Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

[masulum]

Maybe it was a bad idea to replace Unai Emery with Mikel Arteta to be in charge of Arsenal, when Unai Emery was in charge of the team, at least Arsenal are still able to compete with other teams for a spot on the table in order to qualify for the Uefa Europa League.

The worst team in choosing a new coach from "a player who has just retired as a player", I feel Arsenal are the most wrong in choosing a coach. In the history of several clubs that have used new coaches from retired players, as far as I know, they have not reached a few strips above the relegation zone, at least they can still be in 1-10 of the standings. Arsenal must change their decision immediately, it's better to try to warn Arteta or fire him immediately to keep their chance to the UEFA League next season. His strategy doesn't works and now his relationship with several players are not good.

[skarais]

I think Liverpool was the biggest surprise of the week in the Premier League.However nothing changed in the standings as both Chelsea,Tottenham and Manchester City didn’t manage to win in their respective games.It looks like this year Liverpool will not be going a lot of points further and it is going to be an open Premier League till the end of it.

We continue to be surprised by the unexpected results in the English premier league. Liverpool should win a game that look easy for them. Despite having 75% possession of the ball, they weren't lucky enough to score. 6 shot on target did not result in a goal, until finally they had to settle for 1 point after Salah's penalty goal. The standing look quite tight, whether it will last until the end of the season or not.

[rodrigobitcoin]

I think Liverpool was the biggest surprise of the week in the Premier League.However nothing changed in the standings as both Chelsea,Tottenham and Manchester City didn’t manage to win in their respective games.It looks like this year Liverpool will not be going a lot of points further and it is going to be an open Premier League till the end of it.

We continue to be surprised by the unexpected results in the English premier league. Liverpool should win a game that look easy for them. Despite having 75% possession of the ball, they weren't lucky enough to score. 6 shot on target did not result in a goal, until finally they had to settle for 1 point after Salah's penalty goal. The standing look quite tight, whether it will last until the end of the season or not.

I think it too, they didn't play very well, that's what went wrong. They had no luck but at the same time they looked different than they did last season. It seemed like an easy game for Liverpool to play, but it turned out to be more complicated than we expected.

[Globb0]

Allllllllllllllllllrighty then!

Here is the table and top 15 players.

Not too long t wait more football during the week this week.

[Igebotz]

Allllllllllllllllllrighty then!

Here is the table and top 15 players.

Not too long t wait more football during the week this week.

Your top player's table is not current James has been out for several games and still rank above Son and Bruno?besides Brino won player of November. I don't understand the selection criteria

[Globb0]

I think all the rating are a bit skewed. I'm sure we normally see some 8.4's also

And looking if its this guy you mean,



I see he didn't play last game but sure enough he did an 8.4 a few games back so probably raised his averages there.


With all the weird losings and draws the players table is a bit jumbled but averages will win through.

Kane seems to have taken his spot and DeB is always there too

[leea-1334]

December has always been the toughest month when betting on Premier League: too many games in a short amount of time. For LFC Spurs I would go for an under 2,5 goals while I could agree with the other results.
Another game for me would be West Ham - CP where I see the hammers winning

And even worse during Corona season. I think teams who had injuries earlier on may actually benefit from the season later,,, me I am always worried for the seasonal Kane injury that must come sooner or later. If we can protect him and Son, Spurs can go really far, but we always have this injury problem and I can feel it bearing down on us at some point.

Just need to win against Liverpool for a cushion.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

Not confident about us (Liverpool) beating Spurs Wednesday. We’re absolutely decimated by injuries, I’ve never seen a team suffer an injury crisis like it, it’s really ruining my enjoyment of this season. I’ll always be there cheering my team on but the injuries coupled with covid & mostly empty stadiums really blows.

Edit - VAR is ruining everything too.

[cryptofrka]

Yeah, Tottenham is really coming at the worst possible time for us. I'm surprised as well we've got so many injury issues, it's a specific season but this is way too much.

I hope Thiago will be able to play because we might be forced to put Henderson in defence. Williams is a good potential but going against Kane might be a bit too much and Nat Phillips is simply a guy to fill out the numbers. If we put him in, he will lose us the game.

Another problem is that Jota is out and we can't rotate the attack, they all played a bad game against Fulham and will probably be tired, so we can't expect to outscore Spurs. Only good thing is that we're playing at home, and in front of some fans. Hope it will be enough, I'd be happy with a draw at this point.

[DIA7]

very terrible results from Arsenal.
You would expect more from them especially at home against a mediocre team like Burnley.
Making them snatch 3 points to get out of bottom 3.
Football critics now should be now turning their heads towards Arteta as he is not getting the results he is expected to deliver

Hahahaha, very funny way for you to put it, describing Burnley as a mediocre team. A mean, last season, Burnley was terrifying to me, I could neither place a win or against them bet for me. They were very challenging and they often dragged there games to a draw. I still carry that feeling about them and as such, them having this kind of result against a team you can't say if it's really a top team isn't that surprising.
It's just so bad that Arsenal has been in the game for this long and haven't really earned a place to be title contenders. I guess this is why critics haven't really faced off with Arteta. When it comes to Arsenal, its just a matter of doing enough to stay in business. A sad one for the fans who are expecting a lot though.

Arsenal 0-1 Burnley
Leicester 3-0 Brighton

Good game for Leicester city, Madison might have had the day but, Jamie Vardy always finds his way to get on the list and he still remains the man for me. Well earned 3 points.

a lot of teams that were performing well last season seen a drop like Sheffield and Burnley but this season they are not getting the results.
Sheffield lost some key players and Burnley didn't recruit any player worth mentioning. For sean dyche his performance last season has deceived him.
It's true that we are not even near half the games in but before this game Burnley had 6 points from 11 games and only 5 goals scored in them so that statistics is alarming.

[3meek]

Tomorrow I might take a risk and bet on the express - a win for Chelsea and Man City...
Yesterday, by the way, there was no sensation and Southampton confidently beat Sheffield... Congrats to everyone who won with them!

[nikola22]

What happen with Arsenal because they have problem on Messut Ozil position because right now not any Arsenal Player have mission like Ozil by giving best quality asist for Aubameyang and Lacazatte, I think both Arsenal forward right now look difficult how to make score and so far more than 14 games Aubameyang only make two goals, very frustrated for Aubameyang because have forget how to scoring gial in this season, will Mikel Arteta give second chance for Ozil make debut in primer league on Januari window transfer or Ozil will left Arsenal.

it seems like team got the black streak in the Premier League and Mikel Arteta has a real chance to be sacked. maybe only good performance in the Europa League helped him to stay as a head coach.

[arallmuus]

Tomorrow I might take a risk and bet on the express - a win for Chelsea and Man City...

Not really a risk at all considering that both are heavy favourites. Chelsea will be playing against Wolves and Wolves is not really a threat to Chelsea. On the last 5 matches, Wolves has only won 1 time and that was against Arsenal. Arsenal is considered one of the worst team currently so its not really a big deal to win against Arsenal at all

Meanwhile Manchester City will be playing against West Brom which is one of the bottom 3 team right now with only 1 win out of 12 matches so far. Not a big threat as well and both favourites should win easily

[fullhdpixel]

Liverpool has a very good reason why they haven't been as good as last year, even though they are very good this year as well and will probably become champions, they can't be as good as last year where they were undefeated for a very very long time. That reason is Virgil Van Dijk. When you are missing your best defender, someone who would worth over 100 million if you ask me because you can't replace such player, you are going to be a little worse as a team. This would have happened if Salah was injured, or mane was injured, or any of the big starters were injured, same goes for VVD as well.

[Ratash]

Tomorrow I might take a risk and bet on the express - a win for Chelsea and Man City...

Not really a risk at all considering that both are heavy favourites. Chelsea will be playing against Wolves and Wolves is not really a threat to Chelsea. On the last 5 matches, Wolves has only won 1 time and that was against Arsenal. Arsenal is considered one of the worst team currently so its not really a big deal to win against Arsenal at all

Meanwhile Manchester City will be playing against West Brom which is one of the bottom 3 team right now with only 1 win out of 12 matches so far. Not a big threat as well and both favourites should win easily

I agree with you that man city mach is not risky considering that westbrom are on the bottom struggling but chelsea match is tricky wolves are not in a good form in the last five matches and they did not score in the last two and that is the more reason to be motivated so i think they will at least score and i will be betting on both teams to score.

[gabbie2010]

What happen this year to arsenal is really terible...this lose was not expected at all and many arsenal fans though that this must be the new beggening for arsenal but this lose will spread total doubt and panic among the team...also they will receive southhampton in the next round and this match will be prety hard

Personally I felt bad as an arsenal fan, It has never been as worst as it now even in the era Arsene Wenger things had never gone from bad to worst, it high time Arteta  benched some of  indisciplined players to reset their brains, if arsenal cannot defeat a relegation team then what is their chances of defeating a top or mid-table team?  how will they defeat in-form Southampton next weekend? the board should take a drastic decision now before that team becomes subject of ridicule.

Someone said this because Arteta did not include Ozil in the 2020-2021 squad, but I myself don't understand whether Ozil's presence will greatly affect the results and if Arteta changes his mind is it possible to added Ozil in the list of squad at the middle of the season? I don't know it allows for changing up player's squad at the middle of the season.

Arsenal is lacking creativity in the midfield in the absence of Ozil this man will create a final pass for their strikers to score goals Abumegang is not getting those killer passes, the present bunch of players in the midfield lack the tactical ability to create those passes, the likes of Ceballos. Wilnock, Partey and Elneny who ought to be creative as well as attacking midfielders are not doing enough, they are all playing holding midfield without attacking with the ball except holding possessions which is absolutely useless without scoring goals.
Its likely that Arteta brings him back into the squad provided he is not sacked before his arrival a link to the story https://the96illusion.com/2020/12/13/mikel-arteta-hints-possible-ozil-return-to-arsenal-squad/

[DIA7]

What happen this year to arsenal is really terible...this lose was not expected at all and many arsenal fans though that this must be the new beggening for arsenal but this lose will spread total doubt and panic among the team...also they will receive southhampton in the next round and this match will be prety hard

Personally I felt bad as an arsenal fan, It has never been as worst as it now even in the era Arsene Wenger things had never gone from bad to worst, it high time Arteta  benched some of  indisciplined players to reset their brains, if arsenal cannot defeat a relegation team then what is their chances of defeating a top or mid-table team?  how will they defeat in-form Southampton next weekend? the board should take a drastic decision now before that team becomes subject of ridicule.

Someone said this because Arteta did not include Ozil in the 2020-2021 squad, but I myself don't understand whether Ozil's presence will greatly affect the results and if Arteta changes his mind is it possible to added Ozil in the list of squad at the middle of the season? I don't know it allows for changing up player's squad at the middle of the season.

Arsenal is lacking creativity in the midfield in the absence of Ozil this man will create a final pass for their strikers to score goals Abumegang is not getting those killer passes, the present bunch of players in the midfield lack the tactical ability to create those passes, the likes of Ceballos. Wilnock, Partey and Elneny who ought to be creative as well as attacking midfielders are not doing enough, they are all playing holding midfield without attacking with the ball except holding possessions which is absolutely useless without scoring goals.
Its likely that Arteta brings him back into the squad provided he is not sacked before his arrival a link to the story https://the96illusion.com/2020/12/13/mikel-arteta-hints-possible-ozil-return-to-arsenal-squad/

Exactly if Arsenal still wants to be a relevant club they should back Arteta despite the poor results as they're not in a shape of cycling managers and if they look to Manchester United it was not working for them despite their spending on players so if Arteta manages to stay up to January which I think he should.
Also he needs to get rid of the dead weight. They hold on too long only  players who shouldn't be part for the club.
They get chance after chance and blew it.
Xhaka should never play a game for Arsenal again. I never understood why all the Arsenal managers likes Xhaka so much. I think that he was always looking like a liability in their midfield I think his suspension will be a help.

[Renampun]

Tomorrow I might take a risk and bet on the express - a win for Chelsea and Man City...
...

Chelsea must win in order to move up to the top 3...
I really believe Chelsea will be able to win by a score of 2-0 at Wolves home. btw, M City will definitely win too, they are definitely afraid to embarrass themselves at home.

[hahay]

Liverpool has a very good reason why they haven't been as good as last year, even though they are very good this year as well and will probably become champions, they can't be as good as last year where they were undefeated for a very very long time. That reason is Virgil Van Dijk. When you are missing your best defender, someone who would worth over 100 million if you ask me because you can't replace such player, you are going to be a little worse as a team. This would have happened if Salah was injured, or mane was injured, or any of the big starters were injured, same goes for VVD as well.

The lack of players like Virgil van Dijk is not fulfilled. He is a very talented defender. But I think the main reason why Liverpool is not performing as well as the previous season is because of Salah's injury. Also, many Liverpool players are now injured. Having so many players injured will definitely have a bad effect on the team.

So far this season Salah has only been absent once against Leicester, Salah's absence is due to injury but the final result is Liverpool still winning the match 3-0. When Liverpool lost big against Aston Villa 7-2 in reality Virgil van Dijk was still playing and it was Liverpool's first defeat this season in PL. So, I'm not sure if Virgil van Dijk is a factor for Liverpool's inconsistency, as there are a lot of injured players including new player Thiago Alcantara which I think is really welcome.

[arallmuus]

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I agree with you that man city mach is not risky considering that westbrom are on the bottom struggling but chelsea match is tricky wolves are not in a good form in the last five matches and they did not score in the last two and that is the more reason to be motivated so i think they will at least score and i will be betting on both teams to score.

How tricky? Chelsea needs to win after their dramatic defeat against Everton. They lose only because of the penalty on the 1st half and Chelsea was dominating the whole game. It could have ended with draw but it wasnt because of the penalty so I expect Chelsea to be taking those rage against Wolves

I normally would go for both team to score because Wolves scores most of the time against those big teams but Chelsea probably would be getting cleansheet on this match

So far this season Salah has only been absent once against Leicester, Salah's absence is due to injury

He had covid19