Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025

[Rockstarguy]

With the new Chelsea board and management, I feel like I can not bet on Chelsea to win and lose at the same time. Chelsea is likely to struggle in many games this season, and I can’t afford to bet on them losing. Every team seems to be chasing a better version of Guardiola, but Chelsea doesn’t measure up mentally or tactically. I didn’t see any new patterns of play today in fact, the style they played today was disappointing and made little sense.

Chelsea still have a lot to improve this season if they want to compete better in the Premier League, because if they don't improve their way of playing in every game, it will be very worrying that they will have to fight not to be relegated this season. Because all other teams in the Premier League at this time (excluding the promoted teams) have made more significant improvements so that they can compete in every game even if they have to lose, but not ridiculously.

Don you think it is too early to judge Chelsea's performance from the first game they played for the season, and we all know it was a game played against the strongest team in the premier league. If Chelsea had played their game with any random premier league and they failed to win  then we can quickly express the dissapointment. I know Chelsea have not been performing well for a longtime and fans was expecting to see something different in the first game. There is still enough time to see what Chelsea will be upto in their games this season,  I don't want to use this first game to make conclusions.  

[Xcode7]

City are also not in their best form now, Guardiola said that some players returned late from holidays and this affects their game, like Foden, who joined the team just a few days ago, look how difficult it was for him to play, I did not see his usual acceleration. I say this because City are also far from their best form. And Chelsea played a very weak match, yes, they tried to be active in some moments, but they looked very weak in many episodes, this was especially noticeable in the attack, and Maresca's substitutions did not work either, so City brought this match to a logical conclusion.

It is too early to say that Maresca failed, if we look at Chelsea's performance in the match it was not that bad, it's just that they were a little unlucky even though Chelsea had many dangerous opportunities.
This result is not so surprising because Man City deserved to win this match, they have a stronger strength than Chelsea even though City did not play at their top performance but they had no difficulty in winning this match.

And for Enzo Maresca, he still needs time for him to build Chelsea, the results from playing against the strongest PL team at the moment (Man City) I think are not appropriate to be used as a benchmark.

[SmartCharpa]

Holy Moly! After Chelsea spent lots of money in the summer window, and our performance is still crap. I hate to say this, but i want a refund for my time watching this. It's very obvious that if Maresca is the next potter. And we sacked Pochettino to completely destroy the club. Chelsea looked much much better under Poch and even when Poch did not had a full fit squad last season.

And the worst part is, when we see the fact that if Enzo can't even play in any positions. He can't play as number 10, 8 or 6. We wasted 90 million to get a horrible talent like him. Whenever Enzo F played for us, we lost.

Gallagher is 10 times better than Enzo F. I prefer to keep Gallagher, but we got scammed by buying Enzo for a silly price.

Chelsea was lacking the best number 10 against Manchester City, despite spending a lot of money on the transfer. No team has signed as many players as Chelsea and seen the result in their first game of the season. Look at the way Kovačić handled the ball and controlled the midfield for Manchester City. The last time Manchester City won an away game without Rodri was in 2022, and now they won without him against Chelsea. The midfield failed to provide passes to its attackers, even though they want to sell Gallagher, Enzo Maresca should have started the game with Palmer as the midfield.

However, I am not sure how poorly Sterling and Madueke performed in the pre-season games that Maresca chose not to bring them against Manchester City, but I feel that if they were in that match, Chelsea would attack more than they did yesterday because no position was good in Chelsea's performance.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Chelsea are the only team I think have over 40 players and they're still in a confused state with Enzo Maresca talking about much players and they need to discard some players, like why are they making things difficult for themselves? By the way all these happened as a result of Sterling not being listed in yesterday's game which I think wasn't proper, he wasn't on the bench and even on the first eleven of the squad it made him (Sterling) and his representative questioned the manager's decision, why he wasn't listed and Enzo Maresca is even defending his actions, like why would you drop someone like Sterling who gives everything when it comes to the club and that game he was suppose to be involved but he wasn't, which to me I think Chelsea want to sell this guy off the club since they started avoiding him to be included in a big game as yesterdays' and they shouldn't forget that Sterling is bigger than the likes of Mudryk, Madueke, Chukwuemeka and the rest who was not in that game, he should be given that respect.
Having so much players on the team and now the manager is confused on who to start or drop, even his decision making while making a sub is not even sharp to change the outcome of the game, well this is just the beginning of so much explanation, Enzo Maresca need to know his 1st eleven before the next 5 games.
#Chelsea House Of Commotion...

[Frankolala]

Holy Moly! After Chelsea spent lots of money in the summer window, and our performance is still crap. I hate to say this, but i want a refund for my time watching this. It's very obvious that if Maresca is the next potter. And we sacked Pochettino to completely destroy the club. Chelsea looked much much better under Poch and even when Poch did not had a full fit squad last season.

And the worst part is, when we see the fact that if Enzo can't even play in any positions. He can't play as number 10, 8 or 6. We wasted 90 million to get a horrible talent like him. Whenever Enzo F played for us, we lost.

Gallagher is 10 times better than Enzo F. I prefer to keep Gallagher, but we got scammed by buying Enzo for a silly price.

Chelsea was lacking the best number 10 against Manchester City, despite spending a lot of money on the transfer. No team has signed as many players as Chelsea and seen the result in their first game of the season. Look at the way Kovačić handled the ball and controlled the midfield for Manchester City. The last time Manchester City won an away game without Rodri was in 2022, and now they won without him against Chelsea. The midfield failed to win of their matches in which they clashed.

I don't know why people especially Chelsea fans think that they can win City or draw the match like last season when it is not the same coach of last season or have they forgotten about that. Pocchetino was able to understand Pep's football pattern and thay was the advantage that he had which made it difficult for City to win Chelsea.

This is a different coach entirely with some new players making it difficult for the players to understand themselves easily and also adopting the new pattern of Maresca. In my wild dream, I will not see Chelsea winning City in yesterday's match.

[Cryptmuster]

It is unusual to see the odds 2.06 for City to win, I understand that it is not yet clear what to expect from Chelsea, how Maresca will be able to influence the team, but I think that the odds for City are a little overstated. So far I have only drawn conclusions from friendly matches and I have not seen anything outstanding from Chelsea there, and this is not surprising, they are only at the stage of creating a new team, not all the new players have been able to adapt, so it seems to me that City will not have a hard time coping with such a team. And Maresca will most likely need quite a lot of time for Chelsea to start playing, as it was at the end of last season with Pochettino, when he also needed quite a lot of time for this. Chelsea's defense is also not in the best condition, so I expect City to win, and at least two goals against Chelsea.

I personally don't want to expect too much about Chelsea even though Chelsea is playing at home because basically Chelsea is still in the process of forming with its new coach. Although indeed, Enzo Maresca also has good experience, but when it comes to Chelsea then I think it is not easy for the coach to shape Chelsea to be better in a short time. Therefore, I also agree that Enzo Maresca still needs more time to be able to provide good  results for every match played by Chelsea.

But indeed, the first match at the beginning of this season was at least a very inopportune moment for Chelsea and Enzo Maresca, because in the first match they had to face a difficult team that had a trophy streak. Therefore, although Chelsea play at home,  but I believe there is no good chance for Chelsea to win but at least, to provide good and strong resistance can also still be done by Chelsea at least for a draw result. But still, I also more confident for Manchester City victory in this match.

Expected victory of City, I said that the odds for Chelsea were too high, it was not worth expecting anything from Chelsea now, especially against City. In the game of Chelsea, I was most upset by the attack, Jackson looked good, but after his substitution it became even worse, Neto tried to add some activity, but his actions were clumsy and sometimes rude.

And City in their style achieved 3 points, yes we can say that Chelsea is at the stage of formation of a new team, but only Boehly is to blame for this, he decided that it was appropriate after the dismissal of Pochettino Chelsea should go through this again. By the way, Boehly demonstratively left his place 10 minutes before the end of the match, it is clear that he is unhappy with such a game of his team, but what did he expect...

[rendravolt]

What to expect from Chelsea? they don't even have any value to argue about even though this season has started.

It's funny to see Chelsea's game which is still directionless and honestly even if they make another major overhaul it won't have a significant impact on determining the desired result. I'm happy to see Manchester City destroy all their hopes and maybe this will still be quite a big trauma for the Blues squad. Enzo Maresca should have stayed at Leicester and not ruined his brilliant career in this ridiculous team.

Haaland has opened his first goal this season and there is no doubt he will be able to win the top scorer once again. On the other hand, Kovacic made Manchester City secure their victory after scoring a goal with his hard kick and he refused to celebrate in front of his former team. What a miserable night for Chelsea and once again the change was not real at all.

[Weawant]

So much replies have been focused on Chelsea vs Manchester city fixture over the weekend and it's not one I will see as been unexpected because much was expected of Chelsea form their fans and even others who aren't fans but wanted to see what their performance will look like after all the transfer they have been engaged in.

Looking at other games in the premier league over the weekend, I got some entertainment from the Liverpool game as it appears with their new coach they are already appearing promising starting off so well, Manchester United got my attention too but in that game fullham impressed me the most, so far the season looks like it's got a lot to look forward to both around the big teams and the small teams in the premier League.

[Arenga pinnata]

What to expect from Chelsea? they don't even have any value to argue about even though this season has started.

It's funny to see Chelsea's game which is still directionless and honestly even if they make another major overhaul it won't have a significant impact on determining the desired result. I'm happy to see Manchester City destroy all their hopes and maybe this will still be quite a big trauma for the Blues squad. Enzo Maresca should have stayed at Leicester and not ruined his brilliant career in this ridiculous team.

Haaland has opened his first goal this season and there is no doubt he will be able to win the top scorer once again. On the other hand, Kovacic made Manchester City secure their victory after scoring a goal with his hard kick and he refused to celebrate in front of his former team. What a miserable night for Chelsea and once again the change was not real at all.

Seeing how Man City scored two goals in that match, it was even more painful for Chelsea. Because we can see that Chelsea's defense seemed confused for a moment. This is where it is important to have experienced players in a squad. Relying on too many young players is too risky. Everything must be balanced with several senior players who can be trusted to set an example for the young players. But this is only the start of the season so we can't draw any conclusions from this early match.

There is only one match left, namely the Leicester vs Tottenham match and I find it difficult to predict which team will be my favorite in that match.

[bitLeap]

Chelsea still have a lot to improve this season if they want to compete better in the Premier League, because if they don't improve their way of playing in every game, it will be very worrying that they will have to fight not to be relegated this season. Because all other teams in the Premier League at this time (excluding the promoted teams) have made more significant improvements so that they can compete in every game even if they have to lose, but not ridiculously.

Don you think it is too early to judge Chelsea's performance from the first game they played for the season, and we all know it was a game played against the strongest team in the premier league. If Chelsea had played their game with any random premier league and they failed to win  then we can quickly express the dissapointment. I know Chelsea have not been performing well for a longtime and fans was expecting to see something different in the first game. There is still enough time to see what Chelsea will be upto in their games this season,  I don't want to use this first game to make conclusions.  

Overall judging Chelsea first match, I think they deserved to lose, but that doesn't mean Chelsea won't develop in the future. So lose they still lose because Man City is superior and Man City's defense is very solid.  now Chelsea must be motivated to work harder, it doesn't matter if they lose the first match, there are still the next matches. The Premier League is a long journey, there will always be ups and downs in performance. If I'm not mistaken, Todd Boehly left the stadium before the match ended, indicating his dissatisfaction because he had spent a lot of money to collect players. But I think it was also his own fault because he was careless in buying players but the quality of the players he bought was not at all as expected.

[Roseline492]

Don you think it is too early to judge Chelsea's performance from the first game they played for the season, and we all know it was a game played against the strongest team in the premier league. If Chelsea had played their game with any random premier league and they failed to win  then we can quickly express the dissapointment. I know Chelsea have not been performing well for a longtime and fans was expecting to see something different in the first game. There is still enough time to see what Chelsea will be upto in their games this season,  I don't want to use this first game to make conclusions.  

Even if we know that Chelsea performance sometimes is not encouraging but this there match against Manchester City I don't think is right for us to judge them because we had already know that Manchester City performance is more higher than Chelsea and besides even if Manchester City win the match but we annot also forget that Chelsea tried there best, so I think the only time we should judge or have a doubt about Chelsea performance is only when they are not able to win there next match against wolves that's when we can say that they have a weak team because already wolves is not that good on this season so they shouldn't be a too much problem for Chelsea.