Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

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Losing Gundogan has actually been a big loss for the club. And now De Bruyne must also rest and recover from the injury he experienced. And of course this will have a lot of effect on Manchester City's performance. But Manchester City are still lucky because they have Foden who is always ready to replace De Bruyne's position. Although he is not as good as De Bruyne. But still he is still an extraordinary player. All the club can hope for is that De Bruyne recovers quickly and can return to playing. Well, maybe for half the season De Bruyne will be out. But it is hoped that in the second half of the season he can return to the field. But usually players who have been injured have to adapt again if they want to return to their previous best performance.

The loss of two mainstay players in the midfield this season has begun to be felt by Manchester City. Gundogan has left the squad while De Bruyne has to step aside, a situation like that certainly makes Pep Guardiola very confused and he must admit that the team's performance is starting to decline. But there is another side that makes City not so worried about the current situation, Kovacic's presence would certainly be the right alternative to overcome this problem and of course Guardiola had to change his scheme a little by placing John Stones as a defensive midfielder and giving roles to Kovacic and Foden as team rhythm controller. I think that scheme will be implemented by Guardiola.

[Spack17]

De Bruyne is a better team player compared to Foden. He is thinking of his teammates to score more. I can say that there is a great cooperation between De Bruyne and Haaland in most of their matches. For this reason De Bruyne's absence can affect the productivity of the team in a negative way.

Foden will most probably be the replacement for him now as you also have mentioned. He is a lovely player with great individual skills. Even though he doesn't have the same characteristics with De Bruyne I hope to see him showing a good level of performance in the meantime.

[Falconer]

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I dont know what player can currently replace him on that position with the similar quality. He has been the brains behind a lot of attacks of Man City in the previous season and without him this is gonna cause problems. We seen already against Sevilla that there were many problems in getting that direct ball for the goal.

So far it has been difficult to find a suitable replacement for Kevin De Bruyne at Manchester City, but it is not impossible.
Pep Guardiola is a coach figure who is able to optimize the appearance of a player under his care so that I think he can get a suitable replacement for De Bruyne in the future. Of course he needs time, but I think Pep Guardiola can.

Cole Palmer is one who will probably continue to improve under Pep Guardiola. He has a good game as an attacking midfielder, but Cole Palmer is not as good as De Bruyne. Cole Palmer will need time and hard work to reach his high level of play, but only if he is to stay a little longer.

[rendravolt]

De Bruyne is a better team player compared to Foden. He is thinking of his teammates to score more. I can say that there is a great cooperation between De Bruyne and Haaland in most of their matches. For this reason De Bruyne's absence can affect the productivity of the team in a negative way.

Foden will most probably be the replacement for him now as you also have mentioned. He is a lovely player with great individual skills. Even though he doesn't have the same characteristics with De Bruyne I hope to see him showing a good level of performance in the meantime.

It's clear that these two players are different, Kevin De Bruyne is more of a creative midfielder, while Phil Foden is a hole-hunting midfielder. I think in terms of character Kevin De Bruyne is very strong in setting the tempo of the game for his colleagues so he often creates opportunities through the assists he has made to convert as goals. Meanwhile, Phil Foden is more towards midfielders with the ability to dribble past several of his opponents before finally giving assists or shooting the ball directly towards goal. So even though Phil Foden will now start more often as a replacement for Kevin De Bruyne due to injury, I think he needs a lot more adaptation with the other players.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

De Bruyne is a better team player compared to Foden. He is thinking of his teammates to score more. I can say that there is a great cooperation between De Bruyne and Haaland in most of their matches. For this reason De Bruyne's absence can affect the productivity of the team in a negative way.

Foden will most probably be the replacement for him now as you also have mentioned. He is a lovely player with great individual skills. Even though he doesn't have the same characteristics with De Bruyne I hope to see him showing a good level of performance in the meantime.

KDB is one of, if not the most important City player. Without him they would not have had the trophy laden years they’ve had under Pep. Foden is a top player but make no mistake about it, they are going to miss KDB. A 4 month absence will hurt City, no doubt about it.

[Avirunes]

De Bruyne is a better team player compared to Foden. He is thinking of his teammates to score more. I can say that there is a great cooperation between De Bruyne and Haaland in most of their matches. For this reason De Bruyne's absence can affect the productivity of the team in a negative way.

Foden will most probably be the replacement for him now as you also have mentioned. He is a lovely player with great individual skills. Even though he doesn't have the same characteristics with De Bruyne I hope to see him showing a good level of performance in the meantime.

KDB is one of, if not the most important City player. Without him they would not have had the trophy laden years they’ve had under Pep. Foden is a top player but make no mistake about it, they are going to miss KDB. A 4 month absence will hurt City, no doubt about it.

^^100% agreed... Over these months they have lost two most experienced players in their midfield region- De Bruyne and Gundogan. City plays possession game and these two were great in finding players in tight spaces which really give City a winning edge. I am sure with now KDB gone they will really have tough time finding goals.

KDB injury is gonna be a huge head scratcher for Guardiola now.

[QueenVera]

De Bruyne is a better team player compared to Foden. He is thinking of his teammates to score more. I can say that there is a great cooperation between De Bruyne and Haaland in most of their matches. For this reason De Bruyne's absence can affect the productivity of the team in a negative way.

Foden will most probably be the replacement for him now as you also have mentioned. He is a lovely player with great individual skills. Even though he doesn't have the same characteristics with De Bruyne I hope to see him showing a good level of performance in the meantime.

KDB is one of, if not the most important City player. Without him they would not have had the trophy laden years they’ve had under Pep. Foden is a top player but make no mistake about it, they are going to miss KDB. A 4 month absence will hurt City, no doubt about it.

I think they both have their different attributes at Manchester City but it's very right to say Kelvin Debruyne is one of the pillars of Manchester City and they lack a little creativity playing without him, it was proven in the champions league final against intermilan when he was taken off due to an injury and it became tougher for Manchester City to control the Midfield area therefore Intermilan took advantage and started pressing more in the 2nd half of the game,  also if you noticed yesterday's game lacked the presence of Debruyne and it would had been much easier if he were present yesterday because there was no connection from the midfield area to Haaland and that's one of Debruyne's specialities, connecting with Haaland by delivering some brilliant passes to him that most times leads to goal, this is something Foden couldn't do, no doubt he's skillful and has pace and could be very relaible during counter attacks but in matches when they'll be playing against a defensive team like Sevilla they'll need a player that could break into the opposition defense line and deliver good passes from the striker to convert into a goal, Pep Guardiola misses him infact the entire squad misses him and it's time for Pep to restrategise or sign in a new player that offers same attributes as Debruyne to stand in for him in situations of injuries or fatigue.

[Helena Yu]

De Bruyne is a better team player compared to Foden. He is thinking of his teammates to score more. I can say that there is a great cooperation between De Bruyne and Haaland in most of their matches. For this reason De Bruyne's absence can affect the productivity of the team in a negative way.

Foden will most probably be the replacement for him now as you also have mentioned. He is a lovely player with great individual skills. Even though he doesn't have the same characteristics with De Bruyne I hope to see him showing a good level of performance in the meantime.

Foden haven't give any big contribution for Manchester City, I think Pep could sell him and replace with the other player. He's one overrated player because his market value is 105 Million Euros, due to his poor performance, I don't think there's a team would want to spend such huge amount to buy him.

Manchester City is actually in danger, they can lose many points if they can't find the solution about the absence of De Bruyne.

[TopT3ns]

I dont know what player can currently replace him on that position with the similar quality. He has been the brains behind a lot of attacks of Man City in the previous season and without him this is gonna cause problems. We seen already against Sevilla that there were many problems in getting that direct ball for the goal.

The influence of Kevin De Bruyne is very important, and this is why when a team depends on one player, it will be difficult for them to find a replacement because the advantage of Kevin De Bruyne is that it is very difficult to be replaced by other players, which finally made Manchester City's match yesterday not very good. We wish Kevin De Bruyne a speedy recovery and hope he starts giving his best contribution to Manchester City again.Without Kevin De Bruyne, Manchester City will find it difficult to win in every match to come.

[SOKO-DEKE]

De Bruyne is a better team player compared to Foden. He is thinking of his teammates to score more. I can say that there is a great cooperation between De Bruyne and Haaland in most of their matches. For this reason De Bruyne's absence can affect the productivity of the team in a negative way.

Foden will most probably be the replacement for him now as you also have mentioned. He is a lovely player with great individual skills. Even though he doesn't have the same characteristics with De Bruyne I hope to see him showing a good level of performance in the meantime.

I don't think anybody will argue about it because it is clear and easy to believe that De Bruyne is a great player and his absence will seriously affect Manchester City's performance. Since I have been watching Manchester City games whenever De-Bruyne is absent in the field, I always quickly witness because that midfield does not always look creative compared to when De-Bruyne is in the field. Foden is also a great young player, but I don't think that he can do the work of DE-Bruyne. In fact, recently, I may say that Foden has lost form compared to how it was the last two seasons, or maybe because he didn't have much playing time last season, and again, the absence of De-Bruyne will also affect Haaland's scoring performance because I have witnessed this season's matches against Arsenal and Sevilla.

[sana54210]

Compared to Manchester City and Sevilla match, Sevilla performed exceptionally well. And during the match I thought Sevilla would normally be able to win the match. But more importantly, Sevilla's attacking players missed something spectacular. In terms of which defeat is normal. However, Manchester City felt the lack of Kebin DeBruina thoroughly.

I do agree that City had a bit of a trouble beating Sevilla but in the end they did it anyway and that's all that matters. As long as we are talking about a win, this was a win and how close it was doesn't really matter. Sevilla almost won, it was penalties, a few balls go a few inches left or right and suddenly they are the winners, but that did not happen.

Now that City won, they have 4 cups in a single year, and they have a chance to make it 5 as well with club world cup as well. I do not know how it will go, but I think they will probably do it. That's the important thing, if teams win cups, that returns as money and they can then use that money to win and be better as well and should be able to keep the momentum going.

[Oneandpure]

KDB is one of, if not the most important City player. Without him they would not have had the trophy laden years they’ve had under Pep. Foden is a top player but make no mistake about it, they are going to miss KDB. A 4 month absence will hurt City, no doubt about it.

Pep Guardiola is smart manager and he was success move up several player position as head coach in several teams, when becoming Bayern Munich manager he was success give new position for Joshua Kimmich before as left defender and success with new position as holding midfielder. I believe with Pep magician will be success in Manchester City giving new position for Phil Foden as attacking midfielder than usually his position on winger left or right side. Its seems not many choose on attacking midfielder for Manchester City, current midfielder left have games play as holding midfielder from Mateo Kovacic, Rodri and Kalvin Phillips.

Upcoming next match in Premier League against Newcastle United and looking how possibility with new position for Phil Foden, will be permanent move up as attacking midfielder until Kevin De Bruyne back from injury or Guardiola will use other player as attacking midfielder.

[puloweh555]

The influence of Kevin De Bruyne is very important, and this is why when a team depends on one player, it will be difficult for them to find a replacement because the advantage of Kevin De Bruyne is that it is very difficult to be replaced by other players, which finally made Manchester City's match yesterday not very good. We wish Kevin De Bruyne a speedy recovery and hope he starts giving his best contribution to Manchester City again.Without Kevin De Bruyne, Manchester City will find it difficult to win in every match to come.

Indeed, the absence of Kevin De Bruyne had a major influence on Man City's attacks in building Man City's playing scheme in general. Apart from that, Haaland has also become unproductive, not even showing his best performance in his football career.

In important matches and several big matches he looks infertile, that's because even the opposing team from game to game studies opposing players who they consider predatory. However, this is an advantage for Man City, the opponent will be outnumbered by players and will lose in attack strategy because they will focus on blocking passes to Haaland and guarding more than 1 player. Pep Guardiola took advantage of that, because that's why the second line has always been active in Haaland's shadow in the last few matches. If it's Haaland's problem, maybe Pep Guardiola can handle it, but Kevin De Bruyne's injury problem, Pep Guardiola, doesn't seem to have found a solution. Maybe Pep should immediately find a replacement for Kevin De Bruyne who has the same skills in building Man City attacks.

[lizarder]

Foden haven't give any big contribution for Manchester City, I think Pep could sell him and replace with the other player. He's one overrated player because his market value is 105 Million Euros, due to his poor performance, I don't think there's a team would want to spend such huge amount to buy him.

Manchester City is actually in danger, they can lose many points if they can't find the solution about the absence of De Bruyne.

Losing both creative midfield will definitely affect Man City's attack line because there are no accurate passers to reach the attackers. Phil Foden also has good cruising range in midfield but the drawback is not being able to provide a pass as accurately as De Bruyne. Last night's game against Sevilla can serve as a comparison and even though they dominated both possession and attack, Haaland struggled to put himself in a position to score.

Pep Guardiola will definitely try to rotate and I'm sure he wasn't satisfied with Phil Foden's performance against Sevilla because he wasn't able to provide many measured passes to the attackers, so Man City only managed to score one goal through Palmer and Haaland struggled to score because there weren't many measurable bait that reaches him.

[Docnaster]

The influence of Kevin De Bruyne is very important, and this is why when a team depends on one player, it will be difficult for them to find a replacement because the advantage of Kevin De Bruyne is that it is very difficult to be replaced by other players, which finally made Manchester City's match yesterday not very good. We wish Kevin De Bruyne a speedy recovery and hope he starts giving his best contribution to Manchester City again.Without Kevin De Bruyne, Manchester City will find it difficult to win in every match to come.

Indeed, the absence of Kevin De Bruyne had a major influence on Man City's attacks in building Man City's playing scheme in general. Apart from that, Haaland has also become unproductive, not even showing his best performance in his football career.

In important matches and several big matches he looks infertile, that's because even the opposing team from game to game studies opposing players who they consider predatory. However, this is an advantage for Man City, the opponent will be outnumbered by players and will lose in attack strategy because they will focus on blocking passes to Haaland and guarding more than 1 player. Pep Guardiola took advantage of that, because that's why the second line has always been active in Haaland's shadow in the last few matches. If it's Haaland's problem, maybe Pep Guardiola can handle it, but Kevin De Bruyne's injury problem, Pep Guardiola, doesn't seem to have found a solution. Maybe Pep should immediately find a replacement for Kevin De Bruyne who has the same skills in building Man City attacks.

I actually do not know how long Kelvin De Bruyne is gonna be sidelined because of the injury he picked last time in the first half of their first English Premier League match of  the season but I trust that Pep Guardiola knows how to perfectly handle his absence from the club.
But if he thinks there's no other player in Manchester City's squad that can replace the injured Belgian, City should then sign another creative midfielder that can do the things he does for the club.

[Razmirraz]

Compared to Manchester City and Sevilla match, Sevilla performed exceptionally well. And during the match I thought Sevilla would normally be able to win the match. But more importantly, Sevilla's attacking players missed something spectacular. In terms of which defeat is normal. However, Manchester City felt the lack of Kebin DeBruina thoroughly.

I do agree that City had a bit of a trouble beating Sevilla but in the end they did it anyway and that's all that matters. As long as we are talking about a win, this was a win and how close it was doesn't really matter. Sevilla almost won, it was penalties, a few balls go a few inches left or right and suddenly they are the winners, but that did not happen.

Now that City won, they have 4 cups in a single year, and they have a chance to make it 5 as well with club world cup as well. I do not know how it will go, but I think they will probably do it. That's the important thing, if teams win cups, that returns as money and they can then use that money to win and be better as well and should be able to keep the momentum going.

Winning is important, but the process leading to victory is far more important. Manchester City had to fight their way into extra time and go to penalties to beat Sevilla to win their fourth title in one season. Manchester City's appearance was a little off balance even though they were able to control the game, losing De Bruyne greatly affected Manchester City's attack, he has always been Guardiola's mainstay because of his skills able to increase Manchester City's goals.

He has always been a differentiator in the Manchester City squad, the beautiful cross that has come from his feet has often ended up being a goal, Haaland is the player who has had the most assists from De Bruyne in scoring. Manchester City is on their best journey, at the moment they are still difficult to contain. The four trophies that have been obtained have further motivated the players to continue their success stories.

[Huppercase]

I see the loss of the figure of Kevin De Bruyne greatly affecting the performance of the Manchester City team, their front line is not well organized and there is not enough supply of balls for strikers, this is dangerous for Man City in the next match because they will lose Kevin De Bruyne who is absent for 6 months due to injury.

You are right, so far Kevin De Bruyne role has been very important in building Manchester City's attack. He has been likened to the brain of an attacker who can read the opponent's gap, but now Manchester City losing him for several months is a bad sign. In my opinion, it is very difficult to replace the role of Kevin De Bruyne, therefore Pep Guardiola must think hard to find other options. Especially after losing Gundogan when he was still at Manchester City he could replace Kevin De Bruyne.

I dont know what player can currently replace him on that position with the similar quality. He has been the brains behind a lot of attacks of Man City in the previous season and without him this is gonna cause problems. We seen already against Sevilla that there were many problems in getting that direct ball for the goal.

Judging by the kind of quality Kelvin De Bruyne brings to the  Manchester City side whenever he's playing, there's no doubt that his creativity in the attacking of Manchester City wouldn't be greatly missed.
Against Sevilla yesterday, City struggled to create goalscoring chances and that's because De Bruyne wasn't on the pitch. Pep Guardiola I know isn't a novice to this kind of issues and I know he'll find the perfect style that'll keep his City side going once again

De Bruyne is underated in Manchester City and when I see the comparison and his contribution been toyed and argued, it shows many don't like him or maybe it was because his a Midfielder instead of a winger or striker but the fact that he was nominated for UEFA mens player of the year along side with Messi and Haaland shows that the guy is goated, his contributions and assists last year was a top notch, only sallah comes close to what he did but he had 4 ahead of Sallah, he was the key to their success in Premier League.

Manchester City felt his absence yesterday and I will repeat it again that it was the reason why Haaland suffer and was running throughout in the match they had with Sevilla in Super Cup, we saw how he contributed 2 assists in a match out of the what Haaland scored in most of their matches and the reason why Messi is always ranked ahead of Ronaldo is because of the assists and goals he score, if De Bruyne is a striker, he would have done more than what we have seen in Manchester CIty. I'm waiting for him to recover back to match to take his place in assists ranking.

[Queentoshi]

^^100% agreed... Over these months they have lost two most experienced players in their midfield region- De Bruyne and Gundogan. City plays possession game and these two were great in finding players in tight spaces which really give City a winning edge. I am sure with now KDB gone they will really have tough time finding goals.

KDB injury is gonna be a huge head scratcher for Guardiola now.

Injuries is really affecting a lot of teams, Kevin De Bruyne for Manchester City to add to John Stones, Timber for Arsenal, Tyrone Mings for Aston Villa, and now Chelsea's captain Reece James for Chelsea to add to the problems that they have with Nkunku out. All these clubs will have to find a way to make up and make sure that these injuries do not affect their campaign. Manchester City coach is smart, he will be able to find a temporary solution until Kevin De Bruyne returns, Arsenal coach also still has options to play until he returns much later, and Chelsea have replacements, they have many young and talented players. These things are not planned, but coaching has to do with handling any kind of situation you face.

[skarais]

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^^100% agreed... Over these months they have lost two most experienced players in their midfield region- De Bruyne and Gundogan. City plays possession game and these two were great in finding players in tight spaces which really give City a winning edge. I am sure with now KDB gone they will really have tough time finding goals.

KDB injury is gonna be a huge head scratcher for Guardiola now.

Currently Manchester City not only lost Kevin De Bruyne due to injury, but they also had Bernardo Silva with the same problem. I'm not sure when these two players will return to the squad, and of course both are important players that Pep Guardiola really needs.

In the match against Sevilla yesterday, Pep Guardiola really felt the impact of losing his midfielder. He played Phil Foden, Rodri and Mateo Kovačić in midfield, but not as well as Manchester City played with De Bruyne and Bernardo. Pep Guardiola knows what his team is lacking at the moment, but he is a genius coach who might be able to find the best options to find a good team form.

[Lida93]

I see the loss of the figure of Kevin De Bruyne greatly affecting the performance of the Manchester City team, their front line is not well organized and there is not enough supply of balls for strikers, this is dangerous for Man City in the next match because they will lose Kevin De Bruyne who is absent for 6 months due to injury.

You are right, so far Kevin De Bruyne role has been very important in building Manchester City's attack. He has been likened to the brain of an attacker who can read the opponent's gap, but now Manchester City losing him for several months is a bad sign. In my opinion, it is very difficult to replace the role of Kevin De Bruyne, therefore Pep Guardiola must think hard to find other options. Especially after losing Gundogan when he was still at Manchester City he could replace Kevin De Bruyne.

I dont know what player can currently replace him on that position with the similar quality. He has been the brains behind a lot of attacks of Man City in the previous season and without him this is gonna cause problems. We seen already against Sevilla that there were many problems in getting that direct ball for the goal.

Judging by the kind of quality Kelvin De Bruyne brings to the  Manchester City side whenever he's playing, there's no doubt that his creativity in the attacking of Manchester City wouldn't be greatly missed.
Against Sevilla yesterday, City struggled to create goalscoring chances and that's because De Bruyne wasn't on the pitch. Pep Guardiola I know isn't a novice to this kind of issues and I know he'll find the perfect style that'll keep his City side going once again

De Bruyne is underated in Manchester City and when I see the comparison and his contribution been toyed and argued, it shows many don't like him or maybe it was because his a Midfielder instead of a winger or striker but the fact that he was nominated for UEFA mens player of the year along side with Messi and Haaland shows that the guy is goated, his contributions and assists last year was a top notch, only sallah comes close to what he did but he had 4 ahead of Sallah, he was the key to their success in Premier League.

Manchester City felt his absence yesterday and I will repeat it again that it was the reason why Haaland suffer and was running throughout in the match they had with Sevilla in Super Cup, we saw how he contributed 2 assists in a match out of the what Haaland scored in most of their matches and the reason why Messi is always ranked ahead of Ronaldo is because of the assists and goals he score, if De Bruyne is a striker, he would have done more than what we have seen in Manchester CIty. I'm waiting for him to recover back to match to take his place in assists ranking.

He (Kelvin Debryune) is really goated indeed! You don't seem to find two of his kind of talent in the EPL and stretching to Europe as a whole when searching for talented midfielders. He has always been the powerhouse of City's goals in the two previous seasons in all competitions.

With what we saw in Manchester City performance against Sevilla with no goal from Haaland am only but wondering how City will be able to get a comeback should Newcastle gets to score first this weekend. Cause Newcastle are in one of their best form at the moment and who will be doing the delivery passes to Haaland now that Debryune is out to injury. That game is going to be tough for the City's.