Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

[Masplanc]

Maybe Rangnick using a different strategy to on-front players for not giving a ball to Ronaldo if they have the opportunity to shoot on goals.

If Rangnick really uses the strategy as you said, I think it is a big mistake. Ronaldo is a goal machine in every team he played, just look at how many goals he scored every season previously. It is very unfortunate if Rangnick doesn't want to take advantage of the big skills owned by Ronaldo in making scores. One of the reasons to bring Ronaldo to Man United is to have an experienced central forward in making goals. Ronaldo is a perfect central forward to make many goals for Man United. Now, it is about how to deliver good assists to Ronaldo, then he can be easier to make goals.

I think label with goal machine for Cristiano Ronaldo on very team he played have been over and now is not his era any more. With over age almost 38 years old Primer League ia not as matching competition for him, need full working if want to be success on Primer League not only asking for creating goal, Cristiano Ronaldo need to help his friend team how can keep help on defensive area. I tjink with Cristiano Ronaldo present close for young player ahow their talent and scoring goal for Manchester United.

The truth is Ronaldo is not as fast and clinical like he was few years ago. The Ronaldo of today do miss a "sitter" quite easily and that is unlike him. Lets not mention his free kicks and ofcourse his penalty of late.
I still believe Ronaldo is obviously better that many central forward and would be good at it with united but the problem is Manchester united is not like City who got players that can really give good passes consistently.

I think Ralf need to work on the attitude of Manchester United players if they ever want to score in every game. Ronaldo is not as fast as he use to be but that doesn't stop him from scoring goals when you give him a killer passing, Ronaldo does not get good passes from his teammates because most of them are always selfish with the ball.

What can be affecting Ronaldo not been speedy as before is age that is telling on him, even at that he is still playing a good role in his team. The reason why Manchester United are being selfish is because every player want to make name and be the man of the match. That's the major problem in the Manchester United.

[Velvet78]

Besides the race for the league title, there is a really good race for the fourth position in the standings too. There are four teams which are in this race very seriously now: Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham. For now, Manchester United are keeping their position there but it might not take too long if they continue to lose points in easy games. They couldn't even defeat Watford in Old Trafford despite trying everything. And Tottenham's performance was really impressive last week as they destroyed Leeds by 4-0 in their away game. Arsenal and West Ham also won their games nicely.

[Dawnfury]

Manchester United needs to be more agressive, I see a post saying Manchester United needs someone like Diego someone the Athletico Madrid Coach.
Do you think the owners if the xkuns has to be changed ?
The management, or they should stop taking Advice from Sir Alex Ferguson?
They should do better than this!

I agree with you that Manchester united needs to be more agressive and they can still achieve this without signing a coach like Diego Semeone they just need to sign quality players they will go a long even getting a trophy to the team.

[alpamar99]

Besides the race for the league title, there is a really good race for the fourth position in the standings too. There are four teams which are in this race very seriously now: Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham. For now, Manchester United are keeping their position there but it might not take too long if they continue to lose points in easy games. They couldn't even defeat Watford in Old Trafford despite trying everything. And Tottenham's performance was really impressive last week as they destroyed Leeds by 4-0 in their away game. Arsenal and West Ham also won their games nicely.

Don't know why but I'm pretty sure with my current prediction that only Arsenal and Manchester United will fight for this position until the end of the season.
Tottenham and West Ham are good clubs but they will only be in 6th and 7th position like last season and the sequence will still be the same as West Ham in 6th and Tottenham in 7th.
But actually I also hope there will be a surprise where in the future Arsenal and Manchester United can make Chelsea threatened

[arallmuus]

Besides the race for the league title, there is a really good race for the fourth position in the standings too. There are four teams which are in this race very seriously now: Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham. For now, Manchester United are keeping their position there but it might not take too long if they continue to lose points in easy games.

Even if United keep on winning there is no guarantee that we might get the 4th spot. Manchester United has 47 points while Arsenal has 45 points but they are 3 games shorter so that means another 9 points potentially if they can win all of it. Arteta's job is pretty much on the line as well so he will make sure that they will win all the remaining games to ensure the 4th spot

[gabbie2010]

Well, you can't blame anyone and especially goalkeepers for missing a penalty. Everyone is under huge pressure and after 11 rounds things get worse..

Yeah that's for sure. I also understand that but you know some guys or trolls never stop it... They always mock whatever chance they get. Still I would say well played Chelsea and Liverpool. We don't see such an entertaining and thrilling cup final that often..

There will always be heavy pressure, especially for Kepa, who is indeed a kick that can be said to be the last executioner for Chelsea and on the other hand he also has to withstand kicks from Liverpool players.
and I quite agree with what you said, no one is to blame for this and Chelsea and the fans have to understand about that because this is also not a wish because everyone wants to win but on the other hand in two teams playing there has to be a winner and someone has to win. the loser

Truth be told I don't see any reason why people should call Kepa all sorts of names because he missed a decisive penalty kick, what I don't understand is the reason behind Mendy's change before the penalty kick. Is it that Mendy does not know how to keep penalties or he was tired and needed some rest? This same Mendy helped his country Senegal to win the just concluded AFCON through penalty kick.

Kepa has been Chelsea penalty shootout specialist for all their previous penalty shootout and had been saving the team, he was in goal when they play penalty shootout in the recently concluded World club Cup, statistically he has a higher rate of savings penalty than Mendy that was why he was brought in, unfortunately he lost the last kick. However that wouldn't change Chelsea position on that aspect.
If you watch AFCON final match between Senegal and Egypt, it was Mendy that was in the post and really did well.

[BALIK]

Besides the race for the league title, there is a really good race for the fourth position in the standings too. There are four teams which are in this race very seriously now: Manchester United, Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham. For now, Manchester United are keeping their position there but it might not take too long if they continue to lose points in easy games.

Even if United keep on winning there is no guarantee that we might get the 4th spot. Manchester United has 47 points while Arsenal has 45 points but they are 3 games shorter so that means another 9 points potentially if they can win all of it. Arteta's job is pretty much on the line as well so he will make sure that they will win all the remaining games to ensure the 4th spot

As Manchester United have put up a formidable performance this season, they do not deserve to be in the top four at the table. Manchester United also failed to win against teams in the relegation zone. I can compare Manchester United with Tottenham. It is not possible to predict the performance of these two teams. They will be in the top four of the table if Arsenal can maintain consistency.

[dezoel]

United had a chance to be fourth for a while, but they have tasted the bliss thanks to others not having the same amount of games. Arsenal will face Chelsea in one of those games but that's about it. We just need to realize that United was not there with their own merit, sure they had some wins and all but that doesn't change the fact that they were not great to begin with.

Now that Arsenal and Spurs will get their games as well, the difference will be closing. United should have took this advantage and took the point difference higher, getting ties is not the way to go when you have such a fragile lead. Let's see what the other teams do before we can judge the situation.

[teddybear]

Everton have made an official inquiry regarding the level of officiating in their matches. Not just the Rodri handball but for other games as well. Would be interesting to see what this results in. Surely, the points wont change but hopefully VAR improves on itself and make lesser errors.

[Spack17]

Everton have made an official inquiry regarding the level of officiating in their matches. Not just the Rodri handball but for other games as well. Would be interesting to see what this results in. Surely, the points wont change but hopefully VAR improves on itself and make lesser errors.

I was really shocked when even VAR made a wrong decision about that very clear penalty. It was an obvious handball and Rodri also blushed after this incident. He also knew that it was a certain penalty. I just don't understand how they can make a huge mistake while there is a great system like VAR. They watch an incident many times to make sure about their decision. But it looks like the referees there should improve themselves to make better decisions in the future.

[teddybear]

Everton have made an official inquiry regarding the level of officiating in their matches. Not just the Rodri handball but for other games as well. Would be interesting to see what this results in. Surely, the points wont change but hopefully VAR improves on itself and make lesser errors.

I was really shocked when even VAR made a wrong decision about that very clear penalty. It was an obvious handball and Rodri also blushed after this incident. He also knew that it was a certain penalty. I just don't understand how they can make a huge mistake while there is a great system like VAR. They watch an incident many times to make sure about their decision. But it looks like the referees there should improve themselves to make better decisions in the future.

I just read an update on that. 

"Premier League clarify that the VAR team didn't think there was conclusive evidence that the ball hit Rodri more in the red area of the arm than the green. Nothing to do with offside"

but even with that explanation, im not satisfied with the result. It clearly looks like the ball hit the red zones conclusively enough. What are your thoughts on that?

[Cryptoblivion]

The VAR has a lot to improve. At this moment it's not used the way it was intended. The fans don't cheer as much as they did back in the days as they always have to wait for the final confirmation and the professionals are still trying to trick the refs as if they couldn't be caught on this the upcoming generations have to learn that this nonsense isn't gonna work anymore

[Woodie]

Manchester United needs to be more agressive, I see a post saying Manchester United needs someone like Diego someone the Athletico Madrid Coach.
Do you think the owners if the xkuns has to be changed ?
The management, or they should stop taking Advice from Sir Alex Ferguson?
They should do better than this!

If its an aggressive Manchester United play style we are trying to build, then i would say that they should start recruiting players from their academy others external players are only going to come to old Trafford for the money and not the passion.
Whatever is going wrong at Manu needs to be sorted out urgently. ..

[Pulsar77]

Manchester City should really count themselves lucky, I agree. Because I strongly believe that Everton's incident must have ended up with a penalty decision. I wonder whether the same referees would make the exact same decision if it was on behalf of Manchester City. If the answer is yes, it is still a problem of course but at least they wouldn't make different decisions depending on the strength of the team. I feel sorry for Everton at this point. I hope that we don't see this kind of faults too often anymore.

[Smartvirus]

Kepa has been Chelsea penalty shootout specialist for all their previous penalty shootout and had been saving the team, he was in goal when they play penalty shootout in the recently concluded World club Cup, statistically he has a higher rate of savings penalty than Mendy that was why he was brought in, unfortunately he lost the last kick. However that wouldn't change Chelsea position on that aspect.
If you watch AFCON final match between Senegal and Egypt, it was Mendy that was in the post and really did well.

This has been a strategy that have seen Chelsea through other seasons and leagues as such, it was hoped to be the game changer for this one too. Tuchel had hoped that, somewhere along the line Kepa might make a good save and the game would be up but, the ball kept finding the net. Kepa made some really good decisionswith the balls but wasn't putting in enough force to send a few out. Unfortunately, all the players were up and doing on there task up to the last minute where Kepa lost them all efforts. The penalty shootout seemed like it wasn't going to end and Alisson delivered such a well taken penalty into the net.

[nurilham]

I was really shocked when even VAR made a wrong decision about that very clear penalty. It was an obvious handball and Rodri also blushed after this incident. He also knew that it was a certain penalty. I just don't understand how they can make a huge mistake while there is a great system like VAR.

There is no problem with VAR, this system is good for sure. The problem is on the match committee who became the observers of VAR. These people must be evaluated and should be investigated further. If they make a mistake as humans, it is acceptable. But if they have something like a tendency to side with Man City, it should be investigated more. Evaluation is very needed related to this case, we don't want to have a match committee who are not professional and not fair to do their tasks.

[Gosgosking]

Manchester United needs to be more agressive, I see a post saying Manchester United needs someone like Diego someone the Athletico Madrid Coach.
Do you think the owners if the xkuns has to be changed ?
The management, or they should stop taking Advice from Sir Alex Ferguson?
They should do better than this!

If its an aggressive Manchester United play style we are trying to build, then i would say that they should start recruiting players from their academy others external players are only going to come to old Trafford for the money and not the passion.
Whatever is going wrong at Manu needs to be sorted out urgently. ..

Manchester United just need young players in the team this can make a change in their performance,  most players in Manchester United don't have strength to play football  I think they are after money.

[Yogee]

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"Premier League clarify that the VAR team didn't think there was conclusive evidence that the ball hit Rodri more in the red area of the arm than the green. Nothing to do with offside"

but even with that explanation, im not satisfied with the result. It clearly looks like the ball hit the red zones conclusively enough. What are your thoughts on that?

They have all the technology and yet they have to "think". How many minutes are they actually allowed to review before they issue a decision during a martch? I would understand some human errors if they don't have much time to check different angles. The second image certainly shows a handball.

[EdenHazard]

Everton have made an official inquiry regarding the level of officiating in their matches. Not just the Rodri handball but for other games as well. Would be interesting to see what this results in. Surely, the points wont change but hopefully VAR improves on itself and make lesser errors.

I was really shocked when even VAR made a wrong decision about that very clear penalty. It was an obvious handball and Rodri also blushed after this incident. He also knew that it was a certain penalty. I just don't understand how they can make a huge mistake while there is a great system like VAR. They watch an incident many times to make sure about their decision. But it looks like the referees there should improve themselves to make better decisions in the future.

I just read an update on that. 

"Premier League clarify that the VAR team didn't think there was conclusive evidence that the ball hit Rodri more in the red area of the arm than the green. Nothing to do with offside"

but even with that explanation, im not satisfied with the result. It clearly looks like the ball hit the red zones conclusively enough. What are your thoughts on that?

There is nothing called 100% sure , even with VAR .. those guys behind the monitor have to make a decision as quick as possible based on that video evidence , i would tolerate for once or twice mistakes as human being ... errors are just normal thing.

This kind debate would still exist and that is part of football seasoning though.

[AndySt]

I think Ralf need to work on the attitude of Manchester United players if they ever want to score in every game. Ronaldo is not as fast as he use to be but that doesn't stop him from scoring goals when you give him a killer passing, Ronaldo does not get good passes from his teammates because most of them are always selfish with the ball.

What can be affecting Ronaldo not been speedy as before is age that is telling on him, even at that he is still playing a good role in his team. The reason why Manchester United are being selfish is because every player want to make name and be the man of the match. That's the major problem in the Manchester United.

In any case, Ronaldo, if used correctly, would be very useful, it's just that Manchester United can't do it. Looking at this, I already sometimes begin to regret that the player's transfer to Manchester City did not take place, because I think that Pep Guardiola and the level of City's players would have allowed Ronaldo's skill to be used better. Therefore, I am not quite sure what the reason for this is, either the Ranger cannot fix it, or simply the level of the players does not allow it. I also agree with the previous comments that Ronaldo is no longer so brilliant at hitting free kicks, which used to be the striker's most powerful weapon.