Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL)

[hilariousetc]

There is a scheme for premier league of this season, From talksport.com news, all premier league clubs will be cutting the time whistle to 75 minutes and will be counted as full season in the end. Source

If this true, Liverpool still has a chance to be a champion for this season. This is a league positions based on Daily mail researcher:

There isn't a scheme to do that. Read the article. It's just the usual crap article from TalkSport showing you how the league table would be if they went with the results from games if they finished at 75 minutes of play. Even if the restarted games were shortened - I'm not sure what for - they wouldn't be re-scoring the previously played games.

It was 1 level of separation away from me. I don't want  to dox my friend to prove anything. If he said his personal friend has been called back to training? I believe it.

I know him well in RL and he is famous in his own right in certain circles again I don't want to dox either of us.

It was not just some speculation. But thanks for my new title.

But players being called back to training doesn't mean the Premier League is going to restart, and especially from a player in the Championship who you may or may not know. Could just be a precautionary measure. The gov hasn't even given permission for a go ahead but teams would be wise to start preparing just in case that changes (assuming it's safe for them to start training).

There is a scheme for premier league of this season, From talksport.com news, all premier league clubs will be cutting the time whistle to 75 minutes and will be counted as full season in the end. Source

Better to play 30 minutes x 2 
Personally I don't see what's the point of doing so? Infection risk will occur whether you played 5 minutes or 90 minutes. The only thing that i think could be beneficial is the time of recuperation between games will be less in case of 60 or 75 minutes game / 2 games per week!

It doesn't make any sense to me either and just seems like nonsense from what people are speculating online what changes might happen, but shortening the games seems nonsensical to me. Either play the full matches or not at all.

[$crypto$]

It seems that the players have returned to England, meaning that the match will start soon in the near future some of the big EPL teams also do the same where players must return to their respective teams.
It will be more exciting in June where European matches will start EPL, LaLiga and Bundesliga are the most fans of course I want to see the Liverpool and Manchester city matches again.

Not necessarily. They're being told to come home so that they can be ready if things do restart, but nothing is guranteed. The government can still shut this down in an instant, but it's obvious everyone is doing everything they can to get football started asap which is easier said than done. Apparently the Bundesliga is starting in two weeks so I think that will be a good tester to see if anything goes wrong or they can succesfully play football in these times.

If testing in the Bundesliga matches goes normally there are no obstacles then I think the other leagues will also apply the same rules because they want everything to be as normal as before.

But I think for the players to have prepared everything to return to their respective teams so that whatever the government's decision later then it must be obeyed.

[mu_enrico]

Why did you guys want to shorten the match? What's the purpose? The article was only about a hypothetical thing, about what it looks like if the games were only run for 75 mins.

I think EPL can resume ASAP if they play the game without supporters, even better if they broadcast it for free to the world as a charity.

[Juggy777]

There is a scheme for premier league of this season, From talksport.com news, all premier league clubs will be cutting the time whistle to 75 minutes and will be counted as full season in the end. Source

If this true, Liverpool still has a chance to be a champion for this season. This is a league positions based on Daily mail researcher:

There isn't a scheme to do that. Read the article. It's just the usual crap article from TalkSport showing you how the league table would be if they went with the results from games if they finished at 75 minutes of play. Even if the restarted games were shortened - I'm not sure what for - they wouldn't be re-scoring the previously played games.

It was 1 level of separation away from me. I don't want  to dox my friend to prove anything. If he said his personal friend has been called back to training? I believe it.

I know him well in RL and he is famous in his own right in certain circles again I don't want to dox either of us.

It was not just some speculation. But thanks for my new title.

But players being called back to training doesn't mean the Premier League is going to restart, and especially from a player in the Championship who you may or may not know. Could just be a precautionary measure. The gov hasn't even given permission for a go ahead but teams would be wise to start preparing just in case that changes (assuming it's safe for them to start training).

There is a scheme for premier league of this season, From talksport.com news, all premier league clubs will be cutting the time whistle to 75 minutes and will be counted as full season in the end. Source

Better to play 30 minutes x 2 
Personally I don't see what's the point of doing so? Infection risk will occur whether you played 5 minutes or 90 minutes. The only thing that i think could be beneficial is the time of recuperation between games will be less in case of 60 or 75 minutes game / 2 games per week!

It doesn't make any sense to me either and just seems like nonsense from what people are speculating online what changes might happen, but shortening the games seems nonsensical to me. Either play the full matches or not at all.

@hilariousetc it seems that talksport has got this information completely wrong, as there’s no way that other teams would agree to such a cut off time to decide the new table, as it could impact thier places in the champions league and Europa League.

Furthermore it’s quite possible that we may not even see the Premier League resume their season again as the clubs are failing to agree to play on neutral grounds, and it’ll take lots of efforts from the organisers to get all the clubs on board and restart this season.

If this wasn’t bad enough now the clubs are alleging that Klopp will play kids against them once Liverpool wins the Premier League title, and that’s why they want the league canceled which is a ridiculous excuse in my opinion.

Jurgen Klopp caused a storm in February by fielding the Reds’ youth team in a 1-0 FA Cup replay win over Shrewsbury.

Now some top-flight rivals are arguing he will repeat the trick as soon as his runaway leaders bag the title — and they claim that is a reason to stop Project Restart.

Sources:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-8292683/Agree-neutral-grounds-season-cancelled-warns-LMA-chief-Richard-Bevan.html

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/11575047/liverpool-premier-league-clubs-project-restart-play-kids-fear/

[arallmuus]

Why did you guys want to shorten the match? What's the purpose? The article was only about a hypothetical thing, about what it looks like if the games were only run for 75 mins.

I think EPL can resume ASAP if they play the game without supporters, even better if they broadcast it for free to the world as a charity.

If they want to continue the league and end it as scheduled that means they need to rush and there are still alot of matches. Players could be playing 2 or 3 matches per week and that will drain their stamina. Therefore shortening it into 30 minutes for each half with 15 minutes breaks is reasonable.

Also dont forget that the whole world especially UK is still on pandemic . Everyone that is tired will have lower immune system which could be dangerous for their players as well

This could be all just assumption but lets wait for the official news regarding the league

[Globb0]

and especially from a player in the Championship who you may or may not know.

Man you are like a bulldog with a wasp. I don't know the player I didn't say I did.

I said I know his personal friend, and he told me they were called back to training and told matches will probably commence behind closed doors. I also said things may change.

Now it seems they are being called back to train. ORLY

[FanEagle]

Bundesliga is still some time away plus you need like two weeks to see if everyone is still ok, by that time it could be basically decided to start back but you can't just decide to start tomorrow, you need to give a heads up as well, so it will take some time. I think the earliest we could wait for EPL to come back will be late June or early July, that way we could basically just have the games but also everyone will be ready before they start back.

Honestly football is easy to come back, they already play like 50 games at most and they played the most already, probably left like 10-12 games at most to finish everything, with 3 games a week they could be done in a month very easily. I am more afraid of NBA right now, 20 games plus playoffs is a lot harder to come back to compared to premier league.

[jayce]

Why did you guys want to shorten the match? What's the purpose? The article was only about a hypothetical thing, about what it looks like if the games were only run for 75 mins.

I think EPL can resume ASAP if they play the game without supporters, even better if they broadcast it for free to the world as a charity.

Premier League teams are losing their money during pandemic which they have to pay their players and staffs even though no match played and lose millions in their broadcast deal. Broadcasting the matches for free is pointless.

[$crypto$]

Why did you guys want to shorten the match? What's the purpose? The article was only about a hypothetical thing, about what it looks like if the games were only run for 75 mins.

I think EPL can resume ASAP if they play the game without supporters, even better if they broadcast it for free to the world as a charity.

Premier League teams are losing their money during pandemic which they have to pay their players and staffs even though no match played and lose millions in their broadcast deal. Broadcasting the matches for free is pointless.

All European leagues will definitely suffer losses because this pandemic is not just EPL, with the game restarting it will certainly make it better because their finances will be running again but I think the team does not need to worry about the important salary the game will start again in time near this.

There is a lot of news about time cuts during matches I don't think that will happen because football matches will always play for 90 minutes it's a more normal time.

[tokeweed]

Why did you guys want to shorten the match? What's the purpose? The article was only about a hypothetical thing, about what it looks like if the games were only run for 75 mins.

I think EPL can resume ASAP if they play the game without supporters, even better if they broadcast it for free to the world as a charity.

They won't broadcast for free as some sort of charity imo.  Obv money is the issue here, that's why the clubs and the broadcasters seem to be pushing for a restart even if the best thing to do is just finish the season as is given the circumstances.

[Coyster]

There is a lot of news about time cuts during matches I don't think that will happen because football matches will always play for 90 minutes it's a more normal time.

But it's also normal that at this time of the year(May)the league should be on and on the brink of finishing, the champions league and FA cup should be in their semi final stage I think so, but they are not, there is no football at the moment and that means that right now things aren't normal. A cut in the normal ninety minutes duration is something we haven't witnessed before, but if the FA include it in their precautionary measures, then I would not be surprised.

[Avirunes]

There is a lot of news about time cuts during matches I don't think that will happen because football matches will always play for 90 minutes it's a more normal time.

It's only news and not an official one. Well it could happen as I have seen some leagues going on 70-80 mins recently (can't recall now) but given the situation they are in I think they could do so since they want to conclude the season quickly as possible but I think that is the last thing that would want. 90 minutes a game is perfect .

If it were me I would rather opt for substitutions to be increased over decrease in game time.

[arallmuus]

There is a lot of news about time cuts during matches I don't think that will happen because football matches will always play for 90 minutes it's a more normal time.

It's only news and not an official one. Well it could happen as I have seen some leagues going on 70-80 mins recently (can't recall now) but given the situation they are in I think they could do so since they want to conclude the season quickly as possible but I think that is the last thing that would want. 90 minutes a game is perfect .

If it were me I would rather opt for substitutions to be increased over decrease in game time.

Some news are either based on assumptions or some insider information. If it is based on some insider information then maybe it could be some consideration by the top brass right now. Until then, we could only wait for the official news regarding that

However if you look into the consideration that the league will be played while the country is still in pandemic then it is make sense to not let the player too tired. Even if they keep on substituting their players then at some point , the substitute player might not be able to pace at the same rate with main player

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There is a lot of news about time cuts during matches I don't think that will happen because football matches will always play for 90 minutes it's a more normal time.

It's only news and not an official one. Well it could happen as I have seen some leagues going on 70-80 mins recently (can't recall now) but given the situation they are in I think they could do so since they want to conclude the season quickly as possible but I think that is the last thing that would want. 90 minutes a game is perfect .

If it were me I would rather opt for substitutions to be increased over decrease in game time.

It's just that the news will not completely occur, but it might be because this is an emergency situation where the player shouldn't be long in the field for fear of unwanted things like being infected.

But I'm sure the players will feel less satisfied if they play with 70-80 minutes, and the team also if they experience defeat then that time feels less than the maximum.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

A cut in the normal ninety minutes duration is something we haven't witnessed before, but if the FA include it in their precautionary measures, then I would not be surprised.

Precautionary how? If they're trying to prevent the players from getting in contact with the virus, there are better measure then this, so if a player has been playing for 70/80mins what's there that will be contacted in the remaining 20-10mins to complete the usual 90mins of played thay can't be contacted in the initial 70/80mins they played?.

Preferable, I'll say they should make all games to start very early since most part of the world are on lockdown and there isn't any much work ongoing meaning there's enough free time. Or playing all games in the afternoon hours isn't such a bad idea to prevent movement at night hours.

[ShowOff]

It's just that the news will not completely occur, but it might be because this is an emergency situation where the player shouldn't be long in the field for fear of unwanted things like being infected.

I dont think the news can be trusted and credible with the assumption that every player who is played during a match is the one who is really healthy and not infected. Even before the match starts, the players must have a health test when they undergo training and it will be done routinely by each club.

Although prevention efforts will be done as well as possible, but reducing playing time for the players is not a good decision and can also cause problems that are not optimal team performance.

[Daniel91]

Newcastle still not getting new owners from Saudi Arabia but they are already seriously preparing for the new season.
They have in mind to bring in a dozen new players and create a mega-team that will attack the top of the league.
They seem to be very close to bringing in a Benfica goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos.
It is a very good goalkeeper who has conceded only 14 goals in the Championship.
Newcastle are likely to pay him £60m.
Source: https://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/newcastle-dovodi-novog-golmana-za-60-milijuna-eura/2181752.aspx

[casperBGD]

Newcastle still not getting new owners from Saudi Arabia but they are already seriously preparing for the new season.
They have in mind to bring in a dozen new players and create a mega-team that will attack the top of the league.
They seem to be very close to bringing in a Benfica goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos.
It is a very good goalkeeper who has conceded only 14 goals in the Championship.
Newcastle are likely to pay him £60m.
Source: https://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/newcastle-dovodi-novog-golmana-za-60-milijuna-eura/2181752.aspx

it is good to know that another club in EPL will be able to battle for the championship, can not forget Newcastle from Shearer era, it was a great team to watch, hope that they will be the same again, although would like to see that without Saudian money, but what the heck, will be interesting, nevertheless

[Globb0]

Newcastle still not getting new owners from Saudi Arabia but they are already seriously preparing for the new season.
They have in mind to bring in a dozen new players and create a mega-team that will attack the top of the league.
They seem to be very close to bringing in a Benfica goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos.
It is a very good goalkeeper who has conceded only 14 goals in the Championship.
Newcastle are likely to pay him £60m.
Source: https://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/newcastle-dovodi-novog-golmana-za-60-milijuna-eura/2181752.aspx

Where are they gonna get the money from for that? all the clubs are going broke. I expect the transfer market to be a mess when it gets back going, unless its all just on paper dollars.

[arallmuus]

Newcastle still not getting new owners from Saudi Arabia but they are already seriously preparing for the new season.
They have in mind to bring in a dozen new players and create a mega-team that will attack the top of the league.
They seem to be very close to bringing in a Benfica goalkeeper Odysseas Vlachodimos.
It is a very good goalkeeper who has conceded only 14 goals in the Championship.
Newcastle are likely to pay him £60m.
Source: https://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/newcastle-dovodi-novog-golmana-za-60-milijuna-eura/2181752.aspx

Where are they gonna get the money from for that? all the clubs are going broke. I expect the transfer market to be a mess when it gets back going,

The whole world is in a mess right now because of the pandemic so things could be not as expected as it was. Some mediocre team might not be signing many player that they were expecting to sign because of this

unless its all just on paper dollars.

Paper dollars (?) , Nah I dont think some player will be accepting that kind of term because it really puts them in disadvantage if suddenly something bad happened to the club and they really got no further investor