate you. ( History )


Jadon Sancho, Nicolas Jackson, Christopher Nkuku, and Cole Palmer are not proven strikers nor center forwards. Don't get it twisted.

I previously thought that the match against Intermilan would be a match that resulted in the first 3 points for Manchester City in the UCL if you look at their head-to-head meetings so far, but it turns out that Intermilan came with a which very qualified readiness to at least be able to get 1 point at the Etihad Stadium, throughout the match, Manchester City continued to be able to dominate but their attack often had to run aground in a solid Intermilan defense,  In addition to having a solid defense, of course Yann Sommer deserves to be named the best player in the match who managed to save his goal from conceding, his brilliant performance was able Manchester City attacker frustrate and lose sharpness in scoring, One of the fantastic saves by showing composure and experience of a goalkeeper, is when Yann Sommer was able to catch a close-range header from gundogan,and that is save made by him did not only make gundogan frustrated but Guardiola also did not seem to believe the gundogan header failed to turn into a goal.

I think Intermilan managed to break Manchester City's sharpness by turning off Haaland every move in the match and Francesco Acerbi was able to make Haaland helpless throughout the match, So this can be an example and reference for the English league team to be able to stop Manchester City, so far I has noticed that turning off Haaland movement actually made Manchester City lose sharpness like Acerbi (Intermilan) once did,  Saliba (Arsenal) and also Rudiger (Madrid) previously.

Bringing in new players again in their current condition? it is clearly full of risks because in the end even though there is a striker of Osimhen's caliber there is no guarantee that Chelsea will improve with its current performance considering we must be aware that it is not only the striker position that is problematic at Chelsea but almost in all positions.

Bringing in several players without control in the end this also makes the player bubble too big. We can take the example of how many goalkeepers Chelaea currently has and of course it also applies to strikers where there are Palmer and Jackson contracts which are actually too frivolous for a long-term contract for a big club.

Bringing in Osimehen in a hurry without any preparation and changing Chelaea for the better will not be able to guarantee Chelsea to develop and justei could be the wrong decision.

Inter Milan knows how dangerous Manchester City is in the attacking line, so they prepared their defense as well as possible in the match, the result was quite satisfying. Although they did not win, 1 point is very valuable especially when this is their away game. I think they are quite satisfied with the results obtained.
This match is one of the matches that we are looking forward to, because the teams playing are the teams that met in the previous Champions League final. There is a lot of speculation about Manchester City winning and so on. However, from the beginning I believed it was not impossible for Inter Milan to hold Manchester City to a draw at their home base, and it was proven by the results that occurred.

United fans who are there all pray for Manchester United that their team will perform well but if the mastermind of the team can't apply the right strategy to the team then the team will never perform well. Manchester United have performed very poorly in the last few seasons and last season they did not have a good position in the points table due to which they failed to qualify for the Champions League this season and they qualified for the Europa League. Given their performances in the Premier League this season, I don't expect them to do well this season. The current manager has been trying to manage the team with the same strategy for years.
When his strategy isn't working, he still doesn't see that he has changed strategy. 

If some important players can be brought to Manchester United then I think Manchester United's performance can change a bit.

Manchester City tried hard to score but Inter Milan showed how strong their defense is even from the many attacks made by Manchester City none of them resulted in goals even though I hoped there would be many goals in this match but yes even in the 2022/23 Champions League final when these two clubs met Manchester City also only scored 1 goal against Inter it was a very fierce match and I shouldn't have chosen the option of both teams scoring goals which ultimately made my parlay bet lost.

Manchester City played their game against Inter Milan but nothing positive came out of that encounter with both teams who played the champions league final back in 2023 with City winning by a goal to nil, with all the struggle last night it still ended up in a goalless draw. Was expecting something different but it seems like the Citizens we saw in 2023 UCL finals are not the same because Inter Milan was completely ready and they're matched for the English champions this time around.
Manchester City would be facing Arsenal on Sunday in the EPL fixture and we have seen how both teams are taking care of any team that comes their way with City having a clean record, 4 out of 4 wins this season no draw or loss while Arsenal have 3 wins and a draw but they're sitting close to each other on the log, 1st and 2nd respectively.
The goal machine of City (Haaland) have been perfect when it comes to scoring this season with him scoring more than the number of games played, 4 games and 9 goals, it seems no team can stop him from scoring this season but going against Arsenal on Sunday can the Gunners put an end to his scoring ability, game after game? Because he has been getting goals in every game since the beginning of the season and the Gunners have a solid defensive back line that are really doing well I must say, can they put a stop to Haaland's scoring form at least for a game?

Of course this will be a pretty tough match for Man United because in their last two meetings Man United could not win, and in the last match at Sehulrst Park they conceded 4-0 from Palace, of course this will be an interesting match how. Man United certainly does not want to lose points again as well as Palace but talking about Man United is currently in good form they have managed to break through the opponent's goal a lot in the previous match, but Palace is also not an easy opponent they are also very solid and they are also very good at taking advantage of few opportunities, and I think this match will be difficult to predict even though Man United is very superior.

Palace in the last five matches at Palace Man United's home ground have only managed to win once and draw twice and win twice for Palace, and I think Eric must have spent a lot of money to fill his head for this meeting because this match for Man United fans is important in maintaining the stability of their victory so as not to lag too far behind other teams, there is great hope for Man United to be able to win this match but I think Palace also needs their victory and I think this match will be a bit hot for this week and I am on Man United's side, and for them the players must work hard for this match to get a winning result to bring home three points.

Manchester City strong attack could not beat Inter Milan defense so game ended in draw. Inter Milan played very well making it hard for Manchester City to score. This result is a setback for Manchester City but they can improve and do better next time.
Their next Champions League game is against Slovan and this is great chance for them to win convincingly scoring two or more goals. With their talented players and determination Manchester City will keep moving forward. They will learn from this draw and come up with new strategies to succeed in future.

It is true what you said, the attack that had been built by Manchester City could not be blocked by the Inter Milan goalkeeper, even during the extra time in the second half Manchester City looked hasty in building their attack because they really wanted to create a goal but I think they couldn't do it until the match ended in a draw. Inter Milan is not an easy team to beat, that's why Man City had difficulty scoring goals because the opponents they faced had quite good performance too.
In addition, I think Man City is still able to perform better in the future because this is still the beginning of the match, besides that with their next Champions match which will face Slovan, I think they can excel and beat their opponent by a score of two goals or more.

The problems experienced by Manchester United have made them in poor performance, even bad. Now it is no longer Manchester United's glory because they have not shown their best game in the EPL. The problems that occur are not entirely directed at Ten Hag, because of course he has done his best for his team, it's just that there may be a mismatch here.
Maybe previously Ten Hag hoped for Antony to be able to help his team's performance to be better, but unfortunately the reality was reversed because he could not perform well as you said, and I think it was not because of the problem of his adaptation time but maybe because he was the only one who was not suitable to be in this team. Besides that I think they are not ready enough to compete with other big teams in the EPL like in this one video CFC_Janty

I agree with you, there are several reasons why they haven't got the players they want, the first is because their performance is inconsistent and then Chelsea no longer want to spend a lot of money like in the last transfer window because it is not as expected so they are more careful if they want to bring in expensive players, Osimhen is the right example when Chelsea need players but they don't want to spend a lot of money so there is no agreement. I think next season Chelsea will release some unproductive players and they realize that money cannot change the club in an instant it means there are other factors needed.

In this 4th week, Chelsea is still in the process of finding its good performance, from 4 matches Chelsea lost 5 points which puts them in 8th position but slowly they seem to be getting better since the first defeat, Chelsea has won twice and draw once. In the next match Chelsea will play away against West Ham, we know West Ham's performance is not better than Chelsea so will Chelsea be able to take advantage of this moment?

I do nothing that Manchester United will have much difficulty winning Crystal Palace in their next meeting. I say you always say, what is you play does not necessarily translate into winning. What gives you the winning you desire is the perception of your opponent against you. If you lose confidence and your opponent feel that they can be able to beat you l, you will surely have problem in the match. But if you have beaten some other persons and your opponents approach you with some iota of fear, you will have an advantage to win that match.

This is exactly the situation of Manchester United. Because they have won against Southampton and also won against Barnsley, irrespective that those two clubs are not big clubs. They have gathered some kind of confidence and then induced fear in their opponent which will give them an edge to win the match against Crystal Palace.

Out of the four English Premier League clubs that qualified to play in the UEFA Champions League competition this season, three have played their first games while Arsenal who happens to be the remaining team to kick off their European campaign will play on Thursday night.
Liverpool and Aston Villa played away but were able to grab convincing wins in their games while Manchester City couldn't find the back of the net despite playing at home against Italian Serie A champions Inter Milan. So far, i think it'll be very difficult to predict who's gonna win the do better among them but I have no doubt that Pep Guardiola's Manchester City will go far in the competition.