Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

[ShowOff]

Manchester City are looking so confident at the moment, all thanks to Erling Haaland who has strengthened the team since he completed his move to City. The problem I perceive now in the team is how much they are dependent on Haaland, I imagine the team will struggle to win games if Haaland happens to be sidelined due to injury or suspension.

I think Guardiola has realized that so he also replaces Haaland quite often with another striker in the second half especially when the team is in an advantageous position. So far, Haaland has contributed 14 from 29 goals scored by Manchester City in 8 Premier League match, so Haaland's goals tally almost equals the accumulated goals of all other Manchester City players so it is very natural that many people think Manchester City are starting to depend on Haaland.

As a striker, it is Haaland's job to score goals. But if in the end Manchester City depend on one player then problems will arise when that player is absent. So far Haaland hasn't missed any Manchester City match, so I don't know if Manchester City will have a hard time winning match without him.

[execijutiere]

I don't understand the petition for Haaland, he's a really good player and talented. A new messi/ronaldo/ibrahimovic like talent is developing in front of our eyes. I wonder what would have happened if this was done to messi ronaldo or ibrahimovic. The way he plays, the goals he scores are really enjoyable. He is a very different player for sure.

[kawetsriyanto]

Manchester City are looking so confident at the moment, all thanks to Erling Haaland who has strengthened the team since he completed his move to City. The problem I perceive now in the team is how much they are dependent on Haaland, I imagine the team will struggle to win games if Haaland happens to be sidelined due to injury or suspension.

Haaland makes Man City perfect, he is the ideal striker for Man City. With Haaland, Man City can rely on him as machine goal. He already proved it by creating many goals in UCL or EPL competition. Of course, the problem is when Haaland gets injured a long time. But they have Julián Álvarez as the substitution. Although he is still not as strong as Haaland, he is quite well as the substitution. He showed good perfromance and already score 2 goals in 6 appearances. I think he deserves to be Haaland's substitution. Man City should give more minutes for Álvarez to play, so he can continue to improve his performance.

[RealMalatesta]

I guess it might be time for Leicester City to start picking up more points as they will be playing against smaller football clubs in this couple of weeks, even though Bournemouth are currently sitting above Leicester City on the table in the English Premier League but I think there is a high chance for Leicester City to steal 3 points from the hands of Bournemouth in this upcoming match between these two teams.

Their victory last week was the hope of Leicester City's revival in the league, but Bournemouth also can't be underestimated, in fact in terms of standings they are better than Leicester city now, so I don't think it's as easy as you say for Leicerster City to win this match. Moreover, this will be a home game for Bournemouth which they certainly do not want to lose in front of their own supporters. Home games will usually be very influential for those who are more motivated to win in this match.

Honestly Wolves and Leicester are two teams I did not expect to see at the bottom and it is a bit of a shock to me for sure. I am not saying that they will stay there, of course I believe they will recover from that level too, but I really didn't expected them to be at that level at all, I expected them to be at a mid table level to be fair.

In the end, they are going to recover but to what level? I do not see them becoming like a top 6-7 level team anymore, at the very best they would maybe reach to a point where they would win some games and finish the season 9th at the very best case, and that is already bad enough, so it's definitely a problem.

[AakZaki]

~snip~ They are the champions of the last two years and there are currently no teams that can push them this year apart from Arsenal and Tottenham. I think they have the capacity to continue to dominate the Premier League for a few more years under any circumstance.

Arsenal appeared quite consistent in the competition for the 2022/2023 season.  The Gunners still lead the Premier League standings with 21 points from eight matches.

In the Europa League, Arsenal also lead group A after achieving perfect results in two matches.

English Premier League matches are always the best, no one really becomes the club that dominates the standings, the leader of the standings often alternates.

[Joca97]

One of the matches I'm looking forward to tomorrow will be brighton-totthenham. I think it will be one of the decisive matches for the top sides. Brighton in particular have been performing well this year. They got good results at home. They scored 5 goals against a team like Leicester. They managed to score 3 goals away to Liverpool. They really continue to surprise and I wonder if they will be able to win this match as well.

Brighton is insanely good this season and i think they can go really far,they already won against some big opponents plus everyone who plays against them is really struggling. I think Tottenham wont win easily here,if they get a point in this away game they should be really satisfied.

[Falconer]

I believe Guordiola will have to change or switch the team tactical formation to false nine or convert one of his midfielders to a striker if Erling Haaland is sidelined with injury, with reference to the list of squad submitted by the club and registered for EPL only three forwards Riyad Mahrez, Erling Haaland and Julián Álvarez were listed of which Haaland is the only center forward others are more or less plays in their wings, the club needed a reserve striker especially an unattach experienced striker on free transfer can be signed to support or assist Haaland in case of any eventuality atleast will club will remain consistent in their performances.

Manchester City do not need a backup striker number 9 so far because Pep Guardiola also seems to play a strategy without a center forward quite often. If indeed Manchester City need a backup for Haaland, then I don't think Jesus should be sold to Arsenal.

Julian Ivarez, who has returned from a loan spell from River Plat this season, seems worthy enough to replace Haaland in his absence. Ivarez is also playing well and he has good goal stats as well every time Guardiola plays him. It's just that Ivarez didn't have enough minutes to prove it as long as Haaland was in good form. Ivarez is also a good centre-forward at the moment in the Manchester City squad.

[emrecemsan]

Liverpool have a really difficult job to do against Arsenal in Emirates. They are playing very different in the Champions League. They have shown a more solid look there but somehow they still can't reflect the same effort on the Premier League. By every week, they are getting further from the top and the current gap is already 11 points. Even if Liverpool win their absent match it'd still be a big gap.

Klopp must find a way to increase the motivation level of their defense line. Because the defensive performance against Brighton was horrible. You just can't concede two goals not much time after the match starts against a weaker team. I don't want to underestimate Brighton considering their great start to the season. The thing I want to underline is that there is a big difference in quality but Liverpool can't show this in the league yet. Against Arsenal, I don't expect a win for Liverpool if they continue to perform badly in defense. The safest option seems like BTTS for betting.

[Google+]

Manchester City are looking so confident at the moment, all thanks to Erling Haaland who has strengthened the team since he completed his move to City. The problem I perceive now in the team is how much they are dependent on Haaland, I imagine the team will struggle to win games if Haaland happens to be sidelined due to injury or suspension.

I think Guardiola has realized that so he also replaces Haaland quite often with another striker in the second half especially when the team is in an advantageous position. So far, Haaland has contributed 14 from 29 goals scored by Manchester City in 8 Premier League match, so Haaland's goals tally almost equals the accumulated goals of all other Manchester City players so it is very natural that many people think Manchester City are starting to depend on Haaland.

As a striker, it is Haaland's job to score goals. But if in the end Manchester City depend on one player then problems will arise when that player is absent. So far Haaland hasn't missed any Manchester City match, so I don't know if Manchester City will have a hard time winning match without him.

Of course it will be a big concern for Pep Guardiola if Haaland is injured in the middle of this season. because manchester city so far productivity goals have come from haaland and many football watchers say he will be one of the stickers that other teams have to watch out for and hope they don't hurt him during the game. other than that Mahrez, Alvarez haven't been sharp enough so far in the domestic league or in the champions league so even though Manchester City have other strikers in stock when Haaland is absent of course their quality is very far from what Haaland has shown. in the domestic league Haaland will automatically be the top scorer this season because the goal difference with the nearest competitor is very much different.

[Coyster]

One of the matches I'm looking forward to tomorrow will be brighton-totthenham.

Spurs have to be very careful or else Brighton are going to beat them, there is no doubt about how strong Brighton are this season, just take a look at their position on the table, they are in the top four (fourth position) after 8 games (mind you Brighton have only played 7), to be ahead of 16 teams including quite a lot of top teams isn't an easy feat, i know they'd never finish in the top four, but what they have done thus far deserves an awful amount of credit. I must say Roberto De Zerbi inherited a very strong and compact team from Graham Potters, and it also looks like he also has the same attacking philosophies like his predecessor, because the team never did back down in their last game against Liverpool, which was De Zerbi's first match in charge.

Having said that, Spurs come into this game on the back of a disappointing loss against Arsenal, Conte should work on his philosophies as a manager, a defensive mindset isn't the best, especially when you have quality players like Spurs do, if he continues to sit back in games, he will struggle to win against teams that can hold the ball and move it well.

I don't understand the petition for Haaland, he's a really good player and talented.

The petition is only a joke bro, it is nothing serious.

[arallmuus]

I think Guardiola has realized that so he also replaces Haaland quite often with another striker in the second half especially when the team is in an advantageous position.

That was Pep trying to keep Haaland as fit as possible for the next game. He basically needs Haaland on most of the game but he knows that sooner or later fatigue might kick in so regularly changing him on field is pretty much needed. Gotta be honest that in their current state, playing without Haaland is probably not going to work out perfectly well in their favour

[Alisha-k]

I think Guardiola has realized that so he also replaces Haaland quite often with another striker in the second half especially when the team is in an advantageous position.

That was Pep trying to keep Haaland as fit as possible for the next game. He basically needs Haaland on most of the game but he knows that sooner or later fatigue might kick in so regularly changing him on field is pretty much needed. Gotta be honest that in their current state, playing without Haaland is probably not going to work out perfectly well in their favour

Pep is already satisfied with his total goals scored so far so substituting him will become a normalcy. Haaland has stolen the heart of the EPL and i am quite sure his goal consistency will add more spectators to Etihad stadium this season. I think Pep has realised Haaland has gotten a celebrity striker attached to his profile hence he needs to keep him fit for more matches ahead

[ilovealtcoins]

I think Guardiola has realized that so he also replaces Haaland quite often with another striker in the second half especially when the team is in an advantageous position.

That was Pep trying to keep Haaland as fit as possible for the next game. He basically needs Haaland on most of the game but he knows that sooner or later fatigue might kick in so regularly changing him on field is pretty much needed. Gotta be honest that in their current state, playing without Haaland is probably not going to work out perfectly well in their favour

Haaland is at the center of Guardiola's match strategy. So now if Haaland is injured then its bad effect will be seen in Manchester United's performance. But Guardiola is an experienced coach. He knows very well how to deal with adverse situations. I think Guardiola definitely has an alternative match strategy in place. If Haaland is not in the squad then we will see Manchester City play a new match strategy.

[herurist]

That was Pep trying to keep Haaland as fit as possible for the next game. He basically needs Haaland on most of the game but he knows that sooner or later fatigue might kick in so regularly changing him on field is pretty much needed. Gotta be honest that in their current state, playing without Haaland is probably not going to work out perfectly well in their favour

Pep is already satisfied with his total goals scored so far so substituting him will become a normalcy. Haaland has stolen the heart of the EPL and i am quite sure his goal consistency will add more spectators to Etihad stadium this season. I think Pep has realised Haaland has gotten a celebrity striker attached to his profile hence he needs to keep him fit for more matches ahead

I don't think so, this kind of satisfaction should not be considered because he has to keep scoring goals again and again to set a new record.
Haaland is currently on fire and it is a shame to rest on his laurels so soon especially the league is still very long so he must continue to impress and not let his form drop. Pep knows what he's doing with Haaland and I like something like this.

[Pokapoka124]

Chelsea will easily secure a win against Wolves. Because Chelsea are in much better form than them and Chelsea have good quality players in their team. I expect Chelsea to win 3-0. Their victory with this small team will show motivation for the next games

Wolves are in the relegation zone, of course, it will be more profitable for Chelsea. Chelsea certainly wants to eliminate Brighton from the top 4 of the current standings. 3 points in that game will be important for Chelsea. especially positive results after the match against Milan. Of course, Chelsea has the motivation to get a big win from the Wolves.
I will bet on Chelsea's win.

Wolves have not been so good this season atleast not as good as they have been in previous seasons in the premier league, they seem to have lost that confidence they had and it will take some time I know especially now that they sacked the formal coach I think with time we will begin to see changes in their playing style and character on the pitch. Playing against Chelsea in the weekend should be a test for them to assess their improvement.

[bekti3]

Wolves have not been so good this season atleast not as good as they have been in previous seasons in the premier league, they seem to have lost that confidence they had and it will take some time I know especially now that they sacked the formal coach I think with time we will begin to see changes in their playing style and character on the pitch. Playing against Chelsea in the weekend should be a test for them to assess their improvement.

Wolves are currently still very difficult to navigate the EPL and their comparison this season with last season is clearly very far.
8 matches, 1 win, 3 draws and 4 losses, obviously cannot be said to be good at this time so that in this case Chelsea is clearly very favored, especially at this time Potter still wants to show that he is capable of being a substitute coach for Tuchel well.
The current odds of 1.40 for Chelsea are definitely attractive in my opinion.

[AakZaki]

Together with Potter, Chelsea is now perched in fifth place, only one point difference from fourth, Brighton who packs 14 points.

With this condition, Potter has a great opportunity to displace the position of his former team.

Chelsea, who is on fire, is expected to be able to bend his guest, Wolves. While Brighton will be tested by a strong team, Tottenham Hotspur.

[borovichok]

I think Guardiola has realized that so he also replaces Haaland quite often with another striker in the second half especially when the team is in an advantageous position.

That was Pep trying to keep Haaland as fit as possible for the next game. He basically needs Haaland on most of the game but he knows that sooner or later fatigue might kick in so regularly changing him on field is pretty much needed. Gotta be honest that in their current state, playing without Haaland is probably not going to work out perfectly well in their favour

Yea playing without haaland won't be pleasing to them an their fans, but I think it can work out well because before haaland came they are playing the most attractive football in Europe,so they can do without him but he made them better,he makes them more clinical in front of goal and they can switch style of play with him on the pitch, they can either play the tike -taka style or can switch to a target man style also so he gives them the extra edge.

[BuNga_cute]

I think Guardiola has realized that so he also replaces Haaland quite often with another striker in the second half especially when the team is in an advantageous position.

That was Pep trying to keep Haaland as fit as possible for the next game. He basically needs Haaland on most of the game but he knows that sooner or later fatigue might kick in so regularly changing him on field is pretty much needed. Gotta be honest that in their current state, playing without Haaland is probably not going to work out perfectly well in their favour

Haaland is at the center of Guardiola's match strategy. So now if Haaland is injured then its bad effect will be seen in Manchester United's performance. But Guardiola is an experienced coach. He knows very well how to deal with adverse situations. I think Guardiola definitely has an alternative match strategy in place. If Haaland is not in the squad then we will see Manchester City play a new match strategy.

It's true that Guardiola really needs Haaland in his strategy, we can see almost every game Haaland is always a starter. Moreover, every time he is
played as a starter, Haaland can always give a satisfying performance. The impact of losing Haaland must be huge for Man City, that's why Guardiola
should consider doing a rotation by keeping Haaland on the bench when Man City face a weak team. So that Haaland doesn't get tired and avoids injury,
but if something bad happens and Haaland gets injured. I don't think Guardiola will worry, because Guardiola still has Julian Alvarez, which so far
has been quite satisfying every time given the chance to play. Or it could be Guardiola changing the playing strategy, because I think Guardiola is
a great coach and also creative, so Guardiola must have a solution if Haaland is injured. But I hope Haaland won't get injured and can play until
the end of the season, because I wonder how many goals Haaland scored until the end of the season.

[Alanaz]

Together with Potter, Chelsea is now perched in fifth place, only one point difference from fourth, Brighton who packs 14 points.

With this condition, Potter has a great opportunity to displace the position of his former team.

Chelsea, who is on fire, is expected to be able to bend his guest, Wolves. While Brighton will be tested by a strong team, Tottenham Hotspur.

Saying On Fire is still an exaggeration in my opinion because Potter is still trying several matches with the scheme he applies.
Currently they are in a period of revival and Wolves until now still can't play well so they must get full points in this match.
Now Auba has also started to play like the savior of the club as he did at Barcelona in the face of adversity and obviously this is something very good.