Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

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De Bruyne's return can indeed provide quite a big change, but what you need to pay attention to is that De Bruyne has just recovered from injury and this will definitely affect his playing performance on the field which will decrease slightly and in the match against Newcastle I doubt if De Bruyne will be able to appear because previously Guardiola said that he didn't want to force De Bruyne to appear immediately but preferred to wait until he said he wanted to compete.
Even though it is very convincing that Manchester City can beat Newcastle, I will avoid betting on that match because I think it looks like I have a curse from Newcastle who always loses betting on Newcastle matches and on the one hand, Newcastle is also in an unstable condition, several midfielders are injured.
But my prediction is that if De Bruyen cannot return to the field, maybe Manchester City will win narrowly 1-2 for Manchester City.

Kevin De Bruyne return from recovery and have quit well debut last match with one assists against Huddersfield Town on FA Cup, its nice start for him after returning from long term injury and he still on very good performed for Manchester City.
Upcoming match, Manchester City will face Newcastle United in Premier League and seems Pep Guardiola can play De Bruyne on the first minutes and get back his central midfielder, so excited waiting his magician and make many assists in Premier League after absent 19 matches with Manchester City with one appearance in this season before getting injury. Looking De Bruyne performance last match on FA Cup seems he doesn't need time for adapting again because he was ready on top level performance for helping Manchester City return to the top position standings again.

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 It seems that Newcastle's misfortunes will not end, this time Joelinton was injured, he was out of the game for 6 weeks. He has problems with his quadriceps tendon, which is a complex injury. There has to be a logical explanation for Newcastle having so much injured, it's probably that Howe puts too much pressure on the players and they just can't handle it with all the tournaments they play.

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Newcastle United was fantastic in the early stages of the season, but they are no longer in peak form, and I believe they will finish in the top four this season. Injuries are the only thing that has kept most of the top performers off the field; they have struggled to fit in in previous games, but it doesn't appear to working. Eddie Howe had to rework his ideas since the current situation at the club was not something he expected or settled for. Joelinton is a crucial midfielder for Eddie Howe and Newcastle, and his absence for weeks will undoubtedly result in a decline in the Magpies' powerhouse.

That is true as Newcastle was brilliant in performance when the Premier League started and up to a certain point they were extremely near the top of the standings.I don"t know what happened then to them but I think it was that they lacked the resource to perform at such levels in both the Premier League and Champions League so most likely their players were not ready for performing well in both competitions and eventually this led to tiredness which is affecting their results.

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Man City is always the favorite team when Haaland is absent Alvarez is in charge of the front line but he always does a good job so I say this victory can be on paper for Man CIty.
The midfielders have recovered enough I think the ability to supply the ball forward will be better especially there is Kevin De Bruyne who can appear even though I don't think it will be full time to play.

There is no time for Man City to lose or draw because they have targets that need to be met after some less than impressive performances. Now with the existing squad, even though Haaland is absent, it is not an obstacle for Pep Guardiola to immediately collect points. Newcastle itself playing at home is a plus point but it is not a benchmark that they can beat Man City game. I would bet on the Citizen winning. St. James' Park is not too scary because Head2Head Man City is still far ahead.

They have to catch up with the points that are quite behind even though there is one game but that is not a guarantee as long as they can win I think it will be Pep Guardiola's focus to get 3 points in this match, even though you say playing at St. James Park is a plus for Newcastle I think it is still low because their performance is still not good at the moment.

Despite playing away Man City odds are small @1.55 if you look at the betting market now while Newcastle are at odds @5.50 the difference is very far, the bookies know Newcastle will not be able to win.

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They have to catch up with the points that are quite behind even though there is one game but that is not a guarantee as long as they can win I think it will be Pep Guardiola's focus to get 3 points in this match, even though you say playing at St. James Park is a plus for Newcastle I think it is still low because their performance is still not good at the moment.

Despite playing away Man City odds are small @1.55 if you look at the betting market now while Newcastle are at odds @5.50 the difference is very far, the bookies know Newcastle will not be able to win.

Manchester City's winning percentage is much greater and indeed compared to Newcastle, so it is only natural that Manchester City's odds are smaller.
Newcastle is currently in a slump, Newcastle started this season not well and even several of their main players suffered injuries making it quite difficult for them to recover and in my opinion when the Newcastle team is in a slump like now it is almost impossible for them to be able to keep up or snatching victory over a strong team like Manchester City.

[BRINIRHA]

Chelsea against Fulham would be game to watch after Fulham lost to Liverpool in the Carabao Cup few days back. I can't imagine Chelsea getting a win in that game after what we saw Fulham play Liverpool, that's if the visitors would keep up with that performance without any silly mistake, I see them winning Chelsea tomorrow. Pochettino and his boys are not consistent in the EPL and the coach is not helping matters as it stands because with the set of players he have, he should be getting points from these smaller clubs but the reverse is the case which is bad. This game against Fulham should be an easy game but I can imagine the blues struggling to get a goal but let's see the formation and players Pochettino would use.

Every match that Chelsea will face will definitely raise doubts from everyone. In fact things have become more difficult to predict. Because it is difficult for us to expect Chelsea to suddenly return to their best performance. Because every time we expect Chelsea to play well and win the match then all we get is disappointment.

The match against Fullham will indeed be a match that is very difficult to predict. But if we look at Chelsea normally then this match should make Chelsea the favorite. Because Chelsea is the host of the match. and in terms of standings, Chelsea is above Fullham. which Chelsea should still be better than Fullham. But I consider Fullham starting to rise after seeing Fullham able to beat Arsenal. But at that time Fullham was the host. And this time the conditions were different because Chelsea was the host.

I might have to consider keeping Chelsea as favourites. But I also still have doubts about this. But it is also very difficult to try to favorit Fullham who are playing away from home.

[Miles2006]

De Bruyne's return can indeed provide quite a big change, but what you need to pay attention to is that De Bruyne has just recovered from injury and this will definitely affect his playing performance on the field which will decrease slightly and in the match against Newcastle I doubt if De Bruyne will be able to appear because previously Guardiola said that he didn't want to force De Bruyne to appear immediately but preferred to wait until he said he wanted to compete.
Even though it is very convincing that Manchester City can beat Newcastle, I will avoid betting on that match because I think it looks like I have a curse from Newcastle who always loses betting on Newcastle matches and on the one hand, Newcastle is also in an unstable condition, several midfielders are injured.
But my prediction is that if De Bruyen cannot return to the field, maybe Manchester City will win narrowly 1-2 for Manchester City.

Kevin De Bruyne return from recovery and have quit well debut last match with one assists against Huddersfield Town on FA Cup, its nice start for him after returning from long term injury and he still on very good performed for Manchester City.
Upcoming match, Manchester City will face Newcastle United in Premier League and seems Pep Guardiola can play De Bruyne on the first minutes and get back his central midfielder, so excited waiting his magician and make many assists in Premier League after absent 19 matches with Manchester City with one appearance in this season before getting injury. Looking De Bruyne performance last match on FA Cup seems he doesn't need time for adapting again because he was ready on top level performance for helping Manchester City return to the top position standings again.

I really thought Bruyne will do perfect but seeing this right now got me thinking and wondering, to be sincere this is an amazing point why Bruyne will not perform his best and who knows he might likely get another injury cause we can't really tell and have seen most players after coming back from their injury between some few time we'll hear another injury, but still I have always believed in Bruyne cause the guy is so good and if Bruyne will be part of the match against Newcastle he will definitely bring out his best for the team and looking at the season this is the right chance for city to take opportunity and move forward so I don't think Pep will take this match for granted.

[Obari]

Even though the match held in Newcastle's home, but I believe Manchester City will win. They have a complete squad, only Haaland is the exception, but I don't think it will be a big problem since Manchester City have many players who have a good shooting skills.

Maybe they only win with few goals like 1-2 goals, Newcastle most of the time can play good in their home ground.

Man City is always the favorite team when Haaland is absent Alvarez is in charge of the front line but he always does a good job so I say this victory can be on paper for Man CIty.
The midfielders have recovered enough I think the ability to supply the ball forward will be better especially there is Kevin De Bruyne who can appear even though I don't think it will be full time to play.

There is no time for Man City to lose or draw because they have targets that need to be met after some less than impressive performances. Now with the existing squad, even though Haaland is absent, it is not an obstacle for Pep Guardiola to immediately collect points. Newcastle itself playing at home is a plus point but it is not a benchmark that they can beat Man City game. I would bet on the Citizen winning. St. James' Park is not too scary because Head2Head Man City is still far ahead.

The game is really going to be tough for both teams but the way you are seeing it,it may not be like that.I know Newcastle are not in a great form,but at thesame time Mancity are not as good as you think anymore,if Newcastle really belt up,they can draw them or even win them.Their statistics in the past two seasons now shows that City don't always win them like that,it's a battle between the two clubs as Newcastle are always good at upsetting big teams.They might just score one goal and defend it till the end.Mancity are going to welcome two names,Jeremy Doku and Debruyne back to their starting line up,and this serve as a boost to City.I predict this game to end 2:2.

[asriloni]

Chelsea against Fulham would be game to watch after Fulham lost to Liverpool in the Carabao Cup few days back. I can't imagine Chelsea getting a win in that game after what we saw Fulham play Liverpool, that's if the visitors would keep up with that performance without any silly mistake, I see them winning Chelsea tomorrow. Pochettino and his boys are not consistent in the EPL and the coach is not helping matters as it stands because with the set of players he have, he should be getting points from these smaller clubs but the reverse is the case which is bad. This game against Fulham should be an easy game but I can imagine the blues struggling to get a goal but let's see the formation and players Pochettino would use.

The awful performance from chelsea against middlesborugh makes me feel so scary to see the match between chelsea vs fulham soon. If pochettino will be repeating the same mistake then i will be making a tweet on pochettino's tweet for him to go out from the club. The major problem is pochettino was always making the situation to be even worse by putting levy colwill as left back. It's very scary to see pochettino was always doing this shitty experiment toward his club. I can't even imagine that how bad it's it.

It was so crazy to see pochettino did so many experiment to the club. In my opinion that if pochettino needs to be sacked by the club as he was a useless coach that contributed nothing till now. There were enough proof to kick him out from the club.
I think that he deserves no chance to stay much longer in chelsea caused by he was a disaster for the club. I would like to see him leave from the club as soon as possible.

It was a disaster to see him keep staying much longer in the club. He deserves no chance anymore.

[Weawant]

Newcastle United was fantastic in the early stages of the season, but they are no longer in peak form, and I believe they will finish in the top four this season. Injuries are the only thing that has kept most of the top performers off the field; they have struggled to fit in in previous games, but it doesn't appear to working. Eddie Howe had to rework his ideas since the current situation at the club was not something he expected or settled for. Joelinton is a crucial midfielder for Eddie Howe and Newcastle, and his absence for weeks will undoubtedly result in a decline in the Magpies' powerhouse.

The effects of injuries on a team is something that cannot me overly emphasized, it real does has a great effect on the team such that the team do suffer some set back in a while and in some cases they literally loose the season due to such events and I think it's same thing Newcastle is suffering at this point, they have got their own fair share of it all.

Just like Manchester city, Newcastle did started of brilliantly this season and then it turned out they had some injured players and it's quite unfortunate that it has to be their key players which will definitely be a problem in the nearest future even after their return, they definitely will turn out injury prone and that will mean they will have to be careful as they play and in some cases they may not play a full game so as to keep them from possible injuries again, Soo I believe they will get back on their feet but they can win the trophy maybe top four will be a good height.

[onecall123]

Even though the match held in Newcastle's home, but I believe Manchester City will win. They have a complete squad, only Haaland is the exception, but I don't think it will be a big problem since Manchester City have many players who have a good shooting skills.

Maybe they only win with few goals like 1-2 goals, Newcastle most of the time can play good in their home ground.

Man City is always the favorite team when Haaland is absent Alvarez is in charge of the front line but he always does a good job so I say this victory can be on paper for Man CIty.
The midfielders have recovered enough I think the ability to supply the ball forward will be better especially there is Kevin De Bruyne who can appear even though I don't think it will be full time to play.

There is no time for Man City to lose or draw because they have targets that need to be met after some less than impressive performances. Now with the existing squad, even though Haaland is absent, it is not an obstacle for Pep Guardiola to immediately collect points. Newcastle itself playing at home is a plus point but it is not a benchmark that they can beat Man City game. I would bet on the Citizen winning. St. James' Park is not too scary because Head2Head Man City is still far ahead.

The game is really going to be tough for both teams but the way you are seeing it,it may not be like that.I know Newcastle are not in a great form,but at thesame time Mancity are not as good as you think anymore,if Newcastle really belt up,they can draw them or even win them.Their statistics in the past two seasons now shows that City don't always win them like that,it's a battle between the two clubs as Newcastle are always good at upsetting big teams.They might just score one goal and defend it till the end.Mancity are going to welcome two names,Jeremy Doku and Debruyne back to their starting line up,and this serve as a boost to City.I predict this game to end 2:2.

Newcastle are not in great form, but the return of key players like Alexander Isak and their historical performance might be enough to lift them up and defeat Man City. But, they need to acknowledge the challenges they'll face against their tough opponents, Man City. With Kevin De Bruyne back in Man City's starting lineup, it serves as big boost, and City will likely to maintain their dominance in the league. Despite Newcastle's efforts and Eddie Howe's managerial skills, we can predict a positive result for Man City due to their superior quality and consistency. However, Newcastle are keen on bouncing back to winning ways. I'll go for over 2.5 goals in this match.

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Chelsea against Fulham would be game to watch after Fulham lost to Liverpool in the Carabao Cup few days back. I can't imagine Chelsea getting a win in that game after what we saw Fulham play Liverpool, that's if the visitors would keep up with that performance without any silly mistake, I see them winning Chelsea tomorrow. Pochettino and his boys are not consistent in the EPL and the coach is not helping matters as it stands because with the set of players he have, he should be getting points from these smaller clubs but the reverse is the case which is bad. This game against Fulham should be an easy game but I can imagine the blues struggling to get a goal but let's see the formation and players Pochettino would use.

I like Fulham's style of play, but I don't know how they will perform against Chelsea. Even though Chelsea does not have a consistent game, they can still win matches and they are aware that they should not lose points when we look at their league rankings.
If they want to move up the ranks, they should make an effort and not lose points in matches against teams like Fulham

[piebeyb]

It was so crazy to see pochettino did so many experiment to the club. In my opinion that if pochettino needs to be sacked by the club as he was a useless coach that contributed nothing till now. There were enough proof to kick him out from the club.
I think that he deserves no chance to stay much longer in chelsea caused by he was a disaster for the club. I would like to see him leave from the club as soon as possible.

It was a disaster to see him keep staying much longer in the club. He deserves no chance anymore.

I respect your views on Chelsea and I'm not a Chelsea supporter either, but do you think that a coach carrying out experiments will produce good results in a short time? I think we all know that Pochettino still hasn't coached Chelsea for more than one season, so why ask? to change the coach, even though changing the coach will not produce results, of course it requires another process for experimentation and new strategies, that is also more difficult in my opinion because Chelsea will still get bad results.

I think why not give him time for a few seasons and see the best results from the experiments he has done, I also think Pochettino has done it optimally and it does take time for him to find the style of play he wants, at least it can make Chelsea rise from adversity, I'm sure Chelsea can rise again to become a great club like before, after all, every club does not always rise, sometimes there are downturns in their performance, so continuing to provide support for Pochettino can revive Chelsea to be even better against Fulham, of course they must be able to win.

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Even though the match held in Newcastle's home, but I believe Manchester City will win. They have a complete squad, only Haaland is the exception, but I don't think it will be a big problem since Manchester City have many players who have a good shooting skills.

Maybe they only win with few goals like 1-2 goals, Newcastle most of the time can play good in their home ground.

I'm not too sure even though playing at St. James' Park because the decline experienced by Newcastle is quite significant, it has lost 3 times in a row if losing again will be its 4th defeat in the Premier League.

Man City is always the favorite team when Haaland is absent Alvarez is in charge of the front line but he always does a good job so I say this victory can be on paper for Man CIty.
The midfielders have recovered enough I think the ability to supply the ball forward will be better especially there is Kevin De Bruyne who can appear even though I don't think it will be full time to play.

Based on the records so far this season, the truth is that Newcastle is one of the teams that have good results for home matches. But yes, if I consider about the poor performance and results that Newcastle has experienced recently, at least make Newcastle will be doubtful in this match. Because after all, Newcastle last home match also lost by Nottingham and even with a big score of 1-3. Also, based on the odds available at this moment, it is clear that Manchester City is still the favorite team. So yes, I personally will still doubt Newcastle in this match and therefore, then of course I believe that Manchester City still has a good chance of winning in this match.

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The awful performance from chelsea against middlesborugh makes me feel so scary to see the match between chelsea vs fulham soon. If pochettino will be repeating the same mistake then i will be making a tweet on pochettino's tweet for him to go out from the club. The major problem is pochettino was always making the situation to be even worse by putting levy colwill as left back. It's very scary to see pochettino was always doing this shitty experiment toward his club. I can't even imagine that how bad it's it.

It was so crazy to see pochettino did so many experiment to the club. In my opinion that if pochettino needs to be sacked by the club as he was a useless coach that contributed nothing till now. There were enough proof to kick him out from the club.
I think that he deserves no chance to stay much longer in chelsea caused by he was a disaster for the club. I would like to see him leave from the club as soon as possible.

It was a disaster to see him keep staying much longer in the club. He deserves no chance anymore.

The big pressure never leaves Pochettino shoulders due to the series of bad days they have had this season. Pochettino dismissal has now surfaced after the defeat against Middlesbrough. There is still a chance to turn things around, but a defeat against a team like Middlesbrough cannot be accepted by fans whatever the reason. Now Pochettino must shift his focus to the EPL, where Chelsea will face Fulham at Stamford Bridge, but few still have confidence in their current form, betting on a Chelsea win might be considered the riskiest move.

It cannot be denied that the experiments carried out by Pochettino have not been successful at all, even though sometimes their performances look very promising when they meet other big teams. Player injuries are the reason that Pochettino almost always talks about, it makes it difficult to create consistency, and we can't believe it even though Pochettino has a complete squad. If they lose points again against Fulham, the fans reaction will be even more negative towards the club, especially Pochettino.

[Dzwaafu11]

Newcastle United was fantastic in the early stages of the season, but they are no longer in peak form, and I believe they will finish in the top four this season. Injuries are the only thing that has kept most of the top performers off the field; they have struggled to fit in in previous games, but it doesn't appear to working. Eddie Howe had to rework his ideas since the current situation at the club was not something he expected or settled for. Joelinton is a crucial midfielder for Eddie Howe and Newcastle, and his absence for weeks will undoubtedly result in a decline in the Magpies' powerhouse.

Yes, Newcastle is facing problems in their squad. This will not be easy for them, especially in the next match against City. This is a tough opponent, after several previous matches in the Premier League, they experienced problems and difficulties. they even had to lose to Luton and Nottingham.

Yeah. Seriously, Newcastle have been facing a hard time lately, and I don’t think they will be able to gain their performance again this season, even though things may change well for them. However, I think Newcastle should try as much as they can to at least get some positive results so that they won’t move downward in the standings again because when Newcastle were in their form and the beginning of the season, they were ranking the 4th clubs in the standings, which current due to their inconsistency, they are now in number 9 although they can’t get to their former position, but at least I expect Newcastle to go high again.

maybe it will be a little difficult for them to return to the top 4 of the Premier League standings. because the team that is currently in the top 4 of the standings is quite consistent. it will be difficult to shift them.

Little difficult? They won’t even return; any other club will now be fighting for the top of the standings, and they won’t allow any other club to be a challenge for them unless a club is already stronger than them and they cannot do anything to avoid that, so for Newcastle to go back to the top four is something I think is impossible this season. I can only hope for them to go higher, but not that top 4 man.

[KTChampions]

Osimhen extended the contract until the summer of 2026 (by the way, only two years, not such a long period) and the amount of compensation for early termination of the contract is 130 million euros. We have already seen that this is a ridiculous amount for top transfers lately, so there are no guarantees that Osimhen will remain in Napoli for another 2 seasons, but given that Napoli is in crisis (like Osimhen), it is unclear whether other clubs want him now as they wanted him before (at least taking into account such compensation).

There is an opportunity for Chelsea to recruit Osimhen in January and we know that Chelsea is known as a club that is wasteful in buying new players. We've seen how active Chelsea management was last summer in recruiting players, and I don't think money is a big issue for them. However, there are concerns that Chelsea must pay attention to player transfer policies, so as not to receive sanctions for violating FFP rules.

Most recently, Osimhen was reportedly involved in another conflict, but this time not with club staff. But with an agent from his colleague Kvaratskhelia. The agent said that Osimhem had the potential to go to the SPL, this sparked Osimhen anger. I think things like that have more or less disturbed Osimhen comfort, therefore a club like Chelsea seems to have the opportunity to recruit him now.
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Yes, I heard about this conflict and Osimhen spoke very harshly about this agent on Twitter - he told him to shut his dirty mouth and all that stuff. To be honest, I didn’t understand at all why that agent started saying such strange things, maybe later we’ll find out the reason behind all this bickering.
As for Chelsea, yes, they can probably afford to buy Osimhen and even without aggravating their situation in terms of FFP - they only need to sell some of the players to free up finances for a new transfer.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Newcastle United was fantastic in the early stages of the season, but they are no longer in peak form, and I believe they will finish in the top four this season. Injuries are the only thing that has kept most of the top performers off the field; they have struggled to fit in in previous games, but it doesn't appear to working. Eddie Howe had to rework his ideas since the current situation at the club was not something he expected or settled for. Joelinton is a crucial midfielder for Eddie Howe and Newcastle, and his absence for weeks will undoubtedly result in a decline in the Magpies' powerhouse.

Yes, Newcastle is facing problems in their squad. This will not be easy for them, especially in the next match against City. This is a tough opponent, after several previous matches in the Premier League, they experienced problems and difficulties. they even had to lose to Luton and Nottingham.

Yeah. Seriously, Newcastle have been facing a hard time lately, and I don’t think they will be able to gain their performance again this season, even though things may change well for them. However, I think Newcastle should try as much as they can to at least get some positive results so that they won’t move downward in the standings again because when Newcastle were in their form and the beginning of the season, they were ranking the 4th clubs in the standings, which current due to their inconsistency, they are now in number 9 although they can’t get to their former position, but at least I expect Newcastle to go high again.

maybe it will be a little difficult for them to return to the top 4 of the Premier League standings. because the team that is currently in the top 4 of the standings is quite consistent. it will be difficult to shift them.

Little difficult? They won’t even return; any other club will now be fighting for the top of the standings, and they won’t allow any other club to be a challenge for them unless a club is already stronger than them and they cannot do anything to avoid that, so for Newcastle to go back to the top four is something I think is impossible this season. I can only hope for them to go higher, but not that top 4 man.

I think some bad decisions by Newcastle's management  are responsible for their poor performance this season. Last  season they played great and qualified for Champions  League. They should have strengthened the squad. But  they don't do it. They probably thought that they can play well with the  same squad this season as  well. But Newcastle's performance this season has declined badly due to injuries to several players in the squad. And  the team has no chance of qualifying for the Champions League. No star player will want to join Newcastle now. It is hard to say when we will see consistent good performances from this team.

[Josefjix]

Yes, I heard about this conflict and Osimhen spoke very harshly about this agent on Twitter - he told him to shut his dirty mouth and all that stuff. To be honest, I didn’t understand at all why that agent started saying such strange things, maybe later we’ll find out the reason behind all this bickering.
As for Chelsea, yes, they can probably afford to buy Osimhen and even without aggravating their situation in terms of FFP - they only need to sell some of the players to free up finances for a new transfer.

Chelsea has proficiency prepared to sign Victor Osimhen; the only difficulty is that the player must agree to the terms of the deal and sign it. Twitter clash is one of the main reasons I'm always scrolling through Twitter X. It is loaded with football-related entertainment and news. No agents have the right to discuss Victor Osimhen and the club they have chosen for him; he is not a child, for crying out loud, and he is grown enough to choose the team he will play for; everything he does is obligatory. Victor Osimhen is actually an interesting individual, but when he senses denigrate on his reputation, he tends to avoid any acts related to adversely impacting his image.

[gabbie2010]

Even though the match held in Newcastle's home, but I believe Manchester City will win. They have a complete squad, only Haaland is the exception, but I don't think it will be a big problem since Manchester City have many players who have a good shooting skills.

Maybe they only win with few goals like 1-2 goals, Newcastle most of the time can play good in their home ground.

I'm not too sure even though playing at St. James' Park because the decline experienced by Newcastle is quite significant, it has lost 3 times in a row if losing again will be its 4th defeat in the Premier League.

Man City is always the favorite team when Haaland is absent Alvarez is in charge of the front line but he always does a good job so I say this victory can be on paper for Man CIty.
The midfielders have recovered enough I think the ability to supply the ball forward will be better especially there is Kevin De Bruyne who can appear even though I don't think it will be full time to play.

Truly I don't think Newcastle stand any chance of winning the match against Man City even at St James' Park going by Newcastle poor runs and inconsistency in their past previous matches even got defeated by lowly rated Luton Town in December last year compared with their upcoming game against a highly rejuvenated Man City in addition with the return of their midfield maestro Kevin DeBruyne even now that they are in third position with 40 points and with an outstanding match Man City would aim for the three maximum points to displace Liverpool from the first position after playing all their matches of course with their free scoring attackers how would Newcastle survive the impending onslaught?.

[QueenVera]

Liverpool's victory in the league cup against Fulham with a score of 2-1, it seems that there are some parties who feel dissatisfied because Mohamed Salah is not present, but of course even though Mohamed Salah doesn't appear, I think Liverpool shows their performance well even without Mohamed Salah, Liverpool can win match. Indeed, Liverpool really needs the figure of Mohamed Salah because with Mohamed Salah Liverpool's performance will be even better. and I think if there was Mohamed Salah, Liverpool would probably score more goals. In the second leg of the semifinals, it will certainly be an exciting match between Fulham and Liverpool because Fulham has certainly learned a lot from the previous match against Liverpool and without the presence of Mohamed Salah, it certainly opens up good opportunities for Fulham. .

but if you think about it, the absence of Mohamed Salah will make Liverpool's performance less than optimal, but in the absence of Mohamed Salah, Jurgen Klopp will definitely provide good direction and strategy for the Liverpool players so that in the end the Liverpool players will be able to play. to adapt without Mohamed Salah. Of course we have seen Liverpool's match without Mohamed Salah, even though without Mohamed Salah, Liverpool could have won. Yes, of course there are other players who can be relied on as you mentioned.

Liverpool won their match against Fulham and they’ve had 2 wins out of 2 since Salah got absent due to the AFCON. This team have tried to maintain victory even with his absence but they’ve struggled and not scored plenty of goals. And this Liverpool team is used to scoring plenty of goals, i feel the second leg of the encounter will be quite fierce especially as Fulham tried to contain them this first leg though they couldn’t hold for long.  Moh Salah still out so I think Fulham will learn from this match and head to the next with all they’ve learned.

 But we must not forget Klopp is a tactician and knows the best way to cover up for Moh’s absence and that’s what he’s done in the last 2 matches and they’ve all proven effective,  they'll need to remain consistent and perform well without their star player, Moreover they still got the likes of Gakpo, Nunez and Diaz that would keep the club going while Moh is away for international duties.