Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL)

[AakZaki]

Resuming individual trainings is good as a new normality for football clubs but to resume the league, clubs must have group trainings for tactics problems. I hope that Premier League will move to next step next one or 2 weeks, then the league will be able to resume for its rest matches in the first half of June.

The health protocol for group trainings and solutions for infected players or related clubs of infected players will be very important.

Generally, the another good news is daily death tolls in each European nations declined significantly, it is a good thing to think of for other social activities, reopen the economy and sport events.

There seems to be some surprising new news when the Premier League has just announced an individual training session, but at that session, all clubs conduct tests on each player and staff and in the end there are six new positive Covid-19 cases.

Of course, this is a new disaster for the English Premier League, plans to continue the League threatened to be postponed or even canceled, the article after a mass inspection of 748 people consisting of players and staff, there are six positive cases of Cov-19. it has also been confirmed by the Premier League.

reference: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11991043/coronavirus-premier-league-receives-six-positive-tests

[snipie]

PL carried out COVID-19 tests recently and there were 6 more cases founds from three clubs. There weren't any further specific details provided. (Source: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/19/premier-league-reveals-six-positive-coronavirus-tests-across-three-clubs)

By not revealing which clubs these players who test positive from, seems FA still trying hard to bring back the league. Though Bundesliga still restarting the league when there are 10 positive tests reported.

Yeah, 6 players is a tiny % of all players & staff in the PL, it’s simple to just quarantine them for a week or two. This won’t affect anything, the season will still restart.

Indeed, such number isn't significant and shouldn't be a problem or an excuse to not resume the EPL. The number of infected medics in certain centers is higher and no one is talking about shutting down it. 2 weeks from now and they should be healed, by that time it is still early for games resume!

[Harkorede]

PL carried out COVID-19 tests recently and there were 6 more cases founds from three clubs. There weren't any further specific details provided. (Source: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/19/premier-league-reveals-six-positive-coronavirus-tests-across-three-clubs)

By not revealing which clubs these players who test positive from, seems FA still trying hard to bring back the league. Though Bundesliga still restarting the league when there are 10 positive tests reported.

Yeah, 6 players is a tiny % of all players & staff in the PL, it’s simple to just quarantine them for a week or two. This won’t affect anything, the season will still restart.

I think not revealing the players could be due to other privacy reasons, but It comes confirms their move to get the league underway as soon as possible

There are positive news as well, the premier league clubs have reportedly according to many sources ¹ resumed training today, just as planned and if the next series of tests to be carried out doesn't bring out relevant amount of new cases, then a June restart is a possibility.

1. https://www.goal.com/en/news/video-football-premier-league-fergies-football-legacy/dy0mu9jusavi1es89bhnx9svp

[LFC_Bitcoin]

The soon to be champions are back training -

https://twitter.com/lfc/status/1263109216484626433?s=21

[hilariousetc]

Lots of teams have started training again now including Liverpool and Man U:
https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11991390/liverpool-and-manchester-united-resume-group-training-for-premier-league-restart

PL carried out COVID-19 tests recently and there were 6 more cases founds from three clubs. There weren't any further specific details provided. (Source: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/19/premier-league-reveals-six-positive-coronavirus-tests-across-three-clubs)

By not revealing which clubs these players who test positive from, seems FA still trying hard to bring back the league. Though Bundesliga still restarting the league when there are 10 positive tests reported.

It was Watford and Burnley who had players/staff that tested positive:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52726278

Resuming individual trainings is good as a new normality for football clubs but to resume the league, clubs must have group trainings for tactics problems. I hope that Premier League will move to next step next one or 2 weeks, then the league will be able to resume for its rest matches in the first half of June.

The health protocol for group trainings and solutions for infected players or related clubs of infected players will be very important.

Generally, the another good news is daily death tolls in each European nations declined significantly, it is a good thing to think of for other social activities, reopen the economy and sport events.

There seems to be some surprising new news when the Premier League has just announced an individual training session, but at that session, all clubs conduct tests on each player and staff and in the end there are six new positive Covid-19 cases.

Of course, this is a new disaster for the English Premier League, plans to continue the League threatened to be postponed or even canceled, the article after a mass inspection of 748 people consisting of players and staff, there are six positive cases of Cov-19. it has also been confirmed by the Premier League.

reference: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11991043/coronavirus-premier-league-receives-six-positive-tests

Why would they postpone or cancel the league because of six positive tests? That's ridiculous. Six is a tiny number. Do you expect the entire league to be zero? They do the tests so they can isolate the players. As far as I'm aware they were all asymptomatic as well.

[jayce]

Yeah, 6 players is a tiny % of all players & staff in the PL, it’s simple to just quarantine them for a week or two. This won’t affect anything, the season will still restart.

Well since it's a virus, one infected man might infect dozens of people. Btw, I read on somewhere saying people who recovered from covid-19 would have their lung function reduced by 20-30%. Not sure if that's true since there is no news about covid-19 recovered players like Hudson-Odoi and Dybala get that issue.

It was Watford and Burnley who had players/staff that tested positive:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52726278

Thanks, I saw the news too. Since the resuming league plan is still undecided, perhaps more than 2 weeks from now, hope those who get infected will be recovered asap.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Yeah, 6 players is a tiny % of all players & staff in the PL, it’s simple to just quarantine them for a week or two. This won’t affect anything, the season will still restart.

Well since it's a virus, one infected man might infect dozens of people. Btw, I read on somewhere saying people who recovered from covid-19 would have their lung function reduced by 20-30%. Not sure if that's true since there is no news about covid-19 recovered players like Hudson-Odoi and Dybala get that issue.

It was Watford and Burnley who had players/staff that tested positive:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52726278

Thanks, I saw the news too. Since the resuming league plan is still undecided, perhaps more than 2 weeks from now, hope those who get infected will be recovered asap.

Well Hudson Odoi can’t be too concerned, he was arrested as police were called to his penthouse apartment at 4am this week. He was banging hookers & one of them called the police due to a disturbance.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/18/chelsea-callum-hudson-odoi-arrested-after-police-called-to-his-home-reports

[Globb0]

Wow

Chelsea are due to resume training in small groups on Wednesday but Hudson-Odoi’s return could now be delayed while the club decide how long the winger needs to be away from teammates and another staff members. Frank Lampard’s players were due to undergo coronavirus testing on Monday. It is understood that Hudson-Odoi went to the club’s Cobham training ground to take part in the testing.

It is believed that one negative test would not be sufficient for Hudson-Odoi, who recovered from coronavirus after testing positive for the illness in March, to join training. Given the volume of tests that return a false negative, more than one test may be required to clear him if he has failed to follow Premier League protocols.

That report is very vague, the woman was "unwell" but he was arrested. Doesn't say what for?

If its for breaching the coronavirus rules? then we are finally at a police state. Better lock up my neighbours too. They are all having people round often.

Also says one test may not be reliable enough. If so im sure he can do a few tests at once. But what does that say for the testing that is about to happen for most people in England? if its that unreliable?

I left the article with more questions than answers.

[hilariousetc]

It was Watford and Burnley who had players/staff that tested positive:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52726278

Thanks, I saw the news too. Since the resuming league plan is still undecided, perhaps more than 2 weeks from now, hope those who get infected will be recovered asap.

I'd be surprised if it got going within two weeks. The players will probably want at least two weeks to train, and then there's all the other things to organise by the PL, but hopefully they've already been working on that. We still don't know whether they're going to be playing in neutral grounds or not.

Well Hudson Odoi can’t be too concerned, he was arrested as police were called to his penthouse apartment at 4am this week. He was banging hookers & one of them called the police due to a disturbance.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/18/chelsea-callum-hudson-odoi-arrested-after-police-called-to-his-home-reports

Lol. What is it with players and banging hookers. There's probably hundreds of women who will bang them for free. I wonder if these PL players will get into trouble with either the law or their clubs since they should have been self-isolating. I'm not sure if hookers count as essential or front-line workers. No wonder a lot of players don't want to go back to training because they know what everybody's been getting up to.

[DeathAngel]

I’m pretty sure hookers shouldn’t be working atm, I guess they still have bills to pay though & that’s why they’re still operating. You’re right though, so many players bang hookers, Kyle Walker was at it a few weeks ago. I saw on Sky Sports that Spurs fullback Aurier broke lockdown rules for the 3rd time haha, he put a photo on social media of him having his hair cut

[Last of the V8s]

Hookers are less likely to go to the papers with their stories. You pay them to leave, as the expression goes, but also for their discretion. a big-mouthed hooker wouldn't get very far in that world. Wait maybe...
anyway I hope my point is clear

[snipie]

Boys you easily get derailed from the topic and football players are the worst when it comes to respecting rules...
Meanwhile, Saudis have the grean light to buy Newcastle "Bin Salman United"...

[jayce]

Well Hudson Odoi can’t be too concerned, he was arrested as police were called to his penthouse apartment at 4am this week. He was banging hookers & one of them called the police due to a disturbance.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/18/chelsea-callum-hudson-odoi-arrested-after-police-called-to-his-home-reports

Lol not sure if these hookers already knew Hudson-Odoi tested positive months ago or yeah, maybe they had to do that to pay their bills. But why Hudson-Odoi was arrested while Kyle Walkers wasn't?

I'd be surprised if it got going within two weeks. The players will probably want at least two weeks to train, and then there's all the other things to organise by the PL, but hopefully they've already been working on that. We still don't know whether they're going to be playing in neutral grounds or not.

Iirc Bundesliga clubs returned to training in the early of April and resumed the league in the mid of this month, then maybe Premier League would take same time interval and expected to back in the end of June or first week of July. As long as no spectator allowed in the stadium, I think no need to play in neutral grounds.

[Captain Corporate]

 Now we know how players are getting all that corona virus as well. I mean not many got it but thats the thing about the virus, if you have 10 out of 800, that could spread to all of them if you are not careful enough. Hence all of these moves like hiring escorts and all that wouldn't really go well if leagues wants to come back. They have to lock these players somewhere so that they couldn't have any contact with outside except certain staff. If you leave the players to be themselves they gonna literally just go do whatever they want and end up with the virus, they can't be really trusted. At the end of the day I wouldn't really consider coming back until we are %100 sure we have an exit method, if we can that would be enough.

[hilariousetc]

Hookers are less likely to go to the papers with their stories. You pay them to leave, as the expression goes, but also for their discretion. a big-mouthed hooker wouldn't get very far in that world. Wait maybe...
anyway I hope my point is clear

I dunno about that. I would have though it's the opposite unless it's some bint who's fame hungry and wants a few quid. A few hookers in the past have sold their stories as well, but not sure what the ratio of hookers to non-hookers is  .

I'd be surprised if it got going within two weeks. The players will probably want at least two weeks to train, and then there's all the other things to organise by the PL, but hopefully they've already been working on that. We still don't know whether they're going to be playing in neutral grounds or not.

Iirc Bundesliga clubs returned to training in the early of April and resumed the league in the mid of this month, then maybe Premier League would take same time interval and expected to back in the end of June or first week of July. As long as no spectator allowed in the stadium, I think no need to play in neutral grounds.

Apparently June 20th is the date according to this:

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-star-dani-ceballos-accidentally-22064070

Arsenal star Dani Ceballos accidentally names Premier League restart date in interview

Premier League football looks set to restart on June 20 amid the coronavirus crisis as Dani Ceballos has let the return date slip after heading back to training with Arsenal

If so, I'm not sure why it hasn't been made public yet, but a month would seem about right for players to get ready and the PL to sort everything behind the scenes.

[Globb0]

Well that is still a month away. How much training do they need.

I bet they are all match hungry. Footballers are competitive.

[wozzek23]

The reason why players prefer professional workers over fans is the simple fact that professional workers will leave when you pay them and that is the end of the topic. When you are getting to close with fans they may want more, they may act like you are in a relationship, they may even go as further as trying to have your baby so that they would get a lot of free money. In the long run being with a fan is more expensive in both financial terms (probably) but also it is more tiring emotionally.

So these people who are super rich and still quite young that they have a high libido, prefer the company of professional workers in order to simply just get what they need and then be on their way when it is done which worths every penny for a super rich person to not have any headaches.

[jayce]

Iirc Bundesliga clubs returned to training in the early of April and resumed the league in the mid of this month, then maybe Premier League would take same time interval and expected to back in the end of June or first week of July. As long as no spectator allowed in the stadium, I think no need to play in neutral grounds.

Apparently June 20th is the date according to this:

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/arsenal-star-dani-ceballos-accidentally-22064070

Arsenal star Dani Ceballos accidentally names Premier League restart date in interview

Premier League football looks set to restart on June 20 amid the coronavirus crisis as Dani Ceballos has let the return date slip after heading back to training with Arsenal

If so, I'm not sure why it hasn't been made public yet, but a month would seem about right for players to get ready and the PL to sort everything behind the scenes.

Well yeah that sounds fairer and safer than June 12th imo.

[DeathAngel]

Well that is still a month away. How much training do they need.

I bet they are all match hungry. Footballers are competitive.

Most players have been doing a certain amount of fitness work at home, they’ll be fine when they restart the season. The rest might even do some of them good.

[Daniel91]

Dani Ceballos, a Real Madrid player on loan at Arsenal, seems to have accidentally revealed a big secret when the Premiership begins.
According to him, the Premiership continues on June 20.
The Sun newspaper writes that now Ceballos has created a big problem because that information was supposed to remain secret 
Source: https://www.index.hr/sport/clanak/zvijezda-arsenala-se-izlajala-o-pocetku-premiershipa-i-napravila-veliki-problem/2184776.aspx