Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL)

[JeromeTash]

next game:

Manchester city - West Ham

Is a good chance of Manchester city to win

Though there is not a lot of motive now except fight for a second place, I think they will win the upcoming match. Manchester City usually have a tendency of bouncing back after a defeat with also lots of goals.
However,  you have to put it in mind that the champion's league is around the corner and Pep might start doing some rotations

[Furious 7]

I think that Manchester City has lost motivation totally for the Premier League and if they continue in this way they will risk to fall even out of the rankings that go into Champions League.They need to wake up and start applying the football they are used too.

Did you see the face of Pep Guardiola in the interview that he gave after the game? clearly his face was one of shock and disappointment. while Jose mourinho face in the interview he gave after the game clearly showed that he was very happy with the result.

Pep Guardiola is definitely disappointed the game yesterday because he did not score even one goal there, with the loss of players from Mancity this certainly makes them lack concentration and chaos in his game, really it's a surprise I don't think this match will end like this.

This needs to be changed again after seeing a game like this, my Pep will change the total.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

I think that Manchester City has lost motivation totally for the Premier League and if they continue in this way they will risk to fall even out of the rankings that go into Champions League.They need to wake up and start applying the football they are used too.

This isn't about Manchester city Instead it's Pep's fourth season syndrome. If you watched him coach Barcelona, you would had observed Barcelona suffer same fate as Manchester city in their fourth season playing under the management of pep just as Manchester city are currently suffering. That season Barcelona also finished second and got knocked out of the champions league, although won just one domestic title, same thing will happen to city this season.

The players aren't responding to his tactics and it's time to end it as a city manager before it becomes more ugly. Manchester city are already losing the respect other clubs had for them rapidly and sooner or later they'll be degraded to the level of their rival Manchester United. The only thing that can save Pep is, if he was to win the champions league which is unlikely to happen.

[mu_enrico]

Congratulations to Liverpool and their loyal fans. Sad day for Pep, especially after Mourinho beat him

Damn it. I actually wanted to lower my trolling rate. But as the special one said, "The I sink on the cake," tell us the story how his team shuts Man City down and deservedly won the match.

In addition to CryptopreneurBrainboss's opinion, IMO, there are no unbeaten tactics. Managers must analyze and adapt to the opposition. Pep is not good at this as he only knows tiki-taka.

[Naida_BR]

Congratulations to Liverpool and their loyal fans. Sad day for Pep, especially after Mourinho beat him

Damn it. I actually wanted to lower my trolling rate. But as the special one said, "The I sink on the cake," tell us the story how his team shuts Man City down and deservedly won the match.

In addition to CryptopreneurBrainboss's opinion, IMO, there are no unbeaten tactics. Managers must analyze and adapt to the opposition. Pep is not good at this as he only knows tiki-taka.

Mourinho gave a huge gift to Klopp.
Okay, Klopp got this championship by his own - he built this huge point gap by himself but none expected that Mourinho's Tottenham is going to get the 3 points from Man City.

[leea-1334]

I think that Manchester City has lost motivation totally for the Premier League and if they continue in this way they will risk to fall even out of the rankings that go into Champions League.They need to wake up and start applying the football they are used too.

It is not the motivation only,,, it is the discipline to keep things going. The red card from Zivchenko and the should be red card from Sterling showed that clearly for all that they do not have the mentality to keep going when they are in a bad rut. Now the test is for Liverpool to prevent this same mentality next season when they go again.

So proud of my team. Now 4th place is not far away!

[LFC_Bitcoin]

I think that Manchester City has lost motivation totally for the Premier League and if they continue in this way they will risk to fall even out of the rankings that go into Champions League.They need to wake up and start applying the football they are used too.

The way they’re playing at the moment, I think Real Madrid will destroy them in the last 16 of the CL.

[Indymoney]

I think that Manchester City has lost motivation totally for the Premier League and if they continue in this way they will risk to fall even out of the rankings that go into Champions League.They need to wake up and start applying the football they are used too.

The way they’re playing at the moment, I think Real Madrid will destroy them in the last 16 of the CL.

Now I am also feeling same as in last few matches they are really aweful they need to work on this as they have very few days on other hand Real Madrid is doing very good job as they beat Atletico two time and on top of La Liga they can give surprise to City as now they are able to handle big matches.

[worle1bm]

I think that Manchester City has lost motivation totally for the Premier League and if they continue in this way they will risk to fall even out of the rankings that go into Champions League.They need to wake up and start applying the football they are used too.

The way they’re playing at the moment, I think Real Madrid will destroy them in the last 16 of the CL.

Now I am also feeling same as in last few matches they are really aweful they need to work on this as they have very few days on other hand Real Madrid is doing very good job as they beat Atletico two time and on top of La Liga they can give surprise to City as now they are able to handle big matches.

It is too soon to say anything. Pep is not a young boy, he is one of the best manager world have ever seen. The team may have lost their way in home league but Champions League is entirely different. Take the example of Liverpool. The team has beaten every opponent in Premier League but was unable to beat Napoli in either of the clash. There are better teams in England than Napoli but the pressure and game-style of Champions League is entirely different and Liverpool didn't have answer for Napoli's game-play.

Another thing going in Manchester City's way is the schedule of Round of 16. They will play reverse leg at home. Stats say that team playing reverse leg at home has more chance of winning.

[hd49728]

It is too soon to say anything. Pep is not a young boy, he is one of the best manager world have ever seen. The team may have lost their way in home league but Champions League is entirely different.

Pep has one of the worst season since the day he became a manager and built up his reputation with Barcelona. I thought Pep has been in the worst period in his career. I won't go to surprised if Pep will get sacked at the end of this season.

[tomahawk9]

Reminder that Liverpool will play tonight against Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup. Klopp might field a weak team (like the one who lost to Aston Villa 5-0)..not sure why though since: 1) Liverpool doesn't have any fixtures next weekend. 2) The next important game will be on 18th agaist Atletico Madrid so, the squad could have like two weeks to rest after this game.

No wonder Liverpool ML is currently @2.01 odds. I can't imagine Liverpool's U23 losing to a 3rd division team, that would be pretty embarrasing, tbh..it could mean no chance of winning the treble...I guess Klopp prioritizes getting a bigger lead in the league table over the possibility of winning the treble..weird, isn't it?

[worle1bm]

It is too soon to say anything. Pep is not a young boy, he is one of the best manager world have ever seen. The team may have lost their way in home league but Champions League is entirely different.

Pep has one of the worst season since the day he became a manager and built up his reputation with Barcelona. I thought Pep has been in the worst period in his career. I won't go to surprised if Pep will get sacked at the end of this season.

Among all coaches in the world, Pep has spent most money in transfer window for one team in last decade. He had the vision for Manchester City and still trying to build the team of his dream. It will be wrong to fire him after the end of this season because his team is still under development and it may take two more years for squad to fully grow.
However, being a Barca fan I would love to see this happening. I am sure that if Pep is sacked from Manchester, his next stop will be Barcelona and I can't wait to see Messi and him playing together again.

[tokeweed]

Reminder that Liverpool will play tonight against Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup. Klopp might field a weak team (like the one who lost to Aston Villa 5-0)..not sure why though since: 1) Liverpool doesn't have any fixtures next weekend. 2) The next important game will be on 18th agaist Atletico Madrid so, the squad could have like two weeks to rest after this game.

No wonder Liverpool ML is currently @2.01 odds. I can't imagine Liverpool's U23 losing to a 3rd division team, that would be pretty embarrasing, tbh..it could mean no chance of winning the treble...I guess Klopp prioritizes getting a bigger lead in the league table over the possibility of winning the treble..weird, isn't it?

And Klopp can't risk getting more injuries (esp. vs a club that could try playing their hearts out) with the CL KO fixtures coming in a couple of weeks.

It's not worth it.

[DeathAngel]

Shrewsbury will probably win tonight & set up a 1/4 final with Chelsea. Would be huge for a small clubs finances if they can. I don’t think Klopp will care much though.

[$crypto$]

Shrewsbury will probably win tonight & set up a 1/4 final with Chelsea. Would be huge for a small clubs finances if they can. I don’t think Klopp will care much though.

It will play in the Anfiled field and of course only 2 will play but in a pretty good performance after yesterday's match too, is it possible that Shrewsbury was able to beat him tonight? is it possible?
Although Klopp did not care about it, they would still pursue it to get the trophy.

[SquallLeonhart]

Honestly, even without this they were like 19 points ahead of the closest team, with just 22 point difference nowadays, it feels like the gift was for Leicester City and not for Liverpool, at least now Leicester literally has a chance to be second when its all said and done instead of third place and that would really be the end of Peps time in City for sure since after all that money spent, they can't just accept Pep to finish at third and still keep him there.

I don't know how many managers will be available in the off season but managers change teams a lot easier than players so I assume City could just pay a good manager ton of money to convince them. I am also happy for Mourinho because he didn't deserved to be an unemployed coach, dude is better than that.

[Furious 7]

It is too soon to say anything. Pep is not a young boy, he is one of the best manager world have ever seen. The team may have lost their way in home league but Champions League is entirely different.

Pep has one of the worst season since the day he became a manager and built up his reputation with Barcelona. I thought Pep has been in the worst period in his career. I won't go to surprised if Pep will get sacked at the end of this season.

If there were mistakes like yesterday again it might be a dismissal for Pep, but if it is able to restore Mancity to how it used to be then it can be maintained.
Say this season Mancity will not be the champion because it differs so much from Liverpool then in the next season if Pep still has a chance at Mancity then he must be able to change and apply the game of Tiki-taka like the time when he was coaching Barcelona.

[Coyster]

If there were mistakes like yesterday again it might be a dismissal for Pep,

I don't think pep can be fired this season, no matter where city ends up in the EPL table, his performances with city in the last two EPL seasons when they were champions twice in a row should grant him that immunity. And I also don't think city will go totally trophyless, they are already in the carabao cup final against Aston Villa, still also in the fa cup and UCL, so there could be some consolation and maybe even more.

[Theb]

I don't think pep can be fired this season, no matter where city ends up in the EPL table, his performances with city in the last two EPL seasons when they were champions twice in a row should grant him that immunity. And I also don't think city will go totally trophyless, they are already in the carabao cup final against Aston Villa, still also in the fa cup and UCL, so there could be some consolation and maybe even more.

That's not certain for sure, a lot of things can happen with still a lot of games left and any manager's position is uncertain especially when their own fans call their head. Just like what happened to Maurizio Sarri when Chelsea had the best sacking experience for him pretending that he was just transferring to Juventus as their manager, but the truth is they really don't want him anymore. But considering this is Man City and their history of testing out their managers for a long time, I don't think that they will be sacking Pep Guardiola this season. They have one of the best managers out there and they won't just part ways with a proven Champions League veteran to their competition.

[BitSat19]

If there were mistakes like yesterday again it might be a dismissal for Pep,

I don't think pep can be fired this season, no matter where city ends up in the EPL table, his performances with city in the last two EPL seasons when they were champions twice in a row should grant him that immunity. And I also don't think city will go totally trophyless, they are already in the carabao cup final against Aston Villa, still also in the fa cup and UCL, so there could be some consolation and maybe even more.

Right now City is very good in two cups Cardoba Cup and FA CUP these two in their pocket and for Champions League they have fairly outsider chance but not in frame for me but this could be also good for them as they will go with 2 domestic cups have chance to be on second or third position may be Pepe will be here for next one more season and he regroup his team for next years title.