Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

[Stable090]

Maybe for some teams it's an indicator to win a preseason game, but I think it's just to appease themselves, nothing more. For serious teams, it's a chance to release those players that the coaches will definitely not release in EPL matches, because every match is important there and a mistake by a young player can cost a defeat in the end. So the appearance of new players today is a good sign

I am not surprised by the result of the match. Manchester City losing a pre-season match doesn’t mean anything, it doesn’t mean that Manchester City won’t be performing well when the season starts. We all know that most clubs won’t be making use of their main squad in pre-season matches, they do make use of the players that they are always keeping as reserves, so we can’t conclude how a club will perform when the season starts. But I am still expecting Manchester City to perform well when the season starts, we shouldn’t start concluding that there is a drop in their performance just because of the pre-season match.

[fuguebtc]

Today's latest pre-season match result for the Man City vs Celtic match is 3-4. Man City lost in that match, but because it was only a pre-season match, I can understand this result. This is the same as the defeat experienced by several strong teams from the Premier League in this pre-season match. It's just that De Bruyne doesn't seem in the pre-season match. But I see Pep Guardiola giving opportunities to several young Man City players such as Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Jadel Katongo and several other players. And that was their debut in the Man City senior team. And even though Man City lost that match, it seems like Pep Guardiola was quite satisfied with the performance of the young players in that match. And it seems that victory is not the target of this match.

Maybe for some teams it's an indicator to win a preseason game, but I think it's just to appease themselves, nothing more. For serious teams, it's a chance to release those players that the coaches will definitely not release in EPL matches, because every match is important there and a mistake by a young player can cost a defeat in the end. So the appearance of new players today is a good sign

Guardiola experimented with his squad in this match. So I am not at all surprised that Manchester City lost this match. But I thought City could draw the match. But in the end, Manchester City lost the match by 4-3.

Celtic's two strikers Kuhn and Furuhashi performed well in this match. Kuhn had 2 goals and an assist. Kuhn performed very well in this match. Kuhn's performance helped Celtic beat Manchester City.

Manchester City's defense did not have any experienced players in this match. We don't see Walker, Ake or Gvardiol in the squad. If these three were in the city's defense, Manchester City probably would not have conceded three goals in this match. City's attack was strong in this match but City's defense was weak. The Celtic players made good use of this opportunity.

[SOKO-DEKE]

Man City must prepare a replacement for De Bruyne. But before actually finding a suitable replacement, De Bruyne must be retained in this squad. Because I don't think it's easy to find a player who can replace De Bruyne's role at Man City. The neat performance shown by De Bruyne after his injury also deserves the highest appreciation. Because usually a player will not be able to play well immediately after being injured. Because usually it will require some adjustments to return to best performance. But what we saw from De Bruyne was that he immediately returned to performing well and he even immediately contributed greatly by making good assists and even scoring a goal at that time. So I think in 1 or even 3 more seasons, Man City will have to keep it.

And if De Bruyne should leave, it will affect us because De Bruyne plays a very important role because De Bruyne does most of the job in Manchester City gives good assists and if Pep is bringing anyone in, the person has to be super good to be able to replace De Bruyne because I love him so much that I am sure even Haaland will miss him. I don't know how true it is about him leaving because nothing is official yet. and De Bruyne has actually experienced a number of injuries, and despite these injuries, De Bruyne continues to play at his best, as opposed to other players who will fall behind after a series of injuries before eventually improving. i just hope is not true that De Bruyne  is leaving and if evetually he leaves their will be adjustments for sure and i hope our new signing from girona will do well this new season but i trust pep when it come to selecting.

I fully agree with you that De Bruyne always plays a very important role in Manchester City every season, despite his age and injury issues that come up every season. I know that De Bruyne's injuries are getting worse season by season, and he is aging. As this situation continues, De Bruyne may plan to leave Manchester City. I hope that Guardiola will be looking for a good replacement for De Bruyne.

But the truth about Guardiola is that he always has a replacement for any player he has. Either he converts a current player in the team to play the position, or he gets a good replacement. Even last season, when De Bruyne had a long-term injury, I don't think it affected Manchester City too much. Let's see what happens before the season starts; maybe Manchester City will convince De Bruyne to stay.

[Docnaster]

Enzo Fernandez after winning the Copa America with his national team Argentina posted a video on his social media account which appeared to be racist chants that targeted France national team players, the video drew criticisms from many especially from France internationals and some even had to unfollow him on social media. However, he has publicly apologized since fbe incident happened and today, Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca as well as the captain Reece James in their interview has disclosed that Enzo Fernandez will be accepted back to the team when he rejoins with the squad after his summer holiday. It's a good news for Chelsea fans if you ask me but Fernandez who have been forgiven by all must be careful of his actions going forward so that  people don't see him as a racist

[Dzwaafu11]

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Ten Hag, the man is okay, a kind man, good with the players, I find. But gaining a few domestic cups? That is old Trafford child crap. We are discussing the most prestigious club on Earth! They should be vying for everything with all the money they have spent, not content to accept leftovers. See the rivals. city, Arsenal, even Liverpool under a fresh management. Each of them is defining the benchmark. And Ten Hag also? He lags behind. Klopp's gone now; Slot's in; Ten Hag has pressure to perform. Thats it: if he cant even beat Liverpool next season, he is out. There are no more excuses. There are the players, the tools, the supporters, etc. Ten Hag needs to stand up or step out now. If he cant, well, thats just dumb. And dumb doesnt win at Manchester United.

Ten Hag tried his best to see that Manchester United succeed in these trophies, but still, to me, it is getting worse because United are not even getting to the top of the table. I just think if Ten Hag cannot do it, he should hand it over or leave because Manchester United are not even competitive again while other teams that Manchester United were even better than are topping the tables and doing well.

 Although I don’t underrate Ten Hag for his job, I just feel like he’s getting too much as a fan. I want to see improvement than this. We are not what we want. We are tired of waiting. 

[Sexylizzy2813]

Only Guardiola has been better than me — Erik ten Hag brags

This is the fifth year running that Manchester City has dominated the EPL. Pep Guardiola has dominated over every single manager in the EPL including Jurgen Klopp, Mikel Arteta and others. But Erik Ten Hag sees things differently, he says Pep Guardiola is the only manager to have won more trophies than him in recent times. In the past two years where ETH has been Manchester United’s manger, he’s had two trophies to show in his acquisition. But by the standard of Manchester United, this shouldn’t be something to brag about. They have fallen down the pecking order. Manchester United Standard should be competing for league dominance and fighting for UEFA Champions league.

Looking at the stats and the performance of Manchester United in the last two seasons. Do you think Erik Ten Hag has bragging rights?

Come to think of it ETH is right, since he came to the EPL no manager have won any trophy that Man City are also competing and he has been the second best, where we have Arteta, Klopp and the others, you see him getting a trophy out of the two coaches so why are we saying he isn't the second best? Fine Manchester United haven't been pretty good but let's give the man some credit for the little he has done with the side by winning something no matter how small it is and some would want ETH to win the EPL title but he can't win it because they're not up to that level.

[Leviathan.007]

Today's latest pre-season match result for the Man City vs Celtic match is 3-4. Man City lost in that match, but because it was only a pre-season match, I can understand this result. This is the same as the defeat experienced by several strong teams from the Premier League in this pre-season match. It's just that De Bruyne doesn't seem in the pre-season match. But I see Pep Guardiola giving opportunities to several young Man City players such as Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Jadel Katongo and several other players. And that was their debut in the Man City senior team. And even though Man City lost that match, it seems like Pep Guardiola was quite satisfied with the performance of the young players in that match. And it seems that victory is not the target of this match.

The same Manchester City that I know were beating by a club that last won a trophy in there gallery since 2018, no way but I will assumed this is a friendly match and it's not always that serious match but then again, the way Manchester City played made it look like they were serious but they didn't do much, the way Haaland even score his goal was a serious one or could this be a sign that city will perform well in this match.

There are some players that are not back from international matches, they weren't even available to be substitute when there is emergency substitutions else I'm not sure Manchester City will lose match easily to any team especially another one from a club that is has been long they won a league for their club.

It's just a friendly match and we can't understand anything from it. Manchester City had good players but they are in team training and the team is not in the good form yet. I think Manchester City could easily win this game against a team like Celtic if they had players in the good form.
Manchester City lost the game but I think Guardiola used this match to have the team in the better form to have a better performance in the next season.
The interesting thing about this match is that Haaland scored a goal in a game which is not important like he always does.

[arimamib]

Today's latest pre-season match result for the Man City vs Celtic match is 3-4. Man City lost in that match, but because it was only a pre-season match, I can understand this result. This is the same as the defeat experienced by several strong teams from the Premier League in this pre-season match. It's just that De Bruyne doesn't seem in the pre-season match. But I see Pep Guardiola giving opportunities to several young Man City players such as Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Jadel Katongo and several other players. And that was their debut in the Man City senior team. And even though Man City lost that match, it seems like Pep Guardiola was quite satisfied with the performance of the young players in that match. And it seems that victory is not the target of this match.

Maybe for some teams it's an indicator to win a preseason game, but I think it's just to appease themselves, nothing more. For serious teams, it's a chance to release those players that the coaches will definitely not release in EPL matches, because every match is important there and a mistake by a young player can cost a defeat in the end. So the appearance of new players today is a good sign

Guardiola experimented with his squad in this match. So I am not at all surprised that Manchester City lost this match. But I thought City could draw the match. But in the end, Manchester City lost the match by 4-3.

Celtic's two strikers Kuhn and Furuhashi performed well in this match. Kuhn had 2 goals and an assist. Kuhn performed very well in this match. Kuhn's performance helped Celtic beat Manchester City.

Manchester City's defense did not have any experienced players in this match. We don't see Walker, Ake or Gvardiol in the squad. If these three were in the city's defense, Manchester City probably would not have conceded three goals in this match. City's attack was strong in this match but City's defense was weak. The Celtic players made good use of this opportunity.

Many young players had their quality tested by Pep Guardiola in the match against Celtic where Luke Mbete was given the opportunity for this match but in this match he really failed to defend well because statistically Celtic were able to shoot 13 shots and 6 were on target. So in terms of the team's performance in that match, of course Pep Guardiola can learn a lot of things because the defense line is very fragile which makes it difficult for them to dominate the course of the game in this match.
 
Of course, if all the main players play, Manchester City can definitely win this match, but friendly matches are not important matches so defeats and wins are a review for the coach to assess the players who rarely get playing minutes.
Erling Haaland also scored a goal in this match and he also had several good chances but his shot was blocked by Schmeichel.

[Weawant]

Only Guardiola has been better than me — Erik ten Hag brags

This is the fifth year running that Manchester City has dominated the EPL. Pep Guardiola has dominated over every single manager in the EPL including Jurgen Klopp, Mikel Arteta and others. But Erik Ten Hag sees things differently, he says Pep Guardiola is the only manager to have won more trophies than him in recent times. In the past two years where ETH has been Manchester United’s manger, he’s had two trophies to show in his acquisition. But by the standard of Manchester United, this shouldn’t be something to brag about. They have fallen down the pecking order. Manchester United Standard should be competing for league dominance and fighting for UEFA Champions league.

Looking at the stats and the performance of Manchester United in the last two seasons. Do you think Erik Ten Hag has bragging rights?

Come to think of it ETH is right, since he came to the EPL no manager have won any trophy that Man City are also competing and he has been the second best, where we have Arteta, Klopp and the others, you see him getting a trophy out of the two coaches so why are we saying he isn't the second best? Fine Manchester United haven't been pretty good but let's give the man some credit for the little he has done with the side by winning something no matter how small it is and some would want ETH to win the EPL title but he can't win it because they're not up to that level.

I know that in situations like this, the yard stick for measurements has and will always be trophies and of course if that's the case then Eric Ten Hag will always in most cases be considered to have been of a relatively good performance but then again a typical and technical point of view will show otherwise and the obvious will be that he's not that good, he manages to win some trophies I see as weak trophies, as a matter of fact, Manchester city contributed to him winning the FA cup last season so he still remains a poorly performing coach from my perspective. Others may not have won trophies but they have got a much stable team than he's got and their targets are not for any of the low ranking trophies ETH has won.

[SUPERSAIAN]

Today's latest pre-season match result for the Man City vs Celtic match is 3-4. Man City lost in that match, but because it was only a pre-season match, I can understand this result. This is the same as the defeat experienced by several strong teams from the Premier League in this pre-season match. It's just that De Bruyne doesn't seem in the pre-season match. But I see Pep Guardiola giving opportunities to several young Man City players such as Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Jadel Katongo and several other players. And that was their debut in the Man City senior team. And even though Man City lost that match, it seems like Pep Guardiola was quite satisfied with the performance of the young players in that match. And it seems that victory is not the target of this match.

Wow, what a friendly match it was. Even though it was a friendly match for Celtic, I think it was an important win and a really great result to increase pre-season morale and motivation. I think the meaning and importance of this match for Pep Guardiola was not really the victory but a few tries, so I don't think losing is very important and I can understand what he wants to do.

Guardiola always likes to give young players a role and highlight them, of course, friendly matches give him very good ideas to try.

[Leviathan.007]

Trent Alexander-Arnold seems a loyal player for Liverpool. Trent Alexander-Arnold started playing for Liverpool in 2016 and he had good performance during this time, he achieved many titles with his team and won many trophies but Trent Alexander-Arnold he recently had an offer from Real Madrid.
Since he has a good relationship with Jude Blingham this player was about to leave but he is going to stay in Liverpool and it seems Trent Alexander-Arnold is not going to leave his team even for a team like Real Madrid.

[CryptoBuds]

Today's latest pre-season match result for the Man City vs Celtic match is 3-4. Man City lost in that match, but because it was only a pre-season match, I can understand this result. This is the same as the defeat experienced by several strong teams from the Premier League in this pre-season match. It's just that De Bruyne doesn't seem in the pre-season match. But I see Pep Guardiola giving opportunities to several young Man City players such as Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Jadel Katongo and several other players. And that was their debut in the Man City senior team. And even though Man City lost that match, it seems like Pep Guardiola was quite satisfied with the performance of the young players in that match. And it seems that victory is not the target of this match.

Wow, what a friendly match it was. Even though it was a friendly match for Celtic, I think it was an important win and a really great result to increase pre-season morale and motivation. I think the meaning and importance of this match for Pep Guardiola was not really the victory but a few tries, so I don't think losing is very important and I can understand what he wants to do.

Guardiola always likes to give young players a role and highlight them, of course, friendly matches give him very good ideas to try.

Although it was a friendly match, the match was very competitive. Celtic players tried hard to win the match and in the end Celtic team won the match. There is no doubt that Celtic's players have performed well.

On the other hand, Guardiola is experimenting with his squad. We don't see any experienced players in Manchester City's defense today. While City have Haaland and Grealish in attack, they lack experienced players in defence. This is why Manchester City conceded four goals in this match. However, these friendly matches are organized to enhance the experience of young and inexperienced players. But Celtic's players will be more confident after beating a big team like Manchester City.