Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL)

[snipie]

I LOL'd so hard while reading  https://twitter.com/EwanMacKenna/status/1238417399872917504

Obviously, the teams having a shit season want it to get void. One is fighting to get out of the relegation zone and the other one just keeps playing garbage football week in and week out.

It won’t happen, there are too many ramifications -

• Who gets relegated
• Who gets promoted

• Who gets into European football for next season CL & EL

The season will continue in a month or two, I think Euro 2020 will get moved to next year now.

You can’t stop Liverpool winning the title, you can’t pull Leicester out of likely CL qualification. You can’t say to Leeds & West Brom that they aren’t going to go up.

It’d be too much of a mess to cancel the season, I think it will get finished.

A delay for few weeks until the situation will be more clear.
European politicians said hard words lately about the number of potential infections and death. News popping about players being positive and even a president...
First week of April will answer many questions tho

[BitSat19]

def no public, but as owners and players test positive it even jeopardises the behind closed doors games.

Its looking a done deal. Problem is bigger than a bit of sport.

All major leagues in Europe postponed till first week of April and now we are stuck no one can move or have any activity for many days really suck this all.

[Naida_BR]

def no public, but as owners and players test positive it even jeopardises the behind closed doors games.

Its looking a done deal. Problem is bigger than a bit of sport.

All major leagues in Europe postponed till first week of April and now we are stuck no one can move or have any activity for many days really suck this all.

I wonder what is going to happen with all those matches that are postponed.
All matches for this fixture are postponed. The EURO 2020 is about to come. All those postponements are going to delay the start of EURO of even postpone it as well.

[Coyster]

I wonder what is going to happen with all those matches that are postponed.
All matches for this fixture are postponed. The EURO 2020 is about to come. All those postponements are going to delay the start of EURO of even postpone it as well.

The matches would definitely be played and the competitions would still hold, it will be delayed, time frames would change and matches would be rushed, but it's all worth it, the danger of playing right now is more, it could continue the spread of the virus rapidly. The games have been stopped and now the health workers can get about their duties, it's not going to be long before the virus goes away and we can resume proceedings once more.

My only concern is with how boring weekends would be depending on how long all this lasts, I wish everyone especially players and coaches who have tested positive to the virus quick recovery and hope to see them on the pitch soon.

[boltz]

There are more and more rumors that Premier League won't get canceled and we're gonna face a re-open of the championship in June but this will mess up EURO 2020 , will mess up players and will mess up other clubs from other countries.

I would close everything , make a play-off for top4 and a play-out for last 3.

[$crypto$]

I see a number of leagues in the world temporarily postponed and there is no match schedule this week until it continues until conditions really improve, for EURO 2020 I also do not know whether this title will be postponed too or will continue because there is no decision on EURO 2020 whereas in Europe this epidemic continues to spread.

Unfortunately this week there is no champions league, even though there are many major matches here.

[BitSat19]

I see a number of leagues in the world temporarily postponed and there is no match schedule this week until it continues until conditions really improve, for EURO 2020 I also do not know whether this title will be postponed too or will continue because there is no decision on EURO 2020 whereas in Europe this epidemic continues to spread.

Unfortunately this week there is no champions league, even though there are many major matches here.

As current situation is going I am feeling we will not able to have any match until April because many new cases appearing in many European and other countries even many players also have positive tests so no one going to take any risk expanding season is also not good option now just wait and watch what we will have for future.

[tomahawk9]

   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-8111151/Liverpool-set-given-Premier-League-title-season-ended-coronavirus.html

No football means time to talk and discuss some controversies..anyone up for this? I'll start:
Liverpool fans, what would you choose?

- "Winning" the title this way and have your rivals tell you, until the end of times, that it is a tainted title? (you know The Toffees and the Citizens are preparing the chants).

- Not "winning" it at all and accept the FA's decision of voiding this season (it could happen, you never know)? This one means all the records will go down the drain, but at least your rivals won't make fun of you for the next 100 years.

[tokeweed]

^  Liverpool practically has the title so personally I think there's no use chanting about it.  But will sure make fun about it if given the right reason to do so. 

And it would be stupid to scratch the season with over a third over and done with.  Just give them the trophy and move on imho.

[snipie]

^  Liverpool practically has the title so personally I think there's no use chanting about it.  But will sure make fun about it if given the right reason to do so. 

And it would be stupid to scratch the season with over a third over and done with.  Just give them the trophy and move on imho.

Man City will veto this 
Even with 0,01% "chance" to win the title, Man City could argue this and they have the right, however i don't think they will do it. Liverpool deserves the first place and everyone know this.
The problem is for 3rd, 4th and 5th spots especially. Leicester is not doing well lately, Chelsea +/-, Man United is rising, Wolves and Sheffield are hard numbers too.

[tokeweed]

^  What do you mean by veto?  If vote against the scrapping of the season then yup.  But if you're saying they'll be for the scrapping of the 2019/20 season...  Nope.  They'll gain absolutely nothing out of it.

[$crypto$]

I see a number of leagues in the world temporarily postponed and there is no match schedule this week until it continues until conditions really improve, for EURO 2020 I also do not know whether this title will be postponed too or will continue because there is no decision on EURO 2020 whereas in Europe this epidemic continues to spread.

Unfortunately this week there is no champions league, even though there are many major matches here.

As current situation is going I am feeling we will not able to have any match until April because many new cases appearing in many European and other countries even many players also have positive tests so no one going to take any risk expanding season is also not good option now just wait and watch what we will have for future.

Yes, at least we will wait until April to wait for the latest decision, for players who test positive for Covid-19, hopefully get well soon until April so that if the ball is not delayed again the positive players will recover with enough time, but the fans are also a little disappointed because there is no match for more than a month so they will wait for more membonsan right at home especially now in Europe the streets start to look lonely after I saw in some news maybe their activities will be hampered?

[swogerino]

I wanted to gamble this Saturday but I saw almost every game in Europe postponed so I ended up playing Ice Hockey.A few of the players of Leicester were positive and the first ever player was a Chelsea player in London.This virus Covid 19 has moved its headquarters from China to Europe and I think we should stay isolated and do our best following the rules.

[Daniel91]

I see a number of leagues in the world temporarily postponed and there is no match schedule this week until it continues until conditions really improve, for EURO 2020 I also do not know whether this title will be postponed too or will continue because there is no decision on EURO 2020 whereas in Europe this epidemic continues to spread.

Unfortunately this week there is no champions league, even though there are many major matches here.

As current situation is going I am feeling we will not able to have any match until April because many new cases appearing in many European and other countries even many players also have positive tests so no one going to take any risk expanding season is also not good option now just wait and watch what we will have for future.

Yes, at least we will wait until April to wait for the latest decision, for players who test positive for Covid-19, hopefully get well soon until April so that if the ball is not delayed again the positive players will recover with enough time, but the fans are also a little disappointed because there is no match for more than a month so they will wait for more membonsan right at home especially now in Europe the streets start to look lonely after I saw in some news maybe their activities will be hampered?

Personally, it seems to me that there is little chance of the championship ending at all, since we are far from the peak of the epidemic.
Some compromise decisions will have to be made such as the playoffs for key championship positions.
The only other realistic option might be to have the championship played over the summer when it was supposed to be the European Football Championship, which is almost certainly not going to take place.

[coinfinger]

There is no way this suspension is not coming back, it will definitely come back and we will definitely see sports this year once again. I am not talking about just premier league but all the leagues and all the sports coming back. It may take some time, we may even see sports going as late as June and maybe even early July as ending for some of them (like NBA playoffs and finals) but we will definitely see it back. The trouble will not be the season ones, the trouble is the summer ones.

The euro 2020's and Olympics and stuff like that which normally suppose to happen this summer may get postponed, or maybe just stay the way it is but just reach to a late august/ early September levels to make it work. I don't know how it will happen but I doubt there will be cancellation, just a postponing.

[Slow death]

it is a strange feeling to arrive at the weekend and not being able to watch a soccer game or not being able to do any analysis of any soccer game. I wonder how long will this situation continue? If we are in the month of Marco and from what I see the virus contamination is in its initial stage, probably in the next two months (that would be April and May) we will have a worse scenario  and I am not seeing in June things return to normal, will be that Will games return in August or September? because I doubt they will be back in June and July

[$crypto$]

I wanted to gamble this Saturday but I saw almost every game in Europe postponed so I ended up playing Ice Hockey.A few of the players of Leicester were positive and the first ever player was a Chelsea player in London.This virus Covid 19 has moved its headquarters from China to Europe and I think we should stay isolated and do our best following the rules.

It seems itchy if I don't gamble in a week and this week there really isn't a match so I think I should enjoy at home first to prevent from the Covid-19.
To be honest I don't know the Ice Hockey game but I will still wait for the match to start even though I thought that April will be reopened in that match.
It seems like all sports games will start in April, hopefully we will be fine until April.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

@Toma, Toke, snipie I think we are overthinking about this season title things. Liverpool is the season winner even if there are no matches we see in this EPL which is unlikely though. I am sure after few weeks everything will go back to normal.

If I am not wrong then Liverpool just need two more goals for having the title officially. So, we are good.

[Indymoney]

@Toma, Toke, snipie I think we are overthinking about this season title things. Liverpool is the season winner even if there are no matches we see in this EPL which is unlikely though. I am sure after few weeks everything will go back to normal.

If I am not wrong then Liverpool just need two more goals for having the title officially. So, we are good.

Most probably after 5 or 6 weeks all will be ok but problem is what will happen as we still have 9 or 10 matches in every league and next schedule is also very tight so how will they manage this all in hot summer days players will not happy with this all.

[Rikafip]

 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-8111151/Liverpool-set-given-Premier-League-title-season-ended-coronavirus.html

No football means time to talk and discuss some controversies..anyone up for this? I'll start:
Liverpool fans, what would you choose?

- "Winning" the title this way and have your rivals tell you, until the end of times, that it is a tainted title? (you know The Toffees and the Citizens are preparing the chants).

- Not "winning" it at all and accept the FA's decision of voiding this season (it could happen, you never know)? This one means all the records will go down the drain, but at least your rivals won't make fun of you for the next 100 years.

I am not some huge Liverpool fan, but I don't see any dillema here, as no one in their right mind would call it "tainted title" in case EPL ends and title goes to Liverpool. And who cares what some ignorant fans think anyway. I know I wouldn't. Everyone knows that Liverpool would win it anyway.

To be honest, i didn't see many people asking for season to be declared void. That delusional West Ham vice-chairman  Karren Brady doesn't count, as she wants that only because West ham could be relegated if season continues.