Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

[LGD2Business]

I agree and Kevin De Bruyne is one of the most powerful midfielders in this game. I am a lucky person to see this guy play the game, he is like the Messi or Ronaldo of the midfield.

I also think de Bruyne is a very special player. But even without him, Manchester City win their matches. Manchester City have a very large and very high quality squad. They brought the best players in the world to the team and the best manager in the world is coaching them. The absence of a player is not felt. However, if 5-6 players are missing at the same time, there may be a problem. Apart from that, they have very solid rotations. For a team that plays around 70 matches a year, it's important to have strong squad depth. Manchester City management does this planning very well.

[lalabotax]

Without Kevin De Bruyne, it is very difficult to keep the performance stable. But it is not impossible. Last season we saw consistent good performances from City. The team has consistently played well in the Champions League and Premier League and won the title. However, the City midfielder will not be with the best player squad this season. City's performance is likely to be erratic. But coach Guardiola is experienced. He may now employ a different match strategy to stabilize City's performance. But it will be very difficult for City. Kevin De Bruyne has been with City for a long time. Kevin De Bruyne has been with City since 2014 if I'm not mistaken. So it will be very difficult to fill the void of Kevin De Bruyne.

Exactly. Indeed, we cannot deny that de Bruyne's influence and contribution to Man City is huge. He is a player who can be said to be the brains of Man City's game. Indeed, his contribution is quite essential. So without his presence, i i would certainly have quite an influence on the Club. Moreover, the injury he suffered was serious enough that he had to be absent for quite a long time. Currently, Pep is certainly not giving up on making Man City stable again. However, de Bruyne's position and contribution cannot yet be optimally replaced.

[AakZaki]

If Chelsea faces a big club, maybe their performance will not be so bad and they will be able to provide resistance. Because this will be a prestigious match for both teams. Playing at home is Chelsea advantage so there is no reason not to take advantage of this moment. For Arsenal, they are ready to play at home and will not put pressure on Arteta squad. The mentality of Arsenal players who continue to improve and develop after beating Manchester City is certainly a motivation to continue to maintain their victory.

It is difficult to predict the outcome of this game. Chelsea are not stable, Arsenal are pretty good. Statistically it is possible that Arsenal are the underdog. But Chelsea can't be underestimated either. Chelsea in the last 3 games did not lose, it can be a good momentum to beat Arsenal. Performing at Stamford Bridge is also another advantage. Actually, Chelsea have high-priced players, but either they can't make good use of them. In addition, Chelsea seem to be losing because they sell some players at low prices.

[baeva]

I'm more than confident that a win over Arsenal alone won't get the team back on track, or as many believe - they can fight for any top again. Yes, beating a team like that is a morale booster, but it's not enough and Chelsea still have too much work to do, I  think top 5 is even close to happening this season

Winning Arsenal would be a very big boost to the confidence level of Chelsea players but i think they might begin to suffer again after playing the next two matches cause they'll face Tottenham then Manchester City then Newcastle and Manchester United before facing Everton,  amongst all the stated names the clubs I know they could survive against is Everton and maybe Manchester due to their poor performance.

 The schedule ahead is very tough and I wonder how they'll be able to get past those three teams before Manchester United, if they lose against all three it might even make them drop form when they face Manchester United cause their morale could become weak after suffering three loses, however there coach Pouchettino request that Chelsea fans trust the process, I hope he trust In his team to win all tough fixtures ahead.

In the current situation I wouldn't even call Manchester United's form bad, they are even higher in the standings. In addition, given the form of Tottenham who have not lost a single match and Manchester City, I think Chelsea still have a high chance of losing these matches. Patience with them, I don't know what needs to be changed in their team

[ginsan]

Actually for Arsenal I still believe that they still have problems in performance. Not that their performance is bad now but sometimes their consistency is not maintained and precisely when one defeat is obtained they have difficulty getting out of the slump which makes their performance can immediately climb and positive but when one defeat is obtained this makes them immediately down and makes the rhythm they build during the positive trend meaningless. This has happened in the last few seasons when the rise and fall of their performance has always occurred suddenly and indeed last season was the biggest in terms of impact.

Right now if Arteta can't finally solve that apart from the hurricane of injuries received then Arsenal will still be Arsenal as before where they will only be a team with tremendous improvement but on the other hand they are also difficult to be able to compete in the race for the championship even though they can do it but it will only be a spice that makes them only be below the number 1 position.

It is likely that Arsenal have learned a lot from last season's failures so that this season they will try hard to maintain their consistency so as not to lose points in vain. Indeed, last season, if we look at Arsenal's performance, of course if they lose, it will be difficult for them to come back to winning ways. Perhaps their gaps and weak points last season have been corrected by Arteta by pressing his players to perform optimally and fighting to continue to win in every match.

The victory against Manchester City made Arsenal improve their performance this season. The players will continue to maintain opportunities in every match to look for 3 points. Arsenal players' enthusiasm grew quite high after they managed to beat Manchester City. Maybe next week we will see Arsenal leading the standings if they are able to maintain the winning trend they have recorded.

[BitcoinHunt3r]

It is likely that Arsenal have learned a lot from last season's failures so that this season they will try hard to maintain their consistency so as not to lose points in vain. Indeed, last season, if we look at Arsenal's performance, of course if they lose, it will be difficult for them to come back to winning ways. Perhaps their gaps and weak points last season have been corrected by Arteta by pressing his players to perform optimally and fighting to continue to win in every match.

The victory against Manchester City made Arsenal improve their performance this season. The players will continue to maintain opportunities in every match to look for 3 points. Arsenal players' enthusiasm grew quite high after they managed to beat Manchester City. Maybe next week we will see Arsenal leading the standings if they are able to maintain the winning trend they have recorded.

Yeah Arsenal have to fight until the end of the season and don't let competitors take the opportunity. Next week Arsenal will play away against Chelsea, based on the quality of Arsenal should be much better but on the other hand Chelsea are also on fire after winning 2 times in their last match so it means it is certainly not easy for Arsenal to secure 3 points. To be honest this season we want to see the new champion, maybe Arsenal, Tottenham or other teams what is clear is not Manchester City.

[coinlocket$]

Saturday 21st October
Liverpool 12:30 Everton
Bournemouth 15:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Brentford 15:00 Burnley
Manchester City 15:00 Brighton and Hove Albion
Newcastle United 15:00 Crystal Palace
Nottingham Forest 15:00 Luton Town
Chelsea 17:30 Arsenal On Sky
Sheffield United 20:00 Manchester United

Sunday 22nd October
Aston Villa 16:30 West Ham United

Monday 23rd October
Tottenham Hotspur 20:00 Fulham

Source: https://www.skysports.com/premier-league-fixtures


Match of the day, City - Brighton, it can end with loads of goals.

[tiCeR]

Actually for Arsenal I still believe that they still have problems in performance. Not that their performance is bad now but sometimes their consistency is not maintained and precisely when one defeat is obtained they have difficulty getting out of the slump which makes their performance can immediately climb and positive but when one defeat is obtained this makes them immediately down and makes the rhythm they build during the positive trend meaningless. This has happened in the last few seasons when the rise and fall of their performance has always occurred suddenly and indeed last season was the biggest in terms of impact.

Right now if Arteta can't finally solve that apart from the hurricane of injuries received then Arsenal will still be Arsenal as before where they will only be a team with tremendous improvement but on the other hand they are also difficult to be able to compete in the race for the championship even though they can do it but it will only be a spice that makes them only be below the number 1 position.

It is likely that Arsenal have learned a lot from last season's failures so that this season they will try hard to maintain their consistency so as not to lose points in vain. Indeed, last season, if we look at Arsenal's performance, of course if they lose, it will be difficult for them to come back to winning ways. Perhaps their gaps and weak points last season have been corrected by Arteta by pressing his players to perform optimally and fighting to continue to win in every match.

The victory against Manchester City made Arsenal improve their performance this season. The players will continue to maintain opportunities in every match to look for 3 points. Arsenal players' enthusiasm grew quite high after they managed to beat Manchester City. Maybe next week we will see Arsenal leading the standings if they are able to maintain the winning trend they have recorded.

Maybe they have, but Arteta also knows that this competition won't be decided between Arsenal and Manchester City, but between the long fight between the clubs with the other amazing opponents. The aftermath has to wait.

But there is still a gigantic chance for Arsenal now to take revenge for the last season and also ensure that Manchester City knows this season will be a difficult one for them.

[Salahmu]

Without Kevin De Bruyne, it is very difficult to keep the performance stable. But it is not impossible. Last season we saw consistent good performances from City.

That's true without Kevin De Bruyne Manchester City will find it very difficult to perform very well although not because the Kevin De Bruyne is the most skillful player in Manchester City but however the role he plays on Manchester city is so important that the team can easily get affected by his absent.

Although I heard his injury may last for three months, who knows if he will be able to recover before there next two to three matches, but however irrespective of the absent of Kevin De Bruyne, Manchester city remains a serious rival to all clubs, and also with the kind of coach they have in the person of Pep Guardiola after seeing what happened on there last match against Arsenal he will never allow such mistake again, by making sure the team remains inform.

[QueenVera]

Saturday 21st October
Liverpool 12:30 Everton
Bournemouth 15:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Brentford 15:00 Burnley
Manchester City 15:00 Brighton and Hove Albion
Newcastle United 15:00 Crystal Palace
Nottingham Forest 15:00 Luton Town
Chelsea 17:30 Arsenal On Sky
Sheffield United 20:00 Manchester United

Sunday 22nd October
Aston Villa 16:30 West Ham United

Monday 23rd October
Tottenham Hotspur 20:00 Fulham 


Match of the day, City - Brighton, it can end with loads of goals.

Week 9 matches would commence this weekend after the playes return from the international break, and i can't wait cause I've really missed the EPL, the week 8 was very interesting and Arsenal was the talk of the week for beating the league champions Manchester City,  and Tottenham are suprisenly rocking the top of the league, there new manager even won the Motm award, it was well deserving, well let's see what this week unfolds.

 Liverpool are favorites to win against Everton and i don't think Everton would stand a chance at annfield, Manchester have lost enough and can't afford to drop more points, i think they'll defeat Brighton they're still without Debruyne but Rodri has finished serving his punished and would be back to the starting 11,Chelsea Arsenal derby is the match of the week and would be very tough for both teams, it might end up draw, Manchester United are not consistent but i expect a win against Sheffield,however the current league winners would win Fulham.

[Docnaster]

I agree and Kevin De Bruyne is one of the most powerful midfielders in this game. I am a lucky person to see this guy play the game, he is like the Messi or Ronaldo of the midfield.

I also think de Bruyne is a very special player. But even without him, Manchester City win their matches. Manchester City have a very large and very high quality squad. They brought the best players in the world to the team and the best manager in the world is coaching them. The absence of a player is not felt. However, if 5-6 players are missing at the same time, there may be a problem. Apart from that, they have very solid rotations. For a team that plays around 70 matches a year, it's important to have strong squad depth. Manchester City management does this planning very well.

KDB is a silent achiever and because he doesn't glory going to media to make some noise some people tends to underrate his abilities in the field of play. Every good player and football lovers know the worth of KDB in every midfield. Guardiola himself understands this very well, that is why he doesn't joke with Kelvin.
Even anytime Haaland is interviewed, he doesn't stop emphasizing the abilities of Kelvin in the midfield. It is clear even to the blind the space Kelvin has left in the midfield of Manchester city. Should Kelvin be around, I do not think that Arsenal would be able to win Manchester city last week.
I wish KDB fast recovery so that he can rejoin his team for a greater performance.

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Maybe they have, but Arteta also knows that this competition won't be decided between Arsenal and Manchester City, but between the long fight between the clubs with the other amazing opponents. The aftermath has to wait.

For me, if I have seen the progress of this season, of course there are still two teams that are closely linked to each other in the fight for the title this season. And that could be between arsenal and Manchester city because last season these two teams provided quite strong competition until the end of the season in the race for the title. It could be that this season they will do it again because these two teams are equally strong and still have a pretty good run so far. It could even be said that they will swap places again in the coming weeks.

However, for arteta, he certainly knows how to beat Manchester City this season, so arteta has a better chance of maintaining Arsenal's concentration in the upcoming matches. In the premier League, only manchester city is strong enough because they have registered themselves as the strongest dominant in recent seasons.

[Velvet78]

Kevin De Bruyne is one of the most valuable players for Manchester City without doubt. His absence due to injury is really unlucky for them as well. However I don't think this would affect them deeply anyway. Because they are still one of the strongest teams in Europe now. They are full of world stars playing in coherence together.

There has been some drop in their form recently but it is no problem at all. I remember Manchester City having way worse times in one season and they were way behind the leader. But they still made an unforgettable comeback and won the title by a serious point gap.

[makishart]

I agree and Kevin De Bruyne is one of the most powerful midfielders in this game. I am a lucky person to see this guy play the game, he is like the Messi or Ronaldo of the midfield.

He's good but not at good as lionel messi and ronaldo. De bruyne can act as a play maker that was helping its club so much. I have seen many people are praising his performance but since de bruyne was facing injury and he was absent the the early season.
Pep is not having other solution than buy a new midfielder from another club. That's also the reason why pep was aiming to get dani olmo from leipzig. It's caused by the club really needs someone who can play as good as de bruyne in building a creative attack for the club. Im not even doubting it right now if pep will be trying to go all in for olmo. I do really support manchester city to get a creative attacking midfielder that can maximizing haaland's potential.
Manchester city without a creative midfielder is nothing other than average team. The key was on the de bruyne that can make haaland's skill become very active at this moment. Let's see which name that will be picked by de bruyne.

[Leviathan.007]

Kevin De Bruyne is one of the most valuable players for Manchester City without doubt. His absence due to injury is really unlucky for them as well. However I don't think this would affect them deeply anyway. Because they are still one of the strongest teams in Europe now. They are full of world stars playing in coherence together.

There has been some drop in their form recently but it is no problem at all. I remember Manchester City having way worse times in one season and they were way behind the leader. But they still made an unforgettable comeback and won the title by a serious point gap.

There is no doubt that Kevin De Bruyne is one of the most important players for Manchester City and he proved it in the last season. I think one reason for Manchester City to lose some points in this season and not having the perfect performance they had before is the absence of Kevin De Bruyne and Guadiola had to find alternative players for it.

[pusaka]

Kevin De Bruyne is one of the most valuable players for Manchester City without doubt. His absence due to injury is really unlucky for them as well. However I don't think this would affect them deeply anyway. Because they are still one of the strongest teams in Europe now. They are full of world stars playing in coherence together.

It definitely had an impact and there had to be other options for Manchester City when De Bruyne was absent from their squad for a long time because they struggled to control their attacks and their ball flow became unstable.
The presence of players like Rodri can be an option, it's just that at this time Rodri is also still receiving punishment for card accumulation which we know that he still needs at least 1 more match for his sentence to be completed.
This is clearly inconvenient because the absence of KDB and Rodri makes their 2 matches lose points but for the championship problem it is clear they are still favorites because this will only have an impact for a few matches not as a whole.

[Coyster]

There has been some drop in their form recently but it is no problem at all. I remember Manchester City having way worse times in one season and they were way behind the leader. But they still made an unforgettable comeback and won the title by a serious point gap.

City are used to winning the league from behind, they stay as close as possible to the top of the table, and once we get into the second half of the season, they hit top gear, start their long winning run, usurp whichever team in on top and then go on to win the league, they did it to Liverpool a couple of times and they did it to Arsenal last season.

Having said that, things might be different this season, but that is only if the other top clubs remain consistent, i am pretty sure there is no team in the league that wants City to win four in a row, but they have to stop them on the pitch, and we'd see how things pan out.

[snipie]

There has been some drop in their form recently but it is no problem at all. I remember Manchester City having way worse times in one season and they were way behind the leader. But they still made an unforgettable comeback and won the title by a serious point gap.

City are used to winning the league from behind, they stay as close as possible to the top of the table, and once we get into the second half of the season, they hit top gear, start their long winning run, usurp whichever team in on top and then go on to win the league, they did it to Liverpool a couple of times and they did it to Arsenal last season.

Having said that, things might be different this season, but that is only if the other top clubs remain consistent, i am pretty sure there is no team in the league that wants City to win four in a row, but they have to stop them on the pitch, and we'd see how things pan out.

Manchester City is theoretically unstoppable with many top international stars playing with their national team and driving City to victories but sometimes even with an excellent coach and good players, there is moment of failure..
Regarding the performance of teams, I think Manchester City could resist in the long run and will get back their first spot and might win Champions League again. I find it as the best team and I keep voting early for it here to be the winner again and again.

[GbitG]

Manchester City has taken an interest in signing Toni Kroos:
Manchester City appear to be looking for a veteran presence to replace Ilkay Gundogan in midfield. Spanish outlet Defensa Central reports that Real Madrid is targeting Toni Kroos as a free agent in 2024.
His contract at Madrid expires next June, and his age means he could negotiate with clubs outside Spain when the January window opens; if City join, they can offer a pre-contract deal to see him move to Manchester once his current contract expires.Kroos fended off interest from clubs in the United States and Saudi Arabia in the summer before signing a new one-year deal with Real Madrid, but that decision is likely to be tested by Manchester City afterwards. The same report in Spain suggests City is willing to offer Real Madrid a two-year contract for twice the current salary of £6.8 million.
What do you think, guys? Is that really happening, or is it just a rumor? Give us your thoughts.
Source

[Weawant]

There has been some drop in their form recently but it is no problem at all. I remember Manchester City having way worse times in one season and they were way behind the leader. But they still made an unforgettable comeback and won the title by a serious point gap.

City are used to winning the league from behind, they stay as close as possible to the top of the table, and once we get into the second half of the season, they hit top gear, start their long winning run, usurp whichever team in on top and then go on to win the league, they did it to Liverpool a couple of times and they did it to Arsenal last season.

Having said that, things might be different this season, but that is only if the other top clubs remain consistent, i am pretty sure there is no team in the league that wants City to win four in a row, but they have to stop them on the pitch, and we'd see how things pan out.

Manchester City is theoretically unstoppable with many top international stars playing with their national team and driving City to victories but sometimes even with an excellent coach and good players, there is moment of failure..
Regarding the performance of teams, I think Manchester City could resist in the long run and will get back their first spot and might win Champions League again. I find it as the best team and I keep voting early for it here to be the winner again and again.

Manchester city definitely still have chances to get the league title, but then if it happens they win the League title again it will begin to make the league boring because it will be the third or forth time In a roll so it's going to look like the winners are certain already there's nothing to looking forward to in the premier league, so I would love to see Arsenal or Liverpool get it this season.

They are the only teams who has the potential to probably win, they are doing well and have matching strength enough if they could get city out of the way, but I fear city is putting as much efforts as they are putting into the UCL so they may want to get a big combo by the end of the season. If they get the UCL again it will be two in a roll they have gotten so far but then it may not play out that way as they have got too many strong contenders in the UCL