Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

[AprilioMP]

I also think that Raheem Sterling should also be taken off.

Should Sterling be replaced? Who do you think would be good in Sterling's position?
Pochettino actually brought out Enzo Fernamdez.

Chelsea might end up winning this game after all Manchester City ended up winning the game against West Ham after being one goal down.

Chelsea should have won with the many opportunities created by Chelsea. Until the 78th minute which gave birth to the first corner kick for Bournemouth, Chelsea had taken 6 corner kicks.
This match is very tight. Have you watched them? Look at how David Coote, who acted as referee, didn't see the handball in the 80th minute. David Coote should have seen VAR.
I'm waiting for a goal in these eight minutes of added time.

There is something odd about your post in the middle of discussing Chelsea, you mentioned Manchester City's victory.

[Yogee]

It would be fun if a bookie would open a line on who between Ten Hag and Pochettino will be booted out first hehe. Either of them may have a valid argument as to why the teams they manage have been mediocre so far but still not enough to excuse them from their accountability. Who would you pick just in case?

[bitLeap]

Chelsea started this first half so far with a brilliant performance, and I love the men that Pochettino featured in this game, it shows that he's fully out to win today's game. Ugochukwu and Gallagher's coordination is interesting, and Raheem Sterling's finishing with the ball hasn't been smart enough hence Chelsea would have been leading in this game. If Chelsea maintains the consistency which I have seen in this match Chelsea will most likely go home with the 3 points.

brilliant? isn't this still a setback?

On the other hand, I was quite disappointed with Chelsea game from the first half until the final minute, they never scored a single goal. Even though the opponent is Bournemouth, Chelsea quality should be superior. In this match, there was nothing more I could hope for because there were no attacks that would give Chelsea the potential to score a goal. With a 0-0 result, Chelsea is getting closer to the bottom of the standings. So don't say Chelsea's performance is brilliant if the final result is bad.

[Spaceman1000$]

Chelsea started this first half so far with a brilliant performance, and I love the men that Pochettino featured in this game, it shows that he's fully out to win today's game. Ugochukwu and Gallagher's coordination is interesting, and Raheem Sterling's finishing with the ball hasn't been smart enough hence Chelsea would have been leading in this game. If Chelsea maintains the consistency which I have seen in this match Chelsea will most likely go home with the 3 points.

I don't even see brilliant performance from chelsea. Chelsea is still showing the same shitty performance like previous match. The club keeps repeat the same gameplay. I tell you that if chelsea is never playing the beauty of football.
This club is becoming a club with most backpass. What i was seeing from chelsea is just doing back pass over and over again. I don't even see the players were trying to build creative attack.
Chelsea has no improvement since the previous match. Chelsea needs only to change is strategy like use 4-3-3 offensive which was helping jackson a lot in attacking its opponent.
I saw that some useless players like sterling which is always driblling when he got the ball.

I'm having same thought as well, Chelsea young team hasn't shown any sign of seriousness on this match. Bournemouth has shown serious counter attack towards the ending of the second half. The finisher's at the Chelsea front run are not converting the opportunities.
Pochettino would have come with madueke, because that guy has a different force than N.jackson that he likes playing.
Though I don't support the decision of the referee not giving that penalty to Chelsea. That's was clearly a hand ball that was stopping a potential goal.

[marcous]

I don't even see brilliant performance from chelsea. Chelsea is still showing the same shitty performance like previous match. The club keeps repeat the same gameplay. I tell you that if chelsea is never playing the beauty of football.
This club is becoming a club with most backpass. What i was seeing from chelsea is just doing back pass over and over again. I don't even see the players were trying to build creative attack.
Chelsea has no improvement since the previous match. Chelsea needs only to change is strategy like use 4-3-3 offensive which was helping jackson a lot in attacking its opponent.
I saw that some useless players like sterling which is always driblling when he got the ball.

Even though the Blues attacking performance looked very bad in distributing the ball, the final finishing was not very good. Chelsea players lost a lot of the ball for no apparent reason, despite winning overall ball possession. At first glance, Pochettino squad played worse than Bournemouth, the strategy that Pochettino implemented seemed unclear. Three points should be easy to get, because on paper the depth of the two squads is very different, a draw cannot change Chelsea position on the standings.

Mudryk, Jackson and Sterling can't be starters anymore I think, their quality is very far from expectations. It's true that Chelsea hasn't improved at all, I agree with you. With that style of play, Chelsea is no different from a club at the bottom of the standings.

[Sakanwa]

Everton vs Arsenal


It looks like Mikel Arteta is really focused on today's game against Everton at Goodison Park. He's chosen Raya as the goalkeeper instead of Ramsdale. Gabriel Jesus is back and in good shape, but he's starting with Nketiah, and Havertz is on the bench. Let's see what Arsenal can achieve today. I predict they might win 3-1.

The Arsenal game vs Everton is really going to be a tough game for Arsenal,just like I said for Chelsea, predicted a sure draw in that match and it has played for anybody who followed my prediction.This weekend is the best weekend of my prediction,as all the games I predicted played according to my predictions.Arsenal will face Everton in 20 minutes time,in a game that Arteta and Arsenal will be looking forward to breaking the jinx at Goodison park where Everton have always been winning.
Arteta have made some changes in his starting line up knowing how difficult it is to go to Goodison park and get a win.Now I make my prediction in this one again,Arsenal will get an ugly win in this encounter.Maybe it might be 0:1 or 1:2. Let's look forward to an interesting first half of the game.

[Bananington]

It would be fun if a bookie would open a line on who between Ten Hag and Pochettino will be booted out first hehe. Either of them may have a valid argument as to why the teams they manage have been mediocre so far but still not enough to excuse them from their accountability. Who would you pick just in case?

I do not think any of the coaches will be booted out. For Ten Hag, he already proved himself last season where Manchester United were able to qualify for the Champions league. They know he is a good coach who is just trying to manage the crisis in the team. Chelsea's coach was given a long contract and Chelsea is looking promising, and have developed from how bad they were last season, they have not just found a pattern yet. They are lucky to have a point from the game, they would have lost had Bournemouth been good at scoring. The present Brighton team is way better than the present Chelsea team. Aston Villa will be Chelsea's next opponent, Chelsea are at risk of dropping more points even though they play at home.

[Docnaster]

I don't even see brilliant performance from chelsea. Chelsea is still showing the same shitty performance like previous match. The club keeps repeat the same gameplay. I tell you that if chelsea is never playing the beauty of football.
This club is becoming a club with most backpass. What i was seeing from chelsea is just doing back pass over and over again. I don't even see the players were trying to build creative attack.
Chelsea has no improvement since the previous match. Chelsea needs only to change is strategy like use 4-3-3 offensive which was helping jackson a lot in attacking its opponent.
I saw that some useless players like sterling which is always driblling when he got the ball.

Even though the Blues attacking performance looked very bad in distributing the ball, the final finishing was not very good. Chelsea players lost a lot of the ball for no apparent reason, despite winning overall ball possession. At first glance, Pochettino squad played worse than Bournemouth, the strategy that Pochettino implemented seemed unclear. Three points should be easy to get, because on paper the depth of the two squads is very different, a draw cannot change Chelsea position on the standings.

Mudryk, Jackson and Sterling can't be starters anymore I think, their quality is very far from expectations. It's true that Chelsea hasn't improved at all, I agree with you. With that style of play, Chelsea is no different from a club at the bottom of the standings.

Chelsea's overall performance this season has been very poor and the new manager Mauricio Pochettino must step up his game in other to have a successful campaign in his first season at the club. This is the first English Premier League match that ended in a goalless draw since the start of the season.
Bournemouth who are yet to win a league match since the start of the season will be happy with the result which has handed them their third league draw of the season instead losing to a big club like Chelsea.

[red4slash]

Such an unfortunate day for Manchester United. Now I can really see how bad their condition is these days. I expected them to have difficulties against Brighton. But they even lost by 3-1 in Old Trafford. There were serious vulnerabilities in defense. Varane and Sofyan Amrabat were both injured and this was also a factor in this.

Rashford was quite selfish in this game and wasted many opportunities. He could have helped Hojlund score a goal on a few dangerous attacks as well. I really wonder what this team will do in the Champions League. I have less expectations from them now.

They have not been able to get out of the condition that makes them feel disappointed because they lost the match. From this result, I agree that this is a picture of those who are still struggling to form a stable and consistent squad. When the main players cannot be played it is very pronounced in their form of play. I was initially quite confident in ETH, but I now have doubts when I see their development that has not yet been seen. Once in a while they can play well and also get a win, but at the same time they also show something unsatisfactory, and it happens not just once or twice.

[EarnOnVictor]

Yesterday all favorites won except Manchester United who once again had a lot of difficulties against Brighton and lost their game 1-3.Other than that everything went smoothly with Manchester City,Tottenham,Liverpool and Newcastle all won their games and made a lot of money to people who bet them or parlayed them together.

Manchester united performance this season is something else, from their last two previous game it seems they are becoming very unstable . Manchester United have lose more games  from all the games they have lose. Eric Ten Hag needs to quickly do something to help the teams performance to become stable now the season hasn't gone far.

Hehehe...thank goodness that C. Ronaldo is no more there again, little time they would have blamed it on him. I thought Man U is now better than this but I was so wrong, although Brighton has been impressive of late, from nowhere, they have been maintaining tough stuff and might maintain this for long. Despite this, West Ham beat them impressively, there's no reason why Man U should not beat them if they are in good shape as well. What I see with Man U is that they are still not out of the woods yet and part of me is happy because they would have been praising Erik Ten Hag like one demi-god now and laying blame on all the efforts of the past coaches. Man U's situation is not improving, the defence is not encouraging and they do not have that kind of offensive front.

[bitzizzix]

Chelsea started this first half so far with a brilliant performance, and I love the men that Pochettino featured in this game, it shows that he's fully out to win today's game. Ugochukwu and Gallagher's coordination is interesting, and Raheem Sterling's finishing with the ball hasn't been smart enough hence Chelsea would have been leading in this game. If Chelsea maintains the consistency which I have seen in this match Chelsea will most likely go home with the 3 points.

brilliant? isn't this still a setback?

On the other hand, I was quite disappointed with Chelsea game from the first half until the final minute, they never scored a single goal. Even though the opponent is Bournemouth, Chelsea quality should be superior. In this match, there was nothing more I could hope for because there were no attacks that would give Chelsea the potential to score a goal. With a 0-0 result, Chelsea is getting closer to the bottom of the standings. So don't say Chelsea's performance is brilliant if the final result is bad.

I was also very disappointed with the draw against Bournemouth because I thought this was Chelsea's chance to get 3 points against Bournemouth, but in reality Chelsea couldn't score at all throughout the match.
Even though Chelsea dominated the game with 66% ball possession and made 14 attempts, 6 shots on goal did not result in a goal. And Chelsea is increasingly at the bottom of the standings, and Pochettino must take responsibility for Chelsea's bad results so far and must immediately make improvements before it goes too far.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Chelsea started this first half so far with a brilliant performance, and I love the men that Pochettino featured in this game, it shows that he's fully out to win today's game. Ugochukwu and Gallagher's coordination is interesting, and Raheem Sterling's finishing with the ball hasn't been smart enough hence Chelsea would have been leading in this game. If Chelsea maintains the consistency which I have seen in this match Chelsea will most likely go home with the 3 points.

But they didn't maintain the consistency because Bournemouth had the second half and Chelsea were just lucky that they didn't concede because Bournemouth outplayed Chelsea. Chelsea started the game well but it seems everything change when mudrky was removed. Although he wasn't contributing much to the game but his understanding with Jackson was the reason we had the first leg under control but immediately he was removed from the game, Bournemouth find a breakthrough and started domination the game in the second half. I'm surprised Chelsea didn't concede in the second half of the games because we had so many chance of going 1-0 down but Bournemouth couldn't take their chances. Pochettino is constantly providing he isn't the main man for the Chelsea job because I haven't seen any improvements since he took charge of the club.

Chelsea should have won with the many opportunities created by Chelsea. Until the 78th minute which gave birth to the first corner kick for Bournemouth, Chelsea had taken 6 corner kicks.

Winning a game isn't about corners or ball possession because if it was about that then Chelsea would have won this game but we lack finishers and that's the genesis of our crises. Today game was a disaster because Bournemouth aren't the best of opponents that we should be scares about. Chelsea didn't just want to win this games because if they truly wanted to win the game then they should have done it in the first half because that was when we had the advantage of the games as we dominated the first half and should have been abel to score multiple goals. I was confident about this game because the manager changed formation and included players that he won't have normally started like Mudrky but they didn't impressed the coach and I won't be surprised if he starts his usual lineup in the next match because everybody is just a flop at the club.

[RockBell]

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Old Trafford isn't anymore the stronghold it used to be.

I can see why you're saying this with the way they lost to Brighton and they haven't been that convincing in their home wins. It's still 1 loss out of 3 so I wouldn't come to that conclusion yet. Smaller teams may have lost their fear and respect to a certain extent playing at Old Trafford but I think MU will still manage to win most of their home games.

Aside the game Brighton played against united is not the only reason that dude made that statement of Old Trafford, the whole thing was rated by there performance, since thing season started Manchester united have not been the self and instead of them to start solving there problem, they are acting has if they don't care. And the way smaller teams are looking very dangerous, posing a challenge to practically every club. Even though West Ham did not win, I was impressed with the manner in which they played Manchester City. Manchester United will be doomed this season unless they improve their performance next week.

[Despairo]

Mudryk, Jackson and Sterling can't be starters anymore I think, their quality is very far from expectations. It's true that Chelsea hasn't improved at all, I agree with you. With that style of play, Chelsea is no different from a club at the bottom of the standings.

Then, what you expect the best Chelsea's lineup? Madueke, de Souza, and Broja?

Hell no, it's worst than Jackson and Sterling, but Mudryk must be benched because he contribute nothing since the first match.

I already expect Chelsea will not win, but I can't predict if it's draw or Bournemouth would win. Chelsea can't do anything now, they only can hope the opponent make a mistake like Maguire scoring own goal.

[iBaba]

Everton vs Arsenal


It looks like Mikel Arteta is really focused on today's game against Everton at Goodison Park. He's chosen Raya as the goalkeeper instead of Ramsdale. Gabriel Jesus is back and in good shape, but he's starting with Nketiah, and Havertz is on the bench. Let's see what Arsenal can achieve today. I predict they might win 3-1.

The Arsenal game vs Everton is really going to be a tough game for Arsenal,just like I said for Chelsea, predicted a sure draw in that match and it has played for anybody who followed my prediction.This weekend is the best weekend of my prediction,as all the games I predicted played according to my predictions.Arsenal will face Everton in 20 minutes time,in a game that Arteta and Arsenal will be looking forward to breaking the jinx at Goodison park where Everton have always been winning.
Arteta have made some changes in his starting line up knowing how difficult it is to go to Goodison park and get a win.Now I make my prediction in this one again,Arsenal will get an ugly win in this encounter.Maybe it might be 0:1 or 1:2. Let's look forward to an interesting first half of the game.

Man U and Chelsea are like two ropes tied in same hook. They are currently facing same challenges in terms of underperformance. I can't imagine Sterling not able to do the sterling thing today.. But both team really needs to brace up to give the fans the confidence.

On the other side, it's less than 15 minutes and I cannot wait to see how Arsenal will grind Everton in the match. From the formation I'm pretty sure Arsenal wants to finish the game from first half having Martinelli, Nketiah and Saka at the forefront. Jesus will come in at the right time to do his finish. This match will be interesting.

[abhiseshakana]

Chelsea started this first half so far with a brilliant performance, and I love the men that Pochettino featured in this game, it shows that he's fully out to win today's game. Ugochukwu and Gallagher's coordination is interesting, and Raheem Sterling's finishing with the ball hasn't been smart enough hence Chelsea would have been leading in this game. If Chelsea maintains the consistency which I have seen in this match Chelsea will most likely go home with the 3 points.

brilliant? isn't this still a setback?

On the other hand, I was quite disappointed with Chelsea game from the first half until the final minute, they never scored a single goal. Even though the opponent is Bournemouth, Chelsea quality should be superior. In this match, there was nothing more I could hope for because there were no attacks that would give Chelsea the potential to score a goal. With a 0-0 result, Chelsea is getting closer to the bottom of the standings. So don't say Chelsea's performance is brilliant if the final result is bad.

Chelsea's performance wasn't that bad, but if it was considered brilliant I think it's not even close to it. They could have won this match because they managed to win possession of the ball, it's just that they have difficulty establishing their rhythm, so there aren't many opportunities that they can create. Even when they actually get a good chance, it still fails to become a goal because they didn't have a good finishing touch.

[makishart]

The poor defense is an undeniable fact, this also the same problem with the previous season. Surprisingly, MU/Ten Hag did not try to do the best in the last window transfer to get some great defender. What they have spent during the last window transfer is not worth comparing to their performance in this early stage of the new season. Who to blame? I have to say all, starting from the management, the coach and also the whole squad. If there is no important improvement in their performance in the upcoming several matches, I think the management should consider to sack Ten Hag.

I agree with you, but to replace Ten Hag they have to wait until the middle of the season. We know that currently there are several internal problems including injuries, so at least we have to wait for everything back to normal I think that would be fairer. Management must also consider Ten Hag's achievements with Manchester United last season, they managed to finish in 3rd place meaning they are able to do it if there are no problems, it's just that currently they have several problems that impact their performance.

It's not even taking so long just to replace ten hag yet the club must still give him more chances. Too many problems in united that made whole of its players were loosing their focus to get full points in EPL. Another reason if brighton is now evolving into the strong team. It's still under manchester city but brighton's performance was undeniable at this moment. Mu just needs to admit the superiority of brighton and zerbi this season. MU may also face the same situation against bayern next week in UCL. Another issue is coming up after ten hag was not sure when antony will be back again to the manchester united. The club needs him even though antony's performance sometimes looked so garbage. Mu is not yet losing all of its hopes this time. There is still chance for the club to wake up again.

[Coyster]

Chelsea and Bournemouth with the first goalless draw of this season, there was a lot of chances for the two teams to score, but it wasn't to be. Bournemouth will be happy with the one point considering the opponent they came up against today, but Chelsea on the other hand will be hugely disappointed, one win out of five after all the money they've spent is a disaster, to say the least.

Just five games in and Pochettino is already under huge pressure, if the bad results keep coming, it wouldn't be long before Tood Boehly sends him parking, Chelsea have to do better and they know it, but i don't see it happening anytime soon. Sorry Chelsea fans.

[Texac]

Everton look awful this season as they've done in the last 2 seasons. It's very difficult for them to get points from a giant like Arsenal when they can't even beat mid-table teams. I expect an absolute Arsenal win in this match. Arsenal haven't beaten Everton away in recent years, so they should end this bad streak today. Gabriel Jesus also loves Everton games, he always scores against them. If Ødegaard and Saka play in their level as always, Arsenal should win without any difficulty.

Last season, Everton was battling relegation, yet they defeated Arsenal at Goodison Park.

It has been almost six years since Arsenal won Everton at the Park. I just hope today’s match comes with a different result since the Arsenal team is very ambitious and is willing to compete for the title.

Everton was unable to win even a single match in this season. They have also lost three out of the four matches that they have played. With only one point from the four matches is that they have played so far, they are currently in the relegation zone right now.

Arsenal versus Everton match has just started. only ten minutes have been played in this match so far. I do not think Arsenal is going to lose this match. Mainly because Arsenal is really interested in winning this match and staying close in the title race.

[Jody.Drummer]

Chelsea started this first half so far with a brilliant performance, and I love the men that Pochettino featured in this game, it shows that he's fully out to win today's game. Ugochukwu and Gallagher's coordination is interesting, and Raheem Sterling's finishing with the ball hasn't been smart enough hence Chelsea would have been leading in this game. If Chelsea maintains the consistency which I have seen in this match Chelsea will most likely go home with the 3 points.

Both Chelsea and Bournemouth are playing very well. Half time of the game is over but still no goals from either team. Not only scoring goals, neither team could even take the ball to the penalty area. Even though the match was hard-fought, it was boring because there was no excitement in the game. But today's next match Everton vs Arsenal is expected to be much better but Arsenal has more chances to win that match.

And they finished the game without any of them scoring. I thought Chelsea would be able to score at least one goal in this match, but they couldn't get that goal until the end of the match.
In terms of the game I think they are not satisfying at all, with the composition of the players they have compared to their opponents today, obviously it has a considerable difference. Again and again they have to finish the match without a win. 1 win in 5 matches, for me it is not satisfactory in addition to their monotonous game.

Everton vs Arsenal


It looks like Mikel Arteta is really focused on today's game against Everton at Goodison Park. He's chosen Raya as the goalkeeper instead of Ramsdale. Gabriel Jesus is back and in good shape, but he's starting with Nketiah, and Havertz is on the bench. Let's see what Arsenal can achieve today. I predict they might win 3-1.

In the first 15 minutes, both clbs were unable to create any real danger in front of goal. But I predict that Arsnal will be able to bring home 3 points from Everton headquarters, I think by looking at their position we can already judge the difference between the two clubs that are playing this. Arsenal also need full points to maintain their distance in the standings, although this is only week 5 but victory is important to be able to keep them in the top competition.

They took the initiative to press from the first minute, let's see their game today.