Premier League Prediction Thread (EPL)

[davinchi]

I wouldn't really see a problem with coutinho returning since that would increase the bench depth for them but who are you going to remove from the starting eleven to put coutinho in? I mean look at the attacking side, from firminho to mane to salah they are all very adapted and amazing players, I am not saying coutinho is a bad player but he is not really as well adapted to the game as these players and might very well be not as talented neither.

I would understand why Liverpool would want him, they would have a good bench player and if they do not spend money on him too much (don't know the salary neither) I think he could just stay at the side and play on some unimportant league games and on all cup games and just be basically Shaqiri of the team once again, aside from that I do not see any role for him available.

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Is that Yeboah in white in the middle with his classic volley off the crossbar goal? Going back a bit there but looks like it.



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Anyone watch the Villa/Sheff United game? Seems like they forgot to turn on both VAR, Goal line technology and the hawkeye as they didn't give a blatant goal that crossed the line.

[Naida_BR]

Aston Villa vs Sheffield United this is a crucial match for Aston Villa. When they lose in this match, they will be in danger and difficult position to stay in EPL next season. City vs Arsenal, City better than Arsenal on H2H,But Arsenal also in good performance before covid, 1-1 is possible for this match.

If City will not manage to win the 3 points in this game then the season is over.
Liverpool is going to be officially the EPL winners and there will be no more interest in the English Championship.

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If City will not manage to win the 3 points in this game then the season is over.
Liverpool is going to be officially the EPL winners and there will be no more interest in the English Championship.

The title race is over even earlier. One or three games does not mean anything. it seems like you don't understand the charm of this league. PL is not the only battle for first place, there is much more.
Unfortunately of all neutral spectators, this season Liverpool is too dominant and perhaps it was a little less of an interesting year, but just think of Bundes league where Bayern wins eight titles in the row, probably you can say now, no more interest for 2020/21 Bundes championship, Bayern will win for sure.

[Captain Corporate]

 There is way City could ever win the title from here on out, the league was over even before the pandemic, league was over around december and we were just making sure its statistically getting over with. Liverpool played one of the greatest seasons ever. Interestingly last year City played a record breaking season as well, so much so that even Liverpool who finished second last season was ahead of almost all champions before that season, yet this year Liverpool didn't take any chances and played insanely well and was ahead of the pack from the start of the season. However we could still get some great betting games out of rest of the season, just because champions are decided doesn't mean we can't bet on their games.

[BIT-BENDER]

just because champions are decided doesn't mean we can't bet on their games.

Liverpool needs greater than or equal to six points to lift the English premier league title, We still have teams fighting for spots in European competition, Liverpool and Manchester city -2 years banned from UCL- mathematically in, so Leicester, Manchester united, Chelsea, wolves, arsenal, Tottenham and even Sheffield united are fighting for European competition spot also some struggle at the bottom to remain in English top flight football,

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It's so far Manchester City 2:0 Arsenal. Substitute David Luiz taking down Arsenal Single-handedly  
After coming on in the 24th minute due to an Injury to Pablo Mari, he makes a blunder that leads to a goal in first half. As if that was not enough, he then makes a foul that leads to a penalty and earns him a red card 5 minutes into the second half

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

It's so far Manchester City 2:0 Arsenal. Substitute David Luiz taking down Arsenal Single-handedly 
After coming on in the 24th minute due to an Injury to Pablo Mari, he makes a blunder that leads to a goal in first half. As if that was not enough, he then makes a foul that leads to a penalty and earns him a red card 5 minutes into the second half

I get it when there's failure we always look for someone to put the blame on. Luis played badly no doubt but arsenal as a team where just poor and couldn't match city's determination to win the game. City miss many chances and could have easily scored more goals than the number they scored in the first half.

Even after Luis recieved the the red card, arsenal game didn't improve irrespective of them been at disadvantage of one man. They would had atleast show so fighting desire but that wasn't seen which resulted to the three instant change.

Even when the players on the field were even as a result of one of city's players getting injured and no room for substitution they (Arsenal) still couldn't get themselves on the scoreboard, which was a poor performance.

[snipie]

Back to the topic: 5 long days to know if Arsenal will be knocked with +2 goals by City...

I knew it, I felt that Arsenal gonna be the Schalke 00 of EPL and BTW I was waiting for that moment to post my cutie pic 

[casperBGD]

Villa took point against Sheffield to make relegation race more interesting, with four teams in a point, will be more than interesting to follow, they had a five game losing strike prior to pandemic, and this seems to be good result for them to keep up with others

[Coyster]

I get it when there's failure we always look for someone to put the blame on. Luis played badly no doubt but arsenal as a team where just poor and couldn't match city's determination to win the game. City miss many chances and could have easily scored more goals than the number they scored in the first half.

A players action can destroy a teams performance, Luiz made two costly errors today and one of them got him sent off, leaving city with a penalty they converted, two goals/one man down against City is death sentence, and Luiz played 90% part in that. Criticisms is part of the game, players are also praised when they perform excellently, Luiz was totally a mess for Arsenal tonight.

After this game, I think he has sealed his fate in the team, he'll surely leave Arsenal at the end of the season, Arteta needs to change quite a lot in this Arsenal team to bring success to the Emirates.

[EdenHazard]

Back to the topic: 5 long days to know if Arsenal will be knocked with +2 goals by City...

I knew it, I felt that Arsenal gonna be the Schalke 00 of EPL and BTW I was waiting for that moment to post my cutie pic 

The match could be ended different if only david luiz didn't make those two stupid blunder , both of them are leading to goal and I'm sure it could be just a 1-0 win for Manchester City.

It's been anticipated that arsenal will lose this match especially if people has witnessed how they even lost in a friendly match against Brentford.. yeah the championship side lol.

[Shasha80]

I agree that Arsenal played very poorly against Manchester City, especially after David Luiz got a red card. This is a tough task for
Arteta to improve on Arsenal's defender section next season. Arsenal's defeat provided proof that Pep's ability as a coach was good.
And what makes me confused is why Arteta made Nketiah a starter, even though it's better to play Lacazette as a starter line up.

[Avirunes]

I didn't watch it, but with this evidence at least my parlay bet was stained because VAR was not applied in this match which Sheff United should have won 0-1, I bet Double Chance 1 or 2 that I should have won if VAR works.

Aston Villa actually were dominating quite good in that match. There were two incidents that were missed- penalty not given to Aston Villa for clumsy foul by Lundstram on EL-Ghazi and after that the goal line technology not detecting goal scored by fabulous free kick for Sheffs. That match was full of controversies.

I agree that Arsenal played very poorly against Manchester City, especially after David Luiz got a red card. This is a tough task for
Arteta to improve on Arsenal's defender section next season. Arsenal's defeat provided proof that Pep's ability as a coach was good.
And what makes me confused is why Arteta made Nketiah a starter, even though it's better to play Lacazette as a starter line up.

I feel quite the opposite. Arteta didn't had Luiz on his plans until they had to move him on the pitch following the injury of P. Mari. Both initial goals came off his blunders. First one, he should have done better job intervening De Bruyne's pass. De Bruyne's pass wasn't that better but his poor intervention did good job for Sterling to reach it and make a good close shot. Second was also that holding the player inside on the run which got him the red card. Question is now that will Arteta have David Luiz on his plans in future?

BTW in third goal, Mustafi's fall somehow reminded me of Phil Jones fall. 

[masulum]

If City will not manage to win the 3 points in this game then the season is over.
Liverpool is going to be officially the EPL winners and there will be no more interest in the English Championship.

Not really, even City win 3-0 over Arsenal, or they lose, the EPL still interesting, we want to know what happen with Liverpool, is they can back to the track to win all of matches left or not. And don't forget about Camphions league and UEFA league competition, chelsea, sheffield, manu, wolves and leicester have a chance to take 3-4 position for Champions League, this is a good race. Also relegation position, all team will playing all out, and even Liverpool already become a champions, EPL still have a magnet to make football fans happy to follow the league.

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Mancity is a strong team where they are able to subvert arsenal easily I think this is because the opponent's defense gets their cards so it's easy to score into 3 goals.

I'm happy to see Mancity win this inaugural match and of course the bets on that parlay are very much awaited because so much is at stake.

I saw their celebrations not so accentuating perhaps because there were no supporters so what was the celebration like before it only looked normal after scoring goals.

[Renampun]

Mancity is a strong team where they are able to subvert arsenal easily I think this is because the opponent's defense gets their cards so it's easy to score into 3 goals.

I'm happy to see Mancity win this inaugural match and of course the bets on that parlay are very much awaited because so much is at stake.

I saw their celebrations not so accentuating perhaps because there were no supporters so what was the celebration like before it only looked normal after scoring goals.

I saw on the news that Luiz felt guilty...
the red card he got and the blunder he did at the end of the first half made him feel completely guilty, but I think it's not entirely his fault because football is not a one-man game and Man City is a good team. Luiz was very unlucky yesterday.

[ampere]

A lot of news outlets tend to push the narratives to suit an agenda by claiming that the loss and goals were as a result of David Luis mistakes, whereas Coach Arteta make several blunders right from the kick off with his pragmatic approach.

With or without Luis errors, Arsenal was definitely losing against City after a hideous 30 minutes cameo at the Etihad last night.
A good win for City, and a supposed run of losses for Arsenal who could end up the Schalke of the EPL.

[nelson4lov]

A lot of news outlets tend to push the narratives to suit an agenda by claiming that the loss and goals were as a result of David Luis mistakes, whereas Coach Arteta make several blunders right from the kick off with his pragmatic approach.

With or without Luis errors, Arsenal was definitely losing against City after a hideous 30 minutes cameo at the Etihad last night.
A good win for City, and a supposed run of losses for Arsenal who could end up the Schalke of the EPL.

In my opinion, both parties were at fault. Without the blunders, Manchester city would've been just one goal up and arsenal would've had something to fight for. Going 3-0 down due to mistakes crushes one's ability to fight back. Arsenal has a lot to work on. I expected more from them as the season resumed. Kudos to city for taking advantage of defensive errors from arsenal. Judging from the statistics from yesterday's game, Arsenal performed poorly. Only 1 shot on target from a total of 6 shots – its as bad as it looks.

[cryptofrka]

Luiz was horrible yesterday, but for some reason I like the guy. I have a soft spot for defenders that are good on the ball and he really can play. He just makes too many stupid mistakes for a defender.

Gary Neville described him perfectly after a game against Liverpool during the MOTD show, saying that he's playing like he's being controlled by a 10-year old kid on Playstation